Cancun, Mexico - Nobel Peace Prize winner and current Guatemalan presidential candidate Rigoberta Menchu was on Tuesday the victim of discrimination at a hotel in the Mexican seaside resort Cancun, Quintana Roo state radio reported.

Newsreader David Romero said he himself was present when the hotel’s security personnel tried to get Menchu out of the lobby of the five-star hotel.

Romero - who was there to interview the woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 - added that the expulsion was prevented by people who recognized the activist for the rights of indigenous peoples.

Menchu was in Cancun at the invitation of Mexican President Felipe Calderon, to take part in an assembly of the National Association of Drinking Water and sanitation.