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Peru: President Alan García congratulates Brazil for election of Rio de Janeiro as olympic venue

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Isabel Guerra

Peruvian President Alan García said today that the election of Rio de Janeiro as the 2016 Olympic Games venue: Rio's election is "a victory for Latin America."

President Garcia pointed that the flow of tourists coming to Brasil for the games would benefit Peru also.

Alan Garcia congratulated Brasil and says that Peru feels this moment "as its own, because is a triumph for Latin America as well."

Garcia is confident in Brasil's ability to organize the games and said that Peru should atract all tourists going for the Olympics, and make them interested in knowing our country.

"Justice is done towards the country of the future" he said, adding that Brasil itself is an olympc country due to its greatness, its people, and its nature attraction, like its beaches.

Garcia Perez made these statements at a reception at the Embassy of Brasil, where congressman Luis Gonzales Posada and General Secretary of the Presidence of Peru Luis Nava Guibert were condecorated.

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# David N says :
2 October, 2009 [ 20:08 ]

Once the IOC sees what it's like to host the Olympics in a third world, impoverished slum they will realize what a huge mistake it was and never return to South America.

# aqpgeo says :
3 October, 2009 [ 13:04 ]

Maybe the IOC remembers the bomb scares of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

# aqpgeo says :
3 October, 2009 [ 13:08 ]

Maybe the IOC remembers the bomb scares of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

# Rich says :
3 October, 2009 [ 22:06 ]

Yah David N your right just like Altanta and LA. They rejected Chicago too as it is worse than Rio.

# David N says :
3 October, 2009 [ 23:14 ]

Rio is well known as one of the most violent cities in the world...thousands upon thousands of murders a year in the city, even the police are violent and corrupt and kill citizens by the thousands every year.  Police brutality and corruption are widespread.  Tourists walking down Copacabana beach are in real danger of being robbed at gunpoint.  After leaving the somewhat decent touristy areas along the beach, the city is almost all horrible shantytowns.  Gangs and organized crime are everywhere.  Placing thousands of spectators there is irresponsible of the IOC, but since that entity is completely corrupt I suspect there were some bribes involved.

The bombing in Atlanta pales in comparison to the 1972 Munich games when members of the Israeli team were kidnapped and killed...and the games have returned to Europe since then.

Once cannot compare Rio or other major SA cities with their corrupt and incompetent governments, sprawling slums, inadequate infrastructure, poverty, crime, and pollution to any first world US, Australian, or European city.  The IOC will face major embarassment and my projection is the event will be a complete disaster. 

Personally I am glad the Olympics are headed to someplace besides the US because there are major costs involved and I consider the Olympics to be a big waste of time and effort when those tax dollars could be put to better use.  Why should we waste our money to host an event orchestrated by the European-dominated IOC?  Let them go somewhere else.

# mericorps says :
4 October, 2009 [ 08:45 ]

David N is just a stain, not sure why anyone responds to him anymore.

However, every olympics, the criminals seek opportunity, no matter what country, and I am sure Chicago would have been no different with its infamous skid row producing some violent criminals, but Rio will be dangerous. Everytime I go to Rio, I am scared as I see violence in the streets quite regularl.

I think David N is a liar and nutjob, as I am safer in Lima than I ever was in DC or even Chicago and he hates just because the lesions on his brain tell him to.

# jb says :
4 October, 2009 [ 10:34 ]

Have you been to Chicago's south side??  Third world diversity abounds. 

# Rich says :
5 October, 2009 [ 09:57 ]

Every city in the US has horrible slums and travel through the less populated areas and the people are backward, toothless, uneducated simpletons. David N must be from one of those areas.

# David N says :
5 October, 2009 [ 15:56 ]

The only places worse than the slums and ghettos of SA are Africa and India.  I am in Lima again and this place with it's pueblos jovenes or whatever they're called is horrible.  Shacks built in the dirt with no running water or electricity...people defecating in the streets...dogs running rampant and relieving themselves everywhere...trash thrown in the road.  Nasty, nasty place.  There is no place in Europe, Canada, or the US as bad as the slums built on the hillsides down here.  Just take a drive down the Pananmericana highway and see for yourself the horrible living conditions and crime infested areas.  I've been to the south side of Chicago...reminds me a lot of Miraflores or Surco..only not as filthy dirty and horrible.  Don't even get me started on Rio because I was there 3 yrs ago and it is even worse than Lima which I didn't think would be possible. 

Like I said, though, SA and Europe are welcome to host the games anytime...please keep them out of the USA because they are more trouble than they're worth and the IOC is completely corrupt.

# David N says :
5 October, 2009 [ 16:02 ]

I can find plenty of toothless uneducated simpletons right on Javier Prado or in front of Larco Mar because that's about 85% of the country down here. 

The Olympics and their socialist, corrupt IOC are unwelcome and not needed. 

# pedro says :
5 October, 2009 [ 18:45 ]

David N is 100% right, the yahoo stains of 'merica should never host the Olympics. It is a country where most of the major "sports" require nothing but 200-300 lb tub-of-lards to have a champion. O yay. A daily dose of Big Macs + supersized fries + a refillable Coke = potential "athlete". Keep the Olympics proudly in Europe I say, where they originated and where they belong, and where the true spirit of sport is alive and well without some shmoe needing to be sponsored financially and exploited by some corporation in order to be trained to win so that 'merica can have a parade. We don't make stadiums for you to come and play your silly football and baseball, if we want to play that we'll go there. If you 'mericans want to be Olympians, you can come here (but make sure you don't overextend your visas, we don't tolerate having any of you oversized blowhards hanging around for too long)

# David N says :
6 October, 2009 [ 17:39 ]

No sweat, Pedro, I say the US should definitely stay out of the Olympics...too corrupt and biased.  Funny thing is, even with the deck stacked against them with European judges and officials, the US Olympic team still manages to collect more gold medals than practically everyone.

And who needs a visa to visit Europe?  Every time I've been there I just walked off the plane and right in like I owned the place and they ASKED ME how many days I needed.  Heck, in Heathrow we stand in line at customs with the Brits.

BTW, if you knew anything you'd know 'futbol americano' originated in the UK.  Guess you're a little short upsairs in the ol' history department.

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