IOC President Compliments Rio and London Preparations

July 30, 2010

The president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jacques Rogge, complimented the initial preparatory work by Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympic Games
and expressed hope that an African country may soon obtain the right to organize the
Olympic Games.

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For decades, Ecuador was perceived as an exception in a region plagued by drug trafficking, armed violence, and criminal capture of the state. While neighboring countries faced open wars between cartels and state forces, Ecuador seemed to remain on the sidelines of these dynamics. That image began to slowly crack and finally collapsed in January […]

IOC President Compliments Rio and London Preparations

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