Castro

[Eastside Revolt]

Castro was passing through my town the other day on a fuel stop, and it turned into kind of a press conference. Someone asked him what he thought of the olympics coming to Vancouver, he said that he was not opposed. Quite honestly I am shocked. I mean, I understand that he has bigger fish to fry. But honestly, the olympics are extremely exploitive, and I am certain they will be bad for my city. Aswell, people spend their lives training for a particular competition, and whether they do good in the olympics or not, they'll be lucky if they get advertising loyalties out of it. Meanwhile, the IOC is making a killing, and buying hookers too.

The only explaination I can think of is that Castro doesn't want to piss anyone off that he hasn't yet. If this is true, then it doesn't bode well for his revolution that their leader can't even speak-out on a trivial subject such as the olympics, for fear of diplomatic troubles. Anyelse have insight into this seemingly ignorant stance that Castro has taken?

[DisruptiveBehaviour]

Red Canada, i'm also from Vancouver, but I dont think the Olympics will be _so_ bad. But then again with Gordon Campbell as a premier...

[Guardia Bolivariano]

From a friend:
"Support Vancouver's bid for 2010! It'll do wonders for our great city and the economic benefits will outweigh the social costs, especially with the leftist COPE city council. 2010 Yes!"

[redstar2000]

I suspect Fidel was just being "diplomatic". It's also possible that he really doesn't consider the matter very important in a world on the brink of imperialist war.

The Olympic Games are a disaster for poor people and minimum wage workers...low-cost rental housing units are usually the first things to be demolished when new stadiums are built.

I'm glad they're not coming to my city.

:cool:

[CheViveToday]

Does Cuba partake in the games?

[PunkRawker677]

Of course they do, CVT.

[Kapitan Andrey]

And what do you think about Olimpic Games In Russia!?
I forgot...it will be 2008 or 2014...

[Felicia]

okaaaaay.... :confused: So he's not opposed to the olympics being held in vancouver...... well, it's got to go somewhere! You say that the olympics is exploitive....... was he asked what he thought of the olympics as a whole? Whether or not he "agrees" with the olympic competition is relative, that wasn't the question now was it? Probably not, he was just asked what he thought about vancouver as a location.