Brazil's president lambasts Olympic critics (Connecticut Post)

8 March 2010, 12:08 pm

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's president is lashing out at critics who say the country is wasting money on the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Speaking at a slum in Rio on Monday, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the selection of the city extraordinary and done "despite the servile thinking from a portion of the Brazilian elite."... Read More »

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