[news] From Mexico City to Beijing: The Cutthroat Games

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By JOHN ROSS - August 9/10, 2008

The Chinese big producton Beijing Olympics is a coming-out party for cutthroat capitalism, a feather in the cap of what used to be called "the developing world" of which the Chinese Peoples' Republic considers itself a charter member...But the Beijing games are not the first Olympics to be staged in the developing world. In 1968, a fast-modernizing Mexico was awarded the 13th Olympic Games. For then-president **Gustavo Diaz Ordaz**, whose anti-communist mindset bordered on the pathological, the Games would carve his name in history. They did but not the way Diaz Ordaz anticipated.  


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