get that OUT of my face posted:

the ESPN article linked in Gizmodo is bigger and more comprehensive than the gawker family's usual "here's a link to the story, a rundown of its contents, and a couple paragraphs of us editorializing" format. other highlights:

• Maracana Stadium is abandoned and had its electricity shut off for failing to pay a nearly million-dollar electric bill. it was converted from a soccer stadium that once held 200,000 people for a World Cup Final in the '50s and was the center of the sport in Brazil
  
• the organizing committee is $40 million in debt, the IOC refuses to help, and they're bartering with cables and air conditioners to pay off creditors
  
• multiple brazilian medal winners are now living in poverty because they live off of government stipends that have been slashed to a pittance
  
• brazil's sporting infrastructure is almost completely ruined, also due to government austerity
  
• seeds that were promised to have been planted by the IOC in one Rio neighborhood are sitting in a greenhouse

the olympics are the worst and the IOC is worse than FIFA

get that OUT of my face posted:

in his defense, empanadas are delicious

Plutonis posted:

Darkman Fanpage posted:

Investors are running away from Mexican stocks as leftist pulls ahead in the polls


in the american gringo's mind dem soc are far-left.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

since we dont have a caribbean politics thread (i dont think) ill post this here

https://youtu.be/IjFuJ7FIVOM

the imf is once again loving with haiti. in exchange for the (liberal as gently caress) government to end fuel subsidies the imf will provide the nation additional funding. this of course results in gasoline and diesal prices making a dramatic jump and causing widespread protests and riots. but of course all the american news outlets give a poo poo about is how this is inconvencing american citizens in the country as the scary poor blacks set things on fire.

Ghost of Mussolini posted:

lmao at the thought of rubio having any influence