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Portugal: Should the Olympics be boycotted?

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 @ 12:38 UTC

by Paula Góes

Countries:: China, Portugal
Topics:: Governance, Protest, Entertainment
Languages:: Portuguese
Special:: Olympics

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

There is a heated debate at Blasfemias' 4th post about the Beijing Olympics. More than 70 commentators agree or not with Gabriel Silva's [pt] that a boycott would not help, but halt the scrutiny China will come under.

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