HAVANA -- IOC president Jacques Rogge wants a smaller Olympics so the games can eventually be held on all continents.

Mexico is the only Latin American nation to host the Olympics. The games have never been in Africa.

"We think that the Olympic Games have to be made smaller, made less costly so that they can be organized by all continents and subcontinents,'' Rogge said Wednesday as he ended a five-day visit to Cuba. "Our dream is that continents such as Africa or Latin America be able to organize the Olympic Games.''

Rogge also censured "athlete stealing'' by economically powerful countries, a practice that is resented by Cuba.

"There are too many cases in which countries buy athletes and give them a nationality and passport in a few days,'' Rogge said. "That is not the spirit of the Olympics.''

Rogge said IOC rules require that an athlete who changes nationality must wait three years before representing his or her new country at Olympic events.

As for a move to eliminate baseball from the Olympic program, Rogge mentioned a proposal that the baseball championships be reduced from 12 to five days during the games. He noted that as president he does not vote in executive committee meetings.

The IOC executive committee is to decide on the recommendation this month at a meeting in Mexico City. Rogge has said the vote could be postponed, and any decision might not apply until the 2012 Games rather than 2008 as originally proposed.

Cuba, renowned for its world-class baseball players, opposes baseball's elimination from the Olympics.

Rogge's visit to Cuba coincided with the Intercontinental Baseball Cup being held on the island.

He was traveling later Wednesday to Guatemala, then to El Salvador, where he will attend the Saturday opening of the Central American and Caribbean Games.