Brazil's Dance with the devil

By Dave Zirin

Subjects: Sports, corrupt practices, Olympic Games (31st : 2016 : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Tournaments, Sports administration, Sports, World Cup (Soccer) (2014 : Brazil), World cup (soccer), Soccer, Democracy, Brazil, politics and government, Sports and state, Olympics, Social aspects, History, Sports tournaments, Political aspects, Brazil, social conditions

Description: As the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games approach, ordinary Brazilians are holding the country's biggest protest marches in decades. Sports journalist Dave Zirin traveled to Brazil to find out why. In a rollicking read that travels from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the fabled Maracanã Stadium to Zirin examines how athletic mega-events turn into neoliberal Trojan horses.