Latin American Economy & Business - February 2014 (ISSN 1741-7430)

With the Fifa 2014 World Cup now just four months away (kick-off is on 12 June), in business and political terms it is still not clear if the event will be a ‘net positive’ or a ‘net negative’ for the administration led by President Dilma Rousseff. Here we look at some of the arguments raging around the rights and wrongs of hosting one of the world’s top sporting events for a month.