The World Cup Logo: Propaganda, Metaphor or Just a Drawing?

RIO DE JANEIRO — Usually, a logo is just a logo. But when it comes to the official emblem of the 2014 World Cup — a global sports mega-event with more political and social baggage attached to it than many in recent memory — some see more

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Rodrigo Constantino, a columnist for the widely read conservative Brazilian magazine Veja — it's comparable in the minds of many Brazilians to Fox News in the U.S. — found a bone to pick with the World Cup logo this Monday, speculating it as some sort of subconscious mind-control put forth by the country's leftist Workers' Party Read more...