How Mayors Are Ignoring Dysfunction and Handling COVID-19 Among Themselves
With nationalism on the rise, politicians in charge of cities are forging alliances and bypassing national governments.
In Bogotá, as COVID-19 infection rates climbed, the city’s mayor sought advice from Buenos Aires and adopted a strategy to isolate its infected residents in hotel rooms On opposite sides of the continent, Belo Horizonte and Quito worked together to adapt funeral processes and cemetery access Montevideo and Mexico City, São Paulo and Guayaquil, and many more, followed the example set by cities on entirely different continents — Paris, Barcelona, Seoul and Montreal — and established formal channels for open dialogue among themselves Through their collaborations,...
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