Incumbents Aren’t Latin America’s Problem
Incumbents Aren’t Latin America’s Problem
It’s been an exceptionally good year for incumbents in Latin America.
It’s been an exceptionally good year for incumbents in Latin America.
Since June, Colombia’s Juan Manuel Santos, Bolivia’s Evo Morales and Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff each won their respective presidential contests. Rousseff’s late October re-election will give her center-left Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers’ Party—PT) a fourth consecutive term in office.
As it turns out, it’s been an exceptionally good few decades for incumbents in Latin America. In particular, Rousseff’s re-election catalyzed a round of hand-wringing about the power of incumbency across the region...
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