One Year Later: These Latin American Mayors Are Ready to Rise
By
Eugene Zapata-Garesché
A year after AQ's mayors issue, local Latin American leaders are poised to enter national politics.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on supply chains MEXICO CITY — Last July’s special report of Americas Quarterly on Latin American mayors showcased how five innovative local leaders were paving their cities’ way out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through these examples, we argued that the region’s mayors were poised to become “emerging leaders to follow” amid a challenging political and economic context afflicted by polarization and major dysfunction at the national level. Latin America is the world’s most urbanized region, with 82% of...
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