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Latin America’s Unusual Leadership Vacuum

By Michael J. Camilleri, Ben Raderstorf

This year’s “electoral supercycle,” and the race to succeed Washington and Caracas as the hemisphere’s big players.

Over the next 12 months, almost two in three Latin Americans will go to the polls to choose a new president. National elections will take place in Latin America’s heavyweights, Brazil and Mexico, and also in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Paraguay – not counting Venezuela’s apparent electoral fraud-in-waiting.

This electoral supercycle comes amid a significant – and historically unusual – leadership vacuum in the region. The...

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