Three Big Challenges Facing Colombia’s Outsider Mayors
Three Big Challenges Facing Colombia’s Outsider Mayors
By
Will Freeman
Alternative candidates pulled off surprise victories in Colombia’s local elections, but governing won’t be easy.
Since Colombia shifted to directly electing its mayors and governors thirty years ago, alternative politicians like Bogotá’s Antanus Mockus and Medellín’s Sergio Fajardo have occasionally challenged local political machines and won. Yet in most of the country, traditional political families have largely remained in power for decades.
That is, until the October 27 local elections.
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