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YPA Cafecito: Elections in Peru and Colombia
Rosa Arevalo Leon of CUNY and Will Freeman of the Council on Foreign Relations will speak on the two tight elections in an off-the-record conversation.
Overview
Both Peru and Colombia will elect new presidents over the next several weeks in contests considered toss-ups.
Peruvians voted in the first round of the presidential contest on April 12 and 13 and the results are still not finalized. As of right now, it seems the June 7 runoff will be polarized—with the two candidates far apart on the political spectrum. Meanwhile, Colombians will vote on May 31 to pick a successor to leftist President Gustavo Petro. Will they pick his political heir or option to swing to the right?
Rosa Arevalo Leon of CUNY will speak on Peru and Will Freeman of the Council on Foreign Relations will speak on Colombia, in an off-the-record conversation with Young Professionals of the Americas. The two will engage in an off-the-record Q&A with members before a networking drinks reception.
Members receive complementary access to this event. Attendance for non-members is $10.
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Speakers:
Rosa Arevalo Leon (M.P.A., Syracuse University; M.A. studies, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru) is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research focuses on human rights, human mobility, democracy, and subnational politics, with a methodological emphasis on qualitative approaches. She was a Sardon-Glass Fellow at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, sponsored by the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs. Rosa has served as a consultant for organizations including the International Labour Organization and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in Peru.
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Will Freeman is a fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His work focuses on the rule of law, corruption and organized crime in Latin America, as well as U.S.-Latin America relations. His writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Financial Times, Americas Quarterly, the Economist, the Journal of Democracy, and the Washington Post. Prior to joining CFR, Dr. Freeman was a Fulbright-Hays Scholar in Colombia, Peru, and Guatemala, where he researched judiciaries’ efforts to sanction grand corruption. During his graduate studies, Dr. Freeman also worked with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Western Hemisphere subcommittee. He holds a PhD and MA in politics from Princeton University and a BA in political science from Tufts University.
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