Cecilia Baeza is Program Director and Academic Advisor at the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po Paris. She holds a PhD in Political Science (International Relations) from Sciences Po and has previously taught at the Getulio Vargas Foundation and the Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Her research focuses on diasporas, transnational political mobilization, and Middle Eastern migrants’ political activism in Latin America, with a particular focus on Palestinians and Syrians.
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This past October, Chile’s political right won dozens of mayoralties in local elections, trouncing the governing center-left coalition. In the same month, the right-wing evangelical bishop Marcelo Crivella became the mayor of Rio de Janeiro.
