{"id":150,"date":"2025-05-31T09:56:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T12:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwide-elections.org\/?p=150"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:47:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:47:40","slug":"mel-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwide-elections.org\/en\/mel-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Graduated in Social Communication, with a postgraduate degree in Political Marketing and Image Consulting from Camilo Jos\u00e9 Cela University (Madrid, Spain). With over 20 years in the Political Communication market, she has worked for the most renowned agencies in Brazil: MPB, Exacta Intelig\u00eancia, GW Comunica\u00e7\u00e3o, Duda Mendon\u00e7a and P\u00fablica, among others. She worked as an account executive and coordinated electoral campaigns for President, Governor and Mayor in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. She was Secretary of Communications for the Municipality of Cascavel, Cear\u00e1. In 2017, she received the Napolitan Victory Awards as an Influential Woman in Political Communication, in Washington, United States. She has given lectures and training for parties in Panama, Peru and Argentina. She was Director of Political Communications at Branding LatinAmerica; in 2019, she organized the tour of the Presidential Elections in Argentina. With the aim of disseminating and expanding knowledge about electoral processes, she founded Worldwide Elections, an organization dedicated to International Electoral Observation. Currently, he provides political consultancy and works with research and dissemination of electoral processes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduada em Comunica\u00e7\u00e3o Social, com p\u00f3s-gradua\u00e7\u00e3o em Marketing Pol\u00edtico e Consultoria de Imagem pela Universidade Camilo Jos\u00e9 Cela (Madri, Espanha). 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