Political Life
He joined the PRD in April 1998 and was elected to the nine-member National Executive Committee, the PRD’s top governing organism, in August 2002. Mayor Navarro was awarded the International Award for Excellence in 2001 by the prestigious Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), in recognition of his global environmental leadership. Navarro is fluent in Spanish, French and English.
Juan Carlos Navarro was originally elected Mayor of Panama City for a five-year term (1999–2004) after winning his party’s primaries (October 1998) and the general election in May 1999. He was reelected for a five-year term (2004–2009) in May 2004. The youngest citizen elected to the Mayor’s office; Navarro oversees 5,000 municipal employees and a US$59.8 million annual budget (2005). He was elected unanimously as the first President of the National Mayor’s Association of Panama (2001) and reelected twice for the same position (2003, 2005). Mayor Navarro also served as co-President of the Unión de Ciudades Capitales de Iberoamericanas (UCCI) together with Mayor Alvarez del Manzano of Madrid, Spain (2002).
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Chris Shepard and Mayor Juan Carlos Navarro.
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Semester at Sea 2007 and Juan Carlos Navarro.
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