NYC and Mamdani Echo Through a Miami Event for the Rich and Powerful

Mayor-Elect of New York Zohran Mamdani

Photographer: Adam Gray/Bloomberg

In the days after an anti-billionaire democratic socialist was elected mayor of New York City, some of the world’s richest and most powerful business leaders and politicians gathered 1,300 miles south in Miami.

The America Business Forum — an event that started in Uruguay but moved to Miami under the guidance of outgoing Mayor Francis Suarez and sponsorship from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund — could hardly have been more timely.