
Cathy Barriga (9 April 1973-) was Mayor of Maipu, Chile from 2016 to 2021 as a pro-UDI independent.
Biography[]
Cathy Barriga was born in 1973, and she was raised in Santiago and was a model and television personality before entering politics as a pro-UDI independennt. She served as a Santiago regional councillor from 2014 to 2016 and as Mayor of Maipu from 2016 to 2021, when she was defeated for re-election by the young Democratic Revolution candidate Tomas Vodanovic after a series of corruption scandals destroyed her popularity.