From the BBC,
Chile elects far-right José Antonio Kast as next president.
Every sentence of the BBC report is better than the last,
Chile has elected the far-right wing José Antonio Kast to be its next president, after an election campaign that was dominated by themes of security, immigration and crime.
Kast won decisively with more than 58% of the vote in his third attempt at running for president.
A solid majority. It keeps getting better,
He beat the governing left-wing coalition’s candidate, Jeannette Jara, from the Communist Party.
I’m not sure if the BBC means this as a smear, but the electorate seems ok with it,
It marks the biggest shift to the right since the end of Chile’s military dictatorship in 1990. Kast has openly praised Chile’s former right-wing dictator, Augusto Pinochet.
Make Chile great again,
Throughout the campaign, Kast portrayed Chile as a country that was descending into chaos and insecurity. He pledged to restore order and crack down on irregular immigration, as well as implementing sharp spending cuts.
The worst part for the BBC,
Kast’s victory in Chile follows a string of elections in Latin America that have shifted the region to the Right in recent years – including in Argentina, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and El Salvador.
He will be inaugurated on 11 March 2026.
So much winning.
