A border ‘ditch’ may prove to be the thing that brings the right back to power in Chile. Although the communist-affiliated candidate Jeannette Jara leads the polls going into this weekend’s election, a second-round run-off seems almost certain, with a consolidated right-wing alliance – running on a platform to cut illegal immigration – likely to win the final showdown.

Jose Antonio Kast, the leading right-wing candidate, is a hardliner who admires both Trump and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele. He has promised to rule with ‘ mano dura ’ (an iron fist). He says drug dealers will be held in in solitary confinement and has pledged to construct a series of ditches and walls to secure Chile’s northern border.

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