SANTIAGO, Chile — When Chileans head to the polls this Sunday, they face a choice between far-right José Antonio Kast, running for president for the third time and currently the favorite in polls , and left-wing Jeannette Jara, a Communist Party member and former labor minister.
With the candidates on offer so starkly opposed in their visions for Chile, many will be casting their votes for a candidate they don't feel wholly represents them in an election in which participation is compulsory.
At a closing rally in the southern city of Temuco on Thursday evening, Kast gave a lengthy speech, restating the core themes of his campaign to a crowd of several thousand, many of them young men waving Chilean flags.
Guttural cries of "Communists out!" rose among the crowd, but the loudest cheers

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