Jose Antonio Kast

won Chile's presidential election on Sunday, leveraging voter fears over rising crime and migration to take the country to its sharpest rightward shift since the end of dictatorship in 1990. Kast secured 59.16% of the vote in a runoff with leftist candidate Jeannette Jara, on 40.84%, with over 57% of ballots counted. Jara conceded.

Kast has been a consistent hardliner throughout his decades-long political career. He has proposed building border walls, deploying the military to high-crime areas, and deporting all migrants in the country illegally. His victory marks the latest win for a resurgent right wing in Latin America. He joins Ecuador's Daniel Noboa, El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, and Argentina's Javier Milei. In October, the election of centrist Rodrigo Paz ended alm

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