Chile’s ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast secured a stunning victory in the presidential election Sunday, defeating the left’s candidate and setting the stage for the country’s most conservative government in 35 years of democracy.
His challenger was a communist candidate, Jeannette Jara. Kast’s election represents the latest in a string of votes that have tossed out incumbent governments across Latin America, vaulting right-leaning leaders to power from Argentina to Bolivia as U.S. President Donald Trump looks to assert American dominance in the Western Hemisphere…
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