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OpinionIs Kast caste?: While Bolivia, Honduras and now Chile have all swung right in recent voting, Trump’s pet candidate in each nation had problems riding the crest ...
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Kast’s Search for a Security Breakthrough in Chile: A failed security reform and increasing concerns about crime are weighing on the president’s approval ratings ...
americasquarterly.org/article/kasts-search-for-a-security-breakthrough-in-chile/

Chile Replaces Deputy Justice Minister Silva: President Kast replaced Deputy Justice Minister Luis Silva with Josefina Soto amid a row over 56 sentence cuts ...
riotimesonline.com/chile-kast-removes-deputy-justice-minister-silva/

Kast's Chile axes plans to give papers to almost 200,000 migrants: President José Antonio Kast's government also announces it will reverse expropriation of ...
batimes.com.ar/news/latin-america/kasts-chile-axes-plans-to-give-papers-to-almost-200000-migrants.phtml

Kast is sworn in as Chile marks sharpest shift to the right in decades: Ultraconservative José Antonio Kast has taken office as president in Chile after a ...
apnews.com/article/chile-kast-inauguration-new-administration-00d398c96e0ff25378838dc8831dcbe8
Fears for women’s rights in Chile as anti-abortion president set to take office: José Antonio Kast, who voted against legalising divorce in 2004 ...
theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/10/fears-womens-rights-chile-anti-abortion-president-jose-antonio-kast

Pinochet’s victims grapple with José Antonio Kast’s rise in Chile: The far-right leader is the first president in a democratic era to have supported the military ...
english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-28/pinochets-victims-grapple-with-jose-antonio-kasts-rise-in-chile.html

OpinionThe Right Wing Rises in Latin America: Jon Lee Anderson writes about the election of José Antonio Kast as President of Chile.
newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-right-wing-rises-in-latin-america

Chilean hard-right victory stirs memories of Pinochet dictatorship: The election of José Antonio Kast in Chile's run-off revives the ghosts and the deep ...
batimes.com.ar/news/latin-america/chilean-hard-right-victory-stirs-memories-of-pinochet-dictatorship.phtml

Chile’s Trump? Ariel Dorfman on the Election of Pinochet Admirer José Antonio Kast
democracynow.org/2025/12/17/chile_election

Who is Jose Antonio Kast, Chile’s newly elected far-right leader?: The president-elect has vowed to tackle crime and tighten immigration policies.
aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/15/who-is-jose-antonio-kast-chiles-newly-elected-far-right-leader

Pinochet’s Shadow And Chile’s Choice Of José Antonio Kast: What explains why 51 years after Pinochet's coup, Chile has elected someone who is nostalgically ...
worldcrunch.com/in-the-news/pinochets-shadow-and-chiles-choice-of-jose-antonio-kast/

OpinionFR-Early News: Chile Goes to Runoff Election - | Communist vs. Pinochet Supporter
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Chile picks new president with far right candidate the front-runner: Chile picks new president with far right candidate the front-runner - Americas - The Jakarta ...
thejakartapost.com/world/2025/12/14/chile-picks-new-president-with-far-right-candidate-the-front-runner.html

Chile facing a rightward shift: José Antonio Kast leads ahead of the election despite Pinochet's past
fr.de/hintergrund/chile-vor-rechtsruck-jose-antonio-kast-fuehrt-vor-der-wahl-trotz-pinochet-vergangenheit-94079929.html

Elections: Chile: Runoff election must decide the presidential race: In the first round, the candidate of the left-wing government is still holding her own ...
handelsblatt.com/dpa/wahlen-chile-stichwahl-muss-kampf-ums-praesidentenamt-entscheiden/100175212.html

A Communist, YouTuber or Pinochet fan? Chile's presidential candidates: Eight candidates are competing in Sunday's first round of voting for one of two ...
batimes.com.ar/news/latin-america/a-communist-youtuber-or-pinochet-fan-a-look-at-chiles-presidential-candidates.phtml

Pining for Pinochet: how crime fanned nostalgia for Chile's dictator: As crime rates increase in Chile, public anxiety grows and demands for stronger security ...
batimes.com.ar/news/latin-america/chiles-rising-crime-fuels-political-and-social-concerns.phtml

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