Chile elects Kast as president in sharp rightward shift

Kast, a long-time right-wing hardliner, has proposed border walls, military deployment in high-crime areas, and the deportation of undocumented migrants.

Jose Antonio Kast won Chile’s presidential election on Sunday, leveraging voter fears over rising crime and migration to steer the country in its sharpest rightward shift since the end of the military dictatorship in 1990.