Politics

Chile Just Elected Its Most Right-Wing President Since Pinochet. He Campaigned for Pinochet Too.

José Antonio Kast won the Chilean presidency with 58% of the vote on a platform of mass deportations, border walls, and crime crackdowns. He has praised Augusto Pinochet, whose dictatorship killed over 3,000 people. Within hours of his inauguration, he ordered the military to start building a border barrier — and told them not to wait for the paperwork.