SANTIAGO ¨C Chile has become the latest Latin American country to ditch the left after voters, driven by fears of crime and migration, elected on Sunday their first far-right leader since the end of a vicious military dictatorship in 1990.
Leftist leaders have not won a single presidential election in Latin America this year as voters tired of economic woes and invigorated by strongman rhetoric in the style of U.S. President Donald Trump or El Salvador¡¯s gang-busting leader Nayib Bukele, opt for change.
Chile was the latest domino to fall, with 59-year-old anti-abortion, tough-on-crime candidate Jose Antonio Kast taking 58% of the vote versus 42% for leftist rival Jeannette Jara.
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