Posted on 12/14/2025 6:41:54 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The ultra-conservative former congressman José Antonio Kast has been elected as Chile’s next president.
With more than 99% of polling stations counted, Kast took 58.16% of the vote, against 41.84% for the leftist Jeannette Jara, a former labour minister under the current president, Gabriel Boric.
The son of a Nazi party member, an admirer of the dictator Augusto Pinochet and a staunch Catholic known for opposing abortion and same-sex marriage, Kast built his campaign on a promise to expel tens of thousands of undocumented migrants.
“Here, no individual won, no party won – Chile won, and hope won. The hope of living without fear. That fear that torments families,” Kast told the thousands of supporters who waited more than two hours for his speech.
Many analysts believe the ultra-conservative succeeded in addressing one of Chileans’ main concerns: rising violence, which has increased in recent years even though the country remains one of the safest in Latin America.
Over the past decade, the number of migrants has doubled, fuelled by about 700,000 Venezuelans forced to leave their country amid its economic collapse.
Kast repeatedly presented migrants as the reason for rising insecurity. During the campaign, he gave the roughly 330,000 undocumented migrants – most of them Venezuelan – an ultimatum to leave before the next president takes office on 11 March or be expelled “with only the clothes on their backs”.
In his victory speech, he said Chileans were living in “fear”, the president-elect said his administration would show “great firmness in confronting all those who harm us”.
He added: “When we tell an irregular migrant that they are breaking the law and must leave our country if they ever want the chance to return, we mean it … We must show great firmness against crime, organised crime, impunity and disorder.”
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The Guardian: “ULTRA conservative.”
LOL
Will someone call Elizabeth Warren an ultra-communist? No? How about just a communist? No? How about Far Left? Still no? How about "moderate Democrat"? Oh, that's what we're going with?
At least they didn’t say ‘Far Right’!.........
The guy is already batting 5 for 5 and I don't know anything else about him.
Makw helocopter Rides For Commies Great Again
Right? They only came with their clothes on their “backs”. Should be familiar to leave like that.
Interesting.
Things in South America seem to really be turning around one country at a time.
So now it’s El Salvador, Argentina, and now Chile.
Kast repeatedly presented migrants as the reason for rising insecurity. During the campaign, he gave the roughly 330,000 undocumented migrants – most of them Venezuelan – an ultimatum to leave before the next president takes office on 11 March or be expelled “with only the clothes on their backs”.
Even South American countries don't want *migrants* from their neighboring countries.
That tells people a lot.
ultra-conservative“
Bernie Sanders is a Conservative to the deluded leftist children at The Guardian
A friend is heading back to Brazil right now, he’s at the Miami airport. He predicted Kast would win, he told me just last week.
He’s a Bolsonaro supporter but it’s gotten so bad there people don’t say anything.
I hope they can get things sorted out in Brazil.
Perhaps they can take in our Venezuelan illegals and send them home from there.
Chile is not that big country. Listed as 19 millions, I am not sure if these illegals are included.
Well over million of immigrants is a lot for them.
I visited Chile recently, there is quite a lot of crime in Santiago. You can just see it, dirt, many obnoxious beggars, homeless, we were warned not to go places.
But the scenery is exquisite.
This is the Guardian so likely only slightly left of John Fetterman.
,,, just wait until Kast works his way up to “ultra ultra” LOL!! Things have started to turn around for Argentina since Milei took the helm there. Intelligent Chileans may have taken that into account at the polls. People have decided things won’t get better under leftist management. Onward and upward.
Also did a liberal US Judge (Like Boasberg) overruled Chile's voters yet?
Hopefully Honduras goes conservative too. The election there is a train wreck. The conservative has a small lead but nothing has changed for a week now.
I know its not the point of the story but its telling. The collapse of failed Latin American countries like Venezuela, Columbia and even Mexico is causing massive problems for many countries in the West. Same with Syria and Palestine with Europe. The answer is for these countries to fix themselves so that their people aren't migrating to other countries.
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