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  • Ask the same question to other Chileans and they’ll recount an opposite reality: A shorter workweek, higher minimum wage and more generous pension system made one of Latin America’s most unequal countries more livable, they say. The homicide rate declined in the last two years, official figures show. A defiant foreign policy — outspoken against Venezuela’s autocratic President Nicolas Maduro, U.S. President Donald Trump’s denial of climate change and Israeli actions against Palestinians — made Chile a regional champion of democracy.

    Jeannette Jara, 51, they argue, can save Chile from the wave of far-right populism that has upended politics across the world. Jara’s rival is their worst fear: The son of a Nazi party member with a fondness for Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship.

    “We need to go forward,” said Lucía Poblete, a 32-year-old engineer at Jara’s rally late Wednesday. “Kast will erase all the progress we’ve made for women, for labor rights, for civil freedoms.”

    The chasm between Chilean perspectives on the status quo underscores not only the depth of Chile’s divisions but also the stakes of Sunday’s showdown, which Kast is expected to win after 70% of voters backed right-leaning parties in the first round.

    Kast’s family ties to the Nazi party sparked an uproar at the time — as did his apparent nostalgia for Gen. Pinochet (who he said “would vote for me if he were alive”) and his fierce opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion without exception.

    This time, Kast has dodged questions about his social views, pivoting to the more politically palatable issues of insecurity and mass migration that have ginned up voter anxiety and boosted the right from Washington to Paris.

    Taking a page from Trump’s playbook, Kast vows mass deportations of the estimated 337,000 migrants in Chile without legal status — mostly Venezuelans who arrived from their crisis-stricken country in the last seven years.

    Studying the crime-fighting tactics of El Salvador’s popular autocratic president, Nayib Bukele, Kast proposes boosting the power of police and expanding maximum-security prison capacity.

    Borrowing from Argentina’s radical libertarian President Javier Milei, Kast aims to slash red tape, shrink the public payroll and cut state spending by $6 billion within just 18 months of taking office.

    His economic team on Thursday pushed back against widespread criticism that such a budget cut was unrealistic. But it acknowledged to The Associated Press that it might be “preferable to allow for an adjustment over a longer period.”

    At any other moment, Jara would have a lot going for her. She engineered Boric’s most significant welfare measures as his minister of labor. Her humble origins selling hot dogs and toilet paper to get through school makes for a compelling up-from-nothing story so rare in Chile’s elite circles of power. She has a strong record of negotiating with rivals to get things done.

    But experts say it’ll take a miracle for her to pry a victory from Kast.

    “The math doesn’t add up,” said Robert Funk, associate professor of political science at the University of Chile. “There are just too many things stacked against her.”

    The most glaring: Her identity as a communist. Although her proposals to improve living standards, boost foreign investment and promote fiscal restraint hardly smack of communism, analysts say her membership in the party since age 14 undercuts efforts to lure moderate conservatives.

    “Just the name ‘Communist Party scares people,” said Lucía Dammert, a sociologist and Boric’s first chief of staff.

    Then there’s the challenge of representing a government with a 30% approval rating in a country where citizens have voted out incumbent leaders at every election since 2005. Add to that the difficulty of appearing tough on crime next to Kast.

    “This campaign is among the most difficult I’ve ever run, by far,” Ricardo Solari, Jara’s campaign strategist and a former minister, told the AP. What keeps Jara in the game, he insisted, is her appeal as a bulwark against Kast’s radicalism.

    “The right exaggerates insecurity to convince people that the only possible response is extreme force,” Solari said. “But we’ve seen elsewhere in Latin America that when that happens, ultimately what gets imprisoned is democracy itself.”

  • Watch RFK JR the biohazard demand to be let into the country.

  • Keep those foreign interference American tentacles out of Europe.

  • This is why Putin is afraid to visit the frontlines.

  • Mark Carney is a better conservative leader that’s for sure.

  • Really disrespecting the voters. It’s a liberal-conservative coalition alright.

  • Get educated and fight those stupid bigots tooth and nail. The Nazis will never win!

  • Not to mention the pink tax on items for women.

  • Good thing we built that LNG export facility in Kitimat and most bc residents want to keep using fossil fuel hookups and ice vehicles 🤪

  • Do it! Get that traitor country out!