Anonymous22 days ago
José Antonio Kast was inaugurated on March 11, 2026, as Chile's most conservative president since the end of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in 1990, completing a dramatic political reversal after four years of leftist governance under Gabriel Boric. The devout Catholic and founder of the Republican Party won with roughly 58% of the runoff vote on a platform centered on cracking down on crime and mass-deporting undocumented immigrants, but faces a divided Congress and significant opposition from human rights groups concerned about his cabinet appointments of former Pinochet-era lawyers.