2025-12-18
23 分钟This is The Guardian.
Today, our fear has reshaped Chile and pushed it to the right.
It's historically been one of the safest countries in Latin America.
Little crime, socially stable, relatively wealthy.
Whisper it.
perhaps even a bit boring.
But on Sunday, Chile voted for José Antonio Cast.
The child of immigrants, Nazis, who fled Germany, this blonde,
blue-eyed Catholic father of nine was once considered too extreme and way too right-wing to be taken seriously by Chileans.
He's also weirdly nostalgic about General Pinochet, the man who violently ruled Chile for 17 years,
the dictator who, according to Cast, would vote for me if he were alive.
After José Antonio cast victory in presidential elections on Sunday,
his supporters took to the streets,
and won celebrated by waving a framed portrait of General Pinochet.
It's only been four years
since the country was celebrating a victory for the world's youngest president,
a 36-year-old socialist with a radical,
inclusive vision for what Chile could be, and yet cast has just won by a landslide.
What's he selling and how has he done it?
From The Guardian, I'm Nashin Iqbal.