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Chilean presidential candidate Gabriel Boric speaks to supporters during a closing campaign rally in Casablanca, Chile, Thursday, November 18, 2021
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LEFTIST candidate Gabriel Boric will face far-right Jose Antonio Kast next month as the Chilean presidential election goes to a run-off.
Mr Boric, prominent as a leader of the anti-government protest movement, polled second in Sunday’s first round with 25 per cent of the vote.
The Apruebo Dignidad coalition candidate is up against Mr Kast, a far-right lawyer for the Partido Republicana, who secured first place with 28 per cent.
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
For the first time in years, the dominant voice within Chile’s official left comes not from neoliberal centrists but from the world of labour, writes LEONEL POBLETE CODUTTI