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A resident casts his vote at a polling station during the second day of the Constitutional Convention election to select assembly members that will draft a new constitution, in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, May 16, 2021
CHILEAN communists celebrated another stunning victory on Monday as Iraci Hassler was elected as mayor of the capital Santiago.
“We hope that what is happening today in Santiago is the prelude to what is also coming in our country, where never again will the right govern against our neighbours,” she said in her victory speech.
Ms Hassler became the first communist to be elected to the post since the fall of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in 1990. She polled nearly 39 per cent of the vote.
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
Communist Party presidential candidate JEANNETTE JARA challenges the Chilean left to stop talking only among comrades and reach out to angry voters abandoned by politics in the race against the far right this November
