00:00That was the information from Latin America and the Caribbean and the ALBA Summit, but we have more information as well, because while this was going on in Chile, Gabriel Boric's progressivism was defeated at the polls, opening the doors for Pinochetism to once again occupy the presidency.
00:17This led by Jose Antonio Kast. Kast, who is the son of a Nazi soldier and has a family involved in human rights violations during the dictatorship, was elected by the Chilean people to govern the country for the next four years.
00:37According to more than 95% of the votes counted, Kast has won almost 60% of the votes, beating the government candidate Janet Jara, who won just over 40%.
00:50In this way, Kast becomes the first president elected to be an open defender of the Pinochet dictatorship, this since the return of democracy.
01:01This result has been approved by the international right, while social movements in Chile are now calling for resistance to the new executive neoliberal agenda.
01:14This is just in from Chile, a new government, far-right government, led by Kast after many times and many different elections in which he was defeated.
01:26And at this moment, let's also take a look, a deeper look, at Jose Antonio Kast, wrist candidate for the Republican Party.
01:34Kast is a 59-year-old lawyer, representative of the conservative right, who has been a presidential candidate in 2017-2021 and has now been victorious at this 2025 election.
01:53He has been a representative for District No. 24, Metropolitan Region, from the year 2014 to 2018, and a representative for District No. 30.
02:03The Metropolitan Region, for three consecutive terms among his political proposals, were a greater support for the police.
02:13The punishative discourse in the sense of prison reform that seeks to restore state controls in prisons, that is the leading aspect of one of his discourses,
02:25and a commitment to the North to restore order and protect the borders.
02:31Again, the far-right candidate Kast that has won in Chile.
02:37We will, of course, look at the impacts, both at a national level and an international level, of this victory in Chile.
02:45We have more on this in upcoming news for us.
02:48For now, stay tuned with Tell Us Your English.
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