Hardline conservative José Antonio Kast won a landslide victory in presidential elections in Chile, the latest Latin American nation to shift rightward after a period of leftist rule.
Kast — who will be Chile’s most right-wing president since the fall of dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1990 — has vowed to deport all undocumented migrants, including thousands of Venezuelans who have flocked to Chile to escape economic freefall and political repression back home.
Kast has also promised to crack down on crime after murder rates more than doubled in the last decade.
A rare symbol of stability in Latin America, Chile joins Argentina, Bolivia, and Ecuador as voters chafe at slowing economic growth and rising crime rates.