Chile has became the latest Latin American country to ditch the left after voters, driven by fears of crime and migration, elected on Sunday their first far-right leader since the end of a vicious military dictatorship in 1990.
Leftist leaders have not won a single presidential election in Latin America this year as voters tired of economic woes and invigorated by strongman rhetoric in the style of US President Donald Trump or El Salvador's gang-busting leader Nayib Bukele, opt for change.
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