Chile's most right-wing president in over three decades, Jose Antonio Kast, will be sworn in on Wednesday on a promise to tackle surging rates of violent crime and carry out mass migrant deportations.
Chile is the latest Latin American country to lurch to the right as voters back law-and-order candidates to fight the spread of organized crime.
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