SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chileans will vote on Sunday in what is widely seen as the nation's most divisive presidential election since the country's 1990 return to democracy, as an ultra-right-wing former congressman battles it out with a leftist who has thrown his support behind massive street protests.
Chileans were to vote yesterday in what is widely seen as the nation’s most divisive presidential election since the country’s 1990 return to democracy, as an ultra-right-wing former congressman battled it out with a leftist who has thrown his support behind massive street protests.
On the right, Jose Antonio Kast, a 55-year-old Catholic and father of nine, has promised to crack down on crime and has praised the neo-liberal “economic legacy” of former Chilean president Augusto Pinochet.
His frank talk, across-the-board conservatism and sometimes-idiosyncratic policy ideas, such as building a ditch to curb illegal immigration, have drawn frequent comparisons with former US