Chile has become the latest country in Latin America to veer toward the right, electing a deeply conservative veteran politician who has long attracted comparisons to Donald Trump.

The president-elect, José Antonio Kast, has expressed nostalgia for the 17-year military dictatorship of the late Gen. Augusto Pinochet, opposed the legalization of same-sex marriage and advocated in recent years for a constitutional ban on abortion.

Those stances, which some say sabotaged Kast’s previous presidential bids in the increasingly liberal country, didn’t seem to matter in Sunday’s election.

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    12 days ago

    Fuck, there go my plans to use South America as a last possible fallback if shit keeps getting worse.

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    10 days ago

    “Hey, Trump is deporting our people, putting our people in concentration camps and wants to wage ware against us while committing war crimes already. What a great guy!” wtf is happening

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      12 days ago

      One of those elections where you have to choose between a douche and a turd sandwich