You’d think they would have had enough of this b******* after all the years if misery and all the disappeareds. How many passionate chileans did I meet who had been through torture and repression? I honestly don’t even want to be here any more.
Successful_Gas_5122 on
Of course he’s a Pinochet fan. Fascist ghouls are on the march worldwide.
kerenosabe on
You can thank Maduro for that. Chileans are scared of the drug gangs that came infiltrated among the Venezuelan refugees who fled to Chile.
FastBrilliant1 on
Isn’t he a descendant of an actual Nazi from WW2 Germany who fled to Chile after the war?
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For all the guys wondering how did this happen, basically the election was between this dude and the communist candidate, and that is a big no no here.
For context, you have to know that in Chile the left supports without restriction to all indigenous groups. In particular the Mapuche (the biggest one in the country). While it is important to take into account their necessities, the left sometimes make some mental gymnastics to even accept terrorism acts done by them. Particullary the Araucanía region has been a hotspot for these acts. For example, killing people in their own homes, and even policeman, all in name of “reclaiming their ancestral land”.
Having said that, the right has been saying for a couple of years that the Araucanía region has been subject to terrorism, while the left says “how can they be terrorists, they are just trying to get back what was theirs X years ago”.
Now to the information in the news article. I will try to just give the information of the document, and will try to let you know when I’m stating a personal opinion. Remember English is not my first language, and this text was made with no AI whatsoever:
– Izkia Siches (who was Home Affairs minister) went to Temicuicui (in the Araucanía) just four days after assuming her position and was met with barricades, vehicles on fire and bullets (although nobody died).
– The same minister accused the ex-president of bringing back inmigrants that were already deported, which was a lie.
– One advisor of a minister had phone calls with the leader of one of the terrorist groups (CAM).
– The government promised to end with the position of First Lady. For this, they initially changed the name of the position from First Lady to “Gabinete Irina Karamanos” (which translater roughly to Irina Karamanos’ cabinet”. For context, Irina Karamanos was the President’s girfriend at the moment.
– The first constitutional process (personal opinion: It was progressive, but to a ridiculous extreme) failed.
– He tried to appoint Nicolás Cataldo (Communist party) in a position related to Home Affairs, even though the dude had previously insulted the police in Twitter. Personal opinion: Criticize him for this one was was kind of ridiculous, the tweets were from 2011 xD.
– He pardoned people that were arrested in the social outbreak back in 2019. Some of these pardoned people had quite a criminal record. Fot this, the Justice Minister was sacked.
– There were leaked audios of the Chief of communicatios of the Foreign Affairs questioning Argentina’s ambassador in Chile.
– A major Tax Reform was rejected.
– There was a corruption case involving deputies and even the president’s psychiatrist. This case was called “Caso Convenios”.
– Giorgio Jackson, ex-minister and friend of the president had some major controversies: like one involving “gas at fair price”, which ended up meaning that the state was paying high prices for every gas cylinder (~117 USD for each).
– Computers were stolen from the building of the Ministry of Social Developement (Jackson was the minister then). These computers allegedly contained information regarding the “Caso Convenios”. Therefore, he ended up being sacked too.
– The Valparaíso region suffered from major fires in February 2024. Nowdays nearly a 50% of houses were reconstructed. (Personal opinion: this is REALLY slow).
– Six ministers attended to several reunions of Pablo Zalaquet (right wing politician), who is known for being a lobbyist. One of the ministers was the other candidate today, Jeanette Jara.
– The government that has claimed being a feminist government, tried to shield Manuel Monsalve (higher up in the Home Affairs Ministry), while he was being accused of commiting sexual abuse. Boric did a press conference that was (in my opinion) questionable at best.
– The government tried to buy Salvador Allende’s house, even though the Defense Minister (Maya Fernandez) is his granddaughter and Isabel Allende (a senator, and his daughter) were part of the government. This is unconstitutional.
– They divided their voting coalitions in a (my opinion) stupid way. I won’t go into much details, but this ended up meaning that in the parlamentary elections the left had less seats than what they could’ve gotten.
– In october this year, it was revealed that there was a calculation error in electricity bills that resulted in people paying more than what they shoul’ve. This resulted in a costitutional accusation to Diego Pardow, the (Ministry of Energy)
carboncord on
The other candidate was from the Communist Party. I am not sure how Chileans were left with these as their two options, but here we are.
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Substantial_Pilot699 on
Is he really far-right. Or just centre-right ot right, and the left are painting him as “far-right”?
hornswoggled111 on
Right or left isn’t the threat. It’s populism and autocracy that is what is so risky.
luveveryone on
Has Trump effusively praised him yeah?
Brilliant-Lab546 on
Wait ,isn’t he the one whose dad was an actual Nazi???
Colombianonoestupido on
Americans who have only known between mediocre center-right and deranged far right candidates think that anything left of center must be paradise.
And who knows? for their country it may be.
But fucking believe me, if you had to live under a Latin American far left goverment you’d know why shit like this happens. Three of the four dictatorships/authoritarian regimes in LA right now are left wing, 8 million Venezuelans have come out to flood nearby countries because they kept voting for Chavez and then Maduro until they couldn’t vote them out.
Jazzlike-Equipment45 on
Not suprising with the state of the country from what I have been reading. Best of luck to Chile and its people.
MK5 on
$40B taxpayer funded bailout for Chile, coming right up.
Turbulent-Warthog449 on
No great
iliciman on
I love how, according to the article, he’s far right for wanting less crime and more deportations while the communist is “center-left” :)))
helgestrichen on
Of course
_cedarwood_ on
What is happening globally right now
notcabron on
They never learn. Like, they’ve had a literal murderous dictator there in the last 50 years, and they just voted for it again.
MK7Rguy on
It’s Latin America guys, this type of shit just happens there.
ChiakiSimp3842 on
People never fucking learn
Behold-Roast-Beef on
Boo.
Yy-HACKERMAN-yY on
un crack JAK 😎
AncientLion on
Chile is a meme, same level that Argentina right now 🤣
strangejosh on
JFC. Did we learn nothing from the last 100 years?
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You’d think they would have had enough of this b******* after all the years if misery and all the disappeareds. How many passionate chileans did I meet who had been through torture and repression? I honestly don’t even want to be here any more.
Of course he’s a Pinochet fan. Fascist ghouls are on the march worldwide.
You can thank Maduro for that. Chileans are scared of the drug gangs that came infiltrated among the Venezuelan refugees who fled to Chile.
Isn’t he a descendant of an actual Nazi from WW2 Germany who fled to Chile after the war?
For all the guys wondering how did this happen, basically the election was between this dude and the communist candidate, and that is a big no no here.
Even when Reddit loves Boric because “he is young and socialist, and that is good because he is not old and not not-socialist”, his government was mediocre at best, and Jara represents contiunity to that government. [Here you have an article thar summarises the major mistakes that lead to this](https://www.theclinic.cl/2025/12/14/la-serie-de-errores-que-cometio-el-gobierno-de-gabriel-boric-que-pavimento-el-camino-para-la-holgada-victoria-de-su-antiguo-rival-republicano/). Although is in spanish, when I get home I’ll try to make a quick summary.
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For context, you have to know that in Chile the left supports without restriction to all indigenous groups. In particular the Mapuche (the biggest one in the country). While it is important to take into account their necessities, the left sometimes make some mental gymnastics to even accept terrorism acts done by them. Particullary the Araucanía region has been a hotspot for these acts. For example, killing people in their own homes, and even policeman, all in name of “reclaiming their ancestral land”.
Having said that, the right has been saying for a couple of years that the Araucanía region has been subject to terrorism, while the left says “how can they be terrorists, they are just trying to get back what was theirs X years ago”.
Now to the information in the news article. I will try to just give the information of the document, and will try to let you know when I’m stating a personal opinion. Remember English is not my first language, and this text was made with no AI whatsoever:
– Izkia Siches (who was Home Affairs minister) went to Temicuicui (in the Araucanía) just four days after assuming her position and was met with barricades, vehicles on fire and bullets (although nobody died).
– The same minister accused the ex-president of bringing back inmigrants that were already deported, which was a lie.
– One advisor of a minister had phone calls with the leader of one of the terrorist groups (CAM).
– The government promised to end with the position of First Lady. For this, they initially changed the name of the position from First Lady to “Gabinete Irina Karamanos” (which translater roughly to Irina Karamanos’ cabinet”. For context, Irina Karamanos was the President’s girfriend at the moment.
– The first constitutional process (personal opinion: It was progressive, but to a ridiculous extreme) failed.
– He tried to appoint Nicolás Cataldo (Communist party) in a position related to Home Affairs, even though the dude had previously insulted the police in Twitter. Personal opinion: Criticize him for this one was was kind of ridiculous, the tweets were from 2011 xD.
– He pardoned people that were arrested in the social outbreak back in 2019. Some of these pardoned people had quite a criminal record. Fot this, the Justice Minister was sacked.
– There were leaked audios of the Chief of communicatios of the Foreign Affairs questioning Argentina’s ambassador in Chile.
– A major Tax Reform was rejected.
– There was a corruption case involving deputies and even the president’s psychiatrist. This case was called “Caso Convenios”.
– Giorgio Jackson, ex-minister and friend of the president had some major controversies: like one involving “gas at fair price”, which ended up meaning that the state was paying high prices for every gas cylinder (~117 USD for each).
– Computers were stolen from the building of the Ministry of Social Developement (Jackson was the minister then). These computers allegedly contained information regarding the “Caso Convenios”. Therefore, he ended up being sacked too.
– The Valparaíso region suffered from major fires in February 2024. Nowdays nearly a 50% of houses were reconstructed. (Personal opinion: this is REALLY slow).
– Six ministers attended to several reunions of Pablo Zalaquet (right wing politician), who is known for being a lobbyist. One of the ministers was the other candidate today, Jeanette Jara.
– The government that has claimed being a feminist government, tried to shield Manuel Monsalve (higher up in the Home Affairs Ministry), while he was being accused of commiting sexual abuse. Boric did a press conference that was (in my opinion) questionable at best.
– The government tried to buy Salvador Allende’s house, even though the Defense Minister (Maya Fernandez) is his granddaughter and Isabel Allende (a senator, and his daughter) were part of the government. This is unconstitutional.
– They divided their voting coalitions in a (my opinion) stupid way. I won’t go into much details, but this ended up meaning that in the parlamentary elections the left had less seats than what they could’ve gotten.
– In october this year, it was revealed that there was a calculation error in electricity bills that resulted in people paying more than what they shoul’ve. This resulted in a costitutional accusation to Diego Pardow, the (Ministry of Energy)
The other candidate was from the Communist Party. I am not sure how Chileans were left with these as their two options, but here we are.
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Is he really far-right. Or just centre-right ot right, and the left are painting him as “far-right”?
Right or left isn’t the threat. It’s populism and autocracy that is what is so risky.
Has Trump effusively praised him yeah?
Wait ,isn’t he the one whose dad was an actual Nazi???
Americans who have only known between mediocre center-right and deranged far right candidates think that anything left of center must be paradise.
And who knows? for their country it may be.
But fucking believe me, if you had to live under a Latin American far left goverment you’d know why shit like this happens. Three of the four dictatorships/authoritarian regimes in LA right now are left wing, 8 million Venezuelans have come out to flood nearby countries because they kept voting for Chavez and then Maduro until they couldn’t vote them out.
Not suprising with the state of the country from what I have been reading. Best of luck to Chile and its people.
$40B taxpayer funded bailout for Chile, coming right up.
No great
I love how, according to the article, he’s far right for wanting less crime and more deportations while the communist is “center-left” :)))
Of course
What is happening globally right now
They never learn. Like, they’ve had a literal murderous dictator there in the last 50 years, and they just voted for it again.
It’s Latin America guys, this type of shit just happens there.
People never fucking learn
Boo.
un crack JAK 😎
Chile is a meme, same level that Argentina right now 🤣
JFC. Did we learn nothing from the last 100 years?