“Hard-Right” Jose Kast Sworn In As Chile’s President

Yeah, perhaps there are more important issues, like big big things going boom in Iran and everything associated with the war, but, this is a very illuminating, and, at times, absurdly humorous, piece by the AFP

Hard-right Chile leader sworn in on promise of change

Chile’s most right-wing president in over three decades, Jose Antonio Kast, was sworn in Wednesday on a promise to tackle surging rates of violent crime and carry out mass migrant deportations.

Chile becomes the latest Latin American country to lurch to the right as voters back law-and-order candidates to fight the spread of organized crime.

“Things are going to change,” Kast told reporters minutes before taking the oath of office to succeed leftist Gabriel Boric.

Kast, 60, trounced Jeannette Jara, a communist from Boric’s coalition, in December’s run-off to clinch the presidency on his third attempt.

So, wait, it’s considered “hard-right” to want to reduce crime, to have law and order? Is that what the Lefties in the Credentialed Media are telling us? In fairness, Chile doesn’t really have bad crime, it is considered to be mostly safe for travelers, just stay out of certain areas. But, there has been a surge in lower level crimes, especially since the Venezuelans surged into Chile. Hence wanting to deport them.

He is Chile’s most hardline leader since the brutal 1973-1990 dictatorship of general Augusto Pinochet — whom Kast greatly admires.

The ultraconservative Catholic father of nine was sworn in before Congress in the central coastal city of Valparaiso, to cries of “long live Chile!” from right-wing lawmakers.

Got that? Someone who wants low levels of crime is basically a dictator. He also wants to (this comes from AI summery)

• lower corporate taxes to stimulate investment.
• Focuses on cutting public spending and reducing government bureaucracy.
• Encourages private sector growth, including support for industries like aquaculture
• Shifts focus towards stronger ties with the U.S. and Israel, with a potential withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council. (you can see how the Credentialed Media hates that)
• Proposes merging ministries to reduce the size of the state

Yes, because all dictators in waiting want to *checks notes* reduce the size of government, streamline it.

Martina Vivar, a 20-year-old occupational therapy student, said she felt “rage” faced with the victory of Kast’s “campaign of fear and terror, just like during the dictatorship.”

LOL. “Just like.” She’s 20. What the f*** does she know? Most of these yutes know nothing about anything from prior to 2000. And why do so many of these yutes go immediately to violent feelings?

Chile’s new leader has promised to move fast to tamp down a rise in murders, kidnappings and extortion in what remains nonetheless one of Latin America’s safest countries.

He wants to give the police more firepower, deploy troops to crime hotspots and deport large numbers of undocumented migrants, whom many Chileans blame for violence.

His proposals have resonated in a country which takes pride in being a stable and orderly outlier on a continent throttled by organized crime.

So, obviously, Chileans are backing this, preferring to nip the crime in the bud now, rather than when cities are like Baltimore. But, you know, according to the media and leftists Kast will soon turn into a dictator, which they didn’t have a problem with when it was Maduro or Chavez before him.