Far-right leader José Antonio Kast was sworn in as Chile’s president Wednesday in the Latin American nation’s most pronounced rightward shift since the return of democracy in 1990.
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In his first speech as president Wednesday night, Kast said Chile has real adversaries, including “those who have sown terror in neighborhoods.”
Kast won his landslide election victory against communist candidate Jeannette Jara with the promise of fighting crime and curbing illegal immigration, similar to the aims of his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump.
“And those who have entered by violating our borders to commit crimes, exploit others or turn our land into a no-man’s land are also adversaries of Chile,” Kast said from the balcony at the La Moneda Palace in the capital, Santiago. He added that the government “will not negotiate” with them and that he will pursue them and bring them to justice.
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Chile is the latest Latin American country to vote out an incumbent government, with voters backing right-wing leaders from Argentina to Bolivia as Trump looks to assert U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere, in many cases punishing rivals and rewarding allies.
While Kast has avoided commenting on controversial issues at home and abroad, he has made overtures to the Trump administration and praised the U.S. operation that culminated in the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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