Chile’s presidential election hearkens to Pinochet-era divisions  

The World

Chileans will vote on a new president this Sunday. And the political divide between far-right conservative Jose Antonio Kast and the left-of-center Gabriel Boric have resurfaced themes of autocracy-versus-democracy that Chile saw at the end of the Pinochet dictatorship. 

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