The Dec 2025 election of José A Kast in Chile has been reported as yet another victory of the contemporary far right. Rather than an unexpected outlier, however, Kast's relation to Chile’s trajectory of neoliberal authoritarianism is a family tradition. Part 1 here. brooklynrail.org/2026/04/fiel...
The following attempts to situate José Antonio Kast’s victory within the long trajectory of Chile’s violent neoliberalisation
