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Chile Electoral Results — Jara and Kast Will Go to a Runoff

With 97.91% of polling stations counted, Sunday’s votes show Jeannette Jara with 26.83%,and Jose Antonio Kast at 23.96%.

Eight candidates are vying for the presidency; to be elected without going to a runoff, they must obtain 50.01% of valid votes.

The great unknown is where the votes of young people, working-class citizens, and habitual abstainers will go now that voting is mandatory.

Latin America’s biggest polluters reveal contradictions and paradoxes in their climate policies that undermine the limited progress made.

Many people in Chile and Latin America share left-wing ideas but feel an emotional rejection toward the parties that promote them.

Desalination projects are booming in Chile, with 51 plants planned to process seawater and a combined investment of US$ 24.455 billion.

Since taking office in Chile in March 2022, Gabriel Boric has been an outspoken critic of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega & Rosario Murillo

The idea that women were born to be mothers is still generally accepted in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Change begins with every honest conversation, every extended hand, and every conscious rejection of the violent mandates of the past.

With the evolution and diversification of new illicit markets the criminal networks are challenging the survival of democratic institutions.