Chile right-wing presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast pledged to scrap a capital gains tax on some stock sales and spur ...

But in the first round of the presidential election on November 21st he came second to José Antonio Kast, a far-right candidate, who defends the free-market institutions that have shaped the ...

Lea en españolChile center-right presidential candidate Evelyn Matthei said she’ll aim to create one million new jobs, ...

Republican Party presidential candidate José Antonio Kast gestures to supporters at his campaign headquarters after polls closed and partial results were announced in Santiago, Chile, on Nov. 21.

Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast, of the far-right Partido Republicano, greets supporters as he campaigns in Santiago, Chile, on Nov. 2, 2021. Photo: Esteban Felix/AP ...

Chilean ultra-conservative Jose Antonio Kast, sometimes likened to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro or former U.S. President Donald Trump, has made a rapid surge in opinion polls and is now the ...

The Kast family is not unknown in Chile. José Antonio is the son of Michael Kast, a Nazi officer who participated in Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s genocidal war against the Soviet Union.

Conservative Chilean presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast said on Friday that he does not feel like a "far-right" politician, as he has been called in the press, but rather a candidate "of ...

Supporters of Jose Antonio Kast, presidential candidate of the Republican party, hold banners during an election night rally in Santiago, Chile, on Nov. 21. (Tamara Merino/Bloomberg) Yasna Mussa ...

With nearly 97 percent of the vote counted on Sunday, Jose Antonio Kast had 27.94 percent versus 25.75 percent for Gabriel Boric, with a sizeable gap between them and the rest of the field.