SHOT FOR A GOLD CHAIN
“Just some steps from my home, a younger boy was not too long ago killed as a result of he was carrying a gold chain; he was shot. And three years in the past, on my road, a younger lady was virtually kidnapped,” Rosario Isidora Herrera Munoz, who voted in Santiago along with her six-month-old child, advised AFP.
“I hope that some day we’ll return to the way in which we have been earlier than,” mentioned Mario Faundez, an 87-year-old retired salesman.
“If we’ve to kill (criminals), so be it,” he added.
Jara on Sunday accused her rivals of “exacerbating concern” and spreading “hate,” and mentioned their proposals didn’t quantity to a full plan for governing.
The vote is seen as a litmus take a look at for South America’s left, which has been despatched packing in Argentina and Bolivia, and faces a stiff problem in Colombian and Brazilian elections subsequent yr.
Jara served as labor minister below outgoing center-left president Gabriel Boric, who can not run for a second consecutive time period.
Extremely-right candidate Johannes Kaiser, who was closing in on Jara and Kast within the last days of campaigning, advised AFP the election was about ending Latin America’s “disconnection … from america and the free world.”
