The ultraconservative José Antonio Kast won the presidential elections in Chile, defeating the leftist Jeannette Jara by an advantage of almost 20 points.
Kast is a right-wing sympathizer with the Pinochet dictatorship; He had sought, in 2017 and 2021, the Presidency of the Andean country, until yesterday he finally obtained victory.
Kast’s postulates, his campaign promises, are similar to those put forward by Donald Trump: combat insecurity (the most important problem according to Chileans) close the borders to illegal migration, especially of Venezuelans and Bolivians.
There is also no difference with the Argentine’s postulates Javier Milei, another dogmatist of the heavy hand in economic and social matters.
Latin America seems to have surrendered to the experiments of the left.
In Honduras, in an election that remains in suspense after two weeks, the right-wing Nasry Asfura leads the race with 40.52% of the vote, followed by the center-right Salvador Nasralla, with 39.20% and very far away from the official candidate, the leftist Rixi Moncada with about 19 percent.
Next year there will be presidential elections in Costa Rica, Colombia and Peru, countries where the left is also reeling.
It will be the litmus test and we will see if the entire continent turns to the right.
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After the debate in the INE about an alleged early rise by the president Guadalupe Taddei, to be presented as the official electoral reform proposal of the institute, the internal waters have resumed their cause.
Today, the INE advisors will present to the Presidential Commission for electoral reform, a document in which observations and opinions of specialists in the matter are collected, but no as a legislative proposal but as a wholeof technical inputs’’.
This document, according to INE officials, seeks to enrich an informed debate on electoral reform without replacing the powers of the authorities responsible for the process.
We will see shortly if said Commission, headed by Pablo Gomeztakes into account the document or if you have already prepared the final document that will be signed by President Sheinbaum.
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Very pampered by the Secretary of the Interior, Rose icella Rodriguez, He was with the governor of Puebla, Alejandro Armenta, who the previous Saturday submitted his first work report.
The Secretary of the Interior highlighted the coordination of the Armenta government with the Federal government, which, she said, makes it easier to “do things together to transform the lives of the inhabitants of the state.”
Armenta reported that in the first twelve months of his administration in the state, femicides have decreased by 41% and intentional homicides by 10%.
More than 1,200 million pesos were invested in security, 1,630 million pesos in the countryside, the debt inherited from the construction of the Baroque Museum was renegotiated, which generated savings of 8,000 million pesos for the state.
One billion pesos were invested in 5,000 works in the poorest municipalities and the state went from being the main entity huachicolerato be the one that has delivered the best results in the fight against that crime.
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The Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch, reported the arrest of a gang of 12 people dedicated to theft of motor transportation in the states of Mexico and Hidalgo.
The arrest, including that of its leader, was the result of a 5-month investigation derived from complaints from businessmen and highway trailer operators.
Although it is good news, thousands of other similar operations are missing to reduce road assault, another cancer that plagues this country.
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