The presidential election in Chile this Sunday is no ordinary contest.
The country is undergoing its biggest transformation since Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship in the 1970s, with constitutional reform underway after years of massive street protests. And the favorites to replace center-right billionaire businessman Sebastián Piñera at the La Moneda Palace are not exactly products of the country’s political establishment.
“The polls show a far-right candidate like José Antonio Kast and a leftist like Gabriel Boric making it to the second round,” pollster and political analyst Axel Callis from the Tú Influyes consultancy tells The Brazilian Report. “We...