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

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 ...

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.

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.

Chile center-right presidential candidate Evelyn Matthei said she’ll aim to create one million new jobs, according to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to Reuters, Jose Antonio Kast took around 28 percent of the vote with most ballots counted on Sunday, taking the lead over leftist ex-student leader Gabriel Boric on 25.6 percent.

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 ...

Gabriel Boric, left, a leftist lawmaker, and José Antonio Kast, second from left, a far-right former congressman, have emerged as the front-runners in Chile’s presidential election.

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 ...