In Chile, everyone is sure of it: everything was effectively decided already in the first round on November 16, and the runoff taking place on Sunday is little more than a formality. According to the latest polls, José Antonio Kast – the pinochetista (and son of a Nazi) who does nothing to hide it – has a lead of about 20 points over Jeannette Jara, the communist who does everything to avoid being seen as such. The gap is so wide that the right is already celebrating victory without the slightest worry of counting chickens before they hatch.

Jara, the candidate of Unidad por Chile, has spared no effort in attempting to convince the undecided – and above all the more than 2.5 million voters (almost 20% of the total) who voted in the first round for the populist Franco Parisi, who decided not to endorse either candidate. She did this mainly by leveraging the anti-Kast sentiment of various sectors of the country, launching attacks particularly on the threat to human rights and his promised budget cuts of $6 billion over 18 months. 

During the heated........

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