Chile’s Presidential Race Reveals Alarming Resurgence of Pinochet Nostalgia

As Chile approaches its presidential election, the specter of Augusto Pinochet's brutal dictatorship stubbornly haunts the political landscape more than three decades after its official end. In an unsettling development, three of the eight candidates vying for the nation's highest office openly defend the 1973 military coup and the regime it ushered in—an era marked by repression, disappearances, and economic upheaval. How Can Chile Turn a Blind Eye to Its Dark Past? This resurgence of pro-Pinochet sentiments is not a fringe phenomenon but a front-and-center issue involving prominent figures with direct family ties to dictatorship-era officials. José Antonio Kast, currently...