At a rally for right-wing Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast on Thursday night, dozens of supporters gathered around a truck mounted with speakers to listen to the country's national anthem.
during a meeting with foreign correspondents earlier in November, saying Pinochet's regime could not be considered a dictatorship on par with the current governments in Nicaragua and Venezuela. Pinochet handed over power peacefully, he argued, and the political opposition was not shut down., 35-year-old lawmaker Gabriel Boric, who has pledged to dismantle Pinochet's neoliberal legacy - and even with most mainstream politicians on Chile's Right.
. In seven Reuters interviews with Kast supporters, all but one supported Pinochet. Polls show a sizeable minority of voters in this nation of 19 million people still admire the former dictator, crediting him with spurring economic growth via free-market reforms while imposing order. "We have a tradition that goes back many years," said Braulio Wilckens Claussen, a 36-year-old machinist who will be voting for Kast. "Support for Pinochet has woken up. Support for liberty has woken up.""I liked Pinochet because he was tough," she said. "If Pinochet did bad things, it's because people were doing bad things.
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