Ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast secured a thumping victory in Chile’s presidential runoff election Sunday, defeating the candidate of the leftist governing coalition and setting the stage for the...

Chile’s conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast secured a victory in the presidential election on Sunday, defeating the candidate of the centre-left governing coalition and setting the stage fo...

Mr. Kast, 59, a father of nine with ideological roots in conservative Roman Catholicism and economic neoliberalism, had campaigned on a tough-on-crime platform that had echoes of President Trump’s pol...