Dec. 19, 2021

35 year old Chilean leftist wins the Runoff election for President.

35 year old Chilean leftist wins the Runoff election for President.

With 99% of the vote counted in Sunday’s second round of the   Presidential  election, Gabriel Boric, the 35 year old former student leader won the race with 55% of the vote.

Pictured taking a selfie with his supporters his 10% lead over extreme right wing candidate Jose Antonio Kast who garnered 45% of the vote, the Left, led by Boric is clearly in the ascendancy in Chile.

Kast is seen consoling one of his supporters. The polls had predicted a very tight race right up to this past weekend. But clearly Chilean voters decided to make a clear break with the Pinochet era by rejecting Kast who had spoken favorably of the late dictator who overthrew Marxist Salvador Allende in 1973. 

Chile is also in the process of reforming its 1980 constitution, another legacy of the Pinochet era, through a Constitutional Convention which will put the new document to a popular vote in 2022.

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Jim lived in Latin America - Ecuador, Chile and Mexico - for 7 years working in the financial services industry. But as a side interest, he was a stringer, (freelance journalist), for The Economist, the BBC, The Times and Business Latin America. Returning to San Francisco, he served as the President of the San Francisco Public Library from 1992 to 1996. The Commission runs the 27 public libraries in San Francisco, one of America's leading urban public library systems. His debut novel, a financial thriller "Deceit and Dirty Money" is available through Amazon.com. Jim is drawn to Podcasting, as the medium brings together all the traditions of writing, broadcasting, technology and marketing. Deeply committed to fostering international relations through Citizen Diplomacy, he serves as the Co-Chair and founder of the San Francisco Bangalore Sister City Committee, which links India's Silicon Valley to San Francisco. He is the Treasurer of the San Francisco Cork Sister City Committee which is one of 19 sister city relationships San Francisco has developed to foster international trade and culture.

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