Hey, everyone. This is Ben Norton. You are watching or listening to moderate rebels.

Today we are talking about Chile. There were presidential elections this December, this week in Chile, and the-right candidate, Jose Antonio Cast, lost.

This is important because Koste represented the legacy of Pinoche, the U.S.-backed right-wing

dictatorship of Augusto Pinoche, which came to power in 1973 through the famous 9-11 coup in

in which the CIA overthrew Chile's democratically elected president of Salvador Allende,

a socialist who won fair and free elections and was overthrown and led to a period of a brutal right-wing dictatorship

under Pinochet. So the fact is that in this election, Kost really was the symbol of Pinochet,

defending his legacy, calling for a return to many of those same kind of hyper-capitalist,

neoliberal policies.

On the other side in the second round of the election was a 35-year-old social democrat

center-left named Gabriel Boric.

We'll talk about him.

He's not a great candidate, and there's a lot to criticize. But at the same time, the fact that he won, I think, is a very important symbol of Chile rejecting the legacy of Benocet and doing so in a resounding victory.

We should keep in mind that the results were 56% for Boric and 44% for cost.

So that's a 12% margin.

That's a pretty sizable victory.

Max has joined us here.

We're also joined by Pablo Vivanco.

He is a journalist, a Chilean-born journalist, currently in Canada,

and has worked with Telesaur and other outlets. He's also a filmmaker and has done great work.

So today we're going to reflect on the results, what it means for Chile. We're also going to talk

about it in the context of the massive social uprising that

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