This is Jackamon Radio. I'm Suzy Weisman. Gabriel Borridge, a 35-year-old former student

leader, congressman, and millennial leftist from the southern tip of Chile has won in the second

round of Chile's presidential election. He resoundly defeated the first round winner,

Jose Antonio Cast, the ultra-right faux populist admirer of pinot-shades dictatorship,

whose campaign stoked fear and hatred of migrants, opposed women's rights, same-sex marriage,

and promised repression. Pablo Abufoam Silva joins us from Chile with his analysis of the election

results. He talks about Borridge's politics and the immense challenges he faces in making the

changes he represents. These include ending neoliberal economic policies, taking on police brutality

and human rights violations, a deepening of democracy and civil rights, urgent action on climate

change, fighting for gender equity, the empowerment of women and indigenous peoples, all in the context

of an economic crisis made worse by the pandemic. Pablo's article, Gabriel Borridge,

último presidente de lo viejo, o primer presidente de lo nuevo,

that's Gabriel Borridge, last president of the old or first president of the new, is published online

by Viento Sur, and we spend the hour with him when our program returns in just a moment.

This is Jacumen Radio, I'm Suzy Weisman, and very pleased to have Pablo Abufoam Silva back

with this. We're going to spend the hour talking about the impressive victory in Chile

where the second round of their presidential election on December 19th resulted in a landslide

for the young leftist former student leader, Gabriel Borridge, of the Oprebo Dignidad, or I

approved dignity coalition. His fascist far-right opponent, Jose Antonio Cast, who won in the first

round with a red-baiting reactionary campaign that demonized migrants as narco-trafficking terrorist,

promised repression, and a reversal of same-sex marriage and the gains that women have won,

and that painted Borridge as a tool of the Communist Party, warning that Chile would become a poor

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