I'm John Batchel with my colleagues, Ernest Arusha, former Foreign Minister

of the Republic of Brazil, and Alejandro Pina Exclusa, a Venezuelan democracy advocate,

who brings to my attention two elections with surprising developments so far.

The most surprising to me, after all these decades of education about how communism is brute force, is the first round of voting in Chile.

Jeanette Hara is polling number one.

Jose Antonio Koss is polling number two, and they will be in the runoff.

However, it right now has to be dealt with the fact that the

communist candidate, Jeanette Hara, is leading. Alessna, does this make sense to you? Chile?

It's a money-making country. Well, they already have a left-wing government belonging to the

Soparo Forum, headed by Gabriel Boric. And he's supporting Janet Hara because she's the only candidate

for the left. The problem we have is not so much that she is in the first place. She is in the

first place for a reason, and the reason is that there are four right-wing candidates running

separately, Jose Antonio Cass and three others.

If it wasn't that way, if they were united in one candidacy, then the right wing would

win in just the first round.

It wouldn't be needed a second round.

So the reason why she, Janet Hara, is in the first place, is not because

she is so great or she has so much support, but because the other four are divided. And this

is a tragedy we have in Latin America. The same thing is happening in Bolivia, which has

elections next month of August. The same thing is happening in Peru, which are, they're having elections in April.

The right-wing candidates usually run separately, but left-wing candidates, they just launch one candidate.

So I hope in Chile, they get together, right-wing candidates, and they decide

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