{"id":16584,"date":"2021-12-20T12:14:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T06:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=16584"},"modified":"2021-12-20T12:14:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T06:44:36","slug":"chile-goes-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=16584","title":{"rendered":"Chile goes left!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leftist and former student leader Gabriel Boric, 35, will become Chile&#8217;s youngest President since its return to democracy in 1990, after he won a presidential runoff election on Sunday.<br \/>With 99.95% of ballots counted, Boric won with 55.87% of the vote, securing victory over his right-wing opponent, Jose Antonio Kast, who trailed with 44.13%, according to the Electoral Service of Chile. Boric will be sworn in as President on March 11.\\<br \/>Gabriel Boric Font is a Chilean politician and former student leader who has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 11 March 2014, representing the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region. He was elected in the 2013 general election as an independent candidate<br \/>He incorporated promises of radical reforms on inequality into his platform, including raising taxes on the rich, expanding the country&#8217;s social safety net, creating a greener economy, and drafting a new Constitution,<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-16584' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=16584&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-16584' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-16584' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-16584' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-16584'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-16584' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-16584 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftist and former student leader Gabriel Boric, 35, will become Chile&#8217;s youngest President since its return to democracy in 1990, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97,107,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-smartphones","category-political","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}