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Chile candidate accused of using bulletproof glass to hype crime
The Mercury
|November 13, 2025
CHILE'S left-wing presidential hopeful Jeannette Jara this week accused her far-right rival Jose Antonio Kast of scaremongering after he gave a speech from behind bulletproof glass to underscore the country's crime problem.
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The arrival of foreign crime gangs has caused a surge in violent crime in Chile in the past decade, causing deep disquiet in a country that prides itself on being orderly.
The murder rate and number of kidnappings have doubled in a decade, making insecurity the main concern of voters ahead of Sunday's election.
At a packed rally in Santiago this week Jara, a Communist running on behalf of a broad leftist coalition, accused the right of deliberately stoking fear.
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