Might as well ask why Argentinians voted the way they did. The answer is the same. Ben Norton did a good job in the latest Deprogram episode explaining the class roots of reactionary politics in South America.
In most of Latin America the media is controlled entirely by capitalists, many of which live and operate out of Miami. I can't speak to Peru specifically, but when the majority of media people see and hear on TV, radio and the Internet saying one thing, it implants in the brain as "common knowledge," and becomes a default belief without much question
At this rate, I suspect some meddling.
Yes, Trump/US have been using social media to promote right-wing ideology and politicians. But it's also undeniable that Boric fucked up basically everything, just like how the Peronists fucked up in Argentina, and Lucho in Bolivia.
Can someone explain why this is happening?
Boric fucked up really badly and Trump/Local Elites/Social Media have been financing and promoting right-wing ideology in South America in response to the fall of the 2010's Conservative Wave, and the Second Pink Tide (which started with the election of AMLO in Mexico).
are Chileans the gusanos of Latin America or are they just white people?
Chileans can be based communists, cringe liberals or really weird chuds, but that is basically the same for all of Latin America. But the two most conservative countries in South America are Peru (which still do have a large left-wing presence which usually mix with some form of Peruvian nationalism thanks to Gen. Velasco's influence who was basically South American Nasser/Pro-Soviet Social Democrat Dictator) and Paraguay (basically a dictatorship since ever, the country has been controlled by the right-wing faction of the Colorado party since the 1940s, and their main opposition is the left-wing faction within the Colorado Party, who are usually social democrats or socialist christians, and the Liberal Party).
Chilean society is usually very progressive but their economy is really fucked, and it's no wonder there are a lot of protests in there. Kast have been trying to become president for a while now, so most people knows who he is.
I'm guessing this is in no small part due to CIA interference.
Part of it is that Chile was founded as a settler colony and some Chileans identify with that
Mapuche people are very "present" in their resistance against the Chilean state. After all spanish is not an indigenous language of the americas.
I think people often forget that most countries in the Americas are settler-colonies because they don't resemble the English/French settler-colonies. They approached race differently and have often been the victims of Western Imperialism so they occupy a strange middle ground between progress and reaction.
Yup, that's why those countries seem to go from fascism to socialism and back between elections
i don’t know anything about chilean elections but i hope jeanette jara wins
He is going to sell each and every one of them a Toyota