Source: International Business Times
Chile's presidential candidate Jeannette Jara, of the Progressive Center-Left Coalition, speaks to supporters during a rally at the Manzanal gymnasium in the city of Rancagua, Chile, in August 2025 AFP Chilean left-wing presidential candidate Jeannette Jara is a card-carrying communist, but you won't see the hammer and sickle at her campaign events. The woman seen as having the best chance of preventing the far-right from taking power in the November elections has lurched towards the center in her bid to woo voters. Jara, a former labor minister under outgoing President Gabriel Boric, swept a primary of Boric's left-wing coalition in June to set up a likely November 16 showdown against the far-right's Jose Antonio Kast.
