Chile is perceived by many of its neighbours in the Latin American region as a safer, more stable haven.
But inside the country, that perception has unravelled as voters worried about security, immigration and crime chose José Antonio Kast to be their next president.
Kast is a hardline conservative who has praised General Augusto Pinochet, Chile's former right-wing dictator whose US-backed coup ushered in 17 years of military rule marked by torture, disappearances and censorship.
To his critics, Kast's family history, including his German-born father's membership in the Nazi Party and his brother's time as a minister under Pinochet, is unsettling.
However, some of Kast's supporters openly defend Pinochet's rule, arguing that Chile was more peaceful then.
