SANTIAGO: Chile’s hard-line President Jose Antonio Kast on Monday touted his “historic” alliance with Argentina’s firebrand leader Javier Milei after talks in Buenos Aires between the two leaders of Latin America’s resurgent right.
Kast took office last month as Chile’s most right-wing leader in three decades, swept to power by voter anger over a surge in organized crime and illegal migration,
His first foreign visit as president took him across the Andes to Argentina to meet with Milei, a close ally of US President Donald Trump.
Kast later described their talks, which focused on cooperation on tourism, trade, investment and mining, as “a historic moment of integration.”
Milei shared an X post from his libertarian party, La Libertad Avanza, which said the visit was proof that “the right is advancing in Latin America!!!“
