Four years after Chileans elected Gabriel Boric, a young, progressive president who many saw as the symbol of a new era for the Latin American left, the country now faces a deeply polarised electorate.

The election campaign has been dominated by promises of an iron fist: drug traffickers should be "in jail or in the cemetery", according to candidate Evelyn Matthei, while Franco Parisi speaks of "bullet or jail", considering drug trafficking as "narco-terrorism".

More than 14 million Chileans are eligible to vote in elections that will renew the entire Chamber of Deputies and alm

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