The Radical Libertarian Reshaping Chile’s Presidential Race
Lawmaker Johannes Kaiser is rising in the polls ahead of November’s presidential election amid rising concerns about crime and immigration.
He’s been called the “Gabriel Boric of the right”—maybe because, like Chile’s young president, he wears a beard and made a name for himself criticizing the country’s political establishment. But Johannes Maximilian Kaiser Barents-von Hohenhagen, 49, objects to the comparison. “I worked as a laborer, as a waiter, as a bond salesman, I’ve done a thousand different things,” Kaiser, a lawmaker in Chile’s lower house, told AQ. “[Boric] was a student activist, entered Congress and became president. He’s never worked a day in his life.” Kaiser, who...
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