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".
