The Cortijo De Jeannette Jara, the Town of Conchalí Where the Chilean Left-Wing Presidential Candidate Grew Up

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For the first time, a communist from the popular classes can become president of Chile, after his victory at the left-wing primary for the November presidential election. But after Gabriel Boric's mandate, who disappointed the left-wing electorate, barring the road to the far right is a huge challenge.

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In just a couple of days, Jeannette Jara achieved what the left had sought so much: a candidacy capable of insufflating energy to the official hosts, ordering the parties and candidates to Congress and driving away the ghost of a second round between two rights. In one sentence: avoid shipwreck. Officialism experienced a growing state of despair, as the letters capable of securing that minimum floor (Michelle Bachelet, Camila Vallejo, Tomás Voda…

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The first words that were heard in the electoral band of Jeannette Jara, of the Communist Party, were those of a girl who represented her. She said that she was the daughter of a mechanic and a housekeeper, who studied at the 402 school in the popular municipality of Conchalí, in the north of Santiago: “I do not come from the elite, but from a Chile that rises early to work.” Throughout the campaign that led her to be elected last Sunday with 60…

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The economist, in charge of the presidential candidate’s command during the primaries, said that “she manages to normalize that being a communist in this country is not something strange or negative” and “gets the people closer to the ideas of the Communist Party, there is a way to give people a story of normality, of tranquility.” He said that with Jara’s triumph in the primaries of officialism “on the Chilean political stage there was a releva…

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"It represents that left formed from the workers' struggles, educated popular cadres. It studies, professionalizes, but never breaks the link with its roots," says the expert on the Chilean left.