A few thousands murdered and tens of thousands tortured. Everyone in Chile knows someone who was a victim of the regime. And they don’t apparently want to go back there.
The problem is that the mainstream center-left and the mainstream center-right failed here. The center-left ruled Chile for two decades after Pinochet and failed to re-establish a decent safety net. Now millions there are looking at poverty in retirement because of Pinochet’s destruction of their social security system. Boric’s promise to create a welfare state is obviously appealing (although voters did not give him the congressional majority that would be needed to accomoplish it). More recently the center-right ruled and accomplished, well, nothing.
Boric isn’t really in a position to do much to harm Israel. But he can do a lot of harm to Chile. He could be another Allende. Pray for Chile.