December 17, 2025 SHARE Donald Trump has gained a new ally in his attacks against diversity, immigration, and women’s and LGBTQ+ rights. On December 14, far-right politician José Antonio Kast, 59, won Chile’s presidential election after running a campaign that targeted undocumented migrants and promised a hard-line crackdown on crime. Kast’s victory was celebrated by transnational groups that oppose women’s and LGBTQ+ rights, including Spain-based anti-LGBTQ+ CitizenGO; Hungary’s Center For Fundamental Rights, a propaganda arm of Viktor Orbán’s regime; and the U.S.-based Institute for Women’s Health and the Global Center for Human Rights. Brian Brown, co-founder of the U.S.-based National Organization for Marriage, also welcomed the result. Although Kast sought to avoid publicly addressing some of these organizations’ core priorities during the campaign –such as abortion and same sex marriage–these entities see the president-elect of Chile as one of their own. In fact, Kast led from 2022 to 2024 the Political Network for Values (PNfV), a global lobbying platform that connects far-right actors from Latin America, Africa, Europe and the U.S., and advances a conservative Christian agenda by opposing LGBTQ+ rights, women’s bodily autonomy, and euthanasia, while defending a traditional family model.
via graphe: Chile’s Election Marks a Strategic Win for Transnational Anti-LGBTQ+ and Anti-Woman Networks