Chile’s New Far-Right President is Slashing the Culture Budget

Chile’s freshly-inaugurated president, the far-right politician José Antonio Kast, has announced a budget cut of 3 percent across all ministries; this is just one facet of what Kast calls his “emergency” government, which he believes is necessary to address the country’s alleged economic and security crises. This budget cut slashes the funds allocated to Chile’s Ministry of […]