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Chile's MAGA-inspired border control
Kast’s government says the trench network will help curb irregular crossings as patrols stopped nearly 500 attempted exits in Arica y Parinacota this year.
Out on the wide open plain on Chile’s northernmost coastline, dust billows in the cool breeze which sweeps across the pampa.In front of a row of concrete markers tracing the border with Peru, two sandy-yellow Chilean military excavators crawl along a deep trench, digging three metres down before swinging sharply to dump bucketloads of earth into a rising embankment.A few hundred yards across the pampa from where Chilean soldiers patrol the bound…