The Left’s candidate in Chile’s presidential election is Jeannette Jara, a Communist who was until recently the country’s labor minister. She’s running on her record of boosting the minimum wage and shortening Chileans’ working hours.

Angela Rifo has experienced unspeakable violence. During Chile’s seventeen-year dictatorship, the trade unionist was detained and tortured. Since then, she has dedicated her life to ensuring that others wouldn’t have to suffer as she did — including in the workplace.

This history explains why Rifo, in her sixties, ended up in the same room as Jeannette Jara — then Chile’s minister of labor and social welfare — in spring 2022. As a labor leader for Chile’s National Association of Public Employees (ANEF), a union that represents 700,000 public sector workers,

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