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[^2]\n\nJosé Antonio Kast, the ultraright-wing president of Chile, admitted in an interview with Radio Cooperativa on September 1, 2026, that he knows Fernando Cerimedo, a radical social media agitator currently imprisoned in Bolivia. [^3]\n\nKast described the decision to increase fuel prices as 'complex' and 'painful' but said it allowed the reorder state resources without taking new loans for a subsidy that was about to disappear. [^4]\n\nKast praised negotiations to exempt some Chilean products from punitive US tariffs and defended the free trade agreement (TLC) as a tool to avoid risks to Chilean exports. [^5]\n\nKast stated that the fuel price increase was necessary because the government lacked funds for the Fuel Price Stabilization Mechanism (Mepco) and because Middle East war drove up oil and diesel prices. [^6]\n\nFernando Cerimedo is accused in Bolivia of sponsoring an attempted contract killing and illegal enrichment. [^7]\n\nNadia Beller, the Bolivian lawyer and former partner of Cerimedo who was shot three times in an attack on August 17, 2026, accused Cerimedo of boasting about having a role in the electoral contest that made Kast the governor. 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