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Chile President-Elect Kast Names Cabinet With Quiroz as Finance Chief

José Antonio Kast
Photographer: Tomás Cuesta/Bloomberg

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By Matthew Malinowski, Carolina Gonzalez, and Antonia Mufarech

January 21, 2026 at 12:53 AM UTC

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Chile’s President-elect José Antonio Kast unveiled his cabinet on Tuesday night, naming top adviser and anti-regulation crusader Jorge Quiroz as his finance chief while backing off from a cost-cutting plan to reduce the number of ministers.