President José Antonio Kast ranked 12th of 18 Latin American leaders in the October positive image ranking compiled by the consultancy CB Global Data. He slipped one place from September and again fell outside the top ten.
According to T13, Kast reached a 41.6% positive image rating. BioBioChile reported the same figure. CNN Chile, however, reported an approval rating of 38.8%, a drop of 4.1 points from 42.9% in September, with disapproval rising from 52.5% to 56.8%.
Both figures come from the same study. In Chile, 17.9% rated his administration as very good and 20.9% as good, for a total of 38.8%. Another 40.5% rated it as very bad, 16.3% as bad, and 4.4% did not know or did not answer. The sources do not explain how the 41.6% positive image figure is calculated.
The trend is downward. According to T13, Kast stood at 48.9% in March, at the start of his term, 47.7% in August and 42.9% in September. Since March he has lost 7.3 points.
In the regional table, the leader of the Partido Republicano (Republican Party) ranks below Bolivia's Rodrigo Paz, who holds 11th place, and Paraguay's Santiago Peña. He is ahead of Panama's José Raúl Mulino (13) and Argentina's Javier Milei (14).
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum tops the survey with 69.3%. She is followed by El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, with 68.3%, and the Dominican Republic's President Luis Abinader, with 51.9%. Only those three are above 50%.
At the bottom of the ranking are Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega (15), Uruguay's Yamandú Orsi (16), Venezuela's acting president Delcy Rodríguez (17) and Guatemala's Bernardo Arévalo (18). According to BioBioChile, Arévalo posted a 31% positive image rating, Rodríguez 32.3% and Orsi 35.2%.
CB Global Data conducted the online survey between October 5 and 8, 2026, among people over 18 in 18 countries. Samples ranged from 1,959 to 3,911 cases per country, with margins of error from 1.6% to 2.2%. In Chile, the sample was 3,059 cases and the margin of error was 1.8%.
