US EditionNew Chile leader calls for end to Maduro 'dictatorship'
Kast supports a South American humanitarian corridor to return migrants and plans mass deportations of over 300,000 irregular migrants, aligning Chile with regional right-wing shifts.
- On Tuesday, José Antonio Kast said he would back efforts to end Nicolás Maduro's 'dictatorship', strengthening Washington's regional allies amid U.S. pressure on Caracas.
- Following his election victory, Kast confirmed a right-wing lurch in Latin America and campaigned on deporting more than 300,000 mostly Venezuelan migrants, urging self-deportation or expulsion.
- He proposed a humanitarian corridor to return migrants and said outside action could help resolve the crisis, while hundreds were blocked at the Peru border last month.
- During his first foreign trip, Kast told Argentine hosts he supported measures to do away with Maduro's government and said, `It is not our responsibility to solve it , but whoever does will have our support.`
- On Monday a critic likened Kast to Adolf Hitler and warned him against harming Venezuelans, drawing attention to Kast's German-born father who Kast says was a forced conscript in Nazi-era military.
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Radio France Internationale
New Chile leader calls for end to Maduro 'dictatorship'
Chilean President-elect Jose Antonio Kast, a conservative Republican politician, said on Tuesday (December 16) that he would support any action that could end the dictatorship of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. He called the current Venezuelan regime a "drug dictatorship."
The president-elect of Chile, José Antonio Kast, said he would support an eventual intervention by the United States aimed at putting an end to what he described as Nicolás Maduro’s “narco-dictatorship” in Venezuela. During a press conference in Buenos Aires, Kast said that any action that leads to the departure of the Venezuelan president would count on his support, even if Chile cannot get directly involved. “If someone is going to do it, let …
"It is not for us to solve it, but for those who will do it with our support," Kasht said at a press conference in Buenos Aires, where he is in his first official visit, in response to a question about a possible intervention by a foreign State, such as the United States, in Venezuela. "I support any situation that puts an end to a dictatorship, a narcodification. We cannot clearly intervene in this, because we are a small country, but we are vi…
The president-elect of Chile, José Antonio Kast, said on Tuesday afternoon, December 16, that he will support “any circumstance and situation” in the United States “that ends with a narco-dictatorship in Venezuela.” The right-wing leader reiterated that “we cannot intervene, because we are a small country, but we are victims of the terror of having a narco-dictatorship.” He emphasized that the “situation that is lived in Venezuela is unacceptabl…
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