The Colombian president condemns far-right win as Kast secures landslide in Chilean presidential race.
On Sunday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said that “winds of death are coming” as he commented on the victory of far-right politician Jose Antonio Kast in Chile’s presidential election.
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“From the south and from the north come the winds of death. Beware, Gran Colombians, they are coming for us, and we must resist with Bolívar’s sword held high and the stride of victors”, he said.
“The pendulum does not return to its place because the Chilean people have always been progressive. From the southern ocean’s depths, the arrows of Arauco stopped the Spaniards. They already censored the tweet I wrote, but I said there, and I repeat it here, they killed the president again,” Petro said, in a symbolic reference to the death of former Chilean President Salvador Allende.
🚨🇨🇱 BREAKING — Chile’s Preident Elect Kast is the Son of a Nazi Party Member who escaped to Chile. https://t.co/6vDGwSsVM6 pic.twitter.com/uFDXZZrSvt
— Pamphlets (@PamphletsY) December 14, 2025
“Fascism is advancing. I will never shake the hand of a Nazi or the son of a Nazi,” the Colombian president said of Kast, who has publicly expressed sympathy for the murderous dictatorship led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990.
“It is sad that Pinochet had to impose himself by force, but even sadder now is that the people choose their own Pinochet. Elected or not, they are sons of Hitler, and Hitler kills peoples. He is the demon against life, and every Latin American knows how to resist,” Petro warned and invoked the memory of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
“Protect Neruda’s grave, I said in the censored tweet. I was near his grave and in his house, and I was happy near that house, and I saw the starry skies and the stars twinkled blue in the distance, but I was not abandoned at all,” he added.
On Sunday, Kast won 58.61% of the vote, defeating Communist Party candidate Jeannette Jara, who received 41.4%, according to preliminary figures from Chile’s Electoral Service. The result represents the second-largest presidential victory margin since Chile’s return to democracy, surpassed only by Michelle Bachelet’s win in 2013.
Jose Antonio Kast, the youngest of 10 children of Nazi military officer Michael Kast Schindele and Olga Rist Hagspiel, a German immigrant couple who arrived in Chile after World War II, will assume the presidency on March 11, 2026, when the term of current President Gabriel Boric ends.
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