President Gabriel Boric of Chile, a radical leftist who once described himself as “to the left of the Communist Party,” condemned the socialist dictatorship of Venezuela in remarks on Wednesday, linking dictator Nicolás Maduro to the assassination of a Venezuelan dissident on Chilean soil.
Boric has been consistently critical of the human rights atrocities and critical activities of the Maduro regime — a surprise after winning the presidency in 2021 with Communist Party backing. While Boric has remained stridently left-wing on domestic issues such as crime and health care, he has carved a lonely path geopolitically as one of the few left-wing leaders around the world willing to repeatedly distance his government from Caracas.
The Chilean president was speaking in Rome at an event to mark the anniversary
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