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The elected president of Chile, José Antonio Kastannounced this Tuesday that it has proposed to several Latin American countries the opening of a humanitarian corridor for the return of migrants to their respective countries of origin, particularly to Venezuela.
Already during the electoral campaign, Kast warned the 336,000 irregular migrants living in Chile that they had to leave the country before March 2026 and that, if he won, as happened last Sunday, they will be persecuted, expelled and will not be able to set foot in the country again.
“We need coordination to open a humanitarian corridor for the return of these people to their respective countries. We have found a very good reception in conversations that I have been able to have with different countries in South America,” he said at a press conference.
Kast, who met during the day with the Argentine president, Javier Milei, in Buenos Aires, has confirmed that he has discussed this issue with the leaders of Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Peru or Ecuador.
The far-right leader has explained, with respect to the immigration situation, that when a country “receives (irregular) immigration that exceeds 11 or 12% of the migrant population” this “does a lot of harm to the inhabitants of the country,” as well as to the migrant himself.
In this sense, he has blamed the increase in irregular migration, especially from Venezuela, to which Chile was
“economically more stable, had a reasonable health system and a fairly good educational system,” as well as “housing capacity and security.”
“We have no problem receiving people who go to work with a stable contract, who identify themselves at the border, but this immigration today has us with more than 300,000 people of the more than two million migrants in an irregular situation,” he explained.
Petro calls him “Nazi”
While Kast is in Buenos Aires looking for measures applied by Milei to replicate in Chile, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petrohas once again called him “nazi” despite the note of protest that the Chilean Government sent him his “unacceptable” statements after Sunday’s electoral victory.
“What has won in Chile is not the right, don’t be confused, What has won is the extreme right, which in Latin America is simple and pure fascism. They are Nazis and not only Francoists and they unleash, and do not repent, genocides,” Petro wrote on the social network X.
Petro, an ally of the outgoing Chilean president, Gabriel Boric, and located at the ideological antipodes of Kast, added: “His instrument is not only fear, that is why c“They plant bombs themselves and the drug traffickers help them.”