Former Uruguayan president, Luis Alberto Lacalle, will participate in a summit of right-wing and far-right politicians together with the extreme right-wing Chilean presidential candidate, José Antonio Kast, an apologist and nostalgic for the genocidal Augusto Pinochet and descendant of a Nazi soldier.
Lacalle Herrera will give the opening conference of the event that has been called “Summit of leaders for democracy and freedom”, which will take place this Thursday, and will be attended by other ultra-conservative and right-wing leaders such as the Chilean senator from the National Renovation party, in addition to Kast who will also speak to those present.
The tables and conferences will be coordinated by the psychologist Nicolás Cerda, vice president of Renovación Nacional, and the neoliberal economist Manuel Llanos.
Other high-caliber figures who will speak will be the leader of the Venezuelan opposition and self-described “president in charge” of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, and the former president of Colombia Andrés Pastrana, leader of the Colombian Conservative Party.
Another character from Uruguayan politics who will participate in the debate “Challenges of democracy in Latin America” will be Pablo Iturralde, president of the Director of the National Party who will sit next to the Ecuadorian president, Guilelrmo Lasso, the Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López and the former presidential candidate Mexican, Margarita Zavala, wife of former President Felipe Calderón.
A dark past
José Kast went to the second round in the Chilean presidential elections together with the candidate of the left, Gabriel Boric, and has a long record of apologies and nostalgia for the dictator and genocidal Augusto Pinochet.
Human rights and search for disappeared groups from the dictatorship of the genocidal Pinochet have accused the Kast family of collaborating in the delivery of communists to the police, many of whom have not yet appeared.
In the book “In the shadow of the crows”, by Rebolledo, he also denounces the participation of civilians in the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet; In some of its pages he talks about the Kast family and how they escaped from Munich in the 50s with false documents to reach the Paine region, in Santiago de Chile.
“There is a situation that makes a difference with what happens in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. I think that what happened in Nicaragua fully reflects what did not happen in Chile (with Pinochet): democratic elections were held and political opponents were not locked up. That makes the fundamental difference, “argued Kast in one of his many defenses to the genocide. From his position, the Constitution that was promulgated during the dictatorship “contained the entire transition to democracy” and that the de facto government handed over power in a plebiscite. “Tell me, what dictatorship has done that?” He asked.
The far-right candidate is an admirer of the Pinochet dictatorship and a lover of the ideas proposed by other extremist leaders such as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
The Chilean investigative journalist, Mauricio Weibel Barahona, found documents in the German Federal Archive that would prove that the candidate’s father, Michael Kast, signed his adherence to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party on a voluntary basis. The communicator exposed documents on social networks that would demonstrate this fact, despite the fact that José Kast has assured that he signed “obligated”.
Lacalle Herrera, follower of Franco
Luis Alberto Lacalle, father of the current president Luis Lacalle Pou, also has a questioned past for apologizing to other genocidaires.
Historical evidence has shown that the ex-president from 1990-1995 was a follower of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, whom he praised in his book “Trasfoguero” (1963).
When Franco died, Lacalle performed the fascist salute and sang out loud the hymn “Cara al sol”, identifying the Spanish phalanx, at the Embassy of Spain in Uruguay.
