In an interview with the BBC published on January 21, Gabriel Boric dissociated himself from the governments of Nicaragua and Venezuela. In a matter of hours, some of the intellectuals and political leaders who had celebrated Boric’s triumph sourly polemicised with the Chilean president-elect. “(The) main demonstration of (Maduro’s) failure is the six million Venezuelans in the diaspora”,Boric stated. His position is not new. In May 2021, he compared the human rights violations in Venezuela with those perpetrated by Piñera in Chile. Then in November, as the presidential election in Nicaragua w…