Latin America’s leftist dictatorships enthusiastically embraced election results out of Colombia Sunday night which gave the win to Gustavo Petro, a former member of the Marxist M19 terrorist organization and a radical leftist who has claimed that sugar is “more dangerous” than cocaine.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, Cuban Castro regime puppet leader Miguel Díaz-Canel, and Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega embraced “brother” Petro following Colombia’s top election body certifying his victory, despite widespread election irregularities and Petro himself declaring that the election was hopelessly rigged days before voters convened on Sunday.

Petro defeated challenger Rodolfo Hernández – a construction businessman with no ideological bent outside of generally opposing corruption – by a slim margin, winning about 50 percent to 47 percent. Venezuela’s Observatory Mission of Election (MOE) documented over 300 complaints of election irregularities, including intimidating voters and vote-buying, as Petro had predicted would occur last week. Petro has not challenged the results of the election at press time.

If inaugurated, Petro will be the country’s first hard-left president.

In his victory speech, Petro insisted that he would embrace conservative Colombians and seek to unite the country, a point soundly ignored by Maduro, Ortega, and other regional leftist leaders.