SANTIAGO, Chile — The United Nations human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, who came under personal attack this month from Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, says she feels “sorry for Brazil,” according to a Chilean media report published on Sunday.

Mr. Bolsonaro had accused Ms. Bachelet of “meddling” in Brazil’s affairs after she raised concerns about a jump in killings by the Rio de Janeiro police, backtracking on democratic norms and attacks on indigenous communities.

He also took personal aim at Ms. Bachelet, who was formerly Chile’s president, saying the only reason her country didn’t turn into Cuba was “thanks to those who had the courage to put a stop to the left in 1973.”

Mr. Bolsonaro was alluding to the socialist president, Salvador Allende, who was overthrown in a 1973 military coup, as well as to Ms. Bachelet’s father, an air force general who remained loyal to Mr. Allende, and who was imprisoned and tortured, dying in jail.