Colombian President Gustavo Petro stated that Venezuelan Chavista leader Nicolas Maduro is a "dictator," but asserted that there is no evidence that he is a drug trafficker, as the United States maintains.

“Maduro is a dictator because he concentrates power, but there is no evidence in Colombia that he is a drug trafficker. That is a US narrative,” Petro said on his Twitter account.

The president was responding to a criticism on the same social network from Colombian journalist Patricia Janiot, who asked: “Why is it that Gustavo Petro has no qualms about calling the president-elect of Chile, Jose Antonio Kast, a Nazi and a fascist, but remains silent and afraid to call Nicolas Maduro a narco-dictator and usurper of power?”

Petro, considered an ally of Maduro, proposed last month a “shared transitional government” in Venezuela to resolve the crisis in that country and also to avoid foreign intervention, as he claims. Caracas after the US air and naval deployment in the Caribbean Sea under the pretext of combating drug trafficking.

Regarding Kast, the far-right politician, and his victory last Sunday in the second round of the Chilean presidential elections, Petro said that day that in America “the winds of death are coming” and added that he would “never” shake hands “with a Nazi or a son of a Nazi,” which provoked a letter of protest from the government of leftist President Gabriel Boric.

Despite that letter of protest, the Colombian president again called Boric's successor a “Nazi” today.