‘Complicity with a dictatorship?’: Guilds and leaders question Petro’s support for Maduro

After the support shown in his account from X to Nicolás Maduro and Venezuela, before a possible military operation in the neighboring country, President Gustavo Petro He was questioned by different economic leaders and guilds for supporting a “regime that has demonstrated special complacency and complicity with drug trafficking and corruption“

What Petro said about Venezuela

In a message posted on the social network X, the Head of State assured that a military operation against Venezuela without the approval of “sister countries” It would be an aggression against Latin America and the Caribbean.

(See: Petro’s criticism of the possibility of a military operation against Venezuela).

“I publicly transmit my given order, as commander of the Colombian Armed Forces. Colombia and Venezuela are the same town, the same flag, the same story. Any military operation that does not have the approval of the sister countries is an aggression against Latin America and the Caribbean“Petro said.

He also replied a message from the Bolivarian Army of Venezuela against the United States and the attorney general of that country, Pam Bondi.

Petro’s words occurred after Bondi announced that the reward for information that leads to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro was increased to 50 million dollars.

(See: The most trinated issues by President Petro in his third year in the Casa de Nariño).

The president of Venezuela was accused by the United States in 2020, During the first presidency of Donald Trump, of crimes of drug trafficking and terrorism, and in January 2025.

Criticisms of Petro of the Guilds and Economic Leaders

The president of the Colombo American Chamber (Amcham Colombia), María Claudia Lacouture, He said that saying that an operation against Venezuela is not an aggression against Colombia.

(See: Petro’s criticisms of Trump’s order to the Pentagon to fight Latin posters).

“Brotherhood of peoples or complicity with a dictatorship? To say that any operation in Venezuela is aggression to Colombia is not diplomacy: it is overtry to the country and its forces to defend a dictator and a criminal. Defending the Brothers Peoples is not shielding dictators“Lacouture wrote in X.

For its part, Bruce Mac Master, president of the National Association of Industrialists (ANDI), He criticized Petro’s attitude and support from Maduro.

“There is no scenario in which Colombia and its state can and should support Nicolás Maduro. Not only is it a long dictatorship, which has been lived in Venezuela, but it is a regime that has demonstrated special complacency and complicity with drug trafficking and corruption“He also said in X.

(See: Petro states that Nicolás Maduro helps fight drug trafficking at the border).

And he added that “There is no place for ideological friends or identifications when it comes to anti -democratic leaders and deeply close to criminal activities that include the protection of terrorist groups that have affected the Colombian population for years”

Camilo Hernández M.
Portfolio Digital Editor