Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro on Monday called Argentina’s president-elect Javier Millay a “neo-Nazi”, the day after the ultra-liberal politician’s victory in the country’s presidential election last Sunday.

“In Argentina, the neo-Nazi extreme right won (…) We say to Argentines: you have chosen, but we will not remain silent, as the arrival of a right-wing extremist with a colonialist plan is a terrible threat,” Mr. Maduro said during a state television broadcast television.

Nicolas Maduro, who is used to coming out hard against the US, said Argentina’s next president is “on his knees before North American imperialism”.

Socialist President Maduro, whose 2018 re-election was not recognized by the US and its allies amid allegations of fraud by opposition parties, has accused Mr Millay of intending to continue the “project” of military dictatorships imposed during his years 1970 in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.

“He means to reimpose on the continent the highly neoliberal plan, characterized as liberal by them, which had been imposed in the 1970s with the coups of (Augusto) Pinochet in Chile, of (Jorge) Videla in Argentina, and with the coup in Uruguay,” said the Venezuelan president.

Although he noted that “we respect the decision of the Argentine people”, he added that “we simply call for consideration of the emergence of extreme right-wing foci”, which according to him “seek to impose themselves in order to proceed with the recolonization of Latin America”, in the application “extremist models”.

“This will not happen in Venezuela,” concluded Mr. Maduro.