lThe Chilean right demanded this Friday that President Gabriel Boric expel Venezuelan diplomats, freeze relations with Caracas and convene the National Security Council (Cosena) in response to the murder of former Venezuelan military officer Ronald Ojeda, occurred several weeks ago and the circumstances of which are still unknown.
The demand raised by deputies and senators of the Republican Party occurs hours after the prosecutor in charge of the case, Héctor Barros, indicated in the framework of a Chilean television program that the main hypothesis that investigators are using is that it would be a assassination ordered from Venezuela.
#12Apr ATTENTION! 🚨
The Chilean government asks the Venezuelan government to capture those involved in the murder of Lieutenant Ronald Ojeda.
Prosecutor Héctor Barros reported that a request has been made for the capture of two citizens who participated in the crime.
— ImpactoVenezuela (@ImpactoVE) April 12, 2024
“So far I have no other evidence that shows us or points us in the other direction. We have discarded all theses that have to do with the participation of him in the commission of some illegal actTherefore, the only thesis that remains valid is the one you indicate,” Barros explained in response to whether he was responding to a political motive.
We maintain that this was organized and the kidnapping and subsequent murder of Mr. Ojeda was requested from Venezuela.
“We maintain that this was organized and the kidnapping and subsequent homicide of Mr. Ojeda was requested from Venezuela,” he added later, but without answering whether it would have been orchestrated through organized crime or Venezuelan intelligence.
In this context, representatives of the far-right party led by José Antonio Kast demanded this Friday that the Government convene Cosena to “discuss and adopt strict measures against the serious violation of our national sovereignty by the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro.”
Prosecutor Barros confirms that the murder of #RonaldOjeda It is politically motivated and was organized from Venezuela. The time has come for the President of Chile to confront Dictator Maduro and demand respect for our Homeland and national sovereignty.
— José Antonio Kast Rist 👍🇨🇱 (@joseantoniokast) April 12, 2024
Between them, freeze relations with Caracas“at least until we are certain that these groups of criminals are outside the country,” said the Republican senator, Carmen Gloria Aravena, referring to Venezuelan migrants.
“The analyzes of the Government of Chile are no longer sufficient nor do they represent a consolation for the families of the victims. We need to know how many illegal immigrants have been expelled and how many still remain to be expelled from our country,” he stressed.
The analyzes of the Government of Chile are no longer sufficient nor do they represent a consolation for the families of the victims
For their part, deputies Cristian Labbé and Gustavo Benavente, members of the right-wing Independent Democratic Unit (UDI) party, created during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1989), also demanded that the Government present a complaint against Venezuela before the Commission Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IACHR). and accuses him of promoting organized crime and irregular migration in the region.
Furthermore, they criticized the statements made this morning by the Chilean Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá, who recalled that collaboration with Venezuela is necessary both to clarify Ojeda's crime and to capture its alleged perpetrators – who according to the prosecution had fled Chile. – and coordinate the expulsion of citizens in an irregular immigration situation.
“Minister Tohá's statements are not only unusual and absurd, but they demonstrate absolute complacency with the Venezuelan regime. There is no Chilean at this minute, except the Government authorities, who believes that the Maduro dictatorship will have the interest of cooperating in this investigation,” he noted.
“If the Government does not agree with breaking relations with the Venezuelan regime, the minister did not need to demonstrate that level of ingenuity,” he added.
The tension with Venezuela has been reactivated in the last few hours after an agent of the militarized Carabineros police of Chile died in the early hours of this Thursday in a shootout with a group of criminals who were dedicated to stealing mobile phones from passers-by, three of whom were Venezuelans and one Colombian.
One of the criminals had an expulsion order that had not been carried out since 2020.
Lieutenant Emanuel Sánchez Soto was leaving a supermarket with his wife and children when they were approached by the criminals. Sánchez was killed during the shootout.
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