Chile will go to the International Criminal Court if it is confirmed that Diosdado Cabello ordered the murder of Lieutenant Ojeda

The former Venezuelan military man, who had political asylum in the country, was murdered by a cell of the Aragua Train in February of last year and investigations indicate that the order to carry out the crime came from Caracas.

In the last few hours, the Chilean police, led by the coordinating prosecutor of the Organized Crime and Homicide Team (ECOH), Héctor Barros, carried out raids in different places in Santiago and Valparaíso with the aim of arresting new members of that group that has been identified as the material author of the incident.

Barros had pointed out, after the first proceedings and arrests in 2024, that according to the background of the investigation Ojeda’s kidnapping had been commissioned by the Maduro Government. In his opinion, this responded to a political crime and that not only because of the profile of the victim, “but the payments would have been made by the Venezuelan Government.”

The former lieutenant was taken from his apartment in the capital on February 21 by a group that posed as officials of the Investigative Police (PDI) and It was found more than a week later in a suitcaseunder a slab of cement in an immigrant occupation in the commune of Maipú.

Among all the information collected, the prosecution has in its possession a photo taken by the already detained Colombian citizen Julio César Iglesias in which people appear unloading bags of cement in the aforementioned shot.

According to two television channels, Iglesias had declared before the prosecution that “I was told that Diosdado Cabello, who is a Venezuelan politician, gave the instruction to carry out the kidnapping through Niño Guerrero, paying through him.”

Héctor Guerrero Flores, the leader of the Aragua Train who escaped in 2023 from the Tocorón prison, Venezuela, would have worked in planning the kidnapping with Carlos Gómez, alias ‘Bobby’, and the Colombian Rafael Enrique Gámez Salas, known as ‘the Turk ‘. He was arrested in Texas last Friday for illegal entry and would have had a key role in supervising, in Chile, the murder of the dissident military officer. The PDI had requested his capture from Interpol after fleeing the country across the border after the murder.

In the raids carried out in the last few hours, 23 people who made up a cell of the Aragua Train known as The Pirates of Aragua and who were commanded by El Turco were arrested. Iglesias, meanwhile, would have helped Ojeda’s burial under a hut.

So far the prosecution has been able to identify 16 people who had direct participation in the kidnapping and murder of Ojeda. Of these, two have already been prosecuted: a minor who was supposed to watch the cars used, and the Venezuelan Maikel Villagas, detained in Costa Rica and later extradited.

The national prosecutor Ángel Valencia reaffirmed the work done so far, pointing out that “there are three people who testify in the investigation that they attribute the order to authorities of the Venezuelan Government and at least one of those people (…) would state that the order and payment “It would have come from Mr. Diosdado Cabello.”

The Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá, stated this Thursday that because this is an investigation still in progress, it will be expected to conclude to define the definitive steps to follow. Among them, he stated that it would be evident to “resort to the International Criminal Court”, as well as other actions that will be considered in due course.