Did Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro ordered the death in Chile?

Shortly after three in the morning, a ram that hit the door on an apartment exploded on the fourteenth floor and three men wearing black tactical clothes for the Chilean police who rushed. The son and his jogging in his underwear.

Mr. Ojida, a 32 -year -old former Venezuelan army officer, was a political dissident living under asylum in a middle -class neighborhood in the capital of Chile, Santiago. He had tried to organize plots to bring down Nicholas Maduro, the authoritarian leader of Venezuela, and weeks ago, the government of Mr. Maduro publicly described him as a traitor.

When his wife contacted the Chilean authorities, I told them that one of my husband’s minds at least had a Venezuelan accent.

Through the city after nine days, the authorities, working on the tip, discovered a buried load bag under nearly five feet of concrete. Inside, the QUICKLIME center is packed to accelerate the decomposition, the body of Mr. Ojeda was folded.

Now, after a year of the investigation, the Chilean authorities confirm fears of Venezuelan dissidents who hide all over the world: the evidence, as the Chilean said, that the government of Mr. Maduro ordered the assassination of Mr. Ojida.

The Maduro government has strongly denied this.

If this is true, the case represents a dark escalation in Mr. Maduro’s efforts to crush any threats His authoritarian rule – The accusations arrive like President Trump It opens a new dialogue With tyranny, in the hope of deporting the unconventional Venezuelan.

For years, Mr. Maduro maintained his grip on Venezuela by imprisoning political opponents at home. But the crime of killing in Chile indicates that the Venezuelan leader has also adopted His close ally tacticsPresident Vladimir F. Putin from Russia, to reach foreign countries to assassinate political competitors.

“Everyone is terrified. Zair Mondaye, the former Venezuelan public prosecutor who is believed to be Venezuelin, said.” The agents. “Ajida was a turning point for everyone.”

Chile had held hearings of the accusation to 19 people that the authorities participated in an aspect of the killing of Mr. Ojida, including the killing planning, implementation and concealment of the body, according to the court documents seen in the New York Times. Chilean prosecutors said that most of the 19 defendants are members of the Chilean branch in Trin de Aragoa, a group of Venezuelan crimes that Mr. Trump He wants to appoint a terrorist organization.

In an interview, Carolina Toha, the Minister of Internal Security and Internal Security in Chile, said in an interview that three people had witnessed that the Venezuelan government rented the Treen de Aragua to assassinate Mr. Ojida. She said that one of these people was that the Deputy Minister of the Interior and the Great Interior of Mr. Maduro, Diosadado Capello, was personally killed.

She said that the investigators had eliminated two other hypotheses: blackmail and bullets. As for the third hypothesis – a political assassination – she said: “It has not been proven yet. But we can say that the possibilities are very worrying.”

The Maduro government, including Mr. Capello, denied his overcrowding over and over the killing. Mr. Capello said that the Venezuelan government will not be able to withdraw such a crime. I leave William Sabab, the Public Prosecutor of Venezuela, He said The killing was in fact a “false science process that covers the Chilean state itself.”

A spokesman for Mr. Maduro refused to comment on this article, while a spokesman for Mr. Capello did not respond to the request for comment.

Chilean investigators believe that Venezuelan’s mistake agents have worked outside the Venezuela embassy in Santiago, according to a senior official close to the investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the results that have not been published yet.

The accusations come from Chile as Mr. Trump made initiatives to Mr. Maduro. Richard Greenil, an American special envoy, sent to meet Mr. Maduro in Karacas, the capital, and he returned with six Americans who were detained in Venezuela.

White House press secretary, Caroline Levitte, He said The meeting does not mean that the United States recognized Mr. Maduro as a legitimate Venezuelan President. Instead, Mr. Greenil wants Mr. Maduro to regain several hundred members of Treen de Aragoa, who are detained in the United States and release American citizens detained in Venezuela.

The United States withdrew diplomats from Venezuela in 2019. Mr. Maduro’s government called on the meeting as a “new beginning in bilateral relations.”

Last week, Tom Holman, the new American border, told the Times that the deportation of flights to Venezuela It will start within a month.

Many international observers – including Foreign Minister Marco Rubio When Senator was – They said that sending Venezuelan to Venezuela under the leadership of Mr. Maduro would be the death penalty.

The government of Mr. Maduro has a long history Human rights violations Inside Venezuela. But the government was also Track the dissidents abroad For years, according to former Venezuele officials, security experts and dissidents themselves.

To do this, Mr. Maduro relied on a network of Venezuelan agents, criminal gangs and rebel groups allied with survey, intimidation, and in some cases, they kidnap the dissidents outside Venezuela, according to officials and former experts.

In 2021, members of the Colombian guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army, or ELN were kidnapped formerly in the Venezuelan army, Franklin Caldira, who was hiding in Colombia after he helped attack the Venezuelan military base, according to his father and American Committee for Human Rights.

ELN brought Mr. Caldera to Venezuela, where he was imprisoned and tortured. In November, the Committee Go to protection More of his family outside Venezuela due to increased threats.

In December 2023, Mr. Ojida traveled to the Colombian border to draw a potential uprising against Mr. Maduro with other dissidents, according to the lawyer of the Mr. Ojida family. There, Eln seized the active leader of the dissidents – a former military officer named Anilo Heridia – and returned to Venezuela, according to Mr. Mondarrai and Pablo Parada, a dissident close to Mr. Heridia. Mr. Ojida escaped.

A month later, the Venezuelan government published a list of 33 military personnel who said they had turned into the country. “Forgiving zero to privilege!” The document said. Mr. Mondarrai said that the names were taken from the phone of Mr. Huridia, and many of those in Venezuela were imprisoned.

Mr. Ojida was also in the list. Less than a month, he was killed.

Court documents show the killing planning between the members of Trin de Aragoa, one of the most violent criminal organizations in Latin America. Messages from confiscated phones showed that the President of Trin de Aragoa told the gang leader in Chile that a large amount would be paid for the kidnapping and killing of Mr. Ojida. This led to a wave of activity – all of which were placed in the WhatsApp group – where members of the gang obtained the costume of the Chilean police, weapons and vehicles, according to the documents.

At 3:05 am on February 21, 2024, five men arrived when police officers arrived at the Mr. Ojida building in Nissan Versa with police lights at the top. One of them remained in the car, and one of them gave the gatekeeper a false matter and Mr. Ojida, the other three.

A few days later, in a poor neighborhood dominated by the gang, the police were removed when the neighbors reported suspicious activity in a hut where the men were seen wandering and going out. The autopsy concluded that Mr. Ajida was killed by suffocation, according to the documents.

When the evidence began to refer to the Maduro government, the Chilean Prosecutor who leads the case on television said. Venezuela responded angrily and denied her involvement. Last month, Venezuela Chile ordered the closure of her consulates in Venezuela and said diplomatic relations had been suspended.

President Gabriel Borik from Chile said that if it turns out that Venezuela had ordered the killing of Mr. Ojida, “It is not just a violation of our sovereignty, as it is a violation of human rights and has the worst precedent, which we know in our history,” referring to Chile. Deadly dictatorship.

Building monitoring clips that show kidnapping spreads across Chile and outside. Mrs. Toha said that criminals could destroy the cameras, but they chose not. “The master.” Augida could have been killed in a simpler and less clear way. ” “There is a reason they choose this strategy to make it visible.”

Mr. Parada, the Venezuelan dissident in Colombia, said that days after the authorities found the body of Mr. Ojida, the mysterious men attended at a meeting of opponents in Colombia and chased him in the streets. He spent a night in the wastewater tube to evade it. Now it is hiding again.

“It is not easy to know that they are looking for you to kill you. Mr. Parada said:” It is not easy to know that you cannot even return to your country. “It is not easy to know that at any moment, I may suffer from the fate that Ronald suffered.”