The Government of Gabriel Boric has demanded that Venezuela extradite two suspected perpetrators of the kidnapping and murder of Ronald Ojeda. The Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá, has warned Caracas that “the eyes of the world” will be on their behavior.
This is the first reaction of the left-wing Administration after the Chilean Prosecutor's Office pointed out that the murder had a political motive and was orchestrated from Venezuela. Three men kidnapped OJeda, 32, in the early hours of February 21 from his apartment in the municipality of Independencia, where he lived with his wife and young son. The police found his body 10 days later, buried 1.40 meters deep, in an irregular settlement in the western area of Santiago de Chile. So far there has been only one detainee – a 17-year-old minor – and the prosecutor's Office has said that two other suspects are in Venezuelan territory. “So far we have established that this was not a self-kidnapping, that it was not an extortionate kidnapping, this was organized by the Tren de Aragua with a foreign organization and in the context of organized crime,” he said.