Dressed as police officers, members of the Venezuelan mega-gang called “El Tren de Aragua” kidnapped military officer Ronald Ojeda on February 21 in Santiago, Chile.
They executed him later.
Ojeda was in the crosshairs of the
drug tyranny of Nicolás Maduro.
They arrested him in Venezuela on March 25, 2017, tortured him and, during a prisoner transfer in November of that year, he managed to escape and end up in Chile after a journey.
He had been labeled a “Traitor to the Homeland” for allegedly conspiring against the regime.
Ojeda's ordeal was bloody.
He was in the Ramo Verde prison for 239 days.
They did not spare him any torment.
But he escaped, until he was liquidated in other lands.
It was a complex crime.
The kidnappers, who were four according to initial investigations, went up to the 14th floor, where Ojeda lived with his wife and his four-year-old son.
They didn't kill him immediately.
He probably spent
between 8 and 10 days kidnapped
.
Maybe they were tormenting him for information.
Everything passes through the suggestive parenthesis of investigations.
Ojeda's body was found inside a suitcase
and under a cement structure.
Previously, he would have traveled to Cucuta, Colombia, with the aim of raising funds for anti-Chavista organizations.
On February 19 of this year, the attorney general of the Public Ministry of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, denounced dozens of soldiers of participating in the "White Bracelet" operation, whose objective would be to assassinate Maduro.
They did not forgive Ronald Ojeda.
On February 21 they kidnapped him.
Is there some type of possible association between that murder and Argentina?
Some versions claim that the “Aragua Train” would have entered the country.
When?
Foreign Minister Diana Mondino said that in Argentina there are infiltrators from Cuba and Venezuela, with the aim of destabilizing Milei.
If so, it is not necessary to emphasize that it is serious.
Will it be like this?
The system of extraterritorial executions, perhaps promoted from the heart of the Caracas regime,
makes one think of Nisman.
Simply because it makes you think.
It would be necessary to investigate.
All scenarios related to that death require an analytical magnifying glass.
It is worth remembering that in Argentina the previous government was a partner, in the deepest sense, of Maduro and his henchmen.
According to information from the Chilean justice system,
one of the fugitives is Walter Rodríguez Pérez
, Ojeda's probable executor, who worked for Tareck El Aissami.
El Aissami is a former vice president of Venezuela and would be linked to international drug trafficking, according to the United States.
In addition, he is accused of
keeping
at least $26 million for himself when he was Venezuela's oil minister, for royalties that were not properly audited.
Al Aissami, who was governor of Aragua,
would now be a powerful enemy of Maduro
, although from the shadows.
Mega corruption makes alliances and armed enmities fluid.
María Corina Machado, the opponent of Maduro and according to all polls the overwhelming winner if there were free elections in Venezuela, referred to the fact on her networks:
“
The brutal crime of Lieutenant Ronald Ojeda, former Venezuelan political prisoner asylum in Chile, has caused shock in our country.
His kidnapping and murder shows that harassment transcends borders.
"We await the results of an exhaustive investigation by the Chilean government to reach the truth of the facts and for those responsible to face justice."
It is stated that in line with Putin's Russia, extraterritorial executions would be part of a modus operandi of the Caracas regime.
"El Tren de Aragua" would have links with that government, although it also operates with autonomy or perhaps relative autonomy;
in Colombia, in Panama, in Costa Rica, in Peru;
also in Chile and Bolivia, where drug trafficking borders with Argentina have historically been porous.
Very porous.
“El Tren de Aragua” differs from another subgroup:
“The pirates of the Aragua train”,
derived from the first but with less methodological consistency for committing crimes.
"The pirates of the Aragua train" had kidnapped businessman Rudy Basualdo in Rancagua, held him captive for 40 hours and released him after paying a million-dollar ransom.
Ojeda's is a different case.
Ojeda was not a millionaire by any means. They kidnapped him, they didn't rob him and they killed him.
They did not remove the video surveillance cameras from the building where they attacked him.
Was it a message?
Ojeda was hanged.
None of the dimensions of the macabre were avoided.
On the contrary.
The criminals would have left Chile through unauthorized passes in the north of the country, according to telephone connections detected by the authorities.
Walter Rodríguez Pérez has a heavy record of robbery, kidnapping and intimidation.
President Boric's government had granted political asylum to Ojeda.
Despite his nominal socialism,
the president was very critical of the Maduro regime.
Like other Latin American historical satrapies, destabilizations are exported from Maduro's ultra-Chavismo.
"El Tren de Aragua" could have links with the regime or with intimate enemies of the regime, or with both poles of a government overwhelmed by internal affairs, corruption and persecution left and right.
"The Aragua Train" crosses borders with blood and fire.
Are you interested in operating in Argentina?
Maybe not.
But why not?