SANTIAGO DE CHILE- The main suspect in the murder in Chile of the former Venezuelan military dissident of the Nicolás Maduro regime, Ronald Ojeda, arrived on Tuesday night extradited to Santiago from Costa Rica, reported the Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá.
“A plane from the Chilean Air Force (FACH) has landed that has taken citizen Maikel Villegas, of Venezuelan nationality, from Costa Rica, one of the participants and accused of the crime of kidnapping and homicide of Mr. Ronald Ojeda, also a Venezuelan citizen. “said Minister Tohá, in a statement to the press.
Villegas was handed over at the San José international airport to the Chilean Investigative Police, who arrived in Costa Rica to take him to Santiago and judge him there.
The Chilean minister highlighted the “record” period of four months in which the extradition of Villegas was completed, detained on July 12 on the southern border of Costa Rica with Panama among the migrants who crossed the inhospitable Darién jungle and They advance through Central America towards the United States.
According to the Minister of Security of Costa Rica, Mario Zamora, his country fulfilled its international responsibility, by extraditing “a person related to the murder of an anti-Maduro regime political leader, who was campaigning against the Venezuelan dictatorship in Chile and who was killed as a result of those activities.”
“Political motive”
Retired Lieutenant Ojeda, 32, was kidnapped on February 21 by people who pretended to be Chilean police officers and who took him out of his apartment in his underwear during the early hours of the morning.
Nine days later he was found dead inside a suitcase that had been buried in a Santiago neighborhood.
The Chilean Prosecutor’s Office maintains that the political motive is the main hypothesis in this case, without pointing directly to the Venezuelan regime so far.
Chile granted him refuge after he escaped from a Venezuelan prison, where he was detained on charges of conspiracy. On his social networks, he described himself as a “political prisoner.”
