Chile denies support for kidnapping of former Venezuelan soldier – DW – 02/26/2024

Monsalve, from Santiago, said, “I declare this publication to be a complete lie. My special task is to contribute to the government’s fight against criminal organizations, and to carry out the process of expulsion of people who pose a threat to national security. Is.” “In that context, we have built relationships with other countries like Bolivia, Peru and have a police cooperation agreement with Venezuela, which is a public agreement.”

According to a report published by the newspaper La Razón, “After the signing of the police agreement, the DGCIM’s head of operations (and torture), Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Gramco Arteaga (…) requested the senior Chilean security official Will Officer (Undersecretary Monsalve) assist in the capture of Lieutenant Ronald Ojeda Moreno, who lives in Santiago and who escaped from the Remo Verde military prison in 2017.

“I held two meetings in Caracas, both of which were attended by the Ambassador, the Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry, the National Deputy Director of the Investigative Police. The meetings were public, known, even with photographs of his assistants. Let me tell you the absurdity of the theory, ” Monsalve said.

“In practice, what they are calling into question is confidence in our institutions that are in charge of the fight against organized crime, especially when they take up claims from absolutely foreign media with a clear political orientation and which are without any basis. “provides information or evidence,” he insisted.

Ojeda lived in Chile as a political refugee.

Ojeda’s name appears in a list released in late January by the Venezuelan Defense Minister, Vladimir Padrino, which includes 33 soldiers demoted and expelled from the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) “involved in conspiracies” against the Chavista regime. The assassination of Nicolas Maduro.

In addition to filing a complaint in the case, the Chilean executive asked Interpol to issue an alert and strengthen border controls in the north, which Monsalve said last week would, as Monsalve said last week, “give a political signal that the government is interested in these cases.” Be free from impunity” and “Be part of the process to clarify such crimes.”

Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López’s party Voluntad Popular (VP) last Wednesday accused the Maduro regime of being behind the kidnappings and “using the sovereign territory of other states for espionage practices and aggression against Venezuelans.”

Jove (EFE, Biobiochil)