Chile, ICC officials over Tren de Aragua-linked murder of Venezuelan dissident

29/3/2025 7:13

Chilean officials met with International Criminal Court representatives on Friday to provide information about the murder of a Venezuelan dissident they claim is relevant to an ongoing ICC investigation into alleged human rights abuses by Venezuelan government officials.



Chile's attorney general and minister of foreign affairs say the murder of Ronald Ojeda, a former Venezuelan lieutenant who was kidnapped from his apartment in Santiago by men posing as police and later murdered, was carried out by the Tren de Aragua gang and is linked to the Venezuelan government.

Angel Valencia, Chile's attorney general, said in statement that Ojeda's murder "doesn't have the characteristics of a normal crime."



"All the evidence we have at this state of the investigation lets us conclude that a cell or group linked to the Tren de Aragua that was politically motivated that

originated from an order of a political nature," Valencia said in a recorded statement on Thursday.