The audio of former Venezuelan lieutenant Ronald Ojeda that confirms the secret operation to overthrow Maduro

On February 21, former Venezuelan lieutenant colonel Ronald Ojeda Morenorefugee in Pepper, was kidnapped after being taken in his underwear early in the morning from the apartment where he lived in Santiago by people pretending to be Chilean police officers. Days later, his body was found inside a suitcase buried in a neighborhood in the Chilean capital. Investigations point to a political motivation behind the crime and now new details are known about the activity of the soldier who in 2017 rebelled against the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

On May 1st, the Chilean channel Meganoticias published the content of a Audio Ojeda32 years old, taken from his cell phone, in which he refers to a covert operation who allegedly intended overthrow Maduro.

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This material reveals that two months before being kidnapped and murdered, the ex-soldier was in Cucuta, Colombiaat the border with Venezuela.

On recording He is heard confirming that he participated in an operation at the border whose ultimate objective was to remove from power Mature.

Ronald Ojeda Moreno was 32 years old.

“Damn, yes brother, frustrating because a lot of work was done, well and notice that a small error that They are really being paid too much, which puts everything at risk.. And well, thank God I managed to get out. But damn, my captain was captured But well, as you say, frustrating because the goals weren’t met and man, they worked hard for it,” he says. Ojeda in the audio for a comrade in arms.

Ojeda he was referring to the captain Ányelo Herediawho was arrested December 14, 2023 when he tried to cross a trail from Colombia to Venezuela.

Meganoticias informs that It was a secret trip where Ojeda crossed the border with Chile through unauthorized steps to enter and leave the country, between December 2023 and January this year.

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“There was indeed a trip to Colombia, specifically in December 2023.”revealed the Chilean prosecutor Heitor Barroswho is in charge of investigations into the murder of Ojeda.

Prosecutor Barros said Ojeda’s final destination was a meeting in Venezuela. “That is why we affirm that the organization of this kidnapping took place outside of Chile, specifically in Venezuela.”he added.

Meganoticias interviewed the ex-soldier’s sisterMayra Ojeda, who guaranteed that the fact that Ronaldo will participate in this plan It was a “mistake that cost him his life”.

He added that “everyone” knows what happened to Ojeda and does not hesitate to attack Nicolás Maduro as responsible for his brother’s crime. “I have no doubt”he told Maganotics.

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, speaks in Caracas. (EFE/ Rayner Peña R.).

Mayra revealed that after the trip to Colombia They were aware that the thwarted plan could have consequences. By him, They were preparing their departure for Spainbut the delay in obtaining the documents frustrated plans to search for a new hiding place.

Meganoticias questioned Mayra about a possible link between the Venezuelan State and the criminal gang Aragua Train to commit Ojeda’s crime, to which he replied that he has no doubts about the participation of his country’s government. “I will always keep you”.

The Chilean channel also contacted José Rodríguez Araña, another Venezuelan dissident military officer. That denied the hypothesis of an attack against Maduro. “Committing murder is not part of any plan, because this fact would not denounce the dictatorship,” he said.

Rodríguez He acknowledged that the trip Ojeda took last year was not his first outside Chile. He commented that in 2020 they both met at Peru.

The moment Ronald Ojeda Moreno is kidnapped. (Meganotics).

Ronald Ojeda He lived on the 14th floor of a building in the municipality of Independência, in Santiago de Chile, with his wife and young son.

He was kidnapped at 3:10 am on February 21st by three people who had their faces covered and They wore fake Investigative Police (PDI) uniformsWho They took him out in his underwear.

A fourth man waited at the concierge desk. Another, a 17-year-old Venezuelan teenager, the only one detained in this case, collaborated with the kidnappers. The entire action was recorded on a video from the building.

At that time, Venezuelan opponents denounced that the kidnappers were Maduro government agentswho would try to take Lieutenant Ojeda back to Venezuela.

However, ten days later, Ojeda’s body was found buried 1.4 meters deep in the land of the commune of Maipúin Santiago.

The body was identified by fingerprints and underwear, the same as he was wearing on the day of the kidnapping.

Widow and sister of Ronald Ojeda during his funeral in Chile. (AP Photo/Esteban Félix).

On April 12th, Chilean Public Ministry pointed to a political motive organized from Venezuela as the origin of Ojeda’s crime.

“Whose political motive is this? The investigation itself has to clarify this”, declared the Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá.

According to the investigation, members of a transnational criminal group, possibly the Aragua Trainwere the material perpetrators of the kidnapping organized from Venezuela.

Ojeda had no relationship with organized crime and carried out legal activities in Pepperwhich granted him political refuge after escaping from a Venezuelan prison after being accused of conspiracy.

“The profile that the victim has is a political profile. We are talking about a victim who participated in actions against the Venezuelan government and who, secondly, has been detained for nine months in Venezuela and he escaped”, explained the prosecutor. Heitor Barros.

“I never said that it is counterintelligence, but that it is a transnational crime that was organized in Venezuela“, necessary.

In addition to the detained minor, two other Venezuelans were identified as perpetrators of the crime. The Public Ministry states that they fled almost immediately to their country, which is why they will request their capture and extradition.

Ronald Ojeda Moreno in protest in front of La Moneda Palace, in Santiago.

He Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Ojeda Moreno was arrested on April 19, 2017 along with three other soldiers for their alleged involvement in acts with “conspiratorial purposes and planning terrorist actions”.

Everyone was part of the Movement for Freedom and Democracywho signed a document in which the president was unknown Nicolás Maduro as commander-in-chief of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FÃNB) from Venezuela.

The dissident soldiers were accused of the crimes of rebellion, instigation of rebellion, mutiny and treason.

On November 30, 2017, Ojeda escaped during a transfer. The Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) took him along with eight other soldiers arrested in the Ramo Verde Prison to another prison establishment. Almost everyone escaped, except for another prisoner who died at the scene in a confrontation, the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional reported at the time.

Once free, Ojeda reported that he was tortured while in prison.

In 2019, the government of Mature demoted him and expelled him from the military along with 24 other officers.

Somehow, Ojeda managed to leave Venezuela and ended up in Chile.

In November 2022, he demonstrated on his knees and with a bag over his head in front of the Palácio da Moeda, in Santiago, to condemn the dialogue between Chavismo and the opposition and demand the release of political prisoners.

According to the Chilean newspaper La Tercera, in 2018 Ojeda started processing your political refuge in Chileuntil in November 2023 he was granted a refugee passport.

On January 24th, the Ministry of Defense of the Venezuela published a statement informing about the demotion of 33 former soldiers, who were accused of treason for participating in the Operation White Bracelet, which allegedly contemplated an attack on military installations in Táchira and an attack on the governor of that state, Freddy Bernal. On the list was the name of Ronald Ojeda Moreno.

Source: Elcomercio