Caso Ronald Ojeda: "Si Diosdado Cabello estuviera Chile, tendría orden de detención" | 24 Horas TVN

Héctor Barros, the Metropolitan South Regional Prosecutor, addressed the background of the kidnapping and murder case of Ronald Ojeda, as well as the extraditions of the accused, known as "El Turko" and "El Gocho," emphasizing that Diosdado Cabello, one of the leaders of Chavismo in Venezuela, "would have an arrest warrant if he were in Chile." In an interview with Canal 24 Horas, he stated that "we are going to prosecute everyone who is responsible." Regarding Cabello, the prosecutor emphasized that his main problem with the investigation is that he is in Venezuela, a country with which cooperation is still difficult to obtain. "Believe me, if Diosdado Cabello were in Chile, he most likely would have an arrest warrant against him," he emphasized. Regarding the role Nicolás Maduro might have played in Ojeda's murder, he emphasized that "this will depend primarily on the U.S. authorities, who have cooperated extensively with us in several other investigations." "But in this case, it also depends on Nicolás Maduro himself, because he is currently preparing his defense, based on the information we have, in conjunction with his lawyers," he stated. For Barros, "it's quite difficult, theoretically speaking, to believe that he (Maduro) didn't know. But in practice, I can only act based on the information in my investigative file, and from that perspective, we have reached Diosdado Cabello at this point, but we are also interested in knowing what Nicolás Maduro knew about this." "The crime Diosdado Cabello would be committing is the same crime as the perpetrators, because he would be the one who ordered the kidnapping and subsequent murder," he concluded.