SANTIAGO DE CHILE- President Gabriel Boric this Friday ruled out breaking relations with Venezuela due to the statements of the attorney general of the Venezuelan regime, Tarek William Saab, who attributed the death of former Venezuelan military officer Ronald Ojeda to Chilean Intelligence officials.
“In general, in international politics, the general rule is that it is undesirable to break relations no matter how many differences one has with countries (…) the way to solve problems is by talking, not by stopping talking,” said the Chilean president during a interview with CNN.
His statements came after he announced that he had contacted the Chilean Foreign Minister, Alberto van Klaveren, to present “a note of protest as corresponds to diplomatic channels.”
“Bilateral tension”
Relations between Santiago and Caracas were strained again on Wednesday after Saab assured that the murder in Chile of the former Venezuelan dissident military officer was an operation to affect ties between the two countries.
“I could say (…) that said murder was committed by foreign intelligence services with the support of Chilean intelligence officials,” said the Maduro regime’s prosecutor.
Given Saab’s statements, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Gloria de la Fuente, expressed that “they are not consistent with the declaration of the Venezuelan regime to provide all possible collaboration and cooperation to identify those suspected of having participated in the murder of Lieutenant Ojeda and deliver, by the way, information,” the official stated.
Ronald Ojeda, 32 years old, retired military officer of the Venezuelan Army, was kidnapped in Chile on February 21 by people who pretended to be Chilean police officials, who took him out of his apartment in his underwear at dawn.
Nine days later, he was found dead inside a suitcase that had been buried in a neighborhood of the Chilean capital, Santiago.
Source: EUROPE PRESS/AFP
