The Chilean president, Gabriel Boric, met this Saturday with his ambassador in Venezuela, Jaime Gazmuri, following the call for consultations in protest against the recent statements by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil, in which he denies the existence of the transregional criminal organization “El tren de Aragua”.
The meeting took place two days after the president’s call and to which The Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, Gloria de la Fuente, also attended. as acting minister. She also ruled out breaking off relations with Venezuela and confirmed that Ambassador Gazmuri will return to Caracas in the coming days.
“It is very important to maintain diplomatic relations with a neighboring country, particularly with Venezuela, and even more so when we have the same objectives,” De la Fuente said at a press conference.
The purpose of the meeting was to “gather detailed information” on the current situation in Venezuela and “evaluate all measures to protect the interests and security” of Chile, Boric himself said on Thursday when he announced his decision.
The head of state said at the time that denying a reality that he considers tangible and accredited “is not an option,” and He described Gil’s words about “El tren de Aragua” as “irresponsible”an organization that was born in the prisons of Venezuela and now has a presence in the north of Chile and its capital.
Gil admitted the existence of “The Aragua Train”
However, on Friday Yván Gil corrected his words and admitted on his X account the existence of the criminal organization, despite his initial statement.
In his message, he said that the country’s police “have put an end to the criminal gang of the ‘Tren de Aragua’ in Venezuela,” a statement that had been made hours earlier by the country’s attorney general, Tarek William Saab, thus distancing himself from the Venezuelan foreign minister’s first statement.
The recall of the Chilean ambassador to Venezuela occurs amid another controversy with Caracas related to the murder of former Venezuelan military officer Ronald Ojeda, 32 years old, who was found dead on March 2 buried under cement inside a suitcase.
The controversy arose on Thursday when the Chilean prosecutor in charge of the case, Héctor Barros, said on a television program that the hypothesis that has been handled from the beginning is that It was a political act orchestrated from Venezuela.
«With information from EFE*
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2024-07-23 04:05:07