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PREVIEW: #VENEZUELA: #MADURO: #CHILE: Conversation with colleague Joseph Humire of Secure Free Society re an apparent kidnapping and assassination of a former Venezuela military man who fled his homeland and received sanctuary in Chile -- now grotesquely

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: #VENEZUELA: #MADURO: #CHILE: Conversation with colleague Joseph Humire of Secure Free Society re an apparent kidnapping and assassination of a former Venezuela military man who fled his homeland and received sanctuary in Chile -- now grotesquely found dead in a buried suitcase -- an alarm for all Venezuelans who have fled the Maduro brutality. Also an alarm for Chile's sovereignty. More of the New World Report later.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-02/chile-pledges-to-investigate-death-of-kidnapped-venezuelan?sref=5g4GmFHo

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Speaking with Joseph Umar, Executive Director of Security Society, which touched upon

0:36.1

the kidnapping and murder of a former Venezuelan who fled the country for a sanctuary in Chile. He was associated at the time arrest with a

0:48.9

plot to assassinate Nicholas Maduro never proved. He's been living in exile in Chile these years. He was

0:55.7

disappeared from his apartment February 21st, found dead in a suitcase grotesquely in

1:01.6

these last days. Joseph maintains that this is a blow to the

1:07.0

Chilean regime that elements of Venezuela or its surrogates reached in to assassinate an enemy.

1:16.0

It's also an alarm bell for the diaspora of Venezuela.

1:20.4

This is a country in deep trouble. It is a crossroads for the bad actors in South America and the globe.

1:31.0

And now we have evidence of targeted killing assassination in a sovereign power.

1:37.0

It's a puzzle.

1:39.0

There was a targeted assassination on a former Venezuelan military official as a defector and he left the regime and he left the country and he was residing in Chile and he was assassinated in Chile very recently. this kind of shows another layer, another level of Maduro's

1:57.8

repression if he could start to go after dissidents and opposition in other countries.

2:03.0

The fact that this was taken, the fact that this took place in Chile is very alarming.

2:10.0

And I think President Borich needs to respond to that.

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