Chilean authorities have concluded that the assassination of a Venezuelan dissident was ordered by the country's authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro.
The dissident in question was Ronald Ojeda, a former military member who had been granted asylum in Chile after opposing Maduro and allegedly participating in efforts to overthrow him. He was abducted last February when men dressed as Chilean police officers broke into his apartment, seized him in front of his wife and child at 3 a.m., and took him away. Nine days later his body was discovered inside a suitcase buried beneath nearly five feet of concrete, with quicklime used to accelerate decomposition.
