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Weekly Report - 06 February 2025 (WR-25-05)

CHILE-VENEZUELA: Diplomatic rift deepens

Chile’s foreign ministry announced on 30 January that Venezuelan authorities had called for the closure of the country’s consulates in Caracas and Puerto Ordaz in Ciudad Guyana, a port city on the Orinoco in the state of Bolívar. These are the only Chilean consulates still open in Venezuela. The move by the Venezuelan foreign ministry comes just over a week after Chile’s attorney general, Ángel Valencia, said that a key witness had implicated Venezuela’s interior minister and Bolivarian strongman, Diosdado Cabello, in the murder of Ronald Ojeda, a dissident former lieutenant in the Venezuelan army, on Chilean soil last year.

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