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The newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, July 18, 2024, p. 22

A bloody weekend that left 19 people dead by homicide in the Chilean capital, Santiago, and at least a dozen injured of varying severity, precipitated the worsening of the insecurity crisis to the point that sectors of the government itself are demanding the government declare a state of siege to militarize the city. The crimes, all with firearms, were committed in different sectors between Friday and dawn on Tuesday. In the image, the arrest in Chile on July 12 of the Venezuelan Maickel Ojeda, suspected of murdering his compatriot and former military man Ronald Ojeda (Full note in @lajornadaonline https://rb.gy/2i3g8l).

With information from Aldo Anfossi, correspondent