San José (AFP) – Venezuela’s former attorney general, Luisa Ortega, accused the government Monday of hiring contract killers to go after her and other justice officials denouncing alleged abuses committed under President Nicolas Maduro.
“I have come specifically to lodge a complaint before the Costa Rican justice ministry and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights,” she told a news conference in Costa Rica’s capital of San Jose alongside that country’s chief prosecutor, Jorge Chavarria.
“I have information that the persecution is continuing against me and that the government has contracted hitmen to end my life.”
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