Among the 10 US citizens repatriated from Venezuela this week during a three-party prisoner exchange in which El Salvadoran dictator Nayib Bukele’s regime sent back home all of the socialist South American country’s citizens being held at CECOT was Dahud Hanid Ortiz, a Venezuelan-born US military vet and citizen who’s also kind of a triple murderer, the New York Times reports.
See there was a little incident back in 2016 when Ortiz walked into a Madrid law office in 2016 and fatally shot three people, including a receptionist, a client, and a woman he mistook for his ex-wife’s divorce lawyer. Spanish cops called it a “targeted massacre.” Ortiz fled through Europe through Germany before resurfacing in Venezuela. Where it gets dicey is that Venezuela’s constitution proscribes the extradition of citizens but it also allows for extraterritorial crimes to be tried under its legal system. Which is why Ortiz was in a Venezuelan prison until this week when Secretary of State Marco Rubio brokered his release on behalf of a US regime that got into power in no small part by screaming about how Joe Biden was allowing convicted murderers walk across the border.
Ortiz made it here on what looks like a G6 jet owned by the US Department of State.