Photo and headline: El Pais, 7/28/2025
Víctor Salas has talked so much over the last week that his mouth is dry. He asks for some water so he can continue telling his unusual story. Since Monday, he has given countless interviews in Madrid to national and international media outlets to warn of a “serious mistake.” The man who tried to kill him in 2016, Dahud Hanid Ortiz, was repatriated by the United States from Venezuela on Friday, July 18, and allowed to go free. It was this survivor who broke the news to the Spanish press after receiving a police alert.
Now, the 45-year-old lawyer is wondering about the whereabouts of the murderer more keenly than anyone else. It is unclear where Ortiz went after being released upon arriving in San Antonio, Texas, along with nine political prisoners who were being held in Venezuelan prisons. Some media outlets have reported that he traveled to Orlando, Florida. Ortiz was serving a 30-year prison sentence in a Caracas jail for killing three people in the Spanish capital, but he has only spent six years, nine months, and 10 days behind bars.
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