Ojeda wrote a column for El Clarín in La Victoria, Aragua, Venezuela.
[6] He was involved with the Regional Legislative Assembly under President Jaime Lusinchi and a political secretary in the Ribas Municipality.
[5] Investigators argued that Ojeda was allegedly contractually killed by two brothers because of a debt and the police stated his murder was not connected with his writings.
However, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States (OAS) urged officials not to rule out the possibility that his killing had another motive.
[11][12][13] The media in Venezuela had recently been under pressure from different sources, including President Hugo Chávez.
[14] According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Chávez government had used prior restraint, punitive media regulations, revocation of broadcasting licenses, suspension of journalists, arrests and even buying media organizations.