Official: Kidnapped foreign diplomat freed in Venezuela April 10, 2012 -- Updated 1041 GMT (1841 HKT) Costa Rican diplomat Guillermo Cholele was kidnapped Sunday night He has been freed, a Venezuelan minister said Tuesday Cholele is in good health and on his way to be reunited with his family, the minister says (CNN) -- A Costa Rican diplomat kidnapped in Venezuela has been freed, Venezuela's minister for justice and the interior said Tuesday. The diplomat, Guillermo Cholele, was reported kidnapped Sunday night. "Through the investigative work and political pressure, we have achieved the liberation of the Costa Rican diplomat," minister Tareck El Aissami said on his Twitter account. Cholelo is in good physical shape and health, and was under police protection on his way to be reunited with his family, he said. More details will be made public later in the day, the minister said. Investigators believe a group of armed attackers ambushed Guillermo Cholele and forced him into a truck Sunday night. Cholele, an official at the Costa Rican Embassy in Caracas, was on his way home when he was kidnapped, the Costa Rican Foreign Ministry said in a statement. A call to the diplomat's home requested money in exchange for his release and said Cholele was in good condition, the Foreign Ministry said.