MIAMI – Retired Major General VenezuelaHugo “El Pollo” Carvajal, currently accused of drug trafficking, decided to accept and cooperate with prosecutors in the United States to offer valuable information about the links of the dictatorship, a fact that would serve to negotiate his sentence during the trial that he will face in his against in New York.
Journalist David Alandete announced the news through his social networks and indicated that Carvajal signed an agreement that includes respect for the secrecy of the summary for national security reasons related to Venezuela.
The trial against “El Pollo” should begin in March 2025, for participating in a narcoterrorism conspiracy and in a conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States, including a shipment of 5.6 tons of cocaine transported from Venezuela to Mexico in April of 2006, along with crimes related to firearms.
The summary secrecy agreement signed by the “Chicken Carvajal”According to the social communicator, guarantees that certain details of the case will not be made publicin order to protect the national security of both countries.
The fact that some details of the case are not revealed raises expectations about the type of information that the former Venezuelan intelligence chief could reveal to US authorities.
The Cartel of the Suns
Hugo El “Pollo Carvajal” was Venezuela’s intelligence chief during the regime of the late Hugo Chávez. Together with other high-ranking military officials, they acted as “leaders and administrators of the Cartel of the Suns,” a drug trafficking network of Venezuelan origin, whose name refers to the insignia that adorn the uniforms of the military high command officers.
Also, Carvajal between 2004 and 2011 was director of the defunct Military Intelligence Directorate (DIM) – now the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM). A position that was a springboard for drug trafficking to the US.
In 2021, he was arrested in Madrid, Spain, by the National Police. After having been wanted since 2019. By then the New York Prosecutor’s Office wanted him to be tried for drug trafficking, money laundering and collaboration with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Some of the crimes for which the former Venezuelan official is accused are punishable with mandatory minimum sentences of between 10 and 30 years in prison and maximum sentences of life imprisonment.
