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Spain agrees to hand over former Chavista general Hugo Carvajal to the US

Carvajal, known by the nickname “el pollo”, is in demand in the United States to be tried for various crimes.

The Spanish Justice agreed to the extradition to the United States of former Venezuelan Chavista general Hugo Armando Carvajal, detained in Madrid and considered the most wanted fugitive for drug trafficking, after denying him asylum in Spain.

The Spanish National Court decided this Wednesday that Carvajal be at the disposal of the International Police Cooperation Unit that must materialize the delivery to the United States.

Carvajal, known by the nickname of “the chicken”, is claimed in the United States to be tried for crimes that in Spain are equivalent to belonging to a criminal organization or belonging to or collaboration with a terrorist organization and drug trafficking in its aggravated modality.

The Venezuelan military man had undergone cosmetic surgery operations, he was head of the Military Counterintelligence of Venezuela in the governments of Hugo Chávez and the current president, Nicolás Maduro.

The United States accuses him of drug trafficking, money laundering and collaboration with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to introduce drugs into US territory.(I)

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