Hugo “El Pollo” Carvajal, the intelligence chief who served under former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and arms trafficking in New York on June 25.
Carvajal, whose full name is Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein on several counts, including conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States; participation in narco-terrorism on behalf of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC); and possession, and conspiracy to possess firearms, the Department of Justice said in a statement.
“Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios exploited his position as the director of Venezuela’s military intelligence and abandoned his responsibility to the people of Venezuela in order to intentionally cause harm to the United States,” said Robert Murphy, acting director of the Drug Enforcement Administration, following Carvajal’s guilty plea….