{"id":20293,"date":"2025-11-16T18:49:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=20293"},"modified":"2025-12-07T18:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:06:42","slug":"who-is-el-pollo-carvajal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2025\/11\/who-is-el-pollo-carvajal\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is ‘El Pollo’ Carvajal ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

by La Derecha Diario –\u00a0 Editorial Team\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 17\/10\/2025\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Submitted by Maggie Petito, DWI – 20 October 2025<\/span><\/p>\n

Opening remark by Maggie Petito:<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This article is out of Argentina.\u00a0The Cartel de los Soles has morphed, as many Latin cartels do, into differing allegiances and profit streams, it remains a fact that drug running corrupts.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Who is ‘El Pollo’ Carvajal: the Chavista spy who confessed to having financed the Kirchners with drug trafficking money<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Hugo Carvajal confessed before the United States justice system that Hugo Ch\u00e1vez allocated millions of dollars from drug trafficking to support left-wing governments<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Hugo Armando “El Pollo” Carvajal, former chief of military intelligence for the\u00a0Hugo Ch\u00e1vez\u00a0regime, became a key figure for\u00a0the U.S. justice system. Extradited from\u00a0Spain\u00a0in 2023,\u00a0Carvajal faces charges of drug trafficking and narco-terrorism in the United States. In exchange for a reduced sentence, he decided to cooperate with\u00a0the DEA and the Department of Justice, revealing how\u00a0Chavismo used the state oil company PDVSA to finance left-wing movements throughout the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

On June 25,\u00a0Carvajal pleaded guilty to four drug trafficking-related offenses before Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in the Southern District Court of New York. There, he admitted his membership in the\u00a0Cartel de los Soles, a criminal organization embedded in the\u00a0Venezuelan Armed Forces\u00a0and considered terrorist by\u00a0Washington. He also acknowledged having\u00a0collaborated with Colombian guerrillas and supervised the shipment of tons of cocaine to North America.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carvajal’s confession not only exposed the structure of Chavista drug trafficking, but also its international political financing network. In court statements and documents leaked to European media,\u00a0the former spy claimed that Chavismo illegally financed left-wing movements for at least fifteen years, channeling money to allied leaders and parties in Latin America and Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to his testimony, among the main recipients of funds were\u00a0N\u00e9stor Kirchner in Argentina, Lula da Silva in Brazil, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Gustavo Petro in Colombia, Fernando Lugo in Paraguay, and the Podemos party in Spain, as well as the Five Star Movement in Italy.\u00a0“All of them were recipients of money sent by the Venezuelan Government,”\u00a0the former military officer stated before the court.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carvajal explained that the Bolivarian regime operated through diplomatic pouches and official flights to move the funds, coordinated by\u00a0Tareck El Aissami, then Minister of the Interior, with the direct approval of\u00a0Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, who at that time was foreign minister. He stated that the same method was used to\u00a0send money to the Kirchners.<\/span><\/p>\n

In his most explosive testimony,\u00a0Carvajal claimed that Hugo Ch\u00e1vez financed Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner’s 2007 presidential campaign with 21 million dollars. The money allegedly arrived in Buenos Aires on 21 diplomatic flights, organized when\u00a0Jorge Taiana\u2014currently Fuerza Patria’s candidate\u2014was\u00a0Argentine foreign minister\u00a0and a key figure in the political alliance between\u00a0Caracas and Buenos Aires.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Venezuelan Government has illegally financed left-wing political movements around the world for at least 15 years,”\u00a0Carvajal reiterated in a document submitted to the U.S. judge, also committing to\u00a0provide unpublished documentation\u00a0that would prove the route of those funds. The revelation shook both the international judicial sphere and Argentine politics, once again putting Chavista influence over Kirchnerism under scrutiny.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who is Hugo Armando Carvajal?<\/span><\/p>\n

Born in\u00a0Puerto La Cruz\u00a0in 1960, Carvajal was one of\u00a0Hugo Ch\u00e1vez’s most trusted men. He reached the rank of\u00a0major general in the Bolivarian Army, and for years led the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM), where he controlled the regime’s secret operations. In 2008, he was sanctioned by the\u00a0Office of Foreign Assets Control\u00a0(OFAC) of\u00a0the United States\u00a0for his role in cocaine trafficking and his cooperation with the\u00a0FARC. Since then, his name has appeared on the\u00a0Clinton List, which identifies\u00a0officials linked to drug trafficking and terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n

His political career took him to the Venezuelan Parliament as a\u00a0PSUV deputy, but over time he distanced himself from Maduro and\u00a0denounced internal corruption\u00a0and the regime’s authoritarian drift. After breaking ranks, he fled the country and ended up detained in Spain, where he\u00a0remained a fugitive until his extradition.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, on U.S. soil,\u00a0Carvajal seeks to reduce his sentence\u2014estimated at about 20 years\u2014by offering evidence of how Chavismo bought political loyalties with drug trafficking money.<\/span><\/p>\n

His testimony, which combines\u00a0espionage, cocaine, and political corruption, could open a new judicial chapter in Latin America, exposing the illicit financing network that connected the Venezuelan narco-dictatorship with Kirchnerism and other left-wing governments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: <\/span>www.drugwatch.org<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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