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Former Venezuelan general with 'treasure trove' of intelligence arrested for drug trafficking

By Silvio Castellanos, Miguel Gutierrez and Roberta Rampton

 

FILE PHOTO: Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (R) embraces retired General Hugo Carvajal as they attend the Socialist party congress in Caracas in this picture provided by Miraflores Palace July 27, 2014. REUTERS/Miraflores Palace/Handout via Reuters/File Photo

 

MADRID/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Spanish police on Friday arrested Hugo Carvajal, a former head of Venezuelan military intelligence, who Washington believes has a "treasure trove" of details he is willing to share about Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

 

Carvajal, a former general and close ally of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, was arrested on drug trafficking charges on a warrant issued by the United States, a police spokeswoman said.

 

"He is, I would dare to say, the most knowledgeable person to now be outside of Venezuela and be willing and able to cooperate with ... a treasure trove of information," the U.S. administration official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

 

"He will clearly be cooperating with us. He's expressed that publicly," the official said.

 

A court spokesman said Carvajal would appear before Spain's High Court on Saturday. The court needs to decide within 24 hours of his arrest whether he will be jailed pending a decision on his extradition or if he will be set free.

 

The U.S. Justice Department said it had asked Spain to extradite Carvajal to face cocaine-smuggling charges that were filed in 2011 and unsealed in 2014.

 

Carvajal, head of military intelligence from 2004 to 2008, denounced Chavez' successor Maduro in February and gave his support to Juan Guaido, who in January invoked the constitution to become Venezuela's interim president.

 

Guaido was later recognised by the United States and dozens of governments, but Maduro remains in office with support of the military and has denounced Guaido as a U.S. puppet.

 

Guaido has offered amnesty to military leaders who took his side.

 

Carvajal recently said on Twitter that he would relay all the information he knows to the appropriate authorities, the senior U.S. administration official said.

 

"We look forward to receiving that information and to learning everything he knows ... about how Maduro and his mafia operate," the official said.

 

Washington expects to learn more about Maduro's ties to Cuba, Lebanon's Hezbollah, and Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the official said.

 

The arrest is "very bad news" for Maduro and will provide protection to Carvajal who "probably had a target on his head," the senior U.S. administration official said.

 

SECOND ARREST

 

This was the second time Carvajal has been arrested on the U.S. charges, which allege that he coordinated the transportation of 5,600 kg (1,235 pounds) of cocaine from Venezuela to Mexico in April 2006. That shipment was bound for the United States, according to charges filed in federal court in New York.

 

Carvajal was arrested on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba in 2014, but the Dutch government accepted Venezuela's argument that he had diplomatic immunity because he had been nominated consul to Aruba.

 

Carvajal also was sanctioned by the U.S. government in 2008 for "materially assisting the narcotics trafficking activities" of Colombia's FARC rebel group.

 

The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said Carvajal's assistance to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia included protecting drug shipments from seizure by Venezuelan anti-narcotics authorities and providing them with weapons.

 

Carvajal also provided FARC with official Venezuelan government identification documents that allowed its members to travel to and from Venezuela, OFAC said.

 

In an interview with the New York Times published in February, Carvajal said any dealings he had with drug traffickers resulted from his role investigating them as intelligence chief.

 

Carvajal said he had met with FARC members in 2001 to engage them as a government negotiator in the kidnapping of a Venezuelan businessman, a trip that had been approved by presidents in both Venezuela and Colombia.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-04-13

 

[daboyz1]

5600 KG is actually 12,320 pounds.

[SOTIRIOS]

...wow...how convenient...???

 

...and so idiotic for such a 'well-placed' individual...???

 

...hmmm...should one even wonder...or question anything....???

 

....555.....

 

 

[Prissana Pescud]

2 hours ago, SOTIRIOS said:

...wow...how convenient...???

 

...and so idiotic for such a 'well-placed' individual...???

 

...hmmm...should one even wonder...or question anything....???

 

....555.....

 

 

It does seem very convenient.

However there are warnings, sanctions and warrants for his arrest by US that go back many years.

The interesting event is Spain doing this at the behest of US.

So maybe Venezuela (and Maduro) has not maintained empathy with Spain?

Or maybe there is no conspiracy in this arrest.

Just as an aside, I could never have spelled Venezuela a few months ago, now no problems.

And it is so easy to misspell the president of that country in a negative way.

Not that I ever would of course.

Anyway, good luck to Murdero 

 

 

 

[rocketman777]

Very convenient for the US in their propaganda war against Maduro , and a possible pretext to invade  Venezuela.

 

Carvajal ( nickname appropriately 'the chicken')left Maduro's government in 2017 and declared allegiance to the self appointed president Guaido in February. Last month Maduro expelled Carvajal from the armed forces accusing him of "Acts of Treason"

 

So a convenient and willing pawn for the US whose credibility is highly questionable

Edited April 13, 2019 by rocketman777

[Jingthing]

Very convenient for the US in their propaganda war against Maduro , and a possible pretext to invade  Venezuela.
 
Carvajal ( nickname appropriately 'the chicken')left Maduro's government in 2017 and declared allegiance to the self appointed president Guaido in February. Last month Maduro expelled Carvajal from the armed forces accusing him of "Acts of Treason"
 
So a convenient and willing pawn for the US whose credibility is highly questionable

I'll take Washington's and the vast majority of Latin America's view on Maduro over that of Russia, China, and Iran. It's not rocket science.

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[rocketman777]

12 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

I'll take Washington's and the vast majority of Latin America's view on Maduro over that of Russia, China, and Iran. It's not rocket science.

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Washington has shown it has no credibility since the invasion of Iraq on the phony pretext of WMD's

As to the majority of Latin America , Latin America countries have been repeatedly been subject to US interference and US  backed Coups for the past 60 years.

 

Countries such as Columbia and Brazil are US installed puppet governments doing the US bidding

 

 

Furthermore, the United Nations still recognizes Maduro as Venezuela's president

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jingthing]

8 minutes ago, rocketman777 said:

Washington has shown it has no credibility since the invasion of Iraq on the phony pretext of WMD's

As to the majority of Latin America , Latin America countries have been repeatedly been subject to US interference and US  backed Coups for the past 60 years.

 

Countries such as Columbia and Brazil are US installed puppet governments doing the US bidding

 

 

Furthermore, the United Nations still recognizes Maduro as Venezuela's president

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let's take each case for what it is.

Maduro is INDEFENSIBLE. End of. 

Quote

Stop parroting the propaganda of Maduro’s regime in Venezuela

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/04/stop-parroting-propaganda-maduros-regime-venezuela/

Edited April 13, 2019 by Jingthing

[from the home of CC]

Canadian mafia was running blow through Venezuela for years, had to be someone high up the food chain..

[rocketman777]

9 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Let's take each case for what it is.

Maduro is INDEFENSIBLE. End of. 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/04/stop-parroting-propaganda-maduros-regime-venezuela/

Stop wasting your time reading Western Main stream media. which is just a  propaganda outlet for the US government

[Baerboxer]

1 hour ago, rocketman777 said:

Very convenient for the US in their propaganda war against Maduro , and a possible pretext to invade  Venezuela.

 

Carvajal ( nickname appropriately 'the chicken')left Maduro's government in 2017 and declared allegiance to the self appointed president Guaido in February. Last month Maduro expelled Carvajal from the armed forces accusing him of "Acts of Treason"

 

So a convenient and willing pawn for the US whose credibility is highly questionable

 

Maduro the innocent - you reckon? The man who when opposed by an elected parliament simply created his own new assembly and declared parliament defunct and replaced. A man constantly denying reality and lining his own pocket while his country and its people go down the pan.

 

Your hatred for the US and/or love of the left obscure reality.

[Baerboxer]

32 minutes ago, rocketman777 said:

Stop wasting your time reading Western Main stream media. which is just a  propaganda outlet for the US government

 

So you think Maduro and his supporters, Russia and China never use propaganda and always tell the truth?

 

You think all the films showing no food, no medicine and people bartering for goods because the monetary system and economy has crashed are all propaganda lies?

 

If you like socialist dictatorships so much, why not go and live in utopia?

[Guest Jerry787]

drug smugglers the one who want to replace maduro...

 

 

[Guest Jerry787]

accusing maduro is the same of accusing assage...

non sense propaganda ma no evidences.... 

venezueala only issue is that is full of oil and gold which rich america want steal as they did in iraq.. all the rest a re non sense propaganda.... 

guaido... e drug smuggler puppet placed by trumpy administration

[off road pat]

13 hours ago, SOTIRIOS said:

...wow...how convenient...???

 

...and so idiotic for such a 'well-placed' individual...???

 

...hmmm...should one even wonder...or question anything....???

 

....555.....

 

 

Hmm,...no doubt he will say anything the the US agents want to hear,..True or not !!!!