Hugo Carvajal Barrios on Jan. 27, 2016. Hugo Carvajal/Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA-4.0
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.
