The arrest of Hugo 'El Pollo' Carvajal, Venezuela’s ex-military spy chief, could sap U.S. bid to urge others to break from Maduro regime, as he had
CARACAS, Venezuela—A former Venezuelan military intelligence chief long sought by U.S. prosecutors on drug charges was arrested Friday in Spain, Spanish and U.S. authorities said.
Hugo Carvajal was detained in Madrid by Spanish police acting on an indictment from the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan. The indictment was unsealed Friday as Washington pushes its allies in Latin America and Europe to dial up the pressure on Venezuela’s leftist leader, Nicolás Maduro, and get him out of office. It isn’t clear, however, that...
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