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Lucia Blasco

Former Venezuelan spy chief says Maduro runs 'narco-terrorist organisation'

Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, a former Venezuelan military intelligence chief known as "El Pollo" Carvajal, has written to former US President Donald Trump from federal prison, accusing Nicolás Maduro's government of operating as a "narco-terrorist organisation".

In the letter, Carvajal claimed that during his years leading Venezuela's military counterintelligence, he witnessed high-ranking officials coordinating drug trafficking operations and establishing alliances with armed groups.

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