Hugo Carvajal, once a top official in Venezuela's authoritarian regime, has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges in a U.S. court in Manhattan, including narco terrorism.
Carvaja, who was the country's spy chief under late president Hugo Chavez, was extradited to the U.S. from Spain in 2023 after managing to evade U.S. law enforcement for over a decade. He was serving a diplomat for the Nicolas Maduro government until dramatically breaking with it and calling Venezuelans to support the U.S.-backed opposition.
