Venezuelan spy Chávez, Carvajal, fled to Spain before being extradited to the US

The former director of Venezuela's military espionage agency, wanted in the United States for drug trafficking, disappeared in Spain while authorities were trying to extradite him to Washington. Hugo Carvajal is a retired general and former diplomat who was part of the inner circle of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. From 2004 to 2011, under the guidance of Chávez, Carvajal he headed the general direction of military counter-espionage (DGCIM).
In 2008, the United States named Carvajal one of the leading facilitators of international drug trafficking and imposed financial sanctions on its assets around the world. Washington accused Carvajal of helping the paramilitary group known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to transport drugs from Latin America to Mexico and from there to the United States.
Things took an interesting turn, however, when in February this year Carvajal posted a video on social media in which he denounced Chavez's successor, President Nicolás Maduro, and sided with his archenemy, Juan Guaido. , president of the National Assembly of Venezuela. In his video, Carvajal urged the Venezuelan military to stop siding with Maduro and support Guaido as Venezuela's interim president. Guaido is openly supported by the United States and dozens of other Western countries.
Shortly after making his announcement, Carvajal fled to Spain, where he was arrested in April after the US Department of Justice filed a formal request for the former spy chief to extradite to America. But in September, Spain's main criminal court ruled that Carvajal would not be extradited to the United States. The former spy chief was released minutes after the court made his decision known.
On Friday, however, the same court accepted an appeal from the Public Prosecutor's Office and overturned its previous decision. Shortly after the court's decision, Spanish media reported that Carvajal had already been arrested and would be transported to the United States within days. But three days later, the former spy chief posted a message on his personal Twitter account saying that neither he nor his lawyers had been contacted by the Spanish police. It therefore appeared that Carvajal had not been arrested.
On Tuesday, the Spanish newspaper El Pais reported that Carvajal was nowhere to be found when Spanish police officers went to Madrid to arrest him. His position is currently unknown, the newspaper said. The US Department of Justice did not comment on the case.

Venezuelan spy Chávez, Carvajal, fled to Spain before being extradited to the US

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