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Montevideo, May 6th 2024 - 20:30 UTC

Tag: Yvonne van Wersch

  • Saturday, July 26th 2014 - 06:04 UTC

    Venezuelan general retained in Aruba to be extradited to the US

    General Carbajal apparently belongs to the “Cartel of the Suns”, high-ranking military officers believed to have grown rich from drug-running

    A judge in Aruba ruled Friday that the highest-ranking Venezuelan official ever arrested on a U.S. warrant will remain behind bars pending an extradition request on drug charges. Hugo Carvajal, a former head of Venezuelan military intelligence and close confidant of the late president Hugo Chavez, was arrested upon arriving at Aruba’s airport, officials said Thursday.