Spanish police arrest former Venezuelan spy boss

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Hugo Armando Carvajal, former head of military intelligence in Venezuela has been arrested, Spanish authorities said on Thursday.

Madrid police swooped on the former spy-boss in an apartment in the Spanish capital on Thursday night.

He is wanted in the US on charges of drug trafficking, and has been on the run since November 2019, after a Spanish court approved an extradition request from the US. "Arrested tonight in Madrid 'Pollo Carvajal,'" Spanish police tweeted.

The social media post included a video of police officers taking Carvajal into custody, and added: "He lived totally cloistered, without going outside or looking out the window, and always protected by trusted people."

Nicknamed "El Pollo", Carvajal had served as the chief of military intelligence during the presidency of the late Hugo Chavez.

Carvajal told the New York Times in 2019 that he had been in contact with FARC in order to help facilitate the the release of a businessman the guerrilla group was holding hostage.

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