For next April 21 is scheduled former Chavista General Hugo Armando Carvajal. It is a preliminary investigation once morest Gustavo Petro following that ‘the Chicken’ Carvajal said that the presidential candidate had allegedly received money from Chavismo. Those remarks were already denied by Petro at the time.
“And they don’t get tired of trying over and over once more. Those who expect foreign government funding to appear in my campaigns at some point in my political life will be left waiting. I neither know Saab nor General Hugo Carvajal. I’m preparing a legal intervention to confront the general and alleged drug trafficker Hugo Carvajal, either in Spain or in the US,” Petro said at the time, on his Twitter account.
Carvajal is currently in a prison in Madrid. It should be remembered that he was captured on September 9 in Madrid. He was on the run since 2019 when a Spanish court approved an extradition request to the United States, where he is accused of drug trafficking.
Carvajal, 61, he was a figure of weight in chavismo until he distanced himself from the government of President Nicolás Maduroexpressing support for opposition leader Juan Guaidó when he declared himself president of Venezuela in February 2019.
So, he went by boat to the Dominican Republic and then flew to Spain, where he was arrested in April 2019.
In October 2021, it was the senator and presidential candidate Gustavo Petro himself who asked the Supreme Court of Justice to investigate it following knowing, by press versions in Spain, the declarations of former Venezuelan general Hugo Carvajal, who said that the leader of Human Colombia received financing from the Venezuelan regime.
“The foregoing on the basis that I am assisted as a citizen by the right to truth and justice, and these false statements threaten my good name and my honor,” says Petro, in a letter sent to the court.
Petro had denied knowing Carvajal and Álex Saab, the Barranquilla businessman accused of being the figurehead of Nicolás Maduro and who was extradited from Cape Verde to the United States.
“While I was director of Military Intelligence and Counterintelligence in Venezuela, I received a large number of reports indicating that this international financing was taking place. Specific examples are: Néstor Kirchner in Argentina, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Lula da Silva in Brazil, Fernando Lugo in Paraguay, Ollanta Humala in Peru, Zelaya in Honduras, Gustavo Petro in Colombia, the Five Star Movement in Italy and Podemos in Spain. All of these were listed as recipients of money sent by the Venezuelan government,” said Carvajal, according to a version published by the digital newspaper Ok Diario.
This statement was given by Carvajal to the Central Court of Instruction number 6 of the National High Court of that country.