The former head of military intelligence for the Venezuelan regime, Hugo Armando "El Pollo" Carvajal, confessed before the United States justice system that dictator Hugo Chávez financed the presidential campaign of the corrupt Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in 2007 with 21 million dollars.
According to the former official's testimony, the funds were sent to Buenos Aires through 21 diplomatic flights coordinated during the period when Jorge Taiana, now Fuerza Patria candidate for the legislative elections, was Argentina's foreign minister and a key figure in the political alliance between Kirchnerism and the Chavista regime.
Carvajal's statement before the U.S. justice system shook both the international judicial landscape and Argentine politics. The detainee, extradited from Spain in 2023 after two years on the run, pleaded guilty to four charges related to drug trafficking and narcoterrorism, acknowledging his participation in the Cartel de los Soles and in the trafficking of tons of cocaine to the United States.
As part of his cooperation with the U.S. justice system, Carvajal is about to hand over unpublished documentation on the use of the state oil company Pdvsa as a financial vehicle for the export of cash funds to left-wing political movements in Latin America and Europe. According to his testimony, the operations were carried out through diplomatic suitcases, under the coordination of then Interior Minister Tareck El Aissami, one of Nicolás Maduro's closest men.
