Retired Maj. Gen. Hugo Carvajal's plea Wednesday comes a week before his trial was set to begin in a Manhattan federal court.

Hugo Carvajal Barrios, who served as Venezuela’s director of military intelligence, was due to go to trial on June 30.

Venezuela’s ex-intelligence chief Hugo Carvajal has pleaded guilty to drug crimes in the U.S., possibly in exchange for ...

Hugo Carvajal, a former top official in Venezuela's authoritarian government, pleaded guilty to narco terrorism, the ...

Venezuela's former head of military intelligence, Hugo Carvajal - also known as "El Pollo", or The Chicken - has pleaded ...

Venezuela's former intelligence chief Hugo Armando Carvajal pleaded guilty Wednesday to drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges in a US federal court, the Justice Department said.

Hugo Carvajal — a close aide of the country’s late President Hugo Chavez — on Wednesday pleaded guilty to four criminal ...

Hugo Carvajal pleads guilty to four criminal counts including narcoterrorism conspiracy, conspiracy to import cocaine.