Former Venezuelan spymaster pleads guilty to US drug trafficking charges | Courts News

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

A former director of Venezuelan military intelligence has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and narcoterrorism charges in a United States federal court, according to the Justice Department, a week before his trial was set to begin.

Hugo Carvajal, who served in the country’s late President Hugo Chavez’s government from 2004 to 2011, pleaded guilty in a Manhattan federal…