The Asylum and Refuge Office of Spain has rejected the second asylum request of the former Venezuelan general Hugo Armando Carvajalknown as “Pollo Carvajal”, and whose delivery to the US has been delayed by these applications and resources from October 2021.
The department, under the Ministry of the Interior, He sees no reason to grant protection in Spain to the former soldier.
As sources from the Interior confirm to Efe, the resolution has already been communicated to his defense, which may appeal it by administrative means before the National High Court (AN).
This second asylum request, based on US political persecution that Carvajal alleges, was the one that stopped his extradition to that country. US authorities They claim him for drug trafficking crimesalthough legal sources indicate to Efe that the foreseeable thing is that the AN, which must make it effective, wait for the resolution to be firm.
whoever head of military counterintelligence in the governments of Venezuelan presidents Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro He still has an appeal pending resolution against the decision of the Interior to reject a first asylum request in October 2021.
In this way, since he was arrested in Madrid in September 2021, after almost two years in hiding, Carvajal has not relented in his efforts to avoid his delivery to the US Justicewhich accuses him of being part of an organization dedicated to drug trafficking and related to the FARC of Colombia.
The National Court authorized his extradition in November 2019, after reversing an initial decision not to deliver it. However, Carvajal was already unaccounted for at the time.
