Sources say indicted Venezuelan drug cartel member is funding Spain’s ruling socialist party

Shocking but not surprising allegations that Spain’s socialist Podemos Party is being funded by drug cartel leaders in Venezuela’s socialist Maduro dictatorship.

Orlando Avedaño reports in PanAm Post:

Spains Ruling Parties Gets Funding From Hugo Carvajal’s Drug Trafficking in Venezuela

The PanAm Post has learned from two sources that money from drug trafficking operations coordinated by Carvajal has financed Spain’s Podemos Party, as well as Zapatero’s recent maneuvers in Venezuela

On Thursday, March 26, Attorney General William Barr announced the U.S. government’s decision to file charges and seek rewards for several high-ranking officials of the Chavista regime, including Nicolás Maduro himself, his second in command, Diosdado Cabello, and former intelligence chief Hugo Carvajal. Carvajal is in Spain. He was arrested, and although there is a request for his extradition to the United States, he managed to escape last year and is currently on the run. Pedro Sánchez’s government knows where he is and is protecting him because of his relations with Spanish intelligence.

The PanAm Post learned from two sources in Washington DC that the Sánchez government allowed Hugo Carvajal to escape in November of last year and has hindered his arrest to prevent his extradition to the United States. The reason: Carvajal, for many years, managed to weave a close relationship with officials at the National Intelligence Center to cover up the drug trafficking route that led to Spain’s Galicia region.

Hugo Carvajal was director of Venezuelan intelligence from 2004 to 2014 during the Hugo Chávez administration and the first year of the Maduro government. Meanwhile, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who governed Spain from 2004 to 2011, was the liaison between the National Intelligence Center and the National Police Force, led by then-Commissioner Florencio San Agapito.

San Agapito and Carvajal met in Caracas in 2007 at the Eurobuilding hotel. The police Commissioner was a man close to Cuba because of his work in the disbanded Spanish monopoly Tabacalaera S.A., which bought all the products from the Castros. There, he worked with César Alierta, who later brought him to Telefónica as head of security until 2016, when he was charged with a case of laundering. He managed to settle the case after paying a fine of 500,000 euros. San Agapito was replaced at Telefónica by Colonel Miguel Ángel Sánchez Venancio, who had been third in command at the National Intelligence Center. According to sources, Sánchez Venancio, a controversial man, was the liaison between San Agapito and the National Intelligence Center.

Another connection between Carvajal and San Agapito in Spain was the then Venezuelan consul general in Madrid, Gladys Gutiérrez, who later became head of the Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice. Fernando Ticera, Gutiérrez’s husband and a Spanish citizen, “controlled the relations and was the vehicle between Juan Carlos Monedero and Pablo Iglesias,” according to the source.

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