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(CNN Spanish) - The Wall Street Journal published an article in which he claims to have had access to federal prosecutor documents from the Southern District of New York that would establish a link between former President Hugo Chávez Frías and drug trafficking.
The WSJ article reports that in 2000, Chavez would have asked several people around him to work with the Colombian guerrillas to "flood the United States with cocaine as an initiative of his Government to combat the Bush administration."
Chavez greets the audience in November 2011, after a year of cancer treatment in Cuba.
The report also indicates that the objective of the so-called Cartel de los Soles, which supposedly operates in Venezuela, was not only the profit of its members, but also "use cocaine as a weapon against the United States."
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According to the WSJ, the documents were filed in Spain by officials seeking to extradite Venezuelan retired general Hugo Carvajal, who during the Chavez government was director of Military Intelligence in Venezuela.
In Spanish courts, they told CNN that they could not comment on documents sent by the parties. This Monday the Spanish National Court refused to extradite Carvajal to the United States and decided to release him.
In the article written by Juan Forero and José de Córdoba, it is said that this documentation would describe the role of Hugo Chavez in drug trafficking and adds that several people who work in the Maduro government, and who have been serving from the Chavez government, today they would be in charge of cocaine trafficking "as a weapon against their ideological adversary, the United States," the WSJ article highlights.
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The Wall Street Journal says it tried to get a response to these accusations to the government of Nicolás Maduro without getting a reaction so far.
CNN has not been able to independently confirm what is reflected in the WSJ article.
Hugo Chavez Drug Trafficking
