Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, nicknamed El Pollo ("The Chicken")[1] (born 1960), is a Venezuelan diplomat and retired general.

On 26 March 2020, the U.S. Department of State offered $10 million for information to bring him to justice in relation to drug trafficking and narco-terrorism.

[citation needed] In September 2008, the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) accused Carvajal of helping Colombian guerrilla FARC in its drug trafficking activities by protecting them from drugs seizures, supplying weapons and providing with Venezuelan official documents.

[9] As a protest Venezuela closed its airspace to planes coming from Aruba and Curaçao for several hours, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded.

Aruba officials declared that Dutch foreign minister Frans Timmermans had decided to recognize Carvajal's immunity.

The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affair also stated that Carvajal was released after strictly judicial considerations based on international law.

Carvajal calls for Venezuelan military forces to break ranks and to allow the shipping of humanitarian aid to Venezuela.

[14][15] Maduro expelled Carvajal from the Armed Forces on 4 April, degraded his Major General status, and accused him of treason.

However, his extradition to the United States to stand trial for drug trafficking was not carried out after a Spanish court rejected the American request.