CARACAS: Venezuela said on Sunday that retired military General Hugo Carvajal, wanted by the United States over drug accusations and arrested four days ago on the Caribbean island of Aruba, would be released and return home shortly.
"A plane is taking off at this moment to go and pick up our comrade Hugo Carvajal," Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said on state TV, hailing "a new victory" for Venezuela.
Carvajal's lawyer, Chris Lejuez, speaking to Reuters by telephone from Aruba, confirmed his client was about to be freed in a case that had threatened a new flare-up in ever-tense relations between Venezuela and the United States.
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