President Nicolás Maduro called arrests of first lady’s nephews an ‘imperialist ambush’ as fraction of international campaign against country’s socialist governmentTwo of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s relatives have been indicted in the US for cocaine smuggling,according to court papers on Thursday, following an international sting that Venezuela cast as an imperialist” attack. Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas, and 30,and Efraín Antonio Campo Flores, 29 – who are nephews of Maduro’s wife and first lady Cilia Flores – were charged in a one-count indictment filed in federal court in Manhattan.
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Source: theguardian.com