Venezuelan president’s relatives arrested in US drug case

Two nephews of Venezuela’s first woman have been prisoned in Haiti and taken to the US to face medication trafficking charges, US media reports say. Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas and Efrain Antonio Campo Flores are blamed for planning to sneak 800kg of cocaine into the United States.

The two men are due of show up in the witness of a government judge in New York on Thursday. Venezuela has not remarked on the reported captures which take after on from an airspace infringement line on Sunday. Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said that a US plane had wrongfully entered the South American nation’s airspace. In spite of the fact that Venezuela has more than once blamed the US for intruding in its issues, ties between the two nations have enhanced since coming to a low point in March, when the US forced authorizations on various Venezuelan authorities for asserted human rights manhandle.

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The US has more than once kept up that medication trafficking is occurring at the most astounding echelons of President Nicolas Maduro’s organization. The removal of the two men comes only three weeks in front of key Venezuelan authoritative races. The two suspects are accounted for by US authorities to have been captured in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince in the wake of touching base from Venezuela on board a private plane. Reports say that while both have discretionary travel papers neither has political invulnerability.

The pair was captured subsequent to reaching covert American specialists about offering the cocaine through Honduras, the Wall Street Journal reported, referring to two sources whom it says are acquainted with the matter. To start with woman Cilia Flores, 62, is alluded to by President Maduro as the “First Combatant” and is profoundly compelling in the administration drove by her spouse, reporters say.