Case against Venezuela’s ‘first nephews’ began with a lunchtime arrest

The nephews of Venezuela’s first lady were finishing up their lunch at a popular hotel restaurant in Haiti when a U.S. federal agent sitting in a car in the parking lot got the signal. He turned to the Haitian police supervisor next to him to let him know. Soon, three Haitian police officers wearing masks and armed with assault rifles walked into the restaurant and confronted a very stunned Efrain Campo, 29, and Francisco Flores, 30. “We said, ‘Police, police,’ ” an undercover Haitian police officer who’d been working with agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration told a federal judge Thursday. His name was not released to the public because of the sensitivity of the case. More…