US Drug Trial Could Expose Criminal Ties of Venezuela Elites

New evidence from a high-reaching drug trafficking trial has directly implicated immediate relatives of Venezuela's president and his wife, in a saga that could expose the criminal ties of some of the country's most elite figures. Investigators in a drug case brought against Efraín Campo Flores and Franqui Francisco Flores -- nephews of Venezuelan first lady Cilia Flores -- have obtained key information from telephones, iPads and a computer that the suspects were carrying upon their arrest, el Nuevo Herald reported. Some of the conversations uncovered apparently prove that family members of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife participated directly in the alleged cocaine trafficking case being prosecuted in a federal court in New York. More…