Political waters untouched in Venezuela despite drug bust involving president's relatives

Despite the government’s tight stranglehold on the country's media, Venezuelans of all social strata have heard about the arrest of two nephews of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in Haiti a couple of weeks ago, allegedly planning to smuggle nearly 1,700 pounds of drugs into the U.S. And yet analysts say none of it is likely to impact the independent vote ahead of the Dec. 6 legislative election, deemed critical for the opposition’s goal of regaining a majority in the National Assembly. More…