On Tuesday, police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, arrested two nephews of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's wife, Cilia Flores, immediately turning the two men over to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to face charges of attempting to smuggle 800 kilograms of cocaine into the U.S., law enforcement officials tell The Wall Street Journal and other news organizations. The DEA flew Efraín Antonio Campo Flores and Francisco Flores de Freitas to New York, where they are expected to be arraigned Thursday.
Campos, 29, told the DEA that he is the son of Venezuela's first lady — or "First Combatant," as Maduro calls Flores — and a stepson of the president. Sources tell The Associated Press that Campos is the son of Flores' late sister, and was partly raised by Maduro and Flores, who have been a couple since the 1990s and married since 2013, right after Maduro was elected president. Flores, 62, is one of the most powerful women in Venezuela's government, a former president of the National Assembly and candidate for congress in upcoming elections.
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