moar Venezuela
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/venezuela-politics-flores/
"Now, with help from Lamas’ testimony, the United States is preparing to charge Flores [the first lady] in coming months with crimes that could include drug trafficking and corruption, four people familiar with the investigation of the first lady told Reuters. "
i didn't know it was her nephews
"In a series of interviews with Reuters, the first Lamas has given since his arrest, the former bodyguard said Flores was aware of the coke-trafficking racket for which her two nephews were convicted by a U.S. court. "
no deals:
"According to five people familiar with the discussions, Flores instructed intermediaries to ask U.S. envoys for liberty for her jailed nephews. In exchange, these intermediaries said Venezuela would release six imprisoned executives of Citgo Petroleum Corp, the U.S. refining unit of Venezuela’s state-run oil company. The executives, arrested by Venezuela in 2017 and charged with embezzlement, are widely considered by human rights activists and many in the business community to be political prisoners.
That overture, reported here for the first time, failed."
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