Dos Florecitas: Major Drugs Bust Hits Venezuela's First Family

Efraín Antonio Campo Flores and Francisco Flores de Freitas - two flowery nephews - busted in Haiti on big-time drug-trafficking charges. It's all true.

The Wall Street Journal confirms the seismic story that’s been lighting up the social media rumor mill all day:

U.S. agents have arrested two relatives of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on charges they conspired to transport 800 kilograms of cocaine to the U.S., according to two people familiar with the matter, a potentially explosive incident that comes amid U.S. accusations that the top echelon of Venezuela’s government is involved in the narcotics trade.

The two men, Efraín Antonio Campo Flores and Francisco Flores de Freitas, were first arrested in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Tuesday by local police, turned over to U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents and flown the same day to New York in a DEA jet, these people said. The two were scheduled to go before a federal judge in New York on Thursday, they said. A spokesman for the federal district court declined to comment.

The two men are identified in a U.S. document as nephews of Mr. Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores.One of the men, Mr. Campo Flores, 29 years old, identified himself on the DEA plane as a stepson of the president, according to the people familiar with the matter, having been raised by Ms. Flores after the death of her sister.

It’s all true, folks.