Venezuelan first lady's nephews convicted in U.S. drug trial

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two nephews of Venezuela's first lady were found guilty on Friday on U.S. charges that they tried to carry out a multimillion-dollar drug deal to obtain a large amount of cash to help their family stay in power. Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas and Efrain Antonio Campo Flores, nephews of Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, were convicted by a federal jury in Manhattan of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. The case has been an embarrassment for Maduro amid economic and political crises in the South American nation.

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