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Opposition
members hold big face cutouts depicting jailed Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma,
during a campaign group rally for congressional candidates, in Caracas,
Venezuela, Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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It's the story of the
year or no story at all, depending on where one falls on Venezuela's
hyper-polarized political spectrum. Venezuelan officials kept silent Friday on the
arrest this week of two nephews of first lady Cilia Flores on U.S. drug
trafficking charges.
The
South American country's opposition leaders, meanwhile, made the news the focus
of their rallies to mark the launch of the campaign season for crucial Dec. 6
congressional elections. The
two young men were arrested in Haiti on Tuesday on charges of conspiring to
smuggle cocaine into the United States. They are being held in New York without
bail.
