Mexican actress, Kate del Castillo, was left “speechless” after Venezuela’s government banned the narco-themed soap opera, The Queen of the South, in which she plays a powerful drug trafficker. The reason? Glorifying the life of drug lords promotes “anti-values”. Soon after that ban, two nephews of Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, were arrested by the US in Haiti and flown to New York accused of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the US. “Censorship in Venezuela is expanding,” says Andrés Cañizales, a media expert at the country’s Andrés Bello University. No major state media in Venezuela carried reports of the arrests, he noted. “In that sense, there is a sort of double morality here.”