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Bacchus4.0

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Sun Nov 15, 2015, 01:51 PM Nov 2015

Banned 'narco' soap overtaken by Venezuela's real-life scandal

http://news.yahoo.com/banned-narco-soap-overtaken-venezuelas-real-life-scandal-195608754.html

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Four days before his wife's nephews were arrested, President Nicolas Maduro's government banned U.S.-based Latino network Telemundo's soap "Queen of the South" for "glorifying" the drug trade and harming family values.

But with Maduro's own family now dragged into a drug controversy, critics are having a field day poking fun at what they deem the socialist government's hypocritical moralizing.

First Lady Cilia Flores has been dubbed the 'Queen of the South' in a flood of internet memes that joke about the banned show morphing into a 'reality' show featuring the Miraflores presidential palace.

In one, the 62 year-old lawyer's face has been superimposed on a promotional photo showing glamorous Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, who plays the 'Queen of the South', sitting in a short black dress with her legs crossed.
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Banned 'narco' soap overtaken by Venezuela's real-life scandal (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Nov 2015 OP
This stuff just writes itself with the Chavista clowns COLGATE4 Nov 2015 #1
Ha ha ha....the book of the same name was a cracking good read!!! MADem Nov 2015 #2
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