Maduro's Wife Seeks Release From Jail Citing Heart Illness
Her lawyers say a 30-minute chest episode and doctors’ recommendations for cardiac catheterization justify release under armed surveillance and GPS monitoring.
- In a 23-page filing submitted this week, Flores asked District Judge Alvin Hellerstein to release her from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to undergo cardiac treatment while awaiting trial under restrictive home confinement.
- Since her Jan. 3 capture in Caracas, Flores has suffered worsening health, with the defense claiming she lost more than 24 pounds and two teeth while sleeping only three to four hours each night in federal custody.
- Attorneys proposed 24 hours of armed surveillance, GPS monitoring, and cameras to address flight-risk concerns, while Flores reports symptoms including intense chest pressure lasting approximately 30 minutes on July 29 that eventually subsided without medication.
- Federal prosecutors oppose the release plan, leaving Flores in Brooklyn custody until Judge Hellerstein rules on the motion, which includes her consent to guards using force as a last resort to prevent escape.
- Maduro and Flores are scheduled to stand trial in Manhattan on June 1, 2027, on federal drug trafficking and weapons charges to which both defendants have pleaded not guilty.
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Prior to his capture on January 3 in an American operation in Caracas, Flores "was physically healthy and did not take any medication continuously, except for a monthly injection," said his lawyer Mark Donnelly in a document dated Wednesday. Now, according to his defense, he takes four medications and suffers from heart problems that require a coronary examination and an intervention. Flores, 69 years old, remains imprisoned in a federal prison …
Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro, the wife of ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, has asked a US federal court in New York for bail before trial, citing worsening heart problems while in a federal detention center in Brooklyn. “She is a 69-year-old woman who will need sufficient time to recover from any intervention in an environment appropriate for the improvement of her health,” her defense lawyers said in a filing filed with the court on Wed…
Cilia Flores, wife of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, claimed to have prolapsed the mitral valve and requested home arrest in the United States to do a cardiac catheterization.What is the problemMitral valve prolapse is a congenital defect
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