Nine months after being removed from her home in Caracas by US military forces, Venezuela's former first lady Cilia Flores de Maduro now asks a New York judge to consider what detention walls cannot provide: the conditions for a heart to heal. At 69, facing drug and weapons charges alongside her husband Nicolas Maduro ahead of a June trial, Flores has moved from a single monthly injection to four daily medications and a suspected heart attack — a trajectory her lawyers argue makes federal detention not merely uncomfortable, but medically untenable. The request for home confinement in Manhattan
Maduro's wife seeks home detention citing worsening heart condition in US custody
Cilia Flores de Maduro's health has deteriorated significantly in US federal detention, with suspected minor heart attack and need for cardiac procedures.