Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuela’s deposed leader Nicolás Maduro, asks a US court to release her from detention in New York and place her under house arrest, saying she has heart problems. She is seeking an alternative to continued custody while US authorities pursue charges against both her and Maduro.
Flores, 69, and Maduro, 63, have been held at a Brooklyn jail since US forces seized them during a raid on their home in Caracas in early January. The two were taken to New York City following the operation. RTE and NDTV both report that Flores links her request to medical concerns and that the couple remains in US custody facing drug trafficking charges in the United States.
The outlets focus on different aspects of the same case: one highlights Flores’s formal request for release and house arrest, while the other provides additional background on the timing and location of the seizure and detention. Both accounts describe her current detention status and her stated health reason for seeking release.
