Maduro’s wife seeks home detention as heart condition worsens in US custody
Her lawyers say Flores needs cardiac treatment and recovery facilities a detention centre cannot provide.
New York, September 11 — The estranged wife of Venezuela's ousted leader Nicolas Maduro, Cilia Flores, has requested to be released from her New York detention and placed under house arrest due to her serious heart problems. Flores, 69, was in good health prior to her arrest in January and was not on long-term medication, except for a monthly injection, her attorney Mark Donnelly revealed in a document.
The defense team argues that her current living conditions within the Brooklyn federal jail do not provide the adequate medical care she requires, such as a coronary angiogram or potential surgery. Consequently, they are seeking her to be placed under house arrest in the United States under strict conditions, which include 24-hour armed surveillance, an electronic ankle bracelet monitor, and confiscation of her passport.
Both Maduro, 63, and Flores were apprehended by the United States in a raid in Caracas and have been held since January 3. They are charged with aiding in the smuggling of vast quantities of cocaine into the United States. Despite the allegations, they both refute the charges, with Maduro stating in court that he is a "prisoner of war" of the United States.
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