"She Was the Brain and Maduro Was the Force": What Was the Role of Cilia Flores in Venezuela

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Nicolás Maduro's wife exercised much more power than that of a simple first lady and made political decisions in her husband's government

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Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores appeared last January 5 before a federal court in Manhattan on charges that include narcoterrorism, conspiracy to traffic cocaine and possession of illegal weaponry, among others. At the end of the hearing, when Maduro was escorted out of the courtroom, a Venezuelan stood up and rebuked him directly: “Nicolás Maduro, you are a criminal and you will pay for all the damage you have done to the Venezuelan pe…

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Nicolás Maduro’s wife exercised much more power than that of a simple first lady and made political decisions in her husband’s government. Before pleading innocent before a New York court at her first court hearing after being captured with her husband, Nicolás Maduro, by the U.S. special forces, Cilia Flores wanted to make clear, in Spanish: “I am the first lady of the Republic of Venezuela.” However, the truth is that Maduro himself and other …