Ex-Venezuelan first lady Cilia Flores seeks release from NYC jail, citing heart ailment

Fuente: New York Post

Venezuela’s former first lady wants to be let out of jail while she and her husband await trial on US drug trafficking charges. Cilia Flores, the wife of ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, “deserves the opportunity to await her trial while on home confinement” while dealing with a heart condition that has only gotten worse since she’s been in jail, her lawyers wrote in court papers filed Wednesday. The lawyers, Mark Donnelly and Andres Sanchez, asked a judge to allow her to leave a Brooklyn federal jail for a home within the Manhattan federal court district where she and Maduro are scheduled to stand trial next June.