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.
Venezuela’s former first lady, Cilia Flores de Maduro, has asked a judge to release her from federal detention in the United States, citing a worsening heart condition.
In an application for pre-trial release on Wednesday, her legal team asked for the court to allow Flores to await trial under home confinement in Manhattan.
It described her declining health since US military operation on January 3 that resulted in her abduction from Caracas and imprisonment in New York, as well as that of her husband, former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
But Flores’s health has been in doubt since her forced removal from Venezuela, according to her legal team.