Cilia Flores has long been more than just Nicolás Maduro’s spouse, and her capture alongside the Venezuelan president now puts one of the country’s most influential.
Cilia Flores has long been more than just Nicolás Maduro’s spouse, and her capture alongside the Venezuelan president now puts one of the country’s most influential political figures in the dock with him, CNN reports. Flores, 69, rose from a working-class childhood in western Caracas to become one of the central architects of Venezuela’s socialist project. A labor and criminal lawyer, she joined the movement around Hugo Chávez in the 1990s, helping defend him and fellow officers after their failed 1992 coup. She met Maduro in those circles, and the two formed both a political and personal partnership that has lasted more than three decades.
