Cília Flores, aged 69 and wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, asked the United States justice system to serve her sentence under house arrest. She claims to need complex cardiac treatment that cannot be carried out under the current detention conditions.
Flores's defense requested that she be transferred to a private residence in New York, where she would serve her sentence wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet.
Cília Flores was detained in the United States as part of a legal proceeding related to her husband. The decision on the house arrest request is still pending.
