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Cilia Flores, wife of Nicolás Maduro, asks for home prison in a Manhattan department for a heart problem

Cilia Flores, wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, is seeking house arrest in a Manhattan federal judicial complex due to a worsening cardiac condition.

Cilia Flores has been detained in a Brooklyn federal prison since January 3rd

She is requesting house arrest due to a serious cardiac condition that has worsened since her imprisonment

Her lawyers Mark Donnelly and Andrés Sánchez have filed a legal request to move her to a Manhattan federal judicial complex residence

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