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Health issues or legal strategy? Defense and prosecutors clash over Cilia Flores’s condition

The same week Delcy Rodríguez was received in New York as Venezuela’s interim ruler and met with Donald Trump in Manhattan, the U.S. Attorney’s Office opposed releasing Cilia Flores, wife of deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, on bail from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where both have been held since the January U.S. military intervention in Caracas.

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Cilia Flores in Bolívar Square, Caracas, on February 7, 2019.

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Cilia Flores and Nicolás Maduro in Caracas on January 10, 2025.
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After María Corina Machado’s failed attempts to return to Venezuela, her communications chief does so instead

Claudia Macero, the communications chief for opposition leader María Corina Machado, returned to Venezuela on Sunday night after nearly a year and a half in exile. She landed at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, where journalists and dozens of Vente Venezuela supporters were waiting for her with party flags. Her return comes amid growing expectations over the opposition leader’s potential return, after she tried to re-enter the country three times last week without success.

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Claudia Macero, dressed in black, in Maiquetía on September 27.
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