Cilia Flores de Maduro, wife of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, has asked a New York judge to allow her to serve pre-trial detention under home confinement, citing a deteriorating heart condition. Her lawyers say that since her forcible removal from Caracas in a US military operation in January 2025, she has developed serious cardiac complications — including a possible minor heart attack in July — and requires treatment and recovery conditions that the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn cannot provide. Both Flores and Maduro, who face drug- and weapons-trafficking charges and are due to stand trial in June, have pleaded not guilty; Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein has yet to rule on the application.