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Celia Flores, the ‘former’ First Lady of Venezuela who once defended a head of state, was a prominent attorney in Venezuela, representing figures like Hugo Chavez.
From defending Venezuela’s elite to facing U.S. drug charges, Celia Flores’s story is a wild ride through Maduro’s Venezuela and beyond.
On Monday, the “former” First Lady sits in a U.S. Federal Court, chained. The ‘former’ First Lady, and a former prominent attorney in Venezuela, is now represented by a court-appointed attorney in America. Most court-appointed attorneys are lawyers who have failed to make a name for themselves over several years.
Some such lawyers are usually new law school graduates or late bloomers whose law careers have stalled out. Today, Cilia Flores sits in a dilapidated jail in New York City known as ‘hell on earth.’ The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused Ms. Flores of a host of serious drug-related crimes.
Cilia Flores graduated with a law degree from the Universidad Santa María in Caracas, specializing in criminal and labor law.
Cilia Flores is a Tactical Fighter.
Today, while in court, Ms. Flores’ face displayed bandages and signs of someone who had been beaten. Unless she was beaten by her husband, Nicholas Maduro, on Friday night while in bed, it is safe to believe that she sustained her injuries during her arrest, early Saturday morning, by DEA agents. (Stop resisting)!
Last Saturday, while agents entered her bedroom, her bodyguards surrendered, and her primary protector (Nicholas Maduro) ran for the exit, the sixty-nine-year-old Cilia Flores tried to stand her ground.
While serving as chair of the Political Command of the Bolivarian Revolution, Flores was part of the Revolution’s Tactical Command. This organization ran the majority of Hugo Chávez’s political machine. On 7 April, days before the 2002 Venezuelan coup d’état attempt, Flores, along with Guillermo García Ponce and Freddy Bernal, shared plans of using the Bolivarian Circles as a paramilitary force to end opposition marches and defend Chávez in Miraflores Palace by organizing them into brigades. — Wikipedia
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