Who is Cilia Flores, the woman behind Nicolás Maduro – 03/05/2019

First lady of Venezuela, Cilia flowers actually takes the "burden" of "First fighter". She is the wife of Nicolás Maduro and is also on the blacklist of sanctions imposed by the Chavista regime that the United States has drawn up. It is that for years, he has held a place in the Chavist kidney.

Cilia Flores was born in Tinaquillo, Cojedes, Venezuela, on October 15, 1956. And this is not a construction of her husband. Very well he has his own political career, coming to occupy more important positions than those who have never occupied his partner.

Flowers grew up in the shadow and light of Hugo Chávez, like most Chavists who now lead Venezuela.

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That is why, in a kind of tribute, it is her husband who called her "First Fighter".

"Cilia will not be the first lady because it's a concept of high birthMaduro said the day she had registered her candidacy for the presidency and announced that she would not be a "second person." And in fact, this is not the case, it's not the case. has never been.

The origins of Flores they are humble. He was born in a "rancho with a dirt floor," according to Maduro himself. And at four, he left Tinaquillo with his family to live in Caracas, where they settled all in a working clbad neighborhood in the west of the Venezuelan capital.

Flowers is the youngest of six brothers. He studied law. And he was received at the age of 32 at Santa Maria University. Then he specialized in labor law and criminal law.

This race was crossed by the Hugo Chávez coup in 1992, at a time that would change the life of Flores forever.

She was one of the lawyers of the legal team of these coup de l 'état militaireto those who later joined a political cause that transcends to this day.

It was then that she met her husband, another figure who grew up in Chavez's warmth.

"I found Cilia in life.He was the lawyer of several imprisoned patriotic soldiers, but she was the lawyer of Commander Chandez, while being a lawyer of Commander Chávez in prison … difficult, "said Maduro. "I met her during those years of struggle and then, well, she started to sting my eyes, to make eyes," he recalls.

Cilia was a lawyer, a chavist, a deputy and the first woman to chair the National Assembly of Venezuela, and also Attorney General of the Republic, until the death of Chávez in 2013.

The flowers were always a combative collaborator of Chávez.

The controversy also surrounded him. He banned press access to the badembly until January 2016, when the opposition seized the legislature.

They accused her of nepotism have influenced the hiring of 40 people, including several family members, which is admitted and defended.

And in November 2015, a New York prosecutor was indicted drug trafficking crimes to his nephews Efraín Antonio Campo Flores and Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas.

The youth had been arrested in Haiti and handed over by the local authorities to DEA agents.

Flores reacted by accusing American authorities of "kidnapping" his nephews and trying to discredit his candidacy for the National Assembly.

In December 2017, a judge sentenced the two young men to 18 years in prison for the crime of drug trafficking.

By that time, Flores was already a member of the new National Constituent Assembly, elected in August 2017.

With Maduro, he was married in 2013, with whom He did not have any children. Your children are from your previous marriage with Walter GavidiaAnd there are three: Yosser Gavidia Flores, Walter Gavidia Flores and Yoswal Gavidia Flores.

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