Who is Cilia Flores, Venezuela’s ‘first combatant’?

First Lady Cilia Flores was abducted with her husband, President Nicolas Maduro, on Saturday. Who is she?

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In the early hours of January 3, the United States’ Delta Force abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, from the presidential residence in the capital, Caracas.

The operation, which was paired with attacks on the Venezuelan capital that killed at least 40 people, according to Venezuelan officials, extracted the country’s first couple to New York in the US, where they are expected to be put on trial as early as Monday.

Who is Cilia Flores, Venezuela’s ‘first combatant’?

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