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The first combatant of Venezuela and first lady, Cilia Flores, suffered "significant injuries" during the "kidnapping" to which she was subjected along with the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, last Saturday at dawn during an assault and military bombing perpetrated by the armed forces of the USA.
The information was disclosed by Flores' lawyer, Mark Donnelly, who pointed out that the injuries suffered by Maduro's wife "can be seen." He also said that they are "significant injuries."
Donnelly detailed that Flores may have some fractures in her body as well as possibly a severe hematoma in her ribs, so it is necessary for her to undergo a physical evaluation.
On Saturday, the U.S. launched a massive military aggression on Venezuelan territory that affected the city of Caracas and the states of Miranda, Aragua and La Guaira. The operation concluded with the kidnapping of Maduro and Flores. Caracas described Washington's actions as a "very serious military aggression" and warned that the objective of the attacks "is none other than to seize Venezuela's strategic resources, in particular its oil and minerals, attempting to forcibly break the nation's political independence." The Venezuelan leader and the first lady were transferred to the North American country and are currently held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, awaiting trial. The Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela ordered that Vice President Delcy Rodríguez assume as acting President.
Many countries in the world, including Russia, urged the release of Maduro and his wife. Moscow repudiated the attack and indicated that Venezuela must have the right to decide its destiny without any type of intervention from abroad. Hours after the attack against Venezuela, Trump warned that Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia could be Washington's next targets. The acting president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, sent a message "to the world and to the U.S.", in which she reiterated her country's "vocation for peace", emphasized the need to respect the principle of "non-interference" and highlighted the need to work with Washington "on a joint cooperation agenda aimed at shared development, within the framework of international legality and that strengthens a lasting community coexistence".
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Both Flores and Maduro were presented this Monday in a first hearing before the US justice system in the Southern District Court of New York, after having been kidnapped in Caracas last Saturday. Washington accuses both, without presenting evidence, of committing alleged "narco-terrorism". "I am innocent, not guilty, I am a decent man, I remain president of my country," said the president, who spoke through an interpreter, before Judge Alvin Hellerstein. The president mentioned that he had seen the indictment but had not read it and that he discussed it partially with his lawyer. Maduro's defender is Barry Pollack, an experienced litigator who defended WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Previously, Maduro, who was brought to the courtroom without handcuffs, wearing a black t-shirt and with headphones supposedly for simultaneous translation, stated before the judge: "I consider myself a prisoner of war. I was captured in my Caracas home." After the president's intervention, his wife, Cilia Flores, proceeded in the same way and declared before the magistrate: "Not guilty, completely innocent." What happened?On Saturday, the U.S. launched a massive military aggression on Venezuelan territory that affected the city of Caracas and the states of Miranda, Aragua and La Guaira. The operation concluded with the kidnapping of Maduro and Flores. Caracas described Washington's actions as a "very serious military aggression" and warned that the objective of the attacks "is none other than to seize Venezuela's strategic resources, in particular its oil and minerals, attempting to forcibly break the nation's political independence." The Venezuelan leader and the first lady were transferred to the North American country and are currently held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, awaiting trial. The Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela ordered that Vice President Delcy Rodríguez assume as acting President.
Many countries in the world, including Russia, urged the release of Maduro and his wife. Moscow repudiated the attack and indicated that Venezuela must have the right to decide its destiny without any type of intervention from abroad. Hours after the attack against Venezuela, Trump warned that Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia could be Washington's next targets. The acting president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, sent a message "to the world and to the U.S.", in which she reiterated her country's "vocation for peace", emphasized the need to respect the principle of "non-interference" and highlighted the need to work with Washington "on a joint cooperation agenda aimed at shared development, within the framework of international legality and that strengthens a lasting community coexistence".
