{"id":506438,"date":"2026-05-01T22:56:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/femicide-of-carolina-flores-this-is-how-mexico-alerted-venezuela-about-the-escape-of-erika-n\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:56:39","slug":"femicide-of-carolina-flores-this-is-how-mexico-alerted-venezuela-about-the-escape-of-erika-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/international\/femicide-of-carolina-flores-this-is-how-mexico-alerted-venezuela-about-the-escape-of-erika-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Femicide of Carolina Flores: this is how Mexico alerted Venezuela about the escape of \u00c9rika \u201cN\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"Following the detention of <strong>\u00c9rika \u201cN\u201d<\/strong> in <strong>Caracas<\/strong>, <strong>Venezuela<\/strong>, possible details of the international operation that resulted from the femicide of her daughter-in-law, <strong>Carolina Flores,<\/strong> in <strong>Mexico City<\/strong> on April 15 have been revealed.\n\nThe investigation indicates that the main suspect - who was filmed shooting the former beauty queen - would have left <strong>Mexico<\/strong> only one day after the <strong>crime<\/strong>, which activated the alert of the Mexican authorities to their Venezuelan counterparts.\n\nAccording to statements made by a correspondent from the media outlet <em>N+<\/em>, the Mexican authorities would have unofficially notified <strong>Venezuela<\/strong> of the case, before the corresponding orders were issued.\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infobae.com\/mexico\/2026\/04\/30\/al-refugio-de-amlo-sheinbaum-viajara-este-fin-de-semana-a-palenque-en-medio-de-polemica-sobre-rocha-moya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>The notice would have included that<strong>\u00a0Erika \u201cN\u201d<\/strong>, sixty-three years old, could enter Venezuelan territory and requested her preventive detention while the investigations into Flores' murder progressed.<\/p>\n\n\nRecord issued for capture after international escape. (Interpol)\n\nThe alleged femicide suspect's escape route first stopped in <strong>Panama<\/strong> and then moved to <strong>Venezuela<\/strong>, where she was arrested on April 29th.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infobae.com\/mexico\/2026\/04\/30\/cuanto-deberas-pagar-por-no-registrar-tu-celular-con-la-curp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mexico-habria-alertado-a-venezuela-antes-de-la-alerta-roja-de-interpol\"><strong>Mexico would have alerted Venezuela before Interpol's red alert<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nAccording to the correspondent of <em>N+<\/em> in Venezuela, <strong>Norberto Mazza<\/strong>, Mexican authorities would have used informal channels with <strong>Interpol <\/strong>to anticipate the possible entry of the suspect.\n\n\n<p><strong>We recommend reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/detienen-en-venezuela-a-presunta-responsable-del-feminicidio-de-la-exreina-de-belleza-carolina-flores\/\">They detain in Venezuela the alleged responsible for the femicide of the former beauty queen Carolina Flores<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nThis coordination would have allowed the Venezuelan police to know in advance who the wanted person was and why they were required.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>New evidence: mother-in-law stalks and murders Carolina Flores inside her apartment. (Social media)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<strong>Mazza&nbsp;<\/strong>explained that the Mexican notification was crucial for the Venezuelan authorities to act quickly, even before receiving the Interpol red alert.\n\nDuring the operation in <strong>Caracas<\/strong>, Erika \u201cN\u201d would have refused to be arrested.\n\nThe suspect allegedly claimed that the Venezuelan police had no authority to arrest her for a crime committed outside the country and denied the accusations against her.\n\nThe altercation led to his arrest on the charge of&nbsp;<strong>contempt of authority<\/strong>, which would have given time to receive the Interpol red notice.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"detencion-por-desacato-mientras-se-formalizaba-la-orden-internacional\"><strong>Detention for Contempt While the International Order Was Being Formalized<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nThe figure of contempt of authority would have allowed the Venezuelan police to detain <strong>Erika \u201cN\u201d<\/strong> for up to forty-eight hours while the official Interpol documentation arrived.\n\n\n<p>This legal resource is commonly used in street detentions in Venezuela, as reported by&nbsp;<strong>Norberto Mazza<\/strong>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>N+<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\nIn that period, the notification of the red notice from <strong>Interpol Mexico<\/strong> arrived, which allowed the formalization of the arrest of <strong>Erika \u201cN\u201d<\/strong> under the presumption of <strong>femicide<\/strong> for the crime committed in the mayor's office <strong>Miguel Hidalgo.<\/strong>\n\nThe suspect was held at the Interpol facilities in downtown Caracas, in a cell separate from the local penitentiary system, pending the extradition process to Mexico.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"el-retraso-en-la-denuncia-y-las-dudas-sobre-la-actuacion-del-hijo\"><strong>The Delay in the Complaint and Doubts About the Son's Actions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nThe investigation highlighted that <strong>Alejandro<\/strong>, son of the detainee and husband of the victim, took a day to go to the prosecutor's office after finding the body of Carolina Flores in the Polanco apartment.\n\nThis lapse would have allowed <strong>&nbsp;Erika \u201cN\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong> sufficient margin to leave Mexico and evade the action of the Mexican authorities.\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>You can also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/entretenimiento\/revelan-detalles-alarmantes-tras-el-feminicidio-de-carolina-flores-en-cdmx\/\">Alarming details revealed after the femicide of Carolina Flores in CDMX<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nAlthough that delay does not place <strong>Alejandro<\/strong> as an accomplice, it raised questions about possible omissions that facilitated his mother's escape.\n\n<strong>\u00c9rika Herrera<\/strong> remains in Interpol custody in <strong>Caracas<\/strong>, awaiting the completion of her extradition to face charges for the femicide of <strong>Carolina Flores.<\/strong>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the detention of \u00c9rika \u201cN\u201d in Caracas, Venezuela, possible details of the international operation that resulted from the femicide of her daughter-in-law, Carolina Flores, in Mexico City on April 15 have been revealed. The investigation indicates that the main suspect &#8211; who was filmed shooting the former beauty queen &#8211; would have left Mexico [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":506439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[18620,43660,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-506438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"tag-caracas","9":"tag-norberto-mazza","10":"tag-venezuela"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/27DEE4VNXVBLVJVN56OSX5Q264.avif","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/27DEE4VNXVBLVJVN56OSX5Q264.avif"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}