Maduro and 'Lady Macbeth’ Cilia Flores marriage spells 'worst case' custody scenario

President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, look a "worst-case scenario" arsenic a joined mates entrenched successful Venezuelan authorities and present detained successful the U.S. up of their Jan. 5 arraignment, according to a nationalist information expert.

Maduro and Flores, who person been joined for 13 years, were arrested successful Caracas during a nighttime cognition connected Jan. 3 and transported to U.S. custody, wherever national prosecutors person brought transgression charges against both, officials said.

"This is simply a worst-case script for them, not being successful powerfulness but successful custody of the U.S. government," Roxanna Vigil told Fox News Digital.

"They are hubby and wife, but determination is besides the governmental constituent due to the fact that their governmental futures are tied unneurotic arsenic well," the Council connected Foreign Relations chap added.

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Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro is being held astatine MDC Brooklyn. (Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images and  Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Maduro, 63, has been charged with 4 counts: narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of instrumentality guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to person instrumentality guns and destructive devices.

Flores, 69, has been charged with 3 counts: cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of instrumentality guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to person instrumentality guns and destructive devices.

Flores archetypal gained attraction successful 1994 when, arsenic a lawyer, she defended Hugo Chávez aft his failed 1992 coup attempt.

After Chávez was elected, she sat successful the National Assembly successful 2000 earlier serving arsenic president of the National Assembly – succeeding Maduro – and aboriginal arsenic Venezuela’s lawyer wide from 2012 to 2013 nether some men.

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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro gestures adjacent to his woman Cilia Flores arsenic they permission the Capitolio, location of the National Assembly, aft taking the oath during the statesmanlike inauguration successful Caracas connected Jan. 10, 2025. (Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images)

"Cilia is precise politically savvy and has been 1 of the cardinal insiders successful constructing and carrying guardant Chávez’s revolutionary project," said Vigil. "She’s precise overmuch tied to the Chavista movement, which is astatine a debased constituent but apt to past this crisis. Venezuela’s aboriginal volition beryllium connected whether determination is simply a modulation to ideology oregon whether a Chavista stays successful power."

"Cilia Flores is 1 of the archetypal Chavistas due to the fact that she was portion of Hugo Chávez’s interior ellipse successful the aboriginal ’90s earlier helium became president," she added.

Flores was introduced to Maduro portion moving intimately with Chávez. At the time, Maduro described her arsenic having a "fiery character," according to Reuters.

The brace did not wed until astir 2 decades aft archetypal meeting, aft Maduro was elected president successful 2013.

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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his woman Cilia Flores get astatine the National Assembly for his swearing-in ceremonial for a 3rd word successful Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 10, 2025. (Matias Delacroix, File/AP Photo)

According to reports, critics dubbed Flores "Lady Macbeth."

"Since Maduro took implicit successful Venezuela, she has been an influential advisor, and much down the scenes than during the Chávez years, but nevertheless a precise influential governmental operative," Vigil explained.

"Her household members person been implicated successful antithetic transgression activity, including U.S. crimes, and this includes 2 of her nephews," she added.

Flores’ power extended into Maduro’s efforts to support power aft the absorption won a supermajority successful the National Assembly successful 2015.

Instead of allowing the opposition-led legislature to function, Maduro moved to make a parallel assemblage that assumed the legislature’s powers.

"There was besides her relation successful the Maduro government, and peculiarly her relation successful his effort to undermine the democratically elected 2015 National Assembly," Vigil said.

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Government supporters show posters of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, right, and erstwhile President Hugo Chávez successful downtown Caracas, Venezuela, connected Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, aft U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Maduro had been captured and flown retired of the country. (Matias Delacroix/AP)

"Cilia Flores was portion of that effort, and that was highlighted erstwhile she was sanctioned by the U.S. authorities successful 2018," Vigil said. "My consciousness is that Cilia was not vying to beryllium president oregon vying to clasp immoderate benignant of authoritative role, she already had important influence."

"At immoderate level, I deliberation she believed that Maduro was champion positioned to proceed Hugo Chávez’s revolutionary project," she added, "and that continuing this task was important to her."

President Donald Trump addressed Maduro’s seizure this week, informing of superior consequences for the Venezuelan person and signaling a hardline attack toward the regime.

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As antecedently reported by Fox News Digital, Trump said the U.S. would temporarily govern Venezuela "until specified clip arsenic we tin bash a safe, due and judicious transition." 

But Vigil highlights the president did not publically laic retired plans for Flores. "President Trump didn’t notation thing astir her yesterday, truthful it’s not wide what the program is for Cilia," Vigil said.

"Secretary Rubio said Maduro turned down generous offers to leave, but besides didn’t notation Cilia, wherefore she was taken with Maduro, and what relation she played successful these negotiations. Cilia was besides not indicted successful 2020 erstwhile Maduro was primitively indicted," Vigil said.

"President Trump’s rhetoric against Maduro for the past 4 positive months hasn’t included Cilia," she explained.

On Sunday, Rubio said successful an interrogation with ABC: "I promote everyone – I cognize it’s Sunday, radical are busy.  But the indictments person present been unsealed.  People should work this indictment.  They should work this indictment.  They should work what this antheral did for 15 – the past 15 years of his beingness against the United States – him and his wife."

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Attorney General Pam Bondi besides echoed that connection connected societal media, penning connected X that Maduro and Flores volition "soon look the afloat wrath of American justness connected American ungraded successful American courts," and calling them "two alleged planetary narco traffickers."