The US armed forces did not plan to evacuate the wife of the president of Venezuela, Cilia Flores, she asked to be taken with her husband, the minister of the interior of the Latin American country, Diosdado Cabello, said. "When it came time for this extremely traumatic event, when they were taking Nicolás Maduro, they weren't going to take Cilia.
And Cilia told them: if you take my husband, then you have to take me too," Cabello said. On January 3, the United States launched a full-scale attack on Venezuela, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and transporting them to New York.
US President Donald Trump announced that Maduro and Flores will stand trial on charges of participating in "narco-terrorism" and posing a threat to the United States.
