{"id":523798,"date":"2026-09-17T11:49:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/judge-sets-october-8-hearing-on-cilia-flores-house-arrest-request\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:49:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:49:34","slug":"judge-sets-october-8-hearing-on-cilia-flores-house-arrest-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/judge-sets-october-8-hearing-on-cilia-flores-house-arrest-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge sets October 8 hearing on Cilia Flores&#8217; house arrest request"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New York.-<\/strong> <strong>Federal Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein<\/strong> has scheduled a hearing for October 8 to address the request by <strong>Cilia Flores<\/strong>, wife of deposed <strong>Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/strong> and detained on drug trafficking-related charges, to await her trial under house arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hearing will be held at 10:30 local time (14:30 GMT) at the Southern District Court of New York, according to a document published by the court and signed by the magistrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Wednesday, <strong>Flores&#8217; defense requested in a court document that she be transferred to a private residence in New York,<\/strong> and offered a house arrest regime with 24-hour armed guards, a tracking bracelet, restricted visits, and monitored phone calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You might be interested in: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/internacionales\/cilia-flores-solicita-prision\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/internacionales\/cilia-flores-solicita-prision\/\">Cilia Flores requests house arrest in New York citing health conditions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cilia Flores, 69, stated that she <strong>needs complex cardiac treatment<\/strong> and that the federal prison where she has been held since January 3 does not meet the necessary conditions for her care.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her lawyers assured that<strong> the costs of this transfer will be assumed by the defendant<\/strong> and also offered the retention of her passport as part of the conditions to ensure that she remains in custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/madurocilia.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-713018\" style=\"width:664px;height:auto\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the letter presented to the court, they described episodes of chest pain, arrhythmias, breathing difficulties, and a loss of more than 24 pounds since their detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MADURO Y CILIA FLORES CUMPLEN UN MES DE DETENIDOS EN NEW YORK\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eERApWhigb0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On July 29, according to the petition<strong>, Flores reportedly suffered a serious health episode<\/strong> which, according to his lawyers, may have apparently been a mild heart attack, although this has not been medically confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Flores and Maduro were arrested on January 3rd during an operation by U.S. forces in Caracas and subsequently transferred to New York<\/strong>. Both have pleaded not guilty to charges related to drug trafficking and narco-terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trial is expected to begin on June 1, 2027. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York.- Federal Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein has scheduled a hearing for October 8 to address the request by Cilia Flores, wife of deposed Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and detained on drug trafficking-related charges, to await her trial under house arrest. The hearing will be held at 10:30 local time (14:30 GMT) at the Southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":523799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[34036,44182,41822],"class_list":["post-523798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-cilia-flores","tag-cover","tag-house-arrest"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2cgm","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Copia-de-Copia-de-Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2026-09-17T114659.357.png","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Copia-de-Copia-de-Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2026-09-17T114659.357.png"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}