Cilia Flores: what the documents say

01

In 2020 she was not charged

Her name as a defendant does not appear once in the 2020 indictment. In the January 2026 one it appears 26 times. The indictment calls her the "de facto First Lady" and goes through her career: president of the National Assembly from 2006 to 2011 and attorney general.

Source: S4 superseding indictment, January 2026 · New York (25 pages)

02

The 2007 meeting

It is the most specific allegation against her in the document: a meeting with a drug trafficker and the then anti-drug chief, Néstor Reverol, and a share of the payments for each flight.

“In approximately 2007, CILIA ADELA FLORES DE MADURO, the defendant, attended a meeting in which FLORES DE MADURO accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to broker a meeting between a large-scale drug trafficker and the director of Venezuela's National Anti-Drug Office, Nestor Reverol Torres.”

Source: S4 superseding indictment, January 2026 · New York (25 pages)

03

The nephews and the 2015 campaign

The indictment recounts the case of the nephews, Efraín Campo Flores and Franqui Flores de Freitas, convicted in New York in 2016. According to the DEA recordings, they wanted to raise $20 million in drug money for a Cilia Flores campaign for the National Assembly in late 2015, and talked about shipping cocaine from the "presidential hangar" at Maiquetía.

Source: S4 superseding indictment, January 2026 · New York (25 pages)

04

She is not charged with narco-terrorism

The 2026 indictment has four counts. Maduro and Cabello are charged in all four. Cilia Flores in three: on January 5, 2026 she pleaded not guilty to counts 2, 3 and 4 (conspiracy to import cocaine and the two weapons counts). Count 1, narco-terrorism conspiracy, does not include her.

Source: S4 superseding indictment, January 2026 · New York (25 pages)