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Cilia Flores
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Cilia Flores in April 2013
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| First Lady of Venezuela | |
| Assumed role 19 April 2013 |
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| President | Nicolás Maduro |
| Preceded by | Marisabel Rodríguez de Chávez |
| 4th President of the National Assembly | |
| In office 15 August 2006 – 5 January 2011 |
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| President | Hugo Chávez |
| Preceded by | Nicolás Maduro |
| Succeeded by | Fernando Soto Rojas |
| Attorney General of Venezuela | |
| In office 25 January 2012 – 11 March 2013 |
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| President | Hugo Chávez Nicolás Maduro |
| Preceded by | Carlos Escarrá |
| Succeeded by | Manuel Enrique Galindo |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office 5 January 2016 – 2 June 2017 |
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| Constituency | Cojedes |
| In office 30 July 2000 – 2 February 2012 |
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| Constituency | Capital District |
| Member of the National Constituent Assembly | |
| Assumed office 4 August 2017 |
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| Personal details | |
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Cilia Adela Flores
15 October 1956 Tinaquillo, Venezuela |
| Political party | United Socialist Party of Venezuela |
| Spouses | Walter Gavidia Rodríguez (div.) |
| Children | 3 |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro (born 15 October 1956) is a Venezuelan lawyer and politician. She is married to the President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro, making her the First Lady. Since 2015, she has also been a deputy in the National Assembly of Venezuela, of which she was president from 2006 to 2011, for her home state of Cojedes. In 2017, the Constituent National Assembly was founded, in which she is a member of the Presidential Commission.
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Political career
As the lead attorney for Hugo Chávez's defense team, she was instrumental in securing Chávez's release from prison in 1994 after his unsuccessful coup in 1992.
Tactical Command for the Revolution
While serving as chair of the Political Command of the Bolivarian Revolution, Flores was part of the Tactical Command for the Revolution, an organization that ran the majority of Hugo Chávez's political machine. On 7 April, days before the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt, Flores, along with Guillermo García Ponce and Freddy Bernal shared plans of using the Bolivarian Circles as a paramilitary force to end opposition marches and defend Chávez in Miraflores Palace by organizing them into brigades.
National Assembly
In 2000, Flores was elected as a deputy in the National Assembly. A member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Flores replaced her future husband Maduro as Speaker of the Assembly in August 2006, when he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs; she was the first woman to serve as president of the National Assembly (2006–2011). On 10 January 2007, Flores swore Chávez into office following the 2006 presidential election.
From 2012 until the election of Maduro, she served as the Attorney General of Venezuela.
First Lady
Upon Maduro's victory in the 2013 presidential election over Henrique Capriles, Cilia Flores became Venezuela's First Lady, a position that had been vacant since 2003. As First Lady, Flores ran for a seat in the National Assembly in Venezuela's 2015 parliamentary elections as a candidate for the Great Patriotic Pole. She said she would use her seat to defend the social rights of citizens and the achievements of the Bolivarian Revolution.
In 2017, Flores was elected into the Constituent Assembly of Venezuela.
Personal life
Her first marriage was to Walter Ramón Gavidia. She is now married to President Nicolás Maduro, whom she replaced as President of the National Assembly in August 2006 when he resigned to become Minister of Foreign Affairs. The two had been in a romantic relationship since the 1990s when Flores was Hugo Chávez's lawyer following the 1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempts and were married in July 2013 months after Maduro became president.
Her husband Maduro has one son, Nicolás Maduro Guerra, whom he appointed to senior government posts: Chief of the presidency's Special Inspectors Body, head of the National Film School, and a seat in the 2017 Constituent National Assembly, while Flores has an adopted son, Efraín Antonio Campo Flores, who is her nephew (her deceased sister's son).
See also
In Spanish: Cilia Flores para niños
- List of first ladies of Venezuela
