Overview
- Flores’s whereabouts are described as unknown following the reported operations.
- A veteran chavista figure, Flores has served as Venezuela’s “first combatant,” was the first woman to lead the National Assembly, and was appointed attorney general in 2012.
- Political scientists portray her as a powerful operator behind the scenes within Maduro’s inner circle.
- U.S. and Canadian sanctions target her, and two nephews were arrested by DEA agents in 2015 and later convicted in New York before their 2022 release in a prisoner swap.
- In late 2025, Maduro named her to a new PSUV political bureau during a period of rising tensions with the United States in the Caribbean.