The former president Nicolas Maduro He spends much of his time in prison reading religious texts, while awaits trial in a maximum security prison in New York, according to research by The New York Times.
Sources who know the conditions of his detention told the newspaper, under anonymity, that the former ruler read the Bible, the Koran and philosophical texts for hours. He also received visits from chaplains and other religious representatives, including a Catholic priest and a rabbi.
During his time in power, Maduro maintained ties with religious figures and sectors evangelicals and Catholics of Venezuela. But according to the American media, his approach to other religions seems to have intensified since he has been imprisoned.
“Maduro has publicly declared that he has Jewish ancestry. “He has described himself as a descendant of a Sephardic Jewish community that emigrated from the Netherlands Antilles to Venezuela sometime in the last century,” the article reads.
People close to Maduro told the newspaper that he has lost weight in prison. In recent years he had followed a diet and, until his capture, ate a paleo dietwhich seeks to imitate the habits of the Stone Age.
For its part, the wife of Nicolás MaduroCilia Flores, 70 years old, He is going through a complicated health situation during his stay in prison.
It turned out that the former first lady of Venezuela He suffers chest pains, has lost two teeth and weighs approximately 11 kilos. Besides, would have suffered a heart attack as reported by the defense.
The charges against Nicolás Maduro
Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores are accused of drug trafficking and arms trafficking, after their arrest on January 3 during a United States military deployment.
The American justice system added to that case a charge of conspiracy to commit torture against both. The court document maintains that they “inflicted intense physical and mental pain and suffering” on people in Venezuela.
