Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were apprehended by US special forces on January 3, 2026, during a military operation named 'Operation Absolute Resolve' in Caracas, Venezuela. The couple was subsequently transported to the United States and are currently held in New York, where they face federal criminal charges, including narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, and possession of machineguns and destructive devices. They both pleaded not guilty to these charges during their first court appearance on January 6, 2026. Reports indicate that Cilia Flores sustained injuries during the predawn raid on the presidential residence. The WION article's headline, 'Who is Cilia Flores? Wife of Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro captured in US special strike,' while factually accurate as of January 2026, likely dates back to between 2016 and 2020, as suggested by various WION search snippets. At the time of its original publication, the claim of Cilia Flores' capture would have been inaccurate or highly speculative. The related articles cited in the prompt often refer to the 'Narcosobrinos affair' of 2015, where Cilia Flores' nephews, Efraín Antonio Campo Flores and Francisco Flores de Freitas, were arrested by the US Drug Enforcement Administration in Haiti and later convicted in the US for conspiring to smuggle cocaine. They were eventually released in a prisoner exchange in 2022. Therefore, the WION article's original headline was misleading or premature, though it coincidentally aligns with the significant real-time events of January 2026 concerning the direct capture of Maduro and Flores.