Maduro’s wife’s dentures escape during speech and topic becomes meme in Venezuela; VIDEO | World

Watch the moment Maduro’s wife’s dentures slip out during a May Day speech

The first lady’s dentures VenezuelaCilia Flores, escaped during a speech on Wednesday (1st). After the incident, Nicolás Maduro’s wife said that “she was eating gum”, but that didn’t save her from becoming a meme on social media. (See the moment in the video above)

Maduro’s wife was speaking to the public during a demonstration held in Caracas to mark May 1, International Workers’ Day, at which President Maduro led and also spoke.

In her speech, Cilia celebrated the workers’ march and defended her husband, saying that “Maduro will always protect Venezuelan workers.”

“Just like Maduro, I will continue to protect you always, together with the workers. We are workers….”, said Cilia, when her dentures came out. “I was eating some gum. We’re just one of you,” she added.

Because of the episode, Cilia Flores became one of the most talked about topics on Twitter in Venezuela and was the target of memes. (See some below)

“I don’t know which is more fake, Maduro’s concentrations or Cilia Flores’ teeth,” said one user on X.

“What a marginal thing, old Cília lost her composure, hahaha, just when she was saying that they think they are ‘workers'”, said another user.

“Young people, don’t use drugs, they’re worse than sweets for destroying teeth. Ask Cilita who, at her young age, wears dentures… and lets it out when she speaks. Cília, here in Miami, they sell denture glue, I’ll send you one ?” joked another user on X.