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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicVenezeula

Topic: Venezeula

Maduro’s ‘capture’ by US follows a four-month-long build-up. A look at the timeline

Since September, Trump administration has been carrying out a series of punitive strikes, with most of them happening on the sea, to curtail the flow of drugs into the US.

Trump wants to control ‘unruly’ regimes—so he launched a war on Venezuela

Like drug wars in the past, Trump’s efforts are likely to deepen the chaos in Central America—exposing the US to greater danger.

Thousands of Venezuelans carry out marches over contested elections. 2,000 arrested so far

The results have sparked widespread allegations of fraud and protests. Security forces cracked down on protests which Maduro’s government labeled part of an attempted US-backed coup.

India hopes to import more oil from Iran and Venezuela under Joe Biden

India is heavily reliant on energy imports and refiners struggled to cope as the US foreign policy over the last few years restricted access to Iranian & Venezuelan oil.

What has climate change led to? Riots, uprising and tyranny

In ‘Fossil Free’, Sumant Sinha writes about the social and economic impacts of climate change, especially in oil-producing countries.

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.