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Topic: Venezuela

Gaddafi’s prisoner to Venezuela ‘covert’ ops, US national in NIA custody an ‘adventurer’ without pause

Matthew VanDyke is among seven foreigners held on charges of crossing over to Myanmar to train Myanmar-based Ethnic Armed Groups.

Vitol and Trafigura: Traders at the heart of Trump’s Venezuela oil grab

They are two of the largest commodity trading houses: a secretive group of companies responsible for buying, selling and transporting resources to where they are needed.

Venezuela’s oil industry has been running day-to-day ops on phone calls & WhatsApp

A 15 December cyber attack shut down PDVSA’s system, leaving the company to run its business outside its own technological networks.

Trump is not merely controlling the backyard. He is disrupting networks that lie beneath

Simplifying Trump-era actions as incoherent misses their strategic logic.

Venezuelan economy did not collapse overnight. 4 decades of stagnation is the cause

In 1980, South American countries exhibited similar income levels, with Venezuela ranking among the more affluent economies. By 2023, this landscape had significantly altered.

What the US did in Venezuela shows the world is still at the mercy of brute power

India needs to urgently draw attention to the total failure of the United Nations in preventing wars, unilateral sanctions, unlawful interventions and threats to sovereignty.

Tulsi Gabbard’s 2019 ‘stay out of Venezuela’ remark keeps her out of Trump’s Maduro plan

The move to cut her out of the meetings was so well-known that some White House aides joked that the acronym of her title, DNI, stood for “Do Not Invite”.

Indians likely part of captured crew of Russia-linked oil tanker seized by US in Atlantic

Official confirmation is awaited, but Russian state broadcaster says at least 3 Indians were part of 28-member crew of M/V Bella 1, which was originally sailing under flag of Guyana.

In photos: Venezuela’s rule by fear endures after Maduro’s capture by US

Even with the Trump administration asserting control of Venezuela, its government appears to be leaning on familiar tools — security patrols, detentions and retaliation.

The Maduro raid: A military victory with no viable endgame

Despite ousting Maduro, the lack of a credible post-raid strategy risks chaos, fragmentation and power vacuums.

On Camera

How West Asia crisis can play out for PM Modi and BJP in Assembly polls

While the Russia-Ukraine war saw the BJP projecting PM Modi as a ‘vishwaguru’ who could end international conflicts, the party has made a nuanced shift in its electoral strategy vis-à-vis the West Asia war.

Foreign investors dump record $12 bn India stocks in March on war

Soaring energy costs have hurt oil-importing Asian peers, but the scale of outflows from India points to already bearish global sentiment.

India developing lethal autonomous weapon systems, database of citizens’ crime risk—House Panel report

Report on impact of AI emergence—drawing upon depositions from several ministries—confirms that the developments come in the absence of AI laws or considerations over them.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.