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How the Pentagon snatched Nicolás Maduro

President Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a press conference Saturday following a U.S. strike on Venezuela.
Updated on Jan 5, 2026, 10:43 AM IST

Donald Trump’s great Venezuelan oil gamble

President Trump speaking in Florida after the Venezuela incursion.
Updated on Jan 5, 2026, 10:40 AM IST

Crossing a red line in Caracas

Maduro’s abduction by US security forces, from the presidential quarters in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, is unprecedented, even by the US’s record of interventions in South and Central American countries. (AP)
Published on Jan 4, 2026, 10:18 PM IST

The corrupted software of international relations

When the US ignores the Principle of Sovereign Equality (UN Charter Art. 2.1) to kidnap a head of State and attack a country’s capital city and try the former under American domestic law, it ends up corrupting the software of international law. (Bloomberg)
Published on Jan 4, 2026, 10:17 PM IST
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