The oil-rich South American nation of Venezuela is in the throes of a political crisis. Elected president Nicolas Maduro is facing a challenge to his leadership by Venezuela’s self-declared interim President, 35-year-old Juan Guaido has US backing for his claims but his detractors say he is a puppet of the Trump administration. Indeed, they say that the US has been trying to effect a coup d’état in order to overthrow Maduro driven by the desire to control Venezuela’s vast oil reserves. Maduro’s critics, including US president Donald Trump, describe him as a dictator. Guaido’s presidential claims have been recognised as Venezuela’s president not just by the US but also leading European countries like the UK, France and Germany. Amidst President Maduro’s refusal to step down, President Trump has even threatened military intervention in Venezuela. SNI’s Deputy Editor Parul Chandra spoke to the Venezuelan ambassador to India, Augusto Montiel who said that it’s only Venezuelans who will decide who the President of their country will be and not the US.
Disruptive promise of and June 12th US ban on Mythos shook the world. There are competing AI visions - Krishna vs Clarke. Convergence of Quantum, AGI/ASI and Crypto may unprecedentedly destroy our world if not enslave humanity.
Musk promises abundance for all. A Scottish earl explained 200 years ago why the machines that make everything will make their owners richer than ever, and everyone else dependent. The real question was never the size of your ration. It is who owns the river, and who holds the rod above him.
Disparagement humor is a built and financed weapon. It boxes a people with a label, hardens the label into stigma, and makes the sacred laughable until a civilization forgets why it was worth saving. Rome never learned this lesson. However, India needs to. Ask - Who is paying for the laughter?
India's exam crisis is real. NEET leaked. JEE was hacked. CBSE's answer sheets were blurred. But the movement built on student anger arrived too organized, scaled too fast, and demands regime change — not reform. A sixty-year-old doctrine explains exactly what is happening.
