Overview
- Republic World and Times Now report that Nicolás Maduro has been ousted and detained by the United States after airstrikes, a claim presented as developing and not independently corroborated within these articles.
- Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, visited Sathya Sai Baba’s Prasanthi Nilayam ashram in Puttaparthi in 2005 for a private audience, with Flores credited for introducing him to the guru.
- A large portrait of Sathya Sai Baba was displayed in Maduro’s Miraflores Palace office alongside images of Simón Bolívar and Hugo Chávez.
- Following Sathya Sai Baba’s death in 2011, Venezuela’s National Assembly issued an official condolence and declared a national day of mourning.
- On 23 November 2025, Maduro marked the guru’s centenary with a public message, while Sai organisations continued running schools and human values programs in Venezuela dating back to the 1970s.