India, Jan. 5 -- Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife Colia Flores, "captured" in an operation undertaken by the United States, have a little-known India connection via the late spiritual leader Sathya Sai.

President Donald Trump's US administration has accused the couple of overseeing a cocaine-trafficking network. The military operation is the biggest US intervention in Latin America since the invasion of Panama in 1989.

US special forces entered Caracas in helicopters over the weekend and smashed through Maduro's security cordon to capture him from the door of a safe room, Reuters reported.

The US has alleged that Maduro parterned with violent groups including Mexico's Sinaloa and Zetas cartels, Colombian FARC rebels and Ve...