New Delhi, Jan. 10 -- The New Year started with a bang. Three days into 2026 came the extraordinary news that the US had captured Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. Actually, not sure captured is the right word here - kidnapped or abducted fits better? Arrested or detained? Or is it an example of extraordinary rendition? Take your pick.

This search for the right word to describe Maduro's fate comes from the astounding and incredible circumstances surrounding his detention. To give US President Donald Trump his due, he'd been warning the world and Maduro that "his days are numbered."

It's those who naively believed that the US would uphold international law who are to blame for feeling shocked. But then, wasn...