Overview
- Official records and media reports show Delcy Rodríguez visited Sathya Sai Baba’s ashram in Puttaparthi in 2023 and 2024, with an additional visit noted in 2019.
- Trust archives and news coverage confirm Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores received a private audience with Sathya Sai Baba during a 2005 visit to Prasanthi Nilayam.
- Venezuela’s National Assembly in 2011 passed a condolence resolution and declared a day of mourning after Sathya Sai Baba’s death, an initiative linked to Maduro as foreign minister.
- Maduro kept a prominent Sai Baba portrait in his Miraflores office and publicly marked the guru’s centenary on November 23, 2025, calling him a “being of light.”
- Maduro and Flores remain in US custody in New York on narcotics and narco‑terrorism charges, with Maduro entering a not‑guilty plea at his first Manhattan court appearance.