--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Girish Gupta ## Girish Gupta Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close ## Girish Gupta Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Feb 27, 2015 ### [Venezuela Is Slowly Coming Apart—and President Nicolas Maduro May Pay the Price](https://time.com/3726757/venezeula-economic-collapse-nicolas-maduro/) Hyperinflation and shortages of basic goods have Venezuelans angry—and looking for new leadership [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jan 22, 2015 ### [The Big Loser](https://time.com/3678087/the-big-loser/) Black markets. bread lines. In Venezuela, falling oil prices mean a reckoning for the socialist revo... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Dec 18, 2014 ### [How Venezuela's Collapse Helped Thaw Cuban-American Relations](https://time.com/3639939/venezuela-role-cuba-america-relations/) The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez helped keep the Cuban regime propped up, but that's not po... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Dec 4, 2014 ### [Falling Oil Prices Turn Up The Heat On Venezuela's Maduro](https://time.com/3619052/oil-prices-maduro-venezuela/) Oil and gas accounts for a quarter of Venezuela's economy, which was already struggling when global ... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Oct 9, 2014 ### [Venezuela's New Opposition Leader Jesús Torrealba Takes on the Chavistas](https://time.com/3485218/venezuela-opposition-leader-jesus-torrealba/) Venezuela's opposition has tried and failed to beat Hugo Chavez's political descendants. Will a new ... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Sep 23, 2014 ### [New Venezuelan President Courts Hugo Chavez Faithful](https://time.com/3422332/venezuela-government-reshuffle/) With the opposition posing little threat for now, Nicolás Maduro's real challenge is keeping the lef... [WORLD](/section/world/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/girish-gupta/","name":"Girish Gupta"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/girish-gupta/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/girish-gupta/"},"name":"Girish Gupta","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/girish-gupta/","sameAs":["https://x.com/jammastergirish"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```