Trump also threatened military action in Colombia and Mexico and said Cuba's communist regime "looks like it's ready to fall" on its own.

The secretary of state says the US will retain "multiple levers of leverage" if Venezuela's leaders don't "make the right decisions".

In the photo, Maduro is standing in sweatpants and sweatshirt, but more notably he is wearing some kind of eye mask to blindfold him and heavy-duty earmuffs that block out sound. The Venezuelan leader also has a bottle of water in his hand, from which he ostensibly has been drinking.

The Venezuelan Supreme Court on Saturday directed the country's vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, to assume the presidency.

President Trump "wants to give them a chance to turn the page in Venezuela and to help America achieve our policy goals there," Sen. Tom Cotton said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."

It was America's fifth president who formulated a foreign policy approach that has shaped American strategy for two centuries.

When the United States conducted an overnight military strike on Venezuela on Saturday morning, Jan. 3, not only was the nation's leader, Nicolás Maduro, captured, but so was his wife, Cilia Flores.

Nicolas Maduro ruled Venezuela with a heavy hand for more than 12 years, presiding over deep economic and social crises and resisting pressure from domestic opponents and foreign governments for political change.