Franco Ordonez

involvement would be a huge deal for the industry.

I mean, though it would take a long time to reestablish the oil infrastructure in the country.

Yeah, I mean, I think what we've heard so far, especially from Kerry, I mean, this really just follows such a major buildup in U.S.

military power in the region.

As we've been reporting, the U.S.

has been building up, including an aircraft carrier operation.

other warships, thousands of troops.

This buildup was first focused on alleged drug boats but more recently the U.S.

actually seized an oil tanker and then there was a land strike on a port in Venezuela.

So the U.S.

was already taking quite unprecedented action but this is quite a new development.

I mean, for U.S.

special forces to go into another country's capital and capture the sitting leader, take him out and bring him to the United States, that's really quite staggering.

Of course, as we just heard, the Venezuelan government is denouncing the strikes, and it's just bringing back such memories of the capture of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega by the George H.W.

Bush administration more than 30 years ago.

Well, the president said the military operation was carried out in conjunction with U.S.

law enforcement and that more details would be shared later at his 11 a.m.

news conference, which he'll have at his Mar-a-Lago resort, his home.

The White House has not responded to queries about where Maduro and his wife are being flown to.

But Trump did call the strikes a brilliant operation in a brief interview with The New York Times.