President Donald Trump’s has made broad but vague assertions that the United States is going to “run” Venezuela after the ouster of Nicolás Maduro but has offered almost no details about how it will do so.

Rubio says Trump administration is "pretty certain" Western oil companies will return to Venezuela but wouldn't say if US troops would be used to secure its oil fields.

Tasked with overseeing the transition of a post- Nicolás Maduro Venezuela, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stepped into his fourth — and potentially riskiest — Trump administration role.

Marco Rubio got hammered Tuesday for his part in the Venezuela strike, with one Democratic Party representative saying the Secretary of State has undergone a "full MAGA-lobotomy". Senator Chris Van Hollen (D- MD) blasted Rubio for doing what President Donald Trump "wants him to do,

Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested that the U.S. would not take a day-to-day role in governing Venezuela but would enforce an “oil quarantine” on the country, contrary to what President Donald Trump announced after capturing President Nicolás Maduro.

The secretary of state's latest remarks came after he told reporters that he'd be "concerned" if he were a government official in Havana.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in interviews on Sunday that it is "premature" to discuss elections in Venezuela because higher priorities, including the country's oil industry, must be addressed first.

( NewsNation) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday the U.S. does not have forces on the ground in Venezuela following the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.