State Department warns US citizens to leave Venezuela

The Trump administration is working to meet with oil representatives this week to discuss Venezuela, according to two sources familiar with the talks.

It comes just days after the U.S. carried out an operation to capture Nicolas Maduro. Following that raid, President Donald Trump has insisted the U.S. oil companies will begin to reinvest in Venezuela.

Sources said Energy Secretary Christopher Wright is planning to attend a conference with top oil executives in Florida this week hosted by Goldman Sachs.

While the meeting was arranged before the operation took place, sources expect a large focus of the talks to be on Venezuelan energy.

Meanwhile, sources said the administration is also looking to meet with representatives from Exxon, ConocoPhillips and Chevron. It's unclear if the administration will meet with those representatives separately or together.

A senior administration official told ABC News that Wright and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will be leading the effort on behalf of the president.

The White House declined to comment on any potential meetings. The Department of Energy has not yet responded to a request for comment.

In a statement, a White House spokesperson said, "All of our oil companies are ready and willing to make big investments in Venezuela that will rebuild their oil infrastructure, which was destroyed by the illegitimate Maduro regime. American oil companies will do an incredible job for the people of Venezuela and will represent the United States well."

-ABC News' Rachel Scott

President Donald Trump continued to tout the U.S. military operation in Venezuela, talking about the complexity of the mission and the outcome of the move during remarks to Republicans at the Kennedy Center Tuesday.

"It was an amazing military feat that took place," Trump said.

The president also took the moment to criticize Venezuela's former President Nicolas Maduro, saying that he is a "violent" guy.

"They've been after this guy for years and years and years and he's a violent guy. He gets up there and he tries to imitate my dance a little bit. But he's a violent guy, and he's killed millions of people. He's tortured -- they have a torture chamber in the middle of Caracas that they are closing up. But he's tortured people," Trump said.

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, in remarks on the Senate floor this morning, said the briefing he received from administration officials on Monday failed to answer many of his outstanding questions about future plans in Venezuela.

Schumer said he received no clarity on how many troops could be committed to Venezuela or for how long the United States would be "running" the country. He also said the briefers could not provide a cost estimate, nor did they give clarity on whether other countries could be next.

"What we heard was little more than wishful thinking and no real answers," Schumer said.

"Sitting in yesterday's briefing, it's clear the administration pulled the trigger on step one of their plan in Venezuela without figuring out how they are going to follow through on steps two through 10," Schumer said.

Schumer warned that actions like this without follow through plans are how the United States gets into "forever wars."

"The administration has a one-day plan of how to get rid of Maduro but no idea what happens after. It's what happened to us in Iraq," Schumer said. "Yes. This is how we get into endless wars: a one-day plan of how to get rid of Maduro but no idea what happens after."

Schumer said we need to "take seriously" the threat that President Trump could take similar action in Colombia or Greenland.

"Donald Trump has opened a Pandora's box. We have to take seriously that after Venezuela he may attack other nations without warning. Maybe Colombia, maybe a NATO ally run by Denmark. All the while, how does any of this belligerence in Venezuela or Greenland put America first?" Schumer said. "How does any of this help people at home pay their bills, pay for their health care, put a roof over their heads, pay for their groceries or their energy bill?"

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin

Venezuela’s liberal party is calling for the release of all political prisoners in the country, according to a statement released Tuesday morning.

“The time has come to restore the truth and ensure that justice prevails over impunity,” the statement from Vente Venezuela’s Human Rights Committee said.

Vente Venezuela is also Nobel Peace prize winner Maria Corina Machado’s political party. Machado reposted the statement shortly after it’s release.

-ABC News' Othon Leyva