Donald Trump may have been so irritated by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's reaction to U.S. escalation in recent weeks that he took military action against him.

Nicolás Maduro’s penchant for public dancing was a factor in the Trump administration's decision to extract the Venezuelan president in a daring regime-change raid, the New York Times reported Sunday.

Venezuelans in South Florida took to the streets to cheer Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s capture, while fretting about what comes next.

Donald Trump is set to make his first public speech since the capture of Nicolas Maduro. The US president will speak at the Kennedy Centre, which Mr Trump recently re-named after himself, at 3pm UK (10am EST).

A crisis more than a century ago involved U.S. aims to assert military supremacy, a hard-partying dictator and frictions among the great powers.

A resolution before the Senate would limit President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela