Good evening. I'm Lisa Desjardin. John Yang is away.

The world's eyes are on Venezuela. In Caracas this morning, high tension but relative calm,

one day after the U.S. military captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

and brought him to the United States for trial on drug trafficking charges and weapons charges.

But profound questions remain,

especially after President Trump's repeated statements

that the U.S. will be running Venezuela.

On ABC's this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio

described a more indirect but intense pressure campaign.

First of all, what's going to happen here

is that we have a quarantine on their oil.

That means their economy will not be able to move forward until the conditions that are in the national interest of the United States and the interest of the Venezuelan people are met.

Officials in the Maduro government in Venezuela remain defiant, including interim President Delsey Rodriguez.

But from Trump today today a new threat.

He told the Atlantic she will pay a, quote, very big price, probably bigger than Maduro, if she

doesn't do what he thinks is right.

For the tens of millions in Venezuela, a sense of instability.

We're walking around looking for medicine for food.

There's anxiety and desperation, and we don't know what will happen.

We're all living with this uncertainty to see what will happen, what the directives will be, so we can continue with life.

And we begin our coverage tonight with feature story news reporter Mary Trini

Meena in Venezuela's capital, Caracas. Mary, how are people coping there today? And what

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