A top Venezuelan official declared that the country's government would stay unified behind President Nicolas Maduro, whose capture by the United States has sparked deep uncertainty about what is next for the oil-rich South American nation.
Mr Maduro is in a New York detention centre awaiting a court appearance on drug charges.
US President Donald Trump ordered his seizure from Venezuela yesterday and said the US would take control of the country.
But in Caracas, top officials in Mr Maduro's government, who have called the detentions of Mr Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores a kidnapping, were still in charge.
We were joined on The Agenda this morning by law lecturer at the University of Galway and political columnist with The Journal, Larry Donnelly, who gave us all the latest on this.