U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday the Trump administration will continue striking alleged drug boats and seizing sanctioned oil tankers to and from Venezuela.

"We will continue to target drug boats if they try to run towards the United States," Rubio said on NBC News, adding that "we will continue to seize the boats that are sanctioned with court orders."

"We will continue to do that, and potentially other things, until the things we need to see addressed are addressed," he said.

For months, the United States has deployed large-scale air and naval forces in Caribbean waters near Venezuela as part of its so-called campaign against narco-terrorism. The Pentagon has sunk more than 30 alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific since September, claiming about 110 lives.

At least 40 people were reportedly killed in U.S. airstrikes on the South American nation in the early hours of Saturday as U.S. forces carried out an operation to take by force Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, who were flown out of their country by the U.S. military and are now in custody in New York.

The international community is deeply shocked by the Trump administration's raid on Venezuela and Maduro. Many countries have issued statements strongly condemning the blatant use of force against a sovereign state and action against its president.

Late Saturday, Venezuela's Supreme Court of Justice ordered Vice President Delcy Rodriguez to immediately assume the role of acting president in the absence of Maduro.