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Oil Tanker Warrant Unsealed; Cuba Denounces Seizure
The U.S. seized the tanker Skipper carrying Venezuelan oil to Cuba, risking Cuba’s energy supply amid plans for more interceptions and sanctions, officials said.
- On Dec. 13, U.S. officials unsealed a warrant after seizing the shadow-fleet tanker The Skipper, sanctioned and flying a Guyana flag, while offloading 50,000 barrels near Curaçao en route to Matanzas, Cuba.
- Washington has imposed fresh sanctions on six Venezuela-related vessels and targets a shadow fleet linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Russian oligarch-affiliated operators.
- Shipping data show Venezuela sent 27,000 barrels per day to Cuba this year, and analysts report much of that oil is later sold to China to fund the Cuban government.
- Cuba and Venezuela condemned the seizure as illegal 'piracy', and Cuba's Foreign Ministry said `This action is part of the U.S. escalation aimed at hampering Venezuela's legitimate right`.
- Jorge Pinon warned that now that Mexico is sending less oil and Russian supply has not materialized, options for Cuba's industry, agriculture and electricity sectors are shrinking.
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The US operation aggravated the vulnerability of the Caracas and Havana regimes
·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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The oil tanker Skipper, seized by the US off the coast of Venezuela on December 10, was part of President Nicolás Maduro's (United Socialist Party of Venezuela, left-wing) efforts to support Cuba, according to documents and sources linked to the Venezuelan oil industry. This information comes from the New York Times. The vessel departed Venezuela on December 4 bound for the Cuban port of Matanzas. According to internal PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezu…
By seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker, the United States would seek, in turn, to weaken the Cuban regime, argues a political analyst.
·Quebec City, Canada
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