US EditionIs Trump Planning an Oil Blockade of Venezuela to Bring Maduro Down?
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US authorities have announced plans to seize more tankers in an effort to topple the Nicolás Maduro regime. The Wall Street Journal points out that Venezuela is dependent on oil revenues and that US actions now pose an existential threat to the Maduro regime.
‘Act of state piracy’: Iran blasts illegal US seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker
Iran condemns the US Navy’s attack on a commercial vessel carrying Venezuelan oil off the coast of the South American country as an “act of state piracy,” warning about the consequences of such coercive measures.
A new twist with Trump's piracy in Venezuela: in the US, they trumpet an oil tycoon from the DPR: EADaily
EADaily, December 12th, 2025. The administration of Donald Trump intends to release the crew of an oil tanker captured by the US military off the coast of Venezuela when the ship docks at the port of Galveston (Texas), NBC reported.
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, called this Thursday an act of "criminal naval piracy" the confiscation by the United States of a ship loaded with Venezuelan crude and denounced the "kidnapping" of its crew. Washington deployed in August a flotilla of warships and fighter planes as part of an anti-drug operation, which Caracas considers to mask the objective of the overthrow of Maduro. The seizure of the oil tanker is something unpre…
The head of state said that the sailors of the ship hijacked by the United States were kidnapped. He also denounced that the real interest behind the action is the seizure of Venezuelan oil.
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