Hunting Season Opens: 18 Sanctioned Tankers Lurking In Venezuelan Waters

"Quite a buffet": U.S. ready to seize more tankers with Venezuelan oil

The U.S. is preparing to seize more sanctioned oil-filled tankers off Venezuela as the Trump administration opens a new phase of its pressure campaign on Nicolas Maduro's regime, officials tell Axios. That new phase also could soon include "land strikes on Venezuela," President Trump said…

Hunting Season Opens: 18 Sanctioned Tankers Lurking In Venezuelan Waters

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Venezuelan Justice Minister warns Trinidad and Tobago

VENEZUELAN JUSTICE MINISTER, Diosdado Cabello Rondon has issued a warning to Trinidad and Tobago, stating that the country was once part of its territory. Cabello made the statement during his weekly television programme in the aftermath of the seizure of an oil tanker by US forces near the coast of Venezuela which it claims it had previously sanctioned for transporting illegal oil. Cabello repeated the Venezuelan government’s denouncement of th…

Díaz-Canel Accuses the United States of “Piracy” After the Seizure of an Oil Tanker

Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel lashed out at the United States after U.S. Armed Forces seized an oil tanker, an incident that Havana described as an act of “piracy” and a serious violation of international law. In official statements, Díaz-Canel denounced what he called the assault and confiscation of the vessel, claiming the incident reveals, in his view, the “true intentions” behind Washington’s military deployment in the region. The Cuban lead…