The U.S. Coast Guard is presently interdicting a sanctioned vessel off the coast of Venezuela in worldwide waters of the Caribbean Sea, in response to three U.S. officers.
No additional particulars had been accessible as to the title of the ship or the place precisely the operation is happening.
That is the second sanctioned vessel seized by the US. On Dec. 10, an elite U.S. Coast Guard tactical operations staff, with the assist of U.S. Navy helicopters, boarded and seized The Skipper, an oil tanker sanctioned for being a part of a bootleg oil operation involving Venezuela.
Reuters was first to report {that a} second sanctioned vessel is presently being seized by the Coast Guard.
President Donald Trump threatened this week to impose a blockade on all sanctioned oil tankers coming out and in of Venezuela, ratcheting up American stress on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s regime.
“Venezuela is totally surrounded by the most important Armada ever assembled within the Historical past of South America,” Trump wrote in a prolonged put up on his social media platform. “It should solely get larger, and the shock to them will probably be like nothing they’ve ever seen earlier than.”
Maduro stated Venezuela would proceed to commerce oil and that Trump’s “intention” is regime change. “This may simply not occur, by no means, by no means, by no means — Venezuela won’t ever be a colony of something or anybody, by no means,” he stated.
It is a creating story. Test again for updates.
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