The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday it had seized another tanker contravening U.S. sanctions on Venezuela’s oil exports. The vessel was apprehended in the Caribbean Sea, the latest in a growing list since the ouster of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro on January 3.
The ghost tanker, Veronica, was boarded in a predawn operation “without incident.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on social media site X the operation was a complete success, “Motor Tanker Veronica had previously passed through Venezuelan waters, and was operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean.”
Noem’s posting included a video that showed part of the ship’s capture...
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