LIVE: Trump Administration Seizes Second Tanker Off Venezuela's Coast, Caracas Decries "Theft"

The United States "apprehended" an oil tanker off Venezuela on Saturday, a move Caracas deemed a "theft and kidnapping," in the latest salvo of a pressure campaign by Washington, the US government said. It was the second time in two weeks that US forces interdicted a tanker in the region, and came days after President Donald Trump announced a blockade of "sanctioned oil vessels" heading to and leaving Venezuela. Caracas slammed the seizure as theft and kidnapping, saying "those responsible for these serious events will answer to justice and to history for their criminal conduct." On December 10, US forces seized a large oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, which the attorney general said was involved in carrying sanctioned oil from Venezuela to Iran. After the oil blockade was announced by President Trump, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said Caracas will continue oil trade, defying US pressure.

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