US forces seize oil tanker off Venezuela coast
Move is major escalation of US pressure campaign against #SouthAmerican country’s dictator, #NicolásMaduro
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro and Andrew Roth in Washington
Wed 10 Dec 2025 16.42 EST
The US president confirmed the operation on Wednesday. “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of #Venezuela – a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually,” he said. “And other things are happening so you will be seeing that later and you will be talking about that later with other people.”
“It was seized for a very good reason,” #Trump told reporters, declining to say who owned the vessel.
Two US officials told Reuters the operation was led by the #US Coast Guard, but did not name the tanker or say specifically where the interception happened.
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