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Trump Declares Complete Blockade of Venezuela Oil Tankers
(MENAFN) US President Donald Trump declared Tuesday a comprehensive maritime embargo targeting all sanctioned petroleum vessels accessing Venezuelan ports, simultaneously designating the Maduro government as a "foreign terrorist organization."
"Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America," Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social, saying the blockade would remain until Caracas returned "all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets."
He accused the regime of Nicolas Maduro of using oil revenues to fund "drug terrorism, human trafficking, murder, and kidnapping," and said Venezuelan nationals previously sent to the US were being returned "at a rapid pace."
The declaration arrives as bilateral hostilities intensify, with Trump persistently demanding Maduro's resignation while affirming that all response options—including armed intervention—remain viable amid substantial regional military deployments.
US forces have executed 22 documented operations against suspected "narco-terrorist" maritime targets, resulting in 87 fatalities since strikes commenced in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean during early September.
Venezuela recently condemned Washington for "maritime piracy," characterizing the actions as part of a "sustained policy of coercion and aggression" following US seizure of a Venezuelan petroleum shipment in international waters.
Washington has defended the confiscation, asserting the vessels facilitate transportation of embargoed oil from Venezuela and Iran through an "illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations."
The Trump administration maintains its Venezuelan operations constitute counternarcotics enforcement efforts throughout the region. However, Caracas has argued that Washington seeks to "appropriate Venezuela's vast oil reserves through the lethal use of military force," contending anti-drug justifications merely establish pretense for unlawfully deposing Maduro.
"Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America," Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social, saying the blockade would remain until Caracas returned "all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets."
He accused the regime of Nicolas Maduro of using oil revenues to fund "drug terrorism, human trafficking, murder, and kidnapping," and said Venezuelan nationals previously sent to the US were being returned "at a rapid pace."
The declaration arrives as bilateral hostilities intensify, with Trump persistently demanding Maduro's resignation while affirming that all response options—including armed intervention—remain viable amid substantial regional military deployments.
US forces have executed 22 documented operations against suspected "narco-terrorist" maritime targets, resulting in 87 fatalities since strikes commenced in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean during early September.
Venezuela recently condemned Washington for "maritime piracy," characterizing the actions as part of a "sustained policy of coercion and aggression" following US seizure of a Venezuelan petroleum shipment in international waters.
Washington has defended the confiscation, asserting the vessels facilitate transportation of embargoed oil from Venezuela and Iran through an "illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations."
The Trump administration maintains its Venezuelan operations constitute counternarcotics enforcement efforts throughout the region. However, Caracas has argued that Washington seeks to "appropriate Venezuela's vast oil reserves through the lethal use of military force," contending anti-drug justifications merely establish pretense for unlawfully deposing Maduro.
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