TANKER IS AMONG VESSELS TARGETED BY US
The US Coast Guard first tried to intercept the vessel final month, nevertheless it refused to be boarded. Since then, it has registered underneath a Russian flag.
The tanker, now often known as the Marinera, is the newest tanker focused by the US Coast Guard because the begin of US President Donald Trump’s strain marketing campaign towards Venezuela.
Individually, the US Coast Guard has additionally intercepted one other Venezuela-linked tanker in Latin American waters, US officers informed Reuters, because the US continues implementing its “blockade” of sanctioned vessels from Venezuela.
The strikes come simply days after US particular forces swooped into Caracas earlier than daybreak on Saturday in a deadly raid to seize President Nicolas Maduro and take him to the US. The US army turned him over to federal authorities for prosecution on charges involving alleged drug trafficking.
High Venezuelan officers have known as Maduro’s seize a kidnapping and have accused the US of making an attempt to steal the nation’s huge oil reserves, estimated to be the biggest on the earth.
In flip, Trump and high US officers have accused Venezuela of stealing US oil, in an obvious reference to the nation’s nationalisation of its power sector in a number of waves over the previous half-century.
