Venezuela decries ‘act of piracy’ after US forces seize oil tanker off country’s coast
by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro and Andrew Roth in from US news | The Guardian on (#722PY)
Footage uploaded to X by US attorney general shows its forces landing on the tanker in major escalation of Trump's pressure campaign
US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump's four-month pressure campaign against the South American country's dictator, Nicolas Maduro, whose government called the seizure an act of international piracy".
Trump confirmed the operation on Wednesday, saying: We've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela - a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually."
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