Trump orders ‘total’ blockade of sanctioned Venezuela oil tankers | Donald Trump News

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The order comes every week after the US army seized an oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast.

United States President Donald Trump has ordered “a complete and full” blockade of all US-sanctioned oil tankers coming into and leaving Venezuela.

“Venezuela is totally surrounded by the biggest Armada ever assembled within the Historical past of South America,” Trump mentioned in a put up on his social media platform Fact Social.

“For the theft of our Belongings, and lots of different causes, together with Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking, the Venezuelan Regime has been designated a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” Trump mentioned.

“Due to this fact, as we speak, I’m ordering A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela,” he mentioned.

Trump’s feedback come every week after US forces seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela and as Washington has ordered an enormous build-up of US army forces off the Venezuelan coast in an operation mentioned to focus on drug smuggling.

The US army has killed no less than 90 folks since September in assaults on dozens of vessels within the jap Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea close to Venezuela, in what worldwide regulation consultants have criticised as extrajudicial killings.

Washington claimed the vessels had been concerned in drug trafficking however has supplied no proof to help its allegations.

Caracas has lengthy mentioned the deployment of US forces to the area was geared toward permitting “exterior powers to rob Venezuela’s immeasurable oil and gas wealth“.

Regardless of holding the world’s largest proven oil reserves, Venezuela has confronted extreme restrictions on its exports in recent times below US sanctions first imposed throughout the first Trump presidency.

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