Trump blockades oil tankers entering, leaving Venezuela
“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, adding that the blockade would continue until Caracas returned “all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets.”
Trump accused Maduro’s regime of using oil revenues to fund “drug terrorism, human trafficking, murder, and kidnapping,” and stated that Venezuelan nationals previously sent to the US were being returned “at a rapid pace.”
The announcement comes amid escalating tensions, with Trump insisting that Maduro step down and asserting that all options—including military force—remain available, coinciding with a major US force buildup in the region.
Since early September, the US has conducted 22 known strikes on vessels labeled as “narco-terrorist” seaborne targets, resulting in 87 fatalities in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean. Venezuela recently condemned these actions as “maritime piracy” and part of a “sustained policy of coercion and aggression,” following the US seizure of a Venezuelan oil shipment in international waters.
Washington defended the seizure, claiming the ships were transporting sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran within an “illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations.”
While the Trump administration frames its actions as an effort to combat regional drug trafficking, Caracas maintains that the US is attempting to “appropriate Venezuela’s vast oil reserves through the lethal use of military force,” arguing that anti-drug operations are being used to justify efforts to forcibly remove Maduro from power.
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