Trump backs naval blockade of Venezuela saying it protects US interests
Speaking to reporters, he said: "We're not gonna let anybody going through that shouldn't be going through. They took all of our energy rights—they took all of our oil from not that long ago ... they illegally took it."
The remarks came a day after Trump announced a “total and complete blockade” on all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela, while labeling the government of President Nicolas Maduro a “foreign terrorist organization.”
Trump characterized the blockade as a response to what he described as the illegal seizure of US energy assets, reiterating long-standing grievances related to Venezuela’s oil industry. He said: “Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had. They took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn’t watching. But they’re not going to do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. As you know, they threw our companies out, and we want it back."
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