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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Saturday that U.S. forces intercepted another oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela earlier in the day.
"In a pre-dawn operation early on December 20, the U.S. Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, intercepted an oil tanker that had departed a port in Venezuela," Noem wrote on social media.
On December 10, the US military seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, which the Venezuelan government condemned as “egregious robbery and an act of international piracy.”
US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he had ordered a complete blockade of all oil tankers subject to US sanctions traveling to and from Venezuela. In a later interview, he also indicated that the US would continue to seize additional oil tankers.
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