U.S. seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela: Report

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  1. U.S. forces have seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News.

    U.S. crude oil was up 10 cents, or 0.17%, at $58.35 per barrel. Brent rose 15 cents, or 0.24%, to $62.09 a barrel.

    President Donald Trump has escalated pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in recent weeks. The White House has undertaken a large military buildup in the Caribbean and launched strikes against boats that it claims were trafficking drugs to the U.S.

    Find more updates at the link.

  2. The Orange Buffoons about to find out what real power looks like messing with OPEC. I realize he thinks that he is all powerful, but disruption of an OPEC tanker isn’t going to sit well with the other members.

  3. Why were the drug baron rape narco terrprists transporting oil?

  6. Rogue Nation with nukes run by a senile bigot. USA! USA!

  9. The word they’re looking for is “steals”.

  12. Keep in mind that Venezuela is a country in which China has an agreement with. China gets their natural resources and oil. They build the rigs and everything, keep lots of things. In return, they build cities and towns – infrastructure for Venezuela.

    So in reality, the US just seized things from China.

  13. It is Pirates of the Caribbean… run by a figure who sold his soul long ago for gold.

    Yeah. So that was a documentary I guess.

  14. The falling price of oil is hitting the U.S. regime’s inner circle’s financials. There’s one fast antidote … take about a million barrels of oil production off the market, Stat! [https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil](https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil)

  19. Surprise surprise. I’m sure there’s fentanyl in the oil.

  22. Many don’t remember the OPEC embargo of the 70’s which drove prices up and reduced highway speeds in the US to max 55mph. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is an organization enabling the co-operation of leading oil-producing and oil-dependent countries in order to collectively influence the global oil market and maximize profit. It was founded on 14 September 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela………

  26. Venezuelan here.
    Maduro is not the legitimate president of Venezuela. He lost the elections badly and ignored every international agreement meant to guarantee fair voting. Even Norway — the country that hosts the Nobel Prizes — tried to mediate, and Maduro mocked the process. He refused to recognize the clear winner and doubled down with brutal repression. That’s why the world sees him as an usurper, not a leader.

    Meanwhile, he controls the military and the oil industry. Venezuela has become a hub for drug trafficking across Latin America, a safe haven for ISIS cells in Margarita Island, and a base for Colombian criminal gangs who now operate freely under government protection.

    So does the U.S. have the right to seize that oil tanker? Absolutely. Maduro should have been stopped years ago. He’s clinging to power he never legitimately won, and every day more lives are destroyed under his regime.

    Trump gave him plenty of chances to leave — to Iran, or any of his allies. He didn’t take them. Enough is enough.

    One day, Maduro will pay for the deaths and suffering he’s caused.

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