Earlier this week, U.S. forces boarded and seized Veronica, a sanctioned oil tanker 🛢️ in the Caribbean Sea, marking the sixth vessel this year tied to Venezuela’s oil exports to fall under U.S. enforcement. The mission launched from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, with Marines, Navy sailors, and a Coast Guard team leading the operation.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the ship defied a U.S. quarantine on sanctioned vessels. "Veronica was operating in violation of U.S. sanctions," she noted, emphasizing Washington’s push to limit oil revenue flowing to the Venezuela leadership.
These seizures are reshaping regional energy flows and could ripple through global oil markets 📈. For students, entrepreneurs, and industry observers, this crackdown underscores the real-time links between geopolitics and energy policy.
Stay tuned as Caracas and other international players react to this latest enforcement sweep. ⚓️
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U.S. seizes sixth sanctioned oil tanker it says has ties to Venezuela
cgtn.com
