Tanker Seizure Just the Start as Trump Ups Pressure on Venezuela
This image from video posted on Attorney General Pam Bondi's X account, shows an oil tanker being seized by US forces off the coast of Venezuela on Dec. 10.
Source: U.S. Attorney General's Office/AP
The seizure of an enormous oil supertanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday is just the beginning of a new phase in the Trump administration’s ramped-up pressure campaign against Nicolas Maduro, according to people familiar with the operation.