"The order comes a week after the US military seized an oil tanker off Venezuela's coast. United States President Donald Trump has ordered a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela. Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America, Trump said in a post on his social media platform Truth Social."
"The US military has killed at least 90 people since September in attacks on dozens of vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea near Venezuela, in what international law experts have criticised as extrajudicial killings. Washington claimed the vessels were involved in drug trafficking but has provided no evidence to support its allegations. Caracas has long said the deployment of US forces to the region was aimed at allowing external powers to rob Venezuela's immeasurable oil and gas wealth."
President Donald Trump ordered a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela and designated the Venezuelan regime a foreign terrorist organization, citing theft of assets, terrorism, drug smuggling, and human trafficking. The order follows a US military seizure of a sanctioned oil tanker off Venezuela's coast and a large US military buildup in the region described as targeting drug smuggling. US forces have killed at least 90 people since September in attacks on dozens of vessels near Venezuela, actions criticized as extrajudicial killings without publicly provided evidence of drug-trafficking claims.
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