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Trump orders blockade of sanctioned oil tankers to and from Venezuela, escalating pressure campaign President Donald Trump ordered a “total and complete” blockade of sanctioned oil tankers heading to and from Venezuela, intensifying a months-long U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean and sharpening Washington’s confrontation with President Nicolás Maduro’s government. “Today, I am ordering A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social…

U.S. to expand anti-narcotics operations from Venezuela to land routes as tanker seizure stokes tensions WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the United States will “start on land pretty soon” to interdict narcotics shipments moving overland from Venezuela, signaling an expansion of operations as U.S. forces prepare to bring a seized Venezuelan-linked oil tanker to an American port. “They’ve treated us badly,” Trump told reporters at the White House, claiming maritime drug traffic is “down 92%” and adding, “We’ll sort…

U.S. Says It Conducted Second Strike on Suspected Venezuelan Drug Boat in International Waters President Donald Trump announced on social media that U.S. forces carried out a strike on a vessel linked to a Venezuelan drug cartel, saying three people were killed and that the operation took place in international waters. The president described it as a “SECOND Kinetic Strike” ordered by him against “positively identified, extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of…