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The US has ignited outrage after seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker in what Caracas compared to Israel’s pattern of unlawful military aggression and resource appropriation, denouncing the move as a blatant “act of international piracy.”
President Donald Trump boasted on Wednesday that US forces had taken control of the massive tanker Skipper—carrying roughly 2 million barrels of heavy crude—off Venezuela’s coast, declaring, “I assume we’re going to keep the oil.”
The aggression, executed using helicopters launched from the USS Gerald Ford, marks one of the most dramatic escalations in Washington’s four-month pressure campaign against President Nicolás Maduro.
Caracas blasted the seizure as “a grave international crime” that “constitutes a blatant theft and an act of international piracy.”
“The true motives have always been our oil, our energy, the resources that belong exclusively to the Venezuelan people,” the government said...
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