Donald Trump has said he is ordering “a total and complete blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers travelling to and from Venezuela, increasing the US’s financial pressure on the regime of Nicolás Maduro.
The US president has been turning up the heat on the Venezuelan strongman in recent days, making oil a new front in his campaign against the Latin American leader that has included Washington’s largest military build-up in the Caribbean Sea since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
“Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,” Trump wrote in a social media post on Tuesday, referring to the US military forces in the Caribbean.
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