Few words in international politics carry more legal and emotional weight than “blockade.” It evokes warships sealing ports, neutral vessels turned back at gunpoint, belligerents asserting control ...

Chinese oil tankers are pressing ahead with Venezuela-linked voyages despite a U.S. blockade and an escalating campaign of tanker seizures. Two Chinese-flagged VLCCs are operating near Venezuelan ...

The Trump administration has ordered the U.S. military to enforce a two-month "quarantine" of Venezuelan oil as part of an intensified "gunboat diplomacy" campaign to pressure the Maduro regime. The U ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s “blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers off Venezuela’s coast is raising new questions about the legality of his military campaign in Latin America, while ...

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At least half a dozen sanctioned tankers have loaded oil from Venezuela since December 11, when the U.S. escalated the pressure on Venezuelan oil exports, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, quoting data ...

Representative Adam Smith, Democratic leader of the House Armed Services Committee, says President Trump's move to block Venezuela's sanctioned oil shipments is aimed at driving President Nicolás ...

The US is still in pursuit of a third oil tanker near Venezuela, according to a US official, as President Donald Trump intensifies an oil blockade on Nicolás Maduro’s government. The Bella 1 tanker, a ...

Oil prices jumped about 3% after Trump's threatened blockade. Oil prices jumped about 3% after President Donald Trump this week threatened to blockade all sanctioned oil tankers traveling in and out ...

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Tanker Blockade Spurs New Legal Questions on Venezuela Campaign The crude oil tanker Skipper, recently seized by the US off the coast of Venezuela, traveling in the southern Caribbean Sea on Dec. 12.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro addresses members of the armed forces at Fort Tiuna military base in Caracas, Venezuela, November 25, 2025. REUTERS Blockading Venezuela’s oil shipments finally ...