US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States had seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela amid mounting tensions with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
It is the Trump administration’s latest push to increase pressure on Maduro, who has been charged with narcoterrorism in the United States.
“We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized, actually,” Trump told reporters at the White…
