Oil exports, the country’s financial lifeblood, have plummeted after the United States took action against three ships that have been used to carry its crude. By Anatoly Kurmanaev and Rebecca F.

Oil loadings on tankers at Venezuelan ports have declined following the latest U.S. threat of tanker seizures, with most vessels traveling only between local ports, Reuters has reported. The Trump ...

This image from video posted on Attorney General Pam Bondi’s X account, and partially redacted by the source, shows an oil tanker being seized by U.S. forces off the coast of Venezuela, Wednesday, Dec ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is pursuing a sanctioned oil tanker near Venezuela as President Donald Trump intensifies his pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro with a sweeping blockade ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is actively pursuing a third oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, according to a U.S. official. “The United States Coast Guard is in active pursuit of a sanctioned dark fleet ...

The United States is pursuing another tanker off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, Reuters and the Associated Press reported on Sunday morning, citing officials who spoke on the ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces on Saturday stopped an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela for the second time in less than two weeks as President Donald Trump continues to ramp up pressure on ...

The United States is pursuing an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, according to multiple reports, just a day after the Coast Guard seized a different tanker in the same waters amid a rapid U.S.

GALVESTON, Texas — Nearly two weeks after the U.S. seized a Venezuelan oil tanker believed to be part of a ghost fleet, the ship arrived off the shore of Galveston. The tanker is about 50 miles ...

The Coast Guard and other troops boarded the M/T Centuries after it departed Venezuela. It’s the second tanker seized this month. By Nicholas Slayton Published Dec 20, 2025 8:01 PM EST American forces ...

The United States Coast Guard has pursued another tanker off Venezuela, a U.S. official said Sunday, in what would mark the third interception of a tanker in the waters off that country this month.