US seizes another tanker trying to break Venezuela naval blockade

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US seizes another tanker trying to break Venezuela naval blockade  The Olina seized Friday is "another 'ghost fleet' tanker ship suspected of carrying embargoed oil," US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2026/01/09/us-seizes-another-tanker-trying-to-break-venezuela-naval-blockade  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00U.S. forces said they have boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea.

00:07The Olina was the fifth tanker seized by U.S. forces as part of the Trump administration's

00:12effort to control the distribution of Venezuela's oil products globally, following the U.S.

00:17ouster of President Nicolás Maduro.

00:19President Donald Trump has said that the U.S. will control distribution worldwide of Venezuela's

00:25oil and will share some of the proceeds with the country's population from accounts that it

00:29controls.

00:30We're taking billions and billions of dollars worth of oil and it'll be hundreds of billions

00:35of dollars.

00:35It'll be trillions of dollars.

00:37But we're going to be there till we straighten out the country.

00:40We'll see how the country's doing.

00:42But we'll be running the oil.

00:44We're meeting tomorrow with all of the big oil executives.

00:46We're going to be right here in the White House.

00:48Olina was accused of attempting to evade a naval blockade imposed by the U.S., preventing sanctioned

00:54oil vessels from going to or departing from Venezuela.

00:58Trump said that the U.S. could run Venezuela and tap into its oil reserves for years in

01:03an interview with The New York Times published on Thursday.

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