{"id":322689,"date":"2026-01-21T12:31:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322689"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:31:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:31:46","slug":"us-seizes-another-tanker-in-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322689","title":{"rendered":"US seizes another tanker in the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/assets.nst.com.my\/images\/articles\/06EAB37ABB89ACE9B44983E249E5BDC5_low.jpg\" alt=\"This screen grab released on Jan 20, from the X account of the US Southern Command shows the motor vessel Sagitta in the Caribbean. The US military's Southern Command said the ship, identified as the Motor Vessel Sagitta, was &quot;operating in defiance of President Trump's established quarantine of sanctioned vessels&quot; and was seized &quot;without incident.&quot; -- US SOUTHERN COMMAND\/ AFP\"\/><figcaption>The motor vessel Sagitta in the Caribbean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States announced that its forces seized another tanker in the Caribbean, the seventh ship apprehended since President Donald Trump announced a blockade to prevent sanctioned vessels going to or from Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US military&#8217;s Southern Command said the ship, identified as the Motor Vessel Sagitta, was &#8220;operating in defiance of President Trump&#8217;s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels&#8221; and was seized &#8220;without incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The only oil leaving Venezuela will be oil that is coordinated properly and lawfully,&#8221; the command said in a post on X that included a clip showing an overhead view of a ship at sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the seven ships seized since the US president announced the blockade in December was a Russia-linked tanker apprehended in the North Atlantic earlier this month after being pursued by the United States from off the coast of Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington has deployed a huge naval force in the Caribbean, striking boats it says were used for drug trafficking, seizing tankers and carrying out a stunning operation to seize Venezuela&#8217;s leftist leader Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has insisted that Washington will control Venezuela&#8217;s oil after Maduro&#8217;s ouster, boasting that he had already seized and sold some of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venezuelan authorities dispute this, saying that Caracas remains in control of the country&#8217;s oil and that the state-run oil company is in negotiations with the United States over the sale of oil. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States announced that its forces seized another tanker in the Caribbean, the seventh ship apprehended since President Donald Trump announced a blockade to prevent sanctioned vessels going to or from Venezuela. The US military&#8217;s Southern Command said the ship, identified as the Motor Vessel Sagitta, was &#8220;operating in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322689"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322691,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322689\/revisions\/322691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}