{"id":56602,"date":"2025-12-21T08:51:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/u-s-forces-seize-2nd-oil-tanker-off-coast-of-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T08:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:51:21","slug":"u-s-forces-seize-2nd-oil-tanker-off-coast-of-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/u-s-forces-seize-2nd-oil-tanker-off-coast-of-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. forces seize 2nd oil tanker off coast of Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a pre-dawn action early this morning on December 20, the US Coast Guard with the support of the Department of War apprehended an oil tanker that was last docked in Venezuela,&#8221; Noem said on X.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on December 10, a move the Venezuelan government condemned as &#8220;a blatant theft and an act of international piracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he has ordered a total blockade of all U.S.-sanctioned oil tankers traveling to and from Venezuela. He also said in a later interview that the United States will continue seizing additional oil tankers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-99464 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/c530ea3_ftp-1-ifb885h0wh8f-2025-12-21t004255z-1542631356-rc2gkiaihv2m-rtrmadp-3-usa-venezuela-military-vessel-2.jpg\" alt=\"A US military helicopter flies over the Panama-flagged Centuries, which was intercepted by the US Coast Guard, days after US President Donald Trump announced a &quot;blockade&quot; of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, December 20, 2025.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Saturday that the U.S. forces seized another oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela earlier in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000099465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000099465,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/c530ea3_ftp-1-ifb885h0wh8f-2025-12-21t004255z-1542631356-rc2gkiaihv2m-rtrmadp-3-usa-venezuela-military-vessel.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/c530ea3_ftp-1-ifb885h0wh8f-2025-12-21t004255z-1542631356-rc2gkiaihv2m-rtrmadp-3-usa-venezuela-military-vessel.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/c530ea3_ftp-1-ifb885h0wh8f-2025-12-21t004255z-1542631356-rc2gkiaihv2m-rtrmadp-3-usa-venezuela-military-vessel.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/c530ea3_ftp-1-ifb885h0wh8f-2025-12-21t004255z-1542631356-rc2gkiaihv2m-rtrmadp-3-usa-venezuela-military-vessel.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/c530ea3_ftp-1-ifb885h0wh8f-2025-12-21t004255z-1542631356-rc2gkiaihv2m-rtrmadp-3-usa-venezuela-military-vessel.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/c530ea3_ftp-1-ifb885h0wh8f-2025-12-21t004255z-1542631356-rc2gkiaihv2m-rtrmadp-3-usa-venezuela-military-vessel.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000099465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56602"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56602"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}