The United States assures that it will impose sanctions “to the maximum” on Venezuela after blocking oil tankers

Waltz reiterated that the American president, Donald Trump has been “very light” in your intention to use “all the power and strength of the US to confront and eradicate these drug cartels, which have operated with impunity in our hemisphere for too long”.

It was Venezuela that expressly requested this debate as a matter of urgency in the Council, a request prompted by President Trump’s blockade against sanctioned oil tankers leaving and entering the South American country.

According to Waltz, these tankers operate as “the main economic lifeline of Maduro and his illegitimate regime”, and they also finance the Cartel of the Suns.

The Venezuelan, Nicolas Maduro“is responsible for using these resources and their benefits for (drug) trafficking to the United States and Europe”, he noted.

Tension between both countries increased last September, when the US began attacking boats apparently loaded with drugs in the Caribbean and the Peacefulattacks that have already claimed the lives of more than 100 people.

The White House He assures that his objective with this offensive is to stop the entry of drugs into the United States and that the terrorist designation of the Cartel of the Suns authorizes the Government to legitimately defend itself against its threat.

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Added to this is that last Saturday the US Government intercepted another Panamanian-flagged oil tanker in the waters of the Caribbean Sea called Centurieswhich transported Venezuelan crude oil to refineries in China.

This is the second vessel intercepted in the Caribbean by the Trump Administration, which last week seized the ship Skipper and confiscated the crude oil it was transporting.

In addition, on Sunday the US Government began a “active pursuit” to intercept a third tanker, the Bella 1as confirmed to EFE by a US official.