U.S. President Donald Trump speaks throughout a Mexican Border Protection Medal presentation within the Oval Workplace on the White Home in Washington, D.C., U.S., Dec. 15, 2025.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday stateside ordered a “full and complete” blockade of sanctioned oil tankers shifting out and in of Venezuela as tensions ramp up between the Washington and the South American nation.
In a publish on Reality Social, Trump mentioned “Venezuela is totally surrounded by the biggest Armada ever assembled within the Historical past of South America.”
He added, “It’ll solely get greater, and the shock to them might be like nothing they’ve ever seen earlier than — Till such time as they return to the US of America all the Oil, Land, and different Belongings that they beforehand stole from us.”
“For the theft of our Belongings, and lots of different causes, together with Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking, the Venezuelan Regime has been designated a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. Subsequently, in the present day, I’m ordering A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela,” Trump mentioned.
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