About a dozen oil tankers loaded with Venezuelan crude and fuel have left the country's waters since the start of the year in apparent defiance of the US government's blockade on exports, according to documents seen by Reuters and industry sources including monitoring service TankerTrackers.com.
US President Donald Trump imposed a blockade of all sanctioned tankers bound for Venezuela in mid-December, before the dramatic capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by US troops in the early hours of Saturday morning. Trump said on Saturday that an oil embargo remained in full force after Maduro's extraction.
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All the departed vessels identified are under sanctions and most are now sailing
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