The United States on Thursday seized another sanctioned oil tanker that the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela, ahead of a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on social media that the U.S. Coast Guard had boarded the Motor Tanker Veronica early Thursday. She said the ship had previously passed through Venezuelan waters and was operating in defiance of Trump's "established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean."
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