The US forces board Indian Ocean tanker defying Trump’s Venezuela blockade, marking another escalation in Washington’s campaign to control the South American country’s oil exports, Pentagon officials said Sunday. The Panamanian-flagged Veronica III, carrying nearly 2 million barrels of Venezuelan crude and fuel oil, attempted to “slip away” from US-imposed sanctions, the Pentagon said in … Continue reading US forces board Indian Ocean tanker defying Trump’s Venezuela blockade