US Seizes Two Sanctioned Oil Tankers Linked To Venezuela

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States says it has seized two sanctioned oil tankers linked to Venezuela in back-to-back actions in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean. U.S. forces boarded a Venezuela-linked sanctioned oil tanker in the North Atlantic on Wednesday after pursuing it for weeks. U.S. European Command announced the seizure of the merchant vessel Bella 1 for “violations of U.S. sanctions” in a social medial post. Then, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem revealed that U.S. forces also took control of the tanker Sophia in the Caribbean in a social media post. Noem says both ships were “either last docked in Venezuela or en route to it.”