An oil tanker formerly known as the Bella-1, before it changed its name to the Marinera, is pictured alongside a US coast guard ship, at sea in the Moray Firth, northern Scotland, on January 14, 2026. (Photo by Andy Buchanan/ AFP)
Washington, United States: The United States has seized another tanker in the Caribbean in its campaign to control oil leaving Venezuela, US Southern Command said Thursday.
Marines and sailors apprehended the Tanker Veronica without incident in a pre-dawn raid, the military command responsible for Central, South America and the Caribbean said on social media, with a video showing soldiers rappelling onto a vessel's deck.
"The only oil leaving Venezuela will be oil that is coordinated properly and lawfully," it said. The tanker is the sixth seized in recent weeks.
