Just a day after the United States seized an oil tanker near Venezuela, another operation is underway. It would mark the third seizure in under two weeks.

The U.S. Coast Guard is pursuing an oil tanker involved in transporting oil from Venezuela, according to three U.S. officials, part of an accelerating effort by the Trump administration to block ships from moving the country’s oil.

U.S. forces on Saturday stopped a second merchant vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, two American officials told The Associated Press. The tanker stopped voluntarily and allowed U.

The US is still in pursuit of a third oil tanker near Venezuela, according to a US official, as President Donald Trump intensifies an oil blockade on Nicolás Maduro’s government.

U.S. forces on Saturday stopped an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela for the second time in less than two weeks as President Donald Trump continues to ramp up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Personnel from the United States boarded and seized a vessel off the coast of Venezuela, according to an official familiar with the matter, as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on Caracas.

The U.S. seized an oil tanker in international waters off the coast of Venezuela Saturday, according to two U.S. officials, ramping up its pressure on the government of President Nicolás Maduro. The U.

The US coastguard stepped up its enforcement of a blockade on Venezuelan oil on Sunday by trying to board a sanctioned tanker in the Caribbean. The coastguard was pursuing the tanker Bella 1, a sanctioned and unregulated vessel en route to Venezuela to load a cargo of oil,