President Donald Trump ordered a two-month “quarantine” of Venezuela’s oil industry as the administration continues its pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Reuters first reported the order on Wednesday afternoon, which a senior U.S. official later confirmed to the Washington Examiner. Two days prior, Trump said at the White House that the U.S. Coast Guard was pursuing another tanker carrying Venezuelan oil in international waters, after seizing two tankers carrying Venezuelan oil in the Caribbean Sea.
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