President Trump made the announcement in a Truth Social post, announcing that the Venezuelan regime has been designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Trump detailed that Venezuela is “completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,” adding to the closing off of airspace as previously announced.
It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us. The illegitimate Maduro Regime is using Oil from these stolen Oil Fields to finance themselves, Drug Terrorism, Human Trafficking, Murder, and Kidnapping,” President Trump wrote. The Maduro regime responded through an official statement condemning Trump and accusing him of seeking to impose an “irrational naval blockade on Venezuela in order to steal the wealth that belongs to our homeland.”
The regime said that its ambassador to the U.N. will denounce the blockade and called upon people from the U.S. and the world to “reject this extravagant threat by any means necessary.” President Trump’s announcement marks the latest escalation in tensions between the United States and the Venezuelan regime led by socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, and comes days after the U.S. military seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Maduro fiercely condemned the seizure of the tanker and said that the incident was “like Pirates of the Caribbean.” (Ed note: And tell me again, how it takes three and four motors on the back of one of those so called "fishing boats" to fish even for a large, powerful Marlin.) (Read More)
