US Coast Guard Intercepts 2nd Oil Tanker From Venezuela

Trump announced a blockade of sanctioned Venezuelan oil ships after the U.S. government seized a tanker on Dec. 10.

A U.S. military helicopter hovers over the deck of an oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea on Dec. 20, 2025. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem/X Screenshot

Members of the U.S. Coast Guard on Dec. 20 intercepted an oil tanker that last docked in Venezuela, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced.

“In a pre-dawn action early this morning on Dec. 20, the U.S. Coast Guard with the support of the Department of War apprehended an oil tanker that was last docked in Venezuela,” Noem said in an X post on the afternoon of Dec. 20.