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Attorney General Pam Bondi says the FBI and the Coast Guard seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
Imperial School Lawrence reports the U.S.
has sanctioned Venezuela's oil industry.
Bondi posted a video on social media showing U.S.
forces boarding the vast oil tanker by helicopter.
She said U.S.
agents executed a seizure warrant on board and that the tanker has been sanctioned for years and is known to smuggle crude oil from Venezuela and also Iran.
President Trump has ratcheted up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro,
whom he accuses of narco-trafficking.
The U.S.
has assembled the largest naval fleet in decades off the Venezuelan coast and offered $50 million for Maduro's arrest.
This news came as pro-democracy activist Maria Corina Machado snuck out of hiding in Venezuela and route to Norway to collect the Nobel Peace Prize.
Quill Lawrence, NPR News.