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  • The Venezuelan government is denouncing the U.S.

  • interception of a second oil tanker, saying it will take the issue to the UN Security Council.

  • US Coast Guard stopped the tanker Saturday.

  • MPR's Quill Lawrence reports on the escalation of the Trump administration's pressure on President Nicolas Maduro.

  • Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem posted video on social media of a Coast Guard helicopter landing on the tanker centuries,

  • which she said was moving sanctioned oil.

  • The ship does not appear on the Treasury Department's public list of sanctioned oil tankers,

  • but the White House says it was carrying Venezuelan oil and falsely flagged as Panamanian.

  • President Trump declared a blockade on Venezuela's sanctioned oil,

  • which he claimed without explanation was stolen from the U.S.

  • A blockade is considered an act of war under international maritime law.

  • The U.S.

  • Navy currently has a fleet off the coast of Venezuela,