2025-12-22
14 分钟Good morning.
It's Monday, December 22nd.
I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shamita Basu.
This is Apple News today.
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But first, it was another weekend of dramatic escalation by the US Military in the Caribbean,
the focus was on the seizure of oil tankers,
which comes after President Trump said that he intended to crack down on sanctioned vessels that were involved in Venezuela's oil trade.
The Wall Street Journal's Benoit Foucault told us that these new operations were aimed squarely at President Nicolas Maduro.
The US Is ratcheting the pressure on Venezuela to come to an agreement with the US which everyone expect would include some kind of political transition and the departure of Maduro from power.
Prior to this,
there have been a series of strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean targeting what the administration claims are boats illegally smuggling drugs.
Trump has said that he thinks Maduro's quote, days are numbered.
And Falcon told us that disrupting these shipments could soon become a major problem for the Venezuelan government.
The U.S.
treasury Department has already sanctioned much of Venezuela's trade activity.
The Journal reports that sanctioned tankers account for around 70% of Venezuela's oil exports.