Trump demands Venezuela pay for seized US oil assets

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Trump’s Claim That Venezuela ‘Stole’ U.S. Oil Fields Touches Nationalist Nerve
President Trump said the United States wanted to reclaim expropriated oil assets, setting off a nationalist reaction in a country where the resource holds a mythical status.

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Trump demands Venezuela pay for seized US oil assets after calling for 'blockade'
Trump administration asking US oil industry to return to Venezuela — but getting no takers
Parsing Trump’s Venezuela Claims: The Oil Case Behind The Rhetoric
A bipartisan Congressional investigation has begun regarding Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's role in ordering U.S. military strikes on small boats in the waters off Venezuela that have killed scores o...

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Venezuela denounces Trump's order for ship blockade as 'warmongering threats'
Oil rises as Trump's Venezuela blockade takes edge off global crude surplus concerns
Trump orders 'total and complete' blockade of all oil tankers bound for Venezuela while warning Maduro with 'largest Armada ever assembled'
'Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,' he said.

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Trump declares triumph on economy despite affordability concerns
Trump orders ‘complete’ blockade of ALL sanctioned oil tankers in and out of Venezuela – piling pressure on Maduro
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Venezuela, America and the Specter of Regime Change

In this first edition of The World newsletter, we explore why a president who campaigned against “foreign wars” is sending warships to Venezuela. By Katrin Bennhold I am the host of The World. The United States has blown up several boats in the ...
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Breaking: Trump orders ‘largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America’ to blockade Venezuela

Less than a week after U.S. forces seized a sanctioned oil tanker off of Venezuela's coast, President Donald Trump announced "a total and complete" blockade of tankers leaving or entering the country.
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