Venezuela Says US “Naval Blockade†Already in Place
By Carlos Camacho
CARACAS -- Tareck El Aissami, the economic Vice President for the Nicolas Maduro regime in Venezuela, said that the U.S. government is "making fuel production impossible" for the still regime-controlled state oil firm PDVSA due to its "naval blockade" of the country’s shores.
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the military’s Southern Command to dispatch warships, spy planes, attack helicopters and even ground troops two days earlier, in the largest known effort in the history of the Western Hemisphere to interdict drug trafficking originating out of Venezuela.
No sightings of U.S. warships have been as yet reported, however, local media and maritime web pages report at least one US combat ship, the “USS Detroitâ€, was stationed in international waters near Venezuela.
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