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He United States War Department announced this Sunday that it has intercepted an oil tanker in the Indian Ocean that, according to Washington, violated the blockade imposed on crude oil operations in the Caribbean related to Venezuela y Cuba and tried to escape the American encirclement.
“Overnight, US forces conducted a right of inspection, maritime interdiction and boarding visit to the Veronica III without incident in the Indopacom (Indo-Pacific Command) area of responsibility,” the Pentagon revealed in an X message accompanied by a video of the operation.
According to the US Armed Forces“the ship attempted challenge the quarantine ordered by the American president, Donald Trumphoping to slip away.”
“We followed it from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, closed the distance and neutralized it. No other nation has the reach, the endurance or the will to do something like that. International waters are not a sanctuary. By land, sea or air, we will find you and do justice,” the letter adds.
He Veronica IIIidentified as a Panamanian flag ship by tracking site Marine Trafficis one of around 16 tankers sanctioned that would have tried to evade the US blockade, according to The New York Timesamong them the Aquila IIintercepted by Washington on February 9, also in the Indian Ocean.
As published by Times In early January, to try to escape American reach, the Veronica III assumed the name DS Vector y falsified its coordinates to pretend that it was located off the coast of Nigeria.
We defend the Homeland forward. Distance does not protect you.
Overnight, U.S. forces conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding of the Veronica III without incident in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility.
The vessel tried to defy President Trump’s… pic.twitter.com/Tran3cLR9g
— Department of War 🇺🇸 (@DeptofWar) February 15, 2026
Since December 2025, the United States applies a maritime “quarantine” on sanctioned oil tankers who enter or leave Venezuela, within the call Operation Southern Lancein which at least eight vessels have already been boarded or seized. These limitations include crude oil shipments to Cuba.
Trump also ordered duty to countries that send oil to the Caribbean nation, a pressure mechanism that is strangling the island.
The stated objective is prevent Venezuelan oil from being sold outside the channels authorized by Washington and cut off income to networks considered allies of Russia, Iran or Cuba itself.
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