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As he continues to call for peace, Nicolas Maduro moves tab on your pulse with Donald Trump. The Venezuelan president has reacted to “total and complete” blockade of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving the country and has ordered the deployment of the Bolivarian Navy to protect the boats. A movement that escalates tensions and brings closer the possibility of an armed conflict.
According to reports The New York Timesseveral ships carrying petroleum products set sail from the port of José, on the eastern coast of Venezuela, between Tuesday night and Wednesday morninga few hours after the decision of the Republican president, who has decreed that Maduro is the leader of a “narcoterrorist” organization.
The sources cited by the American newspaper assure that the destination of the oil tankers is the Asian market. However, it is still unknown if the escorted vessels are part of the list of ships subject to sanctions by the Trump Administration, which is already aware of the military deployment of the Chavista regime and is evaluating new shares.
An anti-Trump demonstration this week in Caracas.
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The state oil company of Venezuela (PDVSA) indicated this Wednesday in a statement that the vessels linked to its operations “continue sailing with full insurance, technical support and operational guaranteesin legitimate exercise of the rights to free navigation and free trade, widely recognized and protected by international law.”
The Minister of Defense of Venezuela, Vladimir Padrino López, added that the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) will preserve “at all costs” the territorial integrity and that it will defend the “legitimate rights over its air and maritime spaces; and in an irreducible way, it will defend its freedom, sovereignty, independence and peace.”
Maduro, for his part, pointed out that Caracas will continue with “trade [del petróleo] back and forth” and considered Trump’s statement as “a warlike and colonialist pretension”. The vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, and the head of Parliament, Jorge Rodríguez, were also blunt when stating that the crude oil belongs to Venezuelans.
“There will be no oil given away or stolen for any foreign power. We will continue to be free and independent in our energy relationships. Together with President Nicolás Maduro, we will continue to defend the Homeland. “Looting and plundering will not return!” wrote Delcy Rodríguez in a message published on Telegram.
Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran. For multiple… pic.twitter.com/dNr0oAGl5x
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@Agpambondi) December 10, 2025
About 40% of tankers that have transported Venezuelan crude in recent years have been subject to US sanctions, according to Samir Madani, co-founder of TankerTrackers.com.
Last week, in a decision that surprised Pentagon chiefs, Trump ordered the seizure of the Venezuelan oil tanker Skipperwhich transported almost two million barrels of crude oil. US Administration sources suggest that the Republican president has already given the green light to the plans to intercept more sanctioned vessels.
Military merger with Colombia
During his statements issued by the Bolivarian Society on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of Simón Bolívar, Maduro called on the Colombia of Gustavo Petro, also threatened by Trump, to unite the two armies against the US. The Chavista leader made this proposal as a defensive alliance to guarantee the future and independence of both countries.
“The greatest guarantee of peace and stability is unity. Therefore, today I make a Grancolombian call to the ordinary people of Colombia, to its social movements, political forces and its military. I call you to the perfect union with Venezuela so that no one tries to touch the sovereignty of our countries and to exercise the dictum of Bolívar, that of permanent union,” he said.
Maduro also had a phone call with the secretary general of the United Nations (UN), António Guterresto alert him about the “escalation of threats” from the United States and “its serious implications for regional peace.”
According to a statement from the Government of Venezuela issued this Wednesday, the Chavista leader mentioned to Guterres a message from Trump on social networks saying that Venezuela “is surrounded” by “the largest army ever assembled in the history of South America.” Maduro called these statements “expressions of open colonial character.”
The UN chief reaffirmed during the conversation the organization’s position that member states must “exercise moderation, reduce tensions and preserve regional stability”. Caracas denounced Washington’s “open and criminal aggression” before the United Nations Security Council.
Just this Wednesday, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, called on the UN to play its role to avoid “bloodshed” amid tensions between Caracas and Washington. Trinidad and Tobago also spoke out regarding this blockade and denied that it was involved.