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The Government of Venezuela reported this Sunday of the departure from his country of a ship of the American company Chevron loaded with crude oil, amid tensions with Washington, which has confiscated two oil tankers in the Caribbean Sea and this Sunday is carrying out an “active pursuit” to intercept a third, as part of its military deployment near the South American country.
The executive vice president and Minister of Hydrocarbons, Delcy Rodriguezannounced on his Telegram channel the departure of the ship Canopus Voyager “con Venezuelan oil heading to the United States”, in “strict adherence to the regulations and in compliance with the commitments assumed” by his nation’s oil industry.
Despite the tension between Washington and Caracas, Chevron operates in Venezuela associated with the state PDVSA thanks to a license from the Treasury Department that exempts it from the sanctions imposed on Venezuelan crude oil.
“Venezuela has always been and will continue to be respectful of national and international legality. Nothing and no one will stop our country on its path of advancement and victory!” added Rodríguez, who shared a video showing the ship.
On Saturday, the US Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noemreported the confiscation of the tanker with the Panamanian flag Centurieswhich according to the White House, was a ship with “false flag” part of “the Venezuelan ghost fleet to traffic stolen oil and finance Maduro’s narco-terrorist regime.”
White House Deputy Spokesperson Anna Kellyinsisted that the ship “was transporting oil from (the Venezuelan state company) PDVSAcompany sanctioned”, in response to reports that the confiscated tanker is not part of the US blacklist.
This is the second confiscated, after Washington seized the sanctioned ship on December 10. Skipper and the crude oil it transported.
Days later, the president of the United States, Donald Trumpannounced a total blockade of the entry and exit of this country to oil tankers sanctioned by the US Government, within the pressure it exerts on the Maduro Government, which Washington accuses of leading a drug trafficking network.
Caracas rejected the two seizures as a “robbery” and insists that it will take “all appropriate actions.”
This Sunday, the US carries out an operation to intercept a third tanker in the Caribbean Seanear the coast of Venezuela.
Maduro called “private piracy” these confiscations and said his country “has 25 weeks denouncing, confronting and defeating a campaign of aggression that ranges from psychological terrorism to privateers who have assaulted oil tankers