President Donald Trump revealed on Wednesday afternoon that the U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro.

“We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized, actually,” Trump told reporters at the White House. He said the tanker "was seized for a very good reason” without revealing further details.

The escalation in tension with the Maduro regime comes as the Trump administration has been accusing the socialist leader of fueling narcoterrorism in the United States.

After a series of deadly airstrikes on what the U.S. has determined to be drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, the U.S. military has been building up the largest

See Full Page