{"id":38098,"date":"2025-12-20T23:49:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/us-intercepts-second-merchant-vessel-off-coast-of-venezuela-in-international-waters\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T23:49:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:49:54","slug":"us-intercepts-second-merchant-vessel-off-coast-of-venezuela-in-international-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/us-intercepts-second-merchant-vessel-off-coast-of-venezuela-in-international-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"US intercepts second merchant vessel off coast of Venezuela in international waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vessel does not appear to be on list of US-sanctioned vessels, which would represent escalation in blockade<\/p>\n<p>US forces on Saturday apprehended a second merchant vessel carrying oil off the coast of Venezuela in international waters in the midst of an American blockade against the country\u2019s oil, according to the US homeland security department.<\/p>\n<p>The stoppage follows the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/10\/us-forces-reportedly-seize-oil-tanker-off-venezuela-coast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seizure<\/a> by US forces of another oil tanker off Venezuela\u2019s coast on 10 December. Both vessels were headed to Asia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/20\/us-second-merchant-vessel-venezuela\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vessel does not appear to be on list of US-sanctioned vessels, which would represent escalation in blockade US forces on Saturday apprehended a second merchant vessel carrying oil off the coast of Venezuela in international waters in the midst of an American blockade against the country\u2019s oil, according to the US homeland security department. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 19:15:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}