{"id":656183,"date":"2025-12-11T10:32:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=656183"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:02:33","slug":"us-seizes-venezuelan-oil-tanker-in-major-escalation-against-maduro-what-to-know-about-skipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-seizes-venezuelan-oil-tanker-in-major-escalation-against-maduro-what-to-know-about-skipper\/","title":{"rendered":"US seizes Venezuelan oil tanker in major escalation against Maduro &#8211; What to know about \u2018Skipper\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in a high-risk operation involving the US Coast Guard and Navy, marking a significant escalation in Washington\u2019s pressure campaign against the government of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump confirmed the seizure on Wednesday, as tensions between Washington and Caracas continue to rise amid US allegations of narcotics trafficking, sanctions evasion and support for foreign militant groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in a high-risk operation involving the US Coast Guard and Navy, marking a significant escalation in Washington\u2019s pressure campaign against the government of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. President Donald Trump confirmed the seizure on Wednesday, as tensions between Washington and Caracas continue to rise amid US allegations of narcotics trafficking, sanctions evasion and support for foreign militant groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}