# @cgtneurope on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DSiAn3_EeVy
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/38200394-cgtneurope-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-12-21T15:59:56.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CGTN Europe (@cgtneurope) — https://gondola.cc/cgtneurope

## Caption

The United States intercepted an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed Saturday, a move that comes just days after U.S. ⁣
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President Donald Trump announced a "blockade" of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.⁣
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British maritime risk management company Vanguard said the vessel was believed to be the Panama-flagged Centuries, which was intercepted east of Barbados in the Caribbean Sea.⁣
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Noem confirmed the Coast Guard intercepted a tanker that was last docked in Venezuela.⁣
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The Venezuelan government called the tanker interception a "serious act of international piracy."⁣
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#US #Venezuela #Tensions #Blockade #Trump #Maduro

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tensions, trump, maduro, blockade, venezuela, us

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