LONDON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The United States' tightening grip on Venezuela’s oil exports could strangle the country's crude output and cut off President Nicolas Maduro's main economic lifeline, but it ...

Firms with ties to Cuba are getting a larger share of Venezuelan oil exports, as the island’s security agents boost President Nicolás Maduro’s defenses. By Anatoly Kurmanaev Nicholas Nehamas and ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that the U.S. government "does intend to seize the oil" from a tanker that U.S. forces took Wednesday off the coast of Venezuela. Watch ...

The U.S. seizure of a vessel off Venezuela is likely to squeeze the country’s government, but do little to counter the tankers that secretively move oil from sanctioned countries. By Rebecca F.

Tensions between Washington and Caracas reached an all-time high after American forces seized a sneaky sanctioned tanker carrying an estimated 1.1 million barrels of crude oil off the coast of ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday linked the seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela to the Trump administration’s counterdrug efforts in Latin America as tensions ...

Venezuela on Wednesday condemned the U.S. seizure of a sanctioned oil tanker off its coast, calling it an "act of international piracy." "The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela strongly denounces and ...

The Trump administration intends to transport an oil tanker seized off the coast of Venezuela to a U.S. port and take legal steps to claim the oil as it intensifies a pressure campaign on Venezuelan ...

The White House dismissed the seizure being an escalation against Venezuela. The U.S. intends to take all the oil contained in the tanker seized off the coast of Venezuela, White House press secretary ...

The U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said Wednesday, in a move likely to ramp up tensions with the government of President Nicolas Maduro. “We’ve just ...

Crude oil futures added to gains Wednesday after President Trump said U.S. forces intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, marking a major escalation in the ...

President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Wednesday. (Evan Vucci/AP) President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil ...