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Welcome back to the Afternoon Bulletin.

U.S.

forces continue to enforce the Trump administration's quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean, carrying out their seventh oil tanker seizure and targeting a vessel tied to Venezuela as the campaign to lock down its oil exports continues.

U.S.

Southern Command says American forces on Tuesday apprehended the vessel Sajita, quote, without incident.

Well, that's good.

But this time they didn't spell out which service carried out the operation.

As we've been tracking the interdictions here on the PDB, Coast Guard law enforcement detachment teams are typically involved in the seizures.

But in this case, Southern Command tagged both the U.S.

Navy and the Marine Corps in its post on X.

Regular PDB listeners will know that this campaign stretches back to late last year.

The first tanker was intercepted off Venezuela's coast on the 10th of December, and just five days before this operation, U.S.

forces seized another sanctioned tanker, the MT Veronica.

Now, most of the vessels have been picked up in or near Venezuelan waters, all but one, that would be the Bella One, which was intercepted in North Atlantic as it attempted to evade American enforcement.

But as for the Sajito, it's a Liberian-flagged tanker owned and managed by a Hong Kong-based company.