Quill Lawrence
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2,066 appearances
251 recordings
4 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 3d ago
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agents executed a seizure warrant on board and that the tanker has been sanctioned for years and is known to smuggle crude oil from Venezuela and also Iran.
President Trump has ratcheted up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whom he accuses of narco-trafficking.
The U.S.
has assembled the largest naval fleet in decades off the Venezuelan coast and offered $50 million for Maduro's arrest.
This news came as pro-democracy activist Maria Corina Machado snuck out of hiding in Venezuela en route to Norway to collect the Nobel Peace Prize.
Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
President Trump says the tanker was very large, and he promises more news about Venezuela soon.
This comes on top of the biggest U.S.
military buildup in the Caribbean in decades and threats to Venezuela's leader.
The U.S.
has offered a $50 million bounty for information leading to the arrest of President Nicolas Maduro, who the U.S.
claims is a narco-trafficker.
Trump has said the U.S.
may soon begin striking targets inside Venezuela's borders.
Venezuela has the world's largest proven oil reserves, with about one million barrels produced daily.
U.S.
sanctions aim to strangle Venezuela's oil revenue, and the country is selling what it can at a steep discount, mostly to China.
Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth released a brief surveillance video of a boat bursting into flames.
It took place the same day that Admiral Mitch Bradley briefed congressional leaders behind closed doors about the first strike on September 2nd.
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