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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Tiago Rogero South America correspondent and agencies

Venezuela accuses Trinidad and Tobago of taking part in US seizure of oil tanker

Maduro gestures at a rally
Maduro at a rally in Caracas last week. The Venezuelan statement said T&T was being turned ‘into an aircraft carrier of the American empire’. Photograph: Federico Parra/AFP/Getty Images

Venezuela has accused the government of Trinidad and Tobago of taking part in the US seizure of an oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast last week, as Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro continues to reverberate across the region.

In a statement on Monday, the Maduro regime accused Trinidad and Tobago of participating in “the theft of Venezuelan oil, committed by the US administration on 10 December with the assault on a vessel transporting this strategic Venezuelan product”.

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