The Trump administration has released a video of a Venezuela-linked tanker which the US military apprehended on Tuesday (20 January), the seventh such incident of its kind. Sharing footage which appears to show troops flying towards the ship and landing on its deck, the US Southern Command said that forces apprehended the Motor Vessel Sagitta “without incident”. Officials said the vessel, which is a Liberian-flagged tanker managed by a company in Hong Kong, was operating in defiance of Donald Trump’s “established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean”. It is the latest such incident in the US president’s month-long campaign to disrupt Venezuela's oil shipments.

The US Southern Command emphasized that the tanker operated in defiance of US President Donald Trump’s established quarantine

Washington has deployed a huge naval force in the Caribbean, striking boats it says were used for drug trafficking, seizing tankers and carrying out a stunning operation to seize…