{"id":16988,"date":"2025-12-20T22:21:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-seizes-second-oil-tanker-off-venezuelas-coast-as-trump-ups-pressure-on-maduro\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:21:25","slug":"us-seizes-second-oil-tanker-off-venezuelas-coast-as-trump-ups-pressure-on-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-seizes-second-oil-tanker-off-venezuelas-coast-as-trump-ups-pressure-on-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"US seizes second oil tanker off Venezuela&#8217;s coast as Trump ups pressure on Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. personnel seized a second oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday as President Trump ratchets up the pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.&nbsp; The seizure of the vessel, which took place in international waters, was led by the Coast Guard and assisted by the U.S&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5658568-us-seizes-second-oil-tanker\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. personnel seized a second oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday as President Trump ratchets up the pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.&nbsp; The seizure of the vessel, which took place in international waters, was led by the Coast Guard and assisted by the U.S&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}