Trump Orders Blockade Of 'Sanctioned' Venezuela Oil Tankers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Last week, the United States opened a new front in the campaign, seizing an oil tanker that had left Venezuela and announcing sanctions on several other vessels and companies associated with the Venezuelan oil industry.
50% : A spokesperson for US company Chevron, which still operates in Venezuela under a special sanctions waiver, said Tuesday that its operations "continue without disruption and in full compliance with laws and regulations applicable to its business.
44% : The US armada "will only get bigger," Trump said, until Venezuela returns "to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us." He did not specify what oil or land he was referring to, but Venezuela, in the 1970s, nationalised its oil industry.

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