President Trump Turns Up The Heat On Venezuela In Latest Move

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U.S. tensions with Venezuela has now hit an all time high.

In a statement on Truth Social on Tuesday, President Trump made his biggest move yet when it comes to combatting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s regime.

Trump in a post officially declared Maduro’s regime as a foreign terrorist organization.

The Hill reported more on President Trump’s statement on Venezuela:

President Trump said Tuesday he would designate Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s regime a foreign terrorist organization and direct the blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and exiting Venezuela.

Trump posted on Truth Social that he was ordering a “total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into, and out of, Venezuela,” further escalating his campaign against the South American country.

The president said his administration is labeling Maduro’s regime as a foreign terrorist organization for the “theft of our Assets, and many other reasons, including Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking,” Trump wrote.

“Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,” Trump posted. “It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us.”

“The illegitimate Maduro Regime is using Oil from these stolen Oil Fields to finance themselves, Drug Terrorism, Human Trafficking, Murder, and Kidnapping,” Trump added.

Take a look:

TRUMP: “Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America… I am ordering A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela.”

Omg. pic.twitter.com/62NnwikZX7

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) December 16, 2025

CNN reported on what Trump’s move means for Venezuela:

Combined with Trump’s threat of land strikes on Venezuelan soil, the move ratcheted up pressure on Caracas by going after its economic lifeline, which had already come under strain after new sanctions on the oil sector earlier this year and last week’s seizure of a tanker full of Venezuelan oil.

Venezuela slammed the announcement in a Tuesday statement, calling it “a reckless and serious threat.”

Trump’s announcement also underscored the president’s focus on the country’s oil, which he has said the US should have access to if Maduro is ousted. State-owned Petróleos de Venezuela controls the country’s petroleum industry. Houston-based Chevron is the only US firm drilling in Venezuela and pays a percentage of its output to PDVSA under a sanctions carve-out.

American companies had a much larger presence in Venezuela’s oil fields until the country put the sector under state control in the 1970s. Trump has made little secret his desire for the US to return to the country’s oil industry.

Venezuela’s oil reserves are the world’s largest but operate well below capacity due to international sanctions. Much of the country’s oil is sold to China.

The US government has imposed sanctions on Venezuela since 2005, and the first Trump administration in 2019 effectively blocked all crude exports to the United States from PDVSA. Then-President Joe Biden in 2022 granted Chevron a permit to operate in Venezuela as part of an effort to lower gas prices. Trump revoked that license in March but later reissued on condition that no proceeds go to the Maduro government.

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