Oil & Gas
Venezuela's allies back Maduro amid rising tensions with the US
Venezuela's regional partners voiced their support for the Venezuelan government at a summit held?on Sunday. They condemned the Trump administration's seizure last week of an oil tanker. The US captured the Skipper tanker last Wednesday off Venezuela's coastline, marking the first time that Venezuelan oil has been taken by American forces since sanctions were imposed on Venezuela in 2019. Support for President Nicolas Maduro at a virtual televised meeting of the leftist ALBA group of Caribbean and Latin American nations, occurred during an escalation in a U.S. buildup of military forces in the southern Caribbean. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel stated...