US military seizes new oil tanker in the Caribbean

Milan, 15 January (LaPresse) – ‘In another pre-dawn operation, marines and sailors from Joint Task Force Southern Spear, in support of the Department of Homeland Security, departed from the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) and arrested the motor vessel/oil tanker Veronica without incident.’ This was announced in a post on social media by the United States Southern Command. ‘The Veronica is the last tanker operating in defiance of President Trump’s quarantine on sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean, demonstrating once again the effectiveness of Operation Southern Spear,’ the post reads. This is the sixth tanker