{"id":3991,"date":"2025-12-23T08:35:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/23\/venezuela-condemns-us-seizure-oil-tankers-piracy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T08:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:35:29","slug":"venezuela-condemns-us-seizure-oil-tankers-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/23\/venezuela-condemns-us-seizure-oil-tankers-piracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Condemns US Seizure of Oil Tankers as &#8216;Piracy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President of Venezuela&#8217;s National Assembly has condemned the United States&#8217; seizure of several oil tankers off Venezuela&#8217;s coast, describing the action as reminiscent of &#8216;piracy&#8217; during colonial times. He stated that it targets Venezuela&#8217;s sovereignty and trade.<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Rodr\u00edguez reacted to the move by saying that Caracas is facing a scenario used against countries during colonial eras; a scenario that, according to him, violates the freedom of navigation and commercial exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Rodr\u00edguez added that the National Assembly of Venezuela has reviewed a legislative plan to guarantee the freedom of navigation and trade against what is described as &#8216;piracy and blockade.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He further noted that the National Assembly members unanimously approved this plan, an action aimed at protecting Venezuela\u2019s economic interests and the right of free passage for ships in the country&#8217;s waters, according to Venezuelan officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela condemns the US seizure of oil tankers as piracy, promising legislative action to protect its maritime sovereignty and trade rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}