Senior UN human rights official criticised the US attack on the ship as a violation of international law.

Senior UN human rights official Volker Türk said in Geneva that the United States had repeatedly attacked ships off the coast of Venezuela in the Caribbean, violating international law, particularly human rights, and called on the US and Venezuela to ease the escalating tensions.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil At the opening ceremony of the „Congress of the Americas for Sovereignty and Peace,“ he stated that the United States, with its economic and military power, especially its media power, will launch an unprecedented psychological war against Venezuela, Latin America and the Caribbean, posing an extremely serious challenge to regional security and peace.

Jorge Rodríguez, President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, stated on 9 December that the purpose of deploying the US military in the Caribbean is not „the fight against drug trafficking“, but the destruction of Venezuela through war.

The US military has detained and taken control of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, US President Donald Trump said on 10 December.

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