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Sanctions and seizures: Trump turns up the heat on Venezuela

Washington shifts its campaign against Maduro as its attacks on alleged drug smugglers come under legal scrutiny

Donald Trump expanded his pressure campaign on Venezuela’s strongman Nicolás Maduro this week with a spectacular high seas seizure by US forces of an oil tanker carrying the South American country’s crude.

The US president followed up with a raft of sanctions, tightening Washington’s economic crackdown even as he avoids — so far — military action on Venezuela’s soil.

Trump on Friday declined to say whether he intends to seize more Venezuelan oil assets, but said that attacking “by land is a lot easier and that’s going to start happening”.

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