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The only oil that will leave Venezuela will be that which is properly and legally coordinated, added the Southern Command in its communiqué. Buenos Aires, January 15 (NA) – The United States Southern Command of the Armed Forces informed of an operation carried out this Thursday before dawn, through which marines and sailors of the US forces detained the oil tanker Verónica 'without incident'. According to that authority and as could be learned by the Argentine News Agency, the Verónica was 'operating defying the quarantine established by President Trump for sanctioned ships in the Caribbean'.

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