Head of State denounced the kidnapping of crew members of the oil tanker stolen by the US: They are missing!

Published at: 11/12/2025 07:16 PM

The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, reported that the crew members of the oil tanker that was stolen in an act of international piracy, by the United States government that confessed to the assault, “are kidnapped, missing, no one knows where they are.”

“The crew members of that ship were carrying 1,900,000 barrels of oil to international markets, who paid for it in Venezuela, because everyone who takes oil first pays for it, is kidnapped,” he said.

He said that “yesterday their masks fell off, that if the asylum, the Aragua Train, drug trafficking, no, it's oil.”

In that regard, he stated that the United States has “inaugurated a new era: criminal naval piracy in the Caribbean. Venezuela rejects, in all its parts, this act of criminal piracy.”

He also argued that “yesterday was an absolutely criminal and illegal act when they carried out a military assault, kidnapping and robbery like pirates from the Caribbean of a civil and private mercantile-commercial-ship, which was robbed almost entering the Atlantic. It wasn't off the coast of Venezuela, it was much higher up.”

“If Venezuela didn't have the largest oil reserves in the world, there would be no Venezuela for America's billionaires and supremacists. They want to steal Venezuelan oil, not pay for it, but since the time of Bolivar, by presidential decree, everything that is under the earth, be it oil, gold, minerals, belongs to the sovereign people of Venezuela,” he emphasized.

This was stated in Pinto Salinas, El Recreo parish, where he visited the “Comuna Amalivaca” Self-Government Room, in order to inspect and deliver comprehensive rehabilitation works, within the framework of Thursday of the Commune.

The head of state said that “honest people in the United States, the entire population, should know that the supremacists who are governing the United States want a war in South America, they want a new Somalia or worse, they want a new Vietnam, or Libya, a new eternal war.”

“With God's favor, there will be no war, but peace, peace and peace,” he said.