{"id":39567,"date":"2025-12-25T04:41:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=39567"},"modified":"2025-12-25T04:42:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:42:01","slug":"us-military-focus-shifts-to-venezuelan-oil-embargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=39567","title":{"rendered":"US Military Focus Shifts to Venezuelan Oil Embargo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington D.C.<\/strong> \u2013 The United States military is prioritizing a near-complete embargo of Venezuelan oil for at least the next two months, according to a US official. This strategic shift emphasizes economic pressure over direct military intervention in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, stated that the White House directive mandates a concentrated effort on implementing and maintaining a strict blockade of Venezuelan oil exports. This move comes as Venezuela possesses significant oil reserves, with accusations from Caracas that Washington seeks to control them.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhile military options remain on the table, the focus is on utilizing economic leverage through sanctions to achieve the desired outcome,\u201d<\/em> the official explained. This statement potentially tempers earlier suggestions of potential US ground strikes in Venezuela, previously alluded to by President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The administration believes that the existing economic pressures are already significantly impacting the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. According to the official, Venezuela could face a severe economic crisis by late January unless substantial concessions are made to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The situation remains fluid, and DZWatch will continue to provide updates as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=50\">More Economy articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington D.C. \u2013 The United States military is prioritizing a near-complete embargo of Venezuelan oil for at least the next two months, according to a US official. This strategic shift emphasizes economic pressure over direct military intervention in Venezuela.The officia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economie-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39569,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39567\/revisions\/39569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}