US Returns Seized Tanker to Venezuela

Anti-Trump narrative

The tanker return exposes the hypocrisy of Trump’s Venezuela policy, which relies on coerced testimony and politically motivated indictments while selectively redefining coercive force to avoid calling it war. Washington downplays its own historical role in shaping South American drug networks and applies drug enforcement selectively as a tool of geopolitical pressure rather than a consistent legal principle. That double standard sharpens when Maduro is framed as a criminal threat, while Trump pardons convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández, revealing how law is bent to suit strategy.