What to know about Skipper, the covert Venezuelan oil tanker seized by the US

Tensions between Washington and Caracas reached an all-time high after American forces seized a sneaky sanctioned tanker carrying an estimated 1.1 million barrels of crude oil off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday. The tanker, identified as Skipper by maritime analysts Vanguard, was allegedly the same “sanctioned shadow vessel known for carrying black-market sanctioned oil” to Iran, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday. Leavitt confirmed that the