The United States will hand over to Venezuela one of the tankers it seized earlier this month, Reuters reported, citing two unnamed US officials. According to the officials, the tanker that will be handed over to Venezuela is the Panama-flagged supertanker M/T Sophia that was seized in the Caribbean on January 7. Since December 2025, the United States has seized seven tankers in the Caribbean and North Atlantic. On January 3, the United States attacked civilian and military facilities in Caracas. He also said that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife had been captured and taken out of the country.