The apprehension of the Motor Vessel Sagitta is the seventh sanctioned tanker seized by U.S. forces as part of the effort by Trump’s administration to control the production, refining and global distribution of Venezuela’s oil products.

President Donald Trump suggested that he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the U.S. controlling Greenland, a message that came as a bipartisan Congressional delegation sought to lower tensions in the Danish capital.

Venezuela’s acting president plans to send an envoy to Washington to meet with senior U.S. officials on the same day that opposition leader Maria Corina Machado will be in town for her own talks in the wake of Nicolas Maduro’s ouster.

U.S. Southern Command announced it conducted strikes against three alleged drug boats traveling as a convoy in international waters. Three were killed on one boat, while those aboard the other two boats jumped off.

The president on Monday declined to answer questions about whether other U.S. strikes had occurred inside Venezuela or if further attacks could be expected.

Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes and social media influencer Livvy Dunne spent time with more than 1,300 sailors aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford and USS Mahan, both currently deployed in the Caribbean.

The U.S. military has steadily amassed troops, naval and air assets in the Caribbean Sea to strike alleged drug traffickers.

The haul, approximately 49,010 pounds, resulted from 15 interdictions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

The carrier strike group will join forces already in the Caribbean Sea. Officials describe the U.S. military presence as the largest in the Caribbean in decades.

The USS Jason Dunham returned to Naval Station Mayport in Florida after 91 days at sea as part of the U.S. mission in the Caribbean.