The Trump administration labels oil tankers transporting Venezuelan crude oil in the Caribbean as ‘illegal’, claiming they are ‘illegal evasion of sanctions by Venezuela’. Washington’s sanctions against shipping companies simply assumed compliance with some kind of international legality system. But journalists should know better (and they do). They know that U.S. government laws have no validity in international waters. It’s another example of how vocabulary coming out of Washington is manipulated to distort the facts.
