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2020-04-30 Caribbean-Latin America

US warship seizes Venezuelan vessel in southwestern Pacific

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Posted by Fred 2020-04-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top
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#1 Shit show incoming along with fiery speeches of America drowning in imperialist blood... or something.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-04-30 09:03|| 2020-04-30 09:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. So, in international waters. O.k. That makes it hunky dory.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-30 09:08|| 2020-04-30 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Perhaps they were filling the void left by Carnival and Norwegian.

Posted by bbrewer126 2020-04-30 11:31|| 2020-04-30 11:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Excuse me, but IIRC, when my dad was in the Navy many years ago, WestPac was Asia, not El Salvador. When you talk about southwestern Pacific, I think about places like Indonesia and Australia. When I read the headline and saw Venezuela I jumped to the conclusion that China and fentanyl were involved. But when you talk about El Salvador that's a whole other thing, most likely ordinary tootsky.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-30 14:34|| 2020-04-30 14:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Just trying to get the geography straight.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-30 14:35|| 2020-04-30 14:35|| Front Page Top

#6 WestPac was Asia, not El Salvador.

Looking at a map — geography is not my strength — it appears a ship from Venezuela would have to transit the Panama canal to get to the Pacific side of South America. Possibly it did, or possibly it is just registered there. But really, why is a Venezuelan fishing boat wandering the Pacific at all?

Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-30 15:47|| 2020-04-30 15:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, my first thought was like Java. Still strange location as TW points out.

I wonder if there was a defector on-board.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-30 15:51|| 2020-04-30 15:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Prolly a "Fishing boat" that doesn't fish on its way to Mexican waters. We board and inspect all of those

Posted by Frank G 2020-04-30 17:40|| 2020-04-30 17:40|| Front Page Top

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