What is the Venezuelan gang directed by Trump?

In September 2023, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro sent 11,000 soldiers to storm a prison prison in Northern Aragua. But they were not sent to stop the rebellion.

The troops took control of the prison from a powerful gang that turned it into something resort, complete with the zoo, restaurants, nightclub, betting store and pool.

But the boss gang hector Guerrera Flores escaped.

The Tren de Aragua is now at the intersection of President Donald Trump’s desire to remove foreign criminals from the US as part of his promise to provide mass deportations of illegal immigrants.

That’s what we know about the Taragua Trees.

Initially, the Trera de Aragua was a prison gang, which hectare Guer Flores has turned into a “transnational criminal organization”, reports the US State Department, which offers a $ 5 million reward for information that could lead to his arrest.

The 41 -year -old Guher Flores was in the turner and came out of the turner for more than a decade.

He fled in 2012, bribing the guard and then moved in 2013. Upon returning, he turned the prison into a recreation complex.

And he expanded the impact of the gang far beyond the prison gate, seizing control of gold mines in Bolivar, narcotic corridors on the Caribbean coast and underground border crossings between Venezuela and Colombia, the US State Department reports.

The gang’s name is translated as “Aragua Train”, and this may come from the Union of Rail Workers.

Louis Iglya, Professor of Criminology at the Central University of Venezuela, said the BBC that the union was controlled by the railway section, which crossed the Aragua and demands contractors and sold work in the jobs.

Trend de Aragua, led by Guer Flores, expanded to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile and diversified the demanding migrants to trade sex, murder and abduction of contracts.

In most cases, the Trinus de Aragua spread from Venezuela, when in 2014 the country entered the humanitarian and economic emergency, which made the crime less profitable, and believed to be in eight countries, including the United States, were knots, including.

The journalist who wrote the final book about the group, Ranna Riskes, estimated that last year there are 5,000 members and an annual profit of $ 10 to $ 15 million.

Others appreciated their friendship in about half of this figure.

Chile’s prosecutor called Taragua Traga’s Troga “Hard Organization” that uses murder and torture to achieve its goals.

Although he is smaller or less wealthy than other criminal groups in Latin America, Trera de Aragua is often compared to the UV MS-13 from El Salvador.

The Traga Traga Trake members were accused of dressing as Chilean police officers, and then the abduction of the Venezuelan military officer Ronald Ogeda, whose body was found in Santiago, Chile, in March 2024.

Last summer, the American Treasury, according to President Joe Biden at that time, authorized Tren de Aragua, saying the gang was involved in trading sex across the US border.

On Saturday, Trump appealed to the law on foreign enemies of the 18th century, when he accused the TRA Aragua Tresto of “committing, attempting and threatening invading the US territory”.

He said the gang participated in the “irregular war” against the US in the direction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Shortly after his post in January, Trump also announced a TRAP Foreign Terrorist Organization Track, placing a group in the same category as the Islamic State and Boko Haram, Islamist Nigeria militants.

Texas, Florida, New York and Illinois, allegedly members of Tren de Aragua have been arrested in recent months and have been charged with crimes ranging from murder to kidnapping.

Last summer, NBC News reported that the Department of the Motherland estimated that 600 Venezuelan migrants in the US had a connection with the gang and 100 were considered members.

As of 2023, 770,000 Venezuelans lived in the US, which is just under 2% of all immigrants in the district, the Migration Institute reports.

Most of them the US government called a security status.

Customs and Border Protection Reports, which face 313,500 Venezuelan migrants at the border in 2024.