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Venezuela’s Cop Killing Street Gang Tren de Aragua Takes America - Or Does It?

Venezuela’s Cop Killing Street Gang Tren de Aragua Takes America - Or Does It?

Update: 2024-09-031
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The Tren de Aragua grew out of disastrous regime policies to give gang leaders more power in prisons. Its mysterious leader, Niño Guerrero, soon controlled an entire facility, and installed a prison bar, a nightclub—and even a zoo.

More state bungling allowed the Tren to take over entire city neighbourhoods unchallenged. So when Venezuela’s economy plummeted and hundreds of thousands fled the nation, it became a key player in the booming migrant smuggling trade, spreading into neighboring Latin American states.

Now the Tren is in the US. But is there really a full-scale invasion, as media are beginning to say? We unpick the fact and fiction of this dangerous new group.

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Venezuela’s Cop Killing Street Gang Tren de Aragua Takes America - Or Does It?

Venezuela’s Cop Killing Street Gang Tren de Aragua Takes America - Or Does It?

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