Trump announces death of Venezuelan faction leader El Tren de Aragua
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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced on his social network (Truth) that the southern command of the US armed forces, based in Florida, executed Niño Guerrero (Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores) - considered the leader of El Tren de Aragua, a group of drug traffickers.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced on his social network (Truth) that the southern command of the US armed forces, based in Florida, executed Niño Guerrero (Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores) - considered the leader of El Tren de Aragua, a group of drug traffickers.
The action took place in the southeast of the state of Bolívar, whose capital (Ciudad Bolívar) is 715 kilometers from Pacaraima (RR), a Brazilian city on the border with Venezuela.
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According to Trump, the execution took place in “a quick and lethal attack” carried out “in close collaboration with our friends in Venezuela”. The American president describes El Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization.
The Venezuelan government statement calls it a “criminal organization.” In the note, the Venezuelan government promises that it “will continue to adopt the necessary measures to guarantee peace, tranquility and protection” of the population.
Trump stated that “the terrorists of El Tren de Aragua no longer have a safe haven in Venezuela or anywhere else” and that under his “leadership” “cruel killers and drug kingpins will be found anytime, anywhere.”
The southern command of the U.S. armed forces that acted in the execution is responsible for planning, military operations and security cooperation for the United States in Central America, South America and the Caribbean,
At the end of May, the US State Department, counterpart to the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, published that it began to designate the PCC, as well as Comando Vermelho, as a criminal terrorist organization.
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