Trump says that the US military destroyed a boat managed by Trine de Aragoa off Venezuela. Here is what to know about the gang.

The deadly American military strike in the Caribbean Sea region this week A boat claims to carry drugs From Venezuela is the last scale that President Trump has taken to combat the threat he sees from the Trine de Aragoa gang.

The White House provided some details about the Tuesday attack and insists that 11 people on board were members of the gang. It is not known that the criminal organization, which tracks its roots to the Venezuelan prison, has a major role in the smuggling of global drugs, but because it is involved in killings, blackmail, and human smuggling.

Defense Minister Beit Higseth to caution On Wednesday, the United States will keep the origins in the Caribbean Sea and beaten anyone “trafficking in that water we know is Narko’s appointed terrorists.”

American officials have not yet explained how the army decided that those on board the ship are members of Tren de Aragua. The strike represents a model in how the United States is ready to combat drug trafficking in Western hemisphere and appears to be sending a combat message to governments in the region as well as drug dealers.

Treen de Arajoa operations spread beyond Venezuela

Treen de Aragua grew more than a decade ago in a prison that does not control law with hardening criminals in the central state of Aragua, Venezuela. The gang has expanded in recent years, recruiting among more than 7.7 million Veneers who fled economic turmoil in their homeland and immigrated to other Latin American countries or the United States

Mr. Trump and administration officials have constantly blamed the gang for the root of violence and dealing with illegal drugs that suffer from some American cities. Mr. Trump repeated his claim – contradicts American intelligence evaluation evaluation The Aragua train works under the control of the President of Venezoam Nicholas Maduro.

During his 2024 presidential campaign, Mr. Trump Aurora, Colorado, described as a “war zone” overlooked with the gang members. City police chief This description rejectedIt shows that the gang is linked to a violent organized crime that is concentrated in three residential complexes in the city.

Aurora Police chief Todd Chamberlain said earlier this year, and his ministry has returned a total of nine members, confirming from the Trine de Aragua who have passed through Aurora in the past two years, said Urra Todd Chamberlain said earlier this year.

The size of the gang is unclear. The countries with a large number of population of Venezuelan immigrants, including Peru and Colombia, have accused the group behind Burning of violence in the region.

The authorities were identified in Chile for the first time Gang operations In 2022, prosecutors and investigators said that the group initially participated in human trafficking in human trafficking, organizing unauthorized border crossings and sexual exploitation, but over time, members expanded their activities to more violent crimes, such as kidnapping, torture and extortion and became more in drug trafficking.

While Trine de Argua dominated the trafficking in Catinian in Chile, unlike other criminal organizations from Colombia, Central America and Brazil, it does not put a wide participation in cocaine smuggling across international borders, according to what it said. InsightIt is a research center published last month a 64 -page report on the gang based on two years of research.

“We have not found any direct participation from TDA in the across national drug trade, although there are cases of them working as subcontractors for other drug smuggling organizations,” said Jeremy Makdirmut, co -founder of the founder of Insight Crime.

MCDERMOTT added that with the spread of the cells affiliated with Latin America, a big leap for the gang will never be a drug trade.

Bolivia and non -coastal Colombia, with the possibility of access to the Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the border with Venezuela, are the best cocaine producers in the world.

Trump appointed Tren de Aragua, a foreign terrorist organization

On his first day in his post, Mr. Trump took steps to The gang is appointed a foreign terrorist organization Along with many Mexican drug gangs. The Biden administration had sanctions on the gang and offered $ 12 million as bonuses to arrest three of its leaders.

Mr. Trump’s executive order accused the gang of working closely with the senior officials of Maduro-most notably the former Vice President and the ruler of Aragoa once, Trek Esami-to infiltrate immigration flows, and the United States is overwhelmed with cocaine and conspiracy against the country. A American intelligence evaluation It was released earlier this year, found the minimum communication between the gang and the low -level officials in the Venezuelan government, but he said that there was no direct coordination between the gang and the government.

In March, Mr. Trump also announced that the group is a gas force, Calling a law in wartime in the eighteenth century This allows the United States to deport non -citizens without any legal asylum. under Foreign enemies lawThe administration sent more than 250 Venezuelan men Aqsa Security Prison in El SalvadorThey remained in heterogeneous and without reaching a lawyer until they were deported in July to Venezuela.

A The American Appeals Court Committee has ruled this week Mr. Trump cannot use this law to accelerate the deportations of persons who accuse his administration of being members of Treen de Aragoa. However, the Supreme Court will make a final ruling on this issue.

The Trump administration claimed that the men who were deported to prison were members of the Trine de Aragoa gang, but provided few evidence. One of the officials of the justification he used was that men had certain types of tattoos claiming to indicate gang membership, including crowns, watches and other symbols. But the experts said Tattoos are not reliable signs From belonging to the gang.

Trump cited the gang in justifying the military strike

The United States did not issue the names and 11 people killed on Tuesday. It also did not provide an estimate of the amount of drugs that the boat was carrying it.

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio told reporters on Wednesday that the US military would continue the deadly strikes on suspected drug smuggling ships, but he avoided questions about the details of the strike, including if people were warned in the boat before the attack.

But he said that Mr. Trump “has a right, under multiple circumstances, to eliminate imminent threats to the United States.”

“If you are on a boat full of cocaine, fentianil, or anything else, you went to the United States, you are an immediate threat to the United States,” told reporters at Mexico City during a visit to Latin America.

The Venezuela government, which has long been reduced by the presence of Trin de Aragua in the country of South America, and estimated its reaction to the strike to question the validity of a video clip that offered the attack. The Minister of Communications, Freddy -Nize, suggested that he was created using artificial intelligence and described it as “almost animation, rather than a realistic photography of the explosion.”

Higseth replied that the strike was “certainly an artificial intelligence,” adding that he had seen live clips from Washington while carrying out the strike.

“The strike indicates that the United States government is” very dangerous “in its targeting of drug traffickers.

But he asked if the link to Tren de Aragua has a greater relationship with the “familiarity” that the Americans are now with the gang.

“I definitely hope that the US government will enjoy intelligence and that we do not shoot first and ask questions later,” said Berg.