The president says the leader of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua cartel has been executed.
Donald Trump has announced that the U.S. carried out a “swift and deadly” strike to execute the leader of the Venezuela n Tren de Aragua crime group.
Trump, who campaigned on peace but remains embroiled in war with Iran, said that a strike fatally struck Héctor “El Niño” Guerrero. He said the attack was “coordinated closely with our friends in Venezuela, with whom we are working very well. ” Trump did specify where the strike took place, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said it was at a compound in Venezuela and was in collaboration with local forces.
Trump, who turns 80 this week, called the gang “one of the most bloodthirsty Terrorist Organizations on Planet Earth. ” He included a video with his post, which he said showed the attack. Donald Trump boasts on Truth Social of using the U.S. military to take out the leader of the Tren de Aragua drug gang.
Tren de Aragua has been labeled a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. for involvement in drug smuggling, human trafficking, andin a New York federal court last year with racketeering conspiracy and other crimes, including supporting terrorists. The U.S. Navy has also killed some 200 people in boats off the coast of South America, claiming they’re drug traffickers, but have not released their identities.
, one of the boat attacks by the U.S. military may have killed human trafficking victims because an unusually large number of people were crowded on one of the “drug” vessels. Quizzed last Sunday by NBC interviewer Kristen Welker in light of his special forces’ seizure of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, launching a war against Iran, establishing a ship blockade off Cuba, and expressing a desire to make Canada a 51st state and taking over Greenland, Trump claimed he made no such promise—and
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