{"id":1824,"date":"2026-06-13T06:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T06:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2026-06-13T06:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T06:40:11","slug":"trump-says-us-military-strike-killed-leader-of-venezuelas-tren-de-aragua-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US military strike killed leader of Venezuela&#8217;s Tren de Aragua gang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div>June 12 (Reuters) &#8211; President Donald Trump on Friday said U.S. forces carried out a strike that \u200bkilled Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, also known as Ni\u00f1o Guerrero, the leader \u200cof Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.<\/div><div>&#8220;At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Nino Guerrero the infamous leader of Tren De Aragua, one \u200bof the most bloodthirsty Terrorist Organizations on Planet,&#8221; Trump said in a post on \u200bTruth Social on Friday evening.<\/div><div>&#8220;This action was coordinated closely with our friends \u2060in Venezuela, with whom we are working very well.&#8221;<\/div><div>Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth posted on \u200bX that the strike was conducted earlier this week and that Guerrero &#8220;was confirmed killed during \u200bthe strike.&#8221;<\/div><div>Venezuela&#8217;s information ministry said that during the operation there were clashes with members of criminal groups, in which the leader, Guerrero, was neutralized.<\/div><div>The operation involved specialized technological support and was carried out through cooperation \u200band intelligence-sharing between authorities of both countries, the ministry said.<\/div><div>The Trump administration has repeatedly \u200btargeted Guerrero and other leaders of the Tren de Aragua organization with sanctions over alleged involvement in \u200ccriminal activities \u2060such as illicit drug smuggling, human trafficking and money laundering.<\/div><div>The State Department has designated Tren de Aragua a foreign terrorist organization.<\/div><div>Trump has claimed Tren de Aragua coordinated its U.S. activities with the Venezuelan government of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. The Trump administration has cited the alleged \u200bconnection to justify deporting \u200bsome immigrants in \u2060the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.<\/div><div>Tren de Aragua is known for being involved in human trafficking and controls routes taken \u200bby Venezuelans and other South American migrants heading south to relatively \u200bprosperous Chile \u2060and other destinations in South America or Europe.<\/div><div>The group has also been linked to extortion, kidnapping, money laundering, contract killings, smuggling and organized retail theft from Panama to Brazil and along \u2060the Andean \u200bcorridor, Latin American police officials say.<\/div><div>Guerrero escaped from the \u200bTocoron prison in Venezuela along with other gang leaders just before a police raid in 2023.<\/div><div><address><div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Jasper Ward\" class=\"wp-image-50\" src=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b897430deec882b8d602237800acf69b.avif\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div><div>Jasper Ward<\/div><\/div><div><ul><li><span><div><svg><title>Email<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><li><span><div><svg><title>X<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/address><\/div><\/div><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1822\">US Justice Department clears Paramount\u2019s acquisition of Warner Bros<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1818\">Anthropic disables top-tier AI models after US order limiting foreign access<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1815\">Main provisions of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal abandoned by Trump<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Friday said U.S. forces carried out a strike that \u200bkilled Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, also known as Ni\u00f1o Guerrero, the leader \u200cof Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[94,85,143,56],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-americas","tag-criminal","tag-venezuela","tag-worker-rights"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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