Venezuelan police have arrested an alleged accomplice in the murder of a TikTok influencer who was killed during a livestream ...

Jesus Sarmiento, who had nearly 80,000 followers on TikTok, was murdered by armed men who broke into the residence where he ...

Tren de Aragua is Venezuela’s most powerful homegrown criminal actor and the only Venezuelan gang that has successfully projected its power abroad. It has grown from its origins as a prison gang into ...

President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 on Friday was tailored to the Venezuela-based gang Tren de Aragua. Trump’s proclamation, which remained unseen by the ...

What is Tren de Aragua? According to a July 2024 reward for information on Hector Guerrero Flores from the U.S. State Department, Tren de Aragua started as a prison gang in Venezuela and has since ...

Other countries are more skeptical. In Venezuela, the foreign minister recently claimed Tren de Aragua was a media creation, before backtracking. Below, InSight Crime looks at why governments in the ...

The attorneys sparred before a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, the latest step in a ...

The Trump administration has invoked a 227 year old law, the Alien Enemies Act, to target Tren de Aragua, a gang with its roots in the prisons of Venezuela. Who are they and how wide is their reach?

Tren de Aragua (Train of Aragua, or Aragua Train) has roots in Tocorón prison in Venezuela’s northern Aragua state, which the group’s leaders had transformed into a mini-city with a pool ...

Tren de Aragua, a transnational criminal gang that originated in a Venezuela prison, has slowly made its way south and north in recent years. Federal officials say it’s now operating in the ...

The bloodthirsty Venezuelan prison gang, Tren de Aragua, has wreaked havoc on cities across the U.S. – infesting apartment complexes, committing high-profile murders and lying in wait in ...

Transparencia Venezuela, Tren de Aragua, accessed Oct. 31, 2024; BBC News Mundo, El lujo que vi cuando entré en la cárcel de Tocorón, el búnker del temido Tren de Aragua en Venezuela, Oct. 3, 2023 ...