What is the TRen of Aragua? doWhat does it have to do with the corpses found in bags in Bogotá? In La Nocturna of RCN Radio We tell you how they operate and how this criminal gang was created.
The Tren de Aragua is the largest criminal group in Venezuela with more or less 3000 men among its ranks. The origin of this gang dates back to a prison in the Venezuelan country called Tocoron.
In this prison is the leader and top boss of the gang Hector Guerrero, aka ‘The Warrior Boy’. This man became the leader of the armed group in 2012, and since then the band has not stopped growing in Venezuela.
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One of the activities it controls in Venezuelan territory is illegal mining, in the state of Bolívar, and drug trafficking corridors in the coastal state of Sucre. But, the expansion of the band has not only been in Venezuela, because its members have also reached countries like Colombia, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Brazil.
The origins of the Aragua Train
The criminal gang began as a syndicate that was linked to the construction of a train in the state of Aragua in Venezuela, hence its name, but as mentioned above, since Guerrero took the leadThe band has only grown.
According to Luis Izquiel, a lawyer and expert in criminology, “these acts demonstrate the impunity of Venezuela. Also, the leader of the gang that is sowing terror in Bogotá, Norte de Santander, countries like Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil, he is in a prison in Venezuela, he is not fleeing and he is not hiding, this raises the alerts of complicity with the Venezuelan government as well as the response of God given hair to the request for control of the Niño Guerrero by the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia Lopez.
