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A former Drug Enforcement Administration special agent says the activities of the violent Venezuelan prison gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA), in Texas, could be “just the beginning.”

Police in Aurora, Colorado, continue releasing information about members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdN) and their alleged activities in apartments in the city. Most recently, police identified ten TdN gang members and provided details of their alleged crimes.

A Texas judge shut down a hotel in the border city of El Paso following reports from city officials regarding criminal activity involving the Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang. City officials complained in a lawsuit against the owners of the Gateway Hotel after responding to nearly 700 calls for service to the address.

The Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan transnational crime syndicate now terrorizing several U.S. cities, established a firm criminal presence after socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro emptied Venezuela’s prisons in late 2023.

Criminal gangs in Denmark have begun to recruit “child soldiers” from Sweden to carry out attacks, the Danish government revealed.

Former President Donald Trump accused an unnamed leader of reducing crime in his nation by “sending … murderers to the United States of America.” That comment in his Republican National Convention (RNC) speech on Thursday night apparently offended El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele, who cryptically vowed to take the “high ground” in response to the remark.

A court in El Salvador sentenced Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang member Ángel Geovany Guzmán González to 1,420 years in prison.

An MS-13 gang leader whom authorities have been hunting for more than three years was arrested on Sunday in Houston, Texas.

Rapper Young Thug’s attorney Brian Steel was arrested and sentenced to ten weekends in the Fulton County Jail after being held in contempt of court on Monday.

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, described the dramatic crackdown on violent gangs in his country as a “spiritual war,” explaining to journalist Tucker Carlson this week that the largest gang, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), has a long history of satanic activity.

U.S. law enforcement authorities in Louisiana allegedly dismantled a sex trafficking network led by three Venezuelan nationals, CNN en Español reported on Wednesday — one of which is allegedly a member of the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization.

Because no national figures ever actually go there to interact with the residents, the people of the Bronx are often spoken for, and caricatured, by media and politicians claiming to represent them.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) shared a letter written to President Joe Biden on Sunday in which he called for protection to be given to the remains of Davy and Natalie Lloyd as they are transported back to the United States from Haiti.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced this week it would begin including the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization in its gang-affiliation apprehension reports.

Criminal gang leaders in Haiti threatened the recently inaugurated “Transitional Council” in charge of the country on Monday.

A report claimed two members of Chile’s Investigative Police were working with a human trafficking cell of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang.

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry formally resigned on Thursday after Haiti’s “Transitional Council” was sworn in.

Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich asserted that the Tren de Aragua’s operations are “not autonomous” from Venezuela’s regime

Millions in Ecuador overwhelmingly approved security measures that President Daniel Noboa proposed to fight rampant gang violence.

Chilean far-left President Gabriel Boric recalled his ambassador to Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday after the socialist regime there denied the existence of the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization.

Foreign Minister Yvan Gil of Venezuela claimed on Monday that the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization does not exist.

A police dog was stabbed and killed protecting an officer during an attack by MS-13 gang members at a state prison in Virginia.

More than 53,000 people have fled Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from March 8 to 27, 2024, as a result of rampant gang violence.

A report in Colombian media accused Venezuela of using the brutal Tren de Aragua gang to persecute dissidents abroad.

Haitian gang members were killed and set on fire in the Petion-Ville suburb in Port-au-Prince in an apparent case of vigilantism, Reuters reported on Thursday.

Venezuela Attorney General Tarek William Saab claimed Tuesday that the Tren de Aragua criminal organization is a “myth.”

Parts of Haiti have been left without electricity after groups of armed men stormed a power plant and four substations in Port-au-Prince.

Haiti’s National Police carried out a series of operations in Port-au-Prince against the armed gangs led by Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier.

American missionaries trapped in Haiti pleaded for rescue on Tuesday, reporting constant gunfire and corpses in the streets.

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, declared that “we can fix” the ongoing political turmoil and rampant gang violence in Haiti.

The government of El Salvador announced this week that it will serve as one of several venues for the 2024 Gamergy international video game e-sports event in October.

A New York ex-convict turned criminal justice reform activist is facing murder charges after the dismembered body of another former inmate was discovered in an apartment.

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, issued what he described as a “warning to a friend” during his address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday evening, asking Americans to fight “global elites” who “hate our success and fear yours.”

A Chicago man accused of stabbing a stranger on Christmas was released by a judge — then missed his court date for attempted murder while he was allegedly busy stabbing another random woman.

Venezuela’s socialist regime allowed Héctor “the Child” Guerrero, the leader of Venezuela’s largest mega-gang, the Tren de Aragua (“Aragua Train”), to escape prison months before the organized crime syndicate established a criminal presence in New York City.

Security authorities in Ecuador detained over 6,600 individuals in the first month since the country declared its operation to crush gang violence a formal “internal armed conflict.”