US President Donald Trump says Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, known as Niño Guerrero, has been killed in a US military strike.
Guerrero was the leader of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan
prison gang and US-designated terrorist organisation infamous for
narco-terrorism operations that spread across Latin America, the United States
and over the Atlantic to Spain.
The group has also been linked to extortion, kidnapping,
money laundering, contract killings, smuggling and organised retail theft.
The US State Department had offered rewards of up to $5
million for information leading to Guerrero’s arrest.
In a Truth Social post on Friday, Trump said Guerrero was
killed in a “swift and lethal kinetic strike”.
Trump’s post included a video showing a green roofed
building disappearing under a cloud of billowing smoke caused by a massive
explosion.
The president added that the strike was “coordinated closely
with our friends in Venezuela, with whom we are working very well”.
Venezuelan authorities confirmed their involvement in what
they described as a “joint operation”.
“There were clashes with members of these criminal
structures, in which Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, alias ‘Nino Guerrero’,
was neutralized,” the ministry of communications said in a statement.
In January, the US captured then-Venezuelan President
Nicolás Maduro from his compound to face criminal charges in New York.
The Trump administration accused him of collaborating with
Tren de Aragua, and named Guerrero as a co-conspirator in Maduro’s indictment.
The US has now maintained friendlier ties with Delcy
Rodríguez, Maduro’s successor, by lifting sanctions on her and collaborating to
extract Venezuela’s oil reserves – the world’s most plentiful.
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