Top Tren de Aragua leader killed in US military strike, Trump announces
One of the top leaders of Tren de Aragua, a cartel and US-designated terrorist organization, has been killed in a US military strike, President Donald Trump said Friday.
Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, known as Niño Guerrero, was credited with transforming a Venezuelan prison gang into a transnational operation with tentacles stretching through large swathes of Latin America, the United States and even across the Atlantic to Spain.
Guerrero, who was listed as a most wanted fugitive by US Immigration and Custom Enforcement, was killed in “a swift and lethal kinetic strike,” Trump announced Friday evening on Truth Social.
His post included a video showing a green roofed building disappearing under a cloud of billowing smoke caused by a massive explosion.
The president said the strike was “coordinated closely with our friends in Venezuela, with whom we are working very well.”
It was conducted earlier this week in collaboration with Venezuelan security forces, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth lated added on X.
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