Chilean Prosecutor’s Office Charges Members of Los Gallegos, Arm of the Aragua Train in Arica, for Planning an Explosive Attack · Global Voices

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On November 19, after an extensive trial, the Arica Oral Court sentenced 34 members of Los Gallegos, a cell of the Aragua Train operating in the northern part of the country, for crimes that include illicit association, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, murder, extortion and trafficking in persons for the purpose of aggravated sexual exploitation, among others.Days later, a group of prisoners held in the Acha Prison, in coordination with membe…

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The Aragua Train, one of the most widespread criminal gangs in America this year, entered the conversation in recent days, after five of its members were arrested in Mexico, according to the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch.Speeded of feminicides, human trafficking, sexual exploitation and drug trafficking, the members of the Aragua Train in Mexico are seen as generators of violence, and it was discovered that Me…

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On Monday, the Arica Public Prosecutor's Office completed an investigation against three accused, two of them members of Los Gallegos, a gang classified as a tentacle in that area of the northern Chilean extreme of the Venezuelan criminal organization the Tren de Aragua, for planning an explosive attack with a car bomb on the premises of the Court of Guarantee and the Oral Court in Arica. In both buildings, it was where the hearings were held in…

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Three members of the “Los Gallegos” clan, operating arm of the Aragua Train in the Arica and Parinacota Region, intended to use a bomb to execute an attack. According to regional prosecutor Mario Carrera, the targets were the prison and the Arica Court, although the date on which they planned to carry out the attack was not specified. “This situation is not strange to us, since there were two identical attacks or attempted attacks in prisons and…

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Three convicted prisoners, coordinated with members of the Aragua Train in Colombia, sought to exploit the Acha prison to escape. Also, and as an act of retaliation against the Chilean system, they intended to detonate a car with explosives in front of the North American Guarantee Court.

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The president of the association, Mariela Hernández, called on the executive branch to “take the necessary measures to provide protection and protection to all of us who are part of the courts.”