«Here we are»: Aragua Train challenges the police of Peru

Paulina* has worked as a sex worker for 15 years in the streets of Lima, the Peruvian capital. She does so to support her family, because she has no alternative to supporting herself. “When you have children, you have to look wherever they can eat,” said Paulina. For all these years working as a sex worker, she has lived in her own flesh countless violences and has witnessed the abuses suffered by other sex workers. Paulina thought she had seen …

The criminal gang Tren de Aragua maintains its criminal operations in Peru and allegedly challenged the National Police of Peru (PNP), after a senior official said that the organization was broken up in the country. Aldo Ávila Novoa, head of the Directorate against Trafficking in Persons and Illicit Traffic in Migrants of the PNP, stated that the Aragua Train was no longer operating in the country. “All the leaders have fallen,” said the agent o…