How the dreaded Aragua Train, Venezuela's bloody megabanda that has expanded across Latin America, operates

Si el Tren de Aragua fuera un “ferrocarril”, su estación central estaría en Venezuela y recorrería “Colombia, Brasil, Perú, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, y posiblemente Estados Unidos”.La periodista e investigadora venezolana Ronna Rísquez emplea esta alegoría para ilustrar el alcance de las actividades delictivas de este grupo en su libro “El Tren de Aragua. La banda que revolucionó el crimen organizado en América Latina”, publicado este año por Edi…

It was born as a small group in a Venezuelan state that today engages in various criminal activities and operates in almost all of South America, according to experts.

Thousands of members of the Bolivarian National Guard of Venezuela, police and soldiers participated this Wednesday in an operation to take control of the Tocorón prison and “dismantle and put an end to the organized crime gangs and other criminal networks” that operated in that penitentiary in the northern state of Aragua.