Peru, Chile Prisons May Struggle to Contain Tren de Aragua
TREN DE ARAGUA
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16 NOV 2022
The capture of Tren de Aragua members will test if Peru and Chile’s prisons can hold this dangerous gang.
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NEWS
ELITES AND CRIME
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26 AUG 2022
Venezuela's prisons have failed to stop the country's most dangerous criminals, these can run criminal empires from behind bars.
BOLIVIA
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25 JUL 2022
Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, has gradually become one of South America's main criminal threats, with Chile its latest target.
CHILE
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23 JUN 2022
Ketamine has become all but the most popular synthetic drug in Chile, as traffickers are increasingly marketing ketamine to buyers as Tusi.
ELITES AND CRIME
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11 APR 2022
Elements of the Venezuelan underworld, whether drug cartels, street gangs or illegal mining groups, have hit upon a unique way of establishing social control:…
CHILE
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21 OCT 2021
Authorities in Chile are on high alert due to reports that a Venezuelan gang known as Tren de Aragua is involved in migrant smuggling in the country, further evidence of…
PRISONS
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24 SEP 2021
Weeks after reports emerged of the suicide of a notorious Venezuelan prison gang boss in Colombia, authorities have confirmed the death of Edwin Ramón Soto Nava – a death that…
PRISONS
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13 AUG 2021
Political support from career criminals is usually a matter of skulduggery and campaign finance. But one prison gang in Venezuela broke with tradition, releasing a video in which its members…
COCAINE
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30 DEC 2020
Venezuela has long been known as a strategic rearguard for Colombia guerrilla groups. Yet 2020 saw the acceleration of a newer dynamic: Venezuelan gangs now rival their Colombian counterparts in…
TREN DE ARAGUA
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OCTOBER 21, 2021
The Tren de Aragua is Venezuela’s most powerful local "megabanda," or large criminal gangs with more than 100 members. This group is largely based out of the Tocorón prison in…
BRAZIL
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26 SEP 2019
Members of Venezuela's large and dangerous Tren del Aragua gang are actively trying to expand their group's influence in the Brazilian prisons where they are incarcerated. …
COLOMBIA
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10 JUL 2019
The arrest of members from a major Venezuelan gang, the Tren de Aragua, in the border state of Táchira reveals the expansion of this powerful group into what is already one…
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