The Tren de Aragua has been on the radar of U.S. authorities for years. But it wasn’t until Trump campaigned for a second ...

Two men, believed to be members of the gang Tren de Argua, were arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle 5 kilos of cocaine ...

Flawed deportation 'checklist' targets Venezuelans using tattoos as one gang identifier. But experts say Tren de Aragua doesn ...

TOCORON, Venezuela (AP) — Tocorón once had it all. A nightclub, swimming pools, tigers, a lavish suite and plenty of food.

Venezuela's Tren de Aragua criminal gang started in a prison in the country a decade ago. Now, it's being designated by U.S.

The gang was formed in the Tocorón prison in the Venezuelan state of Aragua in 2014. When Venezuela’s economy collapsed, Tren ...

By 2017, Tren de Aragua began to be known as a "megabanda," a category the local press in Venezuela use to refer to large organized criminal groups. More than 250 suspected gang members arrive in ...

Aragua, on Venezuela's Caribbean coast ... Tren de Aragua is often compared to the ultra-violent MS-13 gang from El Salvador. Tren de Aragua members have been accused of dressing up as Chilean ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Debates over U.S. President Donald Trump’s hardline migration policies are focused on the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, to some a ruthless transnational criminal ...

But as Venezuela sank into its worst economic meltdown in history and crime became less lucrative, the Tren de Aragua branched out overseas. It recruited new gang members from among the 8 million ...

Here is what we know about the gang: Tren de Aragua (Train of Aragua, or Aragua Train) has roots in Tocorón prison in Venezuela’s northern Aragua state, which the group’s leaders had ...

Tren de Aragua’s growth surged as a result of ... It had become one of the largest and best organized gangs in Venezuela. Since 2014, an economic and humanitarian crisis has devastated Venezuela ...