On his first day as president of the United States, Donald Trump signed an executive order with Venezuelan gangster Tren de Aragua, dubbed the “foreign terrorist organization.” Mexican drug cartels and primarily Salvador’s Malasal Battle Cha (MS-13) were also ordered in turn.
According to Trump’s orders, “In the US, internationally, the “Campaign of Violence and Terror” committed by Tren de Aragua and MS-13 threatened the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere and was extremely violent. It’s vicious and…” It has a solid history of giving Latin America military and economic destruction, supporting right-wing dictators and death forces, the very violent and violent that took place in and beyond. Don’t worry about malicious activities.
The MS-13 has long been Trump’s pet nemesis, but Tren de Aragua is the new preferred dial bogeyman. The gang formed at Tocoron prison in Venezuela’s Aragua state, spreading across various South American countries after it was said to have brought a “campaign of violence and horror” to the heart of the United States. In July 2024, the Joe Biden administration paved Trump Warpass by designating Trump Aragua as a “multi-national criminal organization” and putting pressure on then-senator Marco Rubio’s fanatic peers. . The “Aggression Crime Army” Tren de Aragua warns that he is poised to “unleash an unprecedented rule of terror.”
Of course, the usual suspects in the US media took the hype and ran with it, and according to Trump’s personal hallucinations, sensational about the “bloodthirsty” gang that could take over the entire US city. I strummed the report. But the problem is that Tren de Aragua was unable to actually produce much of the evidence of the “fear” that is said to be unleashed. For example, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) declares that its focus is primarily on gangs snatching cell phones and stealing department stores.
Last June, a 19-year-old Venezuelan resident of an immigrant shelter was accused of shooting two NYPD officials of non-patient shootings, with CBS News saying, “He is a member of a Venezuelan gang and his gun smuggled into the shelter.” “We reported that we told detectives that we were doing this. Food delivery package to avoid metal detectors.” Other media also jumped at opportunities to portray shelters like the Tren de Aragua Hotbeds, effectively promoting the criminalization of evacuee blankets.
The forged vision of invading terrorist gangbanger invaders not only helps to undermine American attention from the manifestations of objectively nasty violence, such as the ongoing epidemic of school shootings, but also Trump It also provides a handy justification for the current deportation frenzy. Many suspicious Tren de Aragua members have already been deported to Guantanamo Bay, the location of the all-time favorite illegal US prison and grand territorial centers on Cuban territory, and others It properly represents the one-sided US right to violate the boundaries of the United States. Unique enhancements.
Still, as a recent Washington Post survey revealed, there appears to be good reason to doubt the qualifications of some of Guantanamo’s latest guests, Tren de Lagua. Born in the state of Aragua, Venezuela. “In many cases, it appears that despite the fact that Tren de Aragua “does not use membership with tattoos,” it appears that personal tattoos may have played a role in his detention.
Clearly, this is not the first time the United States has been mistakenly imprisoned. But the point of Trump’s deportation and existential hype towards Tren de Aragua is not ultimately punishing criminals for fraud. Rather, it is to maintain a sight of fear, thereby keeping the Americans good and ignorant of the fact that their own government may be their worst enemy.
Tren de Aragua operatives have been forced to detain convicted criminals after President Salvador President Naive Buquere suggested that the United States “consigns part of the prison system.” If you propose his proposal by sending it to you, you may soon notice behind the bars in the Central American country of El Salvador. “In exchange for fees,” at a mega prison in Salvador known as the Centre for Terrorism (CECOT).
Of course, this is the same Bukel. He continues to literally terrorize his population through his massive incarceration policy.
In Bukere’s view, he saved El Salvador from the tragedy of MS-13 and other gangs. During the Salvador Civil War of 1979-92, which killed more than 75,000 people, many Salvadorans fled north to the very country fueled by the worst violence. Groups and Death Squad. In December 1981, the US-trained Atlascattle battalion massacred around 1,000 Salvador civilians in what is known as the Hermozote massacre.
It sounds kind of “very violent” and “bad.”
Following the end of the war, the United States took on a massive deportation of Salvador, a gang member formed in and around Los Angeles as a means of joint self-defense. But Bukel now solved the gang-wide problem by simply jailing a significant portion of the country’s population. He may still solve Trump’s Tren de Aragua problem!
For all Trump’s chatter about Tren de Aragua’s violent avulsion, it emphasizes that the US policy in which Venezuela exists is nothing but completely savage. Infographic published by the Venezuelanalis website – Interaria, US Government Accountability Office Statistics and UN Food and Agriculture Organization Statistics – as of 2020, US-led sanctions on Venezuela were over 10,000 It was discovered that caused death.
Naturally, the economic hardships created by sanctions are also the driving force behind US-bound migration from Venezuela. But that’s one of the things the US does best. It’s about screaming about the resulting “invasion” that will wreaked havoc all over the world.
In September, the New York Times said that members of Tren de Aragua had “similar identification marks” like watches and crown tattoos, and that “Michael Jordan Brand’s clothing and Chicago. He warned that he is known to prefer “bulls apparel”. I personally have made acquaintances of many Venezuelan evacuation-minded people in Darien Gap and elsewhere, such as Mexico, and safely proved such apparel disproportionate bias among young Venezuelan men. You can do it. The York Times is a sure-fire recipe for punitive profiling and trample on civil liberties by US officials.
Certainly, the US was not meant to waste a good bogeyman. And the Western Hemisphere actually looks rather vicious as the Trump administration, obsessed with Tren de Aragua, is trying to terrorize undocumented people while wiping away their rights of asylum.
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