The Latest Breaking News from Tren de Aragua

Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Trump administration to end the strikes

Law enforcement agencies in the United States are facing sharp criticism after records revealed they circulated reports suggesting that everyday emojis could indicate links to Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal group. The theory, repeated in official briefings and training documents, has been described by experts as unfounded, dangerous, and…

A U.S. military strike on a boat off Venezuela's northeastern Caribbean coast has disrupted a flow of money that helps impoverished communities

Claims are ‘an unsophisticated, uneducated approach that demonstrates a lack of knowledge’, says one professor

In the past few weeks, the United States military has been involved in multiple fatal strikes on boats in international waters off the coast of Venezuela.

‘This regime gets giddy about violence. It's sick,’ one social media user wrote

With tensions running high between Venezuela and the United States, officials from Nicolás Maduro's regime issued a warning to neighboring countries, saying that attacks launched from the territories of Guyana or Trinidad and Tobago would provoke retaliation.

US carries out attacks as tensions mount between the Trump and Maduro administrations.

Monday's strike was the second by the US military on a vessel from Venezuela in two weeks, which the Trump administration called a drug-carrying speedboat. At least 11 people were killed in the first strike.

‘We’ll see what happens’, Trump says, amid reports of increasing U.S. efforts to force President Nicolás Maduro from power

Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday sharpened his rhetoric against Venezuela, accusing Nicolás Maduro's government of sending drugs and violent criminals into the United States and branding the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua as "probably the worst gang in the world."