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  • Tren de Aragua has little chance of building criminal power in the United States with so much law enforcement and public attention focused on it. Still, the Trump administration’s ongoing criminal and immigration enforcement efforts could reshape the nature of the gang in the United States and how US-based nodes of Tren de Aragua interact

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  • An official recently appointed to a leadership post in the US Department of Defense previously led a think tank that published false reports of Tren de Aragua activities in the United States, contributing to misinformation about the threat posed by the gang… This article was co-authored with María Belén López Conte. Read it in its

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  • I talked with my InSight Crime colleague Liza Schmidt about the history and future of Venezuela’s most infamous gang. Watch it on Spotify.

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  • I was on the Al Jazeera podcast “The Take,” talking about the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. You can watch and listen here.

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  • I was on the Dutch news program Nieuwsuur, talking about reports of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in the U.S. You can watch here.

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