He Warrior Boy has died. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced this Saturday the death of Héctor Guerrero Flores, top leader of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua, during a joint military operation between the US Southern Command and the Venezuelan Armed Forces.
“Under my orders, the United States Southern Command carried out a rapid and lethal kinetic attack to successfully execute Niño Guerrero, the infamous leader of Tren de Aragua, one of the bloodiest terrorist organizations on the planet,” the White House tenant clarified in a publication on his social network, Truth Social.
The elimination of Guerrero Flores comes almost a year after Washington classified the group as a time when a reward of more than four million euros was also offered for information leading to his capture.
“At the beginning of my term, I fulfilled my promise to designate Tren de Aragua as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, deport thousands of evil criminals and declare war on the cartels, which have long been waging war against our citizens, while weak leaders left the United States defenseless and on the defensive,” he declared.
In this way, and although the president did not want to give more tactical details about the operation, he emphasized that The device “has avenged” the gang’s victims and has thanked the coordination with the Caracas authorities, ensuring that both governments are “collaborating very well.”
Likewise, he has taken the opportunity to launch a new dart at the former president of the United States, of the country “to millions of illegal criminals”, allowing the Aragua Train to “rape, mutilate and murder American citizens with total impunity.”
Trump also brags in that message about having deported “thousands of evil criminals and waging war against the cartels, which have long attacked our citizens while weak leaders left the United States defenseless and on the defensive.”
Venezuela confirms its commitment
For its part, the Government of Venezuela has released a statement to explain the details of the operation. “During the development of the operation, clashes occurred with members of these criminal structures, in which Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, alias Warrior Boyleader of a criminal organization,” he indicated in the country.
Furthermore, he has indicated that the operation had specialized technological support and was developed through cooperation mechanisms and exchange of intelligence information between the authorities of both countries.
The Executive headed by the president in charge Delcy Rodriguez In this way, it reaffirms its commitment to the fight against organized crime and has anticipated that it will continue to adopt the necessary measures to guarantee peace, tranquility and protection of the Venezuelan people.
Trafficking, extortion, kidnappings, contract killings…
The Aragua Train is a criminal gang known for and controls the routes taken by Venezuelans and other South American migrants heading south to relatively prosperous Chile and other areas of South America or Europe.
The group has also been linked to extortion, kidnappings, robberies, contract killings, smuggling and organized robberies of stores from Panama to Brazil and along the Andes corridor, according to Latin American police sources. Guerrero escaped from Tocorón prison in Venezuela along with other leading gangs just before a police raid in 2023.
