Caracas, June 15 (EFE).- The Government of Venezuela assured this Monday that criminal “operational centers” fell with the death of Héctor Guerrero, known as ‘Niño Guerrero’, considered the top leader of the transnational criminal organization Tren de Aragua, in an operation coordinated with the United States in a mining region in the southeast of the South American country.
The Venezuelan Ministry of Communication assured that the intelligence and territorial deployment operations carried out “in collaboration with the security agencies of the United States broke the operational centers of the main criminal organizations in the country, with the fall” of ‘Niño Guerrero’.
His death, according to Caracas, responds to “sustained strategic planning aimed at the logistical dismantling of transnational gangs.”
In addition, the Caribbean country “maintains active channels of technical assistance and information exchange with global police networks,” said the Communication portfolio.
Last Friday, US President Donald Trump announced that his country’s Southern Command “launched an energetic, rapid and lethal attack to successfully execute” the ‘Niño Guerrero’, leader of the gang of Venezuelan origin classified as terrorist by Washington, an operation in the state of Bolívar (southeast) that was later confirmed by Caracas.
Trump assured that the attack was coordinated with his “friends in Venezuela” with whom he collaborates in an “excellent way.”
The Government of the president in charge of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, who took office after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, indicated that the operation was developed with specialized technological support and mechanisms for cooperation and exchange of intelligence information between both countries, which reestablished relations in March, after seven years of rupture.
This operation, about which organizations demand transparency, was carried out two months after the approval of the new Mining Law that allows the arrival of foreign investors to these areas.
For her part, the Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, María Corina Machado, thanked the US president on Saturday for his actions against “armed groups, criminal organizations and mafias.” EFE
