
“At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Nino Guerrero, the infamous leader of Tren De Aragua, one of the most bloodthirsty Terrorist Organisations on Planet,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Friday evening, referring to Guerrero Flores by his alias.
“This action was coordinated closely with our friends in Venezuela, with whom we are working very well.”
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Trump did not specify when the strike took place.
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on social media that the strike occurred earlier in the week on a Tren de Aragua compound in Venezuela.
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Hegseth said, “The operation underscores the shared US and Venezuelan commitment to take the fight to narco-terrorists and deny them any safe haven in our hemisphere.”

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