United States: Major American cities are now home to a new illegal menace that has surfaced.
Tren de Aragua is a Venezuelan gang that is currently terrifying Americans in places like Aurora, Colorado, and Dallas, New York, with a scale and reach that appear almost mythic.
However, Tren de Aragua’s real horror is not limited to its recent criminal history; it stems from its earlier history, according to the reports.
Violent Beginnings
Tren de Aragua, which translates to “Aragua train,” originated in the Tocorón prison in the Aragua area of Venezuela. The local railway workers’ union may have inspired the gang’s name.
Like most prison gangs, Tren de Aragua was founded out of a need for self-preservation. As the gang grew, it used its links to prisons to increase its dominance and create more organized internal hierarchies.
Tren de Aragua established its authority through a string of bloody battles with other gangs, laying the groundwork for its eventual criminal empire.
The need for land, blood, and power grew stronger, as per reports.
After Tren de Aragua’s officials solidified their position inside Venezuela’s jail system, they started planning for a wider reach. They formed relationships with corrupt officials and other criminal groups to safeguard and grow their activities.
The gang’s activities, which started off as local drug distribution and extortion, quickly spread to other sectors of the economy and nations, taking hold in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and other places.
With this increased global power, the gang expanded into smuggling weapons and people, constantly refining their techniques to avoid detection and establish greater control over untapped areas.
Crossing Into America
By the mid-2010s, Tren de Aragua was a local menace. Still, by then, it had grown into a powerful international criminal organization. Its activities spread to Central America, the Caribbean, and South America.
The gang’s operations became more complex, including large-scale drug production and distribution networks spanning several continents as well as targeted killings.
Alongside this incredible expansion, the gang’s use of violence and intimidation to further its objectives has increased dramatically.
It reached a level of influence never before attained by a Venezuelan gang, dominating the local criminal market after the local criminal market thanks to its relatively easy cross-border movement of personnel and resources.
This finally spreads to the US, where the gang appears to be operating without trouble.
In essence, immigrants from Venezuela who left their own country and settled in Florida and other places are seeing the very crimes they fought so hard to avoid.
Reportedly, Tren de Aragua has brought the horrors of one of the most dysfunctional states on earth to the so-called superpower up north.
America Becomes Their New ‘Hunting Ground’
Even though Tren de Aragua poses a serious and terrible threat on its own, it is by no means the only violent gang active in the US In actuality, the FBI claims that there are at least 32,999 more violent street, motorcycle, and prison gangs operating nationwide.
Among the most well-known is MS-13, a terrible group that has a long and ominous reputation in American cities. MS-13, often referred to as Mara Salvatrucha less frequently, began among immigrants from El Salvador living in Los Angeles in the 1980s.
Since then, it has developed into one of America’s most feared gangs, known for its tremendous brutality and sadistic degree of savagery.
MS-13 has been a major factor in the sharp rise in gang-related violence that Washington, DC, has seen in recent years.
Unsettlingly, the gang has been referred to as using the city as a “hunting ground” because of how widespread and vicious its operations are.
Its members have been known to kidnap, drug, and rape young girls in Texas.
Time To Decide
Every American’s safety and security are at stake as the country gets ready for what may turn out to be one of the most important elections since its founding.
The unabated ascent of gangs like MS-13 and Tren de Aragua highlights the fact that national security is not only a catchphrase for politics but rather a fundamental responsibility of the state and an inherent right of all law-abiding citizens, according to reports.
In November, voters alarmed by this rising foreign criminality will have to choose whether a political party has the will and capacity to address these grave dangers.
There is only one option to consider: support those who prioritize strict border controls and the safety of American citizens or side with those who minimize and disregard these issues.
Only one party has proven prepared and committed to addressing this rapidly growing situation, and you will decide which one in November.
Do you believe America is safer now than three years ago?