Tren de Aragua

US Authorities Fire Intelligence Officials Who Contradicted Trump

May 16, 2025 Randolf Borges, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Donald Trump, National Intelligence, Nicolas Maduro, Tren de Aragua, Tulsi Gabbard, Venezuela

The US government fired two high-ranking officials of the US National Intelligence Council (NIC) who had contradicted the Trump administration’s claim that the Venezuelan government has ties with the now defunct Tren de Aragua gang. The director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, expelled the interim president of the NIC, Michael Collins, and his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof, who were responsible for the investigation that destroyed the Venezuelan far-right’s propaganda about alleged links between the gang and the government of Nicolás Maduro. Gabbard’s fired these two NIC officials because their findings did not agree with Trump’s political agenda of continuing a false narrative against Venezuela.

US Abduction Of 2-Year-Old Venezuelan Girl Constitutes Human Trafficking

April 30, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Human Trafficking, Kidnapping, Nayib Bukele, Tren de Aragua, US Imperialism, Venezuela

In a statement issued this Monday, April 28, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil condemned the separation of a 2-year-old Venezuelan child from her mother as an act of “extreme violence,” calling it “absolutely unacceptable and unthinkable in the 21st century.” The statement emphasized that this incident reflects a broader pattern of migrant rights violations, directly contravening international frameworks such as the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the United Nations Charter. “This represents yet another egregious case of family separation, forcibly removing a child from their emotional and biological bonds,” it declared.

Trump Targets Migrants Amid Human Trafficking Allegations

April 16, 2025 Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. Educate! Deportations, El Salvador, Human Rights, Prisons, Tren de Aragua, Trump Administration, Venezuela

Donald Trump has launched an aggressive campaign that targets Latino migrants – particularly Venezuelans – as scapegoats in a broader geopolitical agenda. Bolstered through a controversial alliance with the Salvadoran president, Trump has overseen mass deportations, detentions in Guantánamo Bay and El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, and invoked 18th-century war powers to justify these actions. Trump’s brutal attacks on the working class have been supplemented by the systematic demonization of immigrants – many of whom are themselves working class. During his electoral campaign, Trump not only promised large-scale deportations but, pandering to a far-right base, vilified migrants to unprecedented degrees.

El Tren De Aragua: The Defunct Venezuelan Band

March 27, 2025 Resumen English. Educate! Donald Trump, Media, Tren de Aragua, Trump Administration, US Imperialism, Venezuela, Venezuelan migrants

Until the designation as a “transnational criminal organization” by the US in 2024, the course of the now-disbanded group was narrated by a network of US think tanks, media and funds that constructed a discourse against the Bolivarian Revolution. This construction currently serves to justify sanctions, carry out mass deportations and feed the false idea of a failed state in Venezuela. In July 2024, when the US Treasury Department included Tren de Aragua on its list of transnational criminal organizations, it equated it with cartels such as Sinaloa or Jalisco Nueva Generación, which have a presence in more than 100 countries and have more than 45,000 members, associates and facilitators.

Venezuela Vows ‘All Strategies’ To Repatriate Citizens

March 18, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Concentration Camps, Deportation, Diosdado Cabello, El Salvador, Guantanamo, Kidnapping, Migrants, Nayib Bukele, Segregation, Tren de Aragua, Venezuela

Venezuelan National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez declared Monday that the government will mobilize multilateral organizations and international law firms to repatriate citizens detained abroad. He accused the United States of “kidnapping” Venezuelan migrants and collaborating with El Salvador in a “modern slave trade.” The announcement came after reports that more than 200 Venezuelan migrants were transferred from U.S. custody to prisons in El Salvador based on unproven allegations of ties to the Aragua Train criminal gang.

Family, Supporters Demand Release Of Venezuelan Migrant In Guantanamo

February 18, 2025 Dalal Zainabi, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Guantanamo Bay, ICE, Immigration, Migrants, Tren de Aragua, Venezuela

Family members of José Medina Andrade, a 29-year-old Venezuelan migrant and father of two, learned of his transfer to Guantanamo Bay through an article in the New York Times, revealing the latest chapter in what supporters describe as a pattern of family separation and human rights abuses in the US immigration system. At a press conference held Sunday, February 16, outside the courthouse building in downtown Seattle, José’s wife and sister joined community organizers to demand his immediate release. They contested his designation as a “high-threat” migrant, describing him instead as a family man who fled Venezuela and had become an active member of Washington’s migrant community.

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