Aragua: Maduro's train

By: Luis Gonzales Posada - 25/09/2023

The noisy incursion of 11,000 Venezuelan police and military personnel into the Tocorón prison, lair of the ferocious criminal gang the Tren de Aragua, has been coordinated between the Government and the criminals themselves, including the escape of their leader, 'El Niño Guerrero', and thugs of the higher staff.

The operation was carried out to silence the growing protests of the authorities and the press of Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Argentina and Colombia due to the suspicious inaction of the Maduro regime to control that penitentiary establishment, from where ruthless criminals leave to extort, murder, kidnap and sexually exploit hundreds of people, traffic drugs and firearms.

These crimes have been happening since 2016 and their perpetrators are part of the 7 million 700 thousand Venezuelans who emigrated throughout the world, of which 1 million 500 thousand are in Peru.

Maduro knew very well, in detail, what was happening in Tocorón, from abundant reports from the media, the intelligence services and Iris Varela herself, Minister for Popular Power of the Penitentiary Service, who entered that center several times.

In fact, journalist Ronna Rísquez published a book titled El Tren de Aragua: the gang that revolutionized organized crime in Latin America, written after visiting the prison five times.

In that text, the writer maintained that the prison had a swimming pool, casino, nightclub, restaurants, fine clothing stores, exchange house, liquor stores, markets, a baseball field, a zoo, and security was in charge of armed inmates who mobilized on motorcycles.

In the recent eviction carried out by law enforcement, this version was confirmed and they also found bazookas, grenades, rifles with telescopic sights, anti-tank rockets, mortars and boxes with thousands of bullets.

Without a doubt, Tocorón was a fortress; a territory liberated with the consent of the Government that even allowed the construction of entrance and exit tunnels to the outside, 15 meters deep and 14 kilometers long.

Didier Guevara, founder of the consulting firm The Robot Company, commented that “for at least eight years the criminal hordes have served the Castro-Chavista regime as a shock force against anti-government protests or to assassinate opponents and political activists uncomfortable for the duo. Maduro-Diosdado Cabello”.

For his part, Peruvian General Óscar Arriola, a respected police chief, said that “the components of the Aragua Train are an organization without political ideology, but at the service of politics, at the disposal of the Chavista regime that subjected them from its beginnings.” .

Why is Maduro reacting now after allowing these thugs to commit execrable crimes in the hemisphere for seven years?

The explanation is found in the fact that they intend to reduce the growing protests of the affected nations and because the eviction is part of the secret negotiations between Caracas and Washington to release Venezuelan funds from abroad.

In the United States alone, in fact, the frozen figure amounts to 23 billion dollars and in Great Britain, to one billion dollars, the value of the gold deposited in the Bank of England.

In addition, there are sanctions on US companies that market and/or grant loans to the Chavista dictatorship, which today registers 92% of its population in poverty, of which 74% are in misery.

At the recent Doha summit in Qatar, Juan Gonzalez, President Biden's advisor for Latin American Affairs, met secretly with Jorge Rodríguez, president of the Bolivarian National Assembly and a trusted person of Maduro.

According to diplomatic sources, the Americans committed to releasing part of the money withheld from the Venezuelan Government, in exchange for Maduro guaranteeing supervised elections, the freedom of political prisoners, and containing the export of criminals concentrated in the intervened prison.

Given these sad events, the families of the murdered citizens extorted, tortured or prostituted by the Aragua Train gang have the legitimate right to denounce the Venezuelan government for allowing these criminals to cause crimes in the region and they must also be clear that their misfortune It has a promoter and concealer: the dictator Nicolás Maduro Moros, assisted by the civil and military leadership that has destroyed Bolívar's homeland.

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