On Friday night, as all eyes were on two major U.S. sporting moments — the men’s national team kicking off its World Cup opener with Paraguay, and the fighters arriving in Washington for this weekend’s UFC fight at the White House — President Donald Trump shared a video of a lethal strike on Venezuelan Tren De Aragua gang leader Hector “Niño Guerrero” Rusthenford Guerrero Flores.
“At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Niño Guerrero, the infamous leader of Tren De Aragua, one of the most bloodthirsty Terrorist Organizations on Planet Earth,” the president wrote on Truth Social, sharing a video of an aerial strike that blew a low-lying building to smithereens.
“This action was coordinated closely with our friends in Venezuela, with whom we are working very well,” Trump added. “As a result, Tren de Aragua terrorists no longer have safe haven in Venezuela or anywhere else and, under my leadership, we will find these vicious murderers and drugs lords anytime, anyplace, and send them to the depths of hell where they belong.”
The U.S. had previously charged the gang leader with providing material support to terrorism and directing a criminal enterprise, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which previously named Niño Guerrero to its most wanted list.
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