The Trump administration has sanctioned the head of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and five key leaders and associates in a move to crack down on the foreign terrorist organization that has infiltrated the United States during the Biden-era border crisis.
On Thursday, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on TDA leader Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, who the department stated has grown the transnational criminal ring from a prison gang involved in extortion and bribery to an “influential” organization that “threatens public safety” throughout the Western Hemisphere.
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