The Heritage Foundation recently published a comprehensive policy report authored by SFS Executive Director Joseph Humire detailing the modus operandi of the Tren de Aragua and providing policy recommendations for the incoming Trump Administration, which include complementing state-led efforts with a robust strategy involving foreign partners and a whole-of-government approach.
The Tren de Aragua (TdA) represents a criminal system that was honed and perfected inside Venezuelan prison walls then exported throughout the Western Hemisphere.
With a documented presence in no fewer than 20 U.S. states, the TdA is terrorizing urban and suburban communities throughout America. For the Venezuelan regime, the TdA is a tool of asymmetric warfare to destabilize countries while maintaining plausible deniability..