Maduro's warning to crime gangs after extradition of brother alias “Nino Guerrero”

The Bin

Jul 12 2024, 4:31 pm

Nicolás Maduro warned the criminal gangs in the Caribbean nation this Friday that “either they leave the country or they will be neutralized” because “they must disappear” after the brother of Hector Guerrero Flores “Nino Guerrero” achieved extradition. ” , leader of the criminal gang “Tren de Aragua”.

“Criminal gangs must know that they must leave the country or be neutralized, until the last criminal gang,” said the head of state in a meeting with the business sector, broadcast on state channel VTV, without explaining which countries to take. These are the Venezuelan criminals he calls out.

He assured that the security levels he had implemented were “the highest” since the “time” of former Venezuelan President Marcos Pérez Jiménez (1953-1958) and affirmed that “the country will continue to progress in this respect, without dictatorship, repression”. Criminals and murderers, persecuting people”, but “with a humanitarian principle.”

Maduro also said he had “achieved what seemed impossible” this Thursday, referring to the extradition from Spain of the brother of Hector Guerrero Flores, the head of the transnational criminal gang 'Tren de Aragua', 'Nino Guerrero'.

The subject, named Gerson Isaac Guerrero Flores, “has already started talking,” according to Maduro, declaring that the 'Aragua Train' “will no longer exist,” even as Civismo insists it is an “extinct” gang. ” It was “totally dismantled” last September when authorities intervened in the Tokoron prison where the criminal organization was formed.

“That Aragua train that took out of the Tocorón prison, there will be no more in Venezuela, those criminal trains, those gangs will disappear, the time will come when there will be security,” said Maduro.

On the same Friday, Interior Relations, Justice and Peace Minister Remigio Ceballos indicated that 356 criminal gangs had been dismantled in the country, without specifying the period during which these operations were carried out or the names of the criminal groups.

He also pointed out that about thirty criminals reported to Interpol by the nation are incarcerated in various countries and their extradition has been requested.

With information from EFE