Chilean police arrest 7 members of the bloodthirsty Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua

The Chilean Investigative Police (PDI) captured seven members of a cell of the dangerous Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua, which operated in Arica, in the north of the country, official sources confirmed this Thursday.

The PDI explained that it is the The Gallegos Clanan arm of Aragua Train suspected of migrant smuggling, kidnapping, extortion, homicide, drug trafficking and violation of the weapons law.

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In the field of research a buried body was found that could be a victim of this gang and carried out the seizure of weapons, ammunition, drugs, bulletproof vests, detailed the prefect of the PDI, Rodrigo Fuentes.

This organization has been previously investigated for irregularly mobilizing groups of people to the interior of Chili through unauthorized border crossings in the north, bordering Bolivia and Peru, to later transfer them to the south and exploit them.

“A crime that is happening a lot is human trafficking for sexual exploitation, an initial edge in all these organized crime investigations”added sources.

The Aragua Trainwhich takes its name from that Venezuelan state, It is a hierarchical criminal organization with a presence in several Latin American countries and landed in Chile months ago raising the alerts of the authorities.

The dismantling of the Clan de Los Gallegos occurs after more than a year of migration and humanitarian crisis in the norththrough which tens of thousands of undocumented foreigners have entered, mostly Venezuelans.

In this context, the collapse of small border towns and at specific times xenophobic marches and racist attacks is recurrent.

In Chili there are 1.4 million migrants, equivalent to more than 7% of the population, and Venezuelans are the most numerous, followed by Peruvians, Haitians and Colombians.

Source: Elcomercio

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