The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, in his third term after being reelected in 2024, urged Donald Trump to request reports from the FBI and the DEA to clarify the truth about the Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal group designated as terrorist by the United States. Maduro expressed his willingness to send a report with details about the alleged diversion of resources intended to help Venezuelan migrants by UN bureaucrats.
"I tell President Donald Trump, with respect, (to) request the reports from the last four years of the FBI and the DEA, from the offices in Colombia, so you can see, President Trump, who financed, who moved, who directed the famous Tren de Aragua, who took it to Colombia, who brought it to the United States," Maduro stated.
The Trump administration designated the Tren de Aragua as a terrorist group, along with six Mexican drug cartels and the gang Mara Salvatrucha. Maduro defended that the Tren de Aragua was defeated in Venezuela and rejected accusations of its connection to Venezuelan migration in the United States.
The Chavista leader denied accusations that more than 150 Venezuelan migrants transferred to the Guantanamo naval base belonged to the criminal gang. The United States reported the transfer of 177 migrants to Honduras, who would later be returned to Venezuela.
Maduro's government claimed that the Tren de Aragua was instrumentalized by foreign agencies, such as the FBI and the DEA, with terrorist and destabilizing objectives against Venezuela. Trump has denounced alleged terrorist activities of the group in the United States.
