Posted on 04/08/2025 11:01:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Tocorón once had it all. A nightclub, swimming pools, tigers, a lavish suite and plenty of food. This was not a Las Vegas-style resort, but it felt like it for some of the thousands who until recently lived in luxury in this sprawling prison in northern Venezuela. Here, between parties, concerts and weeks-long visits from wives and children, is the birthplace of the Tren de Aragua, a dangerous gang that has gained global notoriety after U.S. President Donald Trump put it at the center of his anti-immigrant narrative.
But kidnappings, extortion and other crimes were planned, ordered or committed from this prison long before Trump’s rhetoric.
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Do you think it will get to the point where Democrats are actually supporting Tren de Aragua? That would be a tremendous “own goal,” as they say in that part of the world.
Democrats are already supporting them.
Democrats are terrorists.
"I'm just a dolphin, ma'am"
More precisely, the people who finance Tren de Aragua are bribing the rats, too.
Living the good life—— Tocorón was a prison not a Las Vegas-style resort-—— but it felt like it for Tren de Aragua, a dangerous gang that gained global notoriety, who until recently lived in the lap of luxury in this sprawling prison in northern Venezuela.
A nightclub, swimming pools, tigers, a lavish suite, plenty of food, and between parties, concerts and weeks-long visits from wives and children, kidnappings, extortion and other crimes were planned, ordered or committed from this prison.
Tren de Aragua, a dangerous gang that has gained global notoriety after
President Donald Trump put it at the center of his anti-immigrant narrative.
“ Do you think it will get to the point where Democrats are actually supporting Tren de Aragua?”
I was kinda thinking the Houston Chronicle here was doing just that.
The Houston Comical
Support? They ARE TDA
Its a private club.
Rhetoric has a negative connotation in American politics. Trump’s promise to eliminate the gang is not just a rhetoric, especially since the author already established that they were hardcore criminals before Trump era.
“The Houston Comical”
As bad as the Austin Un-American Spaceman
The author implies TdA got its start in 2013 at the prison, but it was started years before then, by former civilian government officials, military generals, etc.
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