Tren de Aragua

US Treasury's 2024 assessment traces Tren de Aragua to a prison in Venezuela and describes expansion across the Western Hemisphere. It attributes human smuggling and trafficking, money laundering, violence and illicit drug trafficking to the network. Only its clearly documented origin is coded geographically here.

Evidence as of 2024-07-11

Sources

1. Treasury Sanctions Tren de Aragua as a Transnational Criminal Organization ? US Department of the Treasury; 2024-07-11
2. Treasury Sanctions Top Leaders of Tren de Aragua ? U.S. Treasury (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis archive); 2025-07-17
3. Country policy and information note: armed groups and criminal gangs, Colombia (section 10.1.2) ? UK Home Office; 2026-03

Historical and attributed reference. A source mention is not proof of current activity.