US Treasury sanctions Tren de Aragua, a Venezuela-based transnational criminal organisation engaging in human smuggling and trafficking, ML, and illicit drug trafficking

Tren de Aragua has quickly expanded throughout the Western Hemisphere in recent years. With a particular focus on human smuggling and other illicit acts that target desperate migrants, the organization has developed additional revenue sources through a range of criminal activities, such as illegal mining, kidnapping, human trafficking, extortion, and the trafficking of illicit drugs such as cocaine and MDMA…