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The State Department offered up to $ 3 million for information leading to the arrest of Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano.
The US Treasury Department sanctioned the alleged chief of Tren of Aragua (ADD), a Venezuelan gang that the administration of President Donald Trump used as justification for its repression of immigration.
In a statement published on Tuesday, control of the control of foreign assets of the Treasury said that Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano had not only been sanctioned but also charged by the Ministry of Justice.
According to non -sealed court documents, Mosquera Serrano faces accusations related to drug trafficking and terrorism. He has also been added to the FBI’s ten more sought -after ten more sought after, with a reward of $ 3 million offered for information leading to his arrest or conviction.
In the statementThe secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, accused Tren of Aragua, under the direction of Mosquera Serrano, of “terrorizing our communities and of facilitating the flow of illicit drugs in our country”.
It was the last effort of the Trump administration campaign to suppress criminal activity which, she said, is linked to the proliferation of foreign gangs and criminal networks in the United States.
Earlier this year, the Trump administration appointed Tren of Aragua and other Latin American gangs such as “foreign terrorist organizations”, a category more commonly used to describe international groups with violent political objectives.
But Trump used the threat of criminal networks based abroad to justify the use of emergency powers during his second term.
For example, the Trump administration said that Tren de Aragua coordinates its American activities with the government of the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. This allegation was then used to justify the use of a rare law in wartime: the law on extraterrestrial enemies of 1798.
Affirming that the presence of groups like Tren of Aragua was a foreign “invasion” on American soil, Trump exploited extraterrestrial enemies as the legal basis to continue the accelerated deportations of members of alleged gangs.
More than 200 people have been sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, where many of them remain to date.
These deportations have aroused many criticisms, as well as a multitude of legal challenges. The criticisms said that accelerated deportations had violated immigrant rights to regular procedure. They also pointed out that many deported men had no criminal record.
The lawyers of some of the men argued that they seem to have been imprisoned according to their tattoos and choice of wardrobe. The Ministry of Internal Security, however, challenged this allegation.
At least one senior American official acknowledged that the Maduro government will not lead Tren from Aragua.
An April memo at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, obtained by media like NPR and the New York Times, also questioned the idea that Venezuela controlled gang movements in the United States.
Rather, the memo said that the Maduro government probably considers Tren of Aragua as a threat.
“While the permissive environment of Venezuela allows TDA to operate, the Maduro regime probably does not have a cooperation policy with ADD and does not direct the movement and ADD operations in the United States,” said the memo.
Last July, the United States and Colombia offered joint awards for several million dollars for information leading to the arrest of Mosquera Serrano and two other men who would lead Tren from Aragua.
The group was also sanctioned during the same month as a transnational criminal organization to “engage in various criminal activities, such as smuggling and human trafficking, sexist violence, money laundering and illicit drug trafficking”, according to a cash department statement.
Many countries in Latin America have fought with the rapid growth of the gang, which has been linked to political assassinations and the trafficking in generalized human beings, although experts say that there is little to suggest that the gang has infiltrated the United States.
