We are helping VZ to kill bad guys.
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/u-s-and-venezuela-join-forces-to-target-armed-gangs-in-key-mining-region-c8d338f0
This was larger than just taking out Tren de Aragau leader a few days ago.
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/u-s-and-venezuela-join-forces-to-target-armed-gangs-in-key-mining-region-c8d338f0
Quote:
Venezuela has launched a U.S.-backed military campaign to target criminal groups in a lawless gold-mining region as it seeks to open the area to American investment.
U.S. officials said they are providing military and technological support as well as intelligence to Venezuela, once a bitter enemy, as the American-backed interim government in Caracas tries to rein in criminal groups that have long dominated a mining belt in the remote jungles of the country's south.
U.S. officials say the joint effort will continue, a sign of the deepening cooperation between the U.S. and Venezuela since the American military ousted strongman Nicols Maduro from office in January.
This was larger than just taking out Tren de Aragau leader a few days ago.
Quote:
The campaign's opening salvo was the targeting of a founder of the Tren de Aragua gang, Hctor Guerrero, who President Trump himself announced on June 12 was killed in a U.S. airstrike. The U.S. designated Tren de Aragua as a terrorist group last year, along with other Latin American gangs accused of smuggling drugs and migrants into the U.S.
Tren de Aragua and other crime syndicates have long served as the de facto state in swaths of Venezuela, controlling mines, collecting taxes and employing tens of thousands of people who flocked to once-pristine riverbanks and jungle clearings in search of gold and other riches.
