Andean Group - April 2025

It is only in the last three years that the Tren de Aragua (TdA), an organised crime group of Venezuelan origin, began generating concern abroad, but in that timeframe the group has leapt towards the forefront of policymakers’ agendas. Nowhere is this more visible than in the US, as we explore in the first article of this April 2025 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group. On 15 March President Donald Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to enable the rapid deportation of suspected TdA members without due process. On the same day, 238 alleged members of TdA were deported to El Salvador and interned at the ‘Terrorism Containment Centre’ (Cecot), the 40,000 capacity mega-prison underpinning President Nayib Bukele’s fierce security crackdown.

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