The Foreign Minister of Peru, Javier González-Olaechea, defined this Friday as “unfounded” the position of his Venezuelan counterpart, Yvan Gil, who this week stated that the criminal gang 'Tren de Aragua' does not exist.
“There is no response to unfounded statements about transnational organized crime. “Peru reaffirms its solid commitment in the fight against this scourge,” said the Peruvian Foreign Minister, commenting on the social network
There is no response to unfounded statements about transnational organized crime. Peru reaffirms its solid commitment to the fight against this scourge. The Resolute Action Plan of the Andean Community evidences and confirms this. https://t.co/1M4HKKFnta
— Javier González-Olaechea (@J_GonzalezOFr) April 12, 2024
He added that this is evidenced and confirmed by the Resolute Action Plan of the Andean Community (CAN).
This Monday, Gil assured in a meeting in Cúcuta (Colombia) with his Colombian counterpart, Luis Gilberto Murillo, that “The 'Aragua Train' is a fiction created by the international media to try to create a non-existent label, as they did at the time with the Cartel of the Suns”.
“We have seen, for example, how ridiculously videos appear even of people saying 'we are from the Aragua Train', with a Peruvian accent, with a Chilean accent,” he added.
These statements also generated the rejection of the president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, who He called the Chilean ambassador in Venezuela, Jaime Gazmuri, for consultations this Thursday, precisely in protest against Gil's words.
“It seems unacceptable to me that authorities from other countries, but particularly from Venezuela, make statements that cast doubt on the existence of criminal organizations such as the Tren de Aragua,” said Boric.
The Chilean Foreign Minister, Alberto van Klaveren, assured that “Negationism regarding the impacts of transnational organized crime in Chile and the region is unacceptable.
The country's Interior Minister, Carolina Tohá, reacted in the same way, saying that it is an “insult” that Venezuela denies the existence of said criminal gang.
It is an insult, not to the Government of Chile but to the people of Chile and the people of Latin America. Unacceptable.
“It is an insult, not to the Government of Chile but to the people of Chile and the people of Latin America. Unacceptable,” Tohá said in statements to the press.
The minister also regretted that Venezuela “claims to be a Bolivarian country” while “Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and other Latin American peoples strongly suffer the scourge of this criminal gang.”
“The Aragua Train is a fiction,” said Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil.
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— Germán Andrés Rodríguez Prieto (@GermnAndrs92683) April 8, 2024
The 'Aragua Train' is a transnational criminal organization originating from Venezuela, considered the most powerful gang in the country and dedicated to carrying out murders, extortion, kidnappings, trafficking and human trafficking, among other crimes.
Since 2018, the group has rapidly expanded across the American continent along the route taken by Venezuelan migrants and is known to operate in cities in Colombia, Peru, Chile and other countries.
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