{"id":4682,"date":"2026-06-14T07:33:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/06\/14\/u-s-confirms-lethal-strike-on-nino-guerrero-notorious-tren-de-aragua-gang-leader-as-trump-lauds-joint-venezuela-operation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:33:39","slug":"u-s-confirms-lethal-strike-on-nino-guerrero-notorious-tren-de-aragua-gang-leader-as-trump-lauds-joint-venezuela-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/06\/14\/u-s-confirms-lethal-strike-on-nino-guerrero-notorious-tren-de-aragua-gang-leader-as-trump-lauds-joint-venezuela-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Confirms Lethal Strike on &#8216;Ni\u00f1o Guerrero,&#8217; Notorious Tren de Aragua Gang Leader, as Trump Lauds Joint Venezuela Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump announced a U.S. military strike successfully killed Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, known as Ni\u00f1o Guerrero, the notorious leader of Venezuela&#8217;s Tren de Aragua gang. The operation, confirmed by both the Pentagon and Venezuela, was coordinated closely between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Tren de Aragua, designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, is infamous for its involvement in human trafficking, drug smuggling, extortion, and other violent criminal activities across South America.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/10\/25\/trump-us-strike-killed-leader-of-venezuelas-tren-de-aragua-gang.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump announced a U.S. military strike successfully killed Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, known as Ni\u00f1o Guerrero, the notorious leader of Venezuela&#8217;s Tren de Aragua gang. The operation, confirmed by both the Pentagon and Venezuela, was coordinated closely between the two countries. Tren de Aragua, designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/id\/1367097725\/photo\/caracas-venezuela-street-life-june-11-2026.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=SomeHashPlaceholder","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-global-affairs","category-global-security","category-world","rifnote_country-brazil","rifnote_country-chile","rifnote_country-el-salvador","rifnote_country-panama","rifnote_country-united-states","rifnote_country-venezuela","rifnote_executive-donald-trump","rifnote_executive-hector-rusthenford-guerrero-flores","rifnote_executive-nicolas-maduro","rifnote_executive-pete-hegseth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/id\/1367097725\/photo\/caracas-venezuela-street-life-june-11-2026.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=SomeHashPlaceholder","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}