Venezuela minister says no Tren de Aragua members among US deportees

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuela-minister-says-jailed-deportees-us-not-tied-tren-de-aragua-2025-03-21/

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  1. “”I believe with absolute responsibility that not a single one appears on the organizational chart of the now-extinct Tren de Aragua organization, not a single one,” Cabello said on a podcast, saying he had names of the deportees from U.S. media and his own source.”

    We know that one of them is a professional footballer, one is a barber.

    Zero evidence has been supplied that they any of these people are gang members, zero, we don’t even know if any might be citizens.

    The only authority we have for deporting these non El Savaldor citizens to El Salvador is basicaly “Take my word for it.”

    America is now officially a lawless nation where the rule of law does not apply.

    Next up will be political opposition.

    Good luck getting to ever vote again.

  2. This is deeply inhumane. Trump is on a rampage. I wish innocent people freedom.

  3. i hate this because the damage is done and by the time it takes to right this injustice, some new bizarre something will pour out of the current administration which will distract everyone from how fucked up this is.  what an insanely helpless situation this is.  

  4. I’m Venezuelan. No. Tren de Aragua is not extinct. That’s a laughable statement. Believing any minister from Venezuela is even more laughable.

  6. Whether they’re part of Tren de Aragua or not, that needs to be determined by a hearing. Even the worst criminals deserve their day in court.

  7. Doubt that, but probably not nearly as many as have been detained.

  8. Every normal American who didn’t vote for Trump already knew Trump was lying.

    Now the country wants to see Team Trump in court trumpsplaining themselves; losing their law licenses for lying; and eventually charging documents for the Orange Cheeto Jeezbuz

  9. Trump doesn’t give two shits that they’re not quilty he only cares about the political theatrics it creates, then back to his main agenda robbing America blind

  10. Any level-headed individual understands that an extradition without due process is wrong, but please, anything stated by a member of Venezuela’s authoritarian regime can be dismissed as a load of crock

  11. Trump is already setting up. Marco Rubio to take the blame.

  14. Just out of curiosity, who’s paying for their incarceration? Let me guess…there’s a tariff?

  16. The Venezuelan government is not a credible source.
    Edit: fixed spelling mistake

  17. Over/under on statement from trump admin accusing Venezuela of lying?

  18. There just isn’t a substantial Tren de Aragua presence outside of South America. It’s estimated that there are roughly a few thousand members worldwide. For reference, all Mexican cartels combined have 100,000-200,000 members according to DEA estimates.

    The odds of Tren de Aragua being the existential threat the US government claims it to be are essentially zero percent. If you can prove that someone is a member and isn’t trying to escape the gang via asylum, then by all means deport them through legal channels and honor due process.

  19. He can state this because there is no proof so far that any of these individuals deported to a foreign country concentration camp have actually been proven to be criminals. Sounds like some Nazis simply labelled them as “deportable” because of their origin and maybe some tattoos?

  21. “sir you have a tren de aragua tattoo on your chest”

    “no it’s fine, i got that ironically”

    Venezuela: “we believe em! But also don’t bring em back here”

  22. People here who believe what Diosdado Cabello has to say are totally oblivious to who he is

  23. “Oh… wait… you believed that Tren de Aragua thing? I was just kidding about that.”

  24. If a tattoo makes you a gang member, does having your pants full of shit make you President?

  25. I hope our justice system survives long enough to prosecute everyone involved in this human rights atrocity.

  26. The American government is lo longer a trustable source neither.

  27. You can’t trust the venezuelan goverment officials. Is a narco state, they all are felons. The Tren de Aragua is a brand, from the very venezuelan goverment.

  28. Strange that Putin has his hands all over Venezuela and conveniently their immigrants are causing a constitutional crisis. Hmm. Must be a coincidence.

  29. OK so why didn’t Venezuela accept their repatriation then? You know, since they aren’t criminals. Such obviously transparent bullshit

  30. Can we please start seeing the people responsible for this kidnapping punished?

  31. Who’d have thought that we were told a lie…. * clutch my pearls!!

  33. This is human trafficking, right in front of everyone. Can’t imagine how the people feel who are going through this.

  34. Not a reputable source but also we have some good leads that most if not all of the people sent to El Salvador got little to no due process so they could be literally anyone.

  35. The real Tren de Aragua members must be hilariously laughing at the innocent citizens that are now Bukele’s pawns.

  36. I know we can trust Reuters, but can we Venezuela ?

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