LIMA, Peru: Peruvian police have rescued 123 ladies and women who had been being sexually exploited by a robust Venezuelan gang, the power introduced on Saturday.
Lots of of law enforcement officials took half within the Friday night time raid within the Peruvian capital Lima, throughout which 23 alleged gang members had been arrested.
Police mentioned 123 individuals together with three minors had been rescued, whereas a supply throughout the power advised AFP they had been all ladies and women.
These arrested are a part of Los Hijos de Dios, a faction of Venezuela’s largest gang, Tren de Aragua, which has been working in Peru since 2021.
In January 2024, Peruvian police rescued 40 younger women who had been being sexually exploited on social networks by the identical legal group.
The Tren de Aragua gang was created in 2014 within the Venezuelan state of Aragua, however is now current in a number of South American international locations, together with Colombia, Peru and Chile.
US President Donald Trump campaigned for workplace final 12 months promising mass deportations concentrating on undocumented migrants, whom he accused of involvement in violent crime and often likened to “animals” and “monsters.”
He took explicit goal at Tren de Aragua, and on his first day in workplace on January 20 declared a nationwide emergency to take care of the gang’s alleged actions in the USA.
On Wednesday, Washington mentioned 10 members of Tren de Aragua had been deported to the infamous US-operated Guantanamo Bay jail facility in Cuba.