{"id":701739,"date":"2026-06-13T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/701739\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:01:08","slug":"u-s-forces-kill-venezuelan-tren-de-aragua-gang-leader-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/701739\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. forces kill Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang leader, Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"W2AC66EMQ5BALB5KRJXZNL6SBY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The U.S. military has killed the leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in a \u201cswift and lethal kinetic strike,\u201d President Donald Trump said Friday night. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"EAP4VKNMNJFE7BF7F56MYVOORU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">U.S. forces killed H\u00e9ctor \u201cEl Ni\u00f1o\u201d Guerrero, the head of the transnational Tren de Aragua gang, in an attack \u201ccoordinated closely with our friends in Venezuela, with whom we are working very well,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social. He did not specify where the strike took place, but published a video showing a projectile blowing up a building. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. military has killed the leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in a \u201cswift and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-701739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}