Tren de Aragua, the most dreaded gang in the United States, has given birth to a rival gang that threatens to cause twice as much misery and mayhem throughout the country.
Tren de Aragua (TdA) gave birth to Anti-Tren, a rival that engages in similar illegal activity and has been mentioned in a federal indictment for the first time.
In a federal indictment released in April, federal prosecutors accused 21 individuals of being members of Anti-Tren and operating prostitution and drug operations in the New York City region.
The government disclosed that “Anti-Tren is a criminal organization almost exclusively composed of former members and associates of TdA.”
Members of Anti-Tren began their work in South America, operating there for years prior to crossing the US-Mexico border during the Biden years, just like TdA began in a prison in Venezuela.
An anonymous federal law enforcement official told DailyMail.com, “You have to realize that this Anti-Tren movement is not originally from the United States—this is a South American thing.”
This is Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Chile. That’s actually where it’s coming from.
After beginning in Venezuela, TdA spread throughout South America in search of new cash streams and to follow other Venezuelans escaping the dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro.
“Anti-Tren isn’t always a group.” The street gangs that make up Anti-Tren are fierce competitors. The federal official clarified, “They despise Tren de Aragua, but Anti-Tren is sort of the umbrella.”
“Los Orientals” is the name of one of the groups. Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, and some parts of Chile are home to them. There’s a very big presence down there.’
Anti-Tren followed TdA’s spread, absorbing criminals in some of the new nations they were in, including Peru, were local thugs joined their ranks.
TdA entered the US in 2022, blending in with the asylum-seekers from their home country who were a major contributor to the border crisis during the previous four years.
When more than a million Venezuelans were permitted to enter the US for asylum. The first US news outlet to cover Tren de Aragua’s arrival in the country was DailyMail.com.
Police think Anti-Tren may have beaten TdA here or possibly entered the US at the same time.
Similar to its adversary, Anti-Tren spread to their law-abiding compatriots, allowing them to continue taking advantage of them after they got to major cities like New York, Dallas, and Denver.
TdA seized apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado, and forced innocent migrants to pay “rent” or beat up those who didn’t.
The Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, which was converted into a migrant refuge, served as a base of operations for both gangs.
An further law enforcement source stated, “If you look at New York City at the Roosevelt Hotel.
There was a big Anti-Tren movement there before TdA really locked their teeth into that place because the Venezuelans were there first and then TdA came in secondary.”
Both organizations preyed on impoverished women and young girls who were yearning to enter the US but lacked the funds to do so.
Anti-Tren promised to smuggle the women into the United States in return for their bodies.
