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Breaking: Trump says US has killed leader of Venezuelan drug cartel in air strike
Key takeaways
- "At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Niño Guerrero," the US president said.
- Trump did not specify when the strike took place, and no Venezuelan official has confirmed the strike.
- Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores is better known by his alias, Niño Guerrero, and is known by the US as a Venezuelan drug trafficker and leader of Tren de Aragua.
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Link copied Share Share article Donald Trump says the US has killed the leader of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua, Niño Guerrero, in a "kinetic strike".
"At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Niño Guerrero," the US president said.
Trump did not specify when the strike took place, and no Venezuelan official has confirmed the strike.
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