{"id":74797,"date":"2026-06-12T21:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/trump-says-leader-of-venezuelan-tren-de-aragua-gang-killed-in-us-strike\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T21:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:55:32","slug":"trump-says-leader-of-venezuelan-tren-de-aragua-gang-killed-in-us-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/trump-says-leader-of-venezuelan-tren-de-aragua-gang-killed-in-us-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says leader of Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang killed in US strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President says Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores killed in \u2018swift and lethal\u2019 military strike with help from Venezuela<\/p>\n<p>The US military has killed a leader in the Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua, Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, with the help of Venezuela, Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116740105083348004\">announced<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Ni\u00f1o Guerrero, the infamous leader of Tren De Aragua, one of the most bloodthirsty Terrorist Organizations on Planet Earth,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/12\/trump-venezuela-tren-de-aragua-leader-killed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President says Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores killed in \u2018swift and lethal\u2019 military strike with help from Venezuela The US military has killed a leader in the Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua, Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, with the help of Venezuela, Donald Trump announced on Friday. \u201cAt my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered &#8230; <a title=\"Trump says leader of Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang killed in US strike\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/trump-says-leader-of-venezuelan-tren-de-aragua-gang-killed-in-us-strike\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump says leader of Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang killed in US strike\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}