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Tocoron, Aragua, Venezuela – 22 March 2025
1. Various of surroundings of Tocoron prison
2. Various of man carrying plants on bicycle, passing in front of Tocoron prison
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Caracas, Venezuela – 24 March 2025
3. AP journalists speaking with Ronna Risquez, journalist author of the book "The Aragua Train. The gang that revolutionized organized crime in Latin America” (“El Tren de Aragua. La banda que revolucionó el crimen organizado en América Latina”)
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Undisclosed location – 24 March 2025
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4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ronna Risquez, author:
“The prison became, in the case of Tocoron, a kind of city adjusted to their needs and with amenities that are not common in a prison like what we have already seen many times, zoos, discos, restaurants, baseball fields, a pool. So Tocoron was becoming this while the state outside knew that this was happening, but no one did anything.”
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Tocoron, Aragua, Venezuela – 23 September 2023
5. Various interiors of Tocorón prison, days after government took control of it (until that moment it was controlled by Tren de Aragua gang)
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Undisclosed location – 24 March 2025
++VIDEO CALL++
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ronna Risquez, author:
“What could have happened after the prison was taken over? It could have happened that the organization fragmented, that there are now some groups that have separated and have independence of action, they are people who were with the Tren de Aragua, but now act independently and do not report to the leaders of the Tren de Aragua. I have no certainty of that, I’m talking about the things that can happen after a situation like the one when they take away your base of operations and they also take away your main source of recruitment which was the prison itself and your main source of income which was the collection of “La Causa” (literally translates to “the cause”) which is this tax that they charged the prisoners.”
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ARCHIVE: Tocoron, Venezuela – 20 September 2023
7. Various of Venezuela’s military officials coming in and out of Tocoron prison after its intervention
8. Tocoron prisoners sitting with hands tied up inside the prison
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Undisclosed location – 24 March 2025
++VIDEO CALL++
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ronna Risquez, author:
“it is not impossible that there are Tren de Aragua members in the United States, on the contrary it is very likely that there are Tren de Aragua members in the US. The problem is which Tren de Aragua people are in the United States, where they are? How many there are? That is not clear and I think with all the latest events this is becoming less and less clear.”
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Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela – 22 March 2025
10. Various of people commuting
11. Man riding bike
12. Ali Andrade and Esperanza de Andrade, married couple, walking
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Esperanza de Andrade (left) and Ali Andrade (right):
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Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela – 22 March
14. Various of supermarket showing a gunshot hole in façade
15. Woman walking
16. Various of city streets
17. Drone shots of Maracay ++MUTE++
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