Venezuelan forces conducted an extremely successful and well-coordinated takedown of the gang-run Tocoron prison and cleared inmates out of the facility. The government will now embark on phase two where it will hunt down any fugitive that escaped the initial raid. After years of living in luxury, members of the Tren de Aragua gang are finally being held accountable, and Venezuelan authorities are rightfully cracking down on criminal enterprises.
After years of allowing one of Venezuela’s most brutal gangs to turn a prison into a de facto luxury resort, authorities have finally done something about the situation. However, the fact that the gang’s leader hasn’t been captured shows that the notoriously corrupt Venezuelan government may have let the career criminal off the hook. The Torocon prison is emblematic of Venezuela’s declining criminal justice system, and it seems that the government is still allowing shady activities even when it claims to “crackdown” on crime.