Tren de Aragua: are Trump’s claims about the violent street gang overblown?
by Tiago Rogero South America correspondent from US news | The Guardian on (#6RXAY)
The crime group has terrorised parts of Latin America, and the ex-president's exaggerations may just empower it more
Angela Villon Bustamante awoke to a WhatsApp notification on her phone. Still drowsy, she was horrified by what she saw: a graphic video showing the murder of a trans woman she knew named Rubi Ferrer.
The killer shot Ferrer 31 times, recording the murder with her own phone before sending the footage to all her contacts, including Bustamante, a prominent activist in the Peruvian sex workers' movement.
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