Tren de Aragua: the Transnational Menace Making Headlines

                 Very few knew of Tren de Aragua a year ago, and yet, it now features as an unpleasant face of the American migrant crisis that is driving support for the Republican ticket.  In its transition from obscurity to national notoriety, the Venezuelan gang has incurred the ire of both the American people and the US Treasury -- who sanctioned the gang in July.