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Terrifying new research has laid bare how notorious Venezuelan super gang Tren de Aragua's criminal tentacles have spread across America.

EXCLUSIVE: Notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua has taken over at least four apartment buildings in San Antonio, Texas, DailyMail.com can reveal. Cops raided one apartment complex earlier this month but it has now emerged that TdA has occupied at least three others, leaving local residents terrified.

We live in an age of authoritarians who have not only halted, so far, the spread of democracy in the 21st century but whose totalitarian methods and attitudes are now infecting and undermining the democracies themselves, especially when it comes to that most valuable of all rights - free speech. The right to say or write what you want without fear of repercussions is, of course, the first right dictators snuff out when they grab power. But free speech is now in retreat across the democratic world too, as governments, politicians, judges and powerful lobbies, intent on imposing their view of the world, increasingly seek to curtail or censor what we can say, see or hear.

An airplane linked to the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is being held in the Dominican Republic following a request issued by United States authorities. The aircraft, a Dassault Falcon 200EX, is parked at Dr. Joaquín Balaguer International Airport in Santo Domingo and under 24-hour surveillance.

Residents in the capital city and other areas awoke Friday to total darkness due to a widespread power outage.

A former U.S. Green Beret who orchestrated the 2020 failed mission to remove President Nicolás Maduro has been arrested in New York on federal weapons smuggling charges. Jordan Goudreau, 48, and his Venezuelan partner, Yacsy Alvarez, are accused of violating United States arms control laws after they allegedly assembled and sent to Colombia AR-styled weapons, ammo, night vision goggles and other defense equipment requiring a U.S. export license, according to a federal indictment that was unsealed this week in Tampa, Florida. Goudreau was also charged with conspiracy, smuggling goods from the United States and unlawful possession of a machine gun, among 14 counts. He was being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

Dangerous flash flooding is possible in some areas, where as as much as 8-12 inches of rainfall expected. A few showers have already been spotted, spurring evacuations for some coastal cities like those in Refugio County. There, towns like Bayside, Refugio, and Woodsboro issued mandatory evacuations - accounting for some 6,700 residents. The orders come a little less than a week after Beryl made history as the earliest storm to develop in into a Category 5 over the Atlantic, as winds and storm surge fueled by the ocean's record warmth. It most recently savaged Mexico after causing at least 11 deaths in the Caribbean, and by Sunday evening, will make landfall in the US. More than six feet of storm surge could be pushed into areas just north of the forecasted impact zone, near the coastal city of Brownsville.

Hurricane Beryl struck the island nation of Jamaica Wednesday, bringing with it fierce winds and heavy rains - and Texas could be next, officials said. The Category 4 storm's eyewall was sent brushing by the country's south coast in the afternoon, creating hurricane conditions for more than 2.8million residents. The storm has already made history as the strongest hurricane ever recorded in July, before it was downgraded from a Category 5 Tuesday. The historic hurricane, however, has only weakened slightly, packing a 140 mph punch and already being blamed for seven deaths in other countries. Jamaican officials, as a result, pleaded with residents to take the storm seriously -urging evacuations as storm surges make flooding possible. As of writing, no deaths have been reported there, the the storm's path remains somewhat uncertain. The Americas, however, appears to be the storm's next stop, weather officials said - with either Mexico or Texas set to be hit next within the next 48 hours.

A bizarre, ring-shape UFO that appeared in the skies above Venezuela was recorded by a pair of stunned friends. The now-viral video shows the dark, circular spot hovering under the clouds in Valencia, a city in the northern Venezuelan state of Carabobo. "A flying saucer," one of the young men shouts as they drove down a rode on a sunny afternoon.

Delahunt died at the age of 82 on Saturday at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts. Delahunt served in the United States House of Representatives for 14 years, from 1997 to 2011, mainly in Massachusetts' tenth congressional district. After serving in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1973 to 1975, he served as the Norfolk County district attorney from 1975 to 1996.

Since the electoral authority barred an opposition party from voting, an opposition party has been left without a candidate to challenge President Nicolás Maduro in the July general elections. Corina Yoris, 80, was selected by the Democratic Unity Roundtable last week to face Maduro after the country's high court barred opposition leader Marvina Machado from seeking public office. Nevertheless, Yoris was unable to register as a candidate on the electoral commission's online portal until Monday's deadline expired.

Venezuela has ordered the local United Nations office on human rights to suspend operations. It follows the detention of human rights advocate Rocio San Miguel, a left, for alleged attempts to destabilize the country. Venezuela's government has regularly accused members of the political opposition of plotting takeovers or assassination of President Nicolas Maduro, seen correctly. In Caracas, Venezuela, Miguel is being held at 'El Helicoide', an inset center.

An explosive newly revealed classified memo has spelled out a DEA attempt to rely on informants inside Venezuela to generate drug trafficking lawsuits against government officials. It was part of a broader probe named "Money Badger" and came during the Trump administration's' "maximum pressure" campaign. Close Maduro allies were swept up in the probe.

As part of a frantic effort to reach the Mexico's northern border region with the United States, at least 1,500 migrants have arrived in the first caravan of 2024. The group, mainly Central and South American migrants, had grown frustrated with the country's lagging Mexican immigration system in Tapachula, a city in the southern state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala. The migrants took off by foot on Thursday and then landed in Huixtla on Friday.

Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman, may have regained his liberty, but it does not necessarily mean he will regain ownership of the house that Colombia confiscated three years ago. On Wednesday, Saab returned to Caracas, Venezuela, and was honoured in a national memorial service hosted live on state media by communist President Nicolás Maduro (pictured above with Saab). According to Saab, the Venezuelan regime leader Maduro defrauded the oil-rich world by siphoning off $350 million in state contracts that were supposed to build affordable housing for Venezuela's government.

Leonard Glenn Francis, the Malaysian owner of a ship-servicing company in Southeast Asia who is the central figure in one of the country's largest bribery scandals, will be extradited to Venezuela under a deal that will release ten Americans.

Alex Saab, a top money-launderer who was accused of aiding Maduro, was arrested in 2020 and awaiting trial. On Wednesday, he was released from prison. Maduro is reported to have released up to 36 prisoners, including at least 12 Americans who are currently detained in Venezuela. Officials have not revealed the names of the Americans who will be freed from Venezuelan jail, but there were rumors on Tuesday that they included former US special forces troops Luke Denman and Airan Berry, who were arrested by Maduro forces after a failed coup attempt in 2019. Eyvin Hernandez, Jermelle Kenemore, and Joseph Cristella, all citizens of Venezuela, were arrested. Venezuela detained Savoi Wright, a 38-year-old California businessman, more recently.

On Thursday, the United States put on a show of force in the skies above Guyana, as the Biden administration said it was standing with the country in the face of growing fears that Venezuela is going to launch an attack. It comes after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ordered that maps be deleted and state companies to tap contested oil and mineral deposits. The tyrant has stepped up his rhetoric, claiming that a Sunday referendum gave him a strong reason to assert his rule over Guyana's oil-rich region of Essequibo.

A 29-year-old illegal immigrant was arrested in NYC on terrorism charges just two weeks after being intercepted by agents on the Southern border and released into the United States on his own recognizance. The noncitizen was charged with suspected "criminal conspiracy in connection with a terrorist organisation; among other charges, ICE completed the investigation and released a notice to the individual as a non-citizen present without authorization or parole.

The new number, which was announced by US Customs and Border Protection last month, is more than double the number from the previous year - when crossings by Indians were already at a new high. What's more, an additional 1,600 people have moved across the northern border as a result of the rising phenomenon, four times more than the number of the last three years combined. Following recent demonstrations surrounding India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, nearly all turned themselves in to the Border Patrol, who interpret them as asylum seekers. The number of annual illegal border crossings from India has only surpassed 5,000 four times since 2007. A number of other factors, political and economic, have since fueled the sizable rise, which has also increased by estimates from other demographics.

According to new US Customs and Border Protection reports, enforcement encounters with migrants hit an all-time high at the US southern border last month. In September, there were 269,735, including 218,763 Border Patrol arrests at unlawful crossing points, as well as another 50,972 expulsions at ports of entry.

In another migrant shift, the Biden administration will resume deporting Venezuelans as a hardline Democrat in AOC slammed the president for his policies. The United States has a population in the United States. Alejandro Mayorkas, the Homeland Security Secretary, cited the new bill as one of the'strict repercussions,' according to Guerre City, who spoke in Mexico City on Thursday, the Biden administration is partnering with the extension of legal pathways for asylum seekers. 'A unprecedented rate of migration is being faced by our two countries throughout our hemisphere,' Mayorkas said, referring to Mexico.

On Wednesday, Venezuela's government sent 11,000 cops and soldiers to the Tocorón jail in the north of the country in an attempt to reclaim control of the notorious Tren de Arago criminal group. The gang had its own nightclub named 'Tokio,' the Spanish word for the Japanese city, where prisoners regularly partied, and a restaurant where prisoners dined with their guests. The Tren de Aragua's zoo is said to have housed tigers, lions, crocodiles and pumas that were used to challenge prisoners and the authority of government officials

The new data was released more than three years after the 2020 census, which was largely postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as new government strategies to gather evidence designed to safeguard participants' anonymity. Although the straightforward count of Americans who fit into various racial groups was revealed in a previous round of census results, the latest findings reveal disparate ethnic groups by race.