“The Ruka”. For example, they meet a woman in the criminal world who is linked by the Chilean authorities to the transnational gang El Tren de Aragua. In that country they have just reported that she has been arrested and brought to justice.

Of the one identified as a criminal, they consider her “as the alleged operational arm of leaders of a cell of the “Aragua train” in Chile.

His arrest was confirmed by the Investigative Police (PDI) on Saturday, January 20, 2024, CNN Chile reported.

She would be one of the leaders in an operational branch of the Aragua train.

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Who is alias “La Ruca” in El Tren de Aragua?

“La Ruca” comes from Venezuela, where more than a decade ago the criminal organization was “born” that reached at least five Latin American countries, but has a larger presence in Peru, Chile and Colombia.

In accordance with CNN Chilethe 28-year-old Venezuelan woman is accused of ‘recruiting women in Venezuela and transferring them to Chilean territory to subject them to sexual exploitation’.

They assure that the victims “were located in cities such as Iquique and Santiago.”

In Meganoticias they added that the Venezuelan woman was in charge of recruiting women in her country and would take them to Chile under deception to lead them to the aforementioned crime.

Prosecutor Javier Gutiérrez explained, according to La Tercera, that it was possible to identify the suspect “who, through deception, recruited vulnerable women abroad, mainly of Venezuelan nationality, and brought them into the country through illicit steps.”

They took the women to the municipality of Iquique, “where they coerced and intimidated them and charged them large sums of money as fines while they performed sexual acts.”

They linked ‘La Ruca’ to ‘Estrella’ and ‘Satanás’, identified as members of the criminal cell and who they said have been ‘in preventive detention since March 2022’.

When “Satanás” and “Estrella” fell into the hands of authorities, it is said that the woman left Chile to settle for a while in Lima, Peru. There he was with his partner, they noted in Meganoticias.

In November 2023, Infobae reported that the Tarapacá Regional Prosecutor’s Office had leveled the accusation “against the first cell of the Aragua Train discovered in the country, and denounced a series of crimes against its leader Carlos “Estrella” González Vaca, Hernán” Satanás” Landaeta. Garlotti, and ten other members, according to Radio Cooperativa.”

The charges included murder, kidnapping, extortion, human trafficking, drug trafficking, migrant trafficking, arms trafficking and illegal intercourse.

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Alias ​​“La Ruca” based and held in Chile

Katherine Vásquez, sub-prefect and head of the Human Trafficking Investigative Brigade (Britap), quoted in CNN Chile, said that “after the said arrests, the accused fled to Peru and returned to the country a few months ago to settle in Santiago, a city where, after several procedures carried out by the said brigade, it was located by the case officers.”

The days of freedom for alias “La Ruca” – also called “Austin Roa” according to La Tercera – ended last Friday, January 19, said Subprefect Cristián Chávez of the Anti-Narcotics and Organized Crime North Prefecture.

According to Meganoticias, “La Ruca” was placed in preventive detention, for which the Public Prosecutor’s Office initiated a 120-day investigation period.

This arrest comes amid other important news about the organization El Tren de Aragua, whose presence is now under investigation in Florida, United States, following the kidnapping and murder of a man, which took place in November 2023. (JO)