Venezuela has slammed a US claim that deportees sent to a jail in El Salvador belong to the Tren de Aragua criminal gang. It said the group has been defeated and that none of the deportees had connections with it.

The Trump administration has invoked a 227-year-old law, the Alien Enemies Act, to target Tren de Aragua, a gang with its roots in the prisons of Venezuela. Who are they and how wide is their reach?

The Trump administration has sparked controversy with its move Sunday to deport 261 people, some of whom it alleges are members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, to an infamous maximum-security prison in El Salvador.

Soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios fled Venezuela — but now he’s one of several migrants presumably being detained in an infamous Salvadoran prison.