President Donald Trump speaks as Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth look on after a U.S. strike in Venezuela that captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., January 3, 2026.(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Few will mourn the recent killing of Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores. Flores was the alleged leader of Tren de Aragua (TdA), better known by his alias, “Niño Guerrero,” who was killed at President Trump’s order in a “lethal kinetic strike” that U.S. armed forces fired at a building in Venezuela — as the president put it in a celebratory Truth Social post on Friday, which embedded video of the attack.
If Guerrero committed the crimes he was accused of, he was a murderous, evil man. But that’s just it: he was accused of crimes. There is no declaration of war or
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