U.S. President Donald Trump announced in a June 12 Truth Social post that the United States Southern Command had conducted a kinetic strike against members of the Venezuelan transnational criminal group Tren de Aragua, killing the group's leader, Hector Rusthenford Guerrero, also called Nino Guerrero. The Venezuelan government later issued a statement that the strike was a "joint operation between Venezuelan and United States security agencies in the southeastern Bolivar state," though neither government statement indicated when the strike occurred.