The Day the Bombs Fell: The Anti-Gang Op Where Venezuela’s Security Forces Ran Wild On the night of July 29, 2024, a criminal commando unit armed with rifles, shotguns, and grenades launched an assault on a school being used as a voting center in the small town of San Francisco de Macaira, in the central Venezuelan state of Guárico. The group, members of the notorious Tren del Llano gang, disarmed military guards then rampaged through the center, tearing down government election posters. The po