A Venezuelan mannequin, actress and DJ who’s reportedly “romantically linked” to the chief of the vicious Tren de Aragua gang was sanctioned by the US Treasury Division on Wednesday, as a part of an leisure trade community offering materials assist for the overseas terror group.
The Treasury’s Workplace of International Property Management introduced the designation towards entertainer Jimena Romina Araya Navarro, also referred to as Rosita, a Venezuelan mannequin with tens of millions of social media followers who together with different entertainers has helped launder cash for TdA.
Rosita additionally “reportedly helped the infamous head of TdA, Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, also referred to as “Niño Guerrero,” who’s believed to have been her onetime lover, flee Venezuela’s Tocorón jail in 2012, in line with the Treasury.
The sultry influencer has starred in standard Spanish-language TV reveals and likewise moonlights as a DJ, spinning digital home music in her house nation, Colombia and Mexico, a evaluate of her social media accounts reveals.
However a lot of the income from her glamorous way of life have been later funneled to Venezuela’s most infamous gang — together with by way of performances at a Bogota-based nightclub run by her ex-bodyman and supervisor Eryk Manuel Landaeta Hernandez.
Eryk, who was arrested by Colombian authorities in October 2024, used the occasions hosted at his membership to assist peddle medicine for TdA — after which laundered the cash for Niño Guerrero and one other gang senior chief Mosquera Serrano, each of whom have already been sanctioned by OFAC.
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Whereas the precise nature of Rosita’s relationship with Flores stays unclear, she has had romances with convicts up to now.
In 2012, she starred within the grownup animated sequence “Jail or Hell,” the place she started a romance with sequence creator and former convict Luidig Ochoa, who frolicked within the notorious Tocorón jail.
The connection, nevertheless, was short-lived when Ochoa was shot repeatedly by a thief attempting to make off along with his bike, Peru21 reported.
Years later, Rosita started relationship Carlos Galíndez, a person allegedly linked to Venezuela’s drug gangs who was killed and dismembered on the facet of the highway in Caracas in 2016, in line with the native outlet.
Photos of Galíndez’ corpse have been allegedly shared by the convicted nephews of Nicolas Maduro’s spouse, Cilia Flores, with the relations reportedly attempting to guard Rosita from being murdered alongside together with her boyfriend, in line with chats launched by the New York Prosecutor’s Workplace in 2017.
The sanctions imply the bikini-loving Rosita can be locked out of the US monetary system.
“Beneath President Trump, barbaric terrorist cartels can not function with impunity throughout our borders. The Tren de Aragua community’s narcotrafficking and human smuggling operations have lengthy posed a grave risk to our nation,” Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent mentioned a press release.
“On the course of President Trump, we’ll proceed to make use of each instrument to chop off these terrorists from the US and international monetary system and hold Americans secure.”
Consequently, each Rosita and Eryk have been sanctions “for having materially assisted, sponsored, or offered monetary, materials, or technological assist for, or items or providers to or in assist of TDA,” the Treasury Division introduced.
Eryk’s membership Maiquetia VIP Bar Restaurantare and Rosita’s firm, International Import Options S.A., are additionally being designated by the division — whereas all of the property and pursuits of the pair can be blocked from doing enterprise within the US in addition to another entities which can be majority owned by them.
As well as, OFAC sanctioned Kenffersso Jhosue Sevilla Arteaga (a.okay.a. “El Flipper”) and his associated entities. As Niño Guerrero’s deputy, El Flipper was arrested in Colombia in November 2025 after being “concerned in extortions, kidnappings, and homicides.”
Different sanctions have been additionally slapped on TdA cell leaders and lieutenants Richard Jose Espinal Quintero, Noe Manases Aponte Cordova, and Asdrubal Rafael Escobar Cabrera, in addition to Cheison Royer Guerrero Palma, Niño Guerrero’s half-brother who was pushing the gang’s exercise into Chile.
Venezuelan authorities officers “facilitated” the unlawful migration of Tda members into the US in recent times “to advance what they see because the Maduro regime’s objective of destabilizing governments and undermining public security,” in line with an intelligence evaluation launched in Might.
Gangbangers from TdA ended up fanning out to at the least 16 US states underneath the Biden administration and fascinating in a spread of legal exercise, corresponding to petty theft, drug trafficking, extortion and human trafficking.
In February, the US State Division labeled them a overseas terrorist group, together with the Salvadoran gang MS-13.
