The hitherto unknown “Hotel Negro” in Bogotá, Colombia, is the current lair of the Venezuelan criminal organization known as the Train from Aragua. There they carry out torture, kidnappings, murders and tragic drugs.
The screams of the victims have been heard from the street in broad daylight, but nobody said anything regarding it, according to some witnesses told the newspaper Week.
They also revealed that they have seen how they remove presumed bodies wrapped in black bags during the early hours.
“Several homicides have occurred there. From that place they took El Gato and Pitillo, with Guayabita, who appeared dead and tortured in a cart in Bellavista”, commented one of them.
The “Black Hotel” is made up of two houses that have the same facade, and keep the most terrible crimes of the Aragua Train, which has already taken over several sectors in Bogotá.
According to the informants of the aforementioned medium, said place does not have identification because the signs and notices or company name took off. Although everyone in the area knows it as the black hotel.
It has four floors and the facade is made of black ceramic, which has been falling apart. Although the first floor is made up of shops, they are only open at night. The rest are rooms that work as paydays.
According to witnesses, those who are forced into these buildings are disappeared. There are two ways to get to this den of criminals: through Ciudad de Cali avenue or 38, which is a long and congested street. In addition, the site is rife with drug trafficking, prostitution and informal vendors.
Hotel Negro de Bogotá: the criminal center where the Tren de Aragua operates
The testimonies collected by Week They say that the so-called “borrowed”, criminals from other gangs, are kidnapped and put in said criminal den. Once inside, they are tortured and recorded. Most end up murdered and their bodies are dismembered by the Aragua Train, to later put them in bags, take them out in ‘pedicabs’ and throw them as if they were garbage.
The Colombian prosecutor’s office has several of these videos that prove the horrors committed by the Aragua Train within the walls of the “Black Hotel.” In fact, alias Alfredito, a murderer of this organization and who was recently captured, lived in the same place that they used as a torture center.