MADRID (AP) — Spanish police have arrested 13 people suspected of belonging to the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, authorities said Friday.

The arrests were made in five cities in the first operation in Spain to dismantle a suspected cell of the Venezuelan prison gang, which the U.S. government designated a foreign terrorist organization in February, police said in a statement.

The gang has become a key reference in the Trump administration’s military strikes against suspected drug vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean, and in its domestic immigration crackdown.

As part of the operation, Spanish police said they also dismantled two laboratories used to make tusi — a mixture of cocaine, MDMA and ketamine — and seized other synthetic drugs and cocaine.

The arrests followed an inve

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