MADRID (AP) – Spanish police arrested 13 suspected members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, seized a stash of illegal drugs and dismantled two drug laboratories, 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 dismantled two laboratories used to make tusi – a mixture of cocaine, MDMA and ketamine.

The arrests followed an inv

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