{"id":1448,"date":"2025-11-07T14:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:06:58","slug":"spanish-police-arrest-suspected-members-of-venezuelan-gang-targeted-by-us-drugs-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=1448","title":{"rendered":"Spanish police arrest suspected members of Venezuelan gang targeted by US | Drugs News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>Raids across five Spanish cities result in arrests of 13 people suspected of being in Venezuela\u2019s Tren de Aragua gang.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 7 Nov 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">7 Nov 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share\" data-testid=\"rich-share\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__button-wrapper\"><button class=\"rich-share__button row\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p><svg class=\"icon icon--share2 icon--primary icon--16 \" viewbox=\"0 0 20 16\" version=\"1.1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><title>share2<\/title><path fill=\"#000\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M11.688 9.048c-.659 0-1.252.282-1.673.733l-4.92-2.45c.016-.115.028-.232.028-.352 0-.117-.011-.23-.027-.343l4.913-2.423a2.285 2.285 0 0 0 1.68.739C12.964 4.952 14 3.899 14 2.6 14 1.302 12.965.25 11.688.25S9.377 1.302 9.377 2.601c0 .117.01.23.027.343L4.49 5.367a2.285 2.285 0 0 0-1.68-.739C1.536 4.628.5 5.681.5 6.979c0 1.299 1.035 2.35 2.312 2.35.659 0 1.252-.281 1.673-.731l4.92 2.45a2.357 2.357 0 0 0-.029.351c0 1.299 1.035 2.351 2.312 2.351S14 12.698 14 11.399s-1.035-2.35-2.312-2.35Z\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Spanish police have detained 13 suspected members of Venezuela\u2019s notorious Tren de Aragua crime gang, which has increasingly come under scrutiny as the United States actively targets and kills what it says are its cadres smuggling drugs on vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests were made across five Spanish cities, police said on Friday. The gang was designated as a global \u201cterrorist organisation\u201d by the US earlier this year.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 3 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Police said the arrests took place in Barcelona, Madrid, Girona, A Coruna and Valencia in an investigation into the group\u2019s alleged efforts to expand its operations into\u00a0Spain, where\u00a0Venezuelans make up one of the largest immigrant communities.<\/p>\n<p>Tren de Aragua was originally formed in Venezuelan prisons and has grown into one of Latin America\u2019s most violent transnational criminal networks. The gang is linked to drugs, human trafficking and extortion.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the operation, Spanish police said they seized synthetic drugs and cocaine and also dismantled two laboratories used to make \u201ctusi\u201d \u2013 a mixture of cocaine, MDMA and ketamine.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests followed an investigation Spanish police opened last year after the brother of \u201cNino Guerrero,\u201d the leader of the Tren de Aragua gang, was arrested in Barcelona, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The infamous gang has been in the crosshairs of US President Donald Trump\u2019s domestic immigration crackdown, with more than 200 alleged members deported from the US in March.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also used Tren de Aragua and other drug cartels to justify continued strikes on boats in South American waters.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60 people have now been killed in the strikes since early September, with the US targeting\u00a0at least 18 vessels \u2013 17 boats and a semi-submersible \u2013 in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The latest strike on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea killed three men, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has yet to make public any evidence that its targets were smuggling narcotics or posed any threat to the US.<\/p>\n<p>United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk has condemned the strikes as \u201cextrajudicial killing\u201d, while US lawmakers \u2013 mostly Democrats, but also several senior Republicans \u2013 have demanded clarity from the Trump administration on the legal basis for carrying out deadly attacks in international waters.<\/p>\n<p>Turk called for the US to halt its attacks to \u201cprevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused Trump of seeking to destabilise his government through the attacks, as well as through a major military build-up of US naval forces in the region over recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro, whom Trump accuses of being involved in drug trafficking, has said Washington\u2019s \u201cwar on drugs\u201d was merely a pretext to topple him from power, as the US builds up its aggressive military presence near the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raids across five Spanish cities result in arrests of 13 people suspected of being in Venezuela\u2019s Tren de Aragua gang. 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