US EditionSpanish police arrest 13 people suspected of belonging to Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang
Spanish police seized drugs and dismantled two labs while arresting 13 suspects in the first operation against the Venezuelan gang known for drug trafficking and violence.
- In a coordinated raid, officers arrested 13 people across Barcelona, Madrid, Girona, A Coruña and Valencia, Spanish police announced Friday, November 7, 2025.
- An investigation opened last year after the brother of Niño Guerrero was arrested in Barcelona, while the gang expanded in recent years as more than 7.7 million Venezuelans fled economic turmoil.
- Police dismantled one laboratory producing tusi and seized synthetic drugs and cocaine, linking the cell to drug-trafficking enforcement efforts.
- The U.S. government designated the Tren de Aragua gang a foreign terrorist organization in February, and the Trump administration launched strikes targeting narcotics trafficking, framing it as an 'armed conflict.'
- The gang originated more than a decade ago in an Aragua prison, central state of Aragua, Venezuela, and its international cells explain Spanish authorities’ recent dismantling operation.
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Large-Scale Police Raid Targets Drug Gang in Spain
Spanish police said on Friday they had carried out raids in five cities, arresting 13 people accused of belonging to the first known cell of the Venezuelan criminal gang ‘Tren de Aragua’ to be uncovered in Spain. Tren de Aragua has become one of the most violent transnational criminal networks in Latin America. Originally formed inside Venezuelan prisons, the group is involved in drug and human trafficking as well as extortion. The United States…
Spanish police arrest 13 members of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua
The coordinated raids, carried out in Barcelona, Madrid, Girona, A Coruña, and Valencia, marked Spain’s first major operation targeting what investigators believe to be a local cell of the Venezuelan prison gang
Madrid. The Spanish police, in collaboration with the intelligence services of Colombia and the European Union (EU)'s Ameripol-El Paccto 2.0, identified and dismantled a cell of the Aragua Train cartel, founded in Venezuela and allegedly engaged in drug trafficking, mainly of pink cocaine or tusi, to carry out commissioned murders, kidnapping and extortion.
Since 2023 has been installed in Spain the Aragua Train, the Venezuelan multinational organized crime, which operates in practically all the countries of Latin America and that the United States has declared a terrorist organization. This is assured to 20 minutes sources of the General Police Information Commission (CGI), that last week it dismantled the first active cell of the band in our country. In the operation, called Interciti and develop…
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