The tragic death of two civil guards in the bay of Barbate (Cádiz) has unleashed political anger on the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, who is being asked to resign for having left the security forces fighting against the unprotected. drug traffickers, who operate with impunity in Cadiz waters.
The problem is not only whether the Minister of the Interior should be relieved, but what is the real penetration of the drug cartels that roam freely in the south of Spain, confronting the police, establishing complicities with the local population and threatening the coexistence.
Experience has shown in Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador and practically all the rest of Latin America, that everything began with small skirmishes between drug traffickers and the police until it became a serious State problem, of which many of the countries involved have not yet recovered.
Violence and death accompany the world of drug trafficking. Money, weapons and political distortion are their ways of acting. A parallel power confronts the institutions, which are incapable of combating those who flout the law by imposing their criminal norms and rules wherever they go.
The images of the drug boat passing over the defense vessel and murdering two civil guards give the impression that neither Grande-Marlaska nor this nor the previous governments have taken the fight against drug trafficking seriously. The First Capital Command, a cartel born in Brazil in the nineties and which has 40,000 members around the world, is operating throughout America and also in Europe. There are more cartels that dominate a vast global organized crime network.
Much merchandise is consumed in the United States and Europe, where cocaine and strong drugs are valued even at the cost of harm to the personal health of hundreds of thousands of people. It is a market of death that affects consumers, but above all those who are victims of extortion and deaths perpetrated by criminal cartels. Either the drug bosses on our coasts are stopped legally and police-wise or we will have very serious problems.
