This month is February two policemen died attacked in southern Spain ‘drug lunch’, a high-speed boat used by drug traffickers to bring their goods to shore while evading authorities. His death is accompanied by images on social networks in which one can hear young people cheer for drug dealers and abuse agentshighlights a problem that recurs daily in the Andalusia region.

¿When did drug trafficking become a national problem in Spain? Nacho Carretero, a journalist specializing in the drug trade and author of the book Fariña, commented: “Drug trafficking in Spain is a descendant of border smuggling from the post-war era of the Spanish Civil War. We’re talking about the 30s and 40s. Smuggling was a very common activity respected by society.”

Carretero explains how this initial smuggling eventually turned into large-scale drug trafficking: “It grows. The clans became more powerful and larger, as well as more brutal., until we find a panorama similar to the one we have today. The medicines that arrive in Spain are primarily cocaine. In this case, it originates in Latin America, produced and grown in Colombia, but increasingly exported from Ecuador, Brazil and Central America, arriving mainly through Galicia and Andalusia.”

Added to the tragedy that followed and killed two law enforcement agents was that there were many people in the port shouting and cheering, insulting the slain agents.