bad guy’s sidewalk

Last weekend’s machine gun shooting of four national police officers on Isla Mayor is by no means an isolated incident. On the contrary, it corresponds to the dynamics of the accelerating transformation of the whole of Andalusia into a colony of organized crime. … failed state. Ten years ago, trouble was in the dual border region of Campo de Gibraltar, but the octopus (“La Piobra,” according to the mythical Italian TV series) has extended its tentacles, conquered the Costa del Sol, and is now climbing the Guadalquivir (the highway of Delcy Rodriguez’s American cocaine) with total impunity. “My prince” whispers – and the Alawite hashish of those who cloned Pedro Sanchez’s phone. Given this panorama, does anyone believe that it is a coincidence that this domination of drug traffickers coincides with the dissolution of the OCON-Sur group?Deputy Interior Minister Cunelo, in Cadiz, whistles and stares at the ceiling.

The European Parliament’s mission has ordered Fernando Grande-Marlasca to reinstate the private security force in a shocking report. The report accuses him of obstructing an investigation into the February 2024 double murder in Barbate, in which a drug boat crushed a patrol boat to the delight of onlookers, but the only result so far has been the promotion of those who sent the officials to the slaughterhouse. We will forever be grateful to him for not urinating on the graves of his victims, against an authority that appears to have moved into the wrong lane, or, in Argentinian terms, to have “kicked in.” Because of incompetence or worse, the truth is that we are on the verge of a repeat of that tragedy – one of the injured is still in the throes of life and death – for the same reason that the Interior Ministry is not providing security forces with the supplies they need to confront the killers wielding AK-47s, a 39mm bullet suitable for stabbing rhinos.

“Drug traffickers are operating with weapons of war, while our colleagues take to the streets wearing expired vests, without bulletproof helmets or armored vehicles,” the police union charged. This lack of funding, which costs lives, follows fiscal standards and would be criminal if public funds were being extravagantly squandered here, but if it were the result of political, tactical or ideological reflection, or all three at the same time, it would be openly criminal. Meanwhile, like what is happening today in Michoacán or what happened in Antioquia in the 1980s, the mafia occupies a space abandoned by the rule of law, has the support of a section of the population and the lowest echelons of government, and in ever-increasing numbers, no one can fault them for choosing money (in exchange for cash or menial jobs) at the expense of heroism. All these strokes are part of the same picture.

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