Spain's Drug Coast: How the mafias operate on the Strait of Gibraltar. First tobacco, then hashish: why the drug trade is flourishing in the south of Spain.
La Línea is the city with the highest unemployment rate in Spain, at 35 percent in January. At least 4,000 of the 63,000 residents are dedicated to drug trafficking, says Francisco Mena, who has been fighting drug trafficking in the Campo de Gibraltar for decades. “Your future is determined more by the zip code of the place you are born than by your genetic code, says Mena.