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But our Spain's coastline is narco
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One thing that 7 weeks of continuous
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rains and storms did, apart from making
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was flush out the hundreds of narco
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speedboats that operate international
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waters just far off the Spanish coast.
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From Almería to Granada to the Costa del
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Sol and even in the Atlantic and Cádiz.
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In 1 week in January alone,
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19 narco speedboats were spotted hiding
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out in the secluded coves between Cabo
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de Gata and Pulpí in the Almería coast.
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The weather was so severe that the mayor
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even accused the government himself
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of pleading for more resources to the
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He was in a narco speedboat in the
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It's all prompted one Spanish police
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to proclaim that the waters around Spain
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are infested with narcos.
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The Guardia Civil have labeled the
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narcos the owners and masters of the
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Storms may have receded and with them
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the sight of the narcos on the
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but the problem hasn't gone away.
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If anything, it's laid bare the extent
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of the challenge facing the Spanish
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[music] state as it tries to combat the
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enormous and highly organized
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trafficking of drugs into Europe through
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[music] southern Spain.
