Editor’s Note: Translated from the Spanish original.
From: Público
Luis Landeira
The dangerous friendships of Galician politicians with drug trafficking
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Vicente Otero ‘ Terito ‘
Manuel Fraga Iribarne himself, a minister with Franco and founder of Alianza Popular, was related to traffickers. According to Nacho Carter, “Fraga was an intimate friend of Vicente Otero ‘ Terito ‘, who was in the famous shooting between capos in the Parador in Cambados, in 1982, where it was apparently not discussed drugs, but how much money was going to donate to Popular Alliance.” Terito was the true godfather of tobacco, whose smuggling was his specialty, and his relationship with other drugs was never demonstrated. He received a gold medal and brilliant for his dedication to the party of Fraga.
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José Ramón ‘Nené’ Barral
Mayor of the Galician town of Ribadumia for almost two decades, this narcopolítico of the Partido Popular resigned in 2001 after being charged with fraud and tax evasion related to the smuggling of tobacco. Although he is still going around with lawsuits, the prosecution calls for ten years in prison for him for captaining “an organized group, stable with international projection, with the purpose of introducing in Spain and the European Union important tobacco items of origin Extracommunitarian, by sea and land. ” Almost nothing.
