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COCAINE COAST
from Cocaine Coast
by ABLAZE
History And Indiscretions Of The Narco Trafficking In Spain
Based on the book by N acho C arretero Script, art and color by L uis B ustos Letters by t aylor e sposito
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Names: Bustos, Luis, author. | Carretero, Nacho, 1981-, author.
Title: Cocaine coast : a graphic novel / Luis Bustos ; Nacho Carretero.
Description: Portland, OR: Ablaze Publishing, 2021. Identifiers: ISBN: 978-1-950912-27-8
Subjects: LCSH Cocaine industry—Colombia. | Drug traffic—Spain—Galicia (Region) | Cocaine industry—Spain—Galicia (Region) | Drug control—Spain—Galicia (Region). | Graphic novels. | BISAC COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / General | TRUE CRIME / Historical | TRUE CRIME / General
Classification: LCC HV5840.S712 G3529 2021 | DDC 364.1/336509461—dc23
Cocaine Coast. Published by Ablaze Publishing, 11222 SE Main St. #22906 Portland, OR 97269.
FARIÑA Graphic Novel © 2019, Nacho Carretero, for the original work and the advice of this edition. © 2019, Luis Bustos, for the script and illustrations. © 2019, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S. A. U. Travessera de Gràcia, 47-49, Barcelona 08021, Spain. All rights reserved. Ablaze and its logo TM & © 2021 Ablaze, LLC. All Rights Reserved. All names, characters, events, and locales in this publication are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons (living or dead), events or places, without satiric intent is coincidental. No portion of this book may be reproduced by any means (digital or print) without the written permission of Ablaze Publishing except for review purposes. Printed in China. For advertising and licensing email: info@ablazepublishing.com.
Both the Civil Guard and the Portuguese authorities stopped and asked him about the contents of his sack.
A man carrying a sack used to ride a bicycle across the Portuguese border.
The authorities knew that he was smuggling but, visibly frustrated, they were unable to find anything.
“Just coal," he replied.
And so, pedaling, he continued to cross the border for years.
The coal in the sack was just that, coal.
The man trafficked bicycles.
The nearly thousand miles of coastline of Galicia has seen almost a thousand shipwrecks since the Middle Ages.
Ships sank in the rough seas in view of the sheer cliffs.
The local people would take advantage of these misfortunes by plundering the remains washed up on the beaches.
Boxes full of gold and silver watches, sewing machines or gloomy accordions, from which sprouted, in the swaying waves, a spectral music.
The legends about the region grew when the English tried to recover the dead and discovered, to their horror, that they were missing limbs.
The land pirates had stripped the bodies of their jewelry without consideration.
The tales were so popular that the British press, baptized the area as the “Coast of Death,” or in Spanish…
Costa Da Morte.
HISTORY AND INDISCRETIONS OF THE NARCO TRAFFICKING IN SPAIN
