Spain Starts Major Trial Against 50 Cocaine Traffickers

During the week of September 23, 1993, the trial began of 50 alleged drug traffickers accused of operating a cocaine network from Colombia to Galicia, a province in northwest Spain. The case is said to be Spain’s most important drug case, directed to break one of Colombia’s principal “cocaine corridors” into Europe. The prosecution is seeking a total of 700 years imprisonment and $67.5 million in fines…[more]