The US State Department has come out with a report identifying Spain as the biggest drug emporium in the world. It's the highway for cocaine entering the EU from Latin America and hashish coming in from Morocco. 3% of Spaniards use cocaine regularly; one in five European coke users is Spanish. Spain has a higher percentage of users of not only cocaine, but also hash and designer drugs, than any other European country. Surprisingly, only three or four of the comments at La Vanguardia are along the lines of "I don't believe anything those lying gringos say, and besides the CIA controls all drug trafficking anyway.new report from the United States Department of State claims that black money from drug trafficking in Spain has been feeding the Spanish real estate boom which has been seen along the coast.
The ‘2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report’ dedicates a whole chapter to Spain where it claims that there are local town halls which have preferred to ignore the origin of the money. It claims that given the high profitability of the construction sector over recent years, many coastal municipalities have turned their backs to the illegality of diverse construction projects in their towns. They note that the Prosecutor’s Office has acted in the face of this reality and note that in Málaga province alone, more than 200 cases of corruption linked to construction have been investigated.