Snow blind: how half a ton of cocaine destroyed a tiny Portuguese island

Rabo de Peixe is the kind of place where you need a lot of ambition and a ton of luck to survive. Life here on the north coast of São Miguel in Portugal’s Azores archipelago is as wild, forgotten and cruel as its location in the middle of the Atlantic. Home to 7,500, the town has few facilities, save Wi-Fi. When there’s no fishing to be done, youngsters smoke hash, hang out on the cement pier and ponder how to get away from this scrap of land in the middle of nowhere where next to nothing happens

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SUMMARY

This news talk about how in an Island of Portugal cocaine affected the poeple who was living there. In a part of Portugal people are poor and they don't have means.The news

 explained us that people who live there when they was bored they started to consum cocaine, especially the people younger.

One day arrived to the Island a yacht carriyng on board 505.840 kg of cocaine. The sea was rought and the gale force wind brought down the yacht's mast. It was impossible for it to slip as planned, but it was equally impossible to come into the port, laden as it was with drugs. The crew decided to drop some of the bales of cocaine into the sea. The rest would be taken to a cave in the north of the island.

That night a part of the population were looking for the cocaine that was thrown into the sea.

The case was extreme, population used cocaine when they had not flour, or was used as sugar for the coffe, it was very worrying. Hospitals was collapsed by people who had overdouse of cocaine. 

Police started to seyzed all the cocaine that they can, but isn't was enought.

PERSONAL OPINION

I think that this case was very dangerous for the healthy of the poeople who consum cocaine, and maybe the police would have to intervene formerly, and don't wait for it to bee too late. I feel duty to the people that was in that situation, and I'm angry with people who traffic with things like that. I expect that one day these people realize to the harm that they are causing.