In the early forties began to grow at an alarming rate the black market.
key points were established where groups were operating in communication. When he appeared a police or gendarme, magically disappear. The posts were
prinicpales Ramblas, shipyards, Rodalies Columbus, street Wax, Parallel, San Antonio, Plaza Spain, and others less important.
you spent there and did not see anything, but find everything. Found snuff blonde packs, cigars, farias, ideals and all kinds of tobacco. Under wide skirts and large breasts were hiding bread sticks, chocolate bars at the breast, sausages round the body, etc.. And I they offered a whisper on the street.
After class there was another more curious: out with the train and spread through the province of Lleida and Aragon (banks of five), and bought rice, beans, lentils, sugar and all that came to hand. A lot of bacon and sausage, and chorizo. But they had to go very cautiously with the Guardia Civil.
many systems were developed, employing the most: the Catalan trousers were made wide, tied it tight on the leg, below the Illades, and over the skirt. Well camouflaged and mocked the black market to the Civil Guard, who were fishing like crazy, because requisitioned food for several days free. If they could reach the train, were saved. The genre they loaded the window. They helped each other, occupied the hall and did not move. Arriving in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bSaint Andrew the train to a stop a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes. The women lowered their merchandise and went home with the family that expected. So they had to go through the control of the station exit.
remember a very shocking case: a woman wearing a rooster in a senalla and stuck out his head. Was sewn, and wanted to pay customs, to which she refused.
Another kind of black market were the truckers: between Esparreguera and Martorell, in the fall of Bruc, there was a control. When the truck driver saw, would slow down, put a ticket of 25 pts. as a roadmap, and it did not stop. "They were trail during the day. Sometimes they also wore a disguise to a woman passenger hidden. This was all the documentation needed to travel.
Another category of black market was as follows. In this give 3 names, with whom I lived in prison Lleida: Tomas Miguel Romeo (Head of Brigadilla, Puebla de Hijar), a barber who had worked in the barbershop, Mich., and a certain Cugat, with about 20 more. They had a very clean way of working. Oil tanks with a 5-ton presented in Garrigas Cooperatives, and purchased the oil. While formalizing the sale, presented the Brigadilla, requisitioned the oil and they nailed a penalty. When they stopped, they had to cut the raid because he had implicated senior officials from Barcelona. In prison
lived with important people from the black market. As "the Child", a protégé of Franco. He had hidden in plasterwork, due to a large black marketeers who made a lentil boat sent Eva Peron. I do not know which country had them, but I know I had to run to hide, because students in Madrid wanted to lynch him.
were a difficult time spanning a Spain hungry. And "the Child", a man of five feet, wider than high, played with English food. Yeserías in prison had no connection with anyone. I played turn up the bag of food. He signed the book with a doodle and I never heard his voice nor thanked me. He rose each day a blanket full of medicines and ointments, and had a pyorrhea that frightened. I was at the turn of entry, and had to be revised. Each day had a special visit from his wife, to the Board of Judges, indefinitely and at all hours of the day.
