Double whammy at Agaden

JIMENA (Agencies) This coming Friday, March 4, there is a double presentation at Agaden's Casa Verde, (C/Sevilla 51, just below the town hall). The book by Mario Ocaña, titled Corsarios del Estrecho (Corsairs of the Strait) is about the "battles, shipwrecks, assaults, corsairs, conspiracies, relative victories and absolute defeats, voluble alliances and false armistices" that occurred throughout history in the Straits of Gibraltar. On a related subject, the documentary by Prospero's good friend Juan Manuel Díaz Lima, De Estraperlo (a word meaning 'imported/smuggled goods') is the first-person stories of those who chose to make smuggling from Gibraltar a way of life during the hard years. (We told you about it a year ago, with a trailer.)