Sea of Rage. Episode 3: The rage

In this episode, the team of reporters behind Sea of Rage set foot for the first time in Barbate, Andalusia, South-Western Spain. They meet people from El Pinar, a notorious neighbourhood in town which is known to be a pivotal place for drug trafficking.

Sea of Rage is a reportage podcast dealing with the borderless narco-trafficking business as seen from the perspective of ordinary people who live in two towns in Southern Europe: Barbate (Andalusìa, Spain) and Gioia Tauro (Calabria, Italy). Over the past few decades, Barbate and Gioia Tauro have become entry points for hashish and cocaine into Europe. But why have these towns become such pivotal places for drug trafficking? And what does it mean to live, day in day out, next door to such dark and murky businesses?

Sea of Rage is an adaptation of the homonymous co-production between Podium Podcast and Chora Media, released in September 2024 under the Spanish and Italian language titles 'Mar de Rabia'  (Spanish, Podium Podcast) and 'Mare di Rabbia' (Italian, Chora Media). 

This podcast was co-produced by Europod.

Sea of Rage is part of WePod, a collaborative project financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Commission.

Walking the streets of Barbate is not enough to grasp why drug trafficking affects this small town in South-Western Spain. In this episode, the team of reporters behind Sea of Rage visit the port of Barbate, where everything - the smuggling - happens.

Sea of Rage is a reportage podcast dealing with the borderless narco-trafficking business as seen from the perspective of ordinary people who live in two towns in Southern Europe: Barbate (Andalusìa, Spain) and Gioia Tauro (Calabria, Italy). Over the past few decades, Barbate and Gioia Tauro have become entry points for hashish and cocaine into Europe. But why have these towns become such pivotal places for drug trafficking? And what does it mean to live, day in day out, next door to such dark and murky businesses?

Sea of Rage is an adaptation of the homonymous co-production between Podium Podcast and Chora Media, released in September 2024 under the Spanish and Italian language titles Mar de rabia (Spanish, Podium Podcast) and Mare di rabbia (Italian, Chora Media). This podcast was co-produced by Europod.

Sea of Rage is part of WePod, a collaborative project financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Commission.

Per quale ragione un giovane nato e cresciuto nella piana di Gioia Tauro dovrebbe decidere di restare? A fare che? Se lo chiedono in molti, e alcuni hanno trovato delle risposte. Sono persone come Roberto e Nancy, che animate da quella che chiamano "una rabbia buona", si impegnano a portare semi di cambiamento nel loro territorio. Roberto - la cui famiglia è originaria di Eranova - è volontario al Dambe So, un ostello che ospita i braccianti sfruttati di Rosarno, con i quali si allena a boxe tutte le settimane. Nancy porta nelle scuole laboratori sulla legalità, una parola difficile da apprezzare perché associata alle istituzioni assenti. E così, che in un paesaggio segnato da incuria e architetture incompiute, chi rimane può limitarsi ad "ammobiliare l'inferno", oppure decidere di cercare la bellezza, e di usarla come arma di resistenza.

Mare di rabbia è una serie podcast realizzata nell’ambito del progetto WePod, cofinanziato dal programma Creative Europe della Commissione europea.