queue up at the supermarket, saliva builds up and becomes the earthy flavor of carob chocolate. It's time tikar every meal while listening to a gentle tune that records my mind and associates it with the price of the product. I could not help, by giving the teller a plastic card to fill the various coupons and can get a pan, remember the old ration cards, a form painfully familiar to generations of consumers.
sugar, oil, cod, bacon and chickpeas were displayed in grocery stores as museum pieces. Rationing was the action of the Government aimed to control the distribution of goods, giving each a certain quantity-English-ration of the items most scarce. This tight control of production did not prevent the emergence of black markets: the black market. While the Franco regime sought to curb.
On March 22, 1952 - "thirteenth anniversary of Victory" in official parlance, "the Council of Ministers announced that, effective April 1, was deleted rationing of bread. The date marks the end of the war and the abandonment of autarkic policies that will give way to a tentative opening. "All persons within the system of rationing may acquire freely and without coupon cutting the amount of bread they want. The Government is showing well, once again, the clear direction of its policy toward the normal market and confirm the basis of positive real optimistic outlook of the English economy ", would coach the newspapers of the time. The rationing of fuel and raw materials remain a few more years.
The card was actually a book consisting of several vouchers, which he certified the amount and type of merchandise. He had first, second and third categories, depending on the social level, health status and the type of work of the household head. Food could be bought for a certain period of time in establishments under the control of management. The officials assigned to this task were popularly known as "those supplies."
When "of supplies" coming to the villages, farmers hid the sacks of vegetables on roofs, drove the pigs to the woods and there were those who built a double wall in your house to hide Packages wheat and flour.
Some prisoners have at this time of famine, his family sent them food. And receiving stones. Beriberi had to die like flies. And if you gave them fat, as they were not used, they went to another neighborhood much faster. "
On March 22, 1952 - "thirteenth anniversary of Victory" in official parlance, "the Council of Ministers announced that, effective April 1, was deleted rationing of bread. The date marks the end of the war and the abandonment of autarkic policies that will give way to a tentative opening. "All persons within the system of rationing may acquire freely and without coupon cutting the amount of bread they want. The Government is showing well, once again, the clear direction of its policy toward the normal market and confirm the basis of positive real optimistic outlook of the English economy ", would coach the newspapers of the time. The rationing of fuel and raw materials remain a few more years.
The card was actually a book consisting of several vouchers, which he certified the amount and type of merchandise. He had first, second and third categories, depending on the social level, health status and the type of work of the household head. Food could be bought for a certain period of time in establishments under the control of management. The officials assigned to this task were popularly known as "those supplies."
When "of supplies" coming to the villages, farmers hid the sacks of vegetables on roofs, drove the pigs to the woods and there were those who built a double wall in your house to hide Packages wheat and flour.
Some prisoners have at this time of famine, his family sent them food. And receiving stones. Beriberi had to die like flies. And if you gave them fat, as they were not used, they went to another neighborhood much faster. "
was very hungry in Tarifa and some tell me that a young man, without knowing how to swim jumped into the pit of the island to collect rotten potatoes left over and throw those soldiers there.
"The primers should have secured the most essential supplies, but did not. Thanks to them, there was a black market controlled by large hierarchy sympathetic to the regime and that such offenders are born and enrich the slipstream of general misery. " This encouraged the black market.
The rationing did not help anything, people with money still eating well. It is usual, but very few recognize the black market in Tarifa. How many cups of butter, packages of coffee and sugar are marketed black. Penicillin was brought to Gibraltar.
Sonada is, for my truth, the history of these fields of Tarifa, closer to the coast and 90, were taught the donkeys with panniers the way back, so that their owners came alone or smugglers.
As the picaresque "By then, even the dead were primer." False pregnant
were legion: "His belly hid-expensive-oil, flour, beans, coal ...."
"I pierced with a punch card every time you bought a loaf as sawdust. Ironically, it was whole wheat bread today, which is almost a luxury. If you knew a baker, he wore the pad. I spent the punch again and got another bar. " A much-persecuted counterfeit cards on sale soon joined smoker card, which were given to those over eighteen. The stores of ministries and large companies received more supplies stores. "They had the opportunity to buy meat. The friends could give you the card and buy a company store and without tails. "
Sonada is, for my truth, the history of these fields of Tarifa, closer to the coast and 90, were taught the donkeys with panniers the way back, so that their owners came alone or smugglers.
As the picaresque "By then, even the dead were primer." False pregnant
were legion: "His belly hid-expensive-oil, flour, beans, coal ...."
"I pierced with a punch card every time you bought a loaf as sawdust. Ironically, it was whole wheat bread today, which is almost a luxury. If you knew a baker, he wore the pad. I spent the punch again and got another bar. " A much-persecuted counterfeit cards on sale soon joined smoker card, which were given to those over eighteen. The stores of ministries and large companies received more supplies stores. "They had the opportunity to buy meat. The friends could give you the card and buy a company store and without tails. "
Matutero or profiteer has come to mean the same thing: introducing gender person in a population evading taxes. Whether you are male or female, but in this area of \u200b\u200bCampo de Gibraltar and back in the 40 and 50 of the twentieth century is giving the gasps, women who engaged in such task were known as smugglers, the to profiteer rather applied to men who did the same function. The genre introduced by some and others that could be the same or different, are called "black market" (brown on the black market, black market snuff, penicillin black market ...), the word "Hooch" is rarely used. The smuggling contraband or meant as a category of risk higher and would require further study.
smugglers and black marketeers still exist in the region. Two reasons justify it: the borders of Gibraltar and Morocco and the need to make a living somehow unable to find another way out. Down with the strike, garbage contracts, salaries and pensions ridiculous misery and cease the skullduggery of the smugglers and black marketeers.
I will not give me any names or descriptions dwell on why a person could be identified, and not because, as one might think, it is a shame and a disgrace to have been smuggler, but precisely the opposite for the great respect I feel for those women, some are already extinct, which they planted in hard times facing the difficulties and went to gamble every day to avoid straining the ingenuity that's of brigadilla cogieran or "owls", which the chips and had hoped for where they thought they could get, so that meant the confiscation of gender and the fine for double the goods seized.
I will not give me any names or descriptions dwell on why a person could be identified, and not because, as one might think, it is a shame and a disgrace to have been smuggler, but precisely the opposite for the great respect I feel for those women, some are already extinct, which they planted in hard times facing the difficulties and went to gamble every day to avoid straining the ingenuity that's of brigadilla cogieran or "owls", which the chips and had hoped for where they thought they could get, so that meant the confiscation of gender and the fine for double the goods seized.
The smugglers, known, most of them were widows, widows of sailors, herdsmen, in slaughterhouses, waiters and other professions of bread for today, hunger for tomorrow. These women were not old but were widows then be forty years was almost normal in certain strata, and at that age, some with a bunch of children had to earn the beans to the pot so that was familiar, even if they had take risks, have bad manners and suffer arrests coupled with a fine. Smugglers were also young, girls of the same social orphans, single mothers, street girls, gorgeous number that refused to sell her beauty in the sex trade or to be loved a slimy officer of those who think that everything has a price.
Sources:
- The time of the black market Workshop "Oral Tradition." AetasDraft Stock
- The smugglers José Araújo Balong. 9 Aljaranda
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