Spain News

January 16, 2019

Brits in Spain see glimmer of hope in UK Brexit vote drubbing

On the sun-drenched eastern coast of Spain where British pensioners and business-owners are uncertain for their futures as Brexit ticks closer, the crushing parliamentary defeat of Theresa May’s EU divorce deal has sparked a glimmer of hope. “This might not…

January 16, 2019

Backed by far right, conservatives take over Spain’s southern region

With far right backing, the candidate of Spain’s mainstream conservative Popular Party (PP) was Wednesday invested as the head of the regional government in Andalusia, a former Socialist fiefdom. The Socialists had ruled Andalusia in the country’s deep south for…

January 16, 2019

Illegal workers in southern Spain: unwanted but indispensable

In southern Spain, the far-right party Vox has drawn farmers’ votes with a pledge to deport illegal workers. “But I don’t know what they would do without us,” an African man remarked as he left a greenhouse in El Ejido….

January 16, 2019

Spanish rescuers find hair of missing toddler in well

Rescuers racing to save a two-year-old boy who fell down a well in southern Spain have found several strands of his hair, authorities said Wednesday, raising hopes of finding the toddler whose fate has gripped the nation for days. It…

January 15, 2019

Spanish feminists rally against far-right ‘sexist’ party

Spain’s powerful feminist movement rallied across the country on Tuesday against far-right party Vox for seeking to scrap tough laws against gender violence which it argues “criminalises” men. Thousands of people, mainly women, gathered outside Andalusia’s regional parliament in Seville,…

January 15, 2019

Spanish police raid Barcelona cell suspected of plotting attack

Spanish police mounted a counter-terrorism operation in Barcelona and a nearby city on Tuesday against an alleged militant Islamist cell suspected of plotting an attack, local officials said. Officers arrested 18 people in Barcelona and Igualada, 60 kilometres (40 miles)…

January 15, 2019

Thousands protest in Andalusia against far-right backed coalition

Thousands of people, mainly women, protested outside of Andalusia’s regional parliament Tuesday against a deal to bring a conservative government to power in Spain’s most populous region with support from an anti-feminist far-right party. The demonstrators chanted “Our rights are…

January 14, 2019

Spanish police arrest 182 people at illegal cockfight

Spanish police said Monday they had arrested 182 people who took part in a “national” cockfighting competition, an ancient sport that continues in some regions despite being banned. Officers seized around 300,000 euros ($344,000) during Saturday’s raid in the southern…

January 14, 2019

Spanish rescuers search well for two-year-old boy

Around 100 emergency services workers were searching Monday for a two-year-old boy who fell into a narrow, deep well in southern Spain, officials said, in a race against time that has gripped the country. The toddler, who has not been…