As it should, says pure economics: farming in such areas is far less productive and less profitable (even were water priced realistically) than the intensive, year-round irrigation-based growing of flowers, fruit and vegetables in dry but sunny Almeria, in the far south.
Many of them work in the squat semi-circular greenhouses of Almeria, their backs bent beneath the plastic roofs, inhaling insecticide.
Andalusia, though it has recently grown faster than Spain as a whole, still has pockets of heavy unemployment; Almeria province has hardly any.
Seville is as near to Madrid as to the region's eastern edge, and much nearer in time: two-and-a-half hours now, by high-speed train, against five to Almeria by car.
Round Almeria, once-parched fields are now seas of plastic sheeting under which crops like courgettes grow 11 months a year.The future is not secure.
Espronceda served as secretary of the diplomatic legation to The Hague (1840) and deputy to the Cortes from Almeria (1842).
Ronaldo's obsessive standards of personal excellence – the 3,000 abdominal crunches per day, the unwillingness to celebrate Karim Benzema's goal against Almeria last term after the Frenchman followed up Ronaldo's own saved penalty – do not compromise his burning desire to hoard all the collective bounty that the high end of the game has to offer.
Shooting of the new film will take place in Almeria in Spain, the setting for countless earlier spaghetti Westerns.
Uche's strike against lowly Almeria was his 12th league goal this season, tying him with Sociedad's Antoine Griezmann as the competition's third-leading scorers.
I purchased a replacement in Almeria for €89 and sent the receipt and my address as instructed.
Barcelona, the record 25-times winners of the competition, lead Almeria 5-0 while Madrid hold a 1-0 aheadtage ahead of the home leg against the defending champions Seville.
