The lead story from Andalusia, in your inbox by 8 a.m. CET — written by a named correspondent on the ground, fact-checked by an editor, and supported by primary documents. Today's notional lead: the Andalusian government's revised drought protocol for the Guadalquivir basin, and what it concedes — and omits — about Doñana.
Reuters and Bloomberg will tell you when a Spanish cabinet minister visits Seville. They will not tell you that the municipal council in Écija quietly rezoned 240 hectares of irrigated farmland in March, or that the Junta de Andalucía's water authority released internal projections in May that contradict its public statements on reservoir capacity. Andalucía Today does — every weekday morning, in roughly 1,200 words, with links to the underlying documents.
It is written for readers who live here, work here, or are deciding whether to. Expats, second-home buyers, relocators, regional analysts, and the small number of Anglophone professionals who track southern Spain for a living.
Eleven staff journalists, four contributing columnists, and three fact-checkers, all based in the region — and only in the region. The Andalucía Today rotation is anchored by four named correspondents: María Eugenia Pacheco (Seville, politics), Daniel Holman-Villanueva (Cádiz, coast & economy), Alba Quirós Ruiz (Granada, climate & water), and Tomás Reyes-Cárdenas (Córdoba, agriculture & property). Each issue is edited by deputy editor Lucía M. Heredia before it leaves the newsroom on Calle Reyes Católicos.
Every story is read against primary documents — council minutes, BOJA bulletins, court filings, EU directive texts — before it reaches your inbox.
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The flagship. One lead story from Andalusian politics, economy, or climate, plus three shorter items — court rulings, municipal votes, BOJA bulletins worth your attention. Always one primary document linked.
Long-running climate coverage of southern Spain's water system. Drought data, reservoir levels, aquifer permits, EU infringement proceedings — translated into plain English and checked against the Copernicus and IGME datasets.
Written for buyers, not speculators. Cadastral changes, rural rezoning, the actual paperwork behind a new build in Vejer or a fincas registry in Ronda. Plus one reader-submitted question answered each week.
Not restaurant reviews. Reporting on the industry behind them — sherry solera stocks, the Andalusian olive oil council's export figures, the disappearance of small fishermen's cofradías from the Cádiz coast.
A seasonal tracker — twelve issues a year — that covers what is actually changing inside the processional calendar: municipal route approvals, the new heritage-inspection regime, and the (rare) year a brotherhood is suspended.
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Six weekday editions, in the order they were sent. Past issues are kept unaltered and searchable — the archive holds every edition since the newsletter launched in March 2017.
Internal projections obtained under the transparency portal contradict the public statement. We compare the two documents line by line.
What the ruling coalition agreed to, what it traded away, and the lone abstention from the Izquierda Unida bench.
A quiet shift toward "vino generoso de Cádiz" is reshaping one of Andalusia's most protected industries.
A reader-submitted question about a 14-hectare holding near Arriate prompts a longer look at cadastral reform in Málaga province.
A procedural ruling that quietly restructures how the Junta's fisheries directorate operates.
What the next eight weeks look like for the Vega de Granada farmers, and the unspoken contingency plans.
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Cited by national and international outlets on Andalusian policy since 2019:
Finalist, 2024 European Press Prize — Local Reporting — for the series Drought and Debt in Doñana. Winner, 2023 IPI-EFE Award for Press Freedom in Ibero-America.
"It is the only English-language inbox item I open before I open the BOJA. On Monday morning it gives me the four Andalusian policy stories that have moved over the weekend, with the underlying documents linked — and that is roughly four hours of reading I no longer have to do myself."
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