The thirty municipalities that make up the crown North of Cordoba Province They seem to have jinxed him Government of Pedro Sanchez. Problems accumulate and solutions weaken in a region suffering from significant structural deficits and depletion … Important population. In the last two decades, more than ten thousand people have immigrated, seven thousand of them since 2014.
Although there are no commercial efforts to redirect the situation, even public help lines are returning to the upset area Carbon removalOther factors necessary to improve their situation do not seem to have a place. Helpline that always raises suspicions with precedents like Mining boxeswhich ended with the court issuing a severe sentence to the former mayor of Peñaroya, Luisa Ruiz (ten years in prison cumulatively over two sentences), and several businessmen due to irregularities in their management.
he Water supply, electric power and roads...And now the “pork war” with Guijuelo after the Ministry of Agriculture admitted to lowering quality standards so that the Salamanca brand can sell cross cuts that are not 100% Iberian, which also leads to an increase in the density of animals on pastures that are limited to areas such as Los Pedroches. Time passes and the feeling is the opposite of rapid improvement as some of these problems become more severe rather than opening up solutions.
Colada-Sierra Buera connection
the La Colada connection with Sierra Buera Based on a €9 million project from the Andalusian government, it has been stuck on the tables of the Guadalquivir Hydrographic Consortium for almost two years. They are all objections to a historic project (dating back to 2008) that guarantees water supplies to a region that has suffered from a year of interruption due to lack of supplies in optimal conditions and severe drought.
The basin authority and its president, Samuel Moraleda, have clearly expressed their refusal to allow this project to be implemented. Then they presented the arguments: Excess money, flow, appropriation and duplication With the emergency measures already taken by the government with lights and shadows. The Andalusian Junta and Regional Council modified the plan and had been waiting for months again for the CHG’s response, which also extended the times in an amazing way.
Electrical energy
Electric power is another setback for the Sánchez government. The lack of an ideal high-voltage network is a failure that leads particularly downward Guadiato Since time immemorial. The electric power transmission plans that the executive authority is designing do not have the necessary work to enhance them network Facilitating access for companies. Neither the horizon of 2025 nor the year 2030. The area between Extremadura and Peñaroya in continuity towards the capital, Cordoba, is the most sensitive.
Northern Córdoba Province has lost 10,268 inhabitants since 2004; Seven thousand of them in the past decade alone
A few days ago, within 24 hours, the Ministry of Environmental Transformation said that it could study the demands of Cordoba and the Vice President Maria Jesus Montero This endowment was provided with 100 million euros – while the country went several years without general budgets -. The Autonomous Administration and the Cordoba Provincial Council will make allegations for the umpteenth time.
Convert N-432 into a highway
Another front is the N-432 motorway, which crosses the entire Guadiato area and serves as a bridge to other roads leading to Los Pedroches, turning it into a motorway. impossible. The Department of Transport is not up to the task – the owner himself Oscar Puente It was not a priority, he said recently in Cordoba – and now seven years of socialist rule have passed with virtually no action.
The latest setback came with the Badajoz-Espille section, where a media study that had existed for years cast doubt on the need to build a highway in the Córdoba province. Now, in the environmental impact statement, itinerary starting from A-66 of the small municipality of Sierra Morena It has not been evaluated, but Badajoz Dhafra will move forward. There are also no proposals from the state regarding environmental studies and assessments for the subdivisions located between Ispil and Cordoba and the capital with Granada.
At the same time, Accident rate This contrasts with this indifference, as accidents and deaths have accumulated (nine so far in 2025) on a road that has witnessed, over four years, more than twenty deaths and 160 injuries.
One hundred percent opposite of Iberian ham
he pork It has become the final stick in the wheels of this region, which has in this product and its pastures one of the main social and economic values and assets. the Guijuelo origin cult (Salamanca) has made a change in its regulations to encourage the sale of crossbred pork (100% Iberian and other breeds such as Duroc) under the protected mark.
The Ministry of Agriculture of Córdoba’s Luis Planas has accepted it – and he defends that it is legal – but has given other frameworks such as Los Pedroches – where standards are more demanding and expensive – a kick in the ass. like Breeding density in pastures Per hectare and the number of samples, in the case of Guijuillo, has increased to 100 samples (compared to the 12 samples with which Córdoba works). In 2024, approximately 68,000 cuts will be certified in the Cordoba region, including 100% Iberian ham and shoulders.
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