Can the Andalusian miracle be replicated?
Once upon a time, there was a region rich in natural resources, with an exceptional historic and cultural heritage, a fine environment, good climate, and a major network of towns. And yet, the inhabitants, mostly farmers tired of barely eking out a living, had emigrated to big cities in droves in search of prosperity. The half-empty, crumbling towns were surrounded by fields exploited by wealthy absentee landlords known as latifundistas . Once in a while, officials from the capital would visit the region with proposals that nobody could understand, offering the locals a recreation center when what they needed was a health care center, three-lane highways when they didn t even have running water in their homes or irrigation on their land, and buses to travel to the city, when they just wanted to stay where they were, work the land, and bring their families back home. This could have been the story of many rural areas in Latin America, but it is the story of the legendary Andalusia regio
