Missing Boy
The search continued yesterday for missing two-year-old Julen Rosello who fell down a well four days ago.
Yesterday authorities confirmed they found hair belonging to the boy in the well.
It was found on Sunday night but the find was only made public following DNA tests.
The Spanish news website El Espanol said a body had been found beneath a blockage around 240 ft down the 350ft borehole near Malaga.
But these reports now appear to be unfounded.
A Swedish firm which helped locate the 33 Chilean miners rescued in 2010 after 69 days underground joined the massive operation to try to locate the boy.
work was continuing on the excavation of two new tunnels.
Andalucia Government
Juana Moreno has been voted in as the new leader of the Junta de Andalucia, heading a rightwing coalition that has led to protests due to its association with the far-right.
Moreno, of the conservative Partido Popular was voted in yesterday by a margin of 59 votes to 50. He will formally take office tomorrow.
Debates on the change of government took place whilst demonstrators gathered outside the parliament building in Sevilla in protest against his working with the far-right Vox.
He will govern as president of the Junta in coalition with the centrist Ciudadanos while Vox’s 12 assembly members provide backing in parliamentary votes.
Juan Marin from Ciudadanos’ who is set to serve as Junta Vice President, said Moreno’s becoming president marked a “historic day” for the region.
The PSOE’s Susana Diaz, Moreno’s predecessor said the PP and Ciudadanos had come to power with the help of the “heirs” of former dictator Francisco Franco.
Tourism
New government figures show Spain received a national record of 82.6 million foreign tourists last year.
The Industry, Trade and Tourism Minister said the figures show Spain remains competitive as it battles to overtake France, the world’s top destination in 2017 with almost 87 million arrivals.
France has not yet published its total for 2018.
visitors numbers to Spain last year were up almost 1 percent on 2017 and they spent almost 90 billion euros up 3.1 percent.
Hector Gomez, the head of the Spanish tourism authority warned that Britain’s exit from the European Union, European parliament elections in May and possible government elections in Spain make it hard to say how international tourism will perform this year.
Paternity
A court announced yesterday it had postponed a hearing in a paternity suit against Spanish singer Julio Iglesias filed by a man who claims to be his son in order for a new DNA test to take place.
The hearing, which had been scheduled for Mar. 4, was postponed indefinitely so that a new DNA test could be conducted in order to rule out the ex-husband of Javier Sánchez-Santos’ mother as his father.