http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8068192/Battle-for-Trafalgar-as-developers-eye-Spains-last-unspoilt-shores.html
The government is backing the developers.
There is no sense of loyalty for their people or their land.
It's all about the money
The sun is setting over the Atlantic waves on El Palmar beach, casting long shadows of two wetsuit-clad teenagers leaning against their surfboards. But as the light fades on another peaceful day in this remote corner of southern Spain, the Andalucian government and the property developers it backs are hard at work finalising their plans to shake up the region, and build a hotel for 1,300 people.
"The dimensions of the problem are enormous," he said. "Over 80% of the Spanish coast has been developed – either in hotels, apartments, roads or ports.
"And it's not just Spaniards that need to be aware. In the south of England, in Denmark, along the French and Italian coasts – everyone is being fed the myth that building equals tourism equals wealth. It is not true."
More recently, the monstrous Algarobbico hotel – a huge, empty shell leering over the beach near AlmerÃa – still serves as a concrete symbol of the threat to Spain's coasts. The hotel was built in 2003, on the border of the Cabo de Gata natural park, but never opened and was immediately subject to legal wranglings that continue to this day over its proposed demolition. Authorities now say that demolition is technically and physically impossible, owing to the 65,000 cubic metres of concrete which cannot be removed from the hillside
