Latest from Lucia Benavides

• Jun 17, 2019

  Abandoned towns in Spain are selling for as little as $100,000

  

  One real estate company has made a business out of assisting struggling rural towns.

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• Jan 8, 2019

  Beatlemania is alive and well in the band’s hometown of Liverpool

  

  Growing Beatles tourism has helped other businesses in Liverpool — many hotels, restaurants and shopping centers have opened up in recent years.

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• Aug 2, 2018

  To combat Spain’s affordable housing crisis, Barcelona has started renting out empty apartments owned by banks

  

  Spain is in a housing crisis. According to the latest official figures from 2012, around 22,000 people are homeless, though more recent estimates from nonprofits say it could be closer to 40,000. And there’s a surplus of empty homes — hundreds of thousands of apartments owned by banks, repossessed during the country’s financial crisis between […]

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• Apr 19, 2018

  A rise in foreign industrial trawlers off the coast of Senegal is causing local fishermen to lose their livelihoods

  

  West Africa loses $1.3 billion a year as a result of illegal fishing from foreign trawlers. Senegal, the country hardest hit, loses $300 million a year, or 2 percent of its GDP.

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• Dec 19, 2017

  The Spanish Christmas Lottery is a cultural and economic phenomenon

  

  The Spanish Christmas Lottery, one of the biggest draws in the world, has a payout of over 2 billion euros and a participation rate of 75 percent.

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