Lucia Benavides
Latest Stories (5)
Abandoned towns in Spain are selling for as little as $100,000
Jun 17, 2019
One real estate company has made a business out of assisting struggling rural towns.
Beatlemania is alive and well in the band's hometown of Liverpool
Jan 8, 2019
Growing Beatles tourism has helped other businesses in Liverpool — many hotels, restaurants and shopping centers have opened up in recent years.
To combat Spain's affordable housing crisis, Barcelona has started renting out empty apartments owned by banks
Aug 2, 2018
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 […]
A rise in foreign industrial trawlers off the coast of Senegal is causing local fishermen to lose their livelihoods
Apr 19, 2018
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.
The Spanish Christmas Lottery is a cultural and economic phenomenon
Dec 19, 2017
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.