News stories by Ines Benitez, page 3

MÁLAGA, Spain, Oct 04 (IPS) - A police cordon kept everyone out of the Buenaventura "corrala" on Thursday after the police evicted 13 families living in the occupied building in the centre of this southern Spanish city early in the morning.

MALAGA, Spain, Sep 27 (IPS) - A pyramid is being built in the old San Rafael cemetery in the southern Spanish city of Málaga - a monument to thousands of people shot by firing squads here during the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War and the 1939-1975 dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.

MALAGA, Spain, Sep 25 (IPS) - Adopt a tree. Adopt a polar bear. Sponsor a child in a poor country. The concept has caught on in Spain's troubled academic system and now people and companies can sponsor a university student.

MALAGA, Spain, Jul 28 (IPS) - "You live there for free, don't you?" asked a woman as she passed by the Buenaventura "corrala", a community in a building in this southern Spanish city occupied since February by families evicted from their homes for falling behind in their mortgage payments due to unemployment.

MALAGA, Spain, Jun 18 (IPS) - The people in the textile factory where Lourdes Soler presented the design of her skirts had never seen such detailed "blueprints" of a garment. Spain's depressed labour market forced the technical architect to reinvent herself and create her own job – a growing trend in this crisis-stricken country.

MÁLAGA, Spain, Jan 28 (IPS) - "That's where I sleep," says Fernando, indicating a puddled area under a bridge. A 62-year-old Portuguese citizen, he has lived in Spain for 15 years, and he is part of the growing number of homeless people in this country wracked by a merciless economic and financial crisis.

MÁLAGA, Spain, Dic 11 (IPS) - Daniel introduces himself as a "gypsy and guitarist," Francisco José wants to become a doctor, Yomara timidly says she likes to cook, and María has no idea what she wants to study.

MÁLAGA, Spain, Nov 14 (IPS) - A huge pot of rice steams on the stove at the soup kitchen run by Emaús in the municipality of Torremolinos, on the outskirts of this southern Spanish city. This morning, like every other, Pepi, Adriana and Diego are cooking for over a hundred people who can no longer afford to feed themselves.

MÁLAGA, Spain, Aug 29 (IPS) - Rising rates of depression and suicide are among the most obvious signs of the increase in mental illness resulting from the economic crisis in Spain.