Yearly Archives: 2015

Q24N - A new study by the Inter-American Development Bank finds that violence disproportionately affects the real estate value of homes in poor neighborhoods in Mexico, an illustration of how crime exacerbates wealth inequality. Crime is costly. It costs us directly, by greater public and private investments in security such...

Q24N - Nine scientists are being investigated in Italy after months of accusations that their research had hastened the spread of a pathogen deadly to olive trees, enabling an outbreak of a disease that is ravaging olive groves in Puglia, Italy. Public prosecutors announced the formal investigation at a press...

Q24N (acn) Representatives of Central American nations, plus Ecuador, Cuba, Colombia and the U.S., addressed in Mexico the situation of thousands of Cuban stranded in Costa Rica in their effort to make it to US territory encouraged by Washington´s policies. In the meeting, Mexico agreed to let the Cubans keep...