But Mexico fell disastrously short of creating ... payments that rose even as their neighborhoods deteriorated into slums. The Times visited 50 of the affordable-housing developments from Tijuana ...

Millions of people from Mexico’s countryside come to the capital to build settlements and slums, adding to the ongoing expansion of one of the world’s biggest cities. Around the world ...

CIUDAD NEZA, Mexico, Oct 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Even if Eloisa Vasquez Morales had enough money to leave Ciudad Neza, once a sprawling slum and now a scrappy suburb east of Mexico City ...

A metal cross marks the spot where the body of a murdered woman was thrown on the side of the road leading into the sprawling hillside slums ... and most dangerous in Mexico.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – In 2009 ... to even people alive.” Slums like Barrio Azul represent fertile ground for recruiting cartel foot soldiers. The neighborhood is a microcosm of the city ...

has evolved from a slum into a suburb, the brick-and-mortar houses are scattered among improvised shanties, and the neighborhood is considered extremely dangerous, even by drug war-plagued Mexico ...

which must include slum communities. Funds can be used to temporarily expand government conditional cash transfer programs, such as the Bolsa Família of Brazil and Prospera program of Mexico ...

Reporting from Rio de Janeiro — In 2010, as Brazil prepared to host the World Cup and Olympics, armed forces invaded the sprawling Complexo do Alemão group of favelas, or slums, which were ...

CIUDAD NEZA, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Even if Eloisa Vasquez Morales had enough money to leave Ciudad Neza, once a sprawling slum and now a scrappy suburb east of Mexico City ...

CIUDAD NEZA, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Even if Eloisa Vasquez Morales had enough money to leave Ciudad Neza, once a sprawling slum and now a scrappy suburb east of Mexico City, the young ...