Daily Archives: 28 August 2012
Santa Cruz now has a shanty town
I’ve made a few posts before now about the increasing social problems here following on from the economic crisis, including Tourism tempers fray as crisis bites hard, Social crisis in Tenerife as crimewaves soar, and Now we really do have to be on guard, and now the press is reporting a developing crisis on the outskirts of Santa Cruz: not a cardboard city, but a real shanty town underneath the Pancho Camurria sports pavilion where 18 people now live in 15 shacks.