Animal protective services calculate that fifty thousand greyhounds are abandoned annually in Spain, and it's not just greyhounds. In fact, Spain's animal abandonment statistic of four hundred pets per day put it at the top per inhabitant per year out of the entire European Union.

While many Spanish greyhounds are meticulously taken care of, many animals considered unworthy or past their prime are simply abandoned by their owners.

Whatever the number of abandoned or put down greyhounds in Spain might be, it has been documented for many years and has taken on the aspect of an authentic epidemic that only international adoptions relieve.

As robberies increase in Spanish stores along with the worsening of the economic crisis, shopkeepers are forced to reconsider their security systems.

Seville's Nervión Plaza Shopping Center employs a total of seventy-two cameras recording twenty-four hours a day in order to, among other things, assist in theft prevention.

Video surveillance systems are becoming an increasingly common way to try to thwart and/or catch shoplifters.

Who steals from clothing stores and why? Find out who is responsible for most of the thefts and at what point shoplifting is considered more than just a minor offense.

Watch what happens when mall security catches a thief red-handed.

Banana Campus is a "super social" network, a web space where college students can share and learn from one another's unique experiences.

What was Colombia like before Pablo Escobar burst onto the scene? Find out in the introduction to this documentary in which key figures from the era reveal details about one of the country's darkest historical chapters.

Renowned journalists and even one of the nation's ex-Presidents weigh in on what the atmosphere was like in Colombia during the times in which the cartels began to acquire massive power.

Experts on Los Tiempos de Pablo Escobar [The Times of Pablo Escobar] tell about the formation of the infamous "Muerte a Secuestradores" [Death to Kidnappers], or MAS, a Colombian paramilitary group formed in the eighties with the goal of combatting kidnapping as well as furthering the interests of their supporters: Colombian drug cartels, politicians, U.S. corporations, and wealthy landowners.

Let's continue to examine the context in which Pablo Escobar began to rise to unparalleled power and the way in which Colombian society initially condoned this provincial man who was beginning to amass a drug trafficking fortune.

As Pablo Escobar's popularity continues to soar to the point of being worshipped like a God in Colombia, he continues to publicly deny his drug trafficking ties.

By acting like a kind of Robin Hood who helped the poor in his city, Pablo Escobar had a great deal of social and political impact on Colombian society.