As Spaniards suffer under austerity measures, the country's leaders are raking in lavish salaries and perks.
Mike Elkin has been covering Spain for Newsweek since 2004, and also writes for The Times, American Lawyer and Archaeology magazine. Recently he reported on and photographed the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya for the International Herald Tribune, USA Today, Newsweek, Wired.com and Die Welt.
Absurd Euro Spin
No problem! A reeling Spain has agreed to ask the European Union for $125 billion to rescue its banks, but its prime minister is still trying to make the deal look like a political win. Mike Elkin reports from Madrid. Plus, seven facts about the bailout.
Did doctors and the church traffic in stolen infants? Mike Elkin on the scandal rocking Spain.
The judge who persecuted human-rights violations are as far away as Argentina has been disbarred.
Iñaki Urdangarin, Spain’s Royal Son-in-Law, Suspected of Fraud
The infection of hundreds of children with HIV is one of the darker moments in Libya’s recent history. Mike Elkin talks to the mothers who will no longer be bullied into silence.