Spanish Region With Big Debts Takes Austerity to Heart
August 03, 2012 at 06:23 AM EDT
It is one of Spain's smallest regions, with a population of just over 2 million, but it managed to pile up debts of as much as 6.6 billion euros ($8.08 billion) by the end of 2011, making it the sixth most heavily indebted of the country's 17 regions.