Spain National News: El País

El País is the largest and highest-circulation daily newspaper in Spain and one of three Madrid daily newspapers considered to be national newspapers for Spain. It is headquartered in Madrid even though there are regional offices in Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Bilbao, and Santiago de Compostela. They also produce a world edition that is available online in Brazil and in Latin America. The paper could be compared to the largest newspaper in the United States, USA Today, due to its size and influence.
One recent national news story that caught my attention ad the title of "Spain's modern-day slave trade," which detailed the expanding lucrative business of sex-slavery. The issue has seen an increase of about 5,000 identified people in the last 5 years as victims of sex-trafficking. The biggest problem with this issue is the fact that many of these victims have a lack of knowledge of the Spanish language and are unable to escape from their captors.

The article speaks about the difficult situation the women are in and how they are afraid to step out of line as their families are often threatened by their captors. Another thing that keeps them from escaping is the fact that the traffickers take their victims passports from them, which prevents them from escaping as they have no form of identification. While many people associate the slave trade with brothels and prostitution, there are many men that are forced to work at sweatshops, agriculture, kebab, or wok stores for no pay.

This other kind of slavery is harder to catch and prove in court because it is difficult to prove to what extend exploitation is truly happening in a situation. The reform of the penal code in 2015 has helped the government address the sex-trafficking situation and labor exploitation.

As for the El Paps newspaper, it is very similar to the newspapers in the United States and they address the news in a similar professional manner. It's interesting to see the many similarities between journalism in the United States and journalism in other countries.

http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/04/21/inenglish/1492756977_271906.html