El País ("The country") is one of the most widely read Spanish Reading the newspaper: Brookgreen Gardens in Pawleys Island, South Carolina. A newspaper is a lightweight and disposable publication (more specifically, a periodical), usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. It may be general or special-interest, and may be published daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, bimonthly, or quarterly. General-interest... newspapers. It first appeared on May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). There are 241 days remaining. Events 1400-1899 1471 - Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury - Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales. 1493 - Pope Alexander VI... 4 May 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January-February January 12 - UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the Palestinian Liberation Organization January 15 - Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to life in prison January 16... 1976, when The Kingdom of Spain or Spain ( Spanish: Reino de España or España; Catalan: Regne dEspanya; Basque: Espainiako Erresuma; Galician: Reino da España) is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the... Spain was still in its transition towards democracy. It's part of the media conglomerate Grupo Prisa.

In 1989, El País initiated several projects of collaboration with other newspapers in Europe. It participates in a joint network of informative resources with La Repubblica (Italy) and Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper with a circulation in 2002 of 389,200. It is considered the French newspaper of record, and is generally respected. Le Monde was founded by Hubert Beuve-Méry at the request of General Charles de Gaulle after the German army was... Le Monde ( The French Republic or France ( French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. France is a democracy organised as a... France). Since October 2001 a supplement in English of El País is included in the Spanish version of the The International Herald Tribune (or IHT) is fully owned by the New York Times, which along with its own staff journalists and news agencies supplies it with newsn and features. Founded on October 4, 1887 by New York Herald owner James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the company is based in Neuilly... International Herald Tribune.

Its ideology has usually been aligned with the The Spanish Socialist Workers Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español or PSOE) is one of the main parties of Spain. It is a social democratic party, a member of the Socialist International. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in a meeting in San Sebastián It has had strong ties with... Socialist Party, though there have been clashes. Critics include it in alleged conspirations held by the Prisa manager Jesús de Polanco.

Famous collaborators

• Elvira Lindo
• Mario Vargas Llosa The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa (born March 28, 1936) is one of Latin Americas leading novelists and essayists. Born in Arequipa to a middle class family, Vargas Llosa attended Peruvian private and military schools. He successfully entered the prestigius peruvian National University of Saint Mark... Mario Vargas Llosa

External links

• El País in English at International Herald Tribune (http://www.iht.com/global.html)
• El País official webpage (spanish) (http://www.elpais.es)