The chronic The Tamaulipas massacre, the American dream dies in Mexico carried out by journalists from EL PAÍS América has been recognized this Thursday with the Gabo Prize for the best text of the year awarded by the García Márquez Foundation, promoted by the writer in 1995. The awards, delivered in a virtual ceremony, also recognized the series of reports ‘Beyond the pier, migratory crisis in the Canary Islands’ by the journalist María Martín and the photojournalist Javier Bauluz as the best coverage.
The jury for the text category recognized the report by Lorena Arroyo, Pablo Ferri, Eliezer Budasoff, Héctor Guerrero and Mónica González Islas on the massacre of 16 Guatemalan migrants in the department of Tamaulipas, in northern Mexico, 60 kilometers from the border with the United States, in which police from that state were involved. The journalists retraced the steps of the Guatemalans from their homes in the mountains of the department of San Marcos until they found death a few kilometers from their destination. Migration is a common topic in journalism and the jury recognized The Tamaulipas Massacre as a work where “the background and context of a phenomenon of continental dimensions that includes extensive reporting are described.
The series of reports on the migration crisis in the Canary Islands by María Martín and Javier Bauluz between October 2020 and February 2021 was distinguished as the best coverage. At that time, a reporter and photographer went through the pain and misery of the migrants who arrived in Gran Canaria.
What’s more, Unforgivable, a short film from the digital medium The lighthouse and the producer The Open Cage Recorded in a prison in El Salvador that shows an unknown face of the gangs, he won the Gabo Prize in the Image category. And work La Silla reconstructs how police officers killed the three young people from Verbenal, from the Colombian media La Silla Vacía was recognized with the Gabo Award in the Innovation category.
Nicaraguan cartoonist Pedro X. Molina, exiled from that country like many journalists by the Daniel Ortega regime, has been recognized with the Award of Excellence for his entire work. The judge has highlighted that from the humor Molina reveals the excesses of power in Nicaragua. In total, in this edition, more than 1,500 works from 26 countries of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America were presented.
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