Madrid (EFE).- Journalists from Mexico, Colombia and Spain will receive the 2023 King of Spain International Journalism Awards tomorrow from the hands of Felipe VI, which this year celebrate 40 years of life, being the most prestigious in the Ibero-American sphere, and with a endowment of 10,000 euros that place them at the level of the Pulitzer.
The ceremony will take place at the Casa de América in Madrid and will be special for the anniversary of these awards, which have been awarded annually since 1983 and were created by the EFE Agency and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
The drug fentanyl in Mexico, Narrative Journalism Award
The report “Fentanyl: future for drug traffickers, death for humanity”, published in the Mexican media N+, will receive the King of Spain International Prize for Narrative Journalism from the hands of Felipe VI.
After five months of investigation, the team made up of Víctor Emmanuel Valles Mata and Adrián Tinoco managed to enter one of the Sinaloa Cartel’s fentanyl laboratories for the first time and interview minors who work in the manufacturing process and local bosses.
The “Rosario drama” wins the International Cooperation award
The King of Spain will present the prize in the category of International Cooperation and Humanitarian Action to the Spanish journalist Jesús Martínez and the photographer Marc Javierre-Kohan, from the Spanish media Frontera Digital for the work “J’accuse! The looting of Rosario’s house”, which narrates the drama of Rosario, who at 98 only wants to recover a photo of her husband who died half a century ago, the only one she keeps of him, after the door opened her house by mistake. judicial committee for an eviction.
RTVE wins the King of Spain Environmental Award for “Living Soils”
The Spanish public corporation RTVE will receive the Environmental Journalism award for the report “Living Soils”, broadcast by Televisión Española on June 16 and directed by Eduardo Laplaza García (director), Marisol Soto (script) and Francesc Tomas (direction), of the environmental program “The green beetle”.
The production puts the focus on regenerative agriculture and how, by conserving living soils, biodiversity, soil moisture and carbon storage are preserved, among other benefits in times of extreme heat and long drought, like last summer in Spain .
“The second exile of Sergio Ramírez”, King of Spain International Prize for Cultural Journalism
The Mexican Víctor Núñez Jaime will receive the Cultural Journalism Award for “The Second Exile of Sergio Ramírez”, an extensive profile of the Nicaraguan writer published by the Mexican newspaper “Milenio”.
Núñez’s work is the product of several months in which “Milenio” accompanied Ramírez to portray his daily life in Madrid, where he lives his second exile due to the persecution of the Government of Daniel Ortega.
Saldarriaga, awarded for his photographs of migrants crossing the jungle
For his part, the Colombian Manuel Salvador Saldarriaga will have in his hands the prize in the Photography Journalism category with “Risking your life crossing El Tapón del Darién”, a photographic series published in El Colombiano de Medellín.
This is the fourth King of Spain Award for Saldarriaga, three in the Photography category and one in Multimedia, and this time he achieves it with his work for this newspaper for images of Haitians crossing this jungle from Colombia to Panama during their route in search of reaching the United States.
Public Question, Ibero-American Media Award
The Colombian independent digital media Cuestión Pública will receive the Journalism Award for Ibero-American Media.
The award was given to him for “leading the practice of good independent investigative and data journalism.”
The purpose of the King of Spain International Journalism Awards is to recognize the informative work of Spanish and Portuguese-language journalism professionals from the States that make up the Ibero-American Community of Nations and from the nations with which Spain maintains ties of a historical nature and relations cultural and cooperative