Reporters from Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador, and Chile received prizes for coverage of Latin America and the Millennium Development Goals, the Inter Press Service (IPS) reports. UN member states and international development agencies have pledged to achieve the Millenium Development Goals by 2015, which include reducing poverty and child mortality.
The contest was organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and IPS.
Mexican reporter Mario Muñoz won the $5,000 top prize for his series “Tereso is Just One Example” (PDF file) about the death of a young indigenous man forgotten by his family and the government. The series was published in El Informador newspaper of Guadalajara.
Other winners (Links to stories are PDF files):
* 2nd place: Silvia Regina Bessa (Diario de Pernambuco, Brazil) for “Quilombolas – A People's Rights Denied,” about communities formed by the descendants of escaped slaves.
* 3rd place: Adriana Rivera (El Nacional, Venezuela) for her story “Schools Targeted by Violence.”
*4th place: Abel Dante Leguizamón (Día a Día, Argentina) for “The Tragedy of Tartagal,” a flood in the northern province of Salta.
*5th place: shared by Guadalupe del Rocío Yapud (La Hora de Ecuador) for “Living on a Dollar a Day” and María Paz Cuevas (Paula de Chile) for “Heidi and Gretel," an account of two women who were forced into drug dealing to support their nine children.
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