EL PAÍS, again nominated for the Gabo journalism awards

Four works carried out and published by EL PAÍS have been nominated for the 2022 Gabo awards: the

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the report

and the investigations of

and

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The García Márquez Foundation, promoted by the writer in 1995, awarded the newspaper two prizes in 2021: for best text of the year for

and better coverage for the series of reports on the migration crisis in the Canary Islands.

podcast

has been nominated among the works that will be considered the best audio of the year.

Journalist Álvaro de Cortázar tells a story of corrupt politicians and journalists.

In a tone of suspense, the plot of six chapters revolves around the system devised by the Popular Party to receive illegal donations and pay bonuses to the leadership.

"A story of friendship, betrayal and the decisions that are made when corruption takes over political organizations," reads his presentation.

The report of

has led Naiara Galarraga and Avener Prado to opt for the award for best text in 2022. The journalist's work shows a broad perspective on the isolated indigenous people in Brazil and the threats they face.

EL PAÍS has been part of the investigation

together with the Latin American Center for Journalistic Investigation, Zerosetenta, Anfibia, Political Animal, Cocuyo Effect, El Deber, El Universo, Interferencia, Non-Fiction, Telemundo News, UOL and JUT Media.

It is a collaborative and cross-border investigation that reveals the increase in public spending on non-lethal weapons for the increase in social repression.

Manufacturers and suppliers have developed extensive catalogs of brands of pungent gases and chemical fumes, tanks that launch pressurized water jets, etc.

The idea of ​​these new devices is that they do not kill or seriously injure, but serve to deter, in a subtle way, large protests and social demonstrations.

El País América has also published a nominated investigation led by Armando.info: Furtive

, a series of reports that uses artificial intelligence, satellite images and on-site reporting to present a crime map of the Venezuelan jungle.

With the help of these tools, 3,718 points of mining activity, mostly illegal, were identified in the states of Bolívar and Amazonas.

In addition, they discovered clandestine tracks that serve organized crime to dispatch shipments of gold and drugs.

This year, the Gabo Festival revolves around the celebration of the 40 years in which Gabriel García Márquez won the Nobel Prize for literature.

The award seeks, as the jury declared last year, to invite the media, "to continue betting on journalism work that requires time, resources and journalists who have sufficient support to produce high-impact journalistic works in our societies”.

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