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Photographer John Moore remained at World Press Photo, the top prize for photojournalists. Moore stayed with the 2019 edition of the award, announced today, for a photo taken June 12 of last year. A two-year-old Honduran girl cries while her mother, Sandra Sanchez, is hit by a border police officer in McAllen, Texas.

Sánchez and his daughter had crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico and had been arrested by border patrol agents from the United States before being sent to a treatment center. The following week, the Trump administration, under pressure from public opinion and lawmakers, ended the US president's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the US border. -mexicaine. Although the girl and her mother stayed together, they were sent to a series of detention centers before being released weeks later, awaiting a future hearing on the subject. # 39; asylum.

In the History of the Year category, a photo of Pieter Ten Hoopen, taken on October 30th, was chosen. The photo shows people running to a truck that stopped to take them to the suburbs of Tapanatepec, Mexico, in the midst of a migrant crisis. Some drivers have been charged with transporting migrants for part of their journey, but most have offered their services free of charge for support.

Another photo of Ten Hoopen shows families bathing, washing clothes and resting by the Novillero River, a day off from the migrant caravan. The photo is part of the series "The caravan of migrants".

The photo series "Syria without exit" by photographer Mohammed Badra was recognized by the jury. These are images taken in February 208, in the context of the civil war that bleeds in this country.