The journalist Diego Cabot won the King of Spain award for his research "Los cuadernos de las coimas"

The editorial secretary
Diego Cabot, with the newspaper team
THE NATION by Candela Ini and Santiago Nasra, today received the King of Spain Award in the Press category for the article "Los

notebooks

bribes ", the
search on the notes of the driver

Roberto Baratta,

right hand of the former Minister of Planning

Julio De Vido,

and this unveiled Kirchner's organized corruption plot in public works during the years in power.

These awards, created in 1983 by the EFE Agency and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID), aim to recognize the work of journalism professionals in Spanish and Portuguese. Cabot's work, according to the jury, respects the parameters of the award because it has been clbadified as a work of "pure journalism", a very interesting example of journalism that, on the occasion, is obliged to speak about itself. even, explain to the readers what is behind an exclusive ", as published by EFE.

"Beyond the specific article, the jury appreciated the entire investigation and its reflection in the pages of The Nation, an example of a journalistic work highlighting the problems of a considerable importance and compelling the authorities to intervene, "explained the jury. .

He also said the award underscores the newspaper's decision, at one point, to "stop publishing to put the investigation in the prosecutor's hands," referring to Cabot and his team, after investigating for months on annotations. , decided to bring the notebooks to justice to act and not give priority to the scoop.

In addition to the prosecutor
THE NATION, Seven other Ibero-American journalists have been distinguished in this edition: the Spaniards Francisco Moreno and Conchi Cejudo (for the series of reports on people killed or retaliation during the Spanish Civil War), the Venezuelan Maryelina Primera (for a series of reports on migrations caused by violence in the North Triangle of Central America), Bolivian Roberto Navia (for a multimedia work in which he denounces the illegal and indiscriminate hunting of jaguars in Bolivia), the Portuguese Nuno André Ferreira, the Brazilian Marcelo Magalhaes (for a program on pirates in the Amazon) and Nicaraguan Wilfredo Ernesto Miranda (for a research article on the repression of demonstrations against the Government of Nicaragua).

Mexico's Joaquín López-Dóriga received an honorable mention for his long career on television, while Brazilian agency Amazonia Real won the most outstanding media prize in Ibero-America.

The prize is endowed with 6000 euros and a bronze sculpture of the artist Joaquín Vaquero Turcios.