Mexico City, Dec 5 (Prensa Latina) The Club of Journalists of Mexico today awarded the international prize to the Latin American Information Agency Prensa Latina, which it recognized for offering a voice to oppressed peoples.
In presenting the medal and diploma to the first vice president of the news agency, Luisa María González, the organization recalled the birth of that media outlet in Cuba on June 16, 1959 and its struggle to “break the information siege and monopoly of the large transnational corporations.”
“We are very excited and grateful to receive an award of this kind for the work that Prensa Latina has been doing for more than 65 years, but if this award also comes from professional colleagues and from Mexico, a country so beloved and admired by Cuba, it takes on a very special dimension,” said González.
He considered the award to be an incentive for the media to continue “doing the journalism that has characterized it for more than six decades: professional, objective, always committed to the truth, to the dissemination of just causes and the struggles of the peoples of Latin America and other continents.”
Prensa Latina, with a total of 35 correspondent offices, is currently present in practically all Latin American countries, as well as in the United States (Washington and the headquarters of the United Nations), Africa, Asia and the main capitals of Europe.
During the ceremony held at the Club de Periodistas in this capital, awards were also given to professionals, programs and media outlets, including the national La Jornada and Channel 22, and the international Sputnik and Russia Today.
On behalf of the government and President Claudia Sheinbaum, the political advisor of the Social Communication Coordination of the Presidency of the Republic, José Alfonso Suárez del Real, expressed congratulations to each of the 57 winners in the 72nd edition of the contest.
He singled out the country’s current administration as one that firmly believes in and shares the interests of responsible freedom of expression.
Every year, the Club of Journalists of Mexico and the Antonio Sáenz de Miera Fieytal Foundation organize the National Journalism Contest, founded in 1952.
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