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| Two Female Mexican Writers Win El Mundo Award |
| 2010-10-08 |
| Google Translate Two writers for the Juarez, Chihuahua daily El Diario de Juarez have been awarded the El Mundo Journalism Award for their work in reporting on ongoing violence in Juarez. Luz del Carmen Sosa Carrizosa and Sandra Rodriguez Nieto were awarded El Mundo's World Reporter's Award for their work in "documenting... ...the cycle of violence that lives in Juarez." Sosa, 40, submitted material about murders in the Villas de Salvarcar district in Juarez, the security crisis in the Valle de Juarez district, the lynching in Ascension last month, and the murder of Luis Carlos Santiago Orozco, an employee of El Diario de Juarez. Rodriguez, 35, submitted stories about the lack of charges in more than 800 murders and a story about security operations in Juarez. "Sandra Rodriguez and Luz Sosa have demonstrated extraordinary courage in every sense. They sign their reviews in the knowledge that it risk their lives," said Peter J. Ramirez, director de El Mundo the jury that selected them. |
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