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Gabo Foundation announces finalists for 5 categories of 2024 edition of Gabo Awards

Audio

  1. Bukele: el señor de Los sueños (The man of dreams)
    • Country: U.S. | El Salvador
    • Media outlet: Central | Radio Ambulante Estudios
    • Description: A podcast documentary about how an advertising executive became a politician and convinced a society to grant him unlimited power.
    • By: Silvia Viñas, Eliezer Budasoff, Gabriel Labrador, Camila Segura, Daniel Alarcón, Desirée Yépez, Bruno Scelza, Elías González, Nelson Rauda, Carlos Martínez, Carlos Dada, Selene Mazón, David Trujillo, Luis Fernando Vargas, Carolina Guerrero, Laura Rojas Aponte, Natalia Ramírez, Diego Corzo, Paola Alean, Camilo Jiménez, Santofimio, Samantha Proaño, Analía Llorente, Ana Pais, Melisa Rabanales, Juan David Naranjo Navarro.
  2. Las mujeres valientes: Guií chanáa (The brave women: Guií chanáa)
    • Country: Mexico
    • Media outlet: Spotify Studios
    • Description: Project that narrates the lives of women who live in a community and share their stories.
    • By: Nayelli López Reyes.
  3. Violeta
    • Country: Portugal
    • Media outlet: Rádio TSF
    • Description: The story of a Romanian trans woman who seeks refuge in Portugal to escape violence, but faces a system unable to help her.
    • By: Filipe Santa-Bárbara, Margarida Adão.

Photography

  1. La noche de los caballos: el rescate equino más grande de América del Sur (The night of the horses: the largest equine rescue in South America)
    • Country: Argentina
    • Media outlet: Revista Gatopardo
    • Description: Report that reveals the abuses behind horse meat sold as gourmet food in Europe, involving mistreatment and corruption in Argentina.
    • By: Anita Pouchard Serra.
  2. Mar de luto (Sea of mourning)
    • Country: Spain
    • Media outlet: Revista 5W
    • Descripction: Photographic project that exposes the deaths of people in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, which are hidden by Europe.
    • By: Anna Surinyach.
  3. Mutilados (Mutilated)
    • Country: Brazil
    • Media outlet: Jornal O Globo
    • Description: Photographic series that reveals the drama of amputations caused by firearms and explosives in Rio de Janeiro.
    • By: Márcia Foletto.

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  1. Em Nome dos Pais (In the name of parents)
    • Country: Brasil
    • Media outlet: The Intercept Brasil
    • Description: Series that denounces the injustices of the Parental Alienation Law against women and children who are victims of violence.
    • By: Nayara Felizardo.
  2. La noche de los caballos: el rescate equino más grande de América del Sur (The night of the horses: the largest equine rescue in South America)
    • País: Argentina
    • Media outlet: Revista Gatopardo
    • Description: Report that reveals the abuses behind horse meat sold as gourmet food in Europe, involving mistreatment and corruption in Argentina.
    • By: Diego Fernández Romeral.
  3. Los vuelos de Alicia (Alicia's flights)
    • Country: Mexico
    • Media outlet: Revista Anfibia, Quinto Elemento Lab
    • Description: Crónica of a daughter's search for her missing mother in the Mexican "death flights," a method of execution used by dictatorships in the Southern Cone.
    • By: Marcela Turati.

Image

  1. La oscuridad de la Luz del Mundo (The darkness of the Light of the World)
    • Country: Mexico
    • Media outlet: Mezcla para Netflix
    • Description: Documentary in which women reveal sexual abuse committed by leaders of a centuries-old religious congregation in Mexico.
    • By: Karla Casillas, Alejandro Melgozam, Carlos Pérez Osorio, Laura Woldenberg, Eugenia Coppel, Jorge Macías, Ivonne Gutiérrez.
  2. Los soldados del tanque 27 (Soldiers of Tank 27)
    • Country: Spain
    • Media outlet: El País
    • Description: Documentary that follows three civilians who become soldiers after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
    • By: Luis de Vega, Mónica Ceberio, Cristian Segura, Carlos Martínez, Luis Alfaro.
  3. Vale dos Isolados - O assassinato de Bruno e Dom (Valley of the Isolated - The murders of Bruno and Dom)
    • Country: Brazil
    • Media outlet: TV Globo/Globoplay
    • Description: Documentary about the murder of Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Pereira and journalist Dom Phillips, revealing the negligence of the Brazilian State.
    • By: Clarissa Cavalcanti, Sônia Bridi, Paulo Zero, Alan Graça, Alice Melo, Cristina Kist, Andrey Frasson, Claudio Guterres, Eulym Ferreira, Marrey Júnior, Flávio Lordello.

Coverage

  1. Amazon Underworld
    • Country: Brazil / Colombia / Venezuela
    • Media outlet: InfoAmazonia, La Liga Contra el Silencio, Armando.Info
    • Description: Investigation into organized crime in the Amazon and its ecological and social impacts.
    • By: Bram Ebus, Juan Torres, Alejandro Gómez Dugand, Alex Rufino, Andrés Cardona, Barbara Fraser, Beatriz Jucá, Diane Sampaio, Emily Costa, Ivan Brehaut, Jaap van ‘t Kruis, Jeanneth Valdivieso, Jorge Benezra, Joseph Poliszuk, Juliana Rezende, Laura Kurtzberg, Leandro Barbosa, Luiz Fernando Toledo, Luiza Toledo, María Ramírez Cabello, Mariana Rios, Mary Carmen Vieira, Mathias Felipe, Nicoll Fonseca, Pamela Huerta, Rafael Duran, Rodrigo Pedroso, Sam Cowie, Silvana Vincenti, Sinar Alvarado, Stefano Wrobleski, Tatiana Escárraga, Wagner Almeida.
  2. El Tren de Aragua, detrás de la explotación sexual de migrantes en Latinoamérica (El Tren de Aragua, behind the sexual exploitation of migrants in Latin America)
    • Country: Colombia / Venezuela
    • Media outlet: El Espectador, Alianza Rebelde Investiga (Runrun.es, El Pitazo, Tal Cual)
    • Description: Investigation into the sexual exploitation of migrants by the Tren de Aragua criminal group.
    • By: Natalia Herrera Durán, Camila Granados Arango, Mario Fernando Rodríguez, Eder Leandro Rodríguez, Laura Moreno, Nelson Fredy Padilla, Ronna Rísquez, Lorena Meléndez, Ahiana Figueroa, Liz Gascón, Sheyla Urdaneta, Elsy Torres, Luis Miquilena.
  3. Política da Seca (Drough policy)
    • Country: Brazil
    • Media outlet: Folha de S.Paulo
    • Description: Series that reveals how parliamentary amendments worsen inequalities in the fight against drought in the Brazilian semi-arid region.
    • By: Artur Rodrigues, Flávio Ferreira, João Pedro Pitombo, Cristiano Martins, Eduardo Knapp, Mathilde Missioneiro, Pedro Labigalini, Henrique Santana, Augusto Conconi, Luciano Veronezi, Renata Moura

Read more about the nominees on the official Gabo Awards page (in Spanish)