Five journalistic works from Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and El Salvador were announced as winners in the 13th edition of the Gabo Award, the most important recognition for journalism in Spanish and Portuguese.
In the Text category, the award went to the report “Buscando a Mikelson: un apartheid en el Caribe” (Searching for Mikelson: Apartheid in the Caribbean) by Juan Martínez d'Aubuisson (El Salvador), published by Redacción Regional and Dromómanos. In the Image category, the winning work was the documentary “En la caliente – Historias de un guerrero del reguetón” (In the Heat – Stories of a Reggaeton Warrior) by Fabien Pisani (Cuba).
In the Audio category, the award went to the podcast “Humo: Murder and Silence in El Salvador” by a team of 20 professionals from El Salvador and Mexico for Revista Factum and Sonoro. In the Coverage category, the winner was “Río Bravo, el caudal de los mil migrantes muertos” (Rio Bravo, the flow of a thousand dead migrants) by El Universal (Mexico), The Washington Post, and Lighthouse Reports (United States). In Photography, the winner was Yolüja, by Fernanda Pineda (Colombia), published by Baudó Agencia Pública.
The awards ceremony took place at the Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theater in Bogotá. The gala was also an opportunity to honor Laura Zommer (Argentina), Patrícia Campos Mello (Brazil), and the independent media outlet Armando.info (Venezuela), winners of the 2025 Gabo Award for Excellence, for their commitment to rigorous, courageous, and independent journalism in the region.
