"The Gabo Foundation announced Friday, July 24, the five winners of the 14th Gabo Awards, the most prestigious journalism prize in Spanish and Portuguese, during a ceremony at Bogotá's Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theater on the opening day of the 2026 Gabo Festival.
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Brazilian journalism dominated the evening, winning three of the five awards […]. In the Coverage category, 'A política da bala' won for a multimedia investigation by the Metrópoles team documenting the rise in the São Paulo Military Police's use of lethal force under the administration of Gov. Tarcísio de Freitas.
In Photography, 'Como sobrevivem as democracias' won for Gabriela Biló's series for Folha de S.Paulo documenting the downfall of former President Jair Bolsonaro […]. In Image, the winner was 'Terceirão – um ano, quatro vidas,' a documentary directed by Eliane Scardovelli and Caio Cavechini for TV Globo that followed four Brazilian high school seniors for a year as they transitioned into adulthood.
[…] In Audio, [the winning project was] the podcast 'Se llamaba como yo' [by Spanish podcast companies De eso no se habla and EITB Media], the result of more than three years of reporting by journalist Isabel Cadenas Cañón […]. In Text, the award went to 'El exilio nos alcanza,' a narrative published by El Faro in which Salvadoran journalists Óscar Martínez and Carlos Martínez recount their own exile from El Salvador while documenting the exile of dozens of fellow journalists amid President Nayib Bukele's authoritarian turn."
