BanderasNews
Puerto Vallarta Weather Report
Welcome to Puerto Vallarta's liveliest website!
Contact UsSearch
Why Vallarta?Vallarta WeddingsRestaurantsWeatherPhoto GalleriesToday's EventsMaps
 NEWS/HOME
 EDITORIALS
 AT ISSUE
 OPINIONS
 ENVIRONMENTAL
 LETTERS
 WRITERS' RESOURCES
 ENTERTAINMENT
 VALLARTA LIVING
 PV REAL ESTATE
 TRAVEL / OUTDOORS
 HEALTH / BEAUTY
 SPORTS
 DAZED & CONFUSED
 PHOTOGRAPHY
 CLASSIFIEDS
 READERS CORNER
 BANDERAS NEWS TEAM
Sign up NOW!

Free Newsletter!

Puerto Vallarta News NetworkTravel Writers' Resources 

Mexico Photographer, Argentina Reporter Win Awards
email this pageprint this pageemail usAssociated Press
go to original
September 22, 2010



Monterrey, Mexico — A Mexican photographer who documented his country's drug war and an Argentine reporter who wrote about identifying the victims of Argentina's military dictatorship were awarded one of Latin America's most prestigious journalism awards Tuesday.

Mexican photographer Alejandro Cossio won for a series of photographs that include shots of the body of a cartel victim hung from a bridge, a hitman's pistol with scorpions engraved on the handle and soldiers and police at scenes of drug violence.

Cossio shot the photographs in the Mexico border city of Tijuana, where he works for the weekly magazine Zeta.

Argentine journalist Leila Guerriero's winning article tells of the attempts by U.S. forensics specialist Clyde Snow and a small team of volunteers to identify the remains of victims of Argentina's military dictatorship. In 1976-83, the dictatorship executed thousands of people and dumped the bodies without identification in cemeteries and hidden graves.

Guerriero's story, published in the Mexican magazine Gatopardo and titled "The Trail in the Bones," describes how Snow formed his team after a chance encounter with an English-speaking medical student during a lecture in La Plata in 1984.

The volunteers gathered by Snow and his assistant, Morris Tidball Binz, have since become world-renowned forensics experts who have identified remains in Bosnia, Kosovo and Haiti.

Guerreiro, 43, and Cossio, 36, received the New Journalism CEMEX-FNPI Award in the northern Mexico city of Monterrey.

The foundation behind the awards was created by author Gabriel Garcia Marquez and is based in Cartagena, Colombia. The awards are sponsored by Monterrey-based Cementos Mexicanos, or Cemex, Latin America's largest cement producer.



In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving
the included information for research and educational purposes • m3 © 2009 BanderasNews ® all rights reserved • carpe aestus