Cancun’s hidden facet exposed in award-winning investigation

Minutes revealing the hidden side of Cancun, the famend Caribbean resort city, has gained a prestigious journalism award in Mexico, one of the deadliest countries on the planet for journalists.
Ricardo Hernandez acquired the celebrated Breach-Valdez Award for human rights journalism for his in-depth report published within the journal Gatopardo. The report unveiled the underbelly of Cancun, a metropolis visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists every year, reported several information agencies.
While the white sandy seashores and tourism trade are frequently promoted, little consideration is given to what occurs within the shadows, Hernandez highlighted. His investigation illuminated the informal housing located in areas without important companies inhabited by those on the bottom rungs of the city’s financial ladder.
Griselda Triana, the widow of Javier Valdez, one of the journalists in whose reminiscence the award was based, said…
The jury praised Hernandez’s “impeccable narration” of “testimonies that reveal exclusion and unseen features of Cancun.”
Wendy Selene, Paula Monaco, Luis Brito, and Maria Ruiz had been awarded second place for their coverage on the trial of an ex-official accused of offering greater than 45,000 genetic profiles of lacking individuals and their families to a personal enterprise.
Manuel Ureste, from the news web site Animal Politico, obtained the award within the new category of kid and adolescent rights for his exposé on migrant kids crossing Mexico to succeed in the United States. According to Ureste, regardless of Mexico having a law to protect the rights of migrant youngsters since 2021, the system, in reality, fails to safeguard hundreds of minors.
Established in 2018, the celebrated prize honours brave journalists who danger their lives to cover human rights abuses across Mexico. The award commemorates two esteemed Mexican colleagues murdered in 2017: Valdez and Miroslava Breach.
Valdez, 50 years previous and a long-time AFP contributor, was an eminent chronicler of Mexico’s lethal drug wars, identified for his articles critiquing highly effective cartels just like the notorious Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel. Breach, fifty four years previous and a correspondent for Mexican every day La Jornada in the northern border state of Chihuahua, was renowned for her hard-hitting stories on connections between politicians and organised crime..