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Pedro X. Molina Awarded Gabo for Excellence
Pedro X. Molina, cartoonist and illustrator of CONFIDENCIAL, has been awarded the Recognition of Excellence Gabo Award 2021, by the Governing Council of the Gabo Basis, changing into the primary cartoonist to obtain such award, naming him “probably the most persistent and incisive commentators of up to date processes of corruption, development of authoritarianism, regression of civil liberties and human rights abuses”.
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About the Gabo Recognition of Excellence:
- Recognition of excellence: for a journalist or journalistic crew of acknowledged independence, integrity and dedication to the beliefs of public service in journalism, who deserves to be highlighted and set for example for his or her total profession or for an distinctive contribution to the seek for the reality or the development of journalism. The winner is chosen by the Governing Council of the Gabo Award.
More about Pedro and Gabo from Confidencial:
Based on the award certificates, The Gabo Basis’s Board of Trustees thought-about that Molina’s work “stands out for its visible delicacy, for its profound reflection on occasions going down in Nicaragua, Central America and elsewhere, and on the identical time for its hilarious irreverence”.
They add that “his work has turn into a reference for the train of satire as a style that provides worth to the journalistic career, and performs the essential activity of vigilance and criticism of energy”.
From JRMora (via Google Translate):
[Pedro] is awarded “for his profession as a pointy and artistic cartoonist, his incisive commentary on the abuses of energy and for being a benchmark for satire as a style that provides worth to journalism “.
The Gabo Basis provides that the award can also be an acknowledgment of the work of cartoonists in Ibero-America and a voice of encouragement to those that do resistance journalism within the area.
He’s the primary cartoonist to obtain this recognition and the second to obtain an institutional award from the muse, after the award given to Hermenegildo Sábat Garibaldi (1933-2018), winner of the “Tribute” class of the New Journalism Award in 2005.
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Cartooning for Peace and Cartoon Movement have archives of Pedro X. Molina cartoons.
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