María Eugenia Cerutti, a photographer for the Clarín (a major newspaper in Buenos Aires), won the photography prize from the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (Foundation of New Journalism in Latin America) which Gabriela Garcia Marquez presides over.The highest honor for a photographer in Latin America, this prize honors Cerutti’s work on the photo article entitled “Una empresa eléctrica y mortal” (“A Business Electric and Deadly”). This photo essay showed the effects of a high tension electrical station on the nearby residents of Ezpeleta, who were getting extremely sick. The research took three years to complete and Cerutti says that the prize makes her believe in continuing her hard work as a journalist. Cerutti will journey to Monterrey, Mexico to receive her award.

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Jalapa is a couple of hours easy drive from the state of Veracruz. The population is around 400,000. The city is was built on the slopes of a large tiered hill half way between the ocean and the mountains. Jalapa is the state capital, a well known University town and the business center for the region’s coffee and fruit growers. Jalapa is the second-largest city in the state after, the city of Veracruz.

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Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial and cultural center in the country and the most populous city, and the largest city in the world.

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