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NACLA Announces 2008 Chavkin Prize
The 2008 Samuel Chavkin Prize for Integrity in Latin American Journalism will be presented on September 22 by PBS's Maria Hinojosa to Diana Washington Valdez of the El Paso Times.
Diana Washington Valdez is an award-winning investigative journalist and author whose work focuses on U.S.-Mexico border affairs and the ongoing murders and disappearances of over 400 women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. She as been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and received a Texas APME First Place Award. She is the author of The Killing Fields: Harvest of Women, an investigative book about the Juárez women's murders, drug cartels and government corruption in Mexico.
The ceremony will be held at 6:00 pm at the Fireplace and Terrace Room of SEIU local 32BJ's headquarters: 101 Avenue of the Americas - 23rd floor - New York, NY 10013.
The awards ceremony is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required.
Contact and RSVP: NACLA Executive Director: Christy Thornton,
Phone: (646) 613-1440, E-mail: cthornton(at)nacla.org
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