The winners by category at the Gabo Awards 2025
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Searching for Mikelson: an apartheid in the Caribbean, by Salvadoran anthropologist and chronicler Juan Martínez d’Aubuisson, published by Redacción Regional and Dromómanos. The report starts from a video where Dominican police officers throw a man from a roof and, after following his trail, documents the structural discrimination towards Haitians and their descendants in the Dominican Republic.
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In the Hot – Stories of a reggaeton warrior, directed by the Cuban Fabien Pisani along with a team of seven filmmakers from Cuba and the United States. The documentary tells the story of the rise of reggaeton in Cuba through the figure of Candyman, an underground artist who became the voice of a generation in the nineties.
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Yolüja, by the Colombian Fernanda Pineda, published by Baudó Agencia Pública. The photographic series portrays the spiritual and environmental impact of coal mining on the Wayuu people, represented in the mythical figure of Yolüja, a symbol of dispossession and the devastation of their ancestral territory.
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Humo: Murder and Silence in El Salvador, a podcast narrated by journalist Bryan Avelar and produced by a team of 20 professionals from Revista Factum and Sonoro. The investigation unravels the case of a serial killer and state inaction in the face of violence and disappearances, as well as documenting the censorship and forced exile of journalists in that country.
Rio Grande, the flow of a thousand dead migrants, a transnational investigation by El Universal, The Washington Post and Lighthouse Reports, led by Miriam Ramírez, which reveals the increase in migrant drowning deaths on the border between Mexico and the United States, as a result of militarization and restrictive policies in both countries.
