Ricardo Hernandez won first place for a report showing "the less promoted face" of Cancun. He evokes the slums where those at the bottom of the "economic pyramid" of the city live. The Breach-Valdez Prize honours the memory and work of Javier Valdez and Miroslava Breach. Mexico is considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world to work as a journalist, according to Reporters Without Borders, which has recorded more than 150 journalists killed since 2000.
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Javier Valdez was an award-winning journalist and Agence France-Presse contributor (File)
Mexico City:
A second man accused of murdering Mexican journalist Javier Valdez, an AFP contributor, was convicted on Tuesday, the prosecutor s office announced.
Juan Francisco Picos Berrueta, known as El Quillo, was found guilty as a material co-perpetrator in the murder , the prosecution said in a statement.
He will be sentenced at a later date and faces up to 50 years in prison as he refused to plead guilty in exchange for a shorter term. He was tried as the main perpetrator in Valdez assassination.
Valdez, who was a co-founder of the Riodoce weekly newspaper and a prominent chronicler of Mexico s deadly drug war, was shot dead four years ago in Culiacan, the capital of the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa.