Program: 15th August, Sol de Oro Hotel

4:30 PM:
OPENING CEREMONY
» Alejandro Salas, Transparency International’s Director for the Americas
» Mirko Lauer, President of IPYS

5:00 PM:
7 YEARS OF JOURNALISTIC INVESTIGATIONS ON CORRUPTION IN LATIN AMERICA
Since 2002, a permanent jury selects thirteen of the best investigations that compete each year for the IPYS/TI prize. Its members are experts on the tendencies, strengths and weaknesses of Latin American investigative journalism.
» Tina Rosenberg, Mike Reid, Gerardo Reyes, Marcelo Beraba, Gustavo Gorriti, members of the jury

6:00 PM:
AN INVESTIGATIVE AGENDA ON SOCIAL ISSUES
The 1,624 sites used for the disposal of toxic waste that the U.S. government never cleaned up. The Peruvian town where children are contaminated with lead. The day in which cigarettes became the mother of all mafias at the Triple Border. These are some of the journalistic investigations to be analyzed as an example of the kind of social issue that needs to be investigated in the continent. They are stories that involve political and corporative corruption, economic exploitation and environmental degradation and that, more often than not, go unnoticed.
» Marina Walker, Center for Public Integrity, USA

7:00 PM:
THE ROLDAN CASE
How the most important case of corruption was investigated in Spain: the embezzlement, bribery, tax evasion and fraud of which Luis Roldán, former chief of the Spanish security forces during the government of Felipe Gonzales, was responsible. The discovery of his huge commissions, his Swiss accounts and his properties in Spain, Paris and the Caribbean.
» José María Irujo, El País, Spain

8:00 PM:
PRESENTATION OF THE BOOKS: “Los dueños de la palabra” y “Los monopolios de la verdad”
IPYS investigations about the media concentration in Latin America.
» Guillermo Mastrini, Martín Becerra.