Program: 16th August, Sol de Oro Hotel

 

8:30 AM:
JOURNALISTIC INVESTIGATIONS ON MONEY LAUNDERING
Guidelines on how to find the trail of dirty money and how these worked in some emblematic cases. Useful sources, frequent problems, Internet search resources.
» Gerardo Reyes, El Nuevo Herald, USA

10: 00 AM:
USE OF THE RIGHT TO ACCESS PUBLIC INFORMATION
Concrete cases in which valuable information was obtained based on the right to access information. The presenters come from countries in which this law exists and others in which it does not. They will explain how they requested the information and how important it was to the investigation. In the most representative case, Mexico, a commissioner for the government surveillance entity will make a special presentation.
Results obtained by journalists who requested public information in Mexico:
» Juan Pablo Guerrero, Commissioner of Mexico’s Federal Institute for the Access to Public Information (IFAI)
La compra secreta de bonos por China (China’s secret purchase of bonds):
» Giannina Segnini, La Nación, Costa Rica
La contaminación de Rio Uruguay (The contamination of Rio Uruguay):
» Claudio Savoia, Clarín, Argentina

11:30 AM:
INVESTIGATIONS ON LATIN AMERICAN PRESIDENTS AND THEIR RETINUES
The most recent discoveries about irregular activities and conflicts of interest concerning Chiefs of State and their close relatives. Each case had great impact in the country where the investigation took place. Their authors explain the methodologies used to find the relevant information.
El contrato secreto de Martín Torrijos (Martin Torrijo’s secret contract):
» Santiago Fascetto, La Prensa, Panama
La corrupción azul de Felipe Calderón (Felipe Calderon’s blue corruption):
» Daniel Lizárraga, Proceso magazine, Mexico
El enriquecimiento de los hijos de Álvaro Uribe (Alvaro Uribe’s children get rich):
» Daniel Coronell, Noticias Uno, Colombia
Los millonarios contratos del hermano de Rafael Correa (Rafael Correa’s brother’s millionaire contracts):
» Juan Calderón, Expreso, Ecuador

1:00 PM.
LUNCH

2:00 PM:
INVESTIGATIONS ON PUBLIC SPENDING
Investigations that have discovered irregularities in the public spending destined to satisfy the population’s basic needs. Four investigations – three of them on housing projects for the poor – show that public funds were not used to satisfy the basic services for which they were destined. The panel includes a special presentation about a major investigation that reveals the economic running of Brazil’s ‘favelas’.
El programa Casas para el Pueblo (Houses for the People Program):
» José Adán Silva, El Nuevo Diario, Nicaragua
Casas para damnificados se entregan a funcionarios públicos (Houses for victims are handed over to public officials):
» Joseph Poliszuk, El Universal, Venezuela
Millonario desvío de fondos públicos en los servicios de salud (Huge diversion of public funds for health services):
» Thiago Herdy, Estado de Minas, Brazil
Corrupción en el Banco de Materiales (Corruption in Materials Bank):
» Carola Miranda, Cuarto Poder, Peru
Favela S. A. (Favela Inc.):
» Angelina Nunes, O Globo, Brazil

4:00 PM
REGIONAL INVESTIGATIONS
The confiscation at the Buenos Aires airport of 800, 000 dollars arriving from Venezuela and allegedly destined to finance Cristina Kirchner’s campaign, produced journalistic investigations in three countries. Also, events that were linked to the FARC’s activities forced the press to carry out investigations in several of the region’s countries. The results of these investigations are analyzed by this panel.
El caso del maletín (The briefcase case) Argentina/USA/Venezuela:
» Hugo Alconada, La Nación, Argentina
» Alfredo Meza, Poder magazine, Venezuela
Las conexiones de las FARC (The FARC’s connections) Colombia/ Nicaragua/ Ecuador:
» Ricardo Calderón, Semana magazine, Colombia
» Dimitri Barreto, El Comercio, Ecuador
» Octavio Enríquez, La Prensa, Nicaragua

5:00 PM:
HUMAN RIGHTS
Three infuriating cases are exposed by their authors.
Los falsos positivos (The false positive):
» Gonzalo Guillén, El Nuevo Herald, USA.
El infierno puertas adentro (The hell inside):
» Paulina Allende, Televisión Nacional, Chile
La matanza de Pando (Mass killing at Pando):
» Gustavo Ondarza, El Deber, Bolivia

8:00 PM - IPYS headquarters
IPYS/TI PRIZE TO THE BEST LATIN AMERICAN INVESTIGATIONS
• La búsqueda de la verdad en la Venezuela gobernada por Hugo Chávez (The search for the truth in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela):
    » Conference by Teodoro Petkoff
• Awards ceremony
• Cocktail