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 2008 – 2009 Edition
Daniela Arbex, Táscia Souza and Ricardo Miranda of Brazilian newspaper Tribuna do Minas; and Ernesto Rivera and Giannina Segnini of Costa Rica’s newspaper La Nacion, shared the first place in the seventh edition of the prize. Arbex, Souza and Miranda revealed the corruption scheme that favored with public contracts a construction company, property of a powerful municipal official in the State of Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil. Rivera and Segnini’s series of reports exposed the Catholic Church’s illegal financial operations in Costa Rica.
2007 – 2008 Edition
Mabel Rehnfeldt, of Paraguay’s newspaper ABC Color; and Amércio Zambrano of Perú’s magazine Caretas, shared the first place in the prize’s sixth edition. Rehnfeldt proved that Víctor Bernal, director of the Itaipú Bi-national Hydroelectric Power Station, had become richer than his income as a public servant would allow. Zambrano revealed the connections of some members of the Sánchez Paredes family with drug trafficking.
2006 – 2007 Edition
Lúcio Vaz and a team of journalists of the newspaper Correio Braziliense (Brazil) and eleven journalists of the magazine Semana (Colombia) shared the first place in the fifth edition of the prize. The former for revealing one of the most important cases of parliamentary corruption in the history of Brazil; and the latter for discovering the infiltration of the paramilitary in Colombia's national politics.
2005 – 2006 Edition
Tamoa Calzadilla, of the newspaper Últimas Noticias, and Laura Weffer, of El Nacional, shared the first place in the fourth edition of the prize with two series of articles on the murder of prosecutor Danilo Abderson.
2004 – 2005 Edition
Giannina Segnini, Ernesto Rivera and Mauricio Herrera, of Costa Rica’s newspaper La Nación, won the third edition of the prize with a series of articles on the corruption of several of Costa Rica’s former presidents.
2003 – 2004 Edition
Arturo Torresb>, a journalist with Quito’s newspaper El Comercio, won the second edition of the prize with a series of articles about the corruption of judges in Ecuador’s Supreme Court.
2002 – 2003 Edition
Jorge Loáisiga, a journalist with Managua’s newspaper La Prensa, won the first edition of the prize with a series of articles about the diversion of public funds to benefit Arnoldo Alemán, Nicaragua’s president at the time.
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