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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

1. Change of guard in Scholarship Fund

2. Deadline for awards is January 15

3. New IAPA members

2011, designated Year of Freedom of Expression in the Hemisphere, will be one of special significance for the IAPA and a demonstration of this will be the Midyear Meeting April 6-9 in San Diego, California, as the first such to be held together with a sister organization, ASNE (American Society of News Editors). See more on Page 2

15 years of battling impunity under review

History-making meetingJOINT EVENT WITH U.S. NEWS EDITORS

Prior to the meeting in San Diego, on April 4

and 5 the IAPA and ASNE will meet under the wing of the Institute of the Americas at the University of California (UCAL) in La Jolla, to the north of the city, for a Conference on Freedom of Expression in the Hemisphere. These meetings will serve as key points of a unique year whose objective will be to raise awareness in the Western Hemisphere of the importance of fighting for freedom of expression, an initiative that comes from IAPA President Gonzalo Marroquín, editor of the Guatemala City, Guatemala, newspaper Prensa Libre, who has taken up this cause as a symbol of his term in office.

Nighttime view of downtown San Diego.

An independent study commissioned by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation concluded that the imprisonment of 126 murderers of journalists and their accomplices in Latin America could be regarded as one of the main successes of the IAPA Impunity Project, but it added that after 15 years of hard work on this front

many challenges remain. The report said that while the “extent of impunity” in Latin America is decreasing, the majority of those guilty of the 258 murders of journalists documented since 1995 have not been brought to justice. And those who have been imprisoned were responsible for only 59 such crimes. More on Page 3

IAPA’S NEW OFFICERSThe editor of the Guatemala City, Guatemala, newspaper Prensa Libre, Gonzalo Marroquín, was elected as the new president of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) during the 66th General Assembly held in early November in Mérida, Mexico. Accompanying Marroquín during his term in office (2010-2011) are Scott C. Schurz of the Herald-Times, Bloomington, Indiana, as honorary life president; 1st vice president Milton Coleman, The Washington Post, Washington, DC; 2nd vice president Jaime Mantilla, Hoy, Quito, Ecuador. (Continued on Page 8)

At left, the new IAPA president, Gonzalo Marroquín, during a working session in Mérida with, to his left, María Elvira Domínguez, Bob Rivard, Alejandro Aguirre and 1st vice president Milton Coleman.

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erThe deadline for registrations for the Midyear Meeting to take place at the San Diego Marriott and Marina Hotel (pictured at right) is March 4. As customary, there is a special fee for United States and Mexican first-time attendees.

The program will include separate sessions and joint ones with ASNE. Wednesday, April 6 will be devoted to IAPA seminars and a series of ASNE working sessions; on Thursday, April 7 while ASNE holds its general session the IAPA delegates will carry out their customary meeting of the Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information and there will be a joint lunch with a keynote guest. On Friday,

SISTER ORGANIZATIONS TO GETTOGETHER IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANEW WORKING DYNAMIC BETWEEN WESTERN HEMISPHERE NEWS EDITORS

The American Society of News Editors (ASNE) was founded in 1922 and is made up of hundreds of news editors of print and online media. Its current president is Milton Coleman of The Washington Post, Washington, DC, who is also 1st vice president of the IAPA.

Through a series of initiatives the organization has devoted itself to strengthening the practice and development of journalism on a number of fronts.

ASNE’s annual awards program is regarded as the second most important in the United States, after the Pulitzer Prizes.

One of the organization’s main activities is the revitalization of scholastic interest in journalism by getting public schools together with newspapers in the United States. Several prominent members of the press have been president of both the IAPA and ASNE, among them Lee Hills, Edward Seaton, David Lawrence and John S. Knight.

Since its first convention in 1922, with the exception of the years 1945 and 2009 all the U.S. presidents had spoken at the annual meetings of ASNE, whose headquarters are in Reston, Virginia. n

Milton Coleman.

About ASNEMarch 8 joint panel discussions of the two organizations will be held and there will be the official opening ceremony, followed by a lunch of the two press groups. n

Some 100 editors, publishers, journalists and academics were brought together by the IAPA and ASNE December 5-6 at the University of Texas in El Paso during the Forum of Border Area Newspaper Editors and Publishers which focused on three issues – what the government of Mexico should do, what the Mexican and United States media need to do, and the role of press freedom and journalistic associations. The presidents of the IAPA and ASNE, Gonzalo Marroquín and Milton Coleman, agreed that the principal mission is to persevere for violence against journalists and the impunity surrounding such crimes to be made a priority on the public agenda.

Among several individual presentations was one by former IAPA president Alejandro Junco de la Vega, head of the Grupo Reforma, who painted a dark picture of the culture of crime besetting Mexico, and another by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Catalina Botero, who cited a number of legal reforms that she put to the government of President Felipe Calderón to combat impunity. Also speaking was the Special Public Prosecutor for Crimes Against Freedom of Expression in Mexico, Gustavo Salas Chávez. n

PRODUCTIVE MEETING IN EL PASO, TEXAS

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ANTI-IMPUNITY BATTLE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos (right) greets the chairman of the 66th General Assembly’s Host Committee, Gerardo García Gamboa of Novedades de Yucatán.

With entries from Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Equatorial Guinea, Dominican Republic and Argentina continuing under way is the “Lend Your Voice For Those Who Have No Voice” contest, www.donatuvoz.com, which was launched in November as part of the IAPA’s Impunity Project and will last until April this year.

This interactive campaign is being waged mainly through social networks, seeking to have a strong effect that leads many people to join the anti-impunity cause. The winning entries will be produced professionally and the first prize in the song category will be $5,000, the second prize $3,000 and the third prize $1,500. Those composers who donate their lyrics will also be awarded prizes.

The campaign, which is being conducted with the support of the Knight Foundation, has a triple aim – to make members of the public aware of the problem of impunity, to promote the project on its Web site, and to enable people to take action by signing letters that are then sent to governments. n The study added that while murders of journalists have

decreased news men and women run greater danger than ever amid the bloody turf wars among drug traffickers in northern Mexico. There, justice is “more an ideal than a reality” and a place where, the report confirms, the IAPA has come across major obstacles. “The IAPA can reduce impunity only where its principal instruments – investigating murders, issuing resolutions and meeting with political leaders – lead the government to act. When disorder reigns, as in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s and in Mexico today, the IAPA faces almost insurmountable obstacles in attempting to obtain justice for the murdered journalists,” says the report titled Stories Go Untold as Latin American Journalists Die, part of the Knight Foundation’s Reporter Analysis series, in which investigative reporters help to evaluate impunity’s impact. The foundation has invested $7.6 million in the IAPA’s Impunity Project since 1995. n

The IAPA has begun organizing the Hemisphere Conference on Impunity to be held in Puebla, Mexico, in July this year, with the support of the newspaper Síntesis and the Foundation for Freedom of Expression chaired by Armando Prida Huerta. The conference will have as its central theme the quest for legal reforms needed to combat impunity, principally in Mexico, and it will follow up the gains

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Puebla to be site of Hemisphere Conference on Impunityachieved in some countries, as well as in previous hemispheric conferences held in Guatemala in 1997 and in the Dominican Republic in 2007. Preparations for this conference will be made by the IAPA’s Impunity Committee, chaired by Juan Francisco Ealy Ortiz of El Universal, with funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. n

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In BriefVISUAL CONTEST.– The Ecuadorean city of Cuenca will be the venue of the July 2011 Image Festival and in conjunction with this the “Nuestra Mirada” (Our View) network of photographers and photo-journalists has organized an international visual works contest in conjunction with Pictures of the Year International, to be housed at Quito’s San Francisco University. The main sponsor of the contest is the Ecuadorean newspaper El Universo and other support is being provided by the University of Miami, Harvard University, German magazine Geo, Getty Images, the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, and Avanti. More information at poyi.org and nuestramirada.org.

AWARDS.– The Association of Argentine Newspapers (ADEPA) presented its 2010 awards for excellence in journalism in the auditorium of the Argentine Press Building in Buenos Aires. In the Press Freedom category the award went to Fernando González of El Cronista Comercial and those for Public Good went to the newspaper El Independiente and to Andrew Graham-Yool of Diario Perfil of Buenos Aires. Adolfo Ruiz of Día a Día of Córdoba was awarded the Human Rights prize and that for Ecology and The Environment went to the Luján newspaper El Civismo. The prize-winning cartoonist was Miguel Nieto of La Gaceta of Tucumán; in Photography, Pablo Carterolo of Diario Perfil, and in Illustrations, Pablo Pavezka of El Sol of Mendoza. In the Law category the winner was Mauricio Arese of La Voz del Interior of Córdoba; in Education, María Alvarado and Mariano Petrucci of Revista Nueva of Buenos Aires. In the Culture and History category the winner was El Litoral of Santa Fe, and in Economy, Gustavo Scarpetta. Other winners were: La Gaceta (Sports), Priscilla Fernández (Science Reporting) Jorge Collado (Infographics) and Silvia Stang (Legal Affairs Reporting). n

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With effect on January 1 Zulay Domínguez Chirinos ceased serving as officer of the IAPA Scholarship Fund in order to take up other executive activities in the rectory of Miami-Dade College in Miami, Florida. Ms. Domínguez for 28 years coordinated the work of the Fund, which was founded in 1954 and has granted scholarships for professional studies to some one hundred journalists from throughout the Americas.

Journalist Mauricio Montaldo has now assumed the role of Scholarship Fund coordinator.

The deadline for requests for scholarships has been extended to February 15, 2011. For more information please e-mail [email protected].

CHANGE IN IAPA SCHOLARSHIP FUND

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has reminded that the deadline for entries in its 2011 Awards for Excellence in Journalism contest will be midnight on January 15.

The awards are made in 11 categories – -inter-American relations, human rights, news coverage, features, in–depth reporting, photography, cartoons, infographics, opinion, the newspaper in education, and best online news coverage.

Also awarded is the IAPA Grand Prize for Press Freedom, to a person or organization with significant achievements on behalf of the cause of freedom of the press. Details of the contest and the rules can be obtained from the IAPA Web site, www.sipiapa.org/premios. It is not necessary to be an IAPA member to participate. n

JANUARY 15 IS AWARDS ENTRIES DEADLINENON-IAPA MEMBERS MAY ALSO PARTICIPATE

During the General Assembly in Mérida outgoing president Alejandro J. Aguirre (left) presents the 2010 Grand Prize for Press Freedom to Carlos Zuloaga in representation of his father, the president of the Venezuelan television network Globovisión, Guillermo Zuloaga.

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With an online seminar focused on the basic principles of audiovisual production for the Web the Inter American Press Association’s Press Institute (PI) on December 22, 2010 wound up its annual series of training activities.

This was the sixth online seminar – webinar – that the PI had held since 2009.

The basic-level course had the participation of 65 entrants from newspapers, universities, government agencies and private companies in Latin America and the United States. It was conducted by Eileen Mignoni, the multimedia producer for the Santiago, Chile, newspaper La Tercera.

For more information about the PI’s attended and online seminars go to www.institutodeprensa.com.

There you can access presentations made at more than 60 seminars given by the Press Institute since 2007.

“This is a unique compilation of training courses for journalists and newspaper executives given by prestigious experts in these subjects which any visitor to our Web site can access free of charge,” said Press Institute Director Ricardo Trotti. n

Webinar winds upPress Institute2010 program

ARCHIVO WEB OFRECE PRESENTACIONES DE MÁS DE 60 SEMINARIOS

Francisco Arias Vallarino , chairman of Editora Panamá América S.A. (Epasa), which publishes the newspapers Panamá América, Crítica and Día a Día, announced the sale of Epasa’s shares to a corporate group headed by businessmen Alberto Eskenazi and Henry Mizrachi .

Panamá América, Epasa’s standard-bearer publication, was edited by Harmodio Arias , a renowned lawyer and president of Panama

Editora Panamá América changes handsin 1932-1936. Following his death in 1962 the reins were taken over by his children Rosario Arias de Galindo and Gilberto Arias G . until they were ousted by the military dictatorship following the 1968 coup d’état. The company was taken back by the Arias family in 1989. On the death of Gilberto Arias in 1990 his sister continued running the paper until her retirement in 2002, when Francisco Arias Vallarino assumed the chairmanship. n

NEW MEMBERS APPROVED DURING 66th GENERAL ASEMBLY IN MÉRIDA, YUCATÁN The Santa Fe New Mexican, Santa Fe, New Mexico Representative in the IAPA: Robin Martin El Venezolano, Doral, Florida Representative in the IAPA: Oswaldo Muñoz Diario El Luchador, C.A., Bolívar, Venezuela Representative in the IAPA: Víctor Casado Periódico Primicias, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Representative in the IAPA: Alex Jiménez Heraldo de Toluca, Toluca Mexico Representative in the IAPA: Jorge Mena García Recorriendo America News, Miami, Florida Representatives in the IAPA: Manriquel Pacheco, Enrique Pacheco

Corriente Martiana, Guanabacoa, Havana, Cuba Representative in the IAPA: Rubén Carty Lowe Tyrene Frederick-Mack, Pfizer New York, NY

Lillian Valencia Alonso, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

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The IAPA, through a delegation headed by its president, Gonzalo Marroquín, took part in a meeting of the Coordinating Committee on Press Freedom Organizations on December 10 in New York City, in which the participating organizations agreed to support the Association in celebration of 2011 as Freedom of Expression in the Americas Year.

In addition, the Committee gave support for the IAPA’s work in adopting resolutions on the lack of press freedom in Cuba and on legislative bills that are seeking to thwart the free flow of information and restrict media operations in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela.

The day-long meeting was held at the headquarters of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and also was attended by executives of the International Press Institute (IPI), WAN-IFRA, International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP), World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC), International Association of Broadcasting (IAB), and representatives of Freedom House.

Marroquín thanked his colleagues from around the world for their support for the commitment made for 2011 and offered details of the main problems in the Western Hemisphere, where organized crime and the intolerance of authoritarian governments are two of the leading difficulties.

In addition to Marroquín the IAPA was represented by Press Freedom Committee Co-Chairman Claudio Paolillo, International Affairs Committee Chairman Jorge Canahuati and Executive Director Julio E. Muñoz.

The next meeting of the Coordinating Committee will be in June in Vienna, Austria, at the invitation of the IPI, and in December the meeting will be in Miami with the IAPA as host. n

CELEBRATION OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION YEAR IN THE AMERICAS WINS INTERNATIONAL SUPPORTIAPA TO HOST MEETING OF COORDINATING COMMITTEE NEXT DECEMBER

The initiative of celebrating Freedom of Expression in the Americas Year has also won the support of the Association of Argentine Newspapers (ADEPA), the National Newspapers Association (ANP) of Bolivia, National Newspaper Association (ANP) of Chile, National Newspaper Association (ANJ ) of Brazil, Association of Colombian Newspapers (ANDIARIOS), Mexican Editors and Publishers Association (AMEX), Peruvian Press Council (CPP) and Venezuelan Press Bloc (BPV ).

In its schedule of 2011 activities the IAPA plans two hemispheric conferences, to be held in San Diego, California, and Puebla, Mexico, in addition to its two half-yearly membership meetings (Midyear Meeting), in San Diego and in Lima, Peru (67th General Assembly). As well as legal, judicial and academic forums, training seminars for news media staffs and the dispatch of international delegations to a number of countries the IAPA is to celebrate World Press Freedom Day on May 3 in Santiago, Chile, in conjunction with that country ’s National Newspaper

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JUDICIAL FORUM IN BRAZIL SCHEDULED FOR APRILIn conjunction with Brazil’s National Association of Newspapers (ANJ) the IAPA Chapultepec Program is to hold on April 15, 2011 in Brasília, Brazil, a Judicial Forum on the state of press freedom in that South American nation following the repeal of the Press Law that had dated from the days of the military dictatorship there.

The event will also have the support of Brazil’s

Supreme Court, which ruled on the repeal of the law in May 2009. The ANJ awarded its 2010 press freedom prize to that body for its action.

In August 2009 the IAPA held a Judicial Forum in Mexico, with the participation of that country’s Supreme Court justices. n

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PEREZ ANNOUNCES HIS RETIRMENT FROM THE LEDGER

REUTERS INSTITUTE CALLS FOR ENTRIES

El Tiempo (Bogotá, Colombia), 100 years

La Nación (San José, Costa Rica), 65

El Comercio (Quito, Ecuador), 105

El Universo (Guayaquil, Ecuador), 90

El Diario de Hoy (San Salvador, El Salvador), 75

Prensa Libre (Guatemala), 60

El Universal (Mexico City, Mexico), 95

La República (Lima, Peru), 30

Newspapers’anniversaries in 2011

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University in England has called for applications for its Journalism Scholarships Program.

Since its launch in 1983 this program has

created a network of former students comprising more than 400 journalists in 100 countries. Each year the program brings together dozens of news men and women from various parts of the world to study a specific aspect of journalism in a three- to nine-month course.

The program does not give academic credits or degrees, but a certificate of participation.

It is a unique program of its kind designed for journalists in mid-career whose objective is to help them develop their potential with the aid of specialist advisers.

Among the sponsors of the scholarships are the Austrian Press Agency, BBC, Australia Broadcasting Company and the Thomson Reuter Foundation.

For more information on how to apply, please go to http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fellowships/applying.html#c669 n

ROCK RETURNS AS EL UNIVERSAL EDITOR

The editor of the Lakeland, Florida, newspaper The Ledger, Louis Michael (Skip) Perez, a member of the IAPA Board of Directors, announced his retirement at the age of 64.

Perez joined The Ledger in 1976 and five years later was named executive editor.

The chairman of the Board of Directors of The New York Times Company, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., praised Perez as “a great journalistic leader for The Ledger,” to whom his company “owes a great debt.” The Times publishes The Ledger and three other newspapers in Florida. Perez was the representative of The New York Times Company on the IAPA Board of Directors and is currently a regional vice-chairman of the Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information. n

The director general of Mexican newspaper El Universal, Juan Francisco Ealy Ortiz, named journalist Roberto Rock the paper’s editor-in-chief with the mission of taking

it through a new era of change. The appointment was ratified by the executive chairman of the Management Board, Juan Francisco Ealy Ortiz, who noted that Rock “is a right person to lead in a new stage in our editorial tasks.”

Working along with Rock as assistant

editors will be journalists Santiago and David Aponte.

Rock said that he would be facing “some big challenges” and invited all those in the newsroom to work enthusiastically “through dialogue and mutual respect.” n

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NEW OFFICERS OF THE IAPAThe Treasurer is Elizabeth Ballantine, The Durango Herald, Durango, Colorado; Secretary Sidnei Basile, Grupo Abril, São Paulo, Brazil, and Executive Director Julio E. Muñoz.

The Executive Committee has as Chairman Juan Luís Correa, La Estrella, El Siglo, Panama City, Panama, and as vice-chairman Alejandro J. Aguirre, Diario Las Américas, Miami, Florida. Among its members are Fabricio Altamirano, El Diario de Hoy, San Salvador, El Salvador; Bruce B. Brugmann, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco, California; Jorge Canahuati Larach, La Prensa, San Pedro Sula, Honduras; Armando Castilla, Vanguardia, Saltillo, Mexico; Milton Coleman, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.; María Elvira Domínguez, El País, Cali Colombia; José Roberto Dutriz, La Prensa Grafica, San Salvador, El Salvador; Juan Francisco Ealy Ortiz, El Universal, Mexico City, Mexico; Gerardo García Gamboa, Novedades de Mérida, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico; Vivian-Anne Gittens, Nation News, Fontabelle, Barbados; Armando González, La Nación, San José, Costa Rica; Alfredo Jiménez de Sandi, Imagen de Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico; Pierre Manigault, Evening Post Publishing Co., Charleston, South Carolina; Francisco Miró Quesada, El Comercio, Lima, Peru; Bartolomé Mitre, La Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Gustavo Mohme S., La República, Lima, Peru; Claudio Paolillo, Búsqueda, Montevideo, Uruguay; Robert Rivard, San Antonio- Express News, San Antonio, Texas; Jorge Andrés Saieh, La Tercera, Santiago, Chile; Edward Seaton, Seaton Newspapers, Manhattan, Kansas; Jayme Sirotsky, RBS, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Paulo de Tarso Nogueira, O Estado de S. Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, and Clemente Vivanco, La Hora, Quito, Ecuador.

The Scholarship Fund, responsible for selection of international scholarship recipients, is chaired by Jorge Andrés Saieh, Copesa, Santiago, Chile, and has as vice-chairmen Carlos Salinas, El Diario de Coahuila, Saltillo, Mexico, and Alfredo Jiménez de Sandi, Imagen de Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico. Other members of the Scholarship Fund are Treasurer Silvia Miró Quesada, El Comercio, Lima, Peru; Secretary Nélida Rajneri, Río Negro, General Roca, Argentina, and IAPA Executive Director Julio E. Muñoz.

The educational arm and one responsible for journalists professionalism, the ISPA Press Institute, is headed by Board Chairman Vivian-Anne Gittens, Nation News, Fontabelle, Barbados; President Gustavo Mohme S., La República, Lima, Perú; Vice-Presidents Louis (Skip) Perez, The Ledger, Lakeland, Florida; Francisco N. Fascetto, Diario Popular, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Treasurer, Cristina Aby-Azar, Wall Street Journal Américas, New York, NY; Secretary, Miguel H. Otero, El Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela.

The Press Institute is also made up of an Advisory Board consisting of Eduardo Alemán, El Carabobeño, Valencia, Venezuela; Rosental C. Alves, University of Texas, Austin, Texas; James Bettinger, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Max Chauvet, Le Nouvelliste, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Luís Alberto Ferré, El Nuevo Día, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Gerardo García Gamboa, Novedades de Mérida, Mérida, Mexico; Saturnino Herrero Mitjans, Clarín, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Ernesto Kraiselburd, El Día, La Plata, Argentina; Gonzalo Leaño Reyes, Ocho Columnas, Zapopán, Jalisco, Mexico; Guadalupe Mantilla, El Comercio, Quito, Ecuador; Manuel Quiroz, El Caribe, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana; Carlos Schaerer Jiménez, El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile, and Aldo Zuccolillo M., ABC Color, Asunción, Paraguay. Also participating are Executive Director Julio E. Muñoz and Press Institute Director Ricardo Trotti.

During the Mérida General Assembly the IAPA also elected as new members of its Board of Directors for 2010-2013 Cristina Aby-Azar, The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.; Elizabeth Ballantine, The Durango Herald, Durango, Colorado; Sidnei Basile, Editora Abril, São Paulo, Brazil; Armando Castilla, Vanguardia, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico; Sue Cross, The Associated Press, New York, N.Y; Veronica Dillon, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C; Armando González, La Nación, San José, Costa Rica; Anders Gyllenhaal,The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida; Juan Fernando Healy, El Imparcial, Hermosillo, Mexico; José Santiago Healy, Diario San Diego, San Diego, California; Saturnino Herrero, Clarín, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Juan Pablo Illanes, El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile; Luis Marroquín, Siglo Veintiuno, Guatemala City, Guatemala; Silvia Miró Quesada, El Comercio, Lima, Peru; Bartolomé Mitre, La Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Francisco Montes, Diario de Cuyo, San Juan, Argentina; Paulo de Tarso Nogueira, O Estado de S. Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Robert Rivard, San Antonio Express-News, San Antonio, Texas; Jaime A. Ruiz, Novedades de Campeche, Campeche, Mexico, and Jayme Sirotsky, RBS, São Paulo, Brazil.

Two directors were also elected to fill vacancies on the Board. They are Andrés Mata Osorio, El Universal, Caracas, Venezuela, and María Elvira Domínguez, El País, Cali, Colombia. n

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