19 The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 2023 

Best reporting in any medium on Latin America
RECIPIENTS: Drazen Jorgic, Diego Oré, Jackie Botts, Sarah Kinosian and Stephen Eisenhammer
AFFILIATION: Reuters
HONORED WORK: “Mexico Narcotics”
The Reuters team illustrates the evolution of Mexico-based drug trafficking into a vast fentanyl empire that kills thousands of Americans and rots Mexico’s already fragile institutions from the presidency to the army and the remittance financial system. The series ties together numerous themes underlying this criminal enterprise and digs up hard facts to expose fresh examples of the corruption that feeds it.
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Citation for Excellence:
Julie Turkewitz and Federico Rios
The New York Times
“Profiting Off Migrants”