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Introduction
The story "A ditadura nas favelas" by O Globo newspaper team, is the outright winner of the 10th Embratel Press Award
The story "A ditadura nas favelas", a series showing the oppression of 1.5 million Brazilians who are still living under a dictatorship, subject to virtual laws of exception imposed by drug dealers established in the slums of Rio, was the outright winner of the 2008 Embratel Press Award by winning the Barbosa Lima Sobrinho Grand Prix.
The stories by Carla Rocha, Dimmi Amora, Fábio Vasconcelos, Sérgio Ramalho and team of O Globo newspaer, published from Aug.19/07 to Sept.14/07, surveyed several stories about the violation of human rights during four months, showing reported cases of executions, missing people, torture, exile, reduced freedom from restraint, censorship and other crimes. Drug dealers and militia men were deemed responsible for seven thousand cases of missing people.
On its tenth year, the Embratel Press Award received 1,231 applications for journalistic works by 1, 116 reporters from all over the country, published from August 2007 to May 2008. The awarding ceremony took place last night, October 21, at Canecão in Rio de Janeiro, where 18 journalistic works were given their prizes.
The Embratel Press Award paid tribute to the journalists who died this year, like Fernando Barbosa Lima (son of Barbosa Lima Sobrinho, whom the most important prize of the event is named after), Octales Gonzales (official photographer of the event for nine years), and Antonio Cunha (member of the Award`s national jury).
The Embratel Press Award, the most important tribute to journalists working as reporters in Brazil, is sponsored by Embratel through the Cultural Incentive acts, the Ministry of Culture and the Culture Secretariat of the State of Rio de Janeiro.
The Embratel Press Award is supported by the Rio de Janeiro Photographic and Cinematographic Reporters Association (Arfoc) and by the Rio de Janeiro Professional Journalists Union (SJPMRJ). Furthermore, it is recognized by the National Federation of Journalists (Fenaj), ABI and other journalist unions all over Brazil.
 See the winners here
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