In Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro led on Monday the presentation of the National Journalism Award "Simon Bolivar 2024" in its 82nd edition. In this ceremony, he awarded the National TV Journalism Award to journalist Luis Guillermo García Bencomo and a special award for Julian Assange. teleSUR
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00:00In Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro led on Monday the presentation of the National
00:04Journalism Award Simón Bolívar 2024 in its 82nd edition.
00:08The ceremony took place in the Ayacucho Hall of the Presidential Palace in Miraflores.
00:13The awards were presented in different categories, such as television, print, radio, graphic
00:18image, opinion, cultural, teaching and research, digital journalism, among others.
00:24This way, the national government reaffirmed its commitment and support to national and
00:28international journalists in their work to make the truth known and keep the people
00:33informed in an objective manner in their struggle against injustice.
00:38In this sense, the head of state paid tribute to journalist Julian Assange, thus demonstrating
00:43his support to journalists who fight for freedom of expression and the right to be informed.
00:52The President also presented the National Television Journalism Award to journalist
00:56Luis Guillermo García Bencomo for his journalistic work in his program El Mundo desde el Sur,
01:02broadcast on our multi-platform news channel TeleSul, in which he offers analysis and perspectives
01:08on world current affairs from the point of view of the peoples of Latin America.
01:18On the other hand, the Venezuelan head of state presented a special award to journalist
01:22Julian Assange, who vindicated with his actions an example and courageous and fearless journalism
01:28and with truth as its evidence defend freedom of expression and the right of the people
01:33to be informed.
01:35After facing several years of persecution following Wikileaks' release of information
01:39on acts of war perpetrated by the United States government, Assange spent more than a decade
01:45fighting for his freedom.
01:47President Maduro said today that today Julian Assange was free and that represented a victory
01:53for journalism, for truth and for freedom over repression.