Ricardo Hernandez won first place for a report showing "the less promoted face" of Cancun. He evokes the slums where those at the bottom of the "economic pyramid" of the city live.
The Breach-Valdez Prize honours the memory and work of Javier Valdez and Miroslava Breach. Mexico is considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world to work as a journalist, according to Reporters Without Borders, which has recorded more than 150 journalists killed since 2000.