• Chronicle The farmhouse with 41 slaves of Queipo de Llano: the last defeat of the 'viceroy' of Andalusia expelled from the Macarena

The journalist of EL MUNDO Chema Rodríguez has won the Francisco Valdés National Journalism Award in its 24th edition, failed during a gala held this Friday at the Imperial Theater of Don Benito.

'Gambogaz, the farmhouse of Queipo de Llano that Seville (not) gave him' is the title of the report, published in the Crónica supplement, which has earned him this award, which reaches its 24th edition this year and is one of the most recognized in the journalistic world. In it he tells the claims of the heirs of the legitimate owners of the estate from which the Francoist general exercised almost absolute power after occupying the city during the Civil War, but also and above all, the story of the 41 political prisoners who between 1937 and 1940 were forced to plow their lands.

Rodríguez has dedicated the award to them in an intervention in which he regretted that "they wanted to erase the history" of these 41 reprisals and has claimed the knowledge of the common past as the best remedy against intolerance and extremism.

"Knowing the truth of our past is the best, if not the only, way not to repeat our mistakes, not to stumble on the same stone of extremism, intolerance, all against all," he said before the auditorium of the Imperial Theater of Don Benito.

Journalist of EL MUNDO for 20 years, Chema Rodríguez is currently editor in the delegation of Andalusia and regular contributor to the supplement Crónica, of great reports. He founded the editorial staff of EL MUNDO in Huelva, his hometown, and in 2006 he joined the editorial staff of Andalusia. In 2019 he received the Andalusian Journalism Award, awarded by the Junta de Andalucía, and in 2021, the Agri-Food Journalism Award of the Association of Agri-Food Journalists of Spain.

The Francisco Valdés Prize is endowed, in its A modality, with a first prize of 5,000 euros and two second prizes of 1,000 euros each. In modality B, the prize money is 1,000 euros. All of them accompanied by a commemorative souvenir for each of the winners.

The three winners: Yolanda del Valle, Chema Rodríguez and Eduardo del Campo.EL MUNDO

In turn, Eduardo del Campo, with 'La Gran Evasión Republicana', published in El Español, and Yolanda del Valle, with '¡Hay algo ahí abajo!', published in the magazine Selecciones Reader's Digest, have been awarded second prizes of 1,000 euros each.

In modality B, destined to works of university students, the jury has awarded the Francisco Valdés prize modality B1 to Sara Morato and Beatriz Ruiz, students of the University of Seville, with their work 'The endless wait' and in the B2 modality to María Buiza Rosario, also of the University of Seville, with her unpublished work 'Fitting the story'.

The jury has been formed by the director of the sports newspaper Marca and president of the court, Juan Ignacio Gallardo, and as members the director of the Extremadura Newspaper, Antonio Cid de Rivera, the director of the Diario HOY, Mar Domínguez, the winner of the A modality last year, María José Carmona López, and the winner of the B1 modality in 2022, Daniel Alvarez Martinez.

As secretary has acted the correspondent of the newspaper HOY, Estrella Domeque, as reported by the City Council of Don Benito in a press release.

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