December 6, 2021.
Argentine Ambassador to Vietnam, Luis Pablo Beltramino receives the award given to the director of Resumen Latinoamericano
Carlos Aznarez, director of Resumen Latinoamericano, has been awarded the VIII National Prize for Foreign Information in Vietnam.
For those of us who work daily to put out Resumen Latinoamericano this good news from Hanoi is a great encouragement to continue working on the central idea of our publications which is to try to inform in order to educate, in the context of everything that happens within the struggles and rebellions of Latin America and the Third World.
In a ceremony attended by the Vietnamese Prime Minister, Pham Minh Chinh, the awards of the VIII National Prize for Foreign Information were presented in the Vietnamese capital. In this important annual event of Vietnamese journalism, our director Carlos Aznárez received this important recognition for his article “75 Years of Independence, Socialism and its Development”, that was published and featured in the magazine Resumen Latinoamericano del Tercer Mundo.
The award corresponded to the printed press category and was presented in Hanoi to the Argentine ambassador in Vietnam so that he could send it, via diplomatic bag, to Aznarez.
This year, the organizing committee for the award received more than one thousand pieces of work submitted in 14 languages in various categories, including the printed press, electronic newspaper, radio, television, photos, books, video clips, among others.
Speaking at the ceremony, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stressed that the dissemination of information abroad is an important part of the Party, State and the work of people’s diplomacy and contributes to promoting the image of the country and its people to international friends. The Department of Propaganda and Education of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyen Trong Nghia and Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Do Van Chien also presented the awards to a group of authors of the Vietnam News Agency.The head of the Government urged to renew the information work on foreign affairs and apply modern technology and new communication trends to raise the quality while insuring that the dissemination of such news is presented in an accurate, timely, attractive, efficient and multilingual manner.
Upon receiving the award Carlos Aznárez expressed in an interview to the Vietnam Public TV, “what a great honor it is to receive the award in light of all the struggle of the Vietnamese people and their enormous victory against Yankee imperialism and what it means to the struggling people of the world”. He also explained that his article was inspired by the enormous example of President Ho Chi Minh, a figure admired by revolutionaries around the world.
Source: Resumen Latinoamericano