MIAMI, Florida (November 15, 2010)—During its 66th General Assembly, held November 5-9 in Mérida, Mexico, the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) chose its new officers. Gonzalo Marroquín of the Guatemala City, Guatemala, newspaper Prensa Libre was elected the hemisphere organization’s president for the 2010-2011 period.
To serve with Marroquín during his presidency are Scott C. Schurz of the Herald-Times, Bloomington, Indiana, as honorary lifetime president; 1st vice president Milton Coleman, The Washington Post, Washington, DC; 2nd vice president Jaime Mantilla, Hoy, Quito, Ecuador; treasurer Elizabeth Ballantine, The Durango Herald, Durango, Colorado; secretary Sidnei Basile, Grupo Abril, São Paulo, Brazil, and executive director Julio E. Muñoz.
The Executive Committee has as its chairman Juan Luis Correa, La Estrella, El Siglo, Panama City, Panama, and vice chairman Alejandro Aguirre, Diario Las Américas, Miami, Florida. Other members of the Executive Committee are Fabricio Altamirano, El Diario de Hoy, San Salvador, El Salvador; Bruce B. Brugmann, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco, California; Jorge Canahuati Larach, La Prensa, San Pedro Sula, Honduras; Armando Castilla, Vanguardia, Saltillo, Mexico; Milton Coleman, The Washington Post, Washington, DC; María Elvira Dominguez, El País, Cali Colombia; Jose Roberto Dutriz, La Prensa Grafica, San Salvador, El Salvador; Juan Francisco Ealy Ortiz, El Universal, Mexico City, Mexico; Gerardo García Gamboa, Novedades de Mérida, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico; Vivian-Anne Gittens, Nation News, Fontabelle, Barbados; Armando González, La Nación, San José, Costa Rica; Alfredo Jiménez de Sandi, Imagen de Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico; Pierre Manigault, Evening Post Publishing Co., Charleston, South Carolina; Francisco Miró Quesada, El Comercio, Lima, Peru; Bartolomé Mitre, La Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Gustavo Mohme S, La República, Lima, Peru; Claudio Paolillo, Búsqueda, Montevideo, Uruguay; Robert Rivard, San Antonio Express-News, San Antonio, Texas; Jorge Andrés Saieh, La Tercera, Santiago, Chile; Edward Seaton, Seaton Newspapers, Manhattan, Kansas; Jayme Sirotsky, RBS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Paulo de Tarso Nogueira, O Estado de S. Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil and Clemente Vivanco, La Hora, Quito, Ecuador.
The Scholarship Fund, which is responsible for the selection of international scholarship redcipients, is chaired by Jorge Andrés Saieh, Copesa, Santiago, Chile, and has as vice charimen Carlos Salinas, El Diario de Coahuila, Saltillo, Mexico, and Alfredo Jimenez de Sandi, Imagen de Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico. Other members of the Scholarship Fund are its treasurer, Silvia Miró Quesada, El Comercio, Lima, Peru; secretary Nélida Rajneri, Río Negro, General Roca, Argentina, and IAPA executive director Julio E. Muñoz.
The educational arm of the IAPA, responsible for raising the level of professionalism in journalism, the IAPA Press Institute, will have as its board chair Vivian-Anne Gittens, Nation News, Fontabelle, Barbados; president, Gustavo Mohme S, La Republica, Lima, Peru; vice presidents, Louis (Skip) Perez, The Ledger, Lakeland, Florida; Francisco N. Fascetto, Diario Popular, Buenos Aires, Argentina; treasurer, Cristina Aby-Azar, Wall Street Journal Américas, New York, NY, and secretary, Miguel Henrique Otero, El Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela. The Press Institute is made up also of and advisory board comprising Eduardo Alemán, El Carabobeño, Valencia, Venezuela; Rosental C. Alves, University of Texas, Austin, Texas; James Bettinger, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Max Chauvet, Le Nouvelliste, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Luís Alberto Ferré, El Nuevo Día, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Gerardo García Gamboa, Novedades de Mérida, Mérida, Mexico; Saturnino Herrero Mitjans, Clarín, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Ernesto Kraiselburd, El Día, La Plata, Argentina; Gonzalo Leaño Reyes, Ocho Columnas, Zapopán, Jalisco, Mexico; Guadalupe Mantilla, El Comercio, Quito, Ecuador; Carlos Schaerer Jiménez, El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile; Manuel Quiroz, El Caribe, Santo Domingo, Dominican Rpublic, and Aldo Zuccolillo M., ABC Color, Asunción, Paraguay. Also taking part are Executive Director Julio E. Muñoz and Press Institute Director Ricardo Trotti.
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