The Municipal Archive of Arrecife hosted last Friday the closing of the "Awareness Week on Migration in Lanzarote", organized by different groups of immigrants, with the delivery of the "Berta Pardal" awards to journalists "for their objective treatment and their integrating work in the development of news related to immigration".
Those recognized with this award were the journalist from Radio Lanzarote, Soraya Morales, host of the mornings on "Buenos días, Lanzarote", and Yira Arredondo, reporter for Televisión Canaria, as well as María José Tabar, Gregorio Cabrera, Juan García Luján and Tomás J. López. The event was attended by numerous authorities from the island, such as the Minister of Education of the Cabildo, Francisco Cabrera, and the Councilor for Education of the Arrecife City Council, Lorenzo Lemaur, among others.
Prior to the presentation of these distinctions, Magec Montes de Oca presented the book "The Invisible of Kolda", by the collaborator of the newspaper El País José Naranjo Noble, in which the sinking of a cayuco off the Mauritanian coast in April 2007 is reconstructed. In it, the 160 crew members of the boat died, constituting the greatest tragedy of immigration to the Canary Islands, "a fact that, however, went unnoticed by public opinion", explains the author.