Philip True, the Mexico City bureau chief for the San Antonio Express-News who was killed last December, has been honored with a posthumous award by the Inter American Press Association. True was recognized by the hemispheric free-press organization for p

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The IAPA will also award its 1999 Grand Prize for Press Freedom to four Cuban dissidents for their activities on behalf of press freedom in their country. Vladimiro Roca, F?lix Bonne, Ren? G?mez Manzano, and Marta Beatriz Roque, the joint winners of the award, were ordered arrested by the Cuban government after they published a manifesto titled ""La Patria Es de Todos"" (The Country Belongs to All of Us) ? which the IAPA views as a praiseworthy attempt at freedom of expression. In addition, the IAPA named winners of its excellence-in-journalism awards in a total of 10 categories.
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