Telecinco News, award for the best report at the ENEX

The report “The border of discord”, which narrates the situation of the more than 2,000 porters who cross the Melilla border with Morocco with heavy loads every day, obtains one of the precious awards granted by ENEX, a non-profit organization for the exchange of news archives and television transmission services made up of CBS (USA) and TBS (Japan), along with the main European networks, including Sky News (United Kingdom), RTL (Germany), M6 (France) and SIC (Portugal).

The report The frontier of discord of the Informativos Telecinco reporting team has received the annual ENEX (European News Exchange) award for the best report. The award is given by the private television association, which includes the main networks in Europe, in addition to CBS in the United States and TBS in Japan.

The report, made by Gabriel Cruz (editor), Fernando Hernández (camera) and Miguel Guzmán (editor), tells how life goes at the border crossing in the Chinatown in Melilla. Around 2,000 Moroccans gather there as they cross into Spain to load heavy bales of up to 75 kilos bound for Morocco. If they transported those same packages by truck, they would have to pay customs duties, so they do it on foot so that it is considered carry-on luggage and, therefore, tax-free.

The result of this bureaucratic formality is a swarm of porters fighting to be able to get their bundles through as soon as possible. For each one of them they take 5 euros. If they hurry, they can cross three times a day, earning more and in less time than working in construction. The competition is fierce and the conditions are difficult. They load in a desert at about 30 degrees, without water or toilets. When the rains come the situation is even worse. There are young people, old people, women and even some disabled people who tie the load to their chair.

The fight between them is such that avalanches have sometimes been caused. One of them ended the life of a porter two years ago. What prevents things from going any further is the work of the Spanish Civil Guard, which is trying to put in order a mob whose only objective is to pass their merchandise.

32 private television stations from Europe, Japan and the US in the ENEX

The European News Exchange is a non-profit organization created in 1994 for the exchange of news footage and broadcast services between television broadcasters.
Every year, the 32 private television stations that make up ENEX vote for the best report. Among the networks are the main European private television stations, such as Sky News (United Kingdom), RTL (Germany), M6 (France), SIC (Portugal) or Telecinco (Spain), along with the prominent networks CBS and TBS, from the United States and Japan, respectively.