2019
Gonzalo Himiob Santomé
Acceptance Speech: Evil in my country has shown many sides. I have seen it in police officers, judges, and prosecutors who, even when aware of the innocence of those brought before them, keep them in jail just because they have been instructed to…I have seen it in women from whom bullets have taken away their father, brothers, husband, or son. I have seen it in the injuries and bruises of the inmates, many of them who have appeared tortured and harmed at the hearings we attend, to keep them silent because silence is one of the terrible weapons of evil when it becomes power.
Seeing and knowing the evil has also allowed me to meet goodness and realize that the line between correct and incorrect, between right and wrong, is not vague or nonexistent; and this is how I have been able to corroborate that victories of the evil over us are only temporary and apparent.