Country: Uruguay
Affiliation: El Observador
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María, 26, writes about social and health issues and culture for El Observador daily newspaper in Montevideo, Uruguay. A highlight of her young career has been a report on Genzyme, a Boston laboratory producing medicine for genetic and rare diseases. A motivated, hard working journalist known for her interviews and narrative writing, Borges has been praised as one of the most promising journalists at the newspaper. Borges says she feels that as a reporter at one of her country's most important newspapers, she has a "responsibility to do something for my society."
