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The Visión Lúcida Award (Lucid Vision) is the festival’s recognition for the commitment, courage, and journalistic excellence of war correspondents who, through the gaze of a documentarian, confront us with the political and social reality of our world.

Georgina Higueras, recipient of the 2025 Visión Lúcida Award, is one of the most respected correspondents and international relations specialists on the Spanish journalistic scene.

After earning a degree in Information Sciences and completing a master’s in the History of International Relations at Peking University (where she learned Chinese), Higueras, fascinated from a young age by the East, specialized in international relations and Asian affairs. Her first journalistic position was with Agencia EFE (Spain’s national news agency), where she served as Beijing correspondent from 1982 to 1984, covering China’s process of transformation. Later, she worked as a correspondent in Washington and Strasbourg for the same agency until 1987. During that time, she began her work as a war reporter: she covered the Cambodian-Vietnamese conflict in 1980.

She later joined El País, where she spent 25 years as a special correspondent covering numerous conflicts and international events: the first Gulf War in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, and the conflict in Chechnya, among others. She also covered natural disasters such as the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima. From 1997 to 2001, she worked for Cadena SER as a special correspondent in Moscow.

In 2009 and 2010, she served as the Director General of Communications for the Spanish Ministry of Defense and the director of Revista de Defensa. Since 2014, she has written articles for specialized publications such as Política Exterior and Foreign Policy. She currently collaborates with El Periódico de Catalunya, an outlet for which she analyzes China’s foreign policy and other international issues.

In addition to being director of Foro Asia and vice president of Cátedra China, an institution devoted to promoting cultural and educational exchanges between China and Spain, she teaches at the Universidad Nebrija in Madrid, and for one year she also taught at Wuhan University in China.

Higueras has also published several books that reflect her experiences in Asia and in the international conflicts she has covered throughout her eventful career. Her work has earned her various awards, such as, among others, the Premio Club Internacional de Prensa for her coverage of the war in Georgia (2008).