Cuba's Angel Boligan has won a top international political cartoon prize for his drawing of a man slumped on a couch watching a giant wooden television on wheels that resembles a Trojan horse.
Boligan, 40, was awarded the World Press Cartoon 2006 prize of 20,000 euros (24,650 dollars) at a ceremony in Sintra, a mountain town just outside of Lisbon, on Thursday night.
His black and white image, published in daily Mexican newspaper El Universal in May 2005, was selected by an international jury out of 464 works submitted by 213 professional cartoonists from 48 countries.
Jury chairman Antonio Antunes said Boligan's cartoon stood out among all the drawings in the competition because it had excellent graphics.
"It has an extraordinary technical quality," he told daily Portuguese newspaper Publico.
The goal of the World Press Cartoon contest is to distinguish the best-produced and published works in newspapers or magazines, during 2005. The top prize of the first edition of the contest which was held last year in Sintra went to Argentina's Cristobal Reinoso for a cartoon published in 2004 in his country's top-selling newspaper Clarin.
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