MTV has announced it has cancelled this year's Latin America Video Music Awards. The fourth edition of the annual awards event was due to take place last month near the Playa del Carmen resort on Mexico's Caribbean coast, but it was cancelled at the last minute as Hurricane Wilma approached.
The original plan was to reschedule the event before the end of the year, but MTV bosses now say that is not feasible. A spokesman for the network explained: "A show of this magnitude and complexity requires a great deal of planning and many months to organise, making it impossible for us to accomplish in only six weeks".
The winners of the 2005 awards will now be announced on an MTV show sometime next month. This was the first time the Latin America VMAs were due to be held in Latin America itself, and organisers have said they will look to host next year's event in Mexico too.