TheRafaelProject is a collaborative investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories that involves 30 journalists and that is published by 32 media organizations. Read the first part here:
In the days leading up to his killing, Rafael Moreno was in contact with Forbidden Stories. The threats the Colombian journalist was receiving were becoming more and more disquieting.
At 7:10 pm on October 16, 2022, Moreno was shot dead in the city of Montelíbano, in the north of Colombia – a dangerous region dominated by theImmediately after his death, we went to Bogotá. We met with dozens of Colombian, Latin American, and international journalists. And on October 23, 30 journalists decided to unite forces to pursue Moreno’s unfinished work.
Today, this collaborative and international investigation is revealing significant information pertaining to the environmental and health damage by mining companies in Córdoba, the region of Colombia Moreno was from, and unmasking, for the first time at scale, a massive system of cronyism and the probable embezzlement of public funds that Moreno had begun to look into.
Some of these journalists – like Alfredo Guachiré in Paraguay, Paola Ugaz in Peru, and Haruna Mohammed Salisu in Nigeria – have made the choice to make it publicly known that they’ve joined this network. They are doing this for their own security, so that people who might wish to silence them know their stories will be revealed, one way or another, on a global scale.
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