Given that he had a presentiment that he would not be able to get out alive, Rafael Moreno went to a network of international journalists to tell them about his investigations of corruption, environmental damage and more, days later a hitman attacked him. Now Forbidden Stories will show those investigations.
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As a premonition of death, the journalist Rafael Moreno contacted Forbidden Stories, so that his investigations would not remain unpublished in case of being murdered, the threats he received were permanent, now ‘the Rafael Project’ , will revive your investigations.
For several days, Rafel Moreno received several death threats, since he was a man who was not afraid to uncover and publish what was happening with the management of public resources.
A letter with a bullet, pamphlets and so on were his daily bread.
On Sunday, October 16, 2022, Rafael, was shot dead in the city of Montelíbano, in northern Colombia.
A dangerous region dominated by the Clan del Golfo, a powerful organized crime group.
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He denounced that public money was stolen, alliances with groups outside the law in that area and other facts. “Much of what he denounced turned out to be true,” his colleagues say today.
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After his death, the Forbidden Stories team reached Bogotá, where they managed to meet with dozens of Colombian, Latin American and international journalists.
About 30 journalists joined forces to continue Rafael’s unfinished work.
After six months and under the coordination of Forbidden Stories, journalists from CLIP, Cuestión Publica, El Espectador, France 24, RFI and other partners launch the “Raphael Project”.
In the Rafael project, significant information related to environmental and health damage by mining companies in Córdoba is disclosed.
Just as it exposes a massive system of “cronyism” and the probable embezzlement of public funds that it had begun to investigate.
Forbidden Stories is a French-based non-profit organization registered under the name Freedom Voices Network, relying on charitable foundations and financial support from the public.
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