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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Laurent Richard

Rafael Moreno was murdered, but not silenced. This is how we finished his stories of Colombian corruption

Relatives of Rafael Moreno at a vigil in Puerto Libertador, Córdoba, Colombia on 26 October, 2022.
Relatives of Rafael Moreno at a vigil in Puerto Libertador, Córdoba, Colombia on 26 October, 2022. Photograph: Diego Cuevas/El País

In the days leading up to his killing, the Colombian journalist Rafael Moreno made contact with us at Forbidden Stories. The threats he was receiving were becoming more and more disquieting. This is why Moreno had decided to share the information he was working on with us: so that in case anything happened to him, we could pursue his work.

At 7.10pm on 16 October 2022, Moreno was shot dead in the city of Montelíbano, in the north of Colombia – a dangerous region dominated by the Gulf Clan, one of the most powerful drug cartels in the world.

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