“'If you have to kill me, go ahead and kill me. But I say it to your face: you won’t silence me.’ Colombian journalist Rafael Moreno defied his detractors and predicted his own demise with these words, spoken in a 37-minute Facebook live on July 21, 2022. […] For more than half an hour, the investigative journalist, who in addition to running two Facebook pages had also recently opened a bar and grill to make ends meet, vigorously denounced corruption in the region of Córdoba, Colombia.
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Several months later, on Oct. 16, 2022, just after 7 p.m., Moreno was closing his bar and grill when a man wearing a baseball cap came into the restaurant. The man took out a revolver and fired three times at Moreno, killing him instantly. As of this writing, the assassin is still on the loose.
As he himself predicted, Moreno was killed. But thanks to documents and instructions left behind by the journalist, he was not silenced.
For the past six months, 30 journalists have come together to pursue Moreno’s work, in keeping with requests he made before his death. Several days before his assassination, Moreno had been in contact with Forbidden Stories with the aim of joining the Safebox Network, which allows threatened journalists to upload and protect their sensitive information.”
