'The Rafael project': FRANCE 24 report on the story of Colombian journalist killed

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00:00 [Phone ringing]

00:02 [Speaking Spanish]

00:19 [Music]

00:24 Nine days after this call, Rafael Moreno was murdered in the restaurant he had just opened to earn a living.

00:31 He is survived by four young children and his widow, Chiara.

00:39 His family worries the crime will go unpunished, as it often does in Colombia.

00:47 [Music]

00:55 [Speaking Spanish]

01:07 [Speaking Spanish]

01:13 [Speaking Spanish]

01:29 [Crying]

01:33 [Speaking Spanish]

01:58 His friends saw him as a people's journalist. His Facebook page, Voices of Córdoba, was followed by more than 50,000.

02:05 [Speaking Spanish]

02:19 [Speaking Spanish]

02:28 [Speaking Spanish]

02:38 [Speaking Spanish]

02:46 Rafael Moreno presented himself as the defender of the resources of his region.

02:50 From the corruption of politicians to the pollution and abuses of mining companies, he denounced cases where the losers are always the poorest.

03:03 [Speaking Spanish]

03:21 This is one of the company's cars.

03:26 A US-based multinational has obtained the mining concession for a large portion of the region.

03:31 The company plans to dig an open-pit copper mine here.

03:36 As their mining operations take place in our village, they drive by every day.

03:43 300 families live from artisanal gold panning around the El Alacran mine.

03:50 They have been living there for half a century and will soon be expelled from the area.

03:56 Rafael Moreno knew this community of gold miners well, where his father once worked.

04:02 He often visited them and relayed their struggle against the mining company.

04:16 Rafael is from here.

04:21 He grew up here, on this land.

04:25 From one moment to the next, we started to see him streaming information from his phone.

04:30 And everyone knows that here in Colombia, talking about anything puts you at risk.

04:35 He attacked so many issues, denounced so many things, that today we don't know who killed him.

04:41 The reason is clear.

04:44 He was a person who made the invisible visible.

04:51 [Singing]

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