OjoPúblico is a

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

vian investigative journalism website founded in 2014 by journalists Oscar Castilla Contreras, Nelly Luna Amancio, David Hidalgo and Fabiola Torres, as well as the programmer Antonio Cucho. It investigates issues concerning human rights, corruption, drug trafficking, environment, health and transparency, among others.

Organization

OjoPúblico is a nonprofit journalistic organization based in Lima. The organization holds goals of promoting democracy, transparency, accountability and access to public information. It runs the OjoBiónico

fact-checking Fact-checking is the process of verifying the factual accuracy of questioned reporting and statements. Fact-checking can be conducted before or after the text or content is published or otherwise disseminated. Internal fact-checking is such che ...

page. It also promotes investigative journalism and the training for reporters with OjoLab.

Work

OjoPúblico's series on illegal gold mining in South America was translated and reposted by ''

Insight Crime InSight Crime is a non-profit think tank and media organization specializing in organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean. The organization has offices in Washington, D.C., and Medellín, Colombia. InSight Crime receives funding from the ...

'', an online publication on organized crime in South America.

Panama Papers

OjoPúblico is one of the news organizations participating in the Panama Papers investigation into the data leaked from the

Mossack Fonseca Mossack Fonseca & Co. () was a Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider.Panama Papers The Panama Papers () are 11.5 million leaked documents (or 2.6 terabytes of data) published beginning April 3, 2016. The papers detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities. These document ...

investigation that Nicolás Lúcar and his wife Frances Crousillat, the producers of the talk show ''Señora León'' featuring Mexican actress and singer

Laura León Laura León (born Rebeca Velderraín Vera on November 24, 1952) is a Mexican actress and singer. Laura León scored hits with the themes to three of her telenovelas: 'Dos Mujeres, Un Camino (2 Women, 1 Path)', 'El Premio Mayor (the Big Prize)' a ...

, had opened an

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to avoid taxes in Peru. OjoPúblico also discovered as part of the Panama Papers investigation that Mossack Fonseca counted among its clients Ment Dijkhuizen Cáceres Floor, a Peruvian of Dutch descent who had been sentenced to 25 years in prison for money laundering following the seizure of 1.6 tons of

cocaine Cocaine is a tropane alkaloid and central nervous system stimulant, derived primarily from the leaves of two South American coca plants, ''Erythroxylum coca'' and ''Erythroxylum novogranatense, E. novogranatense'', which are cultivated a ...

in the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

. Dijkhuizen had already fallen under suspicion and been questioned by the Peruvian drug police, ( Dirandro), in connection with 200 kg of cocaine discovered in a 2003 shipment from his

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enterprise to a Spanish port. Massack Fonseca helped him to create an elaborate network of

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Awards

*Best investigation of the year, Data Journalism Awards 2015, organized by the

Global Editors Network The Global Editors Network (GEN) was an international association of over 6,000 editors-in-chief and media executives with the mission of fostering digital innovation in newsrooms all over the world. GEN had three main programmes: Editors Lab, t ...

(GEN) *Angel Escobar Jurado Journalism and Human Rights Award, presented on December 8, 2015, by the National Human Rights Coordinator (CNDDHH ) *Third Place in 2016 Latin American Awards for Investigative Journalism, granted by Ipys and

Transparency International Transparency International e.V. (TI) is a German registered association founded in 1993 by former employees of the World Bank. Based in Berlin, its nonprofit and non-governmental purpose is to take action to combat global corruption with civil s ...

*2017 Excellence in Journalism Award by the

Inter-American Press Society The Inter American Press Association (IAPA; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa'', SIP) is a press advocacy group representing major media organizations in North America, South America and the Caribbean. It is made up o ...

References

External links

* Data journalism Human rights in Peru Mass media in Peru Gold mines in Peru {{news-website-stub