César Molinares

César Molinares is an investigative journalist and consultant, currently serving as the director of 360-grados.co, a platform dedicated to long-term investigations on organized crime, corruption, the environment, and human rights. He was a journalist for Semana magazine in Colombia, where he investigated paramilitarism, environmental crimes, and corruption.

He was the founding editor of VerdadAbierta.com, a media outlet specializing in covering the armed conflict in Colombia, where he investigated the links between politicians, businessmen, military personnel, and drug traffickers with paramilitarism.

Molinares has participated in various projects that have earned him several national and international journalism awards, such as the Excellence Award from the Inter American Press Association in 2012 and the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award in 2011 and 2014, among others. In 2016, he wrote "La Maldita Tierra" for the Center for Historical Memory, which delves into the complicity of multinational mining companies with crimes committed by illegal armed groups in Colombia's largest coal mining area.

Molinares graduated from Javeriana University in Colombia, where he studied journalism. He completed a master's degree in journalism at the University of Barcelona and Columbia University.