Mabel Rehnfeldt
award-winning Paraguayan journalist
Mabel Rehnfeldt (born 1964) is a Paraguayan reporter and editor for ABC Digital–ABC Color.
Her investigations into corruption and human rights abuses in her country have made her the target of violent threats. In 2004, she received the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation.
Early life and education
Mabel Rehnfeldt was born in Villarrica, Paraguay, in 1964.
She first sought out a career in journalism in the early 1980s, studying communications and later working as a press consultant for the Universidad Católica "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción".
Career
When dictator Alfredo Stroessner was overthrown in 1989, Rehnfeldt began working at the independent newspaper ABC Color's weekly magazine Dominical. After becoming an investigative reporter in 1991, in 1994 she was named the head of ABC Color's investigative unit, as well as its website. Decades later, she continues to work as an investigative reporter and editor at ABC Digital–ABC Color, where she is considered one of the publication's most prominent journalists.
At ABC, Rehnfeldt covers human rights abuses and government corruption. She investigated illegal tobacco trafficking as part of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' 2007–2008 "Tobacco Underground" project and has also collaborated on other ICIJ projects, including the 2020 FinCEN Files.
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