He is a bilingual screenwriter, novelist and Mexican journalist. Last year he collaborated as staff writer on "Coyote", a television series produced by Emmy winners Michael Chiklis and Michelle MacLaren. He is currently working on his third novel.
Rafael studied Communications with a major in media, law and politics and a minor in film and television screenwriting at the University of Southern California (USC). He began working as a reporter at Univision and Fusion Media Group in 2014. He eventually joined the global team of journalists that investigated and published the "Panama Papers." He then served as editorial director of a Spanish-language unit of 14 journalists based in Mexico City where he interviewed the likes of Edward Snowden and led his team to win the 2018 Walter Reuter German Journalism Award. He wrote columns as a guest contributor for renowned publications such as Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica and Letras Libres. His first novel won the Sixteenth International Narrative Prize awarded by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the College of Sinaloa (COLSIN) and Siglo XXI publishing house. The book "Los objetos en el espejo" was acclaimed as a "splendid work of investigation" by the Mexican edition of Rolling Stone magazine. He is currently writing a series for Amazon.
