Paramilitary groups have taken control of considerable territory in the south of the capital Bogota, news website Pacifista reported based on Ombudsman alerts. In a 22-page document from 2016 and a follow-up…
Colombia’s capital Bogota and its second city Medellin have introduced websites that allow users to predict almost exactly what the weather is going to be in the next minutes. The websites…
Three US Marine officers are investigated after a night out in Colombia’s capital Bogota ended in “local women” stealing the Marines’ computers containing classified information, according to newspaper The Miami Herald.…
Local graffiti artists and hundreds of neighbors have turned one of the poorest neighborhoods in Colombia’s capital Bogota into arguably the most colorful “barrio” in the country. The Ink Crew, a…
Colombia’s largest illegal armed group, the AGC, a.k.a. “Los Urabeños,” is planning terrorist attacks in Colombia’s largest cities Bogota and Medellin, according to an internal police memo leaked to Blu Radio.…
Victims of a 2003 FARC attack on a Bogota club that killed 36 people asked Pope Francis to take part in the reconciliation ceremony to “send a message we and our…
Bogota may be almost 480 years, most of its initial churches were destroyed over time. A few special centers of prayer and reflection have survived the test of time. 5. San Alfonso…
The approval rating of Bogota Mayor Enrique Peñalosa has dropped to an unprecedented low, with Colombia’s capital’s residents considering him even less desirable than the FARC, until recently a designated terrorist group. Ever…
A giant pothole in Colombia’s capital Bogota swallowed a whole car in the early hours of Tuesday morning, a local reported on Twitter. According to newspaper El Espectador, the driver…