With only a year in office, Bogota’s unpopular mayor Enrique Peñalosa is already facing four formal requests for a referendum to impeach him, local media reported Monday. If approved by the…
The inhabitants of Bogota are most concerned with the increased activity by gangs and the limited activity of their mayor, according to a survey held in Colombia’s capital. Bogota Como…
The former mayor of Colombia’s capital Bogota was ordered to pay a staggering $70 million fine for financial detriment caused to the city for lowering the city’s public transport fares. The…
Kitchen Week Magazine published this year’s 25 best restaurants in Colombia’s capital Bogota. The research carried out by a group of six anonymous inspectors based on 50 criteria critiqued the…
Restaurants around Bogota’s Monserrate church, one of the Colombian capital’s main tourist attractions, will be closed permanently following a ruling by the Bogota Justice Council, local media reported Wednesday. According to the ruling, there…
The breakdown of an amusement park ride in Colombia’s capital Bogota injured at least 10 people on Wednesday afternoon, most of them children. The accident took place at Mundo Aventura in the…
Two transmission towers near Colombia’s capital Bogota were bombed on Wednesday, leaving authorities puzzled about the perpetrators of the attack in an area where no illegal armed groups are present. The…
Police swept into Bogota’s main food market Corabastos and rescued 35 child laborers who illegally were employed to do heavy labor. The children were unloading trucks, carrying boxes, and packaging food at Colombia’s largest…
Colombia’s capital Bogota presented a completely new plan for a one-line and above-ground metro some 70 years after such mass transit system was first proposed. Mayor Enrique Peñalosa had already thrown years of preparations for an underground metro in the…