A Chinese engineering consortium has been awarded the contract to build a multi-billion dollar metro system in Colombia’s capital Bogota, President Ivan Duque announced Thursday. The Apca Transmimetro consortium was…
Dissatisfied citizens are close to a referendum on impeaching Colombia’s second least popular mayor, Bogota’s burgomaster Enrique Peñalosa. Peñalosa can count on the support of less than a quarter of…
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…
Colombian authorities on Thursday announced that there were 105 homicides in the Colombian capital of Bogota this January, 11 more than the same period in 2016. According to figures released by…
The Bogota Mayor’s Office has approached multilateral banks in an attempt to secure funding for the city’s first metro line, reported El Espectador newspaper. The project is expected to cost around…
Colombia’s capital Bogota on Saturday reopened the famous pathway to the iconic church at Monserrate, reported local media. The pathway to one of Bogota’s most recognized tourist attractions had been…
Bogota Mayor Enrique Peñalosa is a Colombian dynasty politician whose twin concerns of urban planning and security have left him with friends and enemies on both sides of the political divide.…
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…