Mike's Bogota Blog

Capt. Wu Hong under arrest. (Photo: El Tiempo ) Colombia aspires to be a plugged-in, globalized nation, and arguably its most glob...

Orlando, Bogotá's best-known pro-Cuba activist, who can be seen every Sunday on La Ciclovia riding his bike bedecked with pro-Cu...

Headlines in today's El Tiempo announce the U.S.-Cuba detente and the FARC ceasefire announcement. The quiet little island o...

Cuban refugee Rafael Alejandro Hernández argues with an immigration official on Plaza Bolivar today. They'd fled from Cuba to...

Kennedy and Colombian Pres. Albeto Lleras inaugurate housing for the poor in south Bogotá. The 50th anniversary of JFK's assassi...

The new plutocrats? FARC negotiators relax on a yacht off of Cuba.  All negotiators need incentives to advance, and the FARC-governm...

The BLAA library in La Candelaria has an exhibit about Cuban revolutionary and martyr José Martí, a man who deserves honor and ad...

Raul Castro: First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Dictator, and now pro-democracy leader. Today, a supposedly pro-demo...

Fidel Castro and Nikita Khruschev buddy up. (Photo: Boston University ) A half-century ago, humanity came to the verge of armagedd...

Winner - Colombian Pres. Juan Manuel Santos : Altho he didn't succeed in achieving consensus for his ideas of reconsidering the War...

Obama in El Tiempo.  "We're making progress, and we're not going to give up." "We'll increase cooperati...

Good friends? Juan Manuel Santos and Cuban leader Raul Castro. Pres. Juan Manuel Santos is visiting Havana, Cuba today, meeting wit...

Cuba crusader Orlando Jaramillo on La Ciclovia. If you've ridden on Bogotá's Ciclovia, you've probably seen Orlando Ja...