Mike's Bogota Blog

Jesus Santrich, ex-guerrilla leader and alleged narcotrafficker, back when he was super cool. For most Colombians, serving in Congr...

FARC political party campaigners on Carrera Septima last night. Bicycling down Carrera Septima last night I came upon this group o...

Sexual abuses have been in the news not only because of the endless parade of headline-making sex crimes, often targeting children, b...

FARC leader Timochenco, who created millions of victims, is suddenly concerned for them. Timochenco, the ex-leader of the FARC gue...

'Money for the FARC, hunger for the victims.' These folks protested the other day against the peace accord, which includes ...

Foreign FARC guerrillas may soon have these. The news that as part of the FARC guerrillas' peace deal with the government, fore...

Drugs illegality means fortunes for violent, illegal groups. FARC leaders have, belatedly, apologized for the many horrors they comm...

'Yes to peace,' at a rally on Carrera 7. The peace agreement signed with the FARC guerrillas will be a huge milestone for Co...

Extradited paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso. The New York Times has this long and detailed piece about the light punishments ...

Pres. Santos and FARC leader Timochenko make a historic handshake in Havana, Cuba, with a little help from friend Raul Castro. '...

Bojayá townspeople walk thru their church, destroyed by a FARC bomb. When the FARC guerrillas apologized late last year for their 2...

A FARC guerrilla and kidnappees behind barbed wire. In 1983, ELN guerrillas kidnapped four executives of the German oil company Man...

The people's army? Or the army against the people? This pro-FARC graffiti appeared this week on the Universidad Nacional...

Worth murdering for? The polemical banner, featuring Alfonso Cano. (Photo: Defensoria del Pueblo via Semana Magazine) Just days af...

Fun-filled bandoleros in the Parque Nacional. In a time not so long ago, in a place not far away, there were people called  bandol...