Mike's Bogota Blog

November, 1985 was a cataclysmic month for Colombia: First came the M-19 guerrillas' attack on the Palace of Justice , which en...

The Nule cousins - not standing so tall anymore. (Photo: Semana.com) A year ago, the Nules headed an important corporation which was car...

The M-19's propaganda tent in front of the new Justice Palace, where the group staged its bloodiest attack. Probably, it could only h...

If one man's whose life story could represent Colombia's historical tension between politics and violence , he might be Carlos Piza...

The little blue and yellow book Twenty years ago tomorrow, Colombia began a convention which would rewrite the nation's Constitution...

Rojas Pinilla's Colorful Tomb The other day, these women dressed up Colombian dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's tomb in Bogotá...

In 1985, the M-19 guerrill a group stormed the Justice Palac e , on Bogotá's Plaza Bolivar, and took the whole Supreme Court hostage. ...