Mike's Bogota Blog

' To the streets to fight, to the ballot boxes to protest. Vote empty. ' They're telling you so themselves: Leave your b...

' End of the animalist bench in the Bogotá City Council. ' (Image: Semana.com ) Bogotá's animal rights activists have l...

Much more of this to come. Cars in a jam on Carrera 30.  In a grim move for a liveable Bogotá, the City Council voted down a propos...

A Petro supporter carries flags on Ave. Septima. I woke up this morning feeling a terrible tension, which lasted most of the day. I...

Painting a face on Calle 26. It took only  a few days after the ouster of Mayor Petro, a promoter of street art, for official Bogot...

A Petro supporter on Ave. Septima yesterday. After signing the order ousting Bogotá Mayor Gustavo Petro, Pres. Santos didn't w...

Bogotá ex-Mayor Gustavo Petro Gustavo Petro's sudden exit from Bogotá's City Hall bodes ill for the city, for the peace neg...

'The peace town - Bakata.' Bakata was the Muisca Indians' name for the place which is now Bogotá, as well as the origin o...

Inspector General Alejandro Ordoñez. Not long ago, Alejandro Ordoñez was a somewhat obscure, if polarizing, government official and ...

Posters on the Plaza del Chorro opposing Mayor Petro and the FARC guerrillas, placed by the Union Nacional Socialista, a neo-Nazi gro...

Sign here to revoke Mayor Petro! Opponents of Bogotá Mayor Gustavo Petro announced this week that they have collected more than the...