Mike's Bogota Blog

' We need green areas to breathe! ' ' We want more recreation. ' ' We want to breathe. '  Recently,...

Camel cigarette girls on the prowl today for young victims in La Candelaria. I was cycling across the Plaza del Periodista this afte...

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

Children lunching in La Candelaria. I noticed these schoolchildren eating lunch today outside the patrimony office in La Candelaria....

Colombian artist Vicky Neumann has worked in the United States and Europe. But she came home to do the powerful exhibition about chi...

This afternoon in the Teusaquillo neighborhood during a bike tour we came upon this scene, in which two tough-looking men were appreh...

A bus carrying children from church in Magdalena Department turned into a flaming hell the other day, killing 31 kids and severely i...

Madres Comunitarias protesting today on the steps of Congress on Plaza Bolivar.   The Madres Comunitarias , women who take care of...

United States photographer Alec Soth was evidently enchanted by Bogotá while he lived here during the adoption process of his daughte...