Mike's Bogota Blog

Massacre victims. A paramilitary commander kidnaps a woman on suspicion of guerrilla sympathies, holds and rapes her, and then murde...

A family's memorial to their daughter, who, along with her boyfriend, was murdered, chopped to pieces and thrown into a river by para...

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

An EPL fighter. (Photo: Semana ) When someone calling themselves the EPL issued a communique a few days ago expressing its interest...

A mural in Bogotá shows bananas and victims of violence.  Between 1989 and 2004 the Chiquita banana company paid millions of dollar...

Looking for a rest? ELN fighters on the march.  In July, 1964, a group of young Colombian leftist intellectuals fresh from studies ...

Colombia exports about 100 tons of tungsten per year. But, strangely, the country has only one legal tungsten mine - and it isn't op...

FARC kidnappees held behind barbed wire in a jungle prison. No other crime, perhaps, has scarred Colombia's recent history and p...

A mural on Calle 26 across from the Central Cemetery commemorates the victims of the genocide against the Union Patriotica Party. The U...

Paramilitary fighters: Looking for guerrillas or drug money? The skull of the victim of a paramilitary massacre. Colombia's i...