Mike's Bogota Blog

The United States is hurting instead of helping. The Washington Post published this interesting  editorial   yesterday about Latin ...

'Popeye,' one of Pablo Escobar's killers, shows off a tool of his trade. Years ago, working on a construction site in...

'Disarm Yourself,' say the police. Confiscated knives on display. The other evening, I was buying an electric shaver i...

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

Cops on patrol today on San Victorino Plaza in Bogotá. They appeared to be carrying regular pistols. Colombian media are asking w...

A Sig Sauer model S P2022 pistol. (Photo from Sig Sauer website) It seemed to be yet another routine United States arms sale to Col...

South American homicide rates: The region has some of the world's highest murder rates.  At the risk of being associated with ...

Demonstrating a shirt's bullet-stopping capacity. United States massacres may turn into a business opportunity for a Colombian c...

You probably haven't heard of it, but at the United Nations headquarters in New York they're discussing a treaty on arms traffic...

'Amar no Matar' 'Love Instead of Killing' says a banner in today's March for the Victims.  Today is the 'Day...

A bad omen: An 11-year-old boy plays with a toy gun in Bogotá's Santa Fe neighborhood.  Just-inaugurated Bogotá Mayor Gustavo Pe...

Bout: Locked up.  In his United States prison cell, Viktor Bout probably doesn't want to hear anything about Colombia. Bout, a...

Smuggled guns: Headed toward Colombia? Fast and Furious was a United States anti-gun-smuggling operation intended to uncover gun sm...

Or, whatever goes up must come down.... It happens every new year: People in Colombia (and many other nations) celebrate New Year's b...