Mike's Bogota Blog

Petro and wads of cash, in the leaked video. Gustavo Petro is generally remembered as a poor administrator as mayor of Bogotá, an...

Iván Duque, Colombia's virtual president. With 39% of the first-round voting, little short of a huge scandal or a heart attack c...

Jhon Jairo Velasquez, one-time cartel assassin turned right-wing political campaigner. Jhon Jairo Velásquez, known as Popeye, was pr...

That's the thesis of Daniel Coronell, veteran columnist of Semana magazine, executive of Univision and perpetual critic of ex-Pres. ...

On Plaza San Victorino, one of Petro's bike racks finds a user. This small bike rack has been sitting nearly empty for years. ...

Is anybody in there? For an idea of why the city's SITP bus system is agonizing, just watch the passing buses by an intersectio...

Bogotá Mayor Gustavo Petro. (Photo: El Universal ) Petro's enemies have made a sport of trying to oust him from office. In Apri...

This week, environmentalists held this protest in La Candelaria against apartment construction impacting the Conejera wetland in Su...

Mayor Petro has used the ' Environmental Pico y Placa ' as his legal tool to apply the Pico y Placa rule to private buses. ...

Bus-free day? Calle 26, usually busy with private buses. Thousands of private buses stayed home today in what could be the beginnin...