Mike's Bogota Blog

If one day soon you see one of those ubiquous ' rolling chimneys ' - buses, trucks or cars which belch out greasy smoke eve...

El Tiempo ran this interview today pointing out - and who would have thought of it? - that diesel smoke is poisoning our air, and poiso...

Spilled out from Ecopetrol's Lizama 158 well poisons a nearby stream. (Photo: Vanguardia Liberal ) An abandoned oil well pouring...

The street behind the Paloquemao market, normally congested and chaotic. Yesterday's car-free day was a success - if you measure i...

Before the plastic bag tax: Carrying plastic bags (probably full of more plastic bags) home from the supermarket. After the bag ta...

Colombia's Constitutional Court made a surprising ruling recently. The Atrato River flows into the Caribbean near the border wi...

Recently, in its desperation to expand its peso-hemorrhaging SITP bus system, the Petro administration has been slapping 'SITP...

A bus stops at a green light, blocking Carrera 10, to let a passenger board. Bogotá's much-ballyhooed transition from private,...

Don't worry. They'll soon be in an empty lot or public park near you. Want to condemn a recycling program to failure? Try t...