Mike's Bogota Blog

An anti-social act? Giving food to a homeless old man in Bogotá. (Photo: El Banquete del Bronx ) Chalk this one up on the list of ...

When the city slashed a four-lane avenue through the hardscrabble Egipto neighborhood above La Candelaria last year, it may have eas...

Impoverished Colombians are much more likely to have suffered from Colombia's conflict. So, why did they vote against the peace ac...

Calibradora Blanca gives information to a bus driver. You might have wondered what those people you see dashing thru traffic and ha...

Residents walk along a cobblestone street in La Candelaria.  La Candelaria, Bogotá's oldest neighborhood and still the cit...

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

Maria and two of her children. The headlines roar it out: Colombia is one of the planet's economic stars, with a growth rate ...

 These young people were skateboarding and biking in this skate/bike park along La Circunvular, in between the hardscrabble Egipto...