Mike's Bogota Blog

'Pilar Molano, a miracle amidst terrorism.' From Semana magazine. For me, this headline captures what is either infuriatingl...

Memorials to the three women killed hang in the Centro Andino shopping mall. (Photo: El Espectador )  The bomb which exploded in a ...

A soldier, automatic rifle in hand, stands watch on Calle 26 today.  If Bogotá feels as tho it's under siege these days, there...

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

' If the media didn't exist, then there wouldn't be terrorism .' That was a surprising and disturbing comment from ...

The tomb of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan in Bogotá's Central Cemetery. One of Escobar's assassins shot him while c...

Londoño's bombed car - it's amazing more people weren't killed. Theirs were very different histories, styles and viewp...

The scene in north Bogotá after today's car bomb. The U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement arrived with a bang today, as a d...

A judge in Antioquia has decided to drop an investigation against executives of the Chiquita banana company , concluding that the millio...

A poster for memorializing a student alleged killed by police nearby on Seventh Ave. in 2006, A group of young people protested all...

Beirut, Lebanon. Allegedly, Colombian cocaine money flows thru here.  'Outlaw it and outlaws will profit from it.' That oft-...

Maybe not flower powr yet, but ETA, the Basque terror group, has promised to lay down its arms.  Yesterday, the Basque terrorist gro...

Aftermath of the attack in the town of Toribio (Photo: El Tiempo) The FARC guerrillas attacked six different towns in Cauca Departm...

The bombed building, as it stood for years. After five years in ruins, city workers are preparing to demolish the bombed building in B...