Mike's Bogota Blog

Gaitán supporters at the site of his assassination during the 70th anniversary, April 9 last week. Gaitán DVDs on sale on the anni...

Are they real, or just virtual? Case One: For months, our building's sewage system regular crisis. During hard rains, the wast...

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

Wreckage of the bombed Avianca flight. On the morning of Nov. 27, 1989, a teenager nicknamed 'El Suizo' disguised as a busi...

Police hustle away a young man a week ago in San Victorino. I don't know what he had allegedly done - perhaps assault or theft. ...

Luis Carlos Galán's assassination 25 years ago this past Sunday was one of many such political killings during the 1980s and ...

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

Paramilitary fighters overlook Medellin; by Jesus Abad Colorado. Few nations have had more experience with violence in recent decad...