Mike's Bogota Blog

Catalina and some of her sketches. Three years ago, Catalina Gomez Arias saw something more in Bogotá than bricks and concrete. That...

Nicolás Pernett and a historian friend in the Casa de la Historia. The Casa de la Historia, in Teusaquillo. What triggered Col...

United States authorities are finding new legal arguments to extradite a group of taxi drivers and accomplices who allegedly robbed a mu...

Nelson Mandela's image on Bogotá's City Hall. Is there a resemblance to the mayor inside? Interestingly, the term ' Hum...

Bogotá scored poorly on traffic congestion, which residents say is getting worse.  Of the ten cities surveyed, Bogotanos are th...

'I repent,' (poetically) by Salvatore Mancuso. Notorious paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso, who has confessed to orderin...

Police frisk people entering and exiting El Bronx this afternoon.  A few months ago, police invaded El Bronx, the notorious drug-fil...