24 days later Ecopetrol and government still have few answers for oil spill in Santander river

[embed]https://www.facebook.com/digamemagdalenamedio/videos/2145095355718523/[/embed] Video courtesy of Digame.com.co Nearly four weeks after...

How has it come to this? The red alert over smog in Medellin and the inaction that has led to it

[caption id="attachment_27833" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Disappearing city: Photo by Jonathan Hernandez/Espacio[/caption] In Medellin, the...

If you build it, they will come: The Eden Project

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88O6ZcfpDgc[/embed] As plans slowly get under way with their ambitious project to create an entire ecosystem...

The Aerial Facades of Camilo Monzon

These extraordinary drone photographs of Bogotá have been doing the rounds on the internet. The Bogotá Post spoke to Camilo Monzon Navas, the man...

Investigations into former President Álvaro Uribe to be reopened, Supreme Court rules

Newly uncovered recordings of former President Álvaro Uribe have led the Colombian Supreme Court to reopen investigations against him relating to...

Election 2018: the problem of polling in Colombia

On Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016, it was assumed that peace in Colombia was winning by a landslide. It was the eve of a landmark referendum that asked a...

FARC suspends political campaign in wake of increasing violence

[caption id="attachment_27099" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Photo courtesy of FARC-EP[/caption] It ended almost as soon as it began. 2 weeks...

The duelling sex lives of mosquitos; as narrated by an entomologist

[caption id="attachment_26994" align="aligncenter" width="276"] Anopheles albimanus[/caption] It may surprise you to know that mosquitos have sex...

Whitewashing in Colombia: does the industry continue to disappear darker-skinned faces?

[caption id="attachment_26861" align="aligncenter" width="305"] Photo courtesy of PxHere[/caption] Last week, a casting agency posted on a...

Medellin to get new lab devoted to producing and exporting medical marijuana products

Image courtesy of: Patrick Rice, ThaPlug Not long after the Colombian government’s decision to legalise medicinal marijuana mid-2016, the country...