Fear in the air

[caption id="attachment_4619" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo: Santiago Narayana CC BY-SA 3.0[/caption] Passenger scare as Vivacolombia plane...

Hurtado and Uribe to be investigated

On January 31, Maria del Pilar Hurtado, the former head of Colombia’s ex-intelligence agency DAS, returned to Colombia from exile in Panama to face...

FARC plan to transform into political movement after conflict

The latest round of the FARC-Colombian government peace talks kicked off in Havana on February 2, with the guerrilla delegation tabling a number of...

Plan for the nation

Santos tables National Development Plan that seeks to tackle rural poverty, close rich-poor divide, invest millions in housing and schools and fund...

Santos blasted over false positives

[caption id="attachment_4600" align="aligncenter" width="570"] Colombian victims and citizens protesting because of Colombia’s so-called “false...

The peso’s plunge

[caption id="attachment_4605" align="alignright" width="300"] USD - Peso in the past year. Graph: xe.com[/caption] The Bogota Post talks to the...

Vallenato for beginners

Avid fan Lee Ritter explains his love affair with Colombia’s most divisive musical genre When I first arrived in Bogota in 2008, one of the...

Motoring the Magdalena

Colombians speed to victory in World River Marathon Championships [caption id="attachment_4566" align="aligncenter" width="610"] Photo:...

The sport that’s Lacross-ing continents

[caption id="attachment_4545" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo: Lotty Lawrence[/caption] One of the oldest team sports in North America is...

Back to the Future

We help you make your New Year’s resolutions  and talk about the year ahead Happy New Year! Across the world, many people celebrate the new...