Oh So ‘Juicioso’

Katie Jacoby takes a look at the multi-faceted Colombian Spanish term juicioso, which doesn’t translate in the way you might think When I came...

Colombian Prisons At Breaking Point

Overcrowding, drug abuse and unhygienic living conditions are rife in Colombia’s prisons. As the situation reaches crisis levels The Bogota Post...

Fall From Favour

Favourite Nairo Quintana falls, dashing his season’s hopes in one fell swoop  The Vuelta a España has reached the third week. The first two...

Hope Springs Eternal

[caption id="attachment_13659" align="alignright" width="225"] Fernando Botero's sculptures can be seen around the world. Photo: Creative...

Painting Over Percecption

[caption id="attachment_197" align="alignleft" width="300"] Stunning street art in the Candelaria. Photo: Sophie Trew[/caption] As a new documentary...

Spain Returns Ancient Artifacts

Spain gives back pottery and figurines dating back 3,000 years [caption id="attachment_428" align="alignleft" width="300"] Nearly 700...

Escobar’s Hitman Freed

 Killer responsible for more than 300 murders released after only 22 years in prison   The so-called “killer-in-chief” of...

Financial Boost for Tourism

Colombia’s tourism industry received a financial shot in the arm last week with a $1.5 million USD investment package to “help elevate Colombia...

Return Of The Bulls

[caption id="attachment_280" align="alignnone" width="1024"] An aspiring young bullfighter practices[/caption] Constitutional Court ruling ordering...

Hope Despite ISIS Threat

The Bogota Post spoke to Nisreen Ismael, an Iraqi Muslim engineer living in Erbil in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, about what is really going...