Bogotá Half Marathon gets Colombian streets purple

[caption id="attachment_7106" align="aligncenter" width="960"] The septima was awash with competitors.[/caption] The last Sunday of July is...

Demands for free healthcare for sex abuse victims

[caption id="attachment_7098" align="aligncenter" width="960"] From left to right: Mairead Maguire, Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams, Tawakkol Karman, and...

Climate of change: Colombia commits to reduce carbon emissions as part of UNFCCC

[caption id="attachment_7095" align="aligncenter" width="610"] Environment Minister Gabriel Vallejo López speaking on Colombia’s commitments to...

Petro talks rubbish, again?

[caption id="attachment_7092" align="aligncenter" width="960"] The fleet of Basura Cero bin trucks on display in Plaza Bolivar, but not on the...

First National Peace Meeting hopes to aid push for peace

[caption id="attachment_7089" align="aligncenter" width="960"] María Isabel Rueda from Bogota Humana speaking at the National Peace Committee....

Medellin mass grave excavated

[caption id="attachment_7086" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Colombia's biggest ever exhumation begins at Medellin rubbish dump.[/caption] A...

Rafael Pardo, Enrique Peñalosa, Clara Lopez or Francisco ‘Pacho’ Santos? Bogota mayoral race begins

July 25 marked the final deadline to register candidatures for the local council elections - mayors, governors and city councillors - that will be...

World record for biggest prawn cocktail

Colombia has made it into the record books, producing the world’s biggest prawn cocktail in Cartagena on July 20. It was prepared by...

Prisons: Chronicle of a brutality foretold

[caption id="attachment_7071" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Living conditions in Valledupar Prison. Photo:...

Bogota’s food truck revolution

As the culture of food trucks arrives in the capital, Alejandra Chipatecua looks at the growth of the concept and what to think about if you want to...