Bogotá Pride 2025: Inside the LGBTI Museum

With Bogotá Pride 2025 coming up fast, we took a trip to the country’s only museum of LGBTI culture. The entrance to the Museo LGBTI of...

Is ‘Paz Total’ Actually Total Failure?

The never-defined project of Paz Total appears to have had little to no effect on violence in Colombia, with things getting markedly worse recently...

2024 – The more everything changes, the more it stays the same

As 2024 comes to an end, we look back at the year in Colombia. As ever, it's been a curious mix. It's been another one of those years in the...

Crime in Bogotá: The big issues in the 2023 elections

Let’s get some of the basic myths out of the way before we start. Crime in Bogotá isn’t as bad as it used to be and yet also isn’t nearly as...

Petro: Year One

A year after the election of Gustavo Petro as Colombia’s first ever leftist leader, what’s the verdict? In 2022, Colombia elected Gustavo...

A Forgotten Barrio Fights to Keep the Water Running

In rural Bogotá, a neglected community’s project to provide potable water faces increasing challenges.  Passing by verdant hills and pasture,...

Coronavirus: Bogotá’s Venezuelan migrants face tough choices

Crisis looms with mass evictions of Venezuelans during coronavirus quarantine Venezuelans searching for lodging in Bogotá today during the...

Two young men killed by security forces during Colombia’s national protests

This article was originally published on Latin America Reports Four days before the death of student protester Dilan Cruz, who succumbed to...

What is going on with fracking in Colombia?

Photo: Mark Dixon, Flickr Fracking in Colombia has been on hold since the high court declared the potential risk of environmental damage was too...

Hercules beetle: Meet the hug bug in the Colombian Amazon

The world's largest beetle: an amazing hercules. Photo: Steve Hide Crawling up my arm is the biggest beetle I've ever seen, but for some reason...