Political news website La Silla Vacia has been linked to a far-right propaganda campaign that has been paid for by some of Colombia’s most reactionary corporations. The campaign, “Project Jupiter,” has been organizing “democra...

Authorities allegedly discovered a plot to assassinate the frontrunner in Colombia’s presidential election race, the leftist Senator Ivan Cepeda. The alleged plot was revealed by President Gustavo Petro and confirmed by Defense Minister Pedro S...

Authorities in central Colombia agreed to renew the water license of Coca Cola’s bottler in the Cundinamarca province, but drastically reduced the amount of water the soda manufacturer is allowed to use. Cundinamarca’s environmental autho...

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Colombia’s multidimensional poverty rate dropped 1.6 point to 9.9% last year, according to statistics agency DANE. Last year’s decline in poverty continued a seven-year downward trend that was briefly interrupted in 2020 as a consequence ...

Bogotá’s mayor has called for a major expansion of the city’s police force following a deadly knife attack on a television production set and a separate killing at a public transport station, as authorities warn of shifting patterns of urban cri...

A Qatar Airways cargo jet and a Lufthansa passenger plane came within an estimated 200 meters of each other on final approach to Bogotá on Sunday evening, in a near miss that could have resulted in a major airline catastrophe. The incident unfolded ...

ARTBO Weekend returns to Bogotá this week with a milestone worth noting – and a programme that suggests the event is no longer content with staying within its traditional comfort zones. Celebrating its tenth edition from April 16 to 19, the ci...

Colombia will cull dozens of invasive hippopotamuses descended from animals illegally imported by Pablo Escobar, as authorities warn the rapidly growing population is endangering ecosystems and local communities. Environment Minister Irene Vélez Tor...

In the gilded stillness of one of Bogotá’s most striking colonial spaces, a new exhibition is quietly unsettling centuries-old certainties. Entonces llamó a un arcángel, the latest show by Colombian artist David Felipe Escobar, opens this week a...