Bogotá
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LIFE
Bogotá Builds Mountains of Trash While Its Rural Neighbors Keep Losing Ground
At Bogotá’s Doña Juana landfill, thousands of tons of waste arrive daily while neighboring families battle flies and odors. The…
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Colombia Seeks Solid Ground as August Earthquake Aftershocks Could Last for Years
Colombia’s August earthquake may keep producing aftershocks for years, scientists warn. But renewed shaking in Chocó and Tolima raises a…
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LIFE
Bogotá Finds Cali’s Rhythm as Petronio Turns Earthquake Grief into a Lifeline
Bogotá’s Petronio Álvarez festival extension brings Pacific music and Afro-Colombian craftsmanship to a city far from the earthquake’s worst destruction.…
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AMERICAS
Colombia’s Bogota Cemetery Turns Into an Archive Where Missing Names Wait
Under a white tent at Bogotá's Cementerio del Sur, forensic teams carefully lay out bones on kraft paper, trying to…
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LIFE
Bogotá Ballroom Beats Turn Queer Survival Into Glittering Radical Joy
Under neon lights and pounding beats, Bogotá's ballroom scene has become a refuge where queer and trans Colombians turn dance…
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LIFE
Colombia’s Clay Artist Sculpts Memory, Empathy, and Viral Conscience
In a Bogotá apartment that doubles as a memorial, Edgar Humberto Álvarez molds Colombia's pain and resilience into plastilina sculptures—turning…
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LIFE
From Colombia to Kyiv: The War in Ukraine Recruits Far from Home
News that a charter flight carrying fifty Colombian ex-soldiers is en route to Ukraine has jolted regional security analysts, raising…
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ANALYSIS
Colombia’s Child Sicarios Echo Escobar Era in Digital Age Recruiting
A single teenager squeezing a trigger at a Bogotá rally has torn Colombia's fragile calm away. The alleged hitman is…
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AMERICAS
Opposition Smells Slow-Motion Coup as Colombia’s Petro Bypasses Congress with Referendum
President Gustavo Petro has stunned Bogotá by decreeing a nationwide referendum for August 7—his third anniversary in office—to revive a…
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AMERICAS
Colombia Pioneers Safe Heroin Injection Transforming Latin American Reality
Inside an unmarked room in a modest Bogotá district, people openly inject heroin under the cautious gaze of trained staff.…
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