Confiscation, Caracas, cocoa and cocaine again

[caption id="attachment_32767" align="alignnone" width="960"] The almost indestructible hippos that escaped from Escobar might actually help to...

Bogotá geek culture: Still plenty of SOFA in the city

SOFA may be over, but Bogotá geek culture is alive and kicking. Here are some of our favourite shops from the festival. Small yet...

Situation worsens on Colombian-Venezuelan border

[caption id="attachment_32749" align="alignnone" width="833"] A family crossing into Colombia at Paraguachón, La Guajira. Photo: Gerald...

Oregon delegation learns from Colombia’s rapid transformation

A delegation of public officials and business leaders from Portland, Oregon, USA arrived in Bogotá this month to experience first-hand what’s...

The Best Coffee Shops in the Riviera Maya

[caption id="attachment_32738" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] By Gio Terron [CC BY-SA 3.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons[/caption] South of Cancun and...

Ser pilo will no longer pay

Ser Pilo Paga, which set out to open university education opportunities, had a mixed report card. A month after Iván Duque became president,...

Colpatria suicide highlights hidden issue

[caption id="attachment_32556" align="alignnone" width="960"] Photo: Andrik Langfield[/caption] More than 1,000 people have died by suicide in...

Education protests: 40,000 march in Bogotá

[caption id="attachment_32511" align="aligncenter" width="1060"] Photo: Franziska Bujara[/caption] With a growing deficit in the public education...

Venezuelan voices: Long walk to the unknown

With the Venezuelan situation lurching from bad to worse, many people are leaving the country in search for food and medicine - some travelling on...

Venezuelan voices: Stories from the caminantes – continued

[caption id="attachment_32275" align="alignnone" width="960"] Pedro Luís: "The situation in Venezuela is hard. There is hunger, there aren’t any...