Pot A Burning Issue

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has come out in favour of a proposed Liberal Party bill to legalise medical marijuana  President Juan...

Bogota’s Most Dangerous Streets

 A Recent report highlighted the areas in Bogota that see the highest level of robberies, assaults and other crimes With more than 800 reported...

Journalist Gunned Down After Years of Threats

Radio reporter in Antioquia was murdered while collecting his son from school just weeks after having his government protection taken...

Peace Talks: Victims Speak

Historic moment for peace talks as victims’ voices finally heard in Havana, Cuba Victims of Colombia’s 50-year-old armed conflict finally got...

‘What Person Deserves To Die In This Way?’

As conflict victims meet their aggressors in Havana, Cuba, The Bogota Post interviews a young victim from Arauca who lost her father to the FARC...

World News Round-Up…

AFRICA Liberia: Leaders admitted 17 suspected Ebola-infected patients are missing after a health centre was attacked. Libya: Unidentified war planes...

Greetings in Bogotá

We look at mastering the art of hello in The Bogotá Post’s first Spanish language column [caption id="attachment_2595" align="alignright"...

Perfecting the present

We take a look at a perfectly good, yet underused tense... One of the tenses that is often ignored by Spanish speakers using English is the...

Rolos, Paisas: Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Dutchman, Adriaan Alsema, discovers Bogota isn’t so bad after all   Bogota and I have long had a difficult relationship. My first...

FARC Needs To Face Reality For Peace To Be Possible

Mark Kennedy responds to Tanja Nijmeijer’s Colombia Reports article   In an op-ed piece that ran in Colombia Reports on July 22,...