If you build it, they will come: The Eden Project

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88O6ZcfpDgc[/embed] As plans slowly get under way with their ambitious project to create an entire ecosystem...

Motel Love: A new app promising discretion and spontaneity for lovers launches in Bogotá

A new app just landed in Bogotá that helps loved-up couples get a room on short notice. The Bogotá Post talked to MotelNow's founder Eugenio...

The Aerial Facades of Camilo Monzon

These extraordinary drone photographs of Bogotá have been doing the rounds on the internet. The Bogotá Post spoke to Camilo Monzon Navas, the man...

Investigations into former President Álvaro Uribe to be reopened, Supreme Court rules

Newly uncovered recordings of former President Álvaro Uribe have led the Colombian Supreme Court to reopen investigations against him relating to...

Election 2018: the problem of polling in Colombia

On Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016, it was assumed that peace in Colombia was winning by a landslide. It was the eve of a landmark referendum that asked a...

FARC suspends political campaign in wake of increasing violence

[caption id="attachment_27099" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Photo courtesy of FARC-EP[/caption] It ended almost as soon as it began. 2 weeks...

Tillerson plays defense on trip to Colombia following President Trump’s comments

The first thing President Santos showed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as he welcomed him to the Presidential Palace was a Botero called Madre...

The duelling sex lives of mosquitos; as narrated by an entomologist

[caption id="attachment_26994" align="aligncenter" width="276"] Anopheles albimanus[/caption] It may surprise you to know that mosquitos have sex...

Whitewashing in Colombia: does the industry continue to disappear darker-skinned faces?

[caption id="attachment_26861" align="aligncenter" width="305"] Photo courtesy of PxHere[/caption] Last week, a casting agency posted on a...

The evolution of Colombian Spanish:  A Colombian linguist tells it like it is

Given the varieties of Spanish that are spoken in Colombia, the Bogotá Post enlisted the help of forensic linguist Rafael Orozco about assimilation,...