On 20 July 2026, in the working class district of Ciudad Bolívar, in southern Bogotá, President Gustavo Petro delivered the final public speech of his term, and turned it into something other than an accounting of his record. In ninety minutes he handed over three objects heavy with history, repeated an electoral fraud accusation that … CONTINUE READING →
On 7 July, Colombia’s president-elect publicly asked the Armed Forces to disobey Gustavo Petro should his orders contradict the Constitution. Ten days earlier, a data-journalism alliance made up of Cuestión Pública, Vorágine, Rutas del Conflicto, El Veinte and the Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación Periodística had revealed that nearly 17,000 public officials, including active-duty police and … CONTINUE READING →
Juan Rulfo imagined a village where the dead keep talking because no one told them everything was over. In Comala, voices circulate, orders are carried out, the land obeys a power that no longer exists in any material sense. Colombia held its presidential run-off on 21 June 2026 with record turnout, more than twenty-five million … CONTINUE READING →