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The campaign to remove Bogotá Mayor Enrique Peñalosa from office cleared a major hurdle last week.

With a goal to repair 90,000 potholes in 2017, this puts the capital more than two-thirds of the way to the mayor’s target.

Dalila Hernández, legal secretary for the mayor’s office, said the city will appeal the ruling within 10 days. "The debate is not over," she said.

"Bogota's ratings reflect its solid operating performance and its manageable debt levels,” said Fitch Ratings.

Law enforcement in Colombia are working on at least three potential leads into an attack yesterday on a high-end shopping mall in Bogotá that killed three women and injured several others, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said today. He was clear that investigators did not...

The blast is believed to have detonated within a women's bathroom within the Andino mall. Among the injured, one woman is in serious condition but “not at risk of death."

A union leader in Barranquilla said the aim is to "defeat the informality and illegality that are killing the taxi union."

From January through the end of April, 357 homicides occurred in the capital — 39 fewer than the 396 reported during the same period in 2016.

A large explosion in the Macarena neighborhood where protests against bullfighting have been taking place for weeks reportedly killed one police officer and wounded dozens more people in the area.

"It is the largest investment in the history of Bogotá," said President Santos.