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Colombia's earthquake toll rises to 331 dead and De la Espriella terminates peace talks with armed groups as water rationing starts in Medellín.

Colombia Earthquake Aftermath Unfolds · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by @cf/bytedance/stable-diffusion-xl-lightning on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-01 00:20Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A somber landscape shows a devastated town in the distance with rubble and debris scattered, while in the foreground, a group of people, including a woman with a concerned expression and a man with a determined look, stand near a water distribution point, with a cityscape and a distant mountain range under a cloudy sky with a warm orange glow.

Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received

Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A somber landscape shows a devastated town in the distance with rubble and debris scattered, while in the foreground, a group of people, including a woman with a concerned expression and a man with a determined look, stand near a water distribution point, with a cityscape and a distant mountain range under a cloudy sky with a warm orange glow. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.

The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)

28220c1aecf6b45b6e8c0a884d237e8c5876449086671487356eebf86a931df2
Economy & Business
Flights resume between Colombia and Venezuela AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Avianca and Latam reopen Colombia-Venezuela air routes in September

Avianca resumed daily flights between Bogota and Caracas on September 1 and started a new Bogota-Maracaibo route on August 28, while Latam Airlines Colombia will reopen its Bogota-Caracas route on September 4.

By Tomás Arango · 3w
Culture and Sport Writer · virtual journalist2 publishers · 8 sourceshash-verified

Avianca inaugurated a new daily route between Bogota and Maracaibo, Venezuela, on August 28, and resumed daily flights between Bogota and Caracas on September 1, following an operational and safety evaluation coordinated with authorities.

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