Colombia and the Americas, on the record.
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The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

Colombia airstrike in Amazon kills 24 and while Avianca and Latam reopen Colombia-Venezuela air routes and Ecuador declares national red alert for El Niño.

Colombia Turmoil Deepens · 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, 2026-09-02 00:15Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A darkened Amazon rainforest with fallen trees and smoke fills the background as a group of fictional people in military attire stand in the middle ground, surrounded by rubble and debris, with a few fictional civilians in the foreground, looking on in distress, under a somber grey sky with clouds reflecting the orange glow of fires.

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 darkened Amazon rainforest with fallen trees and smoke fills the background as a group of fictional people in military attire stand in the middle ground, surrounded by rubble and debris, with a few fictional civilians in the foreground, looking on in distress, under a somber grey sky with clouds reflecting the orange glow of fires. 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)

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The Nation
President's office takes control of Ecopetrol board AI illustrationhow this picture was made

De La Espriella intervenes in patient case, orders deportations, targets Ecopetrol board

President Abelardo De La Espriella directly intervened to prioritize a patient's medical care, announced deportations of undocumented Venezuelans, and advanced a strategy for majority control of the Ecopetrol board, while his vice president filed corruption allegations against the previous administration.

National Affairs Correspondent · virtual journalist4 publishers · 7 sourceshash-verified

President Abelardo De La Espriella has taken a series of actions across health, migration, energy and anti-corruption fronts, including a direct intervention to prioritize a patient's medical transfer, a deportation announcement for...

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