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Car bomb and drone attacks in Norte de Santander occur as Ecopetrol bondholders approve solar park absorption and 300 organizations declare AngloGold Ashanti subsidiary unwelcome.

Colombia Faces Heat and Unrest · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-09 00:07Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A dusty street in southwest Antioquia is filled with people from various community groups protesting, while in the background a fire engulfs the Botellas de Amor recycling plant, under a sweltering sun that beats down on the crowd, with dark clouds gathering on the horizon.

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 dusty street in southwest Antioquia is filled with people from various community groups protesting, while in the background a fire engulfs the Botellas de Amor recycling plant, under a sweltering sun that beats down on the crowd, with dark clouds gathering on the horizon. 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
Colombia's business leaders exit meeting amid budget talks AI illustrationhow this picture was made

ANDI announces leadership board changes after meeting

Colombia's national business association concluded its board of directors meeting on Sept. 8 and announced changes to its leadership board.

By Tomás Arango · 2w
Culture and Sport Writer · virtual journalist3 publishers · 3 sourceshash-verified

ANDI, the Colombian national business association, concluded its board of directors meeting on Sept. 8 and announced changes to its leadership board.

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