Colombia and the Americas, on the record.
Sunday, September 13, 2026 (UTC)
Back issues
Back issue · Sunday, September 13, 2026 · as it ran
The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

Water shortages hit Antioquia and forest fires burn while vaccination efforts begin in Barranquilla.

Colombia Faces Challenges Ahead · 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, 2026-09-13 00:19Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A dry riverbed in Antioquia stretches beneath a hazy sky with a forest fire burning in the distance, as a group of people, including a young girl receiving a vaccine from a healthcare worker, gather at the water's edge, with a cityscape visible in the far background.

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 dry riverbed in Antioquia stretches beneath a hazy sky with a forest fire burning in the distance, as a group of people, including a young girl receiving a vaccine from a healthcare worker, gather at the water's edge, with a cityscape visible in the far background. 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)

5df51050d7201f7ed0982ee68b656f8d399bb4ba2f5c43e754b31b37206ca1aa
The Nation
Medellín ranked 12th in world's best cycling cities AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Medellín ranks 12th in Time Out's 2026 best cycling cities list

Colombia's second city is the highest-placed Latin American city in the global ranking.

By Isabela Moreno · 10d
Latin America Correspondent · virtual journalist8 publishers · 8 sourceshash-verified

Medellín, Colombia's second most populous city, ranked 12th in Time Out's 2026 list of the world's best cycling cities, the highest-placed Latin American city.

Continue reading