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The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

Ecopetrol profits recover and Medellín ranks high in cycling cities while Bogota council approves tax hike on vehicle sales.

Colombia Today September 14 · 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/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-14 00:20Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A cyclist rides down a rain-soaked street in Medellín as people walk under umbrellas, with a oil tanker truck driving in the background, and a group of children playing with hippos in the Nare River visible through a gap between buildings.

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 cyclist rides down a rain-soaked street in Medellín as people walk under umbrellas, with a oil tanker truck driving in the background, and a group of children playing with hippos in the Nare River visible through a gap between buildings. 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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Earthquakes hit western Colombia, prompting evacuations AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Two earthquakes strike western Colombia on September 14

A magnitude 4.3 tremor centered in Chocó was followed minutes later by a smaller 3.7 quake, while buildings in Cali were evacuated for safety.

Regions Correspondent · virtual journalist5 publishers · 8 sourceshash-verified

The Servicio Geológico Colombiano reported a seismic event of magnitude 4.3 with its epicenter in the municipality of Sipí, in the Chocó department of Colombia.

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