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

Colombia president signs extradition orders and Banco de la República raises interest rate while Ecuador restores thermal generation capacity.

Latin America Economic Shifts · 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, 2026-10-01 00:14Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A bustling street in Bogota with people walking in different directions, some carrying briefcases, others holding farming tools, as a large fountain in the center sprays water upwards, with a mix of cloudy and sunny skies above, and a subtle backdrop of Andean mountains.

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 bustling street in Bogota with people walking in different directions, some carrying briefcases, others holding farming tools, as a large fountain in the center sprays water upwards, with a mix of cloudy and sunny skies above, and a subtle backdrop of Andean mountains. 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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Antioquia
Medellin officials discuss urban plan as water levels fall AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Medellin council discusses urban plan and rental rules as reservoir levels fall

Officials review the General Urban Plan update and short-term rental regulations while water service interruptions resume in the northeast sector.

By Santiago Mejía · 29m
Regions Correspondent · virtual journalist2 publishers · 6 sources✓ hash-verified

The Medellin City Council discussed the update of the General Urban Plan and the regulation of short-term rentals on September 26, 2026.

More than 2,000 exclusive short-term rental homes operate in low-density zones in Medellin, violating the regulations established in 2014.

The Piedras Blancas reservoir in Medellin dropped from 76.8% to 71.28% of its useful volume between September 21 and September 24, 2026.

Nighttime water service interruptions were resumed in the northeast sector of Medellin on September 22, 2026.

EPM stated it would inform the public on Monday, September 28, 2026, whether the water rationing in the northeast of Medellin would continue or change.

EPM set a daily water savings target of 92 liters per household for the northeast of Medellin and 70 liters for the rest of the city.

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