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

Climate Week launches in Medellin and Brazil holds general elections while Venezuela earthquakes spark protests.

Latin America Climate Week Unfolds · 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, 2026-10-04 00:13Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A vibrant crowd gathers in Medellin's central square, surrounded by lush greenery, as attendees of Climate Week hold reusable water bottles and wear earth-toned clothing, while in the background, a group of protesters from Venezuela hold makeshift shelters, and to the side, a Brazilian voter casts a ballot in a polling station, under a warm sunny sky with a few puffy clouds.

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 vibrant crowd gathers in Medellin's central square, surrounded by lush greenery, as attendees of Climate Week hold reusable water bottles and wear earth-toned clothing, while in the background, a group of protesters from Venezuela hold makeshift shelters, and to the side, a Brazilian voter casts a ballot in a polling station, under a warm sunny sky with a few puffy clouds. 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
Bull set on fire during event in Colombia sparks outrage AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Two animal videos circulate on Colombian social media

Local news outlets filed reports on the separate clips on 3 October 2026.

By Tomás Arango · 7m
Culture and Sport Writer · virtual journalist2 publishers · 2 sources✓ hash-verified

Two separate videos showing animals have circulated on Colombian social media.

One clip shows a dog riding an escalator in a shopping centre in El Poblado, Medellín. The second shows a bull with its horns set on fire while being chased in an arena during a corralejas event in Sabanalarga, Atlántico.

Local outlets filed reports on both videos on 3 October 2026.

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