Ecuador faces electricity crisis and adverse weather while Colombia's public debt exceeds fiscal rule limit and Mexico launches pension program.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-07 00:14Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A stormy sky hangs over Bogota's El Dorado airport, where planes are grounded and people in raincoats hurry for shelter, as a journalist in the foreground chains herself to a hospital entrance, surrounded by concerned onlookers, under the dim light of a rainy evening.
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 stormy sky hangs over Bogota's El Dorado airport, where planes are grounded and people in raincoats hurry for shelter, as a journalist in the foreground chains herself to a hospital entrance, surrounded by concerned onlookers, under the dim light of a rainy evening. 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)
a38c40d28103ff3f9cb25d5082cdd5d9a152d01864fd0531273d2b6b911ff1f0
Bogota councilors demand cancellation of 75 million peso vehicle contract
The call was made during an extraordinary Bogota Council session held 7 October 2026.
By Valentina Restrepo · 4hBogota City Council members have publicly called for the cancellation of a 75 million peso vehicle maintenance contract awarded to VCARS. The contract was first reported by Colombian outlet SEMANA.
The Bogota City Treasury signed the agreement. It covers preventive and corrective maintenance for seven official council administrative vehicles. Terms also include twice monthly exterior washing for armored UNP vehicles assigned to high risk councilors.
During the extraordinary session held 7 October, Council President Humberto 'Papo' Amín stated only 10 million COP had been allocated for council vehicle washing. Amín added the washing service was optional and had not been used.
Councilors opposing the contract have said elected representatives should pay for their own vehicle washing.
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