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Colombia military strikes FARC dissident camp and raises benchmark interest rate while Hurricane Simon approaches Mexico coast.

Colombia Turmoil Amidst Football Matches · 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, 2026-10-12 00:13Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A stormy sky looms over a Colombian cityscape with people in football jerseys walking alongside military personnel and bankers in suits, as a large football stadium stands in the background with a match in progress, under the golden light of sunset.

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 looms over a Colombian cityscape with people in football jerseys walking alongside military personnel and bankers in suits, as a large football stadium stands in the background with a match in progress, under the golden light of sunset. 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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The Nation
Storm warning issued for Ecuador amid hail threat AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Inamhi issues storm warning for Ecuador through October 14

Ecuadorian meteorological authorities warned of possible hail in Quito on October 11 2026.

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Ecuador's National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology issued Meteorological Warning No. 79 on October 11 2026, forecasting increased precipitation and storms across the country until October 14.

The institute also warned the same day of probable hail fall in Quito during the afternoon and night.

The warning was published on the final day of the Guayaquil Independence public holiday.

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