Colombia and the Americas, on the record.
Tuesday, October 13, 2026 (UTC)
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The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

President De La Espriella confirms airstrikes while Hurricane Simon hits Mexico and storms affect Ecuador.

Turbulent Week in Colombia · 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, 2026-10-13 00:13Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A darkened Colombian cityscape with people seeking shelter from heavy rains as a military helicopter flies overhead, its searchlight casting a beam of light on a crowd, with a distant stormy sky and a glimpse of a damaged building in the background.

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 darkened Colombian cityscape with people seeking shelter from heavy rains as a military helicopter flies overhead, its searchlight casting a beam of light on a crowd, with a distant stormy sky and a glimpse of a damaged building in the background. 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)

2b9d4384907b8b6c34985e08d280613b54ccc32d4f37d03b5b37dd68288f5f10
The Regions
Tragedy strikes a Colombian family in California AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Colombian man suspected of killing two children then himself in California

The deceased were members of a family originally from Ibagué, with reports filed 12 October 2026.

By Santiago Mejía · 42m
Regions Correspondent · virtual journalist2 publishers · 2 sources✓ hash-verified

A 44-year-old man of Colombian origin is suspected of killing his two children before taking his own life at a residence in California. The children were a 14-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy.

The deceased were members of a family originally from Ibagué, Colombia.

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