| Deadly mortar fire in Bogota during the inauguration of President Alvaro Uribe mirrored old IRA attacks in Northern Ireland. |
| Juan Carlos Santiago entered a small cantina in a very small village north of Bogota and took a seat at a large table in the very back corner of the darkly lit bar. |
| The National University of Colombia, in Bogota, is a colourful and lively place. |
| The parachutists, due to take part in the post-game festivities, landed on the pitch five minutes after the final had kicked off in Bogota. |
| At that time Bogota was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the sixteenth century. |
| However, the rigors of the flight from Los Angeles to Bogota had proved too exhausting. |
