A Climber should be able to just focus on the Climbing, but this is colombia. I have found that as I settle into the country, I find myself catching things on the news and wanting to know what they are talking about due to the limitations of my spanish, and I started to search for sources of info. my spanish is good enough for conversation, but the News is on a higher level of vocabulary is my excuse.
http://colombiareports.com/
Colombia Reports has turned out to be quite handy. If something happens, anywhere in Colombia, and it is potentially news worthy nationally, which includes almost every guerrilla/terrorist act, criminal organization, plus a lot of other things and even some humor, they will cover it. What also makes it nice is that it functions a bit like a data base, so you can read about a place, and the place and department name will pop up on top, and you can use this to research back into a place. This is helpful because it will tell you how ‘active’ a place might be if it isn’t just local crime, which foreigners tend to be a bit immune to in Colombia.
For deeper insight there are a few:
http://talkingaboutcolombia.com/
there might be a slight liberal bias here, but 50 years of civil war, and more troubling, growing up in Canada, will do that to you!
This blog appears to be written from Bogota by a Canadian raised Colombian named Paula Delgado-King.. like all Colombians, she looks cute!
insight Crime is an interesting idea. I picture a bunch of guys dedicated to the truth behind a very locked door, hopefully someplace in the states. I bet they rarely order pizza from the office.. the coverage is good, including of colombia, but it intelligently treats all of Latin America as once place for the sake of understanding how drug trafficking, the overarching story here, involves the whole region. There is a similar focused just on Mexico called Borderland Beat, but this is about climbing, so I will focus on that.
justf.org/blog
Just the Facts is officially supposed to just cover US activities in Latin America, which it does well, and without much bias from what I see.. it also covers news and trends that might be seen as diplomatically worthy.. you can get a sense of how governments see what is going on. Again, not exclusively focused on Colombia, but interesting.
Speaking of Climbing, Peakery does display some info on colombian peaks:
http://peakery.com/cerro-boquinete/