What decides a traveler's week in Colombia right now is not the big cities. It is one road network in the southwest. Issue 004 covers the week of 29 June to 5 July: armed groups running their own roadblocks on the Panamericana highway, a declared military offensive against the EMC, the country's largest FARC dissident faction, and the retaliation it is already drawing, attack drones now appearing in multiple regions of the country, and the practical playbook for Tuesday's World Cup match against Switzerland.
Inside a single week, the highway corridor south of Cali produced a double cargo robbery, a driver killed at an illegal roadblock, and three murdered merchants. Barranquilla counted 21 dead over a holiday weekend as three criminal organizations fight over the city, with printed threat notices doing the talking. And Bogota showed that a World Cup match day can pass without a single killing when the police posture is right.
The full issue carries the department-by-department risk barometer and operational map, the airport-by-airport table, corridor and city guidance written in plain language for travelers who do not know Colombia, the week-ahead outlook, the complete traveler resources annex, and the printable crisis card.