Bomb Scare at Caracol: Warnings, No Answers, No Names

Staff at Noticias Caracol, the news channel of Caracol Televisión, were evacuated from their building in Bogotá on Saturday, 7 November 2026, after authorities warned the broadcaster of a possible attack. Police later said they found no evidence of explosives. Who sent the warning, and why, remains a blank.

That blank is the story. A warning came down from somewhere above the workers, the building emptied, and the people who run the machinery of security have yet to explain what happened.

Who Has the Power

Noticias Caracol said authorities had told it of an intention by illegal armed groups to attack the channel. It said it took measures to protect its staff and facilities. Caracol Radio, a separate radio network, said authorities had warned it of the risk of a possible attack on the company and on other media outlets. The steps it took, if any, have not been made public.

So the information flows one way: from officialdom to the newsrooms, in fragments, with no source attached. Authorities have named no group. The broadcasters have named none either. It's unclear who first raised the alert and whether other media outlets received warnings. The police statement said only that there was no evidence of explosives "at that moment," a phrase that closes nothing. The number of officers sent to the building isn't known. The time of the evacuation isn't known. The number of people who left isn't known. No arrests, suspects or devices have been announced.

Who Gets Crushed

The people who carried the cost were the ones inside the building. Journalists, technicians and staff walked out on a Saturday because someone, somewhere, passed along a threat they couldn't verify and couldn't question. The Ombudsperson for human rights, Iris Marín, called the situation grave and deeply worrying and asked authorities to clarify and verify the facts. Asking is what the office does. It has no power to compel an answer.

This isn't the first time a Bogotá newsroom has had reason to fear. In August 2010, a car bomb exploded outside Caracol Radio's headquarters in the capital. That was 16 years earlier. Workers don't forget a bomb outside their door, and a warning with no source and no follow-up reopens that memory every time.

What They're Calling Security

The warning landed amid other violence. On 7 November 2026, drones with explosives hit an army base in Santa Rosa del Sur, in southern Bolívar department, and Colombia's army reported three soldiers dead. Nothing published so far links the drone attack to the warning at Caracol. No authority has said they are connected.

What the record does show is a pattern of silence. The state holds the intelligence, the police hold the scene, and the public gets a sentence saying nothing was found. Nobody has said whether the warning was a hoax, a misread tip, or a real plot that was disrupted. The people who evacuated, and the audiences who depend on those broadcasters, are left to guess.

Until someone with the information chooses to share it, every journalist in Bogotá is working under a threat no one will define. Authorities have said nothing that closes the matter.