Explosive damages RCN headquarters in Cali; no injuries
It is the fourth explosives attack on the building since November 2025. The press freedom group that tallies them wants prosecutors to find those responsible.
An explosive went off before dawn on Wednesday at the RCN headquarters in Cali, the capital of Valle del Cauca in southwestern Colombia. No one was hurt. The Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP), which monitors attacks on journalists in Colombia, condemned the attack.
The blast hit Carrera 8 at Calle 30, in the Industrial Los Mangos neighborhood, shattering windows and damaging part of the facade. Early reports describe two people on a motorcycle whom Cali's metropolitan police are looking for. Accounts differ on the device, a grenade thrown from the motorcycle or a package left earlier, and on how many suspects are in custody. Authorities have confirmed neither detail.
Attacking a news outlet "endangers those who report," FLIP argues. It asked prosecutors to "clarify the facts" and "identify the perpetrators and those who ordered it," and to find out whether the attack was tied to the station's reporting. Valle del Cauca Gov. Dilian Francisca Toro also condemned it: violence and intimidation, she said, "cannot become tools to silence those who report."
The building has been a target before. It was attacked twice within days in November 2025. First a grenade thrown from a motorcycle landed but did not go off; then, on Nov. 16, an explosion shattered windows without injuring anyone. With Wednesday's blast, that makes at least four explosives attacks since then, by the group's count. In 2005, a car bomb went off outside RCN's offices in the same city.
The attack comes days after warnings of possible attacks on news outlets in Bogotá, which led another network to evacuate its offices. FLIP asked prosecutors to check whether the two are connected.
