One was Camargo's Semana; the other was es:Alternativa, a left-wing weekly published by Enrique Santos and Gabriel García Márquez.

[citation needed] Semana's coverage of Proceso 8000, the unofficial name of the legal investigation of accusations that Ernesto Samper's 1994 presidential campaign was partially funded with drug money, was the high point of the magazine's influence.

[citation needed] In recent years, Semana has been critical of the administration of Álvaro Uribe Vélez and has also taken on Colombian guerrilla and paramilitary groups.

[citation needed] On the occasion of its 30th anniversary in 2012, Semana was described as "one of the major and largest publications in the Americas" by Finanzas.com, which observed that its history had been "tied up with the most important events in Colombia" and that it had "recorded our country's most significant successes."

"[2] In May 2013, Ricardo Calderon, the prize-winning investigative editor of Semana, was surprised by gunmen, who shot "five bullets into his car ", but he escaped without injury.

In 2008, the magazine won the award for a series of articles that uncovered the strong ties between political leaders and illegal right-wing paramilitary groups.

The awards jury praised the magazine's "tireless research" and described their work as "a moral call to Colombia and the world.

Semana.com won for "Cerro Matoso: mina rica, pueblo pobre" ("Rich Mine, Poor People") published in August 2012.

[7] Semana, which has won several international prizes and has more than a million readers, is considered required reading for Colombia's political, economic, and cultural elite.

The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Economist have all called Semana the best magazine in Latin America.

Semana's notable former columnists include Héctor Abad Faciolince, Rafael Nieto, María Isabel Rueda, Hernando Gómez Buendía, and Alfredo Rangel.