Bogotá 2600 is a gateway to the Bogotá that welcomes ever-increasing scores of foreign tourists—three times as many gringos since 2003—as well as foreign expatriates, planting roots in the city in the clouds. Here, English-speaking visitors and residents can discover the who’s, what’s, when’s, where’s, why’s, and how’s of Colombia’s on-and-poppin’ capital city. So welcome to the Cinderella of South America, where, as the country’s official tourism agency touts, “the only risk is wanting to stay.” (read full editorial post here)

Ernest White II — Editor-in-Chief
Ernest White II is an English professor and struggling writer (with a pretentious name), originally from the “Bold New City of the South,” Jacksonville, Florida. Stopping briefly in Miami, Santo Domingo, and Washington DC before parking the Buick in Colombia back in ‘05, Ernest has whored in nineteen countries on four continents. His musings have appeared in the Orlando Sentinel, InverseOnline, Airways, and GO: Guía del Ocio, and even a letter-to-the-editor-or-two has popped up in The Economist. What he likes best about Bogotá are nighttime views of the city from La Calera, warm bowls of ajiaco, the urban trashiness of Chapinero and “el sabor del Centro,” friends from all over, the annual IBRACO Carnaval do Brasil (go figure), and La Hamburguesería de la Macarena.

José Patiño aka Pepe Caracas — Managing Editor
José Patiño is not Chavista! He is, however, a Caracas born-and-raised business administrator and budding cultural developer/designer who satiated his creative bug as art director for Índice, modelos de revista magazine back in Colombia’s Caribbean bubble: Barranquilla. Now living in the young, sexy, kinda-gay Bogotá barrio of Chapinero, José finds himself spread across the entire city, top to bottom. He likes a little retail therapy uptown at Santa Fé mall before heading downtown to let the cuenteros at the Chorro de Quevedo lull him into fantasyland with a couple of their tall tales.