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Another great article about Bogota in the New York Times.
A FEW years ago, Macarena — a neighborhood in central Bogotá backed against lush Andean mountains and wedged between office buildings and a bullring — was a run-down area mostly avoided by tourists. Largely thanks to an influx of arty locals and expats chasing cheap rents, though, it’s been cleaned up, nicknamed Zona M, and now hosts a buzzing scene, mostly centered on the side street of Carrera 4A.
(…continued on NYTimes.com)
