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Commercial banking and sustainable finance: challenges and opportunities
Our General Director, Emma Tristán, recently contributed with an article in The Business Year, a leading global media group recognized for its in-depth economic analysis and high-level insights...
Chinese Tales
I remember the red bridge in Parque Chino. I remember it because, during my childhood, I climbed his hunchbacked back like someone climbing a mountain. Also, because it appears in a photograph that...
Express Permits and Frozen Accounts
On August 2, 2025, Costa Rica’s environmental movement was shaken by an unprecedented case: an environmental activist, known for walking the forests and his social criticism, woke up to find his...
How to Lead an Energy Transition?
A few months ago, I traveled for more than five hours from Cartago to Guanacaste to attend a workshop on green hydrogen—a promising energy vector ideal for decarbonizing hard-to-electrify sectors,...
The grays
One afternoon in December 2018 we met the greys. We had traveled to New Mexico with Jennifer and Juan Jose, taking advantage of the fact that they go every year to celebrate their wedding...
Fidel’s granddaughter
I was six years old when my grandfather died. My nono. I was very young, but I have some very vivid memories of him. I remember one afternoon when it was pouring rain, and I was sitting on the porch...
In Praise of Experience
A few days ago, we held a basketball game between the students and professors at the university where I teach. To say we held it is just a figure of speech. Or rather, it's something only those of...
A loan where we all win
Juan lives in Orosi, surrounded by mountains where you can hear the murmur of the river winding through the valley. His days are spent tending to a few small plots of land and dreaming of expanding...
A paradise of volcanoes and bananas
A few weeks ago, I visited visual artist Moisés Barrios in his studio in Guatemala City. Moisés showed me his most recent pictorial work and invited me to write a text to accompany his exhibition...
Nomadic rivers
After four hours on the road, the bus stopped on a gravel road next to one of those endless pineapple farms in the northern Caribbean. Luckily, it wasn't pouring with rain, as is almost always the...
A spontaneous building
We went up in a 4x4 to the top of Panama Hill near Nicoya. The ride was not long, but it was rocky and slippery. On the road there was one of those clays that stick relentlessly to the soles of your...
An essential foundation
There is a silent force that sustains a good part of our daily decisions. It is not signed, imposed or constantly monitored, but it is there, mediating between people, institutions and systems. That...