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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...
Our crops, our health
On June 24, the Regulations for the Quality of Drinking Water in Costa Rica were modified. Since then, there has been a lot of criticism of this modification, almost all superficial and, in general,...
Scars that feed
It was an ordinary day in 2000, one of many spent drifting through adolescence amid simple routines and deep affections. I opened my eyes; certain it was time to go to school. I was in my fourth...
Toxic water
On June 24, the government of Rodrigo Chaves expanded the limits of pesticides in water for human consumption, through an amendment to Executive Decree 38924-S of the Regulation for Drinking Water...
A coast is reborn
A few weeks ago in the South Caribbean, in Chiquita beach, everything was green, turquoise and heat. I entered a pool that offered me freshness under an almond tree that folded towards the sea. The...