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Will women save the planet?

In the 1960s, Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring (1962): one of the most influential works on environmental protection ever written. Her message went viral, long before that concept became popular. In 2018, Greta Thurnberg, at just 15 years old, challenged world...

Kamikazes

About 25 years ago, the festivities in my town, ‘Churuca’, were among the most outstanding in Cartago. They were renowned for their family atmosphere and the quality of their gastronomy, with visitors arriving from across the province and even from other...

The Color of Hope

From prison, Otto recalls how not wearing his uniform fully marked the beginning of his distance from school and his approach to crime. He felt stupid, ridiculed and preferred to “hang out with those at the busstop”, sell drugs and, even if it was only...

Working to exhaustion

Last Tuesday, January 21, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Legislative Assembly passed favorably the 4×3 exceptional workdays bill, known as 12-hour workdays, and sent it to the plenary to continue its course. Almost immediately afterwards, the Presidential...