by Emma Tristán | Aug 13, 2025 | Articles
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 Paradisiaca. In this text, I explore the main elements that are...
by Emma Tristán | Aug 10, 2025 | Articles
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 case during the rainy season. There was barely any rain. Armed...
by Emma Tristán | Jul 27, 2025 | Articles
We went up in a 4×4 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 shoes and gradually loosen, leaving trails all over the house....
by Santiago Jaramillo | Jul 24, 2025 | Articles
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 force is called trust. We trust when we go to the doctor expecting...
by Emma Tristán | Jul 20, 2025 | Articles
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, based on a very obvious change: now the regulation is not categorical...
by Pablo Fernández | Jul 9, 2025 | Articles
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 year of high school. “It’s time,” my mother would say...
