by Emma Tristán | Feb 25, 2026 | Articles
Some time ago, a friend made a remark — or rather, a provocation: “What do you mean you haven’t been to Tajo Zulay? It’s like going to Mars!” His words lingered. I added the site to my top ten geological places to visit — or revisit — knowing it had everything in its...
by Jurgen Ureña | Feb 25, 2026 | Articles
A few days ago, the Ombudsman’s Office warned that the permanent reduction in educational funding is putting the right to education in Costa Rica at risk. Public spending in this sector fell from 7.8% of GDP in 2019 to 5.5% in 2025, well below the constitutional...
by Jurgen Ureña | Feb 25, 2026 | Articles
Annaeus Serenus was a young man with many doubts, like almost all young people. He was neither consul nor general; he left behind no speeches or poems. And yet he stands out as an eloquent presence in On the Serenity of the Soul, the treatise Seneca wrote between the...
by Alise Rojas | Jan 27, 2026 | Articles
In my long list of places to visit, there was one I had been waiting for the most: the highest gem of Costa Rica—Cerro Chirripó. For a few hours, that place offered me the company of insects, birds, a few mice, one or two mysterious pairs of eyes, and countless...
by Emma Tristán | Jan 26, 2026 | Articles
I find my father’s letter. I can feel the paper and its folds. The typewritten letters are themselves relics of another era, when paper set the pace of life. I don’t remember saving it, and yet it has only recently come back to life. As I hold it in my hands, my...
by Jurgen Ureña | Jan 15, 2026 | Articles
It rained without pause, as if the sky were trying to wash everything clean. Doña Rufina walked barefoot along the steep path, through a night that dragged everything along with it. She had walked all the way from Grifo Alto carrying a lamp wrapped in cloth. The river...
