by Emma Tristán | Jul 5, 2026 | Articles
After four hours on the road, the professor announced that we had arrived. The university bus stopped in front of a few pastures in the middle of the countryside. We looked around, trying to guess where we were supposed to go, but everything looked exactly like what...
by Jurgen Ureña | Jun 21, 2026 | Articles
In the early nineties, I was an apprentice projectionist at a small university cinema. The job had an obvious reward—the student scholarship—and others such as learning to thread film, watching the same scene six or seven times until discovering details that had...
by Natalia Benavides | Jun 11, 2026 | Articles
In May 2026, when the Costa Rican government authorized Align Technology to reduce the minimum number of workers it had to keep under the Free Trade Zone Regime from 4,992 to 2,500, the decision sparked mixed reactions and opened a debate about its implications. Some...
by Melany Diaz | Jun 11, 2026 | Articles
Recently, a Netflix series about a tragic lead poisoning disaster in Brazil caught many people’s attention and reminded us of how negligence in chemical management could have devastating consequences. The first few episodes spark a deep sense of dread in the viewer,...
by Emma Tristán | Jun 2, 2026 | Articles
In Costa Rica, the word mining can quickly raise the temperature of any conversation. Merely mentioning it is enough to push people into opposing camps. Yet what is happening in Crucitas today should prompt us to reflect beyond the familiar debate of whether mining is...
by Jurgen Ureña | May 27, 2026 | Articles
The road to the house was long and steep. In front of me, the mountain; behind, an abyss that revealed, through the mist, the back of the water. My grandfather Ramón had never seen the sea, and yet it seemed to him like a great beast, restless, breathing deeply. He...
