by Larissa Fernandez | Feb 25, 2026 | Articles
For years, I have spoken about sustainability in environmental, financial, and climate terms. Throughout my professional career, I have worked with banks across the region, helping design systems that manage risk and ensure long‑term stability. Today, I want to talk...
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...
by Emma Tristán | Jan 5, 2026 | Articles
At 9:07 p.m. on April 23, 2019, in Aguas Zarcas de San Carlos, an uninvited visitor fell from the sky. It entered the planet on a steep trajectory at 14.6 km/s—roughly the equivalent of traveling from San José to Cartago in the blink of an eye. In the La Caporal...
by Emma Tristán | Jan 5, 2026 | Articles
. On a sunny morning, Greivin makes his way down to the Madre de Dios River with a sack slung over his shoulder. He is not alone: Jurgen, Memo, and I follow behind, trying to keep up as he moves forward with the enviable ease of a campesino, first through the...
