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Teaching to Protect

When I read about the ecological challenges facing Latin America, I realize how urgent it is to change our perspective. I’m increasingly convinced that education is one of the most powerful tools we must address these challenges. In our region, biodiversity is a true...

Multicolored squawk: A Telaraña about toucans

In January 1854, after a three-month journey from Germany to San Juan del Norte, in Nicaragua, naturalist Carl Hoffman was about to arrive to Costa Rican. The greatest adventure of his life was about to begin. With his friends, Alexander von Frantzius and Julian...

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...