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Los pasitos, a Costa Rican Christmas tradition.

Mónica Quesada - 0
I was 10 years old when I became part of the family tradition. My great-grandmother learned it from her dad, my grandmother officially introduced...
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Arenal, the hill the became a volcano.

Mónica Quesada - 0
It was around 1 am on Monday, July 29th, 1968. Adita Vargas Pérez, then 21 years old, remembers how she was awoken by what...
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Baile de los Diablitos, a Boruca tradition.

Mónica Quesada - 0
“Man, it is something that one carries in the blood. You are born, live and grow with that in your blood, your blood boils...
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Welcome to Voices 506! We’d love to hear from you

Katherine Stanley Obando - 0
When Mónica, Pippa and I joined forces to create a new, bilingual media organization, we wanted to build a space where professional journalists could...
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New Year’s traditions and the world’s ‘happiest country’

Katherine Stanley Obando - 0
One New Year’s Day a few years ago, I sat at the cement table, or pollito, in our little garden with my parents and...
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There is hunger in Costa Rica. The world needs to know

Berlín Castro - 0
Before the pandemic, I was focused on providing food and academic support to people in Barrio Reina de Los Ángeles, in Hatillo 1. ...
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How to create a global circle of moms — in just two days

Pippa Kelly Varela - 0
Everything has changed this year. My husband and I run a tourism business, Casitas Tenorio B&B, in rural northern Costa Rica. At the start of...
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