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Programs to address drug use can treat addiction and educate the public about the impact of drugs—but what would happen if such a program took a U-turn back to...
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Travel & Living

Explore Costa Rica, its culture, traditions, the places that will make you fall in love and the people that make them vibrate.

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Media Naranja

Love stories in Costa Rica, all kinds of love

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Passion for journalism: reflections from El Salvador’s ‘Mediatón’

What do you do before starting a new project? It can be something relatively simple like your kid’s homework from school, or reorganizing a closet at home. If you...

How to love a country

What happens when you love it with detachment? That’s the question I’m left pondering after 20 years of loving one country that isn’t mine—and my...

I built a recycling center at my hotel. Others should do it, too

When I moved to rural Costa Rica 2007, all the neighbors burned their rubbish. There was no municipal waste collection scheme. People would dump...

How to dispose of medications in Costa Rica—and why it’s so important to do it right

We all know that we can and should take care when disposing of recyclable materials such as cardboard, paper, glass, and certain plastics—or hazardous...

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The Wellbeing Route at El Colectivo 506

Why not this? Peer-to-peer mental health support

When we published our first edition on mental health in 2022, one of the biggest limitations we came up against was: there just aren’t...

HIV and mental health in Costa Rica: read (or listen) to the full series

This longform series about HIV and mental health in Costa Rica, published in four parts, was supported by the Internews Health Journalism Network. Learn...

El Colectivo 506 series on HIV wins global reporting prize

On October 12th, the Internews Health Journalism Network announced that El Colectivo 506 co-founder Katherine Stanley Obando’s four-part series on HIV in Costa Rica,...

El Colectivo 506 editorial staff explains the how, when, where and what of things to do and experience in Costa Rica.

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