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What happens when surfing includes everyone?

Katherine Stanley Obando -
It all started with a school desk. But not in a classroom. Michael Castro Arias was 11 years old, walking along the beach one day...
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‘Clawing against the world’: the lonely emergence of BMX freestyle in Costa Rica

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Olivia Esther Matamoros Chávez won’t watch her son compete. Not live, anyway. She stays away from the stadiums or TV screens, and will only watch...
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Costa Rican parathletes: colossal talent that so many overlook

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"I grew up with no problem, my parents raised me with a mentality that there was nothing wrong with me," says Camilla Haase, a...
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From cattle fields to packed stadiums: the women who transformed Costa Rican soccer

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Shirley Cruz wanted a full stadium.  The Costa Rican soccer star, the most successful player in the country’s history, was playing for her hometown team...
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Cervical cancer: 100% preventable, but surrounded by stigma

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“But mom, people with cancer die.” That’s what Ismael, eight years old, told his mother, Arelys Badilla Bosa, when he heard her say that they...
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Did you know that death from colorectal cancer is almost 100% preventable?

Mónica Quesada Cordero -
"Colorectal cancer has significantly increased its incidence and mortality in recent years, with an 83% increase for men. Measures must be taken to reverse...
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What do men fear more: a rectal examination, or prostate cancer?

Mónica Quesada Cordero -
In a routine visit to the Marcial Fallas Clinic around 2007, Manuel Cortés Valverde told the doctor that he was going to develop prostate...
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What does it take to get a mammogram in Costa Rica?

Mónica Quesada Cordero -
Doña María Elena Quirós is 68 years old and loves to watch videos of cats and dogs on Tik Tok. They make her laugh....
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Why do we get cancer?

Mónica Quesada Cordero -
In September 2020, the Costa Rican Social Security Fund, or Caja (CCSS), reported that— according to statistical data from the Global Cancer Observatory (GLOBOCAN)—one...
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Fake news and Costa Rica’s next generation

Katherine Stanley Obando -
Part four in our four-part series on misinformation in Costa Rica. “I took civic education, and it was a joke,” says journalist Ernesto Núñez. “They’d...
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