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Building safe spaces for Costa Rica’s LGTBIQ+ community
Esteban Alfaro decided to make a change in his canton, Perez Zeledón, after he and his boyfriend were thrown out of a bar in...
Inclusion 2.0: workshops ask Costa Rican businesses to open new doors
“The little girl never grows up.”
The psychologist José Luis García has just posed a question: in the 2001 Russell Crowe movie “A Beautiful Mind,”...
Grassroots work for an inclusive public sector
An office where fingerprints are processed. A training for the administrators of public ports. The meeting room of a municipal government.
Sometimes, the work to...
Costa Rica’s advances towards inclusion—with some detours
Over the past three decades, Costa Rica has made important legislative advances towards greater inclusion and respect for LGBTIQ+ rights.
Having moved from the arrests...
Series by Katherine Stanley Obando and Mónica Quesada Cordero, with additional reporting by Mayela López and Thomas Enderlin. Seventh part in our series on...
Can the government of Costa Rica rescue rural tourism?
Text by Mónica Quesada Cordero and Katherine Stanley Obando, with additional reporting by Mayela López and Thomas Enderlin. Sixth part in our series on...
What would Costa Rica be like without rural tourism?
Text by Mónica Quesada Cordero and Katherine Stanley Obando, with additional reporting by Mayela López and Thomas Enderlin. Part Five in our April series...
Text by Mónica Quesada Cordero and Katherine Stanley Obando, with additional reporting by Mayela López and Thomas Enderlin. Fourth part in our April series...
Third in our April series on rural community tourism in Costa Rica. Read Part One, “The wisdom that comes with a life on the...
Part two in our April series on rural community tourism in Costa Rica. Read Part One here.
Birdsong and warm mountain sunlight flood the small...
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Atenas: from burning trash to environmental awareness
The canton of Atenas is known as the home of “the best climate in the world”—thanks to a 1968 article in National Geographic—and as...
