The Trailblazers
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...
Orchids inevitably arouse curiosity and admiration. They used to be unusual, but today it is common to see them in homes and even for...
For Costa Rica, there’s no time to lose
I'm an introvert. When I travel, I like to hide away with a book. But despite all that, every so often, sometime extraordinary happens...
Heat explodes in the mouth: he laughs as understanding dawns over a visitor's face when she recognizes that what she is tasting is a...
Text by Mónica Quesada Cordero and Katherine Stanley Obando, with additional reporting by Mayela López and Thomas Enderlin. Fourth part in our April series...
When we go on a trip, a walk, a little getaway, we always have a reason. It can be knowing a new place, revisiting...
Online sales in Latin America: the challenges behind the opportunity
You have a great product that you’re certain will sell in the thousands if it only were available to all those international buyers. You...
It’s a miracle that rivers exist at all.
That’s what don Hernán Ramírez Alfaro has to say, with the song of running water behind his...
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‘I felt that I had no right to be alive’
Sofia* is 27 years old. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was transmitted to her when she was born, in Nicaragua. However, she says that her...