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The world made sourdough bread. Costa Rica: chiverre
The month: March 2020. The state of mind: shock, panicked boredom.
Thousands started making sourdough bread. But not in this Costa Rican kitchen.
There, a mother...
Three generations in the kitchen, the mother at the heart, stirring the pot. A rich tomato broth, flavored with the usual olores. She insists,...
What makes a person spend her last colón on dogs that don’t belong to her?
Maybe she does it because she knows what it’s like...
Some little choices fade away the moment they’re made, as fleeting as the flick of tail. Others stay, sink their claws into the dirt,...
When you truly love animals—the animals who have nowhere else to go—then eventually, what’s yours is theirs.
The math changes. It has to. Every monthly...
A classroom where animals are the heart, soul, and teacher
She came to Costa Rica to found an environmental school for children—and today, she’s still teaching, but in a different kind of classroom.
Who better...
So near and so far: voting in color
When you love Costa Rica, you know that even though it’s tiny, it holds so many worlds. So it’s strange to think that Central...
A heritage seen from 14,000 km away
Like any Costa Rica voting abroad, he loved the feeling of stepping back into his country, if only for a moment: the familiarity of...
The sounds of voting in Berlin
The rhythm of the train.
The swish of fabrics, zippers zipping every ten minutes as the travelers check and re-check that they still have their...
Each comes alone, or in tiny groups, through rain and snow. Anonymous. No one around you on a crowded city street knows where you...
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What to consider when creating a journalism hiring policy
At El Colectivo 506, Costa Rica’s national solutions journalism organization, has decided to create and share our new hiring policy openly in hopes of...