Culture & Lifestyle

A painting in food: the rice is the texture, the beans the pigment. The softer the bean, the stronger the color. Like a brush on canvas, the beans color the rice, a mix of endless black and white of...

Learning Spanish in Costa Rica is EASY and affordable!For a number of different reasons, language researchers have estimated that English is the most widely-spoken language in the world. With over one and a half (1.5) billion speakers, this number...

Alejandra Oraa is the journalist for CNN en Español who will be in charge of the new season of Destinations, the travel and tourism section of the international news chain. The Venezuelan, who since last week has toured different...

Women have an important role in a producing company like APPTA. This fact, for one, doesn’t affect the participation of men who take part in both the production and decision-making process. This has broken paradigms in the population. “When...

Casado or typical food is the most common dish in Costa Rica. It consists of beans, rice with finely diced red peppers and onions, fried bananas, a cabbage salad with tomatoes and carrots, and a choice of meat between...

Three decades ago, for the first time, a woman managed to join a concert band and ran into adverse circumstances; From the official who did not want to receive her documents because "in bands, there are only men"; As...

A National and International CelebrationMarch 14th was the International Day of Action for RiversCosta Rica is commemorating the International Day of Action for Rivers by celebrating the fact that eight dam projects in the southern region have been filed in...

A spiritual community for transgender people? Does that even exist? Many generations have passed since gender variant people were welcomed as spiritual beings, fully in their gender bend, in spiritual community. As a GenderQueer Androgyne myself I found that...

Indigenous Costa Ricans belong to eight major ethnic groups and live in remote forested areas of the country. Below I will give some aspects of the most prominent and well-known of these groups: The Diquis. Their remarkable stone spheres, often...

Growing up as a kid is never easy, learning about subjects and life becomes an everyday thing. Sometimes as parents we underestimate this stage because we're busy with adult life. Some parents don't even pay proper attention to their kids...