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Category: Special Stories

Special Stories

Sheyla Santana: the subversive “artivist” in a folkloric Guanacaste

Nov 29, 2024
In her hometown of Cañas, Sheyla Santana will fight until her last breath to...
Special Stories

The teacher who breaks menstrual cycle taboos in Nandayure

Nov 27, 2024
From her little school nestled in the mountains of her canton, 7.5 miles from...
Special Stories

Josselyn Briceño: The Guanacastecan soccer player who catapulted her talent in 2024

Nov 25, 2024
At 15, Josselyn Briceño moved to San José to chase her dream of playing ...
Community, Nature, Special Stories

The mercury that even the State of Costa Rica doesn’t see

Sep 10, 2024
Between 2019 and 2023 in Abangares, medical visits for respiratory conditions exceeded the national average...
Region, Nature, Special Stories

Gold bars worth more than $152 million left Costa Rica

Sep 10, 2024
The gold bars flowing out of Costa Rica form a multi-million dollar river of...
Region, Nature, Special Stories

Abangares: Washing the illegal gold from Crucitas

Sep 10, 2024
The large quantities of rock and dirt with raw gold that are arriving at Abangares...
Community, Special Stories, Santa Cruz

Sully Gómez Loáiciga: “I haven’t done anything that I’m ashamed of”

Jun 20, 2024
In a telephone interview with The Voice, Sully Gómez gave her version of how...
Community, Special Stories, Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Municipality awards multi-million contracts to former candidate for councilor from the ruling party

Jun 20, 2024
The Santa Cruz Municipality has disbursed more than 400 million colones to produce cultural events...
Community, Special Stories, Santa Cruz

Contract from the Municipality of Santa Cruz was won for $14,100 but final collection rose to more than $477,000

Jun 20, 2024
Sully María Gómez Loáiciga, a former candidate for council member with the...
Special Stories, Human Rights

Mother and Immigrant: A childhood marked by helplessness and courage

Mar 22, 2024
In the last twenty years, teenage pregnancies have decreased significantly in Costa Rica. However, this...
Community, Special Stories, Liberia

Businessmen implicated in bribery investigation monopolize contract bids in Liberia

Jan 29, 2024
The company Gocesa del Molino S.A. monopolized all of the contract bids for public...
Community, Special Stories, Liberia

Diamante: Bribery in municipalities

Jan 29, 2024
This article is a complement to the investigative report “Businessmen accused in bribery investigation monopolize...
Special Stories

Crimes covered up by silence and disguised as love turn girls into mothers

Nov 24, 2023
Andrey Araya, 23, ended up handcuffed in a patrol car at the beginning of October...
Special Stories

This is how men who kill women try to evade justice in Guanacaste

Nov 24, 2023
Some of these men who committed femicides have been slow to receive their sentences due ...
Special Stories

Femicides in Guanacaste: When Suspects Flee Across the Border

Nov 24, 2023
Alina’s last hours alive were recorded on a security camera. It was the...
Special Stories, Human Rights

Costa Rica, a leaky refuge for Central American journalism

Jul 06, 2023
Journalists and media from Central America migrate to Costa Rica due to criminalization or threats...
Special Stories

The labyrinth of exploiting Nicaraguan labor in Costa Rica

Dec 12, 2022
Delvis lost his right leg on a Coopepiña farm when his boss pressured him...
Special Stories

Fed Up With Violence, Young Women in Guanacaste Unite To Demand Their Rights

Nov 24, 2022
Still wearing her school uniform, Amanda Zuñiga walked into a meeting in one of...
Nosara, Special Stories

Are women safer after the sexual assaults revelations in Nosara?

Jun 20, 2022
In January of 2022, the director of the Tourist Police for the Public Force, Fulvio...
Special Stories, Human Rights

What’s it like growing up “without papers” in a country that you weren’t born in?

May 22, 2022
One day, Deilyn heard that her father hadn’t sent her to school because...
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