Among more than 200 applications, La Voz de Guanacaste’s proposal, “Voces del territorio: hacia una red de medios por la cultura viva” (Voices of the Territory: Towards a Media Network for Living Culture), was one of 25 selected nationwide by the Ministry of Culture and Youth (MCJ) through its Puntos de Cultura competitive fund.
The project will promote the First National Meeting of Regional Media with a Cultural Focus, an initiative aimed at strengthening regional journalism, collaboration networks between local media, and the visibility of cultural memories and expressions in the territories.
The meeting is expected to be attended by media outlets from all provinces of the country, as well as people from the cultural and artistic sector who are actively involved in the rescue, documentation, and dissemination of local cultures, artistic expressions, and community oral memory.
Through exhibitions, working sessions, and discussions, topics such as community journalism with a cultural focus, visibility formats, and sociocultural management through communication will be addressed.
Recognition of collective work
For Noelia Esquivel Solano, director of La Voz de Guanacaste, the selection of the project reaffirms the media outlet’s commitment to cultural, collective, and territorial work:
We are very pleased to have been selected for the Puntos de Cultura 2026 program. Projects like this allow us, as a journalistic organization, to strengthen our tireless work to collectively build actions to raise awareness, safeguard, and disseminate the knowledge, historical memory, and cultural expressions of our territories, now not only in Guanacaste but throughout the country,” she said.
She also highlighted that the initiative seeks to strengthen journalistic work.
“Our aspiration is to strengthen cultural coverage in regional journalism, improve active listening practices and links with artistic and cultural communities, and consolidate collaboration networks between local media,” she added.
La Voz has previously carried out projects with funds from Puntos de Cultura, such as Tours Identidad, a project that consisted of documenting and designing virtual tours of the cantons of Santa Cruz, Liberia, and Nicoya to showcase the culture of the most emblematic places in those cantons.
Living culture throughout the country
The Puntos de Cultura fund is part of the Ministry of Culture and Youth’s commitment to promoting the exercise of cultural rights, community organization, and equitable access to resources for strengthening cultural activities in the territories.
The selected projects cover the country’s seven provinces and other regions such as the Northern Zone and the Southern Zone, and include topics such as indigenous cultures, cultural exchange with migrants, environmental conservation through art, and community training.
For La Voz de Guanacaste, this support represents an opportunity to continue expanding its impact as a regional media outlet committed to communities, living culture, and journalism that is built from and for the territories.
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