We have all heard of “legal speak” and “doctors’ jargon,” which nobody understands. The National Insurance Institute (INS) has invented its own “insurance speak”...
Guadalupe Urbina is at home in many roles. Daughter of the proud traditions of Costa Rica’s northwestern Guanacaste province, she is folk singer and...
“Let’s see,” you may say to yourself about three-quarters through the typical first-year Spanish course, “how many verb tenses have we studied? 1. Present...
Cut logs line gravel paths that lead visitors past ancient tomb sites made of rock slabs where various burial rituals were once performed. Archaeologists...
It was a typical Wednesday morning in laid-back La Fortuna, most tourists’ base camp for visits to Arenal Volcano, in north-central Costa Rica. Teenagers...
Once the colonial capital of Nicaragua in the 1800s, León later became the center of the Sandinistas’ armed resistance to the dictatorship of Anastasio...
