The Archdiocese of El Salvador on Sunday rejected the possibility of President Nayib Bukele’s government lifting the total ban on mining in the Central American country. The ban, in place since 2017, is viewed by the church as essential to preventing harm to the population. The statement comes after Bukele […]
Monthly Archives: December 2024
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Today we meet the anhinga, a long-necked bird who’s adept at swimming and spearing fish and is sometimes confused with being a snake. The anhinga’s scientific name, (Anhinga anhinga), gets right to the point. Twice. It’s Spanish name, pato aguja, which translates to needle duck, comments on the physical appearance […]
The U.S. dollar has been steadily losing value in Costa Rica. On Thursday, November 28, the buying rate was ₡506.55, and the selling rate was ₡513.17, down slightly from the ₡505 and ₡510 observed the previous Wednesday. Experts suggest that this downward trend might continue, potentially pushing the dollar below […]
Something doesn’t quite match, something is missing, we feel some kind of split, some constitutive fracture or break. When one has already lived a life, it is necessary to be able to coexist with that constitutive discomfort, that ‘something’ that we always lack, except for specific moments, to be definitively […]