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Vanessa Centeno Rodríguez, 41, calls herself the first transgender in Guanacaste. She’s about to take the last two courses to earn her bachelor's degree. She hasn’t lived her life, she has just survived. She breaths and says “I keep moving forward.

Trans women relaunched their studies. “We all have the right to study and the fact that we are physically different doesn’t have to impede our intellectual development. All we want is a lifestyle like any other person,” Bárbara said.

Elizabeth Avilés, who wakes up at 5 a.m. to go to school without any alarm other than her biological clock. She’s 13 and goes to the Corralillo Technical Professional High School a few minutes from her home in San Antonio, Nicoya. The room where El

Under the Santa Cruz bull ring, logs extend like an endless ribcage. Lots of people wait there from early on for the day’s rodeo to start. This is what the ring looks like from underneath where many wait for the rodeo to start.

Alfonso Cuty García, 63, has had his bicycle for 43 years and uses it everyday to go to work at Santa Cruz city hall.

"I tell the young people that use instruments like the trumpet and the saxophone that also learn a guanacastecan. Like the marimba, the quijongo, the donkey's jaw."⁣⠀ - Isidoro Guadamuz, quijongo player.⁣⠀

“Music allows me to express my feelings.” Christopher López plays the violin for his dad until he falls asleep on the porch of their house in Barrio El Capulín in Liberia. The violins that him and his sister Pamela use for practice were lent to

Lucrecia organized two generations of brigade members who, in addition to putting out fires, conduct recycling campaigns, set up garbage cans and give talks in their community, in La Cruz, Guanacaste.

The bullring crosses Calle Real led by masquerades and maroon. The traditional bullring, which was declared an intangible Liberian and Guanacaste cultural heritage in April 2013, is a scene frozen in time that is repeated year after year.

Marlene Contreras is a multifaceted woman. She choreographs folk dance, teaches art and is a Santa Cruz cultural leader.

Chejo didn’t receive fishing classes. What he knows he learned by watching his father and brother over and over again. At age 54, he can hold his breath for more than two minutes at 25 meters (82 feet) underwater. 30 seconds more than the average h

Every December 11 the preparations for the Our Lady of Guadalupe festivities start early with three important figures as protagonists: this image of Our Lady, a wood doll and a cedar mare.⠀ ⠀ The members of the Ali Hernández family look at the stat

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