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Álvaro Murillo

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  1. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Álvaro Murillo

    Laura Fernández: ‘There is no ‘bukelization’ in Costa Rica’ (opens the original)

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    Laura Fernández Delgado (Puntarenas, 1986) has completed her first 100 days at the helm of the Costa Rican government amid three unprecedented circumstances in the Central American country, which until now had been considered a model of stability in the region: the worst crisis of security and violence linked to drug trafficking, strong hostility toward the judiciary—which accuses her of authoritarian tendencies—and the undeniable power of Rodrigo Chaves, who on May 8 handed the presidential sas

  2. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Álvaro Murillo

    Nicoya Peninsula: the Costa Rica region with the most centenarians despite its relative poverty (opens the original)

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    Benerando López is a farmer who at age 99 was still planting rice for family consumption in Sámara, a coastal district on the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica. He is now 103 and blind, but he survives in enviable health, like many other centenarians who make this part of Costa Rica’s northern Pacific a “blue zone”: a region with a high concentration of long-lived people. José Flores — a man aged 119 whom researchers are trying to verify as the world’s oldest person — is also from there. López live

  3. Article · Aug 2, 2026 · Álvaro Murillo

    La Fortuna, Costa Rica: Where the community takes its share of the tourism industry (opens the original)

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    Dozens of foreign tourists splashed at the base of a waterfall over 70 meters high amid the humid jungle, experiencing the primitive thrill of bathing in a pristine river alongside fish the length of a foot, under a warm drizzle and a stray ray of sun that completed the postcard scene. No one seemed worried about the 500 steps they would have to climb afterward to leave the site, which this year entered the top 1% of the best places to visit in the world, according to Tripadvisor. An Irish woman

  4. Article · Jul 29, 2026 · Álvaro Murillo

    José Flores, the 119‑year‑old from Costa Rica that experts are trying to certify as the world’s oldest person (opens the original)

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    Costa Rica’s Civil Registry says that on July 11, 1907—119 years ago—a woman named Josefa in the province of Guanacaste, on the country’s north Pacific coast, gave birth to a boy who was christened José Flores Flores. Everyone born in that first decade of the 20th century, and many who were born years later, are now deceased. But Mr. José still lives in good health in a rural municipality on the edge of a “blue zone,” a name given to regions with unusually high numbers of centenarians thanks to

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