I began my political and public service career thirty years ago as Minister of Public Security, the first woman to ever hold that post in my country, Costa Rica.
The former Bellavista Barracks, the main headquarters of the National Museum since 1949, has been a witness, protagonista and symbol of Costa Rican history, not only because of its physical presence, but because of the imaginaries with which it is associated.
We live in a small dot of pale blue light in the middle of the universe, as Carl Sagan described it in (A pale blue dot, September 2015).
Mekdes Gelete Tikuye, a woman in her 20s from rural Ethiopia, spent the last four years 8,000-miles away from her home, at EARTH University, immersed in the heart of the Costa Rican tropical rainforest.
