The Central American region where people live longest Atlantide Phototravel/Getty Images Nicoya in Costa Rica is one of the world's five "Blue Zones" where residents live longer than average Blue Zones are regions of the world with populations that regularly live into healthy old age. "This is the cacao tree," said Albin, tenderly touching the trunk, "Our people thought it …
It was about three hours after sunset on March 18, 2019, when a resident of Yeri, a remote Indigenous settlement near the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, heard the sound of gunfire from his neighbour’s home. Carlos Alvarado, the president of Costa Rica at the time, described Rojas’s death as “tragic”, not only for Indigenous peoples but also for the …
