The holidays may be over in some places, but in Costa Rica, festival season is just getting started. This time of year, nearly every town holds an annual fiesta cívica with horse parades called topes, ...

In the ring, a crowd of more than 100 mostly young men enclosed in a semicircle crept towards an orange gate. The announcer’s voice filled the wooden stadium with an introduction worthy of a boxing ...

Even from the bleachers, a safe distance from the corral, the bull looked dangerously close. A sea of young men surrounded the bull, and every time the animal flinched, waves of contestants rippled ...