Rubén Centeno started the public transportation company in Amubri, Bribri, Talamanca 35 years ago. He is an Indigenous man from the Bribri community in Costa Rica. Extremely well-spoken. One of his passions is to promote Talamanca and the Bribris.

I suppose this is partly due to the fact that there are fewer and fewer regular customers, since the city of San José—especially the area where the market is located—virtually lacks residential housing and has become more of a transit zone and workplace than a place to live

In 2016, Hurricane Otto struck Costa Rica and Nicaragua, in what was one of the biggest natural disasters in my memory. After seeing the devastation it created, I felt compelled to go and help.

We met years ago while I was developing my first reservation system for Paradise Products Costa Rica. I had the honor of representing their project, called Granja Agroecológica Siwakabata, in an international trade mission organized by the ICT (Costa Rican Tourism Institute) about six years ago.