2025 has been a year of contrasts—intense, emotional, transformative. It began with a heartfelt farewell and ends with my soul wide open after the magical, peaceful family moments we usually share in Escondida. In between, there was laughter under a sky full of fireflies outside Kuala Lumpur with my grandson Mauricio; a spiritual retreat in […]
I have been hooked on chairs for about 20 years, when without realizing what we were doing, we bought two white Wassily chairs before returning from Mexico and back to Costa Rica. They were designed in 1925 by Marcel Breuer and we [...]
In the transformation of Tribu into DDB, effective from January of next year next year, I have known since early May Juan Carlos Ortiz, president of DDB Latina. Ortiz, president of DDB Latina. In this interview in June in Cannes, there is [...]
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity for a one-on-one meeting with Kevin Roberts, global CEO of Saatchi Saatchi and creator of Lovemarks. It was 45 minutes of love and respect for the man who has most influenced my professional life, [...]
A few days ago I received an unexpected invitation: “We would like to invite you to be the blogger of the month in SoHo Magazine online “, said the text of the message written by Daniella Fernandez. Then she then detailed the [...]
Tribu and DDB have decided to join forces in Costa Rica to add strengths and build together the future of the company. This new partnership will begin in 2010 and promises an important evolution with more opportunities, both for clients and for [...]
Today I posted this quote on Twitter: “Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.” by John Wanamaker. Living in a permanent state of gratitude is an idea that is gaining more [...]
There is much to learn from the elegance and class with which the world’s most famous actors applaud each other. With great dignity and solid attitude, the cameras focus on the winner, not without glancing at those who were competing for that [...]
TRIBU / Saatchi Saatchi won a gold, two silvers and a bronze in the Caribbean, to start 2008 very well in their legitimate quest to be creative winners at festivals as well. For many years we have won as a company and [...]
And Ogilvy Costa Rica the most awarded agency. Brutal! That’s how LatinSpots reads today about the results in the Caribbean 2008, so we’ve started the year off on the right foot and in the right direction, and we’ll have plenty of reason [...]
I highly recommend this book published by Lawrence Harrison and Samuel Huntington, as it helps to understand the reasons why there are countries prone to development, while many of us live in others prone to underdevelopment. Unfortunately for us Latin Americans, we [...]
Yesterday, agencies in the region turned to the lists of Finalists published on the Caribbean site, https://www.festivalcaribe.com/home.asp, to find a significant number of entries from Costa Rica on the short list in the different categories. It seemed to me that Ogilvy Costa [...]
