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 got my hands on the October 2008 issue of Esquire magazine, and while it’s no surprise, the femininity of the male model is more on display than ever on most of its advertising pages. From Dolce Gabbana, Prada, Boss, Burberry on [...]
The Truth About You is perfect for personal use and as a job placement and performance placement and performance review tool. Its concise format serves as a resource for HR and business leaders to acquire, retain and help Gen Y employees (30 [...]
I lived creative. Innovative. Exploratory. Bold. Convinced that an idea can change the world, as long as it’s well designed. (And if it’s not THE world, it can clearly do it in YOUR world. Does it make a difference?) Look at this [...]
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 [...]
