All the texts I’ve recently published in The Slow Burn have been born from a desire to share and inspire. I emphasize this because I recognize that it wasn’t always like this. In the past, when I called myself a publicist and entrepreneur, my writing was often driven by a need to build my personal […]
When Armando Vargas found out that I had returned from the country, after 5 years at McCann-Erickson Mexico, he immediately sought me out and hired me as a consultant for twenty-five thousand colones per month, which, as little as it may sound, [...]
Consumer was born from a sum of stars aligned in the same direction. One of them was Rafael Calderón Mugica, whom I met at the UCR and with whom I became a friend and brother in life. When I returned from Mexico [...]
His 1905 work, “Garcon a la pipe”, sold for $104.2 million, a record price to date for one of his works, a significant appreciation of the record price paid in 1987 for “Nu rose”, for $7.6 million. It is also the highest [...]
I will proceed to summarize the experience from a very personal perspective. To begin with, this was my second trip to Europe and I must admit that going from the relentless cold of Holland to the warm beaches of the south of [...]
