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 […]
With really good prizes, La Via Costarricense has launched a new opportunity to participate in the design of La Costa Rica que Querés. I invite you to participate!
Brands that discover their higher purpose are those that transcend and make a big difference. From those that ignite innovation to those that celebrate victory, from those that fill the world with happiness to those that propose life as a journey. With [...]
Last night I was entertained for a while with Animoto, the photos of the meeting we had in August with young professionals in Santa Ana and good music in the background. Great therapy to keep the focus on what has us in [...]
“Carpe Diem“, “Oh Captain, my Captain!”, “I don’t want a product of the environment, I want the environment to be a product of me”, “what you do in life, echoes in enternity” and so much more that comes from…. the movies! Influence [...]
A different way In Costa Rica, it’s even scary to propose! The fable of the pots of lobsters in boiling water could not be truer. While the German or gringas would all be saved, in a collective effort to get out alive, [...]
Next month will be the meeting of representatives in London, to continue to ignite the excitement of Cannes in our country. In the video summary of 2012, I was delighted to see, from left to right, Rebeca Barzuna, Javier Mora, Adriana Duarte, [...]
Advertising Age named him the most influential publicist of the twentieth century. Apple included him among the world personalities who inspired its “Think Different” campaign. The B in DDB stands for his last name. I write a few paragraphs about Bill Bernbach, [...]
Technology is the most powerful accelerator in advertising creativity. Brands around the world are proliferating and next June Cannes will have more cases that prove this to be true. The speed of change is only increasing and today it is reckless. Let’s [...]
The future begins today, as a phrase could rightly be described as trite. However, it reflects a powerful truth that I do not recommend ignoring (it can be very expensive!). That’s right, the future will be nothing more or less than the [...]
In the year in which Apple celebrates 30 years of having launched Macintosh to the world, a new Apple commercial has come to fill our spirits with poetry. This time it is with the text of an excerpt from the movie Dead [...]
My maternal grandfather’s name was Clemente Alpírez Garay. I never knew him because he died in 48 when he was the victim of an ambush. He was shot while shouting “viva viva” to Don Pepe on his way back to the house [...]
From last year we found extraordinary examples to persuade you to invest in creativity, production and talent, if you are one of the people in charge of a brand. That brand could be a mass consumer brand, such as Red Bull or [...]
