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 […]
A few days ago I felt scared to the point of nausea, although at first I thought it was just a stomach reaction. I could feel in my churning guts the power of emotion that paralyzes to the bone. In fear I [...]
We have made a commitment: to serve as a positive influence and humbly propose to grow together. If you are part of Tribu DDB, you already know the approach we have chosen. If you are a friend, client, media or supplier, our [...]
If you were asked about the best thing in your life, what would you answer? If you were to die in a few minutes, would you be afraid? If you were an angel, would you jump into the world to feel your [...]
“The only thing in our power that no one else has is yourself,” Neil Gaiman insisted at the 2012 graduation at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. “Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision,” he went on to say after [...]
Today I walked into a meeting at Comunicación Corporativa / Ketchum and found 5 Volcanes at the reception desk. That’s right, not one, not two, not three but five awards collected at last Saturday’s Volcano Festival. This is the case that even [...]
At about 15 minutes before midnight, we celebrated in Tribu the 4th consecutive Volcano for Agency of the Year. After a demanding and not at all complacent awarding, this year’s jury distributed prizes among several companies, although once again we scored enough [...]
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 [...]
