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 […]
When Paula Guevara and Carlos Jimenez were the first Ticos in the Young Lions Competition, in June 2007, I participated as well. Here is the picture to prove it. Yes, the chicken is me, and what fun we had, because they needed [...]
On Monday, June 22, 2009, in “A Fuego Lento” we published a spectacular news, because Maia Livov and Jennifer Caldwell had won a very important Silver medal, participating in Cannes Young Lions Competition. Since we achieved the representation of Cannes for the [...]
I lived ten years of my life as a publicist at McCann-Erickson, one of which was in San Pedro Sula and almost five in Mexico City. Then I returned to Costa Rica and founded Consumer, the name Tribu had for its first [...]
If you are 28 years old or younger for next June, you are a creative, designer, planner or digital designer, and you are fluent in English, you have an opportunity you can’t miss. For everyone in Costa Rica, the Community and La [...]
Today I came across a fun Facebook post from our agency in Guatemala, the taier / Tribu DDB that has to be shared. And it goes like this: Anthropologists have recorded several tribes in which shamans happened to become a sort of [...]
Bronnie Ware has written a book inspired by her experiences among terminally ill patients. “The Top Five Regrets of Those Who Die” is the title of the publication I just ordered. While it reaches me, I transcribe into Spanish the summary that [...]
On the same day that the Community announced the Effie, La Nación confirmed the next Pregonero with its newsletter inviting pre-registration. This is the image that accompanied the message. In Tribu we suffer with the Pregoneros, as they have usually been difficult [...]
Today I received an email from Lilliana Gonzalez, Executive Director and driving force of the Community (formerly ASCAP), which made me very happy: the second edition of the Effie is coming. She also brought this image that I loved: As if organizing [...]
Have you heard that expression that says: “como quitarle un confite a un niño”? Or the one that adds a bit of humor and says: “Como arrearle a un borracho jumo! Seriously, there are topics that no matter how complex or difficult [...]
Today I have a few questions for you, if it’s not too much to ask, after you watch at least a fragment of this video recorded freehand with a Flip. Five times a day in Muslim countries you can hear a call [...]
“Mae, Fidel! No! Mae, not so soon!”, we would have told him if we could have asked him for a few more days, one more composition, one more concert. In an unexpected move, Fidel surprised us again with his talent, although this [...]
We have all enjoyed or suffered the Oscars awards in Hollywood. A few on the site, and all the rest of us, happily do it on TV. It’s sensational! I enjoy watching the films first, and then the talent, creativity, production, innovation [...]
