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 […]
If Don Oscar and his government got a stadium from the Chinese, now it could be the turn of Doña Laura and her government to get one from Qatar. How does that sound? To tell the truth, I would prefer a million [...]
We have already started to upload the presentations of Ignite Costa Rica #1 on its website, and with them a series of lessons learned to improve in the second one. If you were not at the Jazz Café Escazu, we invite you [...]
A few months ago I climbed a beautiful peak in Arizona, on the well-known CamelBack Mountain with Sergio Valente, leader of DM9/DDB Brazil, one of the most creative and winning agencies in the world. It was a fun climb of a couple [...]
The video included in this post summarizes the experience of last October 31, where many of us shared the idea of creating an irresistible space and a relevant environment to learn more about God. Designed particularly for people who don’t like churches, [...]
The Ojo de Iberoamérica awarded a brand new regional Gold to “Puppy” by Protecto, reaffirming what many of us thought: in the last Pregonero Darío Lanis, Alejandro Aguilera and Miguel Ángel Barahona excessively punished a winning piece, for sending a message to [...]
Little can be added to a week in which I enjoyed Tribu winning the first Grand Effie in Costa Rica on a Thursday, successfully organizing an Ignite on Saturday at Jazz Café Escazú and then seeing it win a gold on Monday, [...]
It’s just one detail and it makes all the difference. The meeting tent is a marvel, but even more so is how much we enjoy making things happen at Tribu. Check out a sample of emails, in this case with Viviana Araya [...]
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 [...]