Eran las ocho de la noche, y el olor a buñuelos que cocinaba Glo, llegaba hasta los pies de la puerta de mi recamara. Rápidamente, tomaba mis pantuflas y desde el segundo piso, recorría las escaleras apresuradamente hacia las cocina. Glo, Carmen, Olegario, Erika suspiraban viendo el televisora, mis hermanos sentados, agitando los platos, estaban listos para la merienda. Por otro lado, sin saber por qué el sollozo de los adultos, tome mi lugar en la pequeña mesa antes del antecomedor, el olor del pinole llenaba las paredes de la cocina, enfrente de la isla se encontraba una repisas, en ella un televisor. “La telenovela Rina continuara en breve”, decía una voz desde la pantalla. Entre comerciales nos servían los buñuelos, ¿podemos más chocolate caliente? Preguntaba uno de mis … [Read more...]
Latin America’s Top 50 Brands
Analyzing the 50 most valuable brands in Latin America is not an easy task. Last week Millward Brown and MPP just did that, released their fourth annual Brand in Latin America, they analyzed the region's six top economies: Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Argentina (PDF Doc Report). The 83 pages reports includes a extend breakout of the top 50 brands by country, even do there is been a despite slow economic growth in Latin America, they rise a 2% y/y/y. Some of the highlights include; Mexico, 17 top 50 brands, $49.4 billion value, +15% y/o/y Brazil, 11 top 50 brands, $32 billion value, +5% y/o/y Chile, 7 top 50 brands, $19.4 billion value, -23% y/o/y Colombia, 9 top 50 brands, $19.3 billion value, -4% y/o/y Peru, 4 top 50 brands, $6.1 billion value, +15% … [Read more...]
The Villarrica volcano in Chile erupted, hundreds have been evacuated.
The Villarica Volcano located at the South of Chile erupted this Tuesday morning. According to several media new agencies in Chile, the lava intensified around 3 a.m. local time. Pucon and Conaripe are some of the near towns the volcano, authorities informed the people had been evacuated as a precaution, see map of the location of the volcano. You can watch the Google/Maps Satellite latest images of the volcano, go to the link. This are some impressive images from Bernd Andeweg, Earth Scientist from VU University Amsterdam through his account in twitter; @BerndAndeweg. "@infoVolcano VOLCAN #Villarrica !!! [5] #Chile cr: LagoVillarica pic.twitter.com/WKHYzihTk0" pics keep getting more impressive... — Bernd Andeweg (@BerndAndeweg) March 3, … [Read more...]
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