Economist | Logistics & Supply Chain Strategist committed to promoting economic & supply chain advancements in Latin America & beyond. Ideas are my own 🇨🇷

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Joined November 2022
Nearshoring en LATAM: ¿Se nos cierra la ventana de oportunidad? En mi opinión, esto es una chance histórica que no podemos dejar pasar. Estudios recientes muestran que cerca del 50% de las empresas estadounidenses sin fábricas en México, Sudamérica o Centroamérica planean invertir aquí en los próximos cinco años. Pero hay barreras que me preocupan: la logística es un caos (costos altos, entregas que duran mucho), se ocupa mucha inversión en infraestructura y también en educación para tener personas que puedan tomar esos puestos. Con México ya saturado, creo que hay una gran oportunidad para muchos países de la región si invierten ahora.
Argentina tiene una oportunidad única de convertirse en socio comercial clave de Estados Unidos en Sudamérica. La relación entre Milei y Trump ha abierto conversaciones sobre un acuerdo de libre comercio que daría a ciertos sectores argentinos acceso al mercado norteamericano. Esto podría permitir a Argentina diversificar su economía, atraer inversión extranjera, y fortalecer su posición regional. Para Estados Unidos, representa una oportunidad de restablecer presencia estratégica en América Latina después de años de menor atención a la región. El desafío será navegar las implicaciones con el Mercosur, pero el potencial de reconfigurar rutas comerciales en Sudamérica es considerable.🇦🇷🇺🇸🌎
Why don’t more people trust robotaxis? Most people still don’t trust EVs, let alone an EV that drives itself with no human behind the wheel. People are comfortable with AI helping them write emails or analyze documents, but trusting it to help drive their car? That’s a much bigger leap. The ironic part is that cities like NYC could be ideal testing grounds: slow speeds, short trips, and chaotic traffic that would force the technology to improve quickly. And with no driver costs, rides could be more affordable than Ubers or taxis. But until the trust issue is solved, adoption will remain slow. Companies like Waymo and Tesla are pricing aggressively to build confidence, but changing people’s minds about safety will take more time.
NYC could be the perfect city for robotaxis and I believe this is an opportunity worth pursuing. The chaotic traffic, slow speeds, and short trips that define Manhattan create ideal conditions for autonomous vehicles to learn quickly and handle complex scenarios. The real benefit: rides could be much more affordable than Ubers and taxis. With companies like Tesla and Waymo pricing low to drive adoption, transportation in the city could become accessible to more people. There’s also the safety angle - fewer accidents on the roads. I’m confident that if robotaxis can handle NYC traffic, they can work anywhere. 🚕🤖
Who will win the next french presidential elections? The french economy is not faring well, it has very high levels of taxation and yet its debt is over 100% of GDP. Its automakers are losing market share to chinese EVs and as it relates to AI, while the country has a local AI lab (Mistral) is still too niche and small to compete with global giants. The company has huge potential to lead the eurozone now that germany is in so much trouble but for that it will need a govt more open to free markets ... sadly the country appears to be going in a different direction if recent polls are to be believed... economist.com/europe/2025/11…
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Congrats @SUSE on the major #version release!!! #Linux #AI #OpenSource
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 is here — the first enterprise Linux with built-in Agentic AI 💪 🤖 AI-powered visibility & automation 🔁 Human-in-the-Loop operations 🫡 Live patching & post-2038 readiness 🌱 16-year lifecycle + instant rollback A new era of open, intelligent infrastructure begins. 👉 What feature are you most excited about? 🔗 okt.to/l8okOd
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This is great news. If there’re people who need help to do their jobs those are teachers. That profession is burdened with the huge responsibility of teaching the future generation but they are often not given the tools they need to succeed in such a critical task. Allowing professors to use AI to help develop their study programs and other important tasks, will make a world of difference. More govts should be doing this. Kudos to Iceland and Anthropic for this partnership. 🙏.
We're announcing a partnership with Iceland's Ministry of Education and Children to bring Claude to teachers across the nation. It's one of the world's first comprehensive national AI education pilots: anthropic.com/news/anthropic…
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What an incredible game. The BlueJays had an amazing game 7 and an amazing series overall. They were an incredibly tough opponent and were ahead most of the game. While the BlueJays didn’t win they should be proud of their performance. Kudos to the LA Dodgers on a well deserved championship. One of the best World Series of the last few years for sure. 🙏💪⚾️
THE LOS ANGELES @DODGERS ARE THE 2025 #WORLDSERIES CHAMPIONS! #CHAMPS
Alphabet has a long term advantage compared to OpenAI as it already has a long list of product offerings where it can insert their Gemini AI. Google workspace, Android phones, YouTube, pixel products, Google cloud products, Google search, etc… are just ways where alphabet can continue expanding its AI presence, while OpenAI needs to start creating its own ecosystem… The fact that a new browser was created by OpenAI shows how they’re beginning to realize that to grow and make money in the long term, they will need to make as many people as possible use their products as much as possible.
Google's transition from Bard to Gemini in just one year is unbelievable gemini now has 650m monthly active users, and chatGPT has around 800m with Gemini 3, it could rival chatGPT if done right. google controls the internet gateway through android and the play store OpenAI doesn't have that advantage
Sometimes people are laid off even they’re doing a good job. The fact that companies are always trying to do more with less even if this means moving job overseas for cheaper labor, is something that everyone will feel at least once in their life. One day you receive great feedback for the job you’re doing, and 6 months later you’re laid off because the entire dept is being moved overseas to cut costs… Sometimes you see the writing on the wall, sometimes you don’t and you get fired for no reason… It is part of life and there’s no other way but to accept that reality and move on.
How to get your life back after you get laid off trib.al/1BkeKLm
India is a country with amazing potential, not just in Asia but globally. The key challenge is to make sure that everyone in India is able to grow while the country gets richer and more influential. Inequality is a problem in pretty much every country, and I hope that India is capable of managing this problem in a much better way than most of the developed economies who now suffer from chronic issues in this area. I hope India looks at history for inspiration and implements reforms that truly help its population. 🙏
Elections in India’s poorest state will offer insight into the popularity of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The country’s ambition of getting rich depends on politicians finding ways to make Bihar’s 130m people much better off economist.com/asia/2025/10/2…
Every couple of news I read about how each of the German automakers is struggling to reach their growth targets. There’re many potential explanations but I believe they focus in two areas, one being the structural changes facing the German economy today, and the other one being decisions made/not made by German automakers when they should’ve done them to stay ahead of the curve. It is clear the German economy is facing a very difficult situation today, and high energy prices are not helping. The fact that many companies are beginning to move overseas, or go bankrupt is problematic to say the least, and this is not helping the European market either, making it more difficult for German automakers to thrive. The other problem is the fact that none of the German automakers really took electrification that seriously. They first ignored it as a “fad”, and once their shareholders started to push for it, they begun to invest in this new technology but half-heartedly. Now Chinese EVs are beginning to expand in Europe and the rest of the world, and they are being forced to play catch up… I’m confident these companies will be able to survive, but unless drastic action is taken they will come out of the tunnel more diminished in the global markets. DW News piped.video/TH53amfgfp4?si=Dey7… via @YouTube
This is one of those experiments that have been tried and tested many times but it never catches on. A startup can do this if from the beginning all its employees are aligned on how are going to work. If this is the culture then any new employee will need to adapt to it if they want to succeed. But you cannot switch the entire structure and expect it to work overnight. While the idea of flattening the management sounds ideal considering that it reduces bureaucracy, it also make it very difficult for people to have a clear career growth plan if there’re so few options once you reach a certain level. It’ll be interesting to see how this story develops at Bayer, but most likely the company will need to reach a middle point to ensure that people don’t start just leaving for other companies with clearer career paths and organizational structure. www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.…
In the past few weeks many people with windows 10 in their laptops or home desktops have decided to give Linux a try after the recent announcement from Microsoft about Windows10. It is great to see how many people are giving Linux a try and Zorin OS being a very beginner friendly option for people using Windows or Mac, should help ease this transition. More people should give Linux a try.
Zorin OS 18 Released with Refreshed UI and Smart Window Tiling linuxtoday.com/blog/zorin-os…
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This is a very terrifying situation. Imagine yourself paying for 4-5 yrs of university, get into debt to pay for it in many cases, just to get your degree and spent months and months unemployed because entry level jobs are under a hiring freeze to see if many of those jobs can be automated by AI… We need to start rethinking as a society which are the careers of the future and with more opportunities to grow so that universities emphasize those even more so that people have upward mobility or we will end up with a highly educated but unemployed population in the long term…
The AI job crisis is real The U.K. is facing a severe Gen Z job crisis: around 1.2 million graduates are competing for just 17,000 available entry-level positions, the worst ratio since the late 1990s. AI automation and hiring freezes have wiped out many entry-level roles, while universities keep producing degrees misaligned with market needs—leaving thousands of young workers stranded between education and employment.
I've always been intrigued by how the tech industry has ingrained in us that once we have a computer that can no longer support the latest version of Windows/Mac OS, we have to replace it out of fear of losing support. There's a lot of enterprise and commercial hardware that simply gets thrown away or stops being used because of this very issue. If a computer or laptop is maybe 10 years old, it's considered obsolete, and that couldn't be further from the truth. Many times, installing an updated version of Linux solves the problem, and the equipment can continue functioning for several more years without issues. Fedora is just one example of Linux distributions that can be used, but it's not the only one. There are many options that can make a difference, not only in our pockets but also for the planet. 🌎🙏
Fedora Linux 43 Officially Released with #Linux Kernel 6.17, Now Available for Download 9to5linux.com/fedora-linux-4… @fedora #OpenSource
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Siempre me ha llamado la atención como la industria de la tecnología nos ha inculcado que una vez tengamos una computadora que ya no puede soportar la más reciente versión de Windows/Mac OS tenemos que cambiarla por miedo a quedar sin soporte. Hay mucho hardware empresarial y de uso comercial que simplemente o se bota o se deja de utilizar por este mismo tema. Si una computadora o laptop ya tiene tal vez 10 años se considera obsoleta y eso no puede estar más lejos de la verdad. Muchas veces instalando una version actualizada de Linux se resuelve el problema y el equipo puede continuar funcionando por varios años sin problemas. Fedora es solo un ejemplo de distribuciones Linux que se pueden utilizar pero no es la única. Hay muchas opciones que pueden hacer la diferencia, no solo en nuestros bolsillos si no que table para el planeta también. 🌎🙏
Fedora Linux 43 Officially Released with #Linux Kernel 6.17, Now Available for Download 9to5linux.com/fedora-linux-4… @fedora #OpenSource
Cesar S.Pictac retweeted
Install AI models on Ubuntu with one command. Now automatically optimized for your device’s silicon. Try it: 𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐨 𝐬𝐧𝐚𝐩 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐪𝐰𝐞𝐧-𝐯𝐥 --𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐚 Learn more in our press release: canonical.com/blog/canonical… #OpenSource #Ubuntu #AI
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AI is here to stay. It is arguably the most influential development since the Internet. Banning “super intelligent AI” will only allow other countries to catch up and create AIs that are more intrusive, and biased in the long term… The best way to tackle this problem is to continue innovating and ensure that guardrails are put to make the technology more beneficial to consumers. Banning stuff has never worked.
"Over 800 public figures, including "AI godfathers" and Steve Wozniak, sign open letter to ban superintelligent AI"? It's too late, that won't happen. Here are a few reasons why: - Currently, all economic growth in the US is based on data center CapEx. Without these investments, the country would be in recession. What's more, these investments will also have to pay off in the future. A pause? Impossible. - Even if the US said it was taking a break, that would be a strategic advantage for China—to catch up with and overtake the US as quickly as possible. In short: a break for one party would be an advantage for the other. - Furthermore, AI has long been declared strategic for national security; global competition will use AI to gain political advantages. In summary: no one will stop striving for superintelligence. There is no doubt about that.
AI can be used to enhance creative content, not replace it.. Just recently it was announced that nearly half of all new content on the web is AI generated…Creators now have a unique opportunity to shine in a world of bland/generic content everywhere. 🙏
Many creative companies claim that AI made content infringes their copyright. Yet for the best-known creators, it presents two opportunities economist.com/business/2025/…