Greetings Friends, Clients & Colleagues, Marile and I hope this note finds you and yours well. Friday, September 11, is the twenty-fifth year since the morning our country was attacked — in New York, at the Pentagon, and in a field near Shanksville. Nearly three thousand lives were taken. Families were changed in an hour. Congress named the date Patriot Day. It is not a holiday. It is a day to reflect and remember. The law asks a simple civic act: fly the flag at half-staff, and keep a moment...

Greetings Friends, Clients & Colleagues, Marile and I hope you are well. Just weeks after supporting Venezuela, we are called to act again. On August 10, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake devastated western Colombia. Families in Cali, Pereira, and Quibdó are now without shelter and basic necessities. Marile and I are keeping the people of Colombia in our thoughts and prayers as they navigate this difficult time. This hits home for us. Our dear friends the Piedrahita, Barbier-Lara family, and so...

Greetings, From the historic streets of London this week, visiting our daughter, Saramelia, and joined by our daughter Annia and son, Luis Jorge, the 250th anniversary of American independence feels both remarkably distant and deeply personal. It is uniquely profound for our family to celebrate this milestone from the very place where America’s paths toward sovereignty first diverged. Looking out at this city, the weight of two and a half centuries—of the ideals fought for and the republic...