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Ricardo Salinas of Grupo Salinas celebrates five years with his blog

Maribel Ramos-Weiner| April 11, 2013

Grupo Salinas announced that its founder and chairman, Ricardo Salinas, is celebrating five years of {blog entries;www.ricardosalinas.com/blog}, as the first Mexican business leader to share blog posts on a continual basis. Salinas’ blog began with an interest to communicate ideas and reflect a passion for business, as well as express thoughts about problems affecting economic and social development. Common blog themes include the base of the socioeconomic pyramid, democracy, empowerment, the environment, freedom of expression and immigration, among many others. Additionally, Salinas shares through the blog his passion for literature and the arts.The blog has served as a space for sharing social value initiatives implemented by Fundación Azteca, Fomento Cultural Grupo Salinas, Caminos de la Libertad and La Ciudad de las Ideas. The blog is also published on The Huffington Post, an innovative online platform, with a broad reach in the United States.As a reference on the ideas of Ricardo Salinas, the blog has been visited by over 2 million people worldwide, with a continued positive trend in readership. To celebrate this anniversary, an application has been launched in Google Play for Android devices and the App Store for iPads, with an iPhone version available soon.