Fidel Castro marching with Sayyed Hassan Khomeini, grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini, on 26 July 2001 in La Habana, Cuba during an anti-imperialist march with more than one million Cubans. Surrounding civilians are wearing Free the Cuban 5 shirts for the then-political prisoners
يملك فادي ويوسف أرشيفاً واسعاً وثريّاً عن تاريخ لبنان. المعرض يقام في Union Marks في برج حمّود ابتداءً من اليوم وحتى يوم الأحد، من الساعة ١٢ ظهراً حتى الساعة ١٠ مساءً.
Thomas Adžgauskas, former Givati officer and sniper commander, killed himself on Wednesday. In his suicide letter, he wrote: "7.10 - The date that ruined my life... I am destruction and devastation... I did unforgivable things. I can't live with it anymore..."
The full text of the suicide letter Facebook post - in the following tweet.
> Be Nicolás Maduro
> President of Venezuela
> born in Caracas, 1962
> not born with a silver spoon
> bus driver on the chaotic streets of the capital
> every day: 14-hour shifts
> dodging traffic, collecting fares, listening to people’s problems
> union organizer by night
> learns how the working class actually lives
> no Ivy League, no elite mentors
> just diesel fumes and real talk
> 1992: backs Chávez’s failed coup
> goes to prison for it
> doesn’t break
> studies political science in Cuba while locked up
comes out more convinced than ever
> Chávez wins in ’98
> Maduro rises: union leader → foreign minister → vice president
> 2013: Chávez dies
> the elites, the media, half the world bets he lasts six months
> inherits a country already cracking
> oil at $100 suddenly collapses
> sanctions rain down
> opposition tries coups, terrorism, guarimbas, drone assassinations
> inflation hits 1,000,000% due to sanctions
> they said hyperinflation + isolation = certain death
> he doesn’t fall
> pivots to crypto (Petro)
> barters with Russia/China/Iran/Turkey
> survives every “game over” scenario the textbooks predicted
> still in Miraflores years later
> today, December 2025
> despite every embargo, every “maximum pressure” campaign Venezuela’s economy grows again (IMF projects +8% this year)
> oil back over 400k bpd and climbing
> new gas deals with BP & Chevron
> BRICS just handed Caracas a lifeline the old empires can’t veto
The former bus driver who Washington said would be gone by Christmas 2019 now outlasting three U.S. administrations and counting. Bus drivers aren’t supposed to beat empires yet here he stands.
> job’s not done
واقعاً، ويمكن الواحد يكون غلطان بس إنه كلنا عم نفتي عالفضاوة، كل الحكي كان عن حملة عسكرية واسعة تخلّيش وتبقّيش فينا، ربّما كانت تمهيد حتى يس يطلع هيك قرار حداش يعترض. يقلك يعني هيك تفاوض بيبقى أشفى حال من تهجير ونزوح وموت. وطبعاً في مين كان عم يهوّل عالعالم وهو محسوب عالمقاومة.