Diego Castro

Entrepreneur apasionado por la educación, la economía y la política. Conocedor de nada, aprendiz de todo. Ph.D

[Diego Castro @DiegoNsamCastro]

@BillAckman God bless

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

If you’re curious and love to learn, there has never been a better time to be alive.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthleticFC: Ecuador beat Germany to reach the World Cup knock-out stage. Gonzalo Plata's goal sparked scenes of delirium from thousands of Ecuadorians inside the stadium. "And they absolutely deserved it. A breathless game." https://t.co/jLmxEt7WV7

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

People ask me how I stay so optimistic. The honest answer: I read the data, not the headlines.

[Diego Castro @DiegoNsamCastro]

@FarroYossi Congrats Rabbi!!

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

❤️💙🇪🇨 OFFICIAL: William Pacho wins UEFA Man of the Match Award for Bayern-PSG.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇱 Israel has been at war for almost 3 years. Its economy is forecast to grow faster than every G7 country this year.

Unemployment is at 3.2%, inflation is under 2%, and the Tel Aviv stock exchange is up 20% since January. The shekel gained 7% against the dollar during the war.

The reason: a booming tech sector, record foreign investment in cybersecurity, surging defense exports, and a highly skilled workforce that keeps attracting global capital even during active conflict.

Most countries would be on their knees. Israel is outperforming the U.S., the EU, and the UK at the same time.

Source: CNBC

[Martin Varsavsky @martinvars]

The United States has a habit of watching its rivals shrink. The Soviet Union collapsed. Japan, which was supposed to own America in the 1980s, is now a far smaller economy. China looks set to follow.

In 2021 China's GDP reached 76 percent of American GDP, and the consensus was that it would pass the US before 2030. That consensus has collapsed. By 2024 the US economy was 29.2 trillion dollars against China's 18.9 trillion, a gap that has widened for three straight years. China's working-age population is shrinking. Its fertility rate has fallen to roughly 1.0, half of replacement. There is no immigration to compensate.

Yet America benefits from believing it faces a formidable rival. The belief is what keeps it competing.

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Europe is on a path to destroying itself.

Unchecked immigration of millions of immigrants that burden their welfare states, bring violence and terrorism to their shores, and take over local governance, one city at a time.

Anti-capitalist policies that make it difficult for businesses to adapt their workforces to a rapidly changing competitive environment now accelerating due to AI.

A business environment and tax regime that is antithetical to startups.

The absence of any progress or innovation in AI and limited access to the compute necessary to compete.

Energy dependence due to the green movement at a moment when energy demands are rapidly increasing.

And now, the abandonment of the U.S. when we have asked for limited assistance — base access and flyover rights — in the midst of our efforts to eliminate Iran’s nuclear and ballistic threat which is already within striking range of Europe, after we have invested nearly $200 billion in helping Ukraine.

NATO is about to be toast. Europe’s defense burden is about to rise massively while their economies continue to fall further and further behind.

In short, Europe needs to wake up before it is too late, and it may very well be too late.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime.

The 250-mile ceiling is where the International Space Station floats. Every astronaut since December 1972 has been stuck in that zone. Spacewalks, science experiments, cool photos from orbit, sure. But nobody left the neighborhood.

The last crew to go farther was Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president. The internet didn't exist. Cell phones were 11 years away. The youngest member of that crew is now 90 years old.

The farthest any human has ever been from Earth is 248,655 miles. The Apollo 13 crew set that number in 1970, and they didn't mean to. Their oxygen tank blew up, and the emergency route home took them farther out than anyone before or since. Tonight's crew will break that record on purpose.

And the crew itself. Victor Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to leave Earth's neighborhood. Christina Koch becomes the first woman. Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian fighter pilot, becomes the first non-American to do so. When they come home, they'll slam into the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, faster than any human has ever traveled.

The Moon's south pole has ice. Water ice, sitting in craters so deep that sunlight hasn't hit them in billions of years. A 2024 NASA study found way more of it than anyone expected. You can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which gives you rocket fuel, breathable air, and drinking water, all made on the Moon instead of hauled up from Earth. George Sowers at Colorado School of Mines calculated that Moon-made fuel could shave $12 billion off a single trip to Mars. The Moon is a gas station on the road to Mars.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced last week a $20 billion plan to build a permanent base at the South Pole over the next seven years, with landings every six months. China is developing its own lunar lander and spacesuit, aiming for a crewed landing by 2030. The Artemis program has burned through $93 billion so far, and the first actual surface landing is penciled in for 2028. There's a real question of who gets there first this time around.

Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon in December 1972 as part of Apollo 17. He's 90. Asked about it this week, he sounded pretty relaxed. "Mars is attainable," he said. "We're humans. That's what we've always done."

[Diego Castro @DiegoNsamCastro]

@Kraytur3 God bless

[United States Trade Representative @USTradeRep]

Inking trade deal with Latin American partner 🇺🇸🤝🇪🇨

Ambassador Greer joined Ecuadorian Minister @LuisJaramilloOK in signing the U.S.–Ecuador Agreement on Reciprocal Trade, opening Ecuador’s market of over 18 million consumers to U.S. agricultural and industrial exports.

Learn more: https://t.co/ol0wIE9Ghl

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

Yes — as @POTUS has said — we are bombing Narco Terrorists on land as well.

Thank you to our partners in Ecuador. Much more to come from @Southcom …

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Ecuadorian forces sank a "narco sub" near its northern border as the nation works with the United States military to crack down on organized crime in the country. https://t.co/NLIke0aMf8

[Bloomberg @business]

Ecuador expelled the entire staff of the Cuban embassy in the latest rupture between Quito and leftist governments in the region https://t.co/0YraZAakcu

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸🇪🇨 BREAKING: U.S. military just launched an operation with Ecuadorian forces against a Designated Terrorist Organization in Ecuador.

Iran, Venezuela, Mexico, now Ecuador.

American forces are operating on multiple fronts simultaneously.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

The calculation in Tehran was that by striking the Gulf countries, which have significant influence on the Trump administration, it would be possible to force Washington and Israel to quickly stop the escalation and fighting. Now it seems that this calculation is collapsing and turning against Tehran, as the Gulf countries are reaching the conclusion that they must confront the Iranian regime. The prevailing atmosphere in the Gulf now is that Iran cannot be allowed to escape without a response to the unprecedented attacks on its neighbors.

(Wall Street Journal)

[Diego Castro @DiegoNsamCastro]

@AviMayer Thank you. I am a mashav graduate. I love Israel.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

"Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead. This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei..." - President Donald J. Trump