Jose Castro

Electrical Engineer and
AGALEMO -Costa Rican Leukemia Patients Organization Volunteer

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Putin’s Russia in the 21st century: The “second-best army in the world” has run out of fuel, and steam locomotives have been hauled out of the motherland’s reserves. 😂😂😂

Soon, they will likely be unpacking airships and horse-drawn carriages from the 1920s. The return to the USSR—so lauded by “patriots”—is proceeding at breakneck speed.

https://t.co/e5hgGT2FUB

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

This is incredible, I love watching multiple people playing on one instrument, the co-ordination is amazing!

[A J A @hittavilsa]

@MikeWaltz47

[Діана @katze_chick]

Oooooh good burn Canada!!
🇨🇦 ♥️🇨🇦
Well done.
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[Ana Crónica🐍🦁 @Ana_montesdeoca]

GRACIAS, GRACIAS, GRACIAS a todos por el amor, las palabras y el RT!!! Nunca creí que iba a repercutir tanto!
Solo quiero agregar que ni soy valiente ni soy ejemplo de nada. Todavía hay secuelas y seguro nunca se irán, pero hablar y contar es lo que salva.
Gracias!

[Jose Castro @jlcastroa]

@wartranslated @Biz_Ukraine_Mag https://t.co/T8Gsz8wxnm

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Nicholas Winton ayudó a 669 niños judíos a escapar de los nazis.

Pocos lo sabían

Luego, en 1988, mientras estaba sentado como miembro de una audiencia televisiva, de repente se encontró rodeado por los niños que había rescatado, que ahora eran adultos.

[Agustín Antonetti @agusantonetti]

Tremendo discurso de Javier Milei en la ONU: “En esta casa, que dice defender los DD.HH, permitieron el ingreso al Consejo de DD.HH a dictaduras sangrientas como Cuba y Venezuela. El ingreso de países que castigan a las mujeres por mostrar la piel (Irán)”.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This video of Donald Trump singing “It wasn’t me” is now TRENDING.

Can we get #ItWasntMe trending to the top?

[Jose Castro @jlcastroa]

@Art0fRise_

[Jose Castro @jlcastroa]

@fopminui This is the first time I've felt compelled to say something on Twitter, but the story you posted deserves it. I hope your post reaches many people to help raise awareness about the harmful effects of racism. Greetings from Costa Rica.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

In 1989, an unlikely bond was formed in Costa Rica when Gilberto "Chito" Shedden, a local fisherman, stumbled upon a dying crocodile on the banks of the Reventazón River.

The crocodile, who Shedden named Pocho, had been shot in the head by a cattle farmer. Chito took Pocho home and nursed him back to health, feeding him of chicken and fish.

Chito believed that, beyond food, "the crocodile needed my love to regain the will to live". He gave Pocho kisses and hugs, talked to him, petted him, and even slept with him. When Pocho's health improved, Chito released him into a nearby river. Pocho refused to return to the wild and chose to stay with Chito.

For over 20 years, Chito and Pocho swam together in the river outside Chito's home. They played together, with Chito hugging & kissing the 16-foot-long crocodile. Pocho would even respond when Chito called his name.

Their unique friendship caught the attention of people around the world. They performed a weekly act on Sunday afternoons in an artificial lake at Finca Las Tilapias in Siquirres, Costa Rica. Pocho died of natural causes in 2011.

[Ukraine / Україна @Ukraine]

Serhii Koroliov, a world-renowned rocket engineer from Ukraine, was born on this day in 1906 in Zhytomyr. He survived Stalin's Gulag and guided humanity to space.

Happy birthday, Ukrainian Starman!

Learn more: https://t.co/MZIrybgZ3m

[Alerta Noticias UKR 24 @UKR_token]

A los bielorrusos se les prohibirá vivir en el extranjero sin el permiso de Lukashenko.

Ahora los bielorrusos tendrán que presentar una solicitud al Departamento de Migración en el territorio de Bielorrusia para poder salir de Bielorrusia y residir permanentemente en el extranjero. Se comprobará si el solicitante no tiene prohibido salir del país y si no tiene deudas con el Estado, incluido el servicio militar.

Anteriormente era posible solicitar la residencia permanente en los consulados bielorrusos en otros países.

Así, de hecho, Lukashenko introduce "visados ​​de salida" para los bielorrusos, como ocurrió en la URSS. Y esto teniendo en cuenta que las nuevas normas contradicen la Constitución de Bielorrusia, según la cual sus ciudadanos tienen derecho a salir libremente del país y también a regresar libremente.

Anteriormente, Lukashenko ya había prohibido la emisión de nuevos pasaportes y la renovación de los existentes en el extranjero; desde septiembre, esto solo se puede hacer dentro de Bielorrusia, lo que ha complicado la vida de los bielorrusos que huyeron del dictador en 2020.

[Jose Castro @jlcastroa]

@vijivenkatesh Dear Viji Venkatesh ,so sad to read about the passing of my fellow engineer, my hearfelt condolences to you and your family from distant Costa Rica.

[Jose Castro @jlcastroa]

@front_ukrainian Costa Rica

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door."
From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else.
When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career.
Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it.
What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne.
She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end.
Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame."
In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life."
He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm.
Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Will Stenberg

[Jose Castro @jlcastroa]

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[Jose Castro @jlcastroa]

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