Luis Pertusa Rodriguez

Diplomático / Diplomat 🇪🇸,PhD, Runner y Family Man 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👶🏻. Father x3. From #Murcia to the world

[Martin Varsavsky @martinvars]

España tiene dos complejos mal resueltos: se siente inferior a Europa y superior a Hispanoamérica. Los dos son falsos y los dos le hacen daño.

Inferior a Europa, porque olvida que España tiene idioma global, historia, empresas, talento, ciudades extraordinarias y una conexión cultural que ningún burócrata de Bruselas puede fabricar. Superior a Hispanoamérica, porque confunde renta per c��pita con civilización y no entiende que buena parte del futuro español también está al otro lado del Atlántico.

España debería mirar menos hacia arriba y más hacia afuera. Su ventaja no es parecerse a Alemania. Es ser el puente natural de 500 millones de hispanohablantes.

[soynat @nataliaFHN]

Síndrome de Lynch. Vamos, tuiteros, ayudadme a que España conozca este Síndrome tan destructivo.
España tendrá que seguir indicaciones de la EMA, pero tengo esperanza. No podría aguantar un 5° cancer

[Luis Pertusa Rodriguez @pertusaluis]

@wallstwolverine Encima en mi Murcia bella

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

245 years ago today, a 35-year-old Spanish nobleman fired a single artillery shell that redrew the map of North America, broke British power in the Gulf of Mexico, and arguably saved the American Revolution. His name was Bernardo de Gálvez. He's not in your textbook. He should be.

When Spain entered the war against Britain in June 1779, the American cause was bleeding out. Washington's army was unpaid and shrinking. The Continental dollar was worth pennies. The British had taken Savannah and were preparing to take Charleston. France was helping, but France alone couldn't bankrupt the British Empire.

Spain could. And in New Orleans sat the man who would prove it.

Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid was 33 years old, the governor of Spanish Louisiana, a battle-scarred career officer who had been wounded fighting Apaches in northern Mexico and Algerians in North Africa. The day he learned Spain had declared war, he didn't wait for orders from Madrid. He raised an army of Spanish regulars, Louisiana Creoles, free Black militia from New Orleans, Acadian refugees, German settlers, and Choctaw scouts, and he went on the attack.

In three months he took Manchac, Baton Rouge, and Natchez. The next year he took Mobile. The British presence on the Gulf shrank to one last fortress. Pensacola, the capital of British West Florida, defended by Major General John Campbell with 1,500 redcoats, the 3rd Waldeck Regiment of German mercenaries, loyalist battalions from Maryland and Pennsylvania, and a powerful alliance of Creek and Choctaw warriors led by the brilliant mixed-race chief Alexander McGillivray.

Gálvez arrived off Pensacola in March 1781 with 7,000 men and a fleet. The Spanish naval commander, Admiral Calbo de Irazábal, refused to enter Pensacola Bay. The entrance was narrow, raked by British guns at Fort Barrancas Coloradas, and treacherous with sandbars. So Gálvez did something insane. He boarded his own little brig, the Galveztown, hoisted his personal pennant, and sailed her into the bay alone, in full view of the British batteries, daring the Royal Navy to sink him. The British fired and missed. The Spanish fleet, shamed, followed him in. For this he was awarded the right to put the words "Yo Solo," meaning "I alone," on his coat of arms by the King of Spain.

The siege ground on for two months. Gálvez was shot in the abdomen and the finger directing artillery and refused to leave the field. The British defenses at the Queen's Redoubt, also called the Crescent, held against everything thrown at them. And then, on the morning of May 8, 1781, a Spanish howitzer crew lofted a shell over the parapet. It dropped, by pure luck or perfect skill, directly into the open powder magazine.

The explosion killed roughly 100 defenders in a single instant. Waldeck grenadiers, British regulars, loyalists, all gone. The blast tore the redoubt's wall open like paper. Spanish grenadiers and Louisiana militia poured through the breach within minutes and turned the captured British guns on the inner works. Campbell knew it was over.

The next morning, May 9, white flags went up. By May 10 the entire province of West Florida belonged to Spain. Over 1,100 British troops marched out as prisoners of war.

The strategic consequences were catastrophic for Britain. The Gulf Coast was lost. The Mississippi was a Spanish river from source to sea. Britain could no longer reinforce its southern armies by sea from the Caribbean, and the Royal Navy's Caribbean squadron had to be redeployed. Five months later, Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, in a siege funded in part by 500,000 silver pesos that Gálvez and the people of Havana raised in a matter of days to pay French Admiral de Grasse's fleet to come north.

Without that money, no French fleet. Without the French fleet, no Yorktown. Without Yorktown, no independence on those terms.

Gálvez was made Count of Gálvez and Viscount of Galveztown. The bay he charted in Texas still bears his name, Galveston. His portrait hangs in the United States Capitol by act of Congress. In 2014, he was made an honorary citizen of the United States, an honor given to only eight people in American history, including Lafayette, Churchill, and Mother Teresa.

He died of yellow fever in Mexico City at 40 years old, three years after the war ended.

Most Americans have never heard his name.

[soynat @nataliaFHN]

Me gustaría visibilizar mi situación.
He pasado por 4 cánceres, el último de páncreas. La quimio ya no m la puedo dar.Necesito inmunoterapia como uso compasivo o ensayo para Lynch.
Me gustaría conseguir algún día que #sindromedelynch fuera trending topic.
Retuiteáis? Si 👇

[Spain MFA @SpainMFA]

The Spanish Government strongly condemns the serious attack suffered by a French Catholic nun in Jerusalem.

🔗
https://t.co/ZYmvgUjBBZ

[Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, UE y Cooperación @MAECgob]

El Gobierno de España expresa su enérgica condena de la grave agresión sufrida por una religiosa católica de nacionalidad francesa en Jerusalén.

🔗
https://t.co/27NbTL0Mxm

[Javier Santamarta del Pozo @JaviSantamarta]

@EylonALevy Golda Meir declaró en diversas ocasiones que el pueblo judío y el Estado de Israel recordaban la "actitud humanitaria adoptada por España durante la era hitleriana, cuando dieron ayuda y protección a muchas víctimas del nazismo”.

De nada.

[Delegación Cultura Diócesis Getafe @CulturaGetafe]

¿Quieres conocer la realidad de los cristianos en Tierra Santa? ¡No te pierdas este coloquio!

[Juan Ángel Soto Gómez @JuanASotoG]

Mientras el mundo aguarda sobrecogido el desenlace del enésimo ultimátum de Trump a Irán, Murcia se viste de gala (¡y luce hermosa!) en su Bando de la Huerta.

¡Viva Murcia!

#BandodelaHuerta

[Film Treasure @Film_Treasures]

Ridley Scott directing Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine in The Duellists (1977).

[Custodia Terrae Sanctae @custodiaTS]

Joint Press Release - The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land

[Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem @LPJerusalem]

بيان مشترك من البطريركية اللاتينية في القدس وحراسة الأراضي المقدسة.

Joint Press Release: The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land.

https://t.co/ujB3t50j67

[Trad West @trad_west_]

The Razzouk family are Coptic Christians originally from Egypt. They have been tattooing Christian pilgrims for over 700 years across 28 generations. They moved to Jerusalem around 1750 and have been there ever since.

Pilgrims receive tattoos of the Jerusalem Cross, the Virgin Mary, or a crucifix, marked with the year of their pilgrimage. A permanent mark proving they made the journey to the Holy Land.

The Guinness World Records confirmed Razzouk Tattoo as the oldest tattoo business in the world. Wassim Razzouk, the current owner, has tattooed bishops, priests, and pilgrims from every denomination on earth. The tradition has been passed from father to son for 28 generations and continues to this day.

[Universitarios Católicos @UniCatolicos_es]

‼️Los Patriarcas y Jefes de las Iglesias de Jerusalén han emitido una declaración rechazando el sionismo cristiano y advirtiendo contra la “representación” no autorizada de cristianos en Tierra Santa.

El texto enfatiza la unidad de los cristianos y rechaza intentos externos de “representar” a los cristianos locales, particularmente aquellos vinculados al sionismo cristiano.

Las iglesias evangelistas apoyan que Israel se establezca sobre el territorio palestino, intentando justificarlo como parte de un plan divino.

[Jeremy Dicker 🌏 @Dicker_JJ]

when you accidentally call ambassador by first name

[Alex Pérez. @honordetigre]

5 años - ¡Papá lo sabe todo!

7 años - Papá sabe.

10 años - ¡¿Quizás papá no lo sabe?!

12 años - Papá no sabe tanto.

16 años - No puedo tomar a papá en serio.

18 años - ¡¿Qué sabe papá?!

22 años - Los padres hablan tonterías.

24 años - Sé más que papá.

26 años - Parece que papá sabe algunas cosas después de todo.

30 años - Creo que debería preguntarle a papá sobre esto.

40 años - ¡Es increíble cómo papá pasó por todo esto!

45 años - Papá ha tenido razón todo el tiempo.

50 años - Si papá estuviera aquí, podría haber aprendido mucho de él.

Tu padre es el único hombre que está orgulloso de verte hacerlo mejor que él.

[soynat @nataliaFHN]

Amigos tuiteros, a ver si me podéis ayudar.
Pido retuit. Es importante.
De nuevo hay desabastecimiento de 1 fármaco q necesitamos las personas que tenemos insuficiencia pancreática ( en mi caso x cirugía whipple), que se llama #Kreon
Sin estás enzimas, no nos nutrimos bien.

[Carlos O. Valverde @CarlosOlivoV]

Una escena que conmueve a todo hombre de buena voluntad. A quien no conmueve es a Hamas, pues que veamos esto exactamente lo que persigue reteniendo a los rehenes y negándose a retirarse de Gaza.

[Papa León XIV @Pontifex_es]

Hoy vuelvo a hacer un fuerte llamamiento tanto a las partes implicadas como a la comunidad internacional para que pongan fin al conflicto en Tierra Santa, que ha causado tanto terror, destrucción y muerte.