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Rául Castro em sua casa lendo correspondências.

Havana, Cuba, 1963 / Deena Stryker

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Russia’s Top Security Official Meetings in Havana     

On February 27, 2024, Nikolai Patrushev, Russia’s to security official, met in Havana with Cuba’s retired general Raul Castro. Other Russians in attendance were officials from Russian spy agencies like the Federal Security Service and the Foreign Intelligence Service in addition to officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Justice and other government agencies.[1] Patrushev…

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Foreign Affairs: Carlos W. Fernandez & Eric Lorber: Opening Cuba to Telecommunications Investment

Source:Foreign Affairs I agree that opening up the Cuban telecommunications industry and allowing for others to be involved there outside of the Castro Regime is a way to not only open up Cuba and open up a better relationship between America and Cuba, but the two government’s, is not only a good way to open up Cuba, but also a good way to open up the Cuban economy. The Castro Regime decided in…

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Bolivian President Luis Arce meeting former Cuban President Raul Castro

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a deep dive into the raul brasil school massacre.

as always, more information will be below the cut. this post is for educational, research, and awareness purposes only.

On March 13th, 2019, two students walked into their former school- Professor Raul Brasil State School, located in the municipality of Suzano, São Paulo State, Brazil.

The students, 17 year-old Guilherme Taucci Monteiro, born July 5th, 2001, and 25 year-old Luiz Henrique de Castro, born March 16th, 1993, had planned this for well over the better part of a year. It was 9:40 AM, and for the students at Raul Brasil, the day was just getting started. For Guilherme and Luiz, though, they were at the finish line.

Before arriving at the school, the two had shot and killed Guilherme’s uncle at the rental car shop, which he owned; that car shop was also where they stole the car they used to get to school that morning. Monteiro had previously worked for his uncle at this car shop, but had been fired for “petty crimes.”

When they arrived, they were armed with a gun (.38 caliber handgun), crossbows, and axes, as well as molotov cocktails and a handful of small knives. According to those who knew them, the pair had a “deep fascination with Columbine” and hoped to “emulate” it. Friends and former classmates were told about these plans, but claim they “didn’t believe it would actually happen” and those who did believe it kept their mouth shut, “afraid telling anybody would make them a target.”

Taucci and Luiz wanted to prove they could act like Eric and Dylan, the perpetrators behind the 1999 massacre at Columbine Highschool in Littleton, CO. They had goals of being even more well-known than the Columbine killers.

Allegedly, an unnamed 17 year old student was involved in planning the attack- although he was not present at school the day of. Police have asked a judge to issue a warrant for the teens arrest, (but it’s unclear whether or not anything has come of that request, five years later.)

Security camera footage captures Taucci and Luiz walking into the school. Taucci can be seen on CCTV shooting, and hitting several people in the head. Luiz can then be seen following him, attacking wounded, but still alive, students with an axe; “swinging it wildly” through the crowds of students who were attempting to flee the scene.

Luiz aims his crossbow, walking further into the school- and disappearing from the view of security cameras.

It would later be announced that seven people had been killed in the attack- 9 had died in total. 5 students, 1 teachers, and 1 school administrator (who police suspect to be the first to be killed.) 9 people were wounded in the attack, including 7 who were still hospitalized days later. One student was forced to run to the hospital nearby with an axe still lodged in his right shoulder.

After their killing spree, police were quickly closing in. Rather than facing authorities head on, Taucci turned the gun on his partner, Luiz- killing him. He then took his own life.

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why did they do it?

Firstly, Taucci and Luiz were copycats; plain and simple. They wanted the fame and notoriety that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold have.

Rumors did circulate about Taucci being bullied and dropping out of school over it, but sources claim this was pretty much irrelevant to the attack. The bullying wasn’t severe by any means, allegedly it was primarily focused on Taucci’s acne. State officials say the boys never showed any problems during their time in school.

Taucci had been raised by his grandmother, as a result of his mothers “addiction problems.” Taucci is considered the “leader” of the two, as he’s the one who originally formulated the plan. Luiz was described as a quiet kid who kept to himself, which has led the public to believe this was a “leader-follower” type of scenario. If it is, it’s still unclear how Taucci managed to rope Luiz into this. The boys had been friends since childhood, playing video games and visiting the local arcade together.

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was there any criticism after the attack?

As with any tragedy, the public wants to blame the perpetrators- however, if the perpetrators are gone, the public will tend to target the people who made the tragedy possible in one way or another.

Brasil’s former right-wing president, Mr. Bolsonaro, (a president surrounded by accusations of political manipulation, buyouts, and more) had recently passed a law making the acquisition of firearms significantly easier. Gun violence is extremely common in Brasil, though school shootings are relatively rare, with only a handful of documented cases existing in modern times.

Because of this law being passed, many Brazilians blamed him for the tragedy at Raul Brasil. However, many others brought up the possibility of making sure all staff were armed, in order to better protect their students. However, nothing ever really came from this debate, as the law stayed in place, and staff remained unarmed (that we know of.)

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Rest In Peace to the victims who tragically lost their lives on 03/13/2019 at Raul Brasil School. Que onde quer que você esteja, a vida o trate melhor do que o tratou esta vida.

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# Hello! Thanks for reading. I’m really sorry this deep dive isn’t as long as my Cokeville one (view here)- I did do my best to find all the information I could, but this case has been pretty hard to find anything on. I also tried to find a memorial photo of the victims to include so I could do a writeup on who they were as people, but I can’t seem to find anything.

# This was requested by somebody, once again- so if you learned something new, you can thank them. If I’m able to find any photos of the victims at any point, or other information that I think should be here, I’ll edit the post to include it.

# I also did add a translation for the first photo, if you click on the alt text you’ll be able to see it. I think adding context to the photos via alt text is probably a somewhat decent idea, so I’m gonna try to do that more! Again, thanks for reading :D

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CASA DE LAVA, PEDRO COSTA [1995]

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Los 11 más infames de 2024

Por segundo año, ‘CubaNet’ elige a las 11 personalidades cubanas que han protagonizado algunos de los hechos más infames de 2024. Son 11 los cubanos que este 2024 aparecen en la lista de infames elaborada por CubaNet (Ilustración: CubaNet) Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez y Lis Cuesta Peraza Repite en esta lista el presidente designado por el general Raúl Castro para sustituirlo (al menos…

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SpellNumbers Easily convert numbers to words in Laravel using this library, which supports the native PHP INTL extension to perform the conversion seamlessly. This library allows you to convert numbers to words in multiple languages and also get the value in currency format based on the selected language. Supported languages include English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian. https://github.com/rmunate/SpellNumber

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On September 26, 2022, 14-year-old, Isaac Silva Chagas, enntered the Municipal College Eurides SantAnna, in Barreiras, armed with a machete and a .38-caliber revolver. The perpetrator killed a wheelchair-bound student, Geane da Silva Brito, 19, who was unable to escape. The student took advantage of the difficulty in moving to fatally hit her. Chagas shot Brito with the revolver and then hit her with the machete. The attack ended when a police officer entered the school and shot the suspect, shooting him four times, leaving him in serious condition.

(Isaac Silva Chagas)

It was so well thought out that many of these perpetrators (including Isaac) took inspiration from the case of Guilherme Taucci Monteiro, for some reason their peculiar skull mask characterizes them but they have done nothing but be judged for "copy and paste".

Among many other shooters, most of them minors, whose inspiration was the Columbine case and the ideologies they "shared" with Dylan and Eric. A great brutal case, cause Brazil is almost full of teenagers with n3oN4zi ideologies, I'm not saying that this is a fact.

(Guilherme Taucci Monteiro was a Brazilian who, together with his friend, "Luiz Henrique de Castro", killed five students and two school staff members at the "Professor Raul Brasil State School" in the Brazilian municipality of Suzano, São Paulo State. After the shooting, Taucci killed Luiz and then he committed suicide), how Isaac Chagas tried to replicate.

After the attack, Chagas was admitted to a hospital and would become quadriplegic due to the wounds caused by the bullets fired by the police.

(I will leave another compilation of perpetrators using the famous skull mask).

Guilherme Taucci Monteiro (Brazil)

Henrique Lira Trad (Brazil)

Gabriel Alejandro Galaviz (México)

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Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglion (Brazil)

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UN MALEDETTO SELVAGGIO

Una storia che non conoscevo. Di fronte alle più alte cariche dello Stato cubano, oggi sono state tumulate presso l’altare dei rivoluzionari di L’Avana, le ceneri di Gino Donè, "El Italiano", come lo chiamavano i suoi compagni. Donè era nato in provincia di Treviso e aveva combattuto come partigiano nella Brigata Piave, ricevendo anche un encomio dal Gen. Alexander per aver salvato un gruppo di ufficiali inglesi nella laguna veneziana. Dopo la guerra cercò fortuna in Francia, Belgio, Germania, fino all'arrivo a Cuba. "Facevo il carpentiere - raccontò nel 2006 - ma avevo il sangue che mi bolliva, dentro ero ancora un maledetto partigiano.” In quel periodo, Fidel Castro era esiliato in Messico e stava arruolando giovani per liberare Cuba dalla dittatura di Batista. Venne a sapere di un italiano che aveva combattuto i fascisti e lo volle con sé come tenente del 3° plotone. Fu Gino a insegnare le tecniche della guerriglia a Che Guevara e assieme a lui, Fidel e Raul Castro, era tra gli 82 che, a bordo dell’imbarcazione Granma, sbarcarono ai piedi della Sierra Maestra. Con Aleida March, futura moglie del Che, organizzò, senza metterlo in atto, un piano per assaltare la sede del comando militare di Santa Clara. Ricercato dalla polizia, i compagni lo convinsero a rifugiarsi negli USA, dove si guadagnò da vivere come marinaio per 3 anni, prima di tornare in Italia. Al suo funerale parteciparono centinaia di persone, tra le quali i funzionari dell’ambasciata cubana con 4 corone di rose inviate in Italia da Fidel. "Mi hanno chiesto se fossi anarchico, comunista, rivoluzionario - raccontò l''unico europeo ad aver partecipato alla rivoluzione cubana - io sono soltanto un maledetto selvaggio. Però osservo il mondo e vedo che c'è sempre qualcuno più povero di me. E oggi, chi dà una mano ai proletari? Forse ci vorrebbero ancora uomini che decidono di essere fratelli."

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Why Are Cuba and the U.S. Still Mired in the Cold War? 

This is the title of a lengthy article in Foreign Policy by William H. LeoGrande, professor of government at American University in Washington, D.C. and a respected commentator on the important topic of this bilateral relation.[1] Obama’s Normalization Effort The starting point for his analysis is a review of the 10th anniversary of President Obama’s public announcement of his Administration’s…

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FIDEL CASTRO (far right), with his brother RAUL CASTRO (far left), and JUAN ALMEIDA (center), know as 'Cuban Rebels', c. 1959.

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Your turn! Share 10 facts about one of your OCs? :)

Thanks so much for this!! I decided to go with Amara Castro, one of my new Big Time Rush OCs, and thus I’m also tagging the BTR moots @partiallypearl, @dancingsunflowers-ocs, @bibaybe, and @manyfandomocs!! <3

She lives with her older siblings, Teo and Veronica, who are twins. The twins are also the only reason she can live at the Palm Woods in the first place, since she’s never had any of her writing published - they’re actors who have both had minor roles in a handful of shoes and movies.

She and her siblings also do not have a good relationship with their parents, which is why Veronica and Teo are Amara’s guardians. I won’t get into the exact reasons why, but the relationship is… pretty bad.

Her biggest writing influences are Agatha Christie, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Terry Pratchett, which is in part where she got the inspiration for the fantasy mystery novel she’s working on.

She likes to listen to music while she’s writing, usually the instrumental soundtracks of fantasy media like The Hobbit and Game of Thrones.

She really likes hard candies and caramels, which Carlos likes to tease her about being an old lady for.

She has read Little Women a grand total of ten times, and still tears up when Beth dies every time.

Her first celebrity crush was on Raul Julia as Gomez in the 90’s Addams Family movies.

She is, maybe predictably for a mystery writer, very into true crime shows and podcasts, as well as stories about urban myths and legends. She hopes to start her own someday, after she has some success as a writer.

She was never the biggest fan of pop music before meeting the boys, but they manage to turn her on to not only their music but that of many other pop artists.

She is terrified of grasshoppers. Don’t ask her why, she just finds them freaky.

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Did You Know🤔

The Suzano massacre, also known as the Suzano school massacre, was a school shooting and a failed bombing, that took place on March 13, 2019, at the Professor Raul Brasil State School in the Brazilian municipality of Suzano, São Paulo State, The perpetrators, 17-year-old Guilherme Taucci Monteiro and 25-year-old Luiz Henrique de Castro, murdered five students and two school staff members, Before the attack in a car shop near the school, the pair also killed Monteiro's uncle. After killing most of their victims in the school, Monteiro killed his partner and then committed suicide. Eleven additional people were injured by gunshots, and gunfire was also exchanged with the police. Some were injured while trying to escape. The attack was the second major and second deadliest school shooting in Brazil, after the Realengo massacre in 2011. It is also the ninth fatal school shooting in Brazilian history. The shooting has inspired many copycat killings in and outside of Brazil.

Earlier in the day, at around 9 a.m. local time, the gunmen shot three times and killed Monteiro's uncle, the shopkeeper Jorge Antônio Moraes, in a nearby car shop. The man was taken to the hospital but succumbed to his injuries, dying hours later. According to the investigation, Castro was planning on killing a neighbor of his that was an electrician because they had had a misunderstanding months before. They had a pact, in which each one would kill someone before the school massacre. An hour and half before the school attack, Castro went to his neighbor's house. Finding the gate closed, he persistently called him out, but the man did not answer, and so Luiz went away. In the same day, one of the killers posted a series of photos in a social media platform, where he appeared with a skull mask, holding the firearm he would later use and doing a gun sign with his hand against his head. The two attackers then drove to the school in a white Chevrolet Onix that Castro had legally rented at Localiza. The crime occurred at around 9:40 a.m. local time on a Wednesday, March 13, 2019, in the Professor Rual Brasil State School, in Suzano, Greater São Paulo. Guilherme Taucci Monteiro, 17 years old, and Luiz Henrique de Castro, 25 years old, entered the building hooded, with combat boots and balaclavas with skulls. Monteiro entered the building first. He then turned around and began shooting at two school staff members as well as several students at a distance of approximately 3 feet (0.91 m) in front of him, before entering the main patio in search of more potential victims. He disappeared from camera and then moved on to the institution's linguistics center. By this time, Castro appeared on camera entering the building in a hurry while holding several weapons, including a bow which he eventually left on the floor. He approached the corpses lying on the ground and struck them with a hatchet. Fleeing students started to run from the patio towards the school entrance hall. On the way, they encountered Castro, who was still in the entrance hall. Other students who had hidden themselves when they first heard gunshots were able to avoid being shot. Five students between 15 and 17 years old and two school staff members were killed. According to the 2017 School Census, the institution had 358 students between 6th and 9th grade (middle school and freshman year) and 693 students in secondary school. The school was locked down by police, who searched it and found a caliber 38 revolver, speedloaders, a crossbow, a traditional bow and arrow, possible Molotov cocktails, a hatchet and a wired bag. A bomb squad was dispatched to the scene and found that it was a fake explosive.

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CASA DE LAVA, PEDRO COSTA [1995]

stills by FILMGRAB

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Rafael Quenedit Castro | Ballet Nacional de Cuba | Photo by Raul Abreu Photography