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Arami Ullón tells the story of ‘Apenas El Sol’, his documentary produced in Paraguay and made in the Ayoreo language.

Arami Ullón cuenta la historia de ‘Apenas El Sol’, su documental producido en Paraguay y realizado en lengua ayoreo.

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3 AL FRENTE | UP FRONT

A CONTRIBUTION TO CULTURE

4 IMAGE OF THE WEEK |

IMAGEN DE LA SEMANA A TURN TO THE LEFT?

6 LEADERSHIP | LÍDERES

THE NEW PLATFORM AIMING TO BRING QUALITY EDUCATION TO ALL

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TEXAS PROGRESSIVES MAKE WAVES

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THE SUPREME COURT SAYS…

11 KIOSKO GLOBAL | 12 COVER | PORTADA

THE WEST’S UNPAID DEBT

18 CULTURE | CULTURA

“LOS LOBOS” [THE WOLVES]

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WHERE ARE THE LATINA CURATORS?

22 HISTORY TIP | TIP

HISTÓRICO

WHEN SPAIN CELEBRATED PEARL HARBOR

24 ESSAY PHOTO | FOTO ENSAYO THE LEFT, THE MAIN POLITICAL FORCE IN COLOMBIA

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EDITORIAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Hernán Guaracao PRINT EDITOR Fernando Millán DEPUTY EDITORS Nigel Thompson Jensen Toussaint Esperanza Escribano WRITERS & CONTENT PRODUCERS Brittany Valentine Andrew Kolba Manuel Herrera Erika Ardila Andrea Rodes Ofer Laszewicki Sandra Ramírez Ortega Kianni Figuereo (Fellow) Emily Leopard-Davis. (Apprentice) PRODUCTION MANAGER Juan Alba DESIGN MANAGER Maybeth Peralta GRAPHIC DESIGNER Mónica Hernández PHOTOGRAPHERS Harrison Brink Peter Fitzpatrick Juan B. Díaz SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR Silvia Otero Guaracao SENIOR CONTRIBUTORS Juan González (USA) Eileen Truax (USA) TRANSLATORS Andrea Rodes Ingrid Ruiz

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A CONTRIBUTION TO CULTURE

PARAGUAY, IS THE SETTING OF “NOTHING BUT THE SUN”, A DOCUMENTARY NOMINATED FOR THE OSCARS. PARAGUAY, EN EL SUR DEL CONTINENTE, ES ESCENARIO DE ‘APENAS EL SOL’, DOCUMENTAL NOMINADO A LOS OSCAR. ‘AL DÍA’ HABLÓ CON ARAMI ULLÓN, SU REALIZADORA. By | Por: FERNANDO MILLÁN | AL DÍA News Print Editor

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ruguayan film-maker Arami Ullon dedicated seven years to produce the documentary about the Ayoreo people of her country.

We are talking about “Nothing but the Sun”, a story of exile, violence, cultural roots, and struggle, narrated by Mateo Sobode Chiqueno, who has immortalized the testimonies of fellow indigenous members of his community.

AL DÍA talked to Ullon to know details of the film, her career. She studied in the United States in Boston Film and Video Foundation, and she is an icon in the film industry of Paraguay.

“Nothing but the Sun” was chosen to represent Paraguay in the categories Best International Movie and Best Documentary in the Oscars 2022. The film premiered in 2020 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), and has won many awards in a dozen of international contests. Its latest projection was in early March in the Global Roots Film Festival in Vermont.

When talking about the documentary, Ullon says: “It is a mix of feelings. Guilt for the privileged place where I am to tell a story, the opportunities that one has, but others don’t. Also anger, sadness, indignation, lots of tenderness, and understanding.”

THE LATIN CURATORS

Film-maker Arami Ullon is an icon of Paraguay’s cinema industry.

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La cineasta Arami Ullón es un ícono cinematográfico en Paraguay.

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In this issue, AL DÍA talks about Latin female curators working in museums and art centers in the United States. It is the case of Ariana Curtis, content director of Our Shared Future:Reckoning with Our Racial Past, an initiative by the Smithsonian museums. She founded Black Latinas Know, a collective of scholars that bring recognition to Afro-Latin voices.

Also, E. Carmen Ramos, a Dominican Afro-Latin, is the chief curatorial and conservation officer of the National Gallery of Art (NGA) of Washington DC. Puerto-Rican Marcela Guerrero is an associate curator in Whitney Museum of American Art, and prepares exhibits of Puerto Rican artists. Elizabeth Ferrer is the vice president of contemporary art in BRIC, a center for experimental art in Brooklyn, NY. Lastly, the work of Terezita Romo is also mentioned, who is in charge of an exhibit in the Denver Art Museum about La Malinche, an indigenous woman who had a child with Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes. z

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a cineasta paraguaya Arami Ullón dedicó siete años para la producción de un documental de la etnia ayoreo de su país.

Se trata de ‘Apenas El Sol’, un relato del destierro, la violencia, las raíces culturales y las opciones para sobrevivir, que se concentró en Mateo Sobode Chiqueno, quien ha inmortalizado los testimonios de otros indígenas de su comunidad.

AL DÍA habló con Ullón para conocer detalles de la producción y su trayectoria. Estudió en Estados Unidos en la Boston Film and Video Foundation y es un ícono en la industria cinematográfica de Paraguay.

‘Apenas El Sol’ fue escogido para representar a Paraguay en las categorías ‘Mejor Película Internacional’ y ‘Mejor Documental’ de los Óscar 2022. Se estrenó en 2020 en el Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Ámsterdam (IDFA) y ha sido galardonado en una decena de certámenes internacionales. Su reciente proyección fue a comienzos de marzo en el Global Roots Film Festival en Vermont.

Al referirse a este documental, Ullón dice que “es una mezcla de sentimientos. Se puede hablar de culpa, por el privilegio desde donde una está contando la historia, la posibilidad que tiene una y que no la tiene otro. También hay procesos de rabia, de tristeza, de indignación, de mucha ternura y comprensión”.

LAS CURADORAS LATINAS

En esta edición, AL DÍA cuenta dónde están algunas de las latinas que son curadoras en museos y centros de arte en Estados Unidos. Es el caso de la doctora Ariana Curtis, directora de contenidos de Our Shared Future:Reckoning with Our Racial Past, iniciativa de los museos Smithsonian. Fundó Black Latinas Know , colectivo de académicas que reconoce las voces de las afrolatinas.

Por su parte, E. Carmen Ramos, afrolatina dominicana, es conservadora jefe y responsable de conservación de la National Gallery of Art (NGA) de Washington DC. La puertorriqueña Marcela Guerrero es conservadora asociada en el Museo de Arte Whitney y prepara exposiciones de artistas de Puerto Rico. Elizabeth Ferrer es vicepresidenta de arte contemporáneo en BRIC, un centro de arte experimental de Brooklyn, NY. También se menciona a Terezita Romo, a cargo de una exposición en el Museo de Arte de Denver sobre ‘La Malinche’, indígena que tuvo un hijo con el conquistador español Hernán Cortés.z

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COLOMBIA

A TURN TO THE LEFT?

More than 17 million Colombians voted this Sunday to choose the new Congress.

Pacto Historico (Historic Pact), a left and center-left coalition achieved the highest number of votes for the Senate and House of Representatives, something unprecedented in Colombia. The first round of presidential elections will take place on May 29, and the favorite candidate is Gustavo Petro, the leader of the coalition. This is an image of a voting station in Bogota. Juan Augusto Cardona / AL DÍA News Más de 17 millones de colombianos votaron este domingo para elegir el nuevo Congreso. El Pacto Histórico, coalición de izquierda y centro izquierda logró la mayor votación en el Senado y en la Cámara, un hecho sin precedentes en Colombia. El 29 de mayo es la primera vuelta en la elección para Presidente de la República, para el cual el favorito es Gustavo Petro, líder de la misma coalición. La imagen corresponde a un centro de votación en Bogotá. Juan Augusto Cardona / AL DÍA News

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n October 2020, Felix Ruano and Michael Vilardo launched Emile Learning, an online education platform aimed at high school students. However, anyone can sign up.

The site offers over 20 AP, Core, and Experimental accredited courses, which can be used to apply for college.

Both founders are Ivy League-educated, and one of their main reasons for creating the site is to allow students of all backgrounds a chance at the education they saw many of their college peers enter with.

Vilardo explained, “We want to provide [someone from] any socioeconomic status or ZIP code with a top-tier education that is affordable. If we can empower anybody in the country and eventually the world to be able to access the best education, that is a monumental lift to society.”

n octubre de 2020, Felix Ruano y Michael Vilardo lanzaron Emile Learning, una plataforma de educación en línea enfocada en estudiantes de secundaria. Pero todos se pueden inscribir.

El sitio ofrece más de 20 cursos de nivel avanzado (preuniversitarios), obligatorios y experimentales, que son de utilidad para ingresar a la universidad.

Los dos fundadores son egresados de la Ivy League, y una de las razones principales para crear el sitio es permitir a los estudiantes de cualquier origen la oportunidad de recibir la educación con la que vieron que muchos de sus compañeros entraron en la universidad.

Vilardo explicó, “Queremos dar [a las personas de] cualquier nivel socioeconómico o en cualquier zona de la ciudad una educación de primer nivel que sea accesible. Si podemos empoderar a cualquier persona de este país y posteriormente al mundo para que puedan acceder a una mejor educación, ese sería un impulso monumental a la sociedad”.

HOW IT STARTED

Ruano is the child of Mexican immigrants who grew up in Los Angeles and went to public school. He attended Harvard University before getting a job at the management consulting company, McKinsey & Company.

Vilardo’s family also hails from Latin America, more specifically Colombia.

He attended seven schools, including community college in only five years, before attending and graduating from the University of Pennsylvania. After college, he worked for Uber and helped them develop Uber Freight.

His connections at Uber would come in handy when he and Ruano decided to start Emile Learning. They got some of their initial funding from the Uber Alumni Investment Club Syndicate, and 30% of their first 40 employees had also worked at Uber.

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Emile Learning founders, Felix Ruano (left) and Michael Vilardo (right).

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Los fundadores de Emile Learning, Félix Ruano (izquierda) y Michael Vilardo (derecha).

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Memberships for the site start at $10 with unlimited access to the curriculum.

Las membresías para el sitio comienzan en $10 con acceso ilimitado al currículo.

Ruano es hijo de inmigrantes mexicanos que crecieron en Los Ángeles y asistieron a la escuela pública. Estudió en la Universidad de Harvard para luego trabajar en la compañía consultora en gestión, McKinsey & Company.

La familia de Vilardo proviene de Latinoamérica, específicamente Colombia.

Estudió en siete escuelas, incluyendo al community college que cursó en solo cinco años, antes de estudiar y graduarse de la Universidad de Pensilvania. Después de eso, trabajó para Uber y colaboró en el desarrollo de Uber Freight.

Sus conexiones con Uber resultaron ser útiles más adelante cuando él y Ruano decidieron empezar Emile Learning. Obtuvieron una parte de la financiación inicial del Sindicato del Club de Inversión de los Exalumnos

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GREG CASAR AND JESSICA CISNEROS ARE TWO NAMES TO WATCH AS THE COUNTRY BARRELS TOWARDS THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS. GREG CASAR Y JESSICA CISNEROS SON DOS NOMBRES PARA TENER EN CUENTA AHORA QUE EL PAÍS VA A TODA VELOCIDAD HACIA LAS ELECCIONES DE MITAD DE PERIODO. By | Por: BRITTANY VALENTINE | AL DÍA News Staff Writer

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rogressives closely watched the results from the congressional races in Texas on Tuesday, March 1. Two Latinx candidates, Greg Casar and Jessica Cisneros both came out successful in their own right.

Casar, a 32-year-old Democratic socialist, landed a win in the open primary in the state’s 35th Congressional District, which stretches from San Antonio to Austin, beating his closest rival, State Rep. Eddie Rodriguez, by over 40 points.

In Texas’ 28th Congressional District, Cisneros forced Rep. Henry Cuellar into a runoff election.

Activist groups like Justice Democrats, which endorsed Cisneros and Casar, have been promoting the races as potential signs that the Democratic base is eager for liberals who will fight harder for President Joe Biden’s agenda.

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Casar became the youngest person ever elected to the Austin City Council in 2014, representing a working-class section of the city. As the son of Mexican immigrants, he has been an activist since college and has worked intimately with the city’s immigrants rights movement.

“Greg Casar shows up for working people, and they showed up for him.

This victory is a result of the work he put in as a public servant. We were with Greg from day one, and look forward to working with him to make America work for all of us,” said Texas Working Families Party co-director Pedro Lira in a statement.

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os progresistas siguieron muy de cerca los resultados de la carrera por las elecciones al congreso el martes 1 de marzo en Texas. Dos candidatos latinos, Greg Casar y Jessica Cisneros salieron victoriosos por mérito propio.

Casar, un socialdemócrata de 32 años, se hizo a una victoria en las elecciones primarias abiertas en el Distrito 35 del Congreso, que se extiende desde San Antonio hasta Austin, con lo que derrotó a su rival más cercano, el representante a la Cámara Eddie Rodríguez, por más de 40 puntos.

Por otro lado Cisneros empujó al representante Henry Cuellar a un desempate en el Distrito 28 de Texas.

Los grupos activistas, como Justice Democrats, que patrocinaron a Cisneros y Casar, han promocionado la contienda como una posible señal de que la base demócrata está ávida de liberales que luchen con más ahínco por la agenda del presidente Joe Biden.

¿DE MIEMBRO DEL CONCEJO A CONGRESISTA?

Casar fue la persona más joven en ser elegida para el Concejo de la Ciudad de Austin en 2014 para representar a la clase trabajadora de la ciudad. Al ser hijo de inmigrantes mexicanos, no es de extrañar que se dedicara al activismo desde la universidad y haya participado de manera importante en el movimiento de los derechos de los inmigrantes de la ciudad.

“Greg Casar ha estado presente para la gente trabajadora, y ellos estuvieron para él. Esta victoria es el resultado de su dedicación como servidor público. Apoyamos a Greg desde el primer día, y esperamos trabajar con él para que el país funcione bien para todos”, dijo el codirector del partido Texas Working Families [Familias Trabajadoras de Texas], Pedro Lira en una declaración.

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We are going to win because all of you are standing behind me.

Vamos a ganar porque todos me están dando su apoyo.

Jessica Cisneros ENGLISH sive members of Congress ever to serve from the Lone Star state. As a city councilmember, he became known for supporting cuts to the police department, and fighting against homeless encampment bans.

He also had the support of leading progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders.

“Together, we’re taking our fight to the halls of Congress — to fight and deliver on passing Medicare for All, protecting reproductive rights, creating good jobs and fixing our power grid,” Casar said in a statement.

CHALLENGING THE ‘KING OF LAREDO’

Just a few years ago, Cisneros was an intern in Henry Cuellar’s congressional office. Now, the former intern will be facing off in a rematch on May 24 against the nine-term incumbent.

In 2020, Cisneros came within 2,700 votes of claiming victory over Cuellar in the Democratic primary. Her father and volunteers collected all her campaign signs after the loss, knowing there might be a sequel.

“We knew from the very beginning this was going to be a very tough election. We deserve a lot more than what we’re being offered. And I’m really glad

that over half of the voters agree that it’s time for new leadership,” Cisneros said.

In Texas primaries, any candidate who finishes below 50% faces the second place vote-getter in a runoff. As of March 2, Cuellar had won 48.4% of the vote, Cisneros had 46.9%, and another liberal candidate, Tannya Benavides, had 4.7%.

Like Casar, Cisneros is also the child of immigrant parents from Mexico. Her parents migrated to the states before she was born, after their older daughter needed serious medical care.

After high school, Cisneros moved to Austin to attend the University of Texas and went on to law school there, with a focus on immigration law.

During her campaign, she often cited her work in law helping asylum seekers stuck at the border under Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy.

But what likely helped Cisneros the most was that voters were simply focused on a change in leadership, especially as Cuellar faces an FBI investigation.

“No matter what happens, whether again, the victory is coming today, later tonight, or tomorrow or maybe even in May. We are going to win because all of you are standing behind me,” Cisneros told supporters.z

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ESPAÑOL Si vuelve a ganar en noviembre, Casar estará entre los miembros más progresistas del Congreso en trabajar desde el Estado de Una Estrella. Como concejal de la ciudad, se dio a conocer por apoyar cortes al departamento de policía y luchar contra el veto a los campamentos para las personas sin hogar.

También contó con el apoyo de líderes progresistas como la representante Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez y el senador Bernie Sanders.

“Juntos, llevaremos nuestra lucha hasta el Congreso para luchar y lograr que aprueben Medicare para todos, proteger los derechos reproductivos, crear buenos empleos y mejorar nuestro servicio eléctrico”, Casar dijo en una declaración.

UN DUELO CON EL “REY DE LAREDO”

Hace solo unos años, Cisneros fue un pasante en la oficina del Distrito con Henry Cuellar. Ahora, el antes pasante se enfrentará en una revancha el 24 de mayo contra el funcionario, que lleva nueve periodos.

En el 2020, Cisneros estuvo a 2.700 votos de arrebatar la victoria a Cuellar en las elecciones primarias demócratas. Su padre y voluntarios recogieron todos los anuncios de la campaña después de perder, pues sabía que habría una continuación.

“Supimos desde el principio que iba a ser una elección difícil. Merecemos mucho más de lo que nos están ofreciendo. Me

agrada mucho que más de la mitad de los votantes estén de acuerdo con que es tiempo de nuevos líderes”, dijo Cisneros.

En las primarias de Texas, cualquier candidato que obtenga menos de un 50 % se enfrenta al segundo en votación en un desempate. Al 2 de marzo, Cuellar había ganado 48.4 % de los votos, Cisneros tuvo un 46.9 %, y Tannya Benavides, otra candidata liberal, obtuvo un 4.7 %.

Como Casar, Cisneros también es hijo de padres inmigrantes de México. Sus padres llegaron a Estados Unidos antes de que él naciera, y después de que su hija mayor requiriera cuidados médicos especializados.

Después de terminar la escuela, Cisneros se mudó a Austin para asistir a la Universidad de Texas e ingresó a la facultad de leyes donde se especializó en derecho migratorio.

Durante su campaña, se refería con frecuencia a su trabajo en leyes donde ayudó a personas que buscaban asilo y que estaban atrapados en la frontera debido a la política de Quédate en México de Trump.

Pero lo que seguramente ayudó más a Cisneros fue que los votantes se enfocaron en lograr un cambio de liderazgo, sobre todo porque Cuellar está bajo investigación por el FBI. "Sin importar lo que pase, ya sea que la victoria se repita y llegue hoy, más tarde en la noche o mañana o incluso en mayo. Vamos a ganar porque todos me están dando su apoyo”, dijo Cisneros a sus simpatizantes. z

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THE SUPREME COURT SAYS…

WITH THE SENATE FAILING TO CODIFY ROE V. WADE, ABORTION RIGHTS NOW DEPEND ON A CONSERVATIVE SUPREME COURT. POR LA IMPOSIBILIDAD DEL SENADO DE CODIFICAR EL CASO ROE CONTRA WADE, EL DERECHO AL ABORTO DEPENDE DE UNA CORTE SUPREMA CONSERVADORA. By | Por: BRITTANY VALENTINE | AL DÍA News Staff Writer

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n Monday, Feb. 28, a bill to protect the right to have an abortion in the U.S. died in the Senate after it failed to gain enough Republican support to pass a procedural vote.

While the Women’s Health Protection Act wasn’t expected to be successful, Democratic leaders felt pressure from constituents to put it to a vote anyway in a show of support for federal reproductive rights.

Advocates for reproductive rights see federal legislation as one of the best ways to codify the right to abortion in the country, especially after the Supreme Court’s conservative judges indicated they could soon cut constitutional protections.

“Sadly, it seems like the Supreme Court is posed to severely limit abortion rights in the coming months. That’s why this bill is essential. Congress must codify into law what most Americans have long believed — that abortion is a fundamental right,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

THE FILIBUSTER AND MANCHIN

The bill needed several Republicans to support it to reach the necessary 60vote threshold to overcome a filibuster.

The final vote was 46-48. Every Republican and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin voted against proceeding to the bill.

The Women’s Health Protection Act, co-sponsored by 48 Senate Democrats, states that healthcare providers should be able to provide abortions without a number of barriers — including restrictions on abortions prior to fetal viability, which many states currently have in place.

It also proposed that the U.S. Attorney General could sue any state or

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l proyecto de ley que buscaba proteger el derecho al aborto en los Estados Unidos se hundió en el Senado, el 28 de febrero, por no obtener los suficientes votos republicanos para su aprobación.

Aunque no se esperaba que la Ley de Protección a la Salud de la Mujer fuese aprobada, los líderes demócratas sintieron la presión de su electorado y, de cualquier manera, lo sometieron a votación para demostrar su apoyo a los derechos reproductivos federales.

Los defensores de los derechos reproductivos ven la legislación federal una de las mejores maneras de codificar el derecho al aborto en el país, en especial después de que los jueces conservadores de la Corte Suprema indicaran que muy pronto podrían eliminar protecciones constitucionales.

“Tristemente, parece que la Corte Suprema se propone limitar de manera contundente los derechos relacionados con el aborto en los próximos meses. Por eso, este proyecto de ley es esencial. El Congreso tiene que convertir en leyes lo que muchos estadounidenses han creído por mucho tiempo: que el aborto es un derecho fundamental”, dijo el líder de la mayoría del Senado Chuck Schumer.

EL FILIBUSTERO Y MANCHIN

El proyecto requería que varios republicanos lo apoyaran para llegar al umbral de los 60 votos necesarios para superar al filibustero. El voto final fue de 46-48. Todos los republicanos y el senador demócrata Joe Manchin votaron en contra de proceder hacia el proyecto de ley.

La Ley de Protección a la Salud de la Mujer, copatrocinada por 48 demócratas del Senado, determina que los proveedores de servicios de salud deberían poder practicar abortos sin varias barreras, como restricciones antes del periodo de viabilidad fetal, que en muchos estados está vigente.

También establece que el Fiscal General de los Estados Unidos podría deman-

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To codify Roe v. Wade, Democratic senators needed to reach the 60-vote threshold. They couldn’t even get their entire party.

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I refuse to let my daughters grow up in a world with fewer rights than I had.

Me niego a dejar que mis hijas crezcan en un mundo donde haya menos derechos de los que yo tuve.

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GLOBAL KIOSKO WHAT THE WORLD PRESS IS TALKING ABOUT US

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A ‘REALPOLITIK’ LESSON

These are some excerpts of the comment published on March 11: “Now that the United States president, Joe Biden, has prohibited Russian oil imports, one problem is how to replace it. A possible source is Venezuela. Being under the regime of President Nicolas Maduro, the country was under American sanctions imposed since 2017. Softening these sanctions would equal accepting the lesser evil. …American officers visited Caracas…, the first encounter of this type in years, and they talked about relaxing oil-related sanctions. Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the State-controlled energetic giant, has the biggest oil reservoirs in the world. …could easily replace the 245 million crude barrels and related products that the United States obtained from Russia in 2021. …Conversations did not make a lot of progress. …But the idea of approaching Maduro is loaded with political and moral tension, and there is also the irony that Russian crude imports in America greatly substituted imports from Venezuela until the sanctions were imposed.”

Estos son apartes del comentario del 11 de marzo: “Ahora que el presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, ha prohibido las importaciones de petróleo ruso, uno de sus problemas es cómo sustituirlo. Una posible fuente es Venezuela. Pero el régimen del presidente Nicolás Maduro está sometido a sanciones estadounidenses desde 2017. Suavizarlas equivaldría a aceptar el mal menor (…) Funcionarios estadounidenses visitaron Caracas (…), el primer encuentro de este tipo en años, y hablaron de relajar las sanciones relacionadas con el petróleo. Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), el gigante energético controlado por el Estado, tiene las mayores reservas de crudo del mundo. (…) podría reemplazar fácilmente los 245 millones de barriles de crudo y productos relacionados que Estados Unidos obtuvo de Rusia en 2021. (…) Las conversaciones no avanzaron mucho. (…) Pero la idea de tratar con Maduro está cargada de tensiones políticas y morales, además de la ironía de que las importaciones estadounidenses de crudo ruso sustituyeron en gran medida a las procedentes de Venezuela hasta que entraron en vigor las sanciones”.

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‘WILL BIDEN PUSH DUQUE TO RECOGNIZE NICOLAS MADURO?’

This is a comment by Juliana Gil Gutiérrez published on March 10: “The meeting between Joe Biden and Ivan Duque in the White House marked an unexpected turn of events: the United States president rapprochement with the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro. Three years after the legitimacy of the Bolivarian government was not recognized by Colombia in January of 2019, right after the White House took that same decision, Biden now changed the discourse of his predecessor Donald Trump raising the question: Will Duque’s administration also have to recognize the regime? Several other Latin American nations took a step towards releasing tensions with Venezuela. Some of them are Argentina, Bolivia and Peru; and the United States seems to be going in that same direction. Duque’s administration is caught in the middle of that recognition. …Russian invasion to Ukraine and the encounter between Biden’s envoys and Venezuelan representatives accelerated an appointment between the dignitaries, which Duque had been searching for more than a year.”

El siguiente comentario fue publicado el 10 de marzo, escrito por Juliana Gil Gutiérrez. “El encuentro entre Joe Biden e Iván Duque en la Casa Blanca tiene una coyuntura insospechada: el acercamiento entre el presidente de Estados Unidos y el de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. Colombia desconoció al gobierno bolivariano en enero de 2019, justo después de que la Casa Blanca tomara esa misma determinación, pero tres años después Biden cambia el relato de su antecesor Donald Trump y se abre el interrogante: ¿la administración Duque también tendrá que reconocer al régimen? Ya varios latinoamericanos dieron el paso de bajar las tensiones con Venezuela. Argentina, Bolivia y Perú son unos de esto, mientras Estados Unidos parece ir en esa dirección. Y la administración Duque queda en el medio de la puja sobre ese reconocimiento. (…) La invasión de Rusia a Ucrania y el encuentro de emisarios de Biden con representantes de Venezuela precipitaron la cita entre los mandatarios, una reunión que Duque venía buscando desde hace más de un año”.

LA PRENSA GRÁFICA EL SALVADOR

BIDEN PLAYS CHESS FOR THE VENEZUELAN OIL

In its editorial of March 9, it wrote: “Biden’s intentions may just be a convenient measure and necessary in this critical juncture, or it may have a domino effect in the mid-term, provided that purchase of resources from Venezuela derives into a diplomatic effort with international impact.” Also, “Venezuela has been a problem for the United States of America, a strategic challenge it has not been able to handle, and also a geopolitical disaster.

Not only should they have closed the doors to Venezuelan petroleum, …but it settled for letting Chinese and Russians divide up the resource in America’s very own backyard. (…) Trump failed big time recognizing Guaido as the chief of state, because belligerence and the war narrative only strengthened Maduro’s internal position, and pushed him even further to closer ties to powers antagonistic to Washington. Hostility proved to be ineffective, but what prevails in the exchange of Venezuelan crude and dismantling of Moscow and Beijing’s influence over Caracas is a smart take on diplomatic strategy, which only three weeks ago seemed to be impossible.”

En el editorial de 9 de marzo señaló que “la intención de Biden puede ser sólo una medida práctica y coyuntural o desencadenar a mediano plazo el efecto dominó, si es que de la compra de recursos a Venezuela se deriva un esfuerzo diplomático con miras internacionales”. Además, “Venezuela ha sido un problema para los Estados Unidos de América, un reto estratégico al que no ha sabido acercarse y un desastre geopolítico. No es sólo que debió cerrarse la puerta al petróleo venezolano, (…) sino que se resignó a que chinos y rusos se repartieran ese recurso en el propio traspatio americano. (…) Trump fracasó a lo grande reconociendo a Guaidó como jefe de Estado, porque la beligerancia y la narrativa guerrerista sólo fortalecieron la posición doméstica de Maduro y lo empujaron a estrechar todavía más sus lazos con las potencias antagónicas a Washington. Si la hostilidad demostró ser ineficaz, lo que prima a cambio del acceso al crudo venezolano y al desmontaje del influjo de Moscú y Pekín sobre Caracas era un giro inteligente de la estrategia diplomática. Y eso era imposible hace tres semanas”.

EL ECONOMISTA MEXICO

IS BIDEN’S DECISION ON RUSSIAN OIL ABSURD?

On March 9, commenter Luis Miguel Gonzalez wrote: “To what extent will Biden’s decision affect Russia? …Russian energetic sector is huge and the decision to isolate it seems like a lethal blow, doesn’t it? In practice,…it is everything but a silver bullet. …It may also find other markets such as China or India. Closing the American market will not be enough to strangle ‘that artery of the Russian economy’, among other things because the United States associates in economic sanctions are not ready to join that measure.

The European Union is giving moral support, but it is aware of its leeway. ...Excluding the Russian banking system from SWIFT does choke Russian economy because it is a coordinated offensive by all associate countries of the system, three quarters of the world GDP. This makes the charging and payment operations of Russian imports and exports harder. …Putin will not be able to use half of its huge foreign exchange reserves; those abroad.”

El 9 de marzo, el comentarista Luis Miguel González escribió: “¿Cuánto afectará a Rusia la decisión de Biden sobre el petróleo y el gas ruso? (…) El sector energético ruso es enorme y la decisión de aislarlo parece un golpe letal, ¿verdad? En la práctica, (…)es todo, menos una bala de plata. (…) Puede encontrar lugar en otros mercados, como China o India. El cierre del mercado estadounidense no será suficiente para estrangular ‘esa arteria de la economía rusa’, entre otras cosas porque los socios de Estados Unidos en las sanciones económicas no están listos para sumarse a esta medida. La Unión Europea ofrece apoyo moral, pero reconoce que tiene un margen de maniobra muy limitado (…). La exclusión de la banca rusa del sistema SWIFT sí asfixia a la economía rusa porque es una ofensiva coordinada por todos los países socios de este sistema, tres cuartas partes del PIB mundial. Complica las operaciones de cobros y pagos relacionados con las importaciones o exportaciones rusas. (…) Putin no podrá disponer de la mitad de las enormes reservas de divisas, aquellas que están en el extranjero”.

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UNPAID DEBT THE DOCUMENTARY NOTHING BUT THE SUN DRAWS ATTENTION TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN PARAGUAY, AND HOW THEY’VE SHAPED SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT. EL DOCUMENTAL ‘APENAS EL SOL’, DE ARAMI ULLÓN, VISIBILIZA A LOS PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS DE PARAGUAY. SE HA EXHIBIDO EN FESTIVALES DE CINE DE ESTADOS UNIDOS Y DE EUROPA. By | Por: SANDRA RAMÍREZ | AL DÍA News Writer

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or seven years, filmmaker Arami Ullon has followed every step of Mateo Sobode Chiqueno, a documentary maker of the ethnic Ayoreo group, and a resident of the Chaco, in Northeast Paraguay.

Since the 70s, Mateo has tirelessly crossed these desolate lands with a cassette recorder in hand, immortalizing the testimonies of other Indigenous people of his community who are no longer isolated. Like him, they were forced to abandon their ancestral lands to try to get into what they call, “the world of white people.”

All this time, his work allowed him to collect stories on the emotional impact of exile, violence, holding onto cultural roots, and the constant search for alternatives to survive day to day. Each film, all intellectual properties of Mateo, also have music —

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iete años ha invertido la cineasta Arami Ullón en seguir cada paso de Mateo Sobode Chiqueno, un documentalista de la etnia ayoreo residente en el Chaco, en el noroeste de Paraguay.

Desde la década de los ‘70, Mateo recorre incansablemente esas tierras desoladas y se dedica, con una grabadora de cassette en mano, a inmortalizar los testimonios de otros indígenas de su comunidad que ya no viven en aislamiento voluntario; sino que al igual que él se vieron forzados a abandonar sus tierras ancestrales para intentar introducirse en lo que ellos mismos llaman “el mundo de los blancos”.

A lo largo de todo este tiempo, su trabajo le permitió recoger relatos sobre el impacto emocional del destierro, la violencia, el apego a las raíces culturales y la búsqueda incesante de alternativas para sobrevivir

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APENAS EL SOL Una película de Arami Ullón

CON MATEO SOBODE CHIQUENO Y APAI ROMAN DOSAPE CHIQUENO, TUNE PICANERAI, DOJAE TONA PICANERE, IBEUA CHIQUENO, CUTEIJNAI ETACORE, JUPIDE CANDIDA CHIQUENO, IGAUBI ANTONIO DOSAPE CHIQUENO, AMAJNANE PICANERAI Y COMUNIDADES AYOREO GABRIEL LOBOS INGENIERO DE SONIDO RETO STAMM, JACQUES KIEFFER SUPERVISOR DE SONIDO Y DISEÑO DE SONIDO TOBIAS KOCH MEZCLA DE SONIDO JACQUES KIEFFER DIRECCIÓN DE PRODUCCIÓN KAREN FRAENKEL EDICIÓN VALERIA RACIOPPI (SAE), REBECCA TRÖSCH DRAMATURGIA EN EDICIÓN VALERIA RACIOPPI (SAE) MÚSICA CANCIONES TRADICIONALES DEL PUEBLO AYOREO POSTPRODUCCIÓN BEAT LEHNHERR, PANIMAGE GRADING CAÏQUE DE SOUZA ARTE Y TÍTULOS PATRICK OSER, MARTIN WÜLSER DIRECCIÓN Y GUION ARAMI ULLÓN PRODUCCIÓN PASCAL TRÄCHSLIN COPRODUCCIÓN ARAMI ULLÓN PRODUCTORES ASOCIADOS SEBASTIÁN MURO, ANDREW SALA UNA PRODUCCIÓN DE CINEWORX FILMPRODUKTION EN COPRODUCCIÓN CON ARAMI ULLÓN CINE EN ASOCIACIÓN CON NEVADA CINE WWW.APENASELSOL.COM DIRECTOR DE FOTOGRAFÍA

With a U.S. and Spain education, Arami Ullon, became an icon in the Paraguayan film industry, after her documentary Cloudy Times, gave her country its first Oscar nomination in 2016. Courtesy Arami Ullón.

Formada en Estados Unidos y en España, Arami Ullón representa un ícono en la industria cinematográfica de Paraguay. Su primer largometraje documental “El tiempo nublado”, Cortesía Arami Ullón. le valió a su país la primera postulación a los Óscar en 2016.

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Nothing But The Sun is the first Paraguayan film done entirely in the Ayoreo Indigenous language. The film premiered at the 2022 Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, and was chosen to represent Paraguay in the categories of Best International Film and Best Documentary at the 2022 Oscars. Courtesy Arami Ullón.

“Apenas El Sol” es la primera película paraguaya grabada enteramente en idioma indígena ayoreo. Se estrenó en el Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Ámsterdam y fue elegida para representar a Paraguay en las categorías “Mejor Cortesía Arami Ullón.

Película Internacional” y “Mejor Documental” del Óscar 2022.

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another expression of his native identity.

He is the main character of the feature film Nothing But The Sun, which he also narrates in the first person.

The documentary, which premiered at the opening of the 2020 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), has won different awards at a dozen international contests, and was selected to represent Paraguay in the categories of Best International Film and Best Documentary at the 2022 Oscars. It is also the first Paraguayan documentary filmed entirely in the Ayoreo Indigenous language.

“It is the language in which Mateo and the members of the community communicate. They have not replaced their language completely for Spanish. That is why my decision to disappear as a director. Staying out and giving the visual and sound aspects to Mateo made everything flow naturally in Ayoreo. Also, recording the language is an important legacy for future generations,” said Ullón in an interview with AL DÍA News from Switzerland, where she lives. “I live between here and Paraguay. Here I have my partner, my cats, my books, and here is where I work on my filmmaking projects.”

With educations from the United States, thanks to a scholarship from the Boston Film and Video Foundation, and Spain, the 43-year-old is an icon in Paraguay’s film industry, where she will

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always be remembered for her feature film Cloudy Times, which earned Paraguay its first nomination at the Academy Awards in 2016.

AN UNKNOWN WORLD UNCOVERED

Paraguay, located in the heart of South America between Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil, is one of the few countries on the continent that includes Spanish and a native language — Guarani — as official languages.

Despite being a bilingual nation, there is a profound unawareness of everything related to its 19 ethnic groups made up of over 117,000 individuals, according to data collected in 2019 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). With that number, the native population is considered a minority in a territory of 157,065 square miles where another 7,000,000 people live.

Encouraged by the need to document the story of survival of the Ayoreo, and their capacity to rebuild their home, Ullón went deep into a world that entails thorough investigation and required deep introspection.

“It is a mix of feelings. Guilt for the privileged place where I am to tell the story, the opportunities that one has, but others don’t. Also anger, sadness, indignation, lots of tenderness, and under-

standing. I went through different emotional states, but I learned to listen again.

The world of the Ayoreo is complex and their current situation is too. I assumed my own ignorance, and decided to listen, that was my best choice. In this case, listening means accepting being affected, learning from the other, learning what happens to you when facing these situations, and understanding that you operate as a colonized individual,” she said, while choked up with emotion.

AN EVERLASTING LESSON

For the filmmaker, Nothing But The Sun was an opportunity to reflect on the way the traces of colonization in Latin America determine people’s perception of native world view.

“We don’t see ourselves as descendants of indigenous people, we feel closer to a European lifestyle than to an Indigenous one. But, a high percentage of the Paraguayan population, for example, has — at some point of their ancestral background — Indigenous roots. I questioned that eurocentrism, and it will remain a question for life,” said Ullón.

During filming, she learned to value an attitude that is missing in contemporary society.

“Conversations between the protagonists happen without almost any judgment, without being violent. There is

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It is the first Paraguayan documentary filmed entirely in Ayoreo.

respect for the other, and I believe that enriches us, who from the western view have lost something and are losing It more every time: empathy is at risk,” she said.

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The same curiosity from the director for the Ayoreo mobilized some 4,000 Paraguayans in the middle of the pandemic to discover a completely unknown story through film. There was also major success at the box office. The filmmaker hopes the film will show in other corners of her country soon, at cultural and education centers.

The premiere of Nothing But The Sun awakened the interest for the documentary film genre in Paraguay, and it even had a political effect. In November 2021, Paraguay’s Congress recognized Mateo Sobode Chiqueno for his contribution to culture, which made him the first Ayoreo to receive a distinction of this kind by the legislative body. Sobode took the opportunity at the ceremony to vindicate the restitution of ancestral land for his people.

“We are dying little by little, we ask you to stop deforesting the areas where the Indigenous peoples live,” he said.

The attention received by the legislature did not pass over to the other institutions of the State created to safeguard the rights of native peoples, and their quality of life threatened by deforestation.

The private sector also showed out in support.

Some non-governmental organizations showed their determination to support the digitization of Mateo’s recordings to create a sound archive and preserve the Ayoreo legacy.

“There are people who believe that if they are not directly involved in the life of the Ayoreo, that doesn’t affect them; but it does affect them because we share the same world. There are also people who are committed and take responsibility. Average citizens are political beings, they have the possibility to make better choices and generate changes in their environment. Paraguayans can demand MARCH 16 - 23, 2022

laws that protect the forests, regulate deforestation and ensure rights to indigenous people,” Ullón emphasizes.

CINEMA: A CATALYST FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

Knowing that patience and perseverance are fundamental for professionals in film, Ullón encourages young talent to work without fearing rejection.

“When you present a project and they say ‘no,’ you have to wake up the next day and present it at a different place until, at some point, somebody says ‘yes.’ No movie has ever had a sequence of approvals without several rejections too. That doesn’t exist,” she said.

She insists that at this point, the most important thing is to make the most of how gratifying it can be to work in the film industry.

“We are always congratulated for our achievements and recognition, but something to celebrate before that is working in cinema: our work is what is important.

We have to keep researching, writing and re-writing the times necessary for our efforts to materialize and become a movie. That is the first objective. If there is or there isn’t a prize, that is secondary,” said Ullón.

Her role as director allows Ullón to hold on to her dream and desire for a second documentary — and others about the reality of the Ayoreo — to take the first steps in the long way towards making the Indigenous peoples of Latin America visible.

“You hope, dream and believe that you can have an influence on reality, even a little; but, sadly there is little innocence left in me, and I also know that changes require much more than a movie,” she said.

The Paraguayan-Swiss production Nothing But The Sun is now showing in festivals around Europe and the United States. Its next screening will be in March at the Global Roots Film Festival in Vermont. It is expected to be available on streaming platforms throughout 2022.z

Arami Ullon is confident that Nothing But The Sun, and other productions will raise awareness about the struggles of the Indigenous peoples of Latin America. Courtesy Arami Ullón.

Arami Ullón confía en que “Apenas El Sol”, junto con otras producciones, pueda generar conciencia sobre la lucha de los pueblos originarios en Latinoamérica. Cortesía Arami Ullón.

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día tras día. Cada cinta que obra en propiedad de Mateo contiene también música: una expresión más de la identidad de este nativo protagonista del largometraje “Apenas El Sol”, narrado por él en primera persona.

Se estrenó en el Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Ámsterdam (IDFA) en 2020 como película inaugural, fue galardonado en una decena de certámenes internacionales y elegido para representar a Paraguay en las categorías “Mejor Película Internacional” y “Mejor Documental” de los Óscar 2022.

Es el primer documental paraguayo grabado enteramente en ayoreo. “Es el idioma en el que Mateo y los miembros de la comunidad se comunican. Ellos no reemplazan completamente su lengua por el castellano. Por eso, el gesto de desaparecer del campo como directora, quedarme fuera y entregarle el campo visual y sonoro a Mateo hace que directamente todo sea naturalmente en ayoreo. Además, el registro de la lengua es importante como legado para otras generaciones”, comenta Ullón

en entrevista con AL DÍA desde Suiza, donde reside. “Vivo entre acá y Paraguay.

Aquí tengo mi pareja, mis gatos, mis libros y ahí es donde desarrollo todos mis proyectos cinematográficos”, explica.

Formada en los Estados Unidos gracias a una beca en la Boston Film and Video Foundation y en España, la también escritora y productora, de 43 años representa todo un ícono en la industria cinematográfica de Paraguay, donde siempre será recordada por su largometraje “El tiempo nublado”, que le valió a su país la primera postulación a los Premios de la Academia en 2016.

UN MUNDO DESCONOCIDO, AL DESCUBIERTO

Paraguay, situado en el corazón del territorio sudamericano entre Argentina, Bolivia y Brasil, es uno de los países del continente que conserva como idioma oficial, además del español, una lengua nativa preexistente a la colonización: el guaraní.

Pese a ser una nación bilingüe, un pro-

fundo desconocimiento envuelve a todo lo relacionado con las 19 etnias indígenas representadas por poco más de 117.000 individuos, según los datos recogidos en 2019 por el Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD). Con estas cifras, la población aborigen es considerada una minoría en un territorio de 400.000 kilómetros cuadrados donde habitan otras 7.000.000 de personas.

Alentada por la necesidad de documentar la historia de supervivencia de los ayoreo, y la capacidad del pueblo para reconstruir su hogar, Arami Ullón se adentró en un mundo que, además de la ardua investigación, le supuso un viaje de introspección personal. “Es una mezcla de sentimientos. Se puede hablar de culpa, por el privilegio desde donde una está contando la historia, la posibilidad que tiene una y que no la tiene otro. También hay procesos de rabia, de tristeza, de indignación, de mucha ternura y comprensión. Atravesé cada día diferentes estados emocionales, pero aprendí a escuchar de nuevo. El mundo ayoreo es complejo y la situación actual

de ellos, también. Yo me asumí ignorante, decidí escuchar y fue mi mayor acierto. En este caso, escuchar significa dejar afectarse, aprender del otro, aprender qué le pasa a una misma enfrentando esas situaciones y entender que una opera como ser colonizado”, manifiesta con la voz entrecortada.

UNA LECCIÓN INMORTAL

Para la realizadora, ‘Apenas El Sol’ fue una oportunidad para reflexionar sobre la manera en la que la herencia de la colonización en América Latina determina la percepción que tienen las personas sobre la cosmovisión de los nativos. “No nos vemos como descendientes de indígenas, nos sentimos más ligados a una forma de vida europea que a una indígena.

Sin embargo, un alto porcentaje de la población paraguaya, por ejemplo, tiene -en algún momento de su historia ancestralraíces indígenas. Todo el tiempo puse en cuestionamiento esa ‘euro centralidad’ y quedará como un cuestionamiento de por vida”, acota.

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Documentary maker Mateo Sobode is the center of the documentary that shows the fight for survival of the Ayoreo after being displaced from the forest and forced to re-build their home.

El documentalista Mateo Sobode es el protagonista de esta cinta que relata la supervivencia de los ayoreos tras ser despojados de la selva y verse obligados a reconstruir su hogar.

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The film is showing in festivals across the United States and Europe; and will hopefully be available on streaming platforms soon.

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La cinta se presenta actualmente en festivales de Estados Unidos y Europa; y se espera que pronto esté disponible en las plataformas de streaming.

Durante el rodaje, Ullón aprendió también a valorar una actitud que echa de menos en la sociedad contemporánea.

“Las conversaciones entre los protagonistas se practican casi sin juicio, sin violentarse. Hay un respeto al otro y creo que es algo muy rico para nosotros que desde el mundo occidental hemos perdido y lo perdemos cada vez más: el proceso empático está en riesgo”, puntualiza.

(DES)INTERÉS OFICIAL

La misma curiosidad de la directora sobre el pueblo ayoreo movilizó, en plena pandemia, a unos 4.000 paraguayos a descubrir en el cine una historia completamente desconocida para la mayoría de ellos. Si bien el éxito en la taquilla fue indiscutible, la cineasta confía en que el largometraje llegue a más rincones de su país y sea proyectado próximamente en centros culturales y educativos.

El estreno de ‘Apenas El Sol’ consiguió despertar el interés por el género documental en Paraguay, e incluso tuvo una repercusión política: en noviembre del 2021, el Congreso Nacional reconoció a Mateo Sobode Chiqueno por su labor cultural,

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convirtiéndose así en el primer ayoreo en recibir una distinción de ese tipo en el órgano legislativo. Sobode aprovechó el acto con las autoridades para reivindicar la restitución de las tierras ancestrales a su pueblo. “Nos estamos muriendo de a poco, pedimos no deforestar más las zonas donde viven los indígenas”, dijo.

La atención recibida en el Poder Legislativo no se replicó en otras instituciones del Estado creadas para velar por los derechos de los aborígenes y su calidad de vida, amenazada por la tala indiscriminada de los bosques.

No se puede decir lo mismo de los representantes del sector privado. Algunas organizaciones no gubernamentales se mostraron decididas a apoyar la digitalización de las grabaciones de Mateo para crear un archivo sonoro y perpetuar así el legado ayoreo. “Hay gente que cree que si no tiene participación directa en la vida de los ayoreo, entonces no les afecta; pero en verdad sí les afecta porque compartimos el mismo mundo. Por otro lado, hay gente que sí se siente comprometida y toma responsabilidad. El ciudadano de a pie es un ser político, tiene la posibilidad de elegir

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mejor y generar cambios en su entorno.

Los paraguayos pueden exigir leyes que protejan los bosques, regulen la deforestación y garanticen derechos a los pueblos indígenas”, enfatiza la productora.

EL CINE, CATALIZADOR DE CAMBIO SOCIAL

Consciente de que la paciencia y la perseverancia son actitudes clave para los profesionales en la industria cinematográfica, Ullón alienta a los jóvenes talentos a trabajar sin temer el rechazo.

“Cuando presentas un proyecto y te dicen ‘no’, hay que levantarse al día siguiente.

Y hay que presentarlo en otro lugar hasta que, en algún momento, alguien va a decir que ‘sí’. No hay ninguna película que haya tenido una secuencia de aprobaciones sin tener varios rechazos. Eso no existe”, sostiene.

En este punto, insiste en que lo más importante es aprovechar lo gratificante que trabajar en el cine puede llegar a ser.

“Siempre nos felicitan por los logros, los reconocimientos, y una cosa que me parece que hay que celebrar antes es el poder estar trabajando en cine: el trabajo es lo

importante. Nos tenemos que mantener investigando, escribiendo, y reescribiendo las veces que sea necesario para que nuestro trabajo se concrete y sea una película. Ese es el primer objetivo. Después si hay o no hay premios, eso ya es colateral”, apunta.

Es justamente el rol de directora el que le permite a Ullón aferrarse a la ilusión de que su segundo documental -con otros que traten la realidad de los ayoreo- marque los primeros pasos del largo camino que tiene aún por recorrer la visibilización de los pueblos indígenas de América Latina.

“Una espera, sueña y cree que puede influir en la realidad, aunque sea un poco; pero, por otro lado, lastimosamente me queda poco de inocencia y sé también que los cambios requieren mucho más que una película”, reflexiona finalmente.

La producción paraguayo-suiza “Apenas El Sol” se presenta en festivales de Europa y Estados Unidos. Su reciente proyección fue a comienzos de marzo en el Global Roots Film Festival en Vermont. Se espera que esté disponible en las plataformas de streaming a lo largo del 2022.. z • 17

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remember that…when I was 5, my mom took my brother and me to the United States to have a better life. I remember that…she rented an apartment in a rough neighborhood in Santa Ana, California, and had to lock us up inside only in the company of a tape recorder,” read one of those ‘little books’ that the Mexican director, Samuel Kishi Leopo, 37, carries with him wherever he goes.

He had written the paragraph himself, where in some sort of game he was trying to emulate the first words of the thousand phrases of the book “I remember” by Joe Brainard.

“When I saw it, I just read it and said: This can be a movie and I can take it to therapy too. Ok I’ll take it both places.

And that is how the project started to take shape,” said Kishi Leopo in an interview with AL DÍA News from Guadalajara, Mexico.

That memory, which until that moment stayed dormant in his memory, has been the inspiration to produce and direct a movie that, in less than two years, has – literally – gone around the world winning awards and reaping success in Berlin, Miami, Havana, South Korea, Lithuania, Argentina, Greece, Brazil and Switzerland.

The film is called “Los Lobos.”

Brothers Max and Leo Najar Marquez, ages 8 and 5, have been chosen to travel from Mexico to Albuquerque with their — fictional — mother Lucia (Martha Reyes Arias) to find a better life. “While they wait for their mother to be back from work, children observe through the apartment window the unsafe neighborhood where the motel where they live is located, mainly inhabited by Hispanics and Asians. They spend their time listening to stories, rules and lessons in English that their mother leaves in an old cassette player. They build an imaginary universe with drawings while they long for their mother to keep her promise of taking them to Disneyland one day,” reads the synopsis of the feature film.

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REBUILDING MEMORY

For the production, Samuel had the help of his younger brother: Kenji, a composer specialized in film and scenery.

“This is the first person I tell a story to when I’m about to write. We have a close relationship, and he can tell very fast when something is good and will work.

He likes a lot to be involved from the start because sonority evolves from those first ideas,” he commented.

The Kishi Leopos were aware, from the first moment, that even if the production was partly fictional, it would portray on the big screen the stories of Mexican children who migrated to the United States. The idea was not daunting at all to them, to the point that Kenji had the first soundtrack in less than a week.

Aside from his brother, Samuel went to the other protagonist of the story: his mother, whom he interviewed more than once to put all the pieces together, revive memories and compare them to his own.

“I will tell you something that I thought was very interesting: once we finished the movie, I showed it to her, and she started reviving other completely different things, things that she did not remember.

Our memory as a family was reconstructed when the film was finished,” he said exited. “I thought it was curious to see how cinema builds and rebuilds those memories; things she didn’t remember, but she revived through that screen. For example, strangely enough, she didn’t remember the time we had to sleep on the floor at all. Like, it was not in her head that much, and I said: Off course we slept on the floor! She was more focused on the jobs she had to get, on how to pay the rent; and we were like: Are you kidding!, the carpet was so stinky!, because that’s what we were living as kids,” he remembered laughing.

All of this, according to Kishi, allowed “Los Lobos” to restore the story of his childhood, and opened an emotional healing process. “Little by little I

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e acuerdo que… cuando tenía 5 años mi mamá nos llevó a mi hermano y a mí a vivir a los Estados Unidos para tener una mejor vida. Me acuerdo que… rentó un departamento en un barrio bravo de Santa Ana (California) y nos tenía que dejar encerrados nada más que en compañía de una grabadora”, se leía en uno de esos ‘cuadernitos’ que el director mexicano Samuel Kishi Leopo, de 37 años, lleva consigo siempre, vaya donde vaya.

El párrafo lo había escrito inducido por una especie de juego en el que intentaba emular las primeras palabras que hacen las más de mil frases del libro “Me acuerdo que”, de Joe Brainard.

“Cuando la vi, de repente, la leí y dije: esto puede ser una película y la llevo a terapia. Ya, bueno, la llevo a las dos partes. Y así fue como se empezó a gestar el proyecto”, manifestó Kishi Leopo en entrevista con AL DÍA desde Guadalajara (México).

Ese recuerdo, que hasta entonces parecía yacer adormecido en su memoria, le ha llevado a producir y dirigir una película que, en poco menos de dos años, ha dado literalmente la vuelta al mundo. Ha recogido galardones y cosechado éxitos en Berlín, Miami, La Habana, Corea del Sur, Lituania, Argentina, Grecia, Brasil y Suiza. La cinta se llama ‘Los Lobos’.

Los hermanos Max y Leo Nájar Márquez, de 8 y 5 años, han sido los elegidos para viajar desde México hasta Albuquerque con quien en la ficción ha sido su madre Lucía (Martha Reyes Arias), en busca de una vida mejor. “Mientras esperan que su mamá regrese del trabajo, los niños observan a través de la ventana de su departamento el inseguro barrio en el que está enclavado el motel donde viven, habitado principalmente por hispanos y asiáticos. Se dedican a escuchar los cuentos, reglas y lecciones de inglés que la madre les deja en una vieja grabadora de cassette, y construyen un universo imaginario con sus dibujos, mientras anhelan que su mamá cumpla su promesa de ir juntos a Disneylandia”, reza la sinopsis del largometraje.

Cambiando los nombres de los protagonistas y la ciudad, esta es la historia de Samuel y Kenji Kishi Leopo en Santa Ana (California), en la década de los ‘80.

RECONSTRUIR LA MEMORIA

Para la producción, Samuel contó con la ayuda de Kenji, su hermano menor y compositor especializado en cine y escena.

Contó que “es la primera persona a la que le cuento la historia cuando estoy a punto de escribir. Tenemos una relación cercana y él detecta muy rápido cuando algo es bueno y puede funcionar. A él le gusta mucho estar en los inicios porque va gestando la sonoridad a partir de esas primeras ideas”.

Desde el primer momento, los Kishi Leopo fueron conscientes de que aunque la producción tendría algo de ficción, llevaría a la gran pantalla los retratos de los niños mexicanos que fueron migrantes en los Estados Unidos. Pero la idea no los espantó, al punto que Kenji tuvo la primera maqueta de la música en menos de una semana.

Además de su hermano, Samuel recurrió también a los testimonios de la otra protagonista de su historia: su madre, a quien entrevistó en más de una ocasión para unir piezas, revivir recuerdos y contrastarlos con los suyos. “Te voy a contar algo que me pareció bien interesante: una vez que ya terminamos la película. Le muestro y ella empieza a revivir otras cosas completamente diferentes, cosas que ella no se acordaba.

Hay una reconstrucción de nuestra memoria como familia al ver la película terminada”, dijo entusiasmado.

“Se me hizo curioso ver cómo el cine construye y reconstruye esa memoria, cosas que ella no se acordaba y que las revivió por medio de la pantalla. Por ejemplo, curiosamente, ella no se acordaba de toda la temporada que dormimos en el piso. O sea, como que no tenía eso tan latente. Yo le decía: ‘¡Pues claro que dormíamos en el piso!’.

Ella estaba más enfocada en los trabajos que tenía que conseguir, en cómo tener que pagar la renta. Y para nosotros era como: ¡No manches! ¡La alfombra apestosa! Porque era lo que vivíamos nosotros como niños”, recordó entre risas.

Por estos motivos, Kishi aseguró que ‘Los Lobos’ permitió una restauración histórica de su niñez y abrió un proceso de sanación emocional. “Poco a poco fui haciendo las paces con muchas cosas que pensaba, porque uno comienza a entender las razones de las

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Increasing Latina presence in museums is still a challenge in the United States.

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Aumentar la presencia de mujeres latinas en los museos de Estados Unidos sigue siendo un reto pendiente.

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LITTLE BY LITTLE, LATINA CURATORS ARE LEAVING THEIR MARK IN THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS ART CENTERS IN THE U.S. POCO A POCO, ESTÁN DEJANDO SU HUELLA EN LOS MUSEOS Y CENTROS DE ARTE MÁS DISTINGUIDOS DE ESTADOS UNIDOS. By | Por: ANDREA RODES | AL DÍA News Print Editor

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he lack of diversity in U.S. museum spaces continues to be a harsh reality.

According to numbers from the 2018 Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey, only 12% of museum leadership positions were held by people of color, only showing a slight increase of 1% compared with results from 2015.

The same year, 84% of curators, conservators, educators and directors were white, while only 4% were Black and 3% Latin. It gets worse when it comes to Latinas.

There are some outstanding exceptions to these numbers, such as Dr. Ariana Curtis, an Afro-Latin curator, current content director of “Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past” — an initiative launched by the Smithsonian to help the United States face history and its legacy of white racism.

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“My objective is to generate real conversations around what people are seeing and feeling,” she explained in a recent interview with Refinery29.

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a falta de diversidad en los espacios museísticos de EE.UU sigue siendo una realidad.

Según cifras de la Encuesta Demográfica de Personal de los Museos de Arte de 2018, solo 12% de los puestos de liderazgo de los museos estaban ocupados por personas de color, un ligero aumento de un punto

Only 3% of curators, conservators, educators and directors of museums in the U.S. are Latino. It’s worse for Latinas.

Solo el 3% de los curadores, conservadores, educadores y dirigentes de museos de Estados Unidos son latinos. La cifra empeora cuando se trata de mujeres latinas.

porcentual respecto a los resultados de 2015.

Ese mismo año, el 84% de los curadores, conservadores, educadores y dirigentes eran blancos, mientras que solo el 4% eran negros y el 3% latinos. La cifra empeora cuando se trata de mujeres latinas.

Sin embargo, hay excepciones que merecen ser destacadas. Es el caso de la doctora Ariana Curtis, curadora afrolatina y directora de contenidos de Our Shared Future:Reckoning with Our Racial Past (‘Nuestro futuro compartido: el ajuste de cuentas con nuestro pasado racial’), una iniciativa lanzada por los museos Smithsonian con el objetivo de ayudarle a Estados Unidos a afrontar la historia y el legado del racismo.

Especializada en estudios de raza, género y justicia social, la doctora Curtis, de origen afroestadounidense y afropanameño, ha dedicado su carrera profesional a promover la representación de la “negritud’ en los museos.

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BLACKNESS WITHIN LATINIDAD

Apart from her work at Smithsonian museums, Curtis is the founder of Black Latinas Know, a collective of Black Latin academics and creators dedicated to studying the intersection of race between Latinidad and Blackness.

“We acknowledge that our Black womanhood and scholarship intersect to offer a particular view of race, our disciplines, and society which is intimately tied to our own experience.” the collective explains on its website.

The objective of the organization is to acknowledge the voices of Black Latin women as an essential source of knowledge to understand how race works within Latinidad.

“Overrepresentation by white or mixed Latinas/o/x in academic tradition about race replicates the same racial exclusions that are intended to be addressed,” the collective states.

OTHERS PAVING THE WAY

Other Latina curators in noteworthy positions in museums within the U.S. are E. Carmen Ramos, a Dominican Afro-Latina, appointed in 2021 as chief curatorial and conservation officer of the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington D.C. She is the first woman and person of color holding that position.

Last year in July, Puerto Rican Marcela Guerrero was also promoted to associate curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Guerrero is planning upcoming exhibits with Puerto Rican artists, and performance artist Martine Gutierrez.

Latina writer and curator Elizabeth Ferrer is also the vice president of contemporary art in BRIC, a center for experimental art in Brooklyn, NY. Last year, Ferrer published Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History, a wide selection of photographers that have covered the daily life and human rights of Latin communities in the United States.

Lastly, a new exhibit at the Denver Art Museum dedicated to ‘La Malinche’ has put Latin historian Terezita Romo in the spotlight. It is the first exhibit that explores the history and significance of this legendary Indigenous woman, who had a child with Spanish conqueror Hernan Cortes. z

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Uno de sus primeros trabajos en este sentido fue la organización, en 2013, de dos exposiciones bilingües para el Museo Comunitario Smithsonian Anacostia: ‘Gateways/Portales’, que exploraba las experiencias de los inmigrantes latinos en Washington, DC, Baltimore y partes de Carolina del Norte, y ‘Bridging the Americas’, una mirada al hogar y la pertenencia en y entre Panamá y DC.

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Además de su trabajo en los museos Smithsonian, Curtis es fundadora de Black Latinas Know , un colectivo de académicas y creadoras negras latinas dedicadas al estudio interseccional de la raza dentro de la Latinidad y la Negritud. “Reconocemos que nuestra condición de mujeres negras y nuestra erudición se entrecruzan para ofrecer una visión particular de la raza, de nuestras disciplinas y de la sociedad, que está íntimamente ligada a nuestra propia experiencia”, explican en su web.

El objetivo de la organización es reconocer las voces de las latinas negras como una fuente crucial de conocimiento para entender cómo funciona la raza dentro de la Latinidad. “La sobrerrepresentación de las latinas/o/x blancas y mestizas en los relatos académicos sobre la raza reproduce las mismas exclusiones raciales que los estudios pretenden abordar”, señalan.

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E. Carmen Ramos, afrolatina de origen dominicano, es otra curadora latina que ocupa un puesto relevante en museos de Estados Unidos. En el 2021 fue nombrada conservadora jefe y responsable de conservación de la National Gallery of Art (NGA) de Washington DC, convirtiéndose en la primera persona de color y mujer en ocupar ese puesto.

En julio del año pasado, la puertorriqueña Marcela Guerrero fue ascendida a conservadora asociada en el Museo de Arte Whitney. Guerrero está organizando las próximas exposiciones de artistas puertorriqueños y de la artista de performance Martine Gutiérrez.

Por otro lado, la escritora y comisaria latina Elizabeth Ferrer ocupa el cargo de vicepresidenta de arte contemporáneo en BRIC, un centro de arte experimental de Brooklyn, NY. Ferrer publicó el año pasado ‘Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History’, una amplia selección de fotógrafos que han dado cobertura a la vida cotidiana y los derechos humanos en las comunidades latinas en Estados Unidos.

Por último, una nueva exposición en el Museo de Arte de Denver dedicada a ‘La Malinche’ ha puesto en el punto de mira a la historiadora del arte latina Terezita Romo. Se trata de la primera exposición que explora la historia y significado de esta legendaria mujer indígena que tuvo un hijo con el conquistador español Hernán Cortés. z

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n Dec. 7 of 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor by surprise. The empire wanted to keep the United States’ Pacific Fleet from operating in the colonies of the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and the United States itself in South East Asia.

Three-hundred and fifty-three Japanese aircrafts, bombers and torpedo bombers took off to destroy three cruisers, three destroyers, one training vessel and one minelayer. At the end of the operation they were congratulated by Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco.

The attack shook the American people and marked the entry point of the United States into the Second World War. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy also declared war to the United States. Spain did not go that far, but joined forces with the Japanese empire.

The Japanese turned to Spain for war materials because the latter declared itself non-belligerent, even though it was under a fascist regime. The Spanish colony in the Philippines mediated so the Japanese could occupy the archipelago.

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The Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister, Ramón Serrano Suner, also dedicated himself to representing and defending the rights of the Japanese living in the United States. They were suffering from a xenophobia similar to the one Russians suffer today, with their farms being assaulted and losing jobs in droves.

In the 80s, many of those Japanese were entitled to reparations, because the country had discriminated against them

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l 7 de diciembre de 1941, Japón atacó por sorpresa Pearl Harbor. El imperio quería evitar que la Flota del Pacífico de Estados Unidos frenara sus operaciones contra las colonias de Reino Unido, Francia, Países Bajos y el propio Estados Unidos en el Sureste Asiático. 353 aviones japoneses, bombarderos y torpederos despegaron para hundir tres cruceros, tres destructores, un buque escuela y un minador. Al final de la operación tuvieron una felicitación: la del dictador español Francisco Franco.

El ataque conmocionó al pueblo estadounidense y provocó la entrada de Estados Unidos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial un día después. La Alemania nazi y la Italia fascista también le declararon la guerra a Estados Unidos y España no fue tan lejos, pero se alió con el imperio nipón.

Los japoneses recurrieron a España para adquirir material de guerra porque el país se había declarado no beligerante, aunque estuviera bajo la tiranía de un régimen fascista. La colonia española en Filipinas medió para que los japoneses ocuparan el archipiélago.

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Además, el ministro de Exteriores de la dictadura española, Ramón Serrano Súñer, se dedicó a representar y defender los derechos de los japoneses que vivían en Estados Unidos. Estaban sufriendo una fobia parecida a la que muchos rusos sufren hoy, con asaltos a sus haciendas y pérdida de trabajo.

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But that pat on the back and eventual collaboration with the Spanish did not last for long. When the Philippines was occupied by Japan, the latter destroyed buildings and even killed Spaniards who resided there and had helped them take over. Reality then hit the Francoist dictatorship, which stopped defending and protecting the Japanese in the United States.

FRANCO AGAINST JAPAN

On April of 1943, Franco decided to partly abandon his neutrality in the conflict and appear close to the Allied Forces of WWII, insisting that Japan needed to

be beat because they were “barbarians.”

When the Philippines managed to free itself from the Japanese empire, Franco congratulated the president of the Philippines this time, Jose Paciano Laurel.

To avoid an attack from the United States, Franco’s Spain released an official note against Japan and even delivered military material, namely ships to go on the offensive against the Japanese empire. The Axis Powers, Germany and Italy, also began their downward spiral, and Francoism was in a fight to survive.

Its strategy was to openly show itself as an enemy to Japan.

Franco’s hand was a good one. Once the war ended, the Allies put aside attacking the Spanish dictatorship and instead promoted democracy. Spanish fascism stayed in power until Franco’s death in November of 1975. z

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Pero aquella felicitación y la colaboración posterior no duraron mucho tiempo.

Cuando Japón ocupó Filipinas, destruyó edificios y llegó incluso a matar a españoles que residían allí y que les habían facilitado la entrada. El nerviosismo invadió al gobierno de la dictadura franquista, que dejó de defender y proteger a los japoneses en Estados Unidos.

FRANCO SE POSICIONA CONTRA JAPÓN

En abril de 1943, Franco decidió abandonar en parte su neutralidad ante el conflicto, se mostró cercano a los aliados e insistió en la idea de derrotar a los japone-

ses porque eran “unos bárbaros”. Cuando las Filipinas consiguieron librarse del Imperio nipón, Franco volvió a mandar una felicitación, pero en este caso al presidente filipino, José Paciano Laurel.

Para evitar el ataque de Estados Unidos, la España de Franco publicó una nota oficial en contra de Japón e incluso entregó material militar en forma de barcos a la ofensiva contra el Imperio nipón. El Eje fascista de Alemania e Italia empezaba a ser derrotado y el franquismo quería sobrevivir a esa caída. Su baza: mostrarse abiertamente enemigo de Japón.

La jugada le fue favorable a Franco.

Una vez terminada la guerra, los aliados descartaron atacar a la dictadura española e impulsar la democracia. El fascismo español se mantuvo en el poder hasta el fallecimiento de Franco, en noviembre de 1975. z

In 1943, Francisco Franco approached the Allied Powers of WWII and insisted the Japanese had to be defeated because they were “barbaric.

En 1943, Franco se acercó a los aliados e insistió en la idea de derrotar a los japoneses porque eran “unos bárbaros.

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The elections were overseen by missions of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the international community.

On this occasion, Colombians also chose a candidate for each of the three coalitions, right, center and left for the coming presidential elections on May 29. The winners of each coalition were Gustavo Petro from Historic Pact; Federico Gutierrez from the right coalition, and Sergio Fajardo, for the center coalition, Centro Esperanza (Hope Center). Petro is leading the polls to win the Presidency of the Republic. z

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Durante la jornada, misiones de observadores de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) y de la comunidad internacional cumplieron funciones de veeduría.

Los colombianos también escogieron los candidatos presidenciales de tres coaliciones de derecha, centro e izquierda para las elecciones del próximo 29 de mayo.

Los ganadores fueron Gustavo Petro, por el Pacto Histórico; Federico Gutiérrez, de una alianza de partidos de derecha, y Sergio Fajardo, de la Coalición Centro Esperanza, de centro. De acuerdo con las encuestas, Petro es el favorito para ganar la Presidencia de la República.z

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THE IMPORTANCE OF TAX PLANNING HAVING A PLAN WHEN FILING TAXES, PARTICULARLY AS IT RELATES TO RETIREMENT, CAN LEAD TO MAXIMUM BENEFITS. TENER UN PLAN A LA HORA DE HACER LA DECLARACIÓN DE IMPUESTOS, EN PARTICULAR EN LO QUE SE REFIERE A LA JUBILACIÓN, PUEDE LLEVAR A MÁXIMOS BENEFICIOS.

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ach year during tax season, it’s important to have a plan and tax strategy to ensure things run smoothly.

To prepare an effective tax plan, there are many options to consider.

Lisa Borrelli, a CPA and wealth planner at West Capital Management, provides five important options to consider when developing an effective tax strategy.

She noted that a valuable component to tax planning is to set retirement goals, and begin implementing them while considering the following options: 1. Efficient Contributions: Comprehensive tax planning provides an avenue to maximize today’s savings while creating income for tomorrow.

Roth 401(k) and Roth IRAs are great tools to save for future retirement, and are particularly beneficial for young workers early in their careers.

2. Roth Conversions: For workers who don’t anticipate a dip in income until the early retirement years, Roth conversions are a great way to smooth income, slightly increasing tax brackets in the present time while lowering tax brackets in the future.

3. Additional Retirement Contributions: For individuals who see availability for additional retirement contributions based on their goals, there are other options. They include Self-Employed Pension Plans (SEP), Profit Sharing Plans, and Nondeductible and Deductible IRA contributions.

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5. Maximize Tax-efficient Charitable Giving: Qualified Charitable Deductions provide a reduction to ordinary income, which carries a greater impact in tax reduction than charitable giving. When taxpayers are not required to draw from an IRA, it can be more beneficial than cash.

For small businesses relying on a tax refund to keep cash flowing, there are also some steps that can be taken to minimize the impact of a refund delay.

Jeremy Shackleford, senior vice president and director of small business sales at WSFS Bank, suggests the following: • Get Started Now: The earlier you start your taxes, the better your chances are of avoiding long-term refund delays.

• Have Everything Ready: Having all your financial documentation ready can go a long way in ensuring the tax filing can occur on time.

• Have Your Financial House in Order: For businesses that rely on tax refunds, options such as small business lines of credit, small business express loans and small business credit cards can be useful in helping bridge the gap between when taxes are filed and when the refund arrives.

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odos los años durante el periodo de declaración de impuestos, es importante tener un plan y una estrategia para asegurarse de que todo salga bien.

Existen muchos aspectos a considerar cuando se prepara un plan de declaración efectivo.

Con esto en mente, Lisa Borrelli, contadora pública certificada y planeadora financiera en West Capital Management, menciona cinco puntos importantes a considerar para desarrollar una estrategia de declaración de impuestos efectiva.

Ella resalta que un elemento valioso en la planificación es definir metas para la jubilación, y empezar a implementarlas teniendo en cuenta los siguientes puntos: 1. Contribuciones eficientes: Una planificación fiscal completa es una avenida que conduce a maximizar los ahorros de hoy y crear los ingresos del mañana. Los planes Roth 401(k) y Roth IRA (Arreglo para Retiro Individual) son una excelente herramienta para ahorrar para la jubilación, y son especialmente beneficiosas para trabajadores jóvenes que empiezan sus carreras profesionales.

2. Conversiones de los planes Roth: Para trabajadores que no prevén bajones en sus ingresos hasta que lleguen los primeros años de la jubilación, las conversiones Roth son una manera excelente de que haya flujo de ingresos, lo que amplía ligeramente los rangos gravables en el presente mientras los reduce en el futuro.

3. Contribuciones adicionales para la jubilación: Para aquellos que ven la posibilidad de hacer aportes adicionales para jubilación con base en sus metas, existen otras opciones. Estas incluyen Planes de Pensión para Independientes (SEP), Planes de Participación en la Ganancias, y aportes IRA deducibles y no deducibles.

4. Planes 529: Estos planes permiten transferir activos a niños pequeños,

que podrían resultar en más impuestos. Los planes 529 Plans permiten que se le obsequien activos a los niños que crecerán y estarán exentos del impuesto federal si los fondos se usan para gastos educativos que entren dentro de las condiciones.

5. Maximizar las donaciones a organizaciones benéficas que tengan ventajas impositivas: Las Deducciones por Donaciones a Beneficencia Aptas se aplican a ingresos ordinarios, que tienen un mayor impacto en la reducción de impuestos que las donaciones normales. Cuando no se requiere que los contribuyentes hagan retiros de una IRA, se benefician más que con dinero en efectivo.

Para las pequeñas empresas que cuentan con una devolución de impuestos para que haya flujo de efectivo, hay algunos pasos que se pueden tomar para minimizar el impacto de un retraso en la devolución.

Jeremy Shackleford, vicepresidente sénior y director de ventas para pequeñas empresas en el WSFS Bank, sugiere lo siguiente: • Comience ahora: Cuanto más temprano haga su declaración, mayor será la posibilidad de que no se retrase su devolución.

• Tenga todo listo: Tener toda su documentación lista puede servir mucho para que todo el proceso se dé a tiempo.

• Mantenga buenas relaciones con las instituciones financieras: Para los negocios que dependan de la devolución de impuestos, es muy útil poder recurrir a opciones como líneas de crédito, préstamos express y tarjetas de crédito para pequeñas empresas, para que sirvan de puente entre el momento en que se presente la declaración y el momento en que llegue la devolución.

Sin duda la situación financiera y fiscal de cada individuo y de cada empresa es diferente, pero estos concejos pueden ser de mucha ayuda para minimizar los problemas en la época de declaración de impuestos.z

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FROM PAGE THE NEW PLATFORM AIMING TO BRING QUALITY EDUCATION TO ALL From pag. 6 |

In addition to Uber, they were backed by investors like Softbank, Owl Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins. In total, the company received an angel investment of $5.3 million.

Atlanta Falcons’ linebacker, Brandon Copeland joined the platform as an investor and a financial literacy instructor. He also teaches similar courses at the University of Pennsylvania.

THE NETFLIX OF EDUCATION

Emile Learning has billed itself as the “Netflix of education.” One way that it’s heading in that direction is with its instructors. Several of the instructors are educators who have made large platforms for themselves on social media, like TikTok and YouTube. One of these instruc-

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tors is social studies teacher, Rebecca Rogers. Her TikTok page, where she posts humorous videos that revolve around being a teacher, has 2.2 million followers.

Another way is how the courses are structured. Courses are made up of short segments, 10 minutes or less, designed to make the student want to binge the segments like a Netflix show.

Memberships for the site start at $10 with unlimited access to the curriculum.

As more school districts have begun using the site, more students are able to access it for free. In this case, it is because the memberships are being paid for with money that goes to the schools from public taxes.

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de Uber, y un 30 % de sus primeros 40 empleados también habían trabajado en Uber.

Además de Uber, los apoyaron los inversores como Softbank, Owl Ventures y Kleiner Perkins. En total, la compañía recibió en inversión privada $5.3 millones.

El defensa de los Atlanta Falcons, Brandon Copeland, se unió a la plataforma como inversor e instructor en educación financiera. También enseña cursos similares en la Universidad de Pensilvania.

EL NETFLIX DE LA EDUCACIÓN

Emile Learning se ha presentado a sí misma como el “Netflix de la educación”.

Una manera de ir en esa dirección es con sus instructores. Varios instructores son educadores con grandes plataformas en redes sociales, como TikTok y YouTube. Una de ellos es profesora de sociales, Rebecca Rogers; su página de TikTok, donde publica

videos graciosos sobre el tema de ser profesor, tiene 2.2 millones de seguidores.

Otra manera es cómo están estructurados los cursos. Están conformados por segmentos cortos, 10 minutos o menos, diseñados para hacer que los estudiantes quieran consumir los segmentos como si fueran una serie de Netflix.

Las membresías para el sitio comienzan en $10 con acceso ilimitado al currículo. A medida que más distritos escolares han empezado a usar el sitio, más estudiantes pueden ingresar de manera gratis. Esto es porque esas membresías están pagadas con el dinero que va a las escuelas con los impuestos.

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government official who violated its terms.

In September 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Act, making it the first time legislation to preserve abortion rights under federal law would have been enacted.

The right to have an abortion prior to fetal viability, typically around 23 or 24 weeks, has been protected under the Constitution since the Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade.

A DIRE FUTURE

In December, the Supreme Court signaled its willingness to undermine Roe v. Wade and permit a Mississippi ban on abortion after 15 weeks. The court’s decision in that case is expected in late Spring 2022.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights advocacy research group, about 26 states would move to immediately ban abortion if Roe is overturned.

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groups and the White House itself have condemned the vote.

On Tuesday, March 1, White House press secretary Jen Psaki released a statement responding to the blocked bill.

“It is extremely disappointing that Senate Republicans blocked passage of the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would strengthen health care access and codify constitutional rights affirmed half a century ago by Roe v. Wade and in subsequent Supreme Court precedent,” Psaki wrote.

Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth also pointed to further implications of not protecting Roe, especially the impact on women of color.

“By failing to advance the Women’s Health Protection Act, Senate Republicans are depriving millions of women, especially low-income women, and women of color, of healthcare they need when they need it. I refuse to let my daughters grow up in a world with fewer rights than I had, and I won’t stop working to codify Roe v. Wade,” said Duckworth. z

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dar a cualquier estado o funcionario de gobierno que violara sus términos.

En septiembre de 2021, la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos aprobó la ley, con lo que fue la primera vez que se habría promulgado una legislación federal que preservara el derecho al aborto..

El derecho a abortar antes de la viabilidad fetal, por lo general cerca de la semana 23 o 24, ha sido protegida por la Constitución en virtud de la sentencia de la Corte Suprema en el caso de Roe contra Wade en 1973.

UN MAL FUTURO

En diciembre, la Corte señaló su intensión de derogar el caso Roe contra Wade y autorizar un veto al aborto en Mississippi después de la semana 15. La decisión se espera para finales de la primavera próxima.

Según el Guttmacher Institute, un grupo de defensa e investigación del derecho al aborto, unos 26 estados lo vetarían de inmediato si se deroga el caso Roe. Los senadores demócratas, grupos de defensa y la misma Casa Blanca han condenado el veto.

El primero de marzo, la secretaria de prensa de la Casa Blanca, Jen Psaki, emitió una declaración con la que respondió al proyecto de ley obstruido.

“Es muy decepcionante que senadores republicanos bloquearan la aprobación de La Ley de Protección a la Salud de la Mujer, que hubiese fortalecido el acceso a servicios de salud y codificado los derechos constitucionales ratificados hace medio siglo en el caso Roe contra Wade y en otros precedentes posteriores de la Corte Suprema”, escribió Psaki.

Tammy Duckworth, senadora de Illinois, indicó otras implicaciones de no proteger el fallo Roe, sobre todo por su impacto en las personas de color.

“Al no avanzar con La Ley de Protección a la Salud de la Mujer, los senadores republicanos están privando a millones de mujeres, en especial mujeres de bajos ingresos y de color, de los servicios en salud que ellas necesitan. Me niego a dejar que mis hijas crezcan en un mundo donde haya menos derechos de los que yo tuve, y no dejaré de trabajar para que Roe contra Wade sea codificado”, dijo Duckworth. z

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made amends with a lot of my thoughts because you start to understand the reasons for things when your points of view change as an adult. My perspective as a child was what shaped my memory. Now I understand the difficulties that my mother went through, and not at a superficial level. I made peace with many things of my childhood and with my mother, and we do have a good relationship, but I understood the things that she did because she was very young when we migrated, she was only 24 years old. At 24, I was finishing my cinema studies not knowing exactly what to do; while my mother, at that same age, already had two kids and she was fighting and making a living in a different country.”

What a good model and how tenacious his mother figure was were not the only things that captivated Kishi as “Los Lobos” was taking shape, also he reflected on the importance of solidarity. “We people who migrate need to create a community and be empathic. That is key to go through the migration process of taking root and uprooting, the trauma of separating from your roots to create a new home. Giving a hand to your neighbor is the only way to survive and live the experience in the best way” he said. “As migrant children, it helped a lot what my mother did, but also what people did to help us. There were mean, evil people, but also good people. I remember both, and you choose which one you want to become. We can make important changes by helping, supporting each other with little things, it’s not necessary to be pompous,” he added.

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ing to the Mexican producer. “It helps us understand ourselves as human beings, it allows us to understand our condition as human beings and practice empathy. It is all very interesting because it is not necessary to judge in order to tell a story,” he said.

After all they lived at the beginning of the project, their trips to Santa Ana, their long conversations with other migrants and casting about 1,000 Mexican children, filming was set in motion in 2014, and post-production was ready five years later. It premiered between 2020 and 2021 due to the conditions imposed due to the pandemic.

MIGRATION FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

The director defined “Los Lobos” is an unconventional narration of Latin American migration, which the public may not be used to. “While the movie has a harsh side, it also has a sweet side, which are the children, and that is not a trendy topic.

Making this film was a punk act within Latin American cinema, because it is filled with tenderness, empathy and resilience. I wanted to make a movie without minding being too dark, but not fearing light either.”

“Los Lobos” is available for Latin America and the United States through HBO Max, and on the streaming platform Filmin in Spain.

As for Samuel Kishi Leopo, he does not stop. He is introducing his new animated short film “El Año del Radio” [The Year of the Radio] in international festivals, one of them if the Miami Film Festival. He is also working on the script and production of another three full-length films that he expects will surprise the spectators, very soon, in the movie theaters. z

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cosas y tiene un punto de vista como adulto. Porque mi memoria estaba construida desde mi punto de vista como niño. Ahora entiendo las dificultades por las que pasó mi mamá y no de una forma superficial.

Hice las paces con muchas cosas de mi infancia, con mi mamá, y eso que tenemos una muy buena relación. Entendí las cosas que ella hizo porque era muy joven cuando nosotros migramos, tenía 24 años.

Yo, a los 24, estaba terminando la carrera de cine sin saber qué hacer exactamente, mientras que mi mamá a esa misma edad ya estaba ahí con dos niños luchando y ganándose la vida en otro país”, reflexionó.

Pero no solo el ejemplo y tenacidad de la figura materna cautivaron a Kishi a medida que ‘Los Lobos’ iba tomando forma, sino también una reflexión sobre la importancia de la solidaridad. “Las personas que migramos necesitamos crear comunidad y ser empáticos. Eso es lo fundamental para afrontar todos estos procesos migratorios, de arraigo y desarraigo, de trauma por alejarte de tu raíces para crear un nuevo hogar. Tender la mano al prójimo es la única forma de sobrevivir y vivir bien estas cosas”, dijo.

“Como niños migrantes nos ayudó mucho lo que hizo mi mamá, pero también las personas que nos tendieron la mano. Por supuesto, también encontramos personas malas, malísimas, pero también buenas.

Me acuerdo de las dos y uno elige quién quiere ser. Podemos hacer cambios importantes tendiendo la mano, apoyándonos, desde las cosas más pequeñas. No es necesario cosas grandilocuentes”, agregó.

Revivir tanta emoción y entender el poder del perdón no sería posible sin el cine, según el realizador mexicano: “Nos permite

entendernos como seres humanos, entender nuestra condición como seres humanos y hacer un ejercicio de empatía. Es bien interesante porque para poder contar no tenemos que juzgar”.

Después de todo lo vivido en los inicios del proyecto, sus viajes a Santa Ana, sus largas charlas con otros migrantes y un casting a unos 1.000 niños mexicanos, el rodaje de la cinta se puso en marcha en 2014 y la postproducción estuvo lista cinco años más tarde. Por las condiciones de la pandemia, el estreno se realizó entre 2020 y 2021.

LA MIGRACIÓN VISTA DESDE OTRA PERSPECTIVA

El director definió a ‘Los Lobos’ como la narración de una migración latinoamericana poco convencional, a la que quizás no está acostumbrado el público. “Es una película que, si bien tiene su lado duro, también tiene su lado tierno. Tiene que ver con los niños y ese tema no está de moda. El acto de hacer esta película era para nosotros un acto punk dentro de lo que se hace en el cine latinoamericano, porque está llena de ternura, empatía y resiliencia. Yo quería hacer una película que no tema ser oscura, pero que tampoco le tema a la luz”, declaró.

‘Los Lobos’ se puede ver en Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos a través de HBO Max. En España, en la plataforma de streaming Filmin.

Por su parte, Samuel Kishi Leopo no para. Se encuentra presentando ‘El año del radio’, su nuevo cortometraje animado en festivales internacionales, entre ellos el de Miami. Al mismo tiempo, trabaja en el guión y producción de otros tres largometrajes con los que espera sorprender muy pronto a los espectadores. z

Filled with tenderness, but far from stereotypes, the film, directed by Mexican Samuel Kishi Leopo, is an ode to taking roots, uprooting, memories, forgiveness, and empathy.

Colmada de ternura y alejada de los estereotipos, la película dirigida por el mexicano Samuel Kishi Leopo se ha convertido en una oda al arraigo, al desarraigo, al recuerdo, al perdón y a la empatía.

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TRABAJOS SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of a Writ of execution, to me directed, issued out of the SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION, CAMDEN COUNTY, DOCKET NO. F01015218 at Public Venue on WEDNESDAY the 6TH Day of APRIL, 2022 A.D. at 12 o'clock, LOCAL TIME, noon of said day, at the Camden County College, Blackwood, 200 College Drive, Blackwood, NJ 08012 in the Connector Building, Civic Hall (105) Parking Lots 3 and 4. https://www.camdencc.edu/about-1/contact-cccblackwood-directions/ Property to be sold is located in TOWNSHIP OF PENNSAUKEN, State of New Jersey.

Premises commonly known as: 3337 SPRINGFIELD AVENUE, PENNSAUKEN, NJ 08109 Being Tax Lot: 5 FKA 3 in Block: 5109 FKA 61 Dimensions approximately: 50 FEET WIDE BY 177.53 FEET LONG Nearest Cross Street: CHESTNUT AVENUE The Sheriff hereby reserves the right to adjourn this sale without further notice through publication.

The judgment sought to be satisfied by the sale is:

"APPROXIMATELY" $215,509.40 TWENTY PERCENT DEPOSIT REQUIRED SURPLUS MONEY: If after the sale and satisfaction of the mortgage debt, including costs and expenses, there remains any surplus money, the money will be deposited into the Superior Court Trust Fund and any person claiming the surplus, or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant to Court Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the nature and extent of that person's claim and asking for an order directing payment of the surplus money.

The Sheriff or other person conducting the sale will have information regarding the surplus, if any.

Seized as the property of: KENNETH W. GARDENER, JR. ET AL, and taken in execution of DITECH FINANCIAL, LLC GILBERT L. "WHIP" WILSON SHERIFF Sheriff's Number: 19004092 Dated: March 9, 16, 23, 30 2022 KML LAW GROUP, PC 216 HADDON AVENUE SUITE 406 WESTMONT, NJ 08108 $132.48

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$157,713.30 TWENTY PERCENT DEPOSIT REQUIRED SURPLUS MONEY: If after the sale and satisfaction of the mortgage debt, including costs and expenses, there remains any surplus money, the money will be deposited into the Superior Court Trust Fund and any person claiming the surplus, or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant to Court Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the nature and extent of that person's claim and asking for an order directing payment of the surplus money.

The Sheriff or other person conducting the sale will have information regarding the surplus, if any.

Seized as the property of: CARL J. INGRAM, ET AL, and taken in execution of WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. GILBERT L. "WHIP" WILSON SHERIFF Sheriff's Number: 22000457 Dated: March 16, 23, 30, April 6 2022 BROCK & SCOTT, PLLC 302 FELLOWSHIP ROAD SUITE 130 MOUNT LAUREL, NJ 08054 $135.36

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By virtue of a Writ of execution, to me directed, issued out Of the SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION,CAMDEN COUNTY, DOCKET NO. F00498521 at Public Venue on WEDNESDAY The 13TH Day of APRIL , 2022 A.D. at 12 o'clock, LOCAL TIME, noon of said day, at the Camden County College, Blackwood, 200 College Drive, Blackwood, NJ 08012 in the Connector Building, Civic Hall (105) Parking Lots 3 and 4. https://www.camdencc.edu/about-1/contact-cccblackwood-directions/ Property to be sold is located in the municipality of BOROUGH OF PINE HILL , County of Camden, State of New Jersey.

Premises commonly known as: 22 GRANT LANE, BERLIN, NJ 08009 Being known as: Lot: 10 Block: 115.03 on the official Tax Map of the BOROUGH OF PINE HILL Dimensions approximately: 79.00 ft x 40.00 ft X 23.56 ft Nearest Cross Street: LINCOLN AVENUE If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney.

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By virtue of a Writ of execution, to me directed, issued out Of the SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION,CAMDEN COUNTY, DOCKET NO. F00835220 at Public Venue on WEDNESDAY the 23rd Day of MARCH, 2022 A.D. at 12 o'clock, LOCAL TIME, noon of said day, at the Camden County College, Blackwood, 200 College Drive, Blackwood, NJ 08012 in the Connector Building, Civic Hall (105) Parking Lots 3 and 4. https://www.camdencc.edu/about-1/contact-cccblackwood-directions/ Property to be sold is located in the CITY OF CAMDEN, County of Camden, State of New Jersey.

Commonly known as: 1029 NORTH 24TH STREET, CAMDEN, NJ 08105 Tax Lot #42 in Block #: 857 Dimensions (Approx.): 40 X 110 Nearest Cross Street: WAYNE AVE Tax Lot #42 in Block#: 857 Dimensions (Approx.): 40 X 110 Nearest Cross Street: WAYNE AVE IMPORTANT: Indicate lien information, if any, to be advertised pursuant to the Supreme Court decision of 10/28/99 - Summit Bank vs. Dennis Thiel (A-58-98).

Sheriff; kindly advertise the following: N/A By: /s/ Adam J. Friedman, Esq. The judgment sought to be satisfied by the sale is:

"APPROXIMATELY" $156,550.87 TWENTY PERCENT DEPOSIT REQUIRED

SURPLUS MONEY: If after the sale and satisfaction of the mortgage debt, including costs and expenses, there remains any surplus money, the money will be deposited into the Superior Court Trust Fund and any person claiming the surplus, or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant to Court Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the nature and extent of that person's claim and asking for an order directing payment of the surplus money.

The Sheriff or other person conducting the sale will have information regarding the surplus, if any.

Seized as the property of: RICHARD C. SMITH, JR; TANISHA GREEN-SMITH; GENARO MOLINA; KENNEDY HEALTH SYSTEM; STATE OF NEW JERSEY, ET AL and taken in execution of U.S. BANK TRUST N.A. AS TRUSTEE OF THE SCIG SERIES ||| TRUST GILBERT L. "WHIP" WILSON SHERIFF Sheriff's Number: 22000259 Dated: February 23, March, 2, 9,16, 2022 FRIEDMAN VARTOLO LLP 85 BROAD STREET SUITE 501 NEW YORK, NY 10004 $167.04

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SHERIFF’S SALE

By virtue of a Writ of execution, to me directed, issued out Of the SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION,CAMDEN COUNTY, DOCKET NO. F01066919 at Public Venue on WEDNESDAY The 6TH Day of APRIL, 2022 A.D. at 12 o'clock, LOCAL TIME, noon of said day, at the Camden County College, Blackwood, 200 College Drive, Blackwood, NJ 08012 in the Connector Building, Civic Hall (105) Parking Lots 3 and 4. https://www.camdencc.edu/about-1/contact-cccblackwood-directions/ Property to be sold is located in the municipality of BOROUGH OF LINDENWOLD, State of New Jersey.

Premises commonly known as: 1801 EGG HARBOR ROAD 509, LINDENWOLD, NJ 08021 Being Tax Lot: 11 Qual C5209 Block: 244 Dimensions approximately: CONDOMINIUM UNIT Nearest Cross Street: COLONIAL SQUARE PLACE THE ABOVE ADVERTISEMENT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A FULL LEGAL DESCRIPTION. A FULL LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PREMISES CAN BE FOUND IN THE OFFICE OF THE SHERIFF OF CAMDEN COUNTY DURING REGULAR BUSINESS HOURS. Sold subject to any unpaid taxes, municipal liens or other charges, and any such taxes, charges, liens, insurance premiums or other advances made by plaintiff prior to this sale. All interested parties are to conduct and rely upon their own independent investigation to ascertain whether or not any outstanding interest remain of record and/or have priority over the lien being foreclosed and, if so the current amount due thereon.

SUPERIOR INTEREST (if any): Any and all easements, covenants, restrictions and reservations of record; Any set of facts which an accurate survey and inspection would disclose: All unpaid municipal taxes, assessments and liens; Any unpaid assessment and any outstanding tax sale certificate; Rights of any party in possession /rights protected by the NJ Anti-Eviction Act; All Local, County, State and Federal ordinances and regulations; Any condominium association lien granted priority by N.J.S.A 46:8B-21b; Any outstanding Condominium, PUD or Homeowner Association dues or fees; Rights of the United States of America, if any; The property is sold in its “AS IS” condition; Purchaser shall be responsible for Sheriffs costs, commission, deed recording fees and realty transfer fees: Any solar panels affixed to the property will not be conveyed by this sale.

The judgment sought to be satisfied by the sale is:

"APPROXIMATELY" $137,741.79 TWENTY PERCENT DEPOSIT REQUIRED

SURPLUS MONEY: If after the sale and satisfaction of the mortgage debt, including costs and expenses, there remains any surplus money, the money will be deposited into the Superior Court Trust Fund and any person claiming the surplus, or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant to Court Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the nature and extent of that person's claim and asking for an order directing payment of the surplus money.

The Sheriff or other person conducting the sale will have information regarding the surplus, if any.

Seized as the property of: DIANE BLISS REHM AKA DIANE B. REHM, EXECUTRIX OF THE ESTATE OF DAVID S. GAY, DAVID CURTIS, HEIR, FORD MOTOR CREDIT CO., HEATHER L. GAY, HEIR, SCOTT D. GAY, HEIR MEADOWVIEW CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, MEDICAL PRACTICE MANAGEMENT ASSOC. OBO SOUTHERN REGIONAL PATHOLOGY, STATE OF NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ASHLEY ZEH, taken in execution of MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P. GILBERT L. "WHIP" WILSON SHERIFF Sheriff's Number: 22000426 Dated: March 9, 16, 23, 30, 2022 HLADIK, ONORATO & FEDERMAN, LLP 1451 CHEWS LANDING ROAD SUITE 206 LAUREL SPRINGS, NJ 08021 $221.76

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By virtue of a Writ of execution, to me directed, issued out Of the SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION, CAMDEN COUNTY, DOCKET NO. F01318118 at Public Venue on WEDNESDAY the 23rd Day of MARCH, 2022 A.D. at 12 o'clock, LOCAL TIME, noon of said day, at the Camden County College, Blackwood, 200 College Drive, Blackwood, NJ 08012 in the Connector Building, Civic Hall (105) Parking Lots 3 and 4. https://www.camdencc.edu/about-1/contact-cccblackwood-directions/ All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the BOROUGH OF BELLMAWR, County of Camden and State of New Jersey: Premises commonly known as: 509 SECOND AVENUE, BELLMAWR, NEW JERSEY 08031 Being Tax Lot: 1.02, Block: 116 Nearest Cross Street: CEDAR AVENUE (approx. 100 feet away) Dimensions approximately: 100 x 120 Amount Due for Taxes: Subject to Tax Sale Certificate nUmber 21-0048- Sold to Loramark Capital, LLC, in the amount of $510.78 dated June 30,2021 and Recorded on September 30, 2021 under book 11867 at page 497.

Subject to priority condo lien: Pursuant to NJSA 46:8B-21 et seq., this sale may be subject to a limited lien priority of the condominium association and any successful bidder at sheriffs sale may be responsible for paying up to 6 months worth of unpaid condominium fees. Subject to any additional unpaid taxes, municipal liens or other charges. And any such taxes, charges, liens, insurance premiums or other advances made by Plaintiff prior to this sale. All interested parties are to conduct and rely upon their own independent investigation to ascertain whether or not any outstanding interest remain of record and/or have priority over the lien being foreclosed and, if so the current amount due thereon. If the sale is set aside for any reason., the purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only a return of the deposit paid. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the mortgagor, the mortgagee or the mortgagee’s attorney.

As the above description does not constitute a full legal description, said full description is annexed to that certain mortgage recorded in the Office of the Register/Clerk of Camden County in Mortgage Book 7006 at Pae 750 et sec., Camden, New Jersey, and the Writ of Execution on file with the Sheriff of Camden County. *THE SHERIFF HEREBY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ADJOURN THIS SALE WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE THROUGH PUBLICATION. The judgment sought to be satisfied by the sale is:

"APPROXIMATELY" $191,002.15 TWENTY PERCENT DEPOSIT REQUIRED

SURPLUS MONEY: If after the sale and satisfaction of the mortgage debt, including costs and expenses, there remains any surplus money, the money will be deposited into the Superior Court Trust Fund and any person claiming the surplus, or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant to Court Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the nature and extent of that person's claim and asking for an order directing payment of the surplus money.

The Sheriff or other person conducting the sale will have information regarding the surplus, if any.

Seized as the property of: JOSEPH LANDI; STATE OF NEW JERSEY and taken in execution of LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC GILBERT L. "WHIP" WILSON SHERIFF Sheriff's Number: 22000309 Dated: February 23, March 2, 9, 16, 2022 SCHILLER & KNAPP, LEFKOWITZ & HERTZEL, LLP 15 CORNELL ROAD LATHAM, NY 12110 $216

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By virtue of a Writ of execution, to me directed, issued out Of the SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION,CAMDEN COUNTY, DOCKET NO. F00153221 at Public Venue on WEDNESDAY the 23rd Day of March, 2022 A.D. at 12 o'clock, LOCAL TIME, noon of said day, at the Camden County College, Blackwood, 200 College Drive, Blackwood, NJ 08012 in the Connector Building, Civic Hall (105) Parking Lots 3 and 4. https://www.camdencc.edu/about-1/contact-cccblackwood-directions/ Property to be sold is located in the TOWNSHIP OF PENNSAUKEN, County of Camden, State of New Jersey.

Premises commonly known as: 2520 46TH STREET, PENNSAUKEN, NJ 08110 Being Tax Lot: 25, Block : 4601 Dimensions approximately: 50 X 127 Nearest Cross Street: CRESCENT BLVD (U.S. RT 130) SUPERIOR INTERESTS (if any): *Taxes - at time of inquiry - 1 quarter 2022 taxes open in the base amount of $1,061.10 and due 2/1/22 ; *Water - at the time of inquiry - account current; *Sewer - at the time of inquiry - account current; *CCMUA - at the time of inquiry -balance due in the amount of $87.31+ interest and any additional charges that may become due through payoff; (XX) Subject to: If property is located in a Homeowner’s Association, then it is sold subject to any assessments and other fees which may be responsibility of new owner under NJ Supreme Court case of Highland Lakes Country Club & Community Association v. Franzino, 186 N.J. 99 (2006); (XX) Subject to * If the subject property is part of an age restricted community, you must be 55 and older and intend to reside in the property or you may be precluded membership in the Community. *Also subject to subsequent taxes, water and sewer plus interest through date of payoff; The judgment sought to be satisfied by the sale is:

"APPROXIMATELY" $186,114.51 TWENTY PERCENT DEPOSIT REQUIRED

SURPLUS MONEY: If after the sale and satisfaction of the mortgage debt, including costs and expenses, there remains any surplus money, the money will be deposited into the Superior Court Trust Fund and any person claiming the surplus, or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant to Court Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the nature and extent of that person's claim and asking for an order directing payment of the surplus money.

The Sheriff or other person conducting the sale will have information regarding the surplus, if any.

Note: The Sheriff hereby reserves the right to adjourn this sale without further notice through publication.

A FULL LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PREMISES CAN BE FOUND IN THE OFFICE OF THE SHERIFF OF CAMDEN COUNTY Seized as the property of: MARLON MUNOZ ; AIBI MUNOZ; STATE OF NEW JERSEY and taken in execution of U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS LEGAL TRUSTEE FOR TRUMAN 2016 SC6 TITLE TRUST SHERIFF Sheriff's Number: 22000275 DATED: February 23, March, 2,9,16, 2022 ROMANO GARUBO & ARGENTIERI 52 NEWTON AVENUE P.O. BOX 456 WOODBURY, NJ 08096 $195.84

SHERIFF’S SALE

By virtue of a Writ of execution, to me directed, issued out Of the SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION,CAMDEN COUNTY, DOCKET NO. F01749919 at Public Venue on WEDNESDAY The 6TH Day of APRIL , 2022 A.D. at 12 o'clock, LOCAL TIME, noon of said day, at the Camden County College, Blackwood, 200 College Drive, Blackwood, NJ 08012 in the Connector Building, Civic Hall (105) Parking Lots 3 and 4. https://www.camdencc.edu/about-1/contact-cccblackwood-directions/ Property to be sold is located in the municipality of TOWNSHIP OF PENNSAUKEN , County of Camden, State of New Jersey.

Premises commonly known as: 2256 42ND STREET Being Tax Lot: 29 Block: 4610 Dimensions approximately: 40’ X 143.78 Nearest Cross Street: ELM STREET SUPERIOR INTEREST (if any): Any and all easements, covenants, restrictions and reservations of record; Any set of facts which an accurate survey and inspection would disclose: All unpaid municipal taxes, assessments and liens; Any unpaid assessment and any outstanding tax sale certificate; Rights of any party in possession / rights protected by the NJ Anti-Eviction Act; All Local, County, State and Federal ordinances and regulations; Any condominium association lien granted priority by N.J.S.A 46:8B-21b; Any outstanding Condominium, PUD or Homeowner Association dues or fees; Rights of the United States of America, if any; The property is sold in its “AS IS” condition; Purchaser shall be responsible for Sheriffs costs, commission, deed recording fees and realty transfer fees: Any solar panels affixed to the property will not be conveyed by this sale.

Merchantiville - Pennsauken Water Co holds a claim for taxes due and/or other municipal utilities such as water and/or other municipal utilities such as water and/ or sewer in the amount of $25.25 open plus penalty; $215.55 open plus penalty in arrears; subject to final reading; and Pennsauken Sewer Authority $51.50 plus penalty; $216.01 plus penalty in arrears; Contact Public Works at 856-663-0178 for additional charges; and CCMUA $88.00 open; $352 plus penalty in arrears; as of 01/11/2022 Vacant Lot Charge in the amount of $1,500 paid to 10/28/2021; contact Prochamps at 321-421-6630 or www.prochamps.com for additional billing, payment and renewal details, if applicable as of 01/11/2022.

Pennsauken Twp. Tax Office - Taxes in the amount of $1,478.88 open plus penalty as of 01/11/2022.

The Sheriff hereby reserves the right to adjourn this sale without further notice through publication.

The judgment sought to be satisfied by the sale is:

"APPROXIMATELY" $118,085.83 TWENTY PERCENT DEPOSIT REQUIRED

SURPLUS MONEY: If after the sale and satisfaction of the mortgage debt, including costs and expenses, there remains any surplus money, the money will be deposited into the Superior Court Trust Fund and any person claiming the surplus, or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant to Court Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the nature and extent of that person's claim and asking for an order directing payment of the surplus money.

The Sheriff or other person conducting the sale will have information regarding the surplus, if any.

Seized as the property of: KATHLEEN NEROSA, ET AL and taken in execution of CHASE MORTGAGE HOLDINGS, INC GILBERT L. "WHIP" WILSON SHERIFF Sheriff's Number: 22000380 Dated:March 9, 16, 23, 30, 2022 POWERS KIRN, LLC 728 MARINE HIGHWAY, SUITE 200 MOORESTOWN, NJ 08057 $221.76

SHERIFF’S SALE

By virtue of a Writ of execution, to me directed, issued out of the SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION, CAMDEN COUNTY, DOCKET NO. F01591018 at Public Venue on WEDNESDAY the 30TH Day of MARCH, 2022 A.D. at 12 o'clock, LOCAL TIME, noon of said day, at the Camden County College, Blackwood, 200 College Drive, Blackwood, NJ 08012 in the Connector Building, Civic Hall (105) Parking Lots 3 and 4. https://www.camdencc.edu/about-1/contact-cccblackwood-directions/ Property to be sold is located in TOWNSHIP OF VOORHEES, State of New Jersey.

Premises commonly known as: 98 SANDRA ROAD, VOORHEES, NJ 08043 Being Tax Lot: 10, Qual: C0093 Block: 150.17 Dimensions approximately: CONDO FEET WIDE BY CONDO FEET LONG Nearest Cross Street: ABBEY ROAD The Sheriff hereby reserves the right to adjourn this sale without further notice through publication.

The judgment sought to be satisfied by the sale is:

"APPROXIMATELY" $188,564.08 TWENTY PERCENT DEPOSIT REQUIRED

SURPLUS MONEY: If after the sale and satisfaction of the mortgage debt, including costs and expenses, there remains any surplus money, the money will be deposited into the Superior Court Trust Fund and any person claiming the surplus, or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant to Court Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the nature and extent of that person's claim and asking for an order directing payment of the surplus money.

The Sheriff or other person conducting the sale will have information regarding the surplus, if any.

Seized as the property of: THOMAS FIORE AKA THOMAS A. FIORE, HIS/HER HEIRS, DEVISEES AND PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES, AND HIS, HER, THEIR OR ANY OF THEIR SUCCESSORS IN RIGHT, TITLE AND INTEREST, ET AL, and taken in execution of BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING LLC GILBERT L. "WHIP" WILSON SHERIFF Sheriff's Number: 2000321 Dated: March 2, 9, 16, 23, 2022 KML LAW GROUP, PC THE LITS BUILDING- SUITE 5000 701 MARKET STREET ATTN: POST SALE PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 $144

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TRABAJOS SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of a Writ of execution, to me directed, issued out Of the SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION,CAMDEN COUNTY, DOCKET NO. F01043519 at Public Venue on WEDNESDAY The 30th Day of MARCH, 2022 A.D. at 12 o'clock, LOCAL TIME, noon of said day, at the Camden County College, Blackwood, 200 College Drive, Blackwood, NJ 08012 in the Connector Building, Civic Hall (105) Parking Lots 3 and 4. https://www.camdencc.edu/about-1/contact-ccc-blackwood-directions/ Property to be sold is located in the municipality of TOWNSHIP OF GLOUCESTER, County of Camden, State of New Jersey.

Premises commonly known as: 803 ABERDEEN LANE, BLACKWOOD, NJ Being Tax Lot: 1 - QUALIFIER C0803 Block: 8001 Dimensions approximately: 43.73 AC-SECTION 1 Nearest Cross Street: N/A BEING UNIT 803 AS SHOWN IN THE APPROPRIATE EXHIBITS OF THE MASTER DEED CREATING AND ESTABLISHING “PLAYERS PLACE”, A CONDOMINIUM AS PROVIDED BY THE CONDOMINIUM ACT OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY (P.I. 1969 C-257 APPROVED 1/7/70) TOGETHER WITH ITS SUPPLEMENTS AND AMENDMENTS GIVEN BY ORLEANS CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY, A N.J. CORP. UNDER DATE OF 8/29/88 AND RECORDED 9/15/98 IN DEED BOOK 4321, PAGE 444, ET. SEQ., TOGETHER WITH THE UNDIVIDED 1.04166% OF THE COMMON INTEREST IN THE COMMON ELEMENTS APPERTAINING TO SAID UNIT AS SHOWN IN THE AFOREMENTIONED MASTER DEED. Pursuant to a tax search of 01/13/2022; 2022 Qtr 1 Due: 02/01/2022 $1,228.45 OPEN, 2022 Qtr 2 Due: 05/01/2022 $1,228.44 OPEN. CCMUA: Acct: 150042059 12/01/2021- 02/28/2022 $88.00 open and due 01//15/2022 $174.65 OPEN PLUS PENALTY; OWED IN ARREARS. Sewer: Acct: 10520 0 01/01/2022 - 03/31/2022 $46.00 OPEN AND DUE 01/15/2022 $47.68 OPEN PLUS PENALTY; OWED IN ARREARS. UPON CLOSING, PLEASE SUPPLY THE GTMUA WITH THE NEW OWNERS NAME AND CONTACT INFORMATION. Water: Private.

(This concise description does not concise a legal description. A copy of the full legal description can be found at the Office of the Sheriff.)

For sale information please visit Auction.com or call (800) 280.2832.

(This concise description does not concise a legal description. A copy of the full legal description can be found at the Office of the Sheriff.)

The Sheriff hereby reserves the right to adjourn this sale without further notice through publication.

The judgment sought to be satisfied by the sale is:

"APPROXIMATELY" $239,834.35 TWENTY PERCENT DEPOSIT REQUIRED SURPLUS MONEY: If after the sale and satisfaction of the mortgage debt, including costs and expenses, there remains any surplus money, the money will be deposited into the Superior Court Trust Fund and any person claiming the surplus, or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant to Court Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the nature and extent of that person's claim and asking for an order directing payment of the surplus money.

The Sheriff or other person conducting the sale will have information regarding the surplus, if any.

Seized as the property of: NEAL DUNOFF; JASON DUNOFF; ADVANTAGE || INC; STATE OF NEW JERSEY, and taken in execution of U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION TRUSTEE. ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDERS OF THE HOME ASSET TRUST 2007-2 HOME EQUITY PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-2 GILBERT L. "WHIP" WILSON SHERIFF Sheriff's Number: 22000333 Dated: March 2, 9, 16, 23, 2022 FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON, LLP 80 MAIN STREET SUITE 460 WEST ORANGE, NJ 07052 $214.64

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SHERIFF’S SALE

By virtue of a Writ of execution, to me directed, issued out Of the SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION,CAMDEN COUNTY, DOCKET NO. F01529719 at Public Venue on WEDNESDAY The 13th Day of April, 2022 A.D. at 12 o'clock, LOCAL TIME,noon of said day, at the Camden County College, Blackwood, 200 College Drive, Blackwood, NJ 08012 in the Connector Building, Civic Hall (105) Parking Lots 3 and 4. https://www.camdencc.edu/about-1/contact-ccc-blackwood-directions/ Property to be sold is located in the municipality of BOROUGH OF RUNNEMEDE, County of Camden, State of New Jersey.

Premises commonly known as: 1038 CENTRAL AVENUE Being Tax Lot: 4 F/K/A 38.10, Block: 135 Dimensions approximately: 30X150 Nearest Cross Street: NINTH AVENUE Beginning at a point in the easterly line of Central Avenue a distance of 567.89 feet from the intersection of the easterly line of Central Avenue with the northerly line of ninth avenue; and from said point running, thence; Pursuant to a tax search of 02/07/2022; 2022 Qtr 2 Due: 05/01/2022 $1,347.41 OPEN, 2022 Qtr 3 Due: 08/01/2022 TO BE DETERMINED. Sewer: Acct: 2576 0 01/01/2022 - 06/30/2022 $92.00 OPEN AND DUE 03/01/2022.

Vacant lot charge may exist.

Contact PROCHAMPS @ 321-421-6639 or www.prochamps.com for additional Billing, Payment and Renewal Details (if applicable). CCMUA: Acct: 30018470 12/01/2021 - 02/28/2022 $88.00 OPEN PLUS PENALTY $352.00 OPEN PLUS PENALTY; OWED IN ARREARS. Water: PRIVATE. Liens: Year: 2020 Type: 3RD PARTY SEWER, CCMUA Amount: $901.16 Cert No.: 21-00071 Sold: 10/19/2021 To: FIG CUST FIGNJ19LLC & SEC PTY Lien amount is subject to subsequent taxes + interest.

Must call prior to settlement for redemption figures. General Remark: SUBJECT TO TAX SALE. SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL FEES. (This concise description does not concise a legal description. A copy of the full legal description can be found at the Office of the Sheriff.)

(This concise description does not concise a legal description. A copy of the full legal description can be found at the Office of the Sheriff.)

For sale information please visit Auction.com at www.auction.com or call (800) 280.2832.

The Sheriff hereby reserves the right to adjourn this sale without further notice through publication.

The judgment sought to be satisfied by the sale is:

"APPROXIMATELY" $146,623.74 TWENTY PERCENT DEPOSIT REQUIRED

SURPLUS MONEY: If after the sale and satisfaction of the mortgage debt, including costs and expenses, there remains any surplus money, the money will be deposited into the Superior Court Trust Fund and any person claiming the surplus, or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant to Court Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the nature and extent of that person's claim and asking for an order directing payment of the surplus money.

The Sheriff or other person conducting the sale will have information regarding the surplus, if any.

Seized as the property of: DIANE L. BARRETT; VANZ LLC MAR 10 SERIES02; NEW CENTURY FINANCIAL SERVICES. INC,,; STATE OF NEW JERSEY,, and taken in execution of U.S. BAN, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR EMC MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2005-A, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-A GILBERT L. "WHIP" WILSON SHERIFF Sheriff's Number: 22000469 Dated:March 16, 23, 30 April 6 2022 FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON, LLP 80 MAIN STREET SUITE 460 WEST ORANGE, NJ 07052 $250.56

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A 2020 CENSUS UNCOMPLETED

LATINO ASSIGNMENT

Although it has produced tons of information, the updated tables with the number of Hispanics by nationality do not appear.

Pese a que ha producido toneladas de información, no aparecen las tablas actualizadas con el número de hispanos por cada nacionalidad.

By RAFAEL PRIETO ZARTHA | AL DÍA THOUGHT LEADERS composición de AL DIA NEWS.

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ince I saw in January that the Mexican American mathematician Robert Luis Santos became the 26th director of the U.S. Census Bureau, I have been confident he may remedy the mistake made when the federal agency deleted the American FactFinder search engine.

For an older adult like me, with limited cybernetic knowledge was easy for years to find essential statistics about the Hispanic Latino Population in the country. With the American FactFinder advanced search function, I could find tables with the numbers of Hispanics by each nationality in the decennial counting from 1990 to 2010.

Likewise, I found the estimates of the American Community Survey year by year of people of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Dominican origin.

The statistics of Central Americans, country by country, South Americans, country by country, and Spaniards were easy to locate.

I knew how many Colombians lived in North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, the City of Charlotte, and the Town of Cornelius, where I reside.

I was born in Colombia, but I have been a North Carolinian since 2001.

Furthermore, my journalistic profession made me the point of reference in Charlotte for Bolivians, Guatemalans, or Dominicans about their numbers in states, counties, and municipalities.

I could compare North Carolina’s percentage of Argentinians or Costa Ricans with their numbers in Pennsylvania or Illinois.

With the American FactFinder search engine adding tables was very simple. Yet I made an effort to learn the agency’s latest virtual structures and methods.

I watched video tutorials, read information, consulted Census Public Information Officers. Still, I don’t master the new system.

When I look in the agency’s federal web page for Hispanic or Latino Origin

by Specific Origin, I don’t find the 2020 Census statistics.

Two years have passed since the decennial counting. The 2020 Census has produced tons of information from a variety of topics. Nevertheless, the updated tables

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ENGLISH with the numbers of Hispanics by each nationality do not appear anywhere.

Instead, a table emerges from the 2019 American Community Survey, 1-Year Estimates. An already unveiled three-year-old statistic before the decennial counting.

I believe data about Hispanic nationalities must be a priority due to the Latino population’s massive increment reflected in the 2020 Census.

As part of his duties, Director Santos writes a blog. The figures of Mexicans, Caribbeans, Central Americans, South Americans, and Spaniards may be an exciting subject for the first Latino head in the history of the U.S. Census.

Santos was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. Par excellence Latino City and State. z

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esde que vi en enero que el matemático mexicoamericano Robert Luis Santos se convirtió en el vigésimo sexto director de la Oficina del Censo de Estados Unidos, confío en que pueda remediar el error cometido cuando la agencia federal eliminó el motor de búsqueda American FactFinder.

Para un adulto mayor como yo, con limitados conocimientos cibernéticos, fue fácil durante años encontrar estadísticas esenciales sobre la población hispana-latina en el país.

Con la función de búsqueda avanzada de American FactFinder podía encontrar las tablas con las cifras de hispanos por cada nacionalidad de los conteos decenales desde 1990 hasta 2010. Asimismo, encontraba las estimaciones del Sondeo

The 2020 Census statistics are missing. It has been two years since the decennial count.

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No se encuentran las estadísticas del Censo de 2020. Han pasado dos años desde el recuento decenal.

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Comunitario Americano (ACS), año por año, de personas de origen mexicano, puertorriqueño, cubano y dominicano.

Las estadísticas de centroamericanos, país por país, sudamericanos, país por país, y españoles eran fáciles de localizar.

Sabía cuántos colombianos vivían en Carolina del Norte, en el condado de Mecklenburg, en la ciudad de Charlotte y en la municipalidad de Cornelius, donde resido.

Nací en Colombia, pero soy norcarolino desde 2001.

Además, mi profesión periodística me convirtió en el punto de referencia en Charlotte para bolivianos, guatemaltecos o dominicanos sobre sus números en los estados, condados y municipios.

Podía comparar el porcentaje de argentinos o costarricenses de Carolina del Norte con sus números en Pensilvania o Illinois.

Con el motor de búsqueda de American FactFinder añadir tablas era muy sencillo.

Sin embargo, me esforcé por aprender las últimas estructuras y métodos virtuales de la agencia. Vi tutoriales en vídeo, leí información, consulté a los funcionarios de información pública del Censo. Aun así, no domino el nuevo sistema.

Cuando busco en la página web federal de la agencia el dato de origen hispano o latino por origen específico, no encuentro las estadísticas del Censo de 2020. Han pasado dos años desde el recuento decenal.

El Censo 2020 ha producido toneladas de información de una variedad de temas.

Sin embargo, las tablas actualizadas con el número de hispanos por cada nacionalidad no aparecen por ningún lado. En su lugar, aparece una tabla del Sondeo Comunitario Americano (ACS) de 2019, estimaciones de un año. Una estadística ya develada hace tres años antes del recuento decenal.

Creo que los datos sobre las nacionalidades hispanas deberían ser una prioridad debido al incremento masivo de la población latina que se refleja en el Censo de 2020.

Como parte de sus funciones, el director Santos escribe un blog. Las cifras de mexicanos, caribeños, centroamericanos, sudamericanos y españoles podrían ser un tema apasionante para el primer director latino en la historia del Censo de Estados Unidos. Santos nació y creció en San Antonio, Texas. Ciudad y Estado hispanos por excelencia. z

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