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The bondholders argued that for nearly four years, PREPA’s bondholders abided by the RSAs’ terms and refrained from seeking a receiver for PREPA or objecting to issues in
“So what is the real reason for the Government Parties’ stunning about-face? In a word, politics,” the bondholders said. “There is simply no other excuse for the Board’s failure to restore a restructuring support agreement during media tion, nor for its proposal to fixate on litigation, that it will lose, instead of the plan that Puerto Rico needs.”
With the resolution of Puerto Rico’s other Title III cases, even the full payment of bondholders’ claims would keep the island’s total obligations under a manageable debt-toGNP ratio, they argued.
The Ad Hoc Group of PREPA Bondholders and bond insurers Assured Guaranty Corp. and Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp., National Public Finance Guarantee Corp., and Syncora Guarantee Inc. cited what they said have been undue delays by the Financial Oversight and Management Board as one of the reasons for dismissing the case.
PREPA has been in bankruptcy for five years and bondholders say it is farther away from confirming a plan of adjustment today than it was in July 2017, when it filed for bankruptcy, the bondholders said.
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The litigation, the board said, will focus on whether the bondholders’ security interest securing their bond claims is limited to money PREPA deposits, which is about $8.8 million, in accounts the bond trustee created pursuant to the trust agreement governing the issuance of the bonds.
Bondholders, insurers ask court to dismiss PREPA bankruptcy
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, bondholders say, has reneged on three negotiated restructuring support agreements to reduce and repay its bond debt through a “reasonable rate increase.”
Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) bondhold ers and insurers of 65% of $8.3 billion in outstanding utility debt asked the Title III bankruptcy court on Monday to dismiss the utility’s bankruptcy after the latest mediation to restructure some $9 billion in debt failed. They also asked the court to put PREPA under receivership.
“Moreover, while PREPA remains in bankruptcy it has been stalled from moving forward with FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]-reimbursable projects to improve its grid — delaying long-awaited progress on rebuilding and hardening PREPA’s grid,” they said. “To date, in fact, FEMA has disbursed only $40 million of the $12.2 billion available to fund projects to improve the grid. That lack of progress is a direct result of the Government Parties’ decision to keep PREPA in bankruptcy.”
PREPA, they said, has reneged on three negotiated re structuring support agreements (RSAs) to reduce and repay its bond debt through a “reasonable rate increase,” they said.
“The Board is now perpetuating that dysfunction, de spite Puerto Rico’s growing economy and billions of dollars in federal aid, by improvidently backing the government’s decision to tear up PREPA’s most recent consensual bond holder deal and forge ahead with value-depleting, futile litigation,” they said.
The bondholders were talking about an oversight board request to restart litigation against the bondholders.
“The Oversight Board used that peace and stability to solicit and maximize federal funding commitments, obtain and negotiate privatization proposals for PREPA’s operations, and resolve the Commonwealth’s Title III case,” they said. “Along the way, the Government Parties repeatedly reiter ated their continued support for the RSA.”
its bankruptcy case and the commonwealth’s.
They noted that Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia abandoned a 2019 debt deal pointing to elevated oil prices and infla tion as bases for the termination notice, but a temporary uptick in the price of oil and other goods, during a more than 40-year deal, was hardly unexpected. Oil prices have retreated since then.
The oversight board also asked that a petition by bond holders to put PREPA under a receiver be stayed pending the resolution of the “Lien Challenge Complaint.”
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The oversight board abandoned the latest mediation agreement because it would lead to rate increases.
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The oversight board also asked that the so-called current expense complaints that have been stayed for over two years be decided on the papers without a hearing. On July 9, 2019, the administrative agent and certain fuel line lenders under credit agreements pursuant to which PREPA was a borrower filed a complaint against PREPA, the oversight board, the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, and U.S. Bank National Association, alleging amounts owed to them constituted “Current Expenses” entitled to payment in full in advance of any recovery to PREPA’s bondholders. PREPA’s retirement system separately is asking the court for payment of pension debt before payments are made to PREPA’s bondholders.
“This is not the time to go out and check on the street,” the governor warned. “Except in an emergency, the road must be available for immediate response. The roads have to be clear of traffic.”
devastated Puerto Rico, residents had to contend with Hurricane Fiona, which dumped heavy rain on the island overnight Sunday and into Monday after making landfall on Sun day afternoon, when it knocked out electric power across the island.
Fiona’s eight-mile-per-hour track had created uncertainty and distress for days as a tropical storm until it made landfall as Category 1 hurricane in the southwestern municipality of Cabo WithRojo.sustained winds of 90 miles per hour and gusts exceeding 110 mph, Fiona left destruction and flooding in its path, causing more than 1,200 people to go to shelters and hundreds to be rescued by the National Guard and municipal authorities. In some municipalities, water from overflowing rivers reached the second floors of structures.
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It was expected that even as Fio na had left the island, tropical storm conditions would persist. More rainfall was expected, as well as landslides and storm surge from the ocean.
Tropical storm effects from the system persisted in some areas of Puerto Rico on Monday, so the dangers of flash floods, landslides, and mudslides continued. Some municipalities reported heavy damage. In
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Utuado, a temporary bridge that had been installed after Hurricane Maria was swept away by an overflowing river, while whole areas of Aguas Buenas, San Germán and Cabo Rojo were underwater. Some houses had collapsed or sustained heavy damage.
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“We have been told that if the clouds are 1,000 feet or less, you can’t take a helicopter to Culebra,” Gov. Pedro
to Rico, and unfortunately, we are still expecting more rain today,” the governor said. “We are going through a tough time, but our people are strong and gen erous. I have to thank the municipalities that have been assisting their citizens directly. Also, the federal government has been on the street helping with the situation.”“The rains continue, and it is the rainfall effects that have caused the greatest havoc,” continued Pierluisi, urging citizens to stay put and obey the governments’ orders to seek shelter and leave the streets.
Ernesto Morales from the National Weather Service said “the rains we have received associated with Fiona have wreaked havoc on the south coast and in the eastern interior of Puerto Rico, where over 23 inches of rain was reported.”“The rains have fallen in the same places, and this continues to increase flash flooding. If rainfall continues in the same regions, we could be talking about damage at catastrophic levels,” he said. “What worries us now is that the forecast continues in the same sectors. This is not over; more rain continues on the island. This is serious.”
As of press time Monday, two deaths had occurred in shelters. One occurred in the island municipality of Culebra, and as of Monday afternoon the body had not yet been removed due to weather conditions.
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people -- was working with the Federal Emergency Manage ment Agency [FEMA] to reopen road access while staying in communication with the Federal Highway Administration.
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After battering Puerto Rico, Fiona moved west to the Dominican Republic on Monday, triggering mudslides that damaged highways and shuttered resorts, officials told The New York Times.
One of the biggest questions being asked over and over on Monday was when the power would be restored. People have not forgotten that, in some towns, they had to wait a year for electricity to come back after Maria. Still, Pierluisi assured reporters that that would not be the case this time.
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“The electrical system suffered damage throughout the island, and both LUMA [the beleaguered private operator of the electrical transmission and distribution system] and PREPA [the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority] are working to assess the damage and work on restoration,” the governor said. “They have already begun to fly over the transmission lines to evaluate their condition and proceed with the repairs.”
PREPA’s power plants were in operation Monday. The one that suffered the most damage was in Costa Sur, where one of the tanks under construction collapsed. The incident did not cause the generator to stop operating since the tank was not yet in operation. Meanwhile, the electrical system is being restored little by little, section by section, officials said.
The main message from authorities to the population was to stay in place. As of early Monday afternoon 1,000 people had been rescued in 25 municipalities, and the Fire
Only 100,000 people had electrical service as of Monday morning, LUMA reported, and only 30% of the population had water. Water plants depend on electricity to operate their pumps, and the government was being cautious and restoring power only after thorough inspections of power lines. Three helicopters had already taken off and patrolled main power lines to assess the damage.
As the storm continued on its westward path, it brought heavy rain and 90 mph winds to the eastern portions of the neighboring nation, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. The eye of the hurricane was expected to exit the Dominican Republic later in the day after passing through the country’s eastern provinces, home to one of the largest tourism industries in the Caribbean.
Dominican emergency authorities said that about 800 people had been evacuated, and that at least two highways had been damaged by mudslides. No deaths had been re ported as of press time, though the authorities said they were still evaluating the full extent of the damage, the Times said. Some towns remained unreachable because of power and telecommunication outages.
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As of press time, mass transit had been suspended until further notice. The Coast Guard was assessing the island ports on Monday, but there was no transportation to Vieques or Culebra. Airports, meanwhile, were open and operating, except Mercedita Airport in Ponce, which was flooded.
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Department had picked up 83 people roaming the streets. People lost communication temporarily, as happened during Maria, causing desperation among the population. On Monday 75 percent of telecommunication towers were functional.Medical facilities were operating with generators since they are required by law to have a generator and two backups with enough fuel for four days. The Medical Center in San Juan’s Río Piedras sector was energized Monday, and hospi tals and other medical facilities will be a priority as power is restored throughout the island, authorities said.
“There are many areas extremely affected, particularly the south and southwest, as well as the mountains and areas on the coast in the north that are being impacted,” Pierluisi added. “We are joining forces with the municipalities, and we will be working with the private sector to reach out to everyone who needs help.”
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has sent 100 first re sponders who will be arriving in Puerto Rico. The governors of New Jersey and California have also offered assistance.
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The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority had sought to recover $3.89 billion from Houston-based energy supply company Vitol Inc., representing the full value of payments the electrical utility had made under a pair of supply contracts.
In the lawsuits, PREPA claimed that six fuel-oil supply contracts with VIC, in effect between 2005 and 2009 and awarded through competitive bids, had to be declared void, retroactively, based on alleged violations of Puerto Rico’s public-contracting law and al leged PREPAmisrepresentations.soughttorecover $3.89 billion from VIC in the litigation, representing the full value of payments that PREPA made under the contracts.
PREPA claimed that its fuel-supply con tracts with VIC were void because VSA – a legally independent company that was VIC’s parent from late 2006 until late 2007 – was convicted in November 2007 of a crime in New York state court. VSA’s conviction had nothing to do with PREPA or Puerto Rico, but rather concerned the United Nations OilforFood Program in Iraq. PREPA claimed that VSA’s conviction caused VIC to violate a since repealed Puerto Rico statute called Law 458, which barred public corporations from entering into contracts with companies that had been convicted of certain offenses.
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both parties reached a settlement, the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals late last week dismissed an appeal filed in December by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) to overturn a lower court ruling involving a decades-long suit against Vitol Inc. (VIC).
The appeal document did not provide details of the settlement but told both parties they had to pay for their own legal fees.
Swain cited “the absence of any legal basis for invalidating any of the contracts at issue.” She said PREPA failed to prove any of the alleged violations of Puerto Rico’s public contracting law or any of its alleged misrep resentations, and that PREPA’s claims were deficient both factually and legally. The court noted that VIC “fully performed its delivery obligations under the contracts.” The $28.4 million that PREPA was required to pay was for fuel supplies and other services.
Appeal dismissed after PREPA & fuel supplier settle lawsuit begun in 2009
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The litigation began in 2009, when PREPA filed the first of two lawsuits against VIC in Commonwealth Court in San Juan, with a second case filed in 2012.
The dispute was against the energy sup ply company based in Houston and its former parent company, VSA.
On July 20, the parties filed a joint motion to hold the case in abeyance and informed the court that they had reached an agreement in principle to settle their dispute. They finalize the agreement this week.
The case was eventually transferred to federalLastcourt.year, Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who is presiding over PREPA’s bankruptcy process, dismissed PREPA’s claims to void six fuel-oil supply contracts and recover $3.89 billion. The court also ruled that VIC was entitled to recover $28.4 million, plus interest, on a counterclaim it had filed.
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side with Democrats on social and cultural issues, sizable shares hold beliefs aligned with Republicans: More than one-third of Hispanic voters say they agree more with the GOP on crime and policing, and 4 in 10 Hispanic voters have concerns that the Democratic Party has gone too far on race and gender. Hispanic voters view economic issues as the most important factor determining their vote this year and are evenly split on which party they agree with more on the economy.
A generation gap could also lead to more Republican gains. Democrats, the poll found, were benefiting from particularly high support among older Latino voters. But 46% of voters younger than 30 favor Republicans’ handling of the economy, compared with 43% who favorRepublicansDemocrats. also have strength among Latino men, who favor Democrats in the midterm election but who say, by a 5-point margin, that they would vote for Trump if he were to run again in 2024. Young men in particular appear to be shifting toward Republicans. They are a key vulnerability for Democrats, who maintain just a 4-point edge in the midterms among men younger than 45.
Republicans are performing best with Hispanic voters who live in the South, a re gion that includes Florida and Texas, where Republicans have notched significant wins with Latino voters in recent elections. In the South, 46% of Latino voters say they plan to vote for Democrats, while 45% say they plan to vote for Republicans. By contrast, Democrats lead 62% to 24% among Hispanic voters in other parts of the country.
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Amelia Alonso Tarancon, who emigrated from Cuba 14 years ago, at her home near Fort Lauderdale, Sept. 16, 2022.
Immigration remains a key issue for His panic voters, and both parties have a particular appeal. While Democrats have pushed for overhauling the legal immigration system and providing a path to citizenship for many immigrants living in the country illegally, Re publicans have focused on cracking down on illegal immigration and using border politics to galvanize their base.
Amelia Alonso Tarancon, 69, who emi grated from Cuba 14 years ago and now lives outside Fort Lauderdale, Florida, wants Congress to offer legal status to workers living in the country illegally who have been in the country for decades. But she agrees with Republicans on their hard-line views against illegal immigration. The issue motivated her to vote for Trump, although she is a registered Democrat.Onmany social and cultural issues, Hispanic voters remain aligned with the Democratic Party.
The majority, 58%, have a favorable view of the Black Lives Matter movement, while 45% say the same about the Blue Lives Matter movement, which defends law enforcement personnel. A majority believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases; even among Republican Hispanics, 4 in 10 oppose the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Support for Black Lives Matter and abortion rights is propelled largely by young people. Asked whom they agreed with more on gun policy, 49% said Democrats, while 34% said Republicans.
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has been nearly two years since Donald Trump made surprising gains with Hispanic voters. But Republican dreams of a major realignment of Latino voters drawn to GOP stances on crime and social issues have failed to materialize, according to a new poll by The New York Times and Siena College.
Democrats have long assumed that the growing Latino electorate would doom Repu blicans, and the prospect of an increasingly diverse electorate has fueled anxieties among conservatives. The 2020 election results — in which Trump gained an estimated 8 percentage points among Hispanic voters compared with 2016 — began changing both parties’ outlooks. The Times/Siena poll shows that historic allegiances and beliefs on core issues remain entrenched, although some shifts are striking.
Nearly 6 in 10 Hispanic voters continue to see the Democrats as the party of the working class. Although white Republicans uniformly see themselves as the workingclass party, even some Hispanic Republicans believe that mantle belongs to Democrats. And there was no evidence in the poll that Republicans were performing any better among non-college-educated Latinos or among Hispanics who lived in rural areas, two key demographic groups they have focused on for outreach. One in 4 Hispanic voters in rural areas remain undecided about whom they will vote for in November.
for a social media platform in Tucson, Arizona, said he had to take on a second job baking pizzas at a beer garden to make ends meet. Saiz voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and considers himself a Democrat because he grew up in a Democratic household. But under Biden, he said, the cost of living seemed to have doubled for him even as he moved into a smaller“Theapartment.choiceshe has been making for the country have been putting me in a bad spot,” he said of the president.
The poll — one of the largest nonparti san surveys of Latino voters since the 2020 election — found that Democrats had main tained a grip on the majority of Latino voters, driven in part by women and the belief that Democrats remained the party of the working class. Overall, Hispanic voters are more likely to agree with Democrats on many issues — immigration, gun policy, climate. They are also more likely to see Republicans as the party of the elite and as holding extreme views. And a majority of Hispanic voters, 56%, plan to vote for Democrats this fall, compared with 32% for Republicans.
How Latinos will vote is a crucial ques tion in the November elections and for the future of American politics. Hispanic voters are playing a pivotal role in the battle over control of Congress, making up a significant slice of voters — as high as 20% — in two of the states likeliest to determine control of the Senate, Arizona and Nevada. Latinos also make up more than 20% of registered voters in more than a dozen highly competitive House races in California, Colorado, Florida and Texas, among other states.
Democrats maintain a significant advan tage on the issue of legal immigration, with 55% of Hispanic voters saying they agree with the party, compared with 29% who say they agree with Republicans. But the
GOP has made inroads as it has stepped up anti-immigration rhetoric and policy: 37% of Latino voters favor Republicans’ views on illegal immigration. And roughly one-third support a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Republicans attempting to court Latino voters have repeatedly painted Democrats as elitist and out of touch, but the poll suggests that the strategy is having limited success.
But the survey also shows worrying signs for the future of the Democratic message. Despite that comfortable lead, the poll finds Democrats faring far worse than they did in the years before the 2020 election. Younger male Hispanic voters, especially those in the South, appear to be drifting away from the party, a shift that is propelled by deep economic concerns. Weaknesses in the South and among rural voters could stand in the way of crucial wins in Texas and Florida in this year’s Anthonymidterms.Saiz,24, who reviews content
Democrats have been roundly criticized for their embrace of the term Latinx, which is meant to be more inclusive than the gen dered words Latino and Latina. Previous surveys have shown only a small minority of Hispanic voters prefer the term. But the poll suggests that Latinx is hardly the most polarizing issue; just 18% said they found the term offensive.
Majority of Latino voters out of GOP’s reach, new poll shows
Hispanic voters in America have never been a unified voting bloc and have fre quently puzzled political strategists who try to understand their behavior. The 32 million Latinos eligible to vote are recent immigrants and fourth-generation citizens, city dwellers and rural ranchers, Catholics and atheists.
“Yes, Dr. Oz will accept the result of the PA Senate race in November,” Rachel Tripp, an Oz spokesperson, wrote in a text message.
lican nominee for Senate, baselessly predicted to supporters in July that even if he defeated Sen. Mark Kelly, the incumbent Democrat, enough votes would somehow be produced to flip the result.
A Masters aide, Katie Miller, sent the Times an August article in The Arizona Republic in which Masters said there was “evidence of incompetence” but not of fraud in the state’s primary election. Miller declined to say if Masters would respect the November results.
Tim Murtaugh, a spokesperson for Tshibaka, who is challenging Murkowski, a fellow Republican, said his candidate would not commit to honoring the race’s outcome. Murtaugh said — not without merit — that the new voting system “was installed to protect Lisa Murkowski.”Murkowski’s spokesperson, Shea Siegert, said that “the Alaskan people can trust” the state’sJonathanelections.
Felts, a spokesperson for Budd, North Carolina’s Republican nominee for Senate — who in Congress voted against certifying the 2020 election — declined to say if Budd would uphold the state’s results and claimed without evidence that Cheri Beasley, the Democratic nominee and a former state Supreme Court justice, might try to disenfran chise voters.Beasley said, “I trust that our 2022 elec tion will be administered fairly.”
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Echoing Trump, these Republicans won’t promise to accept 2022 results
year’s results. Darren Bailey, the Republican nominee for governor of Illinois — who said in a June interview that he did not know if the 2020 election had been decided fairly — responded that “yes,” he would accept the 2022 Inresult.Nevada, the campaign of Adam Laxalt, the Republican nominee for Senate, said he would not challenge the final results — even though Laxalt, a former state attorney general, helped lead the effort to overturn Trump’s 2020 defeat in the state, spoke last year about plans to file lawsuits to contest the 2022 election and called voter fraud the “biggest issue” in his campaign.“Ofcourse he’ll accept Nevada’s cer tified election results, even if your failing publication won’t,” said Brian Freimuth, a spokesperson for Laxalt.
“There’s always cheating, probably, in every election,” Masters said. “The question is, what’s the cheating capacity?”
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In Alaska, Republican hesitancy to ac cept election results centers on the new ranked choice voting system. After losing an August special election for the House, Sarah Palin warned baselessly that the method was “very, very potentially fraught with fraud.”
“If we see the secretary of state running a fair election the way she should be, then that’s a different story,” Dixon said. “We have to see what she’s going to do to make sure it’s going to be a fair election.”
People watch the live stream of the audit of the Maricopa County election results being presented to the Arizona Senate, at the Arizona State Capitol grounds in Phoenix, on Sept. 24, 2021.
two years after President Donald Trump refused to accept his defeat in the 2020 election, some of his most loyal Republican acolytes might follow in his footsteps.When asked, six Trump-backed Repub lican nominees for governor and the Senate in midterm battlegrounds would not commit to accepting this year’s election results, and another five Republicans ignored or declined to answer a question about embracing the No vember outcome. All of them, along with many other GOP candidates, have preemptively cast doubt on how their states count votes.
In a statement, a representative for Benson said she and her staff “work tirelessly to ensure the state’s elections are secure and accurate, and expect every candidate and elec tion official to respect the will of the people.”
To some degree, the stances by these
Kelly “has total trust in Arizona’s elec toral process,” said a spokesperson, Sarah Guggenheimer.Anaideto Vance, Taylor Van Kirk, cited the candidate’s primary-season endorsement from Ohio’s Republican secretary of state, Frank LaRose. At the time, Vance predicted “a successfully run primary election.” ButVan Kirk would not say if Vance would recognize the November outcome. Vance did not respond to messages.Vance’s Democratic opponent, Rep. Tim Ryan, “will accept the results of the election,” said his spokesperson, Jordan Fuja.
An aide to Dixon, Sara Broadwater, said “there’s no reason to believe” that Michigan election officials, including Jocelyn Benson, the Democratic secretary of state, “are very serious about secure elections.”
Among the party’s Senate candidates, Rep. Ted Budd in North Carolina, Blake Mas ters in Arizona, Kelly Tshibaka in Alaska and J.D. Vance in Ohio all declined to commit to accepting the 2022 results. So did Tudor Dixon, the Republican nominee for governor of Michigan, and Geoff Diehl, who won the GOP primary for governor of Massachusetts this month.Thecandidates and their aides offered an array of explanations. Some blamed Demo cratic state election officials or made unsub stantiated claims that their opponents would cheat. In Alaska, a spokesperson for Tshibaka pointed to a new ranked choice voting system that has been criticized by Republicans and already helped deliver victory to a Democrat in a House special election this year.
Three other Republican Senate can didates — Herschel Walker in Georgia, Joe O’Dea in Colorado and Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska — committed to embracing their state’s election results. So did several Republicans running for governor, including Kemp, Joe Lombardo in Nevada and Christine Drazan of Oregon.During a Republican primary debate in Michigan in June, Dixon would not commit to honoring the results of the primary — which she went on to win — or the general election, preemptively accusing Benson, the secretary of state, of election fraud.
And unlike Trump two years ago, the candidates who suggest they might dispute the November results do not hold executive office and lack control of the levers of government power. If any were to reject a fair defeat, they would be far less likely to ignite the kind of democratic crisis that Trump set off after his 2020
Republican candidates — which echo Trump’s comments before the 2016 and 2020 presi dential elections — may amount to political posturing, in an effort to appeal to GOP voters who do not believe the former president lost in 2020. An aide to one Republican nominee insisted that the candidate would accept this year’s results, but the aide declined to be publicly identified saying so.
And Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, who said during his successful Republican primary campaign for Senate that “we cannot move on” from the 2020 election, promised to uphold voters’ will.
The New York Times contacted Republi can and Democratic candidates or their aides in 20 key contests for governor and the Senate. All of the Democrats said, or have said pub licly, that they would respect the November results — including Stacey Abrams of Georgia, who refused to concede her 2018 defeat to Brian Kemp in the state’s race for governor. Kemp, now running against her for another term, “will of course accept the outcome of the 2022 election,” said his press secretary, Tate Mitchell.Butseveral Republicans endorsed by Trump are hesitant to say that they will not fight the results.
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Butloss.they do have loud megaphones in a highly polarized media environment, and any unwarranted challenges from the candidates and their allies could fuel anger, confusion and misinformation.“Thedangerof a Trumpist coup is far from over,” said Rosa Brooks, a law professor at Georgetown University who in early 2020 convened a group to brainstorm ways Trump could disrupt that year’s election. “As long as we have a significant number of Americans who don’t accept principles of democracy and the rule of law, our democracy remains in jeopardy.”Still,many Republican candidates, in cluding several who have cast doubt on the 2020 outcome, said they would recognize this
In Arizona — where Republicans spent months on a government-funded review of 2020 ballots that failed to show any evidence of fraud — Masters, the Trump-backed Repub
“He’s very single‐minded, quite stubborn and rigid,” Albert Blumenthal, a Democrat who served as majority leader in the State Assembly, told the Times in 1977, “but he’s an easy man to deal with. There’s no deceit to him.”
M. Cahill, who managed to pack several careers into a single life as a leading expert on tropi cal diseases, a doctor to celebrities and politicians, a close adviser to New York Gov. Hugh Carey, and a savior to the ailing American Irish Historical Society but who later faced allegations of sexual assault by two women, died Wednesday at his home in Point Lookout on Long Island, New York. He was 86.
He spent the late 1970s commuting to Albany, New York, where, as Carey’s health policy expert, he moved mounta ins to reshape the state’s flailing medical bureaucracy, making a host of enemies but impressing even his detractors as a quick study and an effective political infighter.
Dr. Kevin Cahill, left, with Cardinal Francis Spellman at the Tropical Disease Research Center of St. Clare’s Hospital in Manhattan on Feb. 17, 1966.
After he became governor in 1975, Carey, himself a product of New York City’s Irish Catholic political scene, took Cahill with him to Albany and gave him the task of cleaning up the state’s sprawling, nearly insolvent health care system.The two were old friends, and Cahill served as one of Carey’s closest advisers. He worked for $1 a day, one day a week, often staying overnight at the governor’s mansion.
A short, stocky man with big, bushy eyebrows and an accent that tilted bet ween Gaelic brogue and Noo Yawkese, Cahill managed to become a globetrotting humanitarian while keeping thick roots planted in New York’s Irish American community.
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And as a prominent figure among Irish Americans who quoted William Butler Yeats with ease, he revived the American Irish Historical Society, which was founded in 1897 and which occu pies a stately former town house on Fifth Avenue, across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A grandson of Irish immigrants, Kevin Michael Cahill was born May 5, 1936, in the Bronx. His father, John, was a doctor. His mother, Genevieve (Campion) Cahill, was a teacher and homemaker.
He studied classics at Fordham University, graduating in 1957, and re ceived his medical degree from Cornell University in 1961. As a medical student, and later as a fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, he traveled to Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, where he worked in a local clinic along side Mother Teresa, then a little-known Albanian nun.
“Dr. Cahill was a pioneer in brin ging a prominence and seriousness to the study of Irish and Irish American culture that had long been lacking,” Peter Quinn, a writer and former member of the historical society’s board, said in a phoneCahill’sinterview.lifewas not without contro versy. His critics found him self-serious, nepotistic and egotistic.
Cahill was not charged with any crimes. He denied the allegations, and the lawsuit was still pending at his death.
As his time as the head of the Ame rican Irish Historical Society wore on, he was accused of treating it more and more like his personal kingdom. He installed his sons as officers, booted officials who crossed him and unilaterally announced a plan to sell the town house in 2021, a move that has been under review by the state “Thegovernment.building on Fifth Avenue is something that stands for all of us,” Brian McCabe, a former leading figure in the society, told The New York Times that year. “This is about a very small group controlling what is held in trust for the Irish in America and around the world.”
The society had practically ceased to exist when Cahill took it over in the early 1970s. He raised funds to renova te its home and made its annual gala a must-do on the city’s social calendar, in the process helping to make Ireland a subject of popular fascination.
He married Kathryn McGinity in 1961. She died in 2004. Along with his son Brendan, he is survived by four other sons — Christopher, Kevin, Sean and Denis — and nine grandchildren.
The relationship didn’t last, though; Cahill and Carey reportedly had a fallingout, and Cahill left the governor’s office in 1980.
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In 2020, a former patient, Megan Wesko, sued Cahill in federal court, alleging that he had pursued a roman tic relationship with her and sexually assaulted her during an examination, a development reported in the Times in June. This year, another woman, Natalie Mauro, said he had sexually assaulted her at his office.
After an early stint as a doctor in Cairo and India, where he worked alongside Mother Teresa, Cahill returned to New York, where he established one of the country’s first centers for tropical disease, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Man hattan. He was among the first doctors to call attention to the city’s emerging AIDS crisis, organizing a groundbreaking conference on the disease in 1983.
He served in the Navy Medical Corps from 1963-65, working at a research fa cility in Cairo, after which he returned to New York to establish his medical practice.
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His son Brendan said that the cause of death had not been determined, but that his father had been in failing health.
Cahill’s experience made him an obvious choice by Lenox Hill Hospital to lead its Tropical Disease Center, which opened in 1966. In 1970, he was named chair of the department of tropical disea ses at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, a post he held until 2006.
Kevin M. Cahill, a tropical disease expert with a political bent, dies at 86
A top expert in humanitarian me dicine who worked in 65 countries, Cahill established an amputee clinic in Somalia and directed earthquake relief in Nicaragua, experiences he discussed in 1993 on the NPR program “Fresh Air With Terry Gross.”
He was the personal physician to a long list of elite New Yorkers, including top figures in the city’s Roman Catholic hierarchy. He was with Leonard Bernstein when Bernstein took his last breath. He was one of two American doctors invited to Rome to assess the health of Pope John Paul II after he was shot in 1981.
“You aren’t really clicking to anything that would lead you out of the app,” she said. “That makes it even more challenging to double-check the information you’re getting is TikTokcorrect.”hasleaned into becoming a venue for finding information. The app is testing a feature that identifies keywords in comments and links to search results for them. In Southeast Asia, it is also testing a feed with local content, so people can find businesses and events near them.
video to cull the content. Then they verify the veracity of a suggestion based on com ments posted in response to the videos.
Moore, 15, scrolled TikTok’s app until she found two videos: one explaining how to ask teachers for a recommendation letter and the other showing a template for one. Both had been made by teachers and were easier to understand than a Google search result or YouTube video, said Moore, who is planning to talk to her teachers this month.
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Ja’Kobi Moore decided to apply this year to a private high school in her hometown of New Orleans, she learned that she needed at least one letter of recommendation from a teacher. She had never asked for one, so she sought “Teacherhelp.letter of recommendation,” she typed into TikTok’s search bar.
Doingexperience.”asearchon TikTok is often more interactive than typing in a query on Goo gle. Instead of just slogging through walls of text, Gen Z-ers crowdsource recommenda tions from TikTok videos to pinpoint what they are looking for, watching video after
Google has incorporated images and videos into its search engine in recent years. Since 2019, some of its search results have featured TikTok videos. In 2020, Goo gle released YouTube Shorts, which shares vertical videos less than a minute long, and started including its content in search re sults.TikTok, which is owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance, declined to comment on its search function and pro ducts that may be in testing. It said it was “always thinking about new ways to add value to the community and enrich the TikTok
This mode of searching is rooted in how young people are using TikTok not only to look for products and businesses, but also to ask questions about how to do things and find explanations for what things mean. With videos often less than 60 se conds long, TikTok returns what feels like more relevant answers, many said.
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TikTok is known for its viral dance vi deos and pop music. But for Generation Z, the video app is increasingly a search en gine,Moretoo. and more young people are using TikTok’s powerful algorithm — which per sonalizes the videos shown to them based on their interactions with content — to find information uncannily catered to their tas tes. That tailoring is coupled with a sense that real people on the app are synthesizing and delivering information, rather than fa celess
Alexandria Kinsey, 24, a communi cations and social media coordinator in Arlington, Virginia, uses TikTok for many search queries: recipes to cook, films to watch and nearby happy hours to try. She also turns to it for less typical questions, such as looking up interviews with actor Andrew Garfield and weird conspiracy theories.TikTok’s results “don’t seem as biased” as Google’s, she said, adding that she often wants “a different opinion” from what ads and websites optimized for Google say.
TikTok’s algorithm tends to keep people on the app, making it harder for them to turn to additional sources to factcheck searches, Tripodi added.
Building out search and location featu res is likely to further entrench TikTok — already the world’s most downloaded app for those ages 18 to 24, according to Sensor Tower — among young users.
TikTok “is becoming a one-stop shop for content in a way that it wasn’t in its ear lier days,” said Lee Rainie, who directs in ternet and technology research at the Pew Research
That’sCenter.certainly true for Jayla Johnson, 22. The Newtown, Pennsylvania, resident estimated that she watches 10 hours of TikTok videos a day and said she had be gun using the app as a search engine be cause it was more convenient than Google and “TheyInstagram.know what I want to see,” she said. “It’s less work for me to actually go out of my way to search.”
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“God bless,” she said she thinks. “You could have gotten that in seconds.”
Johnson, a digital marketer, added that she particularly appreciated TikTok when she and her parents were searching for pla ces to visit and things to do. Her parents of ten wade through pages of Google search results, she said, while she needs to scroll through only a few short videos.
For Gen Z, TikTok is the new search engine
Alexandria Kinsey, 24, in Washington on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. She uses TikTok to search for recipes to cook, films to watch and happy hours to try.
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Kinsey said she also loved how quic kly TikTok videos presented information. Although she sometimes fact-checks what she finds on TikTok by using Google, she said, “I rarely see something that requires that much TikTok’sthought.”ascentas a search engine may
“you see how the person actually felt about where they ate,” said Nailah Roberts, 25, who uses the app to look for restaurants in Los Angeles, whe re she lives. A long-winded written review of a restaurant can’t capture its ambience, food and drinks like a bite-size clip can, she said.TikTok’s rise as a discovery tool is part of a broader transformation in digital search. While Google remains the world’s dominant search engine, people are tur ning to Amazon to search for products, Instagram to stay updated on trends and Snapchat’s Snap Maps to find local busines ses. As the digital world continues growing, the universe of ways to find information in it is expanding.Googlehas noticed TikTok edging into its domain. While the Silicon Valley com pany disputed that young people were using TikTok as a replacement for its search
mean that more people stumble upon mis information and disinformation on the app, which could then be amplified and spread further, said Francesca Tripodi, an infor mation and library science professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The platform has struggled with modera ting misleading content about elections, the war in Ukraine and abortion.
engine, at least one Google executive has publicly remarked on the rival video app’s search“Incapabilities.ourstudies, something like almost 40% of young people, when they’re loo king for a place for lunch, they don’t go to Google Maps or Search. They go to TikTok or Instagram,” Prabhakar Raghavan, a Goo gle senior vice president, said at a techno logy conference in July.
posted upbeat quarterly sales and profit on steady de mand and better inventory availability. Declining issues outnumbered advancers for a 1.69to-1 ratio on the NYSE and a 1.90-to-1 ratio on the Nas daq.The S&P index recorded no new 52-week high and 18 new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 13 new highs and 178 new lows.
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Goldman Sachs cut its forecast for 2023 U.S. GDP late on Friday as it projects a more aggressive Fed and sees that pushing the jobless rate higher than it previously expected.“Wethink a 100 bps hike would unnerve Wall Street ... and would increase the likelihood that the FOMC will eventually overtighten and lessen the possibility of achiev ing a soft landing,” Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA, wrote in a note.
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The energy sector slipped 1% as oil prices declined, pressured by expectations of weaker global demand and by U.S. dollar strength. [O/R]
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq logged their worst weekly percentage drop since June on Friday as markets fully priced in at least a 75-basis-point rise in rates dur ing the week, with Fed funds futures showing a 21% chance of a whopping 100 bps increase.
Wall Street slips on aggressive rate hike worries
“I think a recession is very likely. The Fed regards a recession as regrettable, but necessary to fight inflation,” Grisanti said.
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Street’s main indexes slipped for the third straight day on Monday led by declines in healthcare and energy stocks as investors worried that another massive interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve could tip the U.S. economy into a re cession.Five of the 11 S&P 500 sectors were down in early trading. Healthcare stocks fell 1.5%, weighed by a 5.5% drop in the shares of Moderna Inc.
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At 9:48 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 107.48 points, or 0.35%, at 30,714.94, the S&P 500 was down 13.16 points, or 0.34%, at 3,860.17, and the Nasdaq Composite was down 42.42 points, or 0.37%, at 11,405.99.Arebound in industrial stocks after a sharp drop on
Friday helped cap losses on the indexes.
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Focus will also be on new economic projections, due to be published alongside the policy statement at 2 p.m. ET (1800 GMT) on Wednesday.
“Markets are going to be looking for direction until the Fed meeting, there won’t be much trading action till then,” said Christopher Grisanti, chief equity strategist at MAI Capital Management in Cleveland.
Unexpectedly hot August inflation data last week also raised bets on increased rate hikes down the road, with the terminal rate for U.S. fed funds now at 4.48%.
From there, the cortege, a mile-and-aquarter long, began a stately roll through the city center, retracing the route it took, in rever se, when her coffin was moved Wednesday from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall — a symbolic transfer of the queen, who was 96 at her death, from her family to the British state.
The crown restst atop Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin as it is transported on a gun carriage from Westminster Abey to Wellington Arch in London on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022.
The queen’s arrival, after a 25-mile dri ve from London on a route lined by tens of thousands of people, was heralded by a grand procession on the Long Walk, the grand treelined boulevard that leads to the castle.
Tens of thousands of people watched earlier as Elizabeth’s coffin made its way on a grand procession through the streets of Lon don, flanked by honor guards and accompa
This is also where the queen’s coffin was transferred from the carriage to a hear se for the 25-mile journey to Windsor. Huge crowds were expected to watch as the vehicle travels past Kensington and Hammersmith in west London, before swinging south to pass the runways of Heathrow Airport. As it did last week, the airport halted flights to keep the skies above the cortege still.
If anything, this ceremony was even more filled with ritual than the funeral servi ce. Before the final hymn, the crown jeweler removed the imperial state crown, the orb and the scepter — precious symbols of the crown — from the queen’s coffin, and placed them on the altar. As a symbol of the end of his ser vice, the lord chamberlain broke his wand of office and placed it onto the coffin, to be bu ried with the sovereign.
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The service began at 11 a.m. in the abbey, with Charles and his family in the front row, including his wife, Camilla, the Queen Consort; Prince William, and two of his chil dren, Prince George, 9, and Princess Charlot te, 7.
Britain has not held a state funeral since 1965, when it buried Winston Churchill, the wartime leader who acted as a mentor to a young Elizabeth after she unexpectedly came to the throne upon the death of her father, King George VI, in 1952.
As with every other ritual since the queen’s death, the funeral was meticulously choreographed. At 10:35 a.m., pallbearers carried the queen’s coffin from Westminster Hall, where it had been viewed by tens of
The archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Justin Welby, delivered a eulogy, recalling the queen’s speech to the nation during the coronavirus pandemic in which she promised, “We will meet again” — the title of a beloved World War II-era song by Vera Lynn.
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thousands of mourners, including Biden, to a gun carriage for the short procession to West minsterCharlesAbbey.and other members of the royal family walked behind the coffin, flanked by detachments of the queen’s corps of the Gent lemen at Arms, the Yeomen of the Guard and the Royal Company of Archers.
It is the culmination of 10 days of mour ning since the queen died Sept. 8 in Scotland — a time of unifying grief and disorienting change — and everything about the day will stretch precedents for such gatherings.
Unlike that stark procession, this one is choreographed to project the full splendor of the monarchy: seven groups, each with their own marching band; detachments from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and the British armed forces; and mounted soldiers from the Hou sehold Cavalry.
Soldiers lined the route from Westmins ter Abbey to Wellington Arch, which celebra tes Britain’s victories in the Napoleonic Wars. It stands next to Hyde Park, where artillery guns were fired during the procession and where visitors were able to watch the procee dings on large screens.
People gathered on the Long Walk at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, watch a video feed from London of the funeral procession for Queen Elizabeth II on Monday, Sept. 19,
“Here, where Queen Elizabeth was ma rried and crowned, we gather from across the nation, from the Commonwealth and from the
nied by King Charles III and other members of the royal family, following a solemn funeral service at Westminster Abbey.
nations of the world,” the Rev. David Hoyle, the dean of Westminster, said to an assembly that included more than 100 world leaders, among them President Joe Biden and Emperor Naruhito of Japan.
With the queen’s coffin before the dean, he called on those gathered “to mourn our loss, to remember her long life of selfless ser vice, and in sure confidence to commit her to the mercy of God our maker and redeemer.”
Hundreds of world leaders filled the seats in Westminster Abbey. Tens of thousands of people waited along the route the funeral cortege took through London on a grand pro cession to Windsor Castle. Thousands more will await the queen at Windsor.
2022.Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin is lowered into royal vault, her final resting place
After a military bugler played “The Last Post,” signifying the end of the service, the abbey, and the nation, fell silent for two mi nutes in honor of the queen. The congrega tion then sang “God Save the King” and the queen’s piper played a lament as her coffin was lifted back onto the carriage.
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The meticulously choreographed servi ce included readings by Britain’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, and the secretary-general of the Commonwealth, Patricia Scotland.
ueen Elizabeth II’s coffin was lowe red into the royal vault of St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle on Monday afternoon, signifying the end of a state funeral that began with a majestic service at West minster Abbey, and a procession in London, before closing with a more intimate service at the place where the queen lived in the twilight years of her life.
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In an interview with the CBS News pro gram “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday, Presi dent Joe Biden said the United States’ res ponse to any use of such weapons would be “consequential,” although he did not provide details.Across a vast front line that has been res haped after a Ukrainian offensive drove the Russians out of the northeast — but one that still stretches over 1,000 miles — Ukraine continued to try and exploit Russian disarray but claimed no significant forward move ment. Russia’s offensive operations appeared to be limited to a small pocket of the Donetsk region around the city of Bakhmut.
Even as Ukraine’s security services wor ked to secure towns and villages seeded with mines left by the Russian forces as they made a chaotic and hasty retreat, teams of Ukra inian investigators were fanning out to take witness testimony of atrocities, collect evi dence and start building war-crimes cases.
“During the inspection of the building, we discovered wires leading to hidden vi deo cameras in the rooms where the hosta ges were kept,” said Serhii Bolvinov, chief of the investigative department of the police of Kharkiv region. “People, including women, had to sleep on the floor, and during inte rrogations, they were tortured with electric current.”
That the Ukrainian forces were being attacked by inmates — and not just regular Russian ranks — suggested a reason the re seemed an unending supply of soldiers around Bakhmut attacking them, Ukrainian troops
Ukrainian soldiers and commanders be lieve Bakhmut is in an increasingly tenuous position as Russian forces press from the east and southeast in an attempt to cut off the country’sSoldierssupplies.onthe front line around the city have claimed that Russian forces in the area are mainly composed of troops from the Wagner Group, a private military company with ties to the Kremlin. Wagner troops have
Across the vast stretch of thousands of square miles of land newly reclaimed by Ukrainian forces in the northeastern Kharkiv region, accusations of Russian atrocities by Ukrainian officials mounted over the wee kend as Ukraine stepped up its calls for a global response. Many of the claims have not yet been independently verified.
Ukrainian state emergency workers collect unexploded ordnance from the side of a road near Izium, Ukraine on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelens kyy said the process of exhuming 440 graves in the recaptured city of Izium, the largest mass grave site discovered to date, was conti nuing, and he cautioned that it was too early to say exactly how many people were buried there or how had they died. But local autho rities said the majority of those removed from the ground had met violent deaths.
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They include seven citizens of Sri Lanka, students of Kupyansk Medical College. In March, they had been captured by Russian soldiers and subsequently kept in a base ment, according to Zelenskyy, who spoke about their case in his nightly address to the nation.With Russia suffering military setbacks in the past weeks, and the Kremlin growing in creasingly isolated diplomatically, the Biden administration warned President Vladimir Putin against using unconventional weapons, marking the second time that Washington has issued such a warning. In March, Biden said that “we would respond” if Putin — then frustrated by setbacks in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and by the general lack of progress in the war — were to use such weapons.
Ukrainian officials said they had found at least 10 torture chambers, two in the town of Balakliia, including one in a police station.
In the “60 Minutes” interview, Biden said Russia’s use of unconventional or nuclear weapons to try to turn the tide of the war in Moscow’s favor would “change the face of war unlike anything since World War II.”
Khlan warned civilians to stay away from government offices and military targets in Kherson, in case there were more strikes.
“All the collaborators of the occupied Kherson region were gathered there,” said Serhiy Khlan, a regional legislator. “When they all gathered, a ‘greetings’ from the Ar med Forces of Ukraine arrived.”
He said the police had confirmed the death of at least one person because of tor ture.
Despite the setbacks and the loss of tens of thousands of Russian soldiers in Ukrai ne, Putin has showed no signs of changing course. On Friday, he threatened to escalate his forces’ attacks.
“There is already clear evidence of tortu re, humiliating treatment of people,” Zelens kyy said in his nightly address Friday. “The world must react to all this.”
In the northern Kharkiv region, Ukrai nian forces continued to consolidate their gains after their lightning counteroffensive against Russian troops, according to the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson.
The two top floors of the city adminis tration building in Kherson, a southern Ukra inian city the Russians occupy, were turned into rubble by a Ukrainian missile strike. At least three people died, according to the Russian news agency TASS. The Ukrainians took credit for the attack, saying it was an attempt to decapitate the leadership of the occupied area.
fought in places such as Syria and Libya — countries with a history of Russian interven tion — and Ukrainian soldiers say they are deploying Russian prisoners onto the front lines.
Lastsaid.Tuesday, a video posted online and analyzed by The New York Times shows the Wagner Group promising convicts that they will be released from prison in return for a six-month combat tour in Ukraine. It is un clear when the video was filmed.
In a news conference in Uzbekistan at the conclusion of a regional meeting, Putin claimed that Ukraine was trying to carry out “terrorist acts” inside Russia and “to damage our civilian Ukraineinfrastructure.”hasoccasionally hit fuel and military targets in Russia’s border region but has denied targeting civilian infrastructure, and Putin offered no evidence to back up his assertion.Zelenskyy has sought to seize on his country’s military advances to bolster the resolve of Western allies, using them as proof that Ukraine is capable not only of mounting an effective defense but also of driving Russian forces from the country and winning the war.
Biden warns Russia, facing losses, against using unconventional weapons
Some Western officials have expressed concern that the more cornered Putin feels, the greater the chance that he might turn to an unconventional weapon such as a tactical or low-yield nuclear weapon, which can be fired at relatively short distances, as opposed to “strategic” nuclear weapons that can be launched over much longer distances.
The leaders of Putin’s two most conse quential strategic partners, India and China, both raised concerns about the war this past week, puncturing the Kremlin’s message that Russia was far from isolated as a result of the war.
Witness testimony of abuse, humilia tion and murder. Seven foreign medical stu dents from Sri Lanka held captive found alive and freed. A forest filled with graves.
Burns said it was a possibility that the United States remained “very concerned” about, although he said that, at that stage of the war, Washington had seen no “practical evidence” of the kinds of military deploy ments or movement of weapons to suggest that such a move was imminent
“In the north, what we assess is that the Ukrainians are consolidating their gains after taking back significant territory and that the Russians are attempting to shore up their defensive lines after having been pushed back,” the spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, told reporters Friday at the Pentagon.“Inthe south, the Ukrainians continue to make what we would assess as delibe rate, calculated forward movement as the Russians continue to try to hold that line,” he said.Ukrainian and Russian forces traded long-distance blows in southern Ukraine on Friday, bombing each other’s positions and inflicting major damage.
In April, CIA Director William Burns warned about how Putin could turn to such weapons in “desperation.”
As with many of the emerging claims, it was not possible to immediately verify some of the reports. But evidence of many of the crimes was already being made public, and those who survived are now being inter viewed as potential witnesses.
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The United Nations said it was dispat ching a team to assist in the investigation, while the Biden administration warned the Kremlin against using unconventional wea pons to reverse the successful counteroffen sive by Ukrainian troops.
This time, the warning came as Russian forces have been left reeling from their re treats on the battlefield and as Putin faces intensifying questions back home over how he has conducted the war.
chambers in the basements of police precincts and school buildings.
“If we are to be effective, if we are to be true to our principles, we must root out co rruption wherever it exists,” Harris said, stan ding next to Guatemala’s president, Alejandro Giammattei. “That is one of our highest prio rities.”But a year later, Central America has emerged as one of the Biden administration’s biggest foreign policy setbacks. Many nations have slid deeper into authoritarianism and po verty and sent record numbers of migrants to the U.S. southern border, leaving the region’s fragile democracies in the worst state since the Cold War, according to former U.S. diplo mats and civil society leaders.
“The United States will not save our li ves,” said Jordán Rodas, Guatemala’s former human rights ombudsman, who left the coun try hours before the end of his term in August.
Despite the Biden administration’s emphasis on reducing migration from Cen tral America, people are still heading north in enormous numbers.
The downplaying of expectations stands in sharp contrast with the forceful language used by senior Biden officials in the early days of the
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Staff of La Hora newspaper, where its journalists have faced legal pressu res after chronicling corruption cases implicating Guatemala’s president, in Guatemala City, Aug. 22, 2022.
So far, the Biden administration has lar gely stopped short of using financial sanctions in Central America that were used extensively, if to little effect, by Trump in nearby Cuba and Venezuela. Since President Joe Biden took office, only seven Central American officials and their associates have been sanctioned under the so-called Global Magnitsky Act, which allows the U.S. government to freeze and expropriate assets of foreign nationals ac cused of human rights violations, according to the State Department.
visas of more than 60 government officials and businesspeople in Central America for undermining democracy and has expressed public support for civic leaders facing perse cution.But diplomats and civil society leaders called the administration’s response muted and said that it has only emboldened autho ritarians.“Weak, lukewarm sanctions are not effective,” said Edgar Gutiérrez, a Guate malan political analyst.
Although chronic poverty and inequality, which have been deepened by the pandemic and global inflation, are the main drivers of Central American migration, impunity and corruption are worsening living conditions and adding to the exodus.
Supporters of the rule of law would be rewarded with billions of dollars in U.S. in vestments. Those who subverted it would feel the U.S.’ wrath.
The Biden administration’s unwilling ness to apply more pressure on increasingly autocratic governments is in part driven by a desire to preserve support for its migration and security policies in Central America, said former U.S. officials and civil society leaders.
U.S. officials and people close to the ad ministration say the democracy push in Cen tral America is a long-term task and that the authoritarian backlash shows that corrupt offi cials feel threatened by Washington’s policies.
Months earlier, Porras fired and then as ked for an arrest warrant against the country’s top anti-corruption prosecutor, Juan Francis co Sandoval. The warrant came after Harris explicitly asked Giammattei to keep Sandoval in his position and Secretary of State Antony Blinken presented Sandoval with an Antico rruption Champion Award.
“We recognize that we are dealing with deep and entrenched challenges and pro blems that existed for centuries,” said Ri cardo Zúniga, a senior official at the State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphe re Affairs. “This is a process; we understand that these are conditions that are not going to change overnight.”
The numbers have risen even as the Biden administration has maintained some Trumpera agreements with Central American lea ders to control migration. The government of Guatemala accepts weekly deportation flights from the United States and has mostly broken up migrant caravans on its borders.
Administration officials have increasingly emphasized efforts to boost private inves tment to Central America, another plank of Washington’s policy to tackle migration, and say they have secured $3.2 billion in inves tment commitments in the region.
In Guatemala, a top judge and a senior prosecutor who investigated corruption cases involving the president both fled the country this year to avoid arrest, despite Washington’s pleas to protect their positions. The head of Guatemala’s top independent news outlet, elPeriódico, which extensively covered those cases, was jailed in July, accused of money laundering.AndGiammattei’s picks for attorney ge neral and head of an anti-corruption prosecu tion unit, which Harris said would work with U.S. law enforcement to investigate graft, have instead been banned from the United States for undermining corruption investigations.
“Theadministration.people,Ithink, need to understand that four years of ignoring corruption under the Trump administration have ended,” Juan Gonzalez, the White House’s chief Latin America adviser, told a Guatemalan newspa per, La Hora, in January 2021.
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In Guatemala, Central America’s most populous nation, Giammattei has methodica lly dismantled the last vestiges of independent institutions. One by one, his government has jailed, exiled or silenced the very people the United States said would underpin its efforts to make Guatemala a fairer and ultimately more livable society: independent judges, prosecutors, journalists and human rights ac tivists.President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua has over the past year jailed or forced into exile nearly all dissident voices, turning the country into a totalitarian state. El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, who has used a crackdown against gangs to suppress free speech, announced Thursday that he would seek a second term in the next elections des pite the Salvadoran constitution’s explicit ban on reelection.Andeven in the region’s strongest de mocracy, Costa Rica, the newly elected president, Rodrigo Chaves, has launched un precedented attacks against journalists inves tigating accusations of sexual harassment and financial misconduct, calling them “rats” and using executive powers to starve their outlets of revenue.“Everything that the U.S. has done to create conditions to stabilize and improve the
“The United States has lost its ability to influence the region,” said Claudia Escobar, a former senior Guatemalan judge who now teaches at the George Mason University in Washington Giammattei and Porras’ offices did not respond to requests for an interview.
The presidents of Guatemala, El Sal vador and Nicaragua have responded to Washington’s call for local allies by accele rating the attacks on democratic institutions within their nations.
The US vowed to defend Central American democracy. Autocrats had other plans.
U.S. Border Patrol recorded more than 600,000 apprehensions of Guatemalans, Hondurans, Salvadorans and Nicaraguans — the four main groups of Central American migrants — in the first 10 months of this fiscal year, a record high and a 4% increase from the same period in 2019. The upticks mirror an overall sharp rise in border crossings under the Biden administration.
“But they can play an important part by hel ping guarantee transparent elections that give us an opportunity to choose change.”
The Biden administration has also lar gely refrained from targeting Central Ameri can economies or large companies close to authoritarian governments, a decision critics say reflects the White House’s fear of destabi lizing regional economies and triggering more migration.Another tool created by the Biden admi nistration to defend the rule of law in Cen tral America, the Justice Department’s An ticorruption Task Force, has not issued an indictment since being formed a year ago.
“A leader who is not ready to combat corruption won’t be an ally of the United Sta tes,” he said in a separate interview with a Salvadorean news website, El Faro.
in Guatemala’s National Palace last June, Vice President Kamala Harris outlined a sharp break with former Pre sident Donald Trump’s approach to unautho rized migration. Instead of building walls and deporting minors, the United States would focus on reducing corruption and impunity in Central America, giving the hundreds of thou sands of migrants who leave the region each year a reason to stay.
region has failed to bring results,” said Man fredo Marroquín, the head of Citizen Action, a Guatemalan anti-corruption policy group, and one of the last civil society leaders inside the country. “It was an empty bluff.”
The founders of La Hora have been sum moned for questioning by pro-government prosecutors for allegedly revealing classified information. Five journalists of El Faro had to leave El Salvador because of fear of prosecu tion.The Biden administration has revoked the
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In May, Giammattei renewed the ap pointment of the country’s attorney general, María Consuelo Porras, who is under sanc tion by the United States.
“The deal is migration cooperation in return for censured criticism,” said Claudia Samayoa, a prominent Guatemalan human rights defender.
But now comes the test, the gambit that hasn’t delivered, the specter of defeat, and what does he have to fall back upon? Not the authority of a czar: He cannot mobilize the Russian people as feudal subjects, calling on them to treat imperial Russia’s grand projects as their own. Not the authority of a national leader in a struggle for self-determination: He is the invader; it’s Ukraine that’s fighting for a nation. And not the authority of a democratic leader: He cannot have his war policy vindicated in an election, as Abraham Lincoln did in 1864, because any election would be a masquerade.Inrecent years, as authoritarian leaders have gained ground around the world and democracy has decayed, there’s been a fear that these figures have a stronger hand to play than the dictators of the past, because their authoritarianism is gentler and subtler, and also wrapped in the legitimating structures of elections.
But Putin’s predicament suggests that this subtler authoritarianism is weaker than its predecessors in a crisis. The 20th century’s totalitarian regimes often coopted the rhetoric of democracy and nationalism, but at bottom they made their own unique (and dreadful) claims to legitimacy — the people’s republic, the rule of the master race. Putin, lacking any such foundation, cannot just be a proud imperialist or autocrat or revolutionary: He has to legitimize his ambitions in the frameworks of his Western enemies, with absurd results (Ukraine isn’t a real nation, Russia is liberating Ukraine from Nazis, the Russians are fighting for humanThererights).are parallels to the internal politics of the United States, where movements tempted toward authoritarianism nevertheless legitimate themselves in the familiar language of democracy. Thus Donald Trump has to claim that the will of the people was thwarted in 2020, not that he had a right to autocratic rule. Likewise, the push from the left to cancel or de-platform, to steer public opinion via censorship, tends to be justified in the name of “safeguarding democracy.”Thispattern doesn’t mean there aren’t authoritarian perils in our politics, anymore than Putin’s legitimacy problems make his invasion any less destructive. But it helps to see our crises clearly if you recognize that they’re still happening inside the lines of late modernity — that as Elizabeth II is laid to rest, nothing like her radically undemocratic legitimacy seems ready for rebirth.
In Moscow you have the contrast: personal political power, far greater than the power of King Charles III, that lacks deep legitimating structures. Putin is a pseudo-czar but not a real one, with no divine anointing or ancient oath. He claims some Russian nationalist legitimacy, but his system is actually a polyglot imperium. He claims some democratic legitimacy by holding regular elections, but their results are neither fair nor free.
Putin failing to win his war in Ukraine? The answers multiply: hubris, corruption and incompetence on the Russian side; military valor, canny leadership and American munitions on the Ukrainian side.
But the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the wave of antique pageantry help illuminate one of the Russian president’s important weaknesses. He has been hobbled in his fight because his regime lacks the mystical quality we call legitimacy.
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In most of the world today there are only two solid foundations for legitimacy: the demos and the nation, democracy and national self-determination. The legitimacy that once attached to imperial rule has washed away, and likewise, outside of the Middle East and a few other places here and there, the legitimacy of hereditary monarchy. Alternative claims to legitimacy exist — the ideological authority invoked by the Beijing Politburo, the religious authority invoked
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So all he has to really justify his power is success. Which he has delivered for most of his career — a Russia richer and more stable than in the years before he took the presidency, and a series of successful foreign policy gambits.
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The Elizabethan pageantry emphasizes this global reality because the House of Windsor is an exception that proves the rule. Like almost no other institution in the West outside the Vatican, the British monarchy has retained a pre-modern, pre-democratic legitimacy; in the outpouring of secular grief there was still a sense that the queen was somehow God-ordained to sit on the throne. But the royal family has kept that legitimacy by giving up all but a fraction of its personal power; it has legitimacy and little else.
Legitimacy is not the same thing as power. It’s what enables power to be exercised effectively amid trials and transitions, setbacks and successions. It’s what grounds political authority even when that authority isn’t delivering prosperity and peace. It’s what rulers reach for when they call their societies to sacrifice.
by the mullahs in Tehran, Iran — but those claimants rely more on repression for power and survival.
Why Queen Elizabeth’s strength is Putin’s weakness
“Ante el apagón general en el país, le solicito al Gobernador que decrete mediante orden ejecutiva la exención del cobro del IVU en comidas preparadas en restaurantes, cafeterías, panaderías y todo negocio que prepare alimentos. Además, que extienda la vigencia de la Ley 20-2022, para eximir del cobro de IVU a los generadores de energía, de forma que la ciudadanía
“Confío en que el Primer Ejecutivo responda a este reclamo, ya que no hay estimado claro de cuándo el servicio eléctrico regrese. Mientras, es el momento de ser sensatos y proveer a la ciudadanía las herra mientas necesarias para poder hacerle frente a toda esta situación”, finalizó Ángel Matos.
El 19 de octubre la gira aterriza en la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Mayagüez con el documental La Planifi cación en Puerto Rico: Logros y Retos, de Sonia Fritz. La actividad, que cuenta con el apoyo de la Cinematheque,
Gurabo, Universidad Ana G. Méndez
tome medidas ante la incertidumbre de cuándo re gresará la luz a la Isla”, indicó el Legislador.
La segunda parada será el 29 de septiembre en la Universidad Ana. G Mendez en Gurabo, en dónde se proyectará Libre de Miedo (Berenice Manjárrez). La proyección tendrá lugar a partir de
Vieques, Plaza pública Luis Muñoz Rivera
Culebra, Fundación Histórica de Culebra
Por su parte, Rhett Lee García, presidente de la asociación y cineasta, manifestó que “AdocPR se enorgullece de seguir estableciendo alianzas con las comunidades para cumplir la misión edu cativa de la colectividad, que busca ampliar las audiencias y promover el cine nacional.”
“Puerto Rico se encuentra enfrentando una situa ción de emergencia, sumada a un apagón general provocado por el colapso del sistema eléctrico tras los daños a la red de transmisión eléctrica por el paso del huracán Fiona. Por ello, hago un llamado al Gobernador a ser empático y a sensibilizarse con el sufrimiento de nuestra gente”, añadió.
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La gira finalizará en las islas municipio de Vieques y Culebra. El 28 de octubre, a partir de las 7:00 a.m., la plaza pública de la Isla Nena se convertirá en un cine al aire libre con el pase del documental Rafael Cancel Miranda: “I’m not sorry for what I did’’ (Ana María García).
Salinas, Casa Comunitaria de Medios
Por último, la gira arribará a Culebra para el cierre con el film La Planificación en Puerto Rico: Logros y Retos, en colabo ración con la Fundación Histórica de Cule bra. La fecha de la actividad será anunciada próximamente.Todaslasproyecciones son de libre acce so y gratuitas. Se aceptarán donativos por ATH Móvil a través de la página sinfines.pr y la cam paña Cuenta x 2 de la que AdocPR forma parte.
Regresa la la 8va Gira Nacional de la Muestra de Cine Documental: Latinoamérica en Nosotrxs Solicitan al Gobernador eximir del IVU a alimentos preparados y generadores eléctricos tras paso del huracán Fiona
La gira cuenta con el apoyo de Sundan ce Institute, la Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, el National Endowment for the Humanities y Óptico Fiber. AdocPR recibe apoyo para gastos operacionales de National Endowment for the Arts.
La Gira dará comienzo con la proyección de Serán Las Dueñas De La Tierra (Juanma Pagán y Mariolga Reyes) el 23 de septiembre a las 6:00pm en la Fundación Ana Dalila Burgos (PR-155 km 20.3) en Orocovis. Al finalizar habrá un conver satorio con el director.
Para Natalieann Feshold, coordinadora de la Muestra de Cine Documental `Latinoamérica en Nosotrxs´, “el cine documental ha vivido un gran crecimiento en los últimos años, por lo que queremos aportar a que haya nuevos espacios de difusión”.
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AROLINA – El representante por Carolina y porta voz de la mayoría Ángel Matos García urgió al go bierno central a eximir, mediante orden ejecutiva, del cobro de Impuesto sobre Venta y Uso (IVU) a comidas preparadas y generadores eléctricos, más ante el apa gón general en la Isla tras el paso del huracán Fiona.
dará comienzo a las 6:30 p.m. en el Anfiteatro Figueroa Chapele del recinto universitario.
El 7 de octubre, la Muestra visitará la Casa Comunita ria de Medios en Aguirre, Salinas. En esta cita se proyec tará la película chilena Mal Vecino (Ricardo Jara) a partir de las 7:00 pm. Tras el visionado habrá un conversatorio sobre cine Mayagüez,comunitario.RecintoUniversitario Mayagüez (UPRM)
La actividad servirá de antesala al Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos de Vieques, y contará con la presen cia de la directora de la película con quienes los asisten tes podrán tener un diálogo.
SAN JUAN – La Asociación de Documentalistas de Puerto Rico (AdocPR) llevará a cabo entre septiembre y octubre su gira de Cine Documental `Latinoamérica en Nosotrxs´, que programará cine de no ficción en Oroco vis, Gurabo, Salinas, Mayagüez, Vieques y Culebra.
En total serán 6 proyecciones que dan continuidad a la muestra que la Asociación lleva a cabo para acercar la producción de cine documental nacional y latinoameri cano a la audiencia del país, y que este año celebró su 8va edición en el Archivo General de Puerto Rico.
Para más información y calendario actua lizado de proyecciones pueden visitar la web de AdocPR: adocpr.org/calendario, las redes sociales (Instagram y Facebook) o escribir al correo muestra@adocpr.org.
Orocovis, Fundación Ana Dalila Burgos Ortíz
las 10:00 a.m. en el Anfiteatro Argentina Hills, y contará con audiodescripción y closed caption para la comuni dad ciega y sorda.
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Between 1960 and 1967, the prolific Godard made more than a dozen feature films in a multiplicity of styles — presented with exuberance and wit — creating a body of work that later directors would draw on for inspiration. He excited his peers and his successors with how he ex panded the vocabulary and potential of the medium. He then shifted into cine-essays that alternated direct politi cal commentary and poetic imagery, forging a new genre that could best be called “Godardian.”
The apotheosis of Godard’s early work, “Week end” crams astonishing imagery and provocative ideas into nearly every minute, all while telling a grabby sa tirical story about a truly horrible and casually violent upper-middle-class couple, whose trip into the country becomes a suitably ironic nightmare. The film’s center piece sequence is a long tracking shot across an epic traffic jam, dotted with pathetic rage and punctuated by stomach-turning gore. Altogether, this movie is one long howl of disgust, delivered with enough energy and hu mor to be Streamgripping.itonHBOMax or Criterion.
Godard has died at 91. One of the pioneers of the French New Wave, Godard and his movie-mad contemporaries rebelled against the square cinematic conventions of the 1950s. They redefined the canon to in clude then-disreputable American genre pictures, created characters who articulated their own passions and opin ions, and illustrated that the tried-and-true techniques of professional filmmaking were stifling and unnecessary.
An atypical exercise in adaptation, 1983’s “First Name: Carmen” turns Georges Bizet’s opera into the erot ically charged tale of a revolutionary and the soldier she bewitches. Godard revives his love of American genre movies, staging both a bank-robbery and a kidnapping — while riffing on the forbidden romance of old Hol lywood melodramas. He also carries his bomb-throwing ’70s politics into the era of Reagan and Thatcher, for one of his most accessible and impassioned films.
“Vivre Sa Vie” (1962)
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Godard followed the giddy playtime of “A Woman Is a Woman” with the much bleaker, unusually straight
Arguably the director’s most frivolous film, “A Wom an Is a Woman” was described at the time as “a neoreal ist musical” — two genres that would seem pretty incom patible. Godard’s soon-to-be wife Anna Karina plays a stripper, trying to rope one of the men in her life into impregnating her. Emboldened by the success of “Breath less,” Godard shreds even more conventions. He chops Michel Legrand’s lush score into disconnected fragments, has characters address the camera, exposes his own arti fice, and generally expresses his sense that real life is just one longRentmovie.orbuy it on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Google Play, YouTube, Vudu or Microsoft.
These nine streaming Godard movies feature the work that won his international fame and his more chal lenging later films, which saw him trying to stretch his audience’s understanding of what a movie could be.
— even his boundary-less variety — reached a peak. For the next half-decade, he dedicated himself to pioneering something new. He shed the dry humor of his early ex periments and replaced it with ever more strident politics, forcing his audience to confront the realities of racism, the Vietnam War, and what he assumed was the coming revolution. One of the most enduring artifacts of this era is “Sympathy for the Devil” (aka “One Plus One”), which combines disconnected documentary footage with The Rolling Stones’ grueling recording process for the titular song. It’s not “entertaining” per se, but it’s fascinating as a portrait of a time when “Godard” had become a brand — so much so that he was allowed to reduce one of the most popular rock acts in the world into a mere motif in his stream-of-consciousness Marxist tract.
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After “Weekend,” Godard’s frustration with cinema
forward “Vivre Sa Vie” (aka “My Life to Live”). Anna Karina plays an aspiring actress who has to work as a prostitute to get by, finding herself adopting a variety of different roles to keep her clients satisfied. Leaving aside the self-reference and winks at the audience, the direc tor instead tells this highly metafictional story in a dozen docu-realistic vignettes, revealing the alienation of urban life and the cruelty of men.
“First Name: Carmen” (1983)
“A Woman Is a Woman” (1961)
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Jean-Luc
“Goodbye to Language” (2014)
Godard’s feature-length debut is as startlingly radi cal now as it was back in 1960. Ostensibly about a cool, remorseless criminal (played by Jean-Paul Belmondo) and his capricious American lover (Jean Seberg), “Breath less” changed cinema with the way its director told the story. Godard is just as interested in watching his char acters goof around on an ordinary Parisian day as in see ing them shoot guns or break laws. Whenever the action in any given scene starts to bore him, he and his editor jump-cut to something else, regardless of whether the re sults look clean. Rather than coming across as amateur ish, the experiments with form still feel fresh and youthful — proving that maybe cinema doesn’t need any rules.
“Weekend” (1967)
Nine of Godard’s movies are available to stream
“Hail Mary” (1985)
Largely out of the cultural conversation for the bet ter part of a decade, Godard suddenly became scandal ous again in 1985 with his movie about a working-class virgin named Mary, who gets mysteriously pregnant. Re moved from the reactionary conservative politics of the mid-80s — and considered in the context of Godard’s entire filmography — “Hail Mary” is nowhere near as shocking as it once seemed. It’s actually a film of great sensitivity and yearning; and it’s beautiful to look at too, with images of suns and moons designed to echo the heroine’s round tummy. Hardly anti-religion, this picture is primarily a meditation on miracles, as they appear in nature and in human interactions.
A chilly take on dystopian science-fiction, this rare Godard fantasy film was shot in early 1960s Paris, unal tered in any way to look more futuristic. “Alphaville” puts a rumpled, noir-ready secret agent against a backdrop of mid-20th-century modernism, and lets the visual clash between the character and his habitat reflect the artist’s own dim view of how technology strangles the life out of humanity. Genre filmmakers in a post-“Alphaville” world would have to reckon with how Godard made the ordi nary seem Streamalien.iton
“Sympathy for the Devil” (1968)
“Breathless” (1960)
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One of Godard’s final films takes a slim story about a bickering couple and threads it through a succession of academic discussions about semantics. “Goodbye to Language” was shot in 3D, and takes one of the more original approaches to the format by sending different pictures into the viewers’ right and left eyes during some scenes. Yet even without that gimmick (which is absent from the streaming version), the movie is both artful and challenging, pitting images against words in what might be called a uniquely Godardian war movie: where ideas fight ideas.
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Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo in the 1960 film “Breathless,” Jean-Luc Godard’s feature-length debut.
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“Alphaville” (1965)
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Los linderos son los siguientes: por el NORTE, en veintiún (21) pies y seis (6) pulgadas, con área común que colinda con estacionamiento del Condomi nio; por el SUR, en veintiún (21) pies seis (6) pulgadas, con área común que colinda con terrenos de finca de Flora Borinqueña; por el ESTE, en cuarenta (40) pies y seis (6) pulgadas, con el área común del Condominio; y por el OESTE, en cuarenta (40) pies y seis (6) pulgadas, con escalera comunal y área co mún. Participación: Este apar tamento tiene una participación de ochocientos treinta y tres por ciento y un tercio de otro (0.8331/3%) en los elementos comunes del Condominio. Es tacionamientos: A este aparta mento le corresponde dos (2)
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10% sobre el principal del pa garé hipotecario para el pago de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado como suma pac tada a dichos efectos; 10% de la cuantía original del Pagaré para cubrir cualquier otro ade lanto que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente al 10% del principal original de pagaré para cubrir los intereses en adi ción a los garantizados ley. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del algua cil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 3 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MA ÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Cen tro Judicial de Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fi jado para la PRIMERA SUBAS TA es de $364,950.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $243,300.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 18 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SU BASTA será de $182,475.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la men cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confir mada la venta judicial por el Ho norable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en pose sión física del inmueble de con
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Civil Núm.: FA2022CV00154.
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SUBASTA. El Alguacil que sus cribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumpli miento de la Sentencia dictada el 8 de junio de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 2 de agosto de 2022 y el Man damiento de Ejecución del 2 de agosto de 2022, en el caso de epígrafe; procederé a vender el día 10 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Sala Superior, Avenida Marce lito Gotay, Edificio 461, Esquina Barriada Jerusalén, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de Amé rica, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno marcada con la letra “A” en el plano de inscripción del caso 77-23-I-279-SPL, localizada en el Barrio Mata de Plátano del Municipio de Luquillo, Puerto Rico, que tiene una cabida de 1.0795 cuerdas, equivalentes a 4242.7546 metros cuadrados. Colindando por el NOR TE, con la parcela “N” (de uso público), que la separa de la Carretera Estatal Número 990
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Tiene un área de ochocientos veinticuatro pies cuadrados y setenta y cinco centésimas de otro (824.75 p.c.), equivalentes a setenta y seis metros cuadra dos con sesenta y cinco cen tésimas de otro (76.656 m.c.).
JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTE RINO #622. SANDRALIZ MAR TÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #737, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE FAJARDO.
Demandados Civil Núm.: ECD2012-0536. Sala: 612. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS ESTADOS UNI DOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte deman dada y al PÚBLICO EN GENE RAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 16 de agosto de 2022, por la Se cretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se des cribe a continuación: URBANA: Urbanización Los Paisajes de Ciudad Jardín de Gurabo, Puerto Rico. Solar:128. Cabida: 786.12 metros cuadrados. Lin deros: por el NORTE, en una distancia de 24.226 metros, con la Calle Jardín; por el SUR, en una distancia de 28.048 me tros, con el Lote 118 y con el lote 117; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 27.989 metros, con el Lote 127; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 29.115 metros, con calle principal. El inmueble antes descrito contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para una sola familia construi da de acuerdo con planos y especificaciones sometidos y aprobados por las agencias e instrumentalidades guberna mentales pertinentes. Inscrita en la finca número 20,069, al tomo Karibe de Gurabo. Regis tro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Caguas. La propiedad ubica en: Los Paisa jes de Ciudad Jardín, 128 Calle Jardín, Gurabo, PR. El produc to de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 18 de noviembre de 2013 y notifica da el 6 de junio de 2019, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $349,720.24 de principal más los intereses a razón del 4.5% anual desde el día 1ro de septiembre de 2011 así como intereses acumulados y por acumularse a partir de esa fecha y hasta su total pago completo repago de la deuda; cargos por demora equivalen tes al 4.00% de todos aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento hasta el total y completo repago de la deuda; $36,495.00, es decir, el
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Ruth Mora Figueroa, Fulano y Mengano de Tal, Departamento de Hacienda por conducto de la División de Caudales Relictos y el Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, en el Caso Civil Nú mero FA2022CV00154, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se re clama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $103,086.42 y otras cantidades, según De manda de fecha 24 de febre ro de 2022. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Luquillo. Anotación A. La propiedad para ejecutar se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacio nados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examina dos, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Se cretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos sema nas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, conti nuarán subsistentes; enten diéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para el co nocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes inte resadas y público en general EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos corres pondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 19 de agos to de 2022. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIO NAL INTERINO #622. SAN DRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #737, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CEN TRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO, SALA SUPERIOR.
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Estados Unidos de Norteamé rica, y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que ten ga (n) interés inscrito con pos terioridad a la inscripción de los gravámenes que se están ejecutando, que los mismos serán eliminados del Registro de la Propiedad, y para cono cimiento de los licitadores y el público en general, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el termino de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada y a su abogado o abogada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo siempre que haya comparecido al pleito. Si el (la) deudor (a) por Sentencia no comparece al pleito, la notificación será en viada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a las últimas direcciones conocidas. Se les advierte a todos los interesa dos que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipote ca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas tante la titulación y que las car gas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continua rán subsiguientes entendiéndo se que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el pre cio del remate. Y para conoci miento de la parte demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes inte resadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes.
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espacios de estacionamientos identificados con el mismo nú mero del apartamento. Inscrito al folio Karibe de Río Grande, finca número #27,950 Regis tro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Tercera Sección de Ca rolina. La propiedad según pa garé ubica en: Lomas de Río Grande, Apartamento 502, Río Grande, PR. Que con el impor te de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandan te las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo. El remate comenzará por las su mas adeudadas declaradas en la Sentencia, y se llevará a cabo para con su producto, satisfacer dichas sumas. Las cuantías de la sentencia se describen de la siguiente mane ra: la parte demandada adeuda las siguientes cantidades a la parte demandante: $77,651.59 por concepto de principal; $412.91 por concepto de in tereses acumulados, $258.56 por concepto de cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acu mulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito; $286.86 por concepto de ‘’Escrow Advances’’ y la suma $8,270.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios ga rantizados hipotecariamente. Debido al incumplimiento de la parte demandada, con los términos de contrato habido entre las partes se declara con lugar la demanda y se orde na la ejecución de hipoteca y venta en pública subasta de la propiedad objeto de este pleito, declarando vencida la suma de $77,651.59 por concepto de principal adeudada al 1 de ju lio de 2015, más los intereses que se acumulen hasta el saldo total de la deuda; y demás cré ditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La SUBAS TA se llevará a cabo el día 8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La venta de la propiedad será realizada para cubrir el importe adeudado a la demandante, el cual al mo mento de la Sentencia ascen día a la suma de $77,651.59 por concepto de principal, más los intereses que se acumulen hasta el saldo total de la deuda; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente, adeudada según la Sentencia, más los otros gastos, intereses y recargos que se acumulan hasta la fecha de su total y completo pago. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudi cación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el im porte de su oferta en el mis mo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los
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The Aces led by as many as 10 but had to fight off several furious rallies by the Sun before clinching the title in the final minutes of Las Vegas’ third win in the best-offive series. Chelsea Gray led the Aces with 20 points and was named the MVP of the finals.
championship on the line for a team with some of the WNBA’s biggest stars, the Las Vegas Aces leaned on Riquna Williams, who had scored in double digits just twice this postseason.
As the buzzer sounded Sunday, Aces players — now champions — yelled and hugged each other, their cheers of excitement bouncing around an otherwise quiet sta dium that had been rocked with the deafening roars of Sun fans just moments before.
But coming into Game 4, Williams, who scored 11 points in the fourth quarter, hadn’t scored more than 14 points all season. The Sun held Wilson to just 11 points Sunday, her third-lowest scoring performance of the play offs.
Bill Laimbeer, who had been the Aces’ coach for four years, stepped down before the season. The Aces hired Hammon, who had been an assistant with the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs. She took over a team led by Wilson, who won her first MVP Award in 2020.
“I got a group of really resilient players,” Hammon said, adding: “You saw different people step up at differ ent moments tonight and that’s what makes us difficult to beat.”
ments needed to succeed in the postseason. Its star-laden roster was seemingly too talented for its own good, with the best players often leaning on the isolation basketball they excel in but that has kept the Aces from closing out championships.Thisyear,
Wilson spoke highly of Jones af ter the“Igame.hadto go and speak to her be cause she played her heart out,” Wil son said of Jones, who was last season’s MVP. “It’s so hard to guard her, and I just have all the most respect for J.J.”
Hammon said it was a “battle” to beat the Sun. “We knew it wasn’t go ing to be easy,” she said.
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She said the Aces had “tremendous leadership” among the players, and that they had persisted when they weren’t playing well during the season. She applauded Williams for coming through Sunday when the Aces had been struggling to score.
victory in Game 4.
Hammon said it was a “little surreal” to win her first WNBA championship. She played in the league for more than a decade, including several seasons with the Las Ve gas franchise when it was in San Antonio.
“I worked so hard for this,” Gray said as she became emotional and her teammates cheered.
Last season, the Aces lost the decisive Game 5 of the semifinals to the Phoenix Mercury, who celebrated on the Aces’ home floor. Gray said that ending had stuck in her mind since.
Gray and the Aces’ loaded roster kept Las Vegas a step ahead of the league all season. Four Aces were named All-Stars — A’ja Wilson, Plum, Jackie Young and Dearica Hamby — and Plum was voted MVP of the AllStar Game. Wilson won her second league MVP award and was named the defensive player of the year. Becky Hammon, in her first season with the team, was named the league’s coach of the year.
The Aces defeated the Sun 7871 on Sunday to win their first WNBA championship, their postseason re flecting the regular-season dominance that led them to tie Chicago for the best record in the league.
As Connecticut players exited the court in tears, Sun center Jonquel Jones walked the length of the floor into the Aces’ celebration to hug and congratulate Wilson. As Jones walked away, she paused to clap and thank the fans that remained before heading to the locker room. Jones dominated the Aces physically in the Sun’s lone win of the series in Game 3, and she nearly led them to another
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Williams raised her index finger to her lips to silence the Connecticut Sun’s white-knuckled fans in Game 4 of the finals in Uncasville, Conn. as she hit one big shot after another in the fourth quarter. The last of her 17 points came on a step-back shot just inside the 3-point line over the out stretched arms of Natisha Hiedeman. Guard Kelsey Plum raised her hands, and Williams ran around the court with her arms spread wide as Sun fans began to leave.
“I know who I am now more than ever,” Wilson said. “I feel like I’ve established myself in this league. And the Aces aren’t done yet.”
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a large group of fans in red, black and gold Aces gear made their way down to the lower levels of Mohegan Sun Arena as the Las Vegas players flooded the court after the game. It was an invaluable moment for Gray.
A’ja Wilson, the franchise player of the Las Vegas Aces, celebrating winning the W.N.B.A. championship on Sunday.
As Hammon guided the Aces to the first seed, she said she saw glimpses of the style of play that had kept the Aces from winning a title. But that shifted in the Aces’ semifinal win over the Storm, during which Hammon said the players were “choosing each other” and learned how to “take a punch.”
That proved true as the Aces found ways to win play off games while their stars struggled and they faced defi cits — precisely what happened Sunday — finally shak ing the reputation of a team with unfulfilled potential.
“I’ve been on two teams and that was loud,” Gray said of the Aces fans. “They’re going to celebrate us, and we’re going to celebrate them.”
“And now I’ll just have a different replay in my head,” Gray said with a smile.
“What I’m most proud of is we became a real team out here, and a team that cares about each other and trusts each other,” she said.
“She knows she’s got the ultimate green light,” Ham mon said.Wilson also spoke about growth — hers and the team’s.
The loss for the Sun, the No. 3 seed, is another disappointing finish for a franchise with the second most wins in WNBA history but no champi onships. For the second straight game, Sun forward Alyssa Thomas had a tripledouble. She is the only player to have a triple-double in a WNBA finals game.
Hammon thanked Laimbeer for putting the team to gether and praised her players.
The Aces finished with the best regular-season re cord in two of the past three seasons and second in the year they didn’t finish first. The Seattle Storm swept them in the 2020 finals. Las Vegas had shouldered the reputa tion of being a team good enough to win in the regular season but not able — or willing — to make the adjust
After being on the raw end of judging decisions in their first fight, and maybe their second fight, too, Golovkin finally got the benefit of the doubt. The judges scored the fight 116-112, 115-113 and 115-113 in favor of Álvarez, scoring that did not do Álvarez’s dominant win justice.
Álvarez entered the fight coming off just the second loss in his career, a surprising upset to Dimitry Bivol in May. But Álvarez’s first loss in nine years did not dampen his fans’ enthusiasm. Fight weekends are always big in Las Vegas, and this time tens of thousands of Mexicans and Mexican Americans descended on The Strip to celebrate Mexico’s Independence Day, which was Friday, in proximity to its favorite fighter.
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Álvarez, however, stuck around for photographs. He posed with five belts, three on one arm and two on another, representing WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO and The Ring magazine titles. Next to him stood Eddy Reynoso, his longtime trainer, holding a trainer of the year award plaque, as thousands of adoring fans yelled at them in Spanish.Golovkin, for all his success, talent and victories, is destined to be remembered as the foil to Álvarez. To be remembered as the fighter whose greatest value lay in providing a canvas for Álvarez, known as Canelo, to paint on. It was even the case before their first fight, in which Golovkin held the middleweight belts and was the slight favorite, and it is certainly the case five years later after Álvarez won Saturday night’s bout in dominant fashion.
The king of his rivalry with Golovkin certainly, finally. But even in victory the questions Bivol raised remain. This was not the Canelo who shattered the face of Billy Joe Saunders last year, or who defeated Sergey Kovalev as light heavyweight in 2019.
Maybe genuine animosity, or maybe just pre-fight smack talk designed to rile up fans. Whatever it was, the instant the bell rang for the final time the bad blood seemed to wash away.
It was a generous self-evaluation,
But while the defeat to Bivol this spring did not diminish Álvarez’s allure, it did change him. “I have shown that defeats are great, because they allow you to come back and show humility,” Álvarez said Saturday in the ring after his victory. It was perhaps an incongruous statement coming from Álvarez, ever the showman, considering he was wearing a crown as he said it.
Later, after the arena had long emptied out, Golovkin returned the favor. “We congratulated each other, said ‘excellent fight,’ and we moved on,” he said, adding: “At this level, this sport is so dangerous. We were very content with how this fight played out and how the rivalry ended.”
Two days before they met in the ring, Saúl Álvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin sat behind a long table at a theater in the MGM Grand on the Strip in Las Vegas. The theater normally houses Ká, one of Cirque du Soleil’s most high-flying productions, and offered an unfortunate contrast to the fighters’ perfunctory performance in answering questions from the promoter Eddie Hearn. Shortly after the news conference ended, Golovkin slunk out a side door.
The fight, four years in the making, was the third time these two boxers competed against each other in five years. The first fight, in 2017, ended in a controversial draw even though most observers felt that Golovkin, of Kazakhstan, was the victor. Álvarez, who is from Mexico, won a narrow majority decision in the second contest inGolovkin,2018. then, over the course of 24 rounds, stuck as closely to Álvarez as anybody has. That he has contested few other barn burners with fighters equal to his talent is perhaps down to his well-deserved reputation.Golovkin, 40, is such a fearsome puncher — he has won all of his professional fights against boxers not named Saúl Álvarez, and almost all of them by knockout — that he is regularly avoided. He had to wait two years for Álvarez, 32, to agree to fight him the first time, and four years for Álvarez to agree to their trilogy fight.
“I need to rest my body,” said Álvarez
Whether he fights Bivol next, or somebody else, it seems Álvarez’s future resides in the super middleweight and light heavyweight divisions, one more reason his struggle with Golovkin is finally over. Golovkin has fought his entire career at middleweight — that’s what their first two bouts were contested at — and moved up to super middleweight only once, for Saturday’s fight. Their paths have diverged.
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On Saturday night, however, he was not particularly threatening. Golovkin spent the first two-thirds of the fight weakly probing with his left jab and tagged Álvarez with damaging punches only when he abandoned caution late. “This fight is so smart,” Golovkin said afterward when asked how it differed from their first two bouts. “More tactical, like chess.”
He then went and embraced Álvarez, a surprising act of post-fight equanimity. Their relationship at one point was professional or even warm — a much younger Álvarez sparred with Golovkin a few times at a training camp in Big Bear Lake, California — but by the time of their second bout it had descended into acrimony. After the fight was delayed while Álvarez served a suspension for testing positive for clenbuterol (he blamed tainted meat he ate in Mexico and said he stopped eating beef), Golovkin called his onetime sparring partner a drug
“Probably it was a tactical mistake on my fight to start slow,” he conceded, though he added that he had wanted to see how the fight would develop.
Álvarez walks through crowds like the worldwide superstar he is. He cannot go anywhere in public without being surrounded by an entourage of dozens, with those dozens being surrounded by screaming thousands. There is law enforcement, private security, friends, family, trainers, videographers and guys whose jobs seem to be simply carrying his belts. Sometimes there are two guys freestyle-rapping about Canelo. Witness it just once and “Canelo! Canelo!” will forever be stuck in your head.
Golovkin said before the fight that he had many options no matter the outcome, perhaps anticipating what was next: Questions about retirement. “Remember, I’m still champion at 160,” he responded. “I come back, guys, I’m still champion.”
“He’scheat.nothonest,” Álvarez told TMZ about Golovkin in the leadup to the fight. “He pretends to be a good person and be different, but he’s not.”
Canelo and GGG end one of boxing’s fun rivalries
Saúl Álvarez, left, embracing Gennadiy Golovkin after their 12-round championship fi ght, which Álvarez won by decision.
confusing timidity for tactics. Golovkin won most of the later rounds on the judges’ scorecards, and he has to wonder what would have happened had he begun the fight aggressively. But he has often been a slow starter, and perhaps at his advanced age Golovkin is unable to sustain fighting on the front foot for 12 rounds.
when asked if he wanted a rematch against Bivol next. “I need to rest my hand, my body, but I will come back stronger.” He said that he injured his left hand when defeating Caleb Plant last November and that the injury was so bad that he cannot hold a glass and might need surgery.
“Thank you so much, my friend, thank you, Golovkin, thank you for everything,” Álvarez said while still inside the ring. “We gave the fans three good fights. Thank you for everything.”
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Don’t let old ways and ideas stop you from trying something that could change your life in a positive way. You may have a few doubts about going for it, because it might demand a lot of you. But the outcome can be a game changer. You could discover a new calling Capricorn, or find that an interest invites you to tread a path that gets progressively more fascinating over time.
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
Get ready for an intense day! A potent Sun/Pluto tie, could put you into survival mode. Thoughts about safety and security may be on your mind, perhaps prompting you to take action to protect your home and other belongings. Acting on any ideas you have, means there will be one less worry to contend with. Plus, a decision to take up a new interest can be a good one, Gemini.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
Big decisions and positive changes can occur, as the Sun links to Pluto your personal planet. You may be ready to overthrow the status-quo and bring fresh streams of energy into your life. Something you do over coming days could bring about a shift, and whether this is big or small, it might put you on a new track. It’s possible that a relationship can get closer and more intimate.
Been around a certain person more than usual? If you have, you could be exposed to perspectives that impact your beliefs and cause you to rethink them. And some part of your life might change because of this. Plus, you can connect with a commanding personality who won’t take no for an answer. If you aren’t happy with their suggestions, you may need to put on a stronger front.
As Mars continues in Gemini, you’ll be fired up and ready to take the world by storm. If you have a message to share or are keen to write about your experiences, this force can push you to get going. Yet some of the biggest benefits come from teaming up with others who are on your wavelength. Working together, you’ll accomplish much more than you would by yourself, Leo.
An in-depth conversation could turn out to be very productive. If you reach an agreement or make a decision, there may be no going back. With a powerful aspect showing, you might be easily drawn into someone’s orbit because of their energy and authority. And if this bond has romantic overtones, you may be in awe of them. Still, this is no reason to ignore your instincts.
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
The Moon in your social zone angles towards Venus and Uranus, which adds a lighter and brighter note to what could be an intense day. While you may be grappling with an issue that is taking up a lot of time and energy, the support of friends and a chance to chat, can take away any feelings of heaviness and inspire you not to take it so seriously. You will notice a difference.
Having Mercury retro in your sign can highlight your independent side, as you might not feel like being so tactful. This influence could also give you an inkling that certain people may be quietly using you. They might not even realize it. It can be in small ways, and you may have unknowingly colluded. You don’t have to ditch them, but it will help to act on any insights.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
An offer that comes your way could take you out of your comfort zone, and yet be very welcome. If it’s something you’ve been working towards, then don’t hold back. The Sun’s alignment with powerbroker Pluto, hints that you’ll easily impress the right people. Project confidence and efficiency, and others will quickly sense that you have what it takes to succeed.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
A job or contract could be a winner, if you have the stamina to see it through. It may be hard work, but the financial rewards can make up for it. On a social note, you’ll thrive by getting out and about. This is the time to get involved in anything that attracts your curiosity. You love a challenge, and the thrill of the unknown might find you ready to test your commitment, Archer.
A change of heart could help a relationship move into a better place, Aquarius. If there has been a misunderstanding, a conversation can clear the air and set things to rights. It might be quite intense though, and there may be some areas that are difficult to touch upon. Yet once it’s out of the way, the bond between you will feel lighter and things look set to get so much better.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
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Gemini (May 22-June 21)
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
If you feel strongly enough about an opportunity, this is a good day to ramp up your efforts. Whether you’re looking for a new job, business deal or an opening into a fresh career, determination and one pointed focus can assist you in getting it. Don’t have enough experience, Aries? Doubts could begin to form. Brush them aside and dare to have a go anyway.
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