Lifton and Chief Diversity Officer Ashton Murray with awardees Yuriria Vázquez and Inclusion celebrated its inaugural Inclusive Excellence Awards an honor acknowledging the positive impact of those who have helped to broaden and bring the university community together honored four community members who were selected by an Awards Review Committee convened by ODEI from leaders across the University community after being nominated by Rockefeller colleagues “I’m delighted to support and highlight these individuals who are working daily to ensure that we’re living up to our best selves,” said Chief Diversity Officer Ashton Murray in his opening remarks Murray’s office established the new awards to recognize community members whose achievements in the DEI space have been exemplary much in the way academic achievements have long been recognized Honoree Sadye Paez, a member of Rockefeller’s staff, was introduced by nominator Erich D. Jarvis. In addition to serving as program director in the Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, headed by Jarvis, Paez is also currently the co-chair of the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee (JEDI) of the Earth Biogenome Project an international initiative working to sequence the genomes of all 1.8 million species on the planet “Sadye is known as a powerhouse among her peers and the genome community worldwide recognizes how she’s trying to make sure that this massive project is conducted in an equitable way,” said Jarvis a trainee in the Ruta lab received recognition in the graduate student category a fellow lab member and a co-organizer of the Race which focused on examining the sociohistorical contexts that shape scientific research and developing skills and tools for normalizing discussions of diversity and inclusion in academic environments for Rockefeller trainees “Chad has been an integral part of the Rockefeller Inclusive Science Initiative (RiSI) and many DEI initiatives including the formation of the DEI office itself,” said Rhee Chad emerged as a leader on campus in moments in which challenging issues of gender inclusivity and political animosity have had to be faced.” Postdoc Yuriria Vázquez was also honored. Vázquez, a research associate in the Hudspeth lab, regularly participates in Brain Awareness Week and engages Spanish speaking communities in the citywide annual campaign to increase public awareness about the brain and neuroscience research Vázquez has been a vocal supporter and champion of both women and underrepresented minorities in science … She is passionate about engaging the broader NYC community in her love for neuroscience and sensorimotor transformations.” “The impact of your work is seen and felt by many and I am so honored to award you the faculty prize,” said Murray “It was truly noteworthy the number of impressive nominees my office received in our first year of granting this award,” said Murray “It’s a real testament to the vibrancy of our DEI community at Rockefeller.” Browse our recent stories por Yuriria está lista para brillar una vez más con la nueva edición del Carpa Fest 2025 una celebración única que fusiona lo mejor del ecoturismo quien dio a conocer que el evento se realizará del 17 al 19 de abril a lo largo del malecón de la Laguna de Yuriria con una expectativa de más de 15 mil asistentes y una derrama económica superior a los 10 millones de pesos Una de las grandes apuestas de este año es la instalación de ocho carpas temáticas donde el público podrá disfrutar de diferentes géneros musicales hasta lo mejor de la música regional mexicana con grupos en vivo desde el mediodía hasta la medianoche Cada carpa será ambientada con una identidad única para garantizar experiencias para todos los gustos y edades El festival también integrará actividades acuáticas con recorridos en lancha y kayak desde las 8 de la mañana hasta las 4 de la tarde mientras que los kayaks estarán disponibles para mayores de 12 años Una de las propuestas más llamativas de este año será la exposición itinerante “Luz y Agua” compuesta por 10 esculturas monumentales de carpas elaboradas en fibra de vidrio y pintadas por artistas locales Esta instalación recorrerá el embarcadero y el malecón como un símbolo de creatividad y arraigo cultural La gastronomía también tendrá un papel estelar con el Centro Gastroartesanal que ofrecerá una deliciosa variedad de platillos típicos y contará con música en vivo habrá un pabellón botanero y una Expoartesanal con la participación de 20 talentos del municipio quienes mostrarán sus productos y creaciones a los visitantes En la rueda de prensa de presentación también participaron funcionarios estatales y municipales, entre ellos Claudia Lorena Campos Delgado, directora de Turismo Social de la Secretaría de Turismo e Identidad de Guanajuato quien destacó que este festival no solo fortalece la economía local sino también la identidad y el orgullo del pueblo mágico Carpa Fest 2025 promete ser una experiencia inolvidable que conjuga música May 5, 2025 | este domingo se llevó a cabo la Tercera Preliminar del 13° Encuentro de Cocina Tradicional “Guanajuato ¡Sí Sabe!” El evento reunió a cocineras y cocineros.. May 3, 2025 | , En el marco de su 304 aniversario Cortazar prepara una celebración que conquistará paladares y corazones por igual el Taco y el Cabrito regresa este 4 y 5 de mayo con una propuesta que combina la riqueza culinaria local,.. May 2, 2025 | En el marco de una colaboración inédita entre estados han dado vida a una nueva propuesta turística: la ruta “La Revolución del Vino y el Mezcal” Esta iniciativa conjunta fue presentada oficialmente con la firma de un.. May 1, 2025 | San Miguel de Allende lo ha vuelto a hacer: la ciudad guanajuatense fue reconocida como el mejor destino turístico de bodas en México por la revista México Desconocido Abr 30, 2025 | Como parte de su participación en el Tianguis Turístico 2025 la Secretaría de Turismo e Identidad de Guanajuato en colaboración con Turismo Alternativo en Guanajuato y el Hotel Corazón Mexicano presentó oficialmente la nueva ruta turística “Diego este domingo se llevó a cabo la Tercera Preliminar del 13° Encuentro de Cocina Tradicional “Guanajuato ¡Sí.. han dado vida a una nueva propuesta turística: la.. San Miguel de Allende lo ha vuelto a hacer: la ciudad guanajuatense fue reconocida como el mejor destino turístico de bodas en México por la revista.. 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notice Berkeley Journalism alumna Yuriria Avila plans to go to Guatemala in December to photograph drag performer Carmen Monoxide most drag performers took their shows online But Berkeley Journalism student Yuriria Avila found one group still performing in person: Fishbowl Drag in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district Avila took photos of their weekly shows for four months who graduated from Berkeley Journalism in May 2021 saw Carmen Monoxide perform last year in Love for the Arts a competition created by one of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars winners Avila couldn’t believe she hadn’t heard of the drag performer until then Carmen Monoxide was stunning — flawless in presentation and beautiful to watch with a bold personality and an interesting backstory Monoxide studied in Los Angeles and now lives in Guatemala City where she is part of a movement to build up the drag scene but especially in a country where violence against the LGBTQ community is surging Avila knew she wanted to photograph the drag performer she applied for and won the 2021 Dorothea Lange Fellowship She plans to travel to Guatemala this December to document Monoxide’s life Yuriria Avila is this year’s recipient of the Dorothea Lange Fellowship “I want to photograph different aspects of her life,” said Avila behind the scenes getting ready for shows and performing and also her just hanging out with her drag family.” first got interested in drag four years ago when a friend of hers invited her to a drag show in Mexico City “It really opened my mind about how gender is such a wide spectrum,” said Avila “Anyone can do drag: There are drag queens nonbinary people dressing up however they want at the Protest For Peace and Dignity in Cuernavaca Avila pursued photography almost out of necessity known for its pretty gardens and many pools she took every photography class she could she took photos of herself and her friends trying on her grandmother’s clothes she found herself with her Nikon D90 — a gift from her father — perched in a tree to get a better angle of a protest happening in Mexico City were protesting military intervention with drug cartels daily violence in her once sleepy hometown “We had been experiencing a lot of violence,” said Avila and we’d have to stay home or stay at school for hours until the shooting was done.” Avila went on to attend college in Mexico City she started as a graduate student at Berkeley Journalism The drag group performed every Saturday beginning in September 2020 in an effort to raise funds to lease The Red Victorian as housing for LGBTQ and BIPOC communities With her graduate education drastically different from what she’d imagined Avila began to wonder: How was the drag community many of whom depend on stage performances for their income But there was one group — Fishbowl Drag — in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco that was performing live shows behind a glass window of a historic hotel “I went almost every Saturday for four months and watched their performances,” said Avila “I was surprised by the amount of people who were supporting them and the amazing energy that performers were putting into every single show.” Although Fishbowl Drag shows had a big turnout the management company of The Red Victorian said they didn’t have permission to live in the historic hotel and required them to leave The performers hoped that their fundraising effort would help them raise enough money so they could lease the building as housing for the LGBTQ and BIPOC communities the building’s management company said the performers didn’t have permission to live in the hotel and required them to leave will begin to safely move their shows back on stage so that she and others can enjoy their spectacular performances in person once again And she hopes that her project for the Dorothea Lange Fellowship will bring visibility to drag performers outside of the U.S. who deserve to be known and recognized for their talent Two Pueblos Mágicos in Guanajuato are fighting to keep the magic alive amid a precarious security situation in the state The magical towns of Yuriria and Jalpa de Cánovas (in the municipality of Purísima del Rincón) have both suffered from violence recently and their respective mayors agree that the situation is alarming But Salomón Carmona and Marco Antonio Padilla Gómez are fighting back by taking action to guarantee the safety of residents and visitors Carmona described the security situation in Yuriria as a “disaster,” telling the newspaper Milenio that armed men recently entered a hospital in the municipality to “finish off” a man they had presumably attacked earlier The scourge of society is that crime is not just in this municipality and not just in Guanajuato “We’re doing our part to attend to citizens We’d gone almost two months without a problem on that level,” Carmona added Yuriria was the second most violent Pueblo Mágico in Guanajuato last year Padilla said that police are carrying out additional operations to combat organized crime groups Before they only did one or two [operations] a week especially on weekends when the [security] situation is worse,” he said The seven magical towns in Guanajuato are key tourist attractions in the state and authorities hope that visitor numbers will be strong during Holy Week state and municipal authorities are contributing to a statewide security operation that began yesterday Guanajuato used to be considered one of the safest states in Mexico but violence has soared in recent years and in 2018 it recorded the highest number of homicides in the country Much of the violence is believed to be linked to pipeline petroleum theft and a related turf war between the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) Source: Milenio (sp)  ADVERTISE WITH MND COMMUNITY GUIDELINES Subscription FAQ's Privacy Policy Mexico News Daily - Property of Tavana LLC Posted by | Sep 28 operates in the village of llama Yuriria (Guanajuato – Mexico) but they also serve some other villages and municipalities such as Moroleón Uriangato and Salvatierra with a great team of volunteers Their main activity is the rescue and protection of abandoned dogs and puppies for which they try hard to find adoption They actually have almost 150 dogs to look after 70 of which are sheltered in a rented area as they do not have enough funds to buy their own place They also take care of many cats and rabbits at their own expenses The situation for animals is very difficult and the association has been working for years to change the things not only government and municipalities do not provide economical help do not have a regulation on animal welfare and protection a care center and an ethical programme to keep controlled the number of strays (dogs are generally killed using rat poison) but generally the population does not have education and respect towards animals Many animals are abandoned and those suffering and in distress do not receive help and assistance from local people is to find adoption: a family able to love and provide all the needed care the rate of adoption in Mexico is very low Many puppies will never find a warm place where to spend their life ❤️ Our friends of Dame la Pata Yuriria a.c are asking for help They need your support for finding international adoption for all their dogs ❤️ For any other help you can contact the association at the following email 📧 damelapata.ac@outlook.com or on their FB page Account Holder: OIPA - Organizzazione Internazionale Protezione Animali Write as note “Donation to OIPA” and the exact amount Bank’s Name and Address: Banca Intesa San Paolo - Agency MILAN-BOCCHETTOVia Bocchetto 13/15 - 20123 Milan (Italy) Bank detailsBIC: BCITITMMIBAN: IT 93 I 03069 09620 100000002326 Write as note “Donation to OIPA" and the exact amount E-mail: international@oipa.org Certified mail:oipa@pec.oipa.org OIPA International Organization For Animal Protection Tax ID code: 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According to the Federation of American Scientists,over 5 million people working in high-risk industries are more likely to die on the job due to the heat and gas but they said farmworkers are the most vulnerable They are 20 times more likely to die from the heat compared to the industries listed Labor laws in California protect all of these workers farmworkers are starting their day an hour early En el pintoresco Parador Gastro-Artesanal de Yuriria los aromas del sur del estado se elevaron como una ofrenda ancestral un mole tradicional de Acámbaro se alzó como el gran protagonista de la segunda preliminar del 13° Encuentro de Cocina Tradicional Guanajuato ¡Sí Sabe preparado por la cocinera tradicional Carolina Gutiérrez Ramírez un testimonio de memoria y sazón transmitido con amor ingredientes y el profundo simbolismo del sur guanajuatense Su victoria le asegura un lugar en la gran final del certamen El encuentro reunió a 17 cocineras y cocineros tradicionales de once municipios todos portadores de recetas que han trascendido el tiempo y las modas Cada bocado fue una historia contada desde las cocinas de antaño el metate y el respeto por el maíz aún marcan el ritmo del fogón Autoridades municipales y del sector turístico estatal reafirmaron su apoyo al rescate de la cocina tradicional como motor de identidad y desarrollo económico celebró el talento local y el papel vital de las cocineras tradicionales en la promoción del turismo cultural También acompañó el evento Graciela Trujillo quien compartió su experiencia y motivó a las participantes a seguir preservando sus recetas con orgullo represent a Mexican folk-art tradition that has endured since pre-Hispanic times And it remains a popular icon for festivities such as the Day of the Dead Yuriria Independencia Torres Alfaro has been a papel picado artisan for 30 years “Since I was a little girl I liked to draw … I also like the traditions combining the papel picado and the drawing is what I was passionate about … preserving and spreading this ancestral technique,” said Torres Alfaro in an interview with the wire service Notimex A website called Mexican Skull Sugar sells handmade banners said to be handmade by a 74-year-old papel picado master in Puebla While plastic knockoffs are about US$10 for 15 feet large paper banners have 10 panels and extend 18 feet long One panel has a detailed skeleton bride and groom and the other says “amor eterno” (“eternal love”) over flowers and sugar skulls Or for those “not into the skeleton thing,” the company offers custom designs which were featured in Martha Stewart’s wedding magazine can display the names of the bride and groom interviewed in her workshop and surrounded by young workers The retired teacher now works full time promoting the Mexican tradition She recalled that as a child she drew pets but her father started the workshop drawing the ancient glyphs of Xochimilco Torres Alfaro’s work is seen throughout the country and the United States Her work is also found with the original pre-Historic versions at the Museo Dolores Olmedo and the Museo de Arte Popular in Mexico City Papel Picado from LA BANDURRIA MARCHA on Vimeo Yucatán Magazine has the inside scoop on living here. Sign up to get our top headlines delivered to your inbox every week An estimated 40% of teachers in Yucatán do not have adequate internet connectivity in their homes Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic last March teachers and students have relied on online education platforms and messaging applications “We have built an online learning platform to aid teachers and students Yucatan will continue operating under the “orange” alert after reporting that the state’s COVID positivity rate climbed slightly Hospitalizations were stable and the state’s positivity rate decreased by more than one percentage point according to data released Thursday by the health ministry State health officials have ignored the federal “traffic light” system that placed Yucatan… LGBTQ activists presented a complaint to state officials over comments made by Archbishop of Yucatán Archbishop Rodríguez Vega said that lawmakers in Yucatán should prioritize family values and uphold the institution of marriage despite the clamering of a “noisy minority.” “The archbishop refuses to acknowledge that Mexico’s… Guitarist Cecilio Perera kicked off the first season of Conciertos de Bolsillo a new chamber-music concept at the Palacio de la Música With Dia de Los Muertos — or Hanal Pixán as it is known in Yucatán — just a couple of weeks away Mérida’s City Hall has announced a slate of events featuring processions Check out the full event calendar below and start to plan… Kanasín native Yesica Benitez explains the realities of local culture to bewildered expats Advertise With Us Airlines Cancel Flights to Israel After Missile Strike Near Airport Bowman’s Travel Brief: Avoid Newark Airport Mastering the Art of Group Travel Bookings Fiesta Americana Travelty Celebrates Travel Advisors The Top 24 Most Powerful Travel Agencies of 2024 The Strategic Art of Pre-Planning Luxury Vacations: A Perspective for Travel Advisors The state of Guanajuato always feels touched by magic but nowhere is this more true than in its six Magical Towns Mexico’s term “Magical Towns” is a government designation given to towns and villages that exemplify aspects of tradition The state of Guanajuato is blessed with six of these special spots The town of Dolores Hidalgo is much more than a beautiful town in Guanajuato It is known as the “Cradle of Independence” in Mexico because it is the place where hero Miguel Hidalgo delivered the “Cry for Independence” for Mexico from Spain visitors to Dolores Hidalgo can stroll through time visiting the various historic points from City Hall and the Visitors House to the Independence Museum and the House Museum of Don Miguel Hidalgo Dolores Hidalgo is also famous for its traditional majolica tiles which are typical of Spanish architecture in Mexico One of the top attractions in Dolores Hidalgo is the Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de Dolores This parish has a carved pink-stone facade that Father Miguel Hidalgo rang the bells and expelled the famous “Cry of Independence” as a call to rebel against the Spanish Visitors and locals delight in the unique local ice cream or "nieve" found in the town’s main plaza offering a peculiar assortment of flavors ranging from mole or pork rind to "garambullo," an endemic cactus fruit Foodies should also visit El Llanito community Dolores Hidalgo is also the birthplace of one of the greatest singer and songwriters of Mexican folk music José Alfredo Jiménez whose “El Rey” is a key Mexican song located on the outskirts of the town is a stomping ground for his fans The artisanal Talavera pottery and Mayólica ceramics made in town stand out for their luminous colors These tin-glazed ceramics are crafted using a centuries-old traditional technique preserved through time in the hands of local artisans For wine enthusiasts: visit the Wine Museum the second of its kind to be opened in Mexico or take a walk through one of the many beautiful vineyards in the region Much of Guanajuato's history is rooted in mining The town of Mineral de Pozos was once the mining capital of the region but none was more important than Santa Brigida this historic "Ghost Town" is full of life through its magic and mysticism Visitors to Mineral de Pozos can wander the relics of 19th- and early 20th-century buildings as well as plunge down into an old mine more than 200 meters below the earth's surface Hornos Jesuitas in Mineral de Pozos (photo via Guanajuato Tourism) (Photo Credit: (photo via Guanajuato Tourism)) Among the top attractions in Mineral de Pozos is the 18th-century Parish of San Pedro just in front of the beautiful Juarez Garden Around the garden are lovely art galleries But Mineral de Pozos is also a haven for outdoor adventure from biking and horseback riding to hiking or simply walking through the wildflower-strewn fields Salvatierra traces its roots to the pre-Hispanic Chipicuaro and Chichimeca cultures who settled in the area centuries ago the Spanish did eventually settle here as well bringin with them their architectural vision creating works like the Nuestra Señora de la Luz church and the Templo de San Francisco But the first church to be built in town was the Temple and Convent of Our Lady of Carmen Mexico (Photo Credit: State of Guanajuato) The town’s Spanish heritage is a big part of its personality and tourism attraction with two emblematic traditions in Salvatierra tracing their roots to the colonial era: the Paseo de las Manolas Parade held every year on February 2 folk dance and the bullfighting performance art Salvatierra has more than 300 haciendas that represent much of the historical and cultural heritage of Guanajuato Some haciendas to note are San Jose del Carmen The city is home to one of the oldest Spanish structures in Mexico and is best known for the 16th-century Ex-Convento of San Pedro and San Pablo the building houses a museum full of religious objects which was the first hydraulic project of the vice royal era in Mexico Visitors to Yuriria marvel at the structures' Renaissance facade consider a boat ride on the lake to visit the small islands Have you ever seen a traditional "molcajete" These basalt rock mortar bowls have been used for centuries in Mexico as a cooking tool they are used for serving bubbling meat and fish dishes What makes them so unique is that they are typically carved from a single piece of rock The Magical Town of Comonfort is known for its molcajateros artisans who mold the stones to create these iconic Mexican kitchen pieces Among the top attractions in Comonfort are the historic Parish of San Francisco the archaeological zone of Orduna de Abajo One of the main reasons Comonfort became a Magical Town is its incredible preservation of culture the Chicimeca Gamares folk dance and it famous ceremonial tortillas a peculiar culinary art consisting in stamping corn tortillas using wooden seals of various shapes and imagery with a purple pigment made from a plant known as ‘muicle’ or Mexican honeysuckle These decorated tortillas represent an offering of gratitude for a plentiful harvest amid the religious festivities that take place in town Wine drinkers will enjoy a visit to the almost 150 acres of what is "Viñedos San Miguel” it is the largest vineyard in the state of Guanajuato with an area of 2 square acres has a tasting room The town of Comonfort is also home to the archaeological zone of Cerro de los Remedios a ceremonial center that has pyramidal bases Today it is part of the state’s initiative to rescue the area and at some point provide access to visitors One of the most historic Spanish towns in Mexico Jalpa de Canovas traces its roots back to 1542 when the lands were granted to Don Juan Villasenor to construct a hacienda the hacienda was one of the most thriving haciendas in the country visitors can step back in time and visit what remains of the estate the grain mill rooms and the historic aqueduct Much of the town’s historic and cultural relevance is owed to the exceptionally fertile soil in the area which has fostered the emergence of prominent cattle and vegetable farms and a famous walnut tree plantation Prime examples of the local cuisine are: figs walnut mole (sweet and spicy chocolate based sauce) and ‘caldo de zorra’ (a broth made with sour prickly pear) The town’s "Jalpa Region" is part of Guanajuato’s Wine Route and its vineyards go back to the Cristero era Visitors can walk to town from the vines to the middle of the town where the beautiful Church of the Señor de la Misericordia which was constructed in the early 20th century decorative stained-glass windows and murals One very unique activity in Jalpa de Canovas is the festivity of the Judea which has been performed here for almost 150 years during Holy Week It is a staging of the passage from the Passion of Christ where Judas Iscariot helps the Jews to apprehend Jesus Judas would later be hanged for his betrayal For the latest travel news, updates and deals, subscribe to the daily TravelPulse newsletter. The TravelPulse staff is comprised of experienced journalists and award-winning editors and writers. The team has traveled the... Copyright © 2025 Northstar Travel Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 301 Route 17 N, Suite 1150, Rutherford, NJ 07070 USA | Telephone: (201) 902-2000 This family-run restaurant has been operating in the community for 14 years, I spoke with two of the owners to discuss what special ingredient is contributing to their success. "My mother taught us how to cook when we were really young. I was probably about 16 years old," said Margarita Perez, co-owner of the restaurant. Now 56, Perez and her sister Leticia Zuniga, are elevating their mother's traditional recipes from their hometown into a thriving restaurant in the community. But it wasn't always easy, prior to opening La Fogata, neither of them had experience running a business. Perez worked in the fields and Zuniga was a babysitter. When they got into the food industry, Zuniga said the restaurant was owned by someone else and that business was often slow. "I started modifying the recipes based on what my mother had taught us," said Zuniga. "I started making quesadillas, huaraches, and sopes and I noticed that more and more people started coming." That's a common sound La Fogata's customers hear as they wait for hand-made tortillas to accompany their food. According to the sisters, their home-style cooking is what keeps bringing customers back for more. "The food we serve is representative of our hometown, Xoconoxtle— a small town in Yuriria, Guanajuato," said Perez. "We make traditional foods that have been well received by the community." In the future, the sisters plan on expanding the size of their restaurant to accommodate larger parties and continue sharing the recipes from their hometown. Volume 15 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.720294 Social living facilitates individual access to rewards and objects that would not be otherwise accessible particularly when competing for scarce resources variability in our ability to make social decisions can be associated with neuropsychiatric disorders The neuronal mechanisms underlying social decision-making are beginning to be understood The momentum to study this phenomenon has been partially carried over by the study of economic decision-making because of the similarities between these different types of decision-making we propose a definition of social decision-making as choices taken in a context where one or more conspecifics are involved in the decision or the consequences of it Social decisions can be conceptualized as complex economic decisions since they are based on the subjective preferences between different goods individuals choose based on their internal value estimate of the different alternatives These are complex decisions given that conspecifics beliefs or actions could modify the subject’s internal valuations at every choice we first review recent developments in our collective understanding of the neuronal mechanisms and circuits of social decision-making in primates We then review literature characterizing populations with neuropsychiatric disorders showing deficits in social decision-making and the underlying neuronal circuitries associated with these deficits living in a group can also decrease individual fitness during the competition for limited resources the benefits of group living outweigh the costs to an individual’s fitness These social adaptations are tied to our biology, including brain circuitry and function. Mammals’ brains have co-evolved with social living (Dunbar and Shultz, 2007) We can process and integrate both social and environmental information as well as internal physiological cues to make decisions during social interactions there is strong evidence for distinct neuronal circuits that play different roles during social decision-making we first review recent developments in our collective understanding of the neuronal mechanisms of social decision-making We then review literature characterizing populations with neuropsychiatric disorders that show deficits in certain aspects of social interactions we relate these deficits in social decision-making in neuropsychiatric disorders to the underlying neuronal circuitries we define social decision-making as the process involving decisions that are taken in a context where one or more conspecifics are involved in the decision or the consequences of it This includes decisions where the outcome is jointly determined by the actors’ actions either in sequential or simultaneous movements Decisions where the action of one actor determines the outcome but the recipient is one or several conspecifics And situations when the decision-maker chooses between different social stimuli this definition also includes ‘social context’ effects on individual decisions affected by observing others’ choices as in informational cascades and conformity The brain contains adaptive specializations that execute domain-general computations. These computations need to interact with domain-specialized and content-rich expert systems (Cosmides and Tooby, 2013) we consider social decision-making as a domain-specialized system that uses the common (i.e. domain-general) neuronal mechanism of decision making under a social context During social decisions, other agents’ choices must be considered to make the most advantageous choices for the individual. These considerations, in turn, modify the subjective valuation of different courses of action. Notably, a decision-maker can optimize the utility derived from its choices using its folk psychology (Dennett, 1983) or theory of mind (Premack and Woodruff, 1978) The decision-maker considers that other agents are: (1) different from themselves (2) possess different information about the world and (3) that this information is used to form their subjective valuations and guide their choices to achieve their goals the interests of a different agent might go with or against their own Developing a better understanding of the multiple neuronal mechanisms underlying social decision-making will allow us to garner a better understanding of neuropsychiatric disorders for disorders in which social decision-making can be perturbed as autism spectrum disorder The acquisition of social information is shaped by external and internal determinants that influence the computation of its subjective valuation. We hypothesize that social decisions share the comparison mechanisms and decision-to-action transformation of economic decisions (Figure 1) Social decisions involve the activation of a broad network of cortical and subcortical structures We think about these circuits as interacting nodes with different specializations; these include the perception of social information the integration of social information with internal and external processes to estimate subjective values and the transformation of the decision into an action or a cognitive state the social decision-making circuit involves the superior temporal sulcus (STS) The role of these areas has been characterized using lesion studies and fMRI techniques for measuring neural activity during tasks involving social interactions The STS face patches form a strong and specific interconnected hierarchical network (Tsao et al., 2008a) They are organized along a posterior-anterior axis and facial information is transformed from view-specific representations into late These results reveal a fundamental role for the amygdala in guiding movements toward face stimuli a behavior essential for social interaction naturalistic social interactions in structured behavioral tasks inspired by game theory will help us address the multiple roles that these nuclei play in social decision making and will expand our understanding of this key brain region Brain regions that comprise the social information processing network The face-processing network includes the face patch areas along the superior temporal sulcus (STS) and the amygdala (Amy) within the temporal lobe the lateral orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) in the frontal lobe Biological motion is encoded by neurons in the superior temporal sulcus (STS) Bidirectional arrows indicate the interdependence of these processes on acquiring social information The areas are illustrated on a side view of a Rhesus brain The STS is anatomically connected (Petrides and Pandya, 2007) to other brain areas implicated in social processing This connectivity pattern plays a crucial role in linking facial representations to emotional and valuation of social and non-social stimuli we discuss research supporting the role of the amygdala and striatum in the integration of internal and external information to compute subjective values for driving social behavior We also review research in frontal brain areas describing valuation and choice processes when oneself decision involves another social agent A fundamental question is whether these areas encode rewards and choice signals related to social stimuli in a similar way as they do for non-social ones It is highly likely that the mechanisms for non-social and social decision-making are shared at some point in the brain social decisions require the evaluation of benefits and costs not only to oneself but we review research describing the valuation and choice processes in the amygdala OFC neurons are known to code reward value, and they showed distinct coding of reward magnitude or image value, but not both (Watson and Platt, 2012). Thus, suggesting that these neurons do not code reward on a single currency (e.g., in juice volume), but rather as different variables, as had been shown before (Padoa-Schioppa and Assad, 2006; O’Neill and Schultz, 2010) Lesions of the ACC gyrus (encompassing areas 32, 25, and rostral portion of area 24) diminishes the latency to pick food when another monkey is present in a movie clip compared to monkeys without or with lesions on area 24 or in ventral and OFC (Rudebeck et al., 2006) the authors suggested that the brain tissue in ACC gyrus is necessary for normal interest in other conspecifics These results suggest an interplay between the amygdala and prefrontal structures in representing a group’s hierarchy and one’s position within in it these results suggest that the amygdala and OFC are part of a network involved in the encoding of values under social contexts A gap still exists regarding the neural mechanisms by which oxytocin and other neurotransmitters influence social cognition. However, studies in non-human primates (NHP) could bridge the precise circuit-level approach used with rodents and the behavioral, imagining, and clinical studies in humans (Putnam et al., 2018) In summary, acquiring social information is valuable, and the primate temporal, insular, and frontal lobes contain regions specialized in representing this type of social information (Figure 3; Tsao et al., 2006; Perrodin et al., 2011) this information is then used for valuing different goods The social valuation network comprises several cortical areas including: the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) insula (Ins); and subcortical nuclei including: the anterior striatum Each one of these regions plays a specialized role during distinct cognitive processes of social decision making Bidirectional arrows indicate the interdependence of these processes on social decisions All brain regions are illustrated on a sagittal view of a Rhesus brain This neuronal activity may help to assign credit to a social agent when receiving a reward from other individuals Human fMRI studies on theory of mind have revealed a network of brain areas activated when differentiating between oneself and others. This network includes the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), precuneus, and mPFC (Saxe and Kanwisher, 2003; Spreng and Grady, 2009; Van Overwalle, 2009; van Veluw and Chance, 2014) Which when combined with a second set of mPFC neurons differentiating between true and false beliefs can give rise to a cellular substrate of Theory of Mind Inequality is a ubiquitous phenomenon. It arises from an asymmetric distribution of resources between two or more conspecifics. The difference in resource distribution can have a negative impact on the utility and subjective value of an object (Fehr and Schmidt, 1999) The disutility from an unequal outcome is different depending on who obtains more resources When the agent receives more than the conspecific when the agent receives less than the conspecific the neural activity in the ACCg predicted how prosocial an animal would behave across sessions but it did not signal the value of the rewards chosen for self and others two players choose between cooperation or defection Mutual cooperation results in a medium-size reward for both players while mutual defection results in a small reward But if one of them defects then they receive the highest reward The game tests the ability of both players to cooperate and trust others The results suggest that social decision preferences rely on mPFC-amygdala network communication as well as a different hierarchically layered and computational role between the ACC and the amygdala in this process Reward inequality results from the comparison of own and other’s rewards when these are of different magnitudes. The results we have reviewed suggest that the representation of other’s rewards and its comparison to own reward, involve interactions between multiple cortical and subcortical brain structures, including the amygdala, anterior striatum, VTA/SNc, lateral hypothalamus, ACCg, OFC, that seem to be coordinated by the mPFC (Figure 3) the medial prefrontal cortex and its coordination with PMv is part of a cortico-striatal circuit implementing the monitoring of others’ behavior during social interactions the monkeys faced each other over a touch screen The monkeys took turns to choose between visual objects associated with different reward values shown sequentially they recorded single neural activity from the amygdala They found that while monkeys learn faster from observation there were three classes of responses in the amygdala One class of neurons reflected object-specific reward values from observing other’s choices A second class of neurons coded the difference in value between objects and then converted these values to simulate the partner’s choice These findings demonstrate that amygdala neurons encode reward values in an abstract way integrating external information from conspecifics within a social context these simulation neurons may support an understanding of others’ mental states as they reflect inferred values and choices from observation information needs to move from the ACC cortical neurons to the basolateral subdivision of the amygdala during the detection and integration of socially learned cues The above results underscore the role of the ACC in observational learning and highlight the relevance of its functional connectivity with the amygdala in detecting and integrating socially learned information (Figure 3) The results show that the anterior insula plays a fundamental role in communicative behavior by integrating multisensory information with internal determinants to induce behavioral responses to external stimuli RL models can be applied to behavioral or neural data further advancement and refinement on the available computational models of social decision making are needed to shed light on the strategies available to interacting individuals as well as their neuronal mechanisms supporting them making it a strong candidate region within a neural network for the integration of social and non-social determinants of value The regions of the brain valuation system are connected to the decision-making network in a way that information about value and choice are shared in a dynamical and context-dependent manner The decision-making nodes conformed of OFC encode fundamental decision-making variables under social contexts Including the relative subjective value of the reward to oneself and to another social agent as well as the agency to the recipient of the reward when the decisions involve another these areas are involved in observational learning from other social agent’s fear (BLA-ACC) Future research is required for a better understanding of how interactions and information flow within and across these areas influence social decision-making There is a critical need to understand the neuronal mechanisms of social decision making. Social behavior pervades almost all aspects of our lives. Our ability to interact with others affects interpersonal (Kennedy and Adolphs, 2012), economic (Dixit, 2014), and group dynamics (Wokler, 2001) deficits in social behavior are a prominent feature of many neurocognitive disorders see “Clinical Implications” section Notwithstanding its relevance to public health we lack detailed knowledge of the neuronal mechanisms underscoring social decision making Experiments involving multi-scale recordings in animals and intracortical neurophysiology in humans during social decision-making tasks are powerful tools that will allow us to interrogate how interactions and information flow among brain areas determine social decision making Moving forward, the field of social decision making should profit from the emergence of dynamical and contingent social stimuli containing higher levels of naturalism, e.g., avatars, virtual reality settings, as well as movies involving conspecifics and social interactions, to design novel paradigms simulating contexts where social interactions, learning and decision making occur under more natural settings [for review see Fan et al. (2021)] the field should push for behavioral paradigms involving dyads triads and groups of conspecifics interacting socially and taking decisions in a dynamic and contingent way economic games are ideal paradigms that allow social decision making to be studied experimentally by simulating real-life social interactions in a controlled environment These games are effective tools for assessing fundamental social traits like valuation and the influence of others on our decisions humans and NHP can engage in a wide range of economic games allowing us to assess the neural correlates and circuits involved in simple and complex social traits Experiments involving simultaneous recordings of behavior and neural activity during social and non-social decision making are needed to better understand the nature of the mechanisms and circuits involved in social decision making and how they relate to other decisions The above combined with multi-scale and wireless recordings in NHP as well as non-invasive techniques in humans and novel tools for measuring natural behaviors and data analysis in semi-natural environments—i.e. through neuroecology—will reveal insights into the neural correlates of social learning decision making and emotions under ethologically relevant conditions the key to succeeding in the game relies on one’s ability to anticipate the other’s decisions this dissociation of self and other decisions and the dissociation between one’s decision and reward allows the explicit dissociation of neuronal signals that encode self and other decisions as well as the possibility of better understanding how deficits in the social decision-making network are associated to neuropsychiatric disorders As much as MDD can result in negative feelings surrounding self-perception, it can also have a devastating impact on how individuals form, maintain, and generate interest in social interactions. The common symptoms include a significantly reduced drive for social affiliation, decreased pleasure from social interactions, increased sensitivity to social rejection, and even loss of emotional reactivity to positive social stimuli (Kupferberg et al., 2016) The Ultimatum Game is often used to investigate behavioral and neuronal responses to fairness and social decision-making (Figure 4B; Güth et al., 1982). Multiple studies have examined the differences in how individuals with depression make decisions during this game (Harle et al., 2010; Destoop et al., 2012; Radke et al., 2013; Scheele et al., 2013) While these responses indicate a dysregulation in the processing of social information and reward response, additional studies conducted using game theory reveals more about the deficit in social decision-making that depressed individuals experience. Increasing the fairness of the offers is associated with increased activation in the striatum in normo-typical individuals. By contrast, patients with depression fail to show this activation (Gradin et al., 2015) Location of differential brain activity during social decision making associated with different psychiatric conditions Brain regions are illustrated on a lateral (left) or sagittal (right) view of the human brain These impairments tend to result in anxiety non-social conditions healthy controls playing as proposers offered less money to recipients compared to social cues did not show the same decrease in offer quantity despite distributing more money overall compared to controls; thus displaying a potential decreased susceptibility to social cues The latter results confirm a deficit in Theory of Mind during social interactions in this clinical population There are four main brain areas known to play a role in the symptomology of ASD: the amygdala, OFC, insula, and the temporo-polar cortex (Weston, 2019). Notably, reduced inter-connectivity between the amygdala and insula shown in ASD has been linked to social abnormalities from their involvement in the salience network, which integrates cognitive and social information (Figure 5; von dem Hagen et al., 2013) suggesting disrupted processing of trustworthiness while acquiring social information Schizophrenic patients playing the Ultimatum Game (Figure 4B) as proposers are consistently more likely to make hyper fair offers, i.e., offers larger than 50% of the initial endowment, than healthy controls (Billeke et al., 2015; Horat et al., 2018) hyper fair offers are suboptimal relative to the game’s equilibrium and reveal a lack of trust in the responder The data so far suggests that the process of estimating and updating trust in others is disrupted in schizophrenia. This disruption can affect their ability to engage in social decisions, particularly when estimating future actions by their counterparts. Consequently, this disrupted processing affects how they value different options. The activity in the amygdala, in particular, appears to be disrupted in this condition during social decision-making (Figure 5) its relationship with social decision making These results suggest that people at risk of and with BD show a number of differences in social decision making compared to healthy controls: increased value of social rewards Although it is not clear if these responses were related to disrupted computation of reward prediction errors during “social” interactions these results suggest altered neuronal processing of social feedback in the ventral striatum Performance in social decision making tasks, and particularly in game-theory-based games, differ between healthy controls and psychiatric populations, and between psychiatric diagnoses in a number of ways. See review by Robson and colleagues for a deeper review of this topic (Robson et al., 2020) Two areas show consistent results across diagnoses: (i) impaired ToM and integration of social and cognitive processes which result in less effective and flexible decision making (ii) Increased risk avoidance of negative social interactions and reduced reward sensitivity While two areas show different effects across diagnoses: (i) emotional reaction to negative interactions is more negative in depression and bipolar disorder (ii) Mixed evidence for cooperative and pro-social behavior While considering other’s intentions modifies the value of the goods we pursue Game-theoretic tasks based on behavioral economics are extremely useful to shed light on the neural computations and behaviors involved during social decision-making and how they can be affected in different neuropsychiatric disorders Developing a better understanding of the multiple neuronal mechanisms underlying social decision-making 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Its Spanish Colonial architecture has earned it a World Heritage designation from the United Nations But 16-year-old Gladys Martinez Garcia hates it there and dreams of going back to her father who’s still in the U.S But after Gladys’ mother was deported she made her and her two sisters join her in Mexico Gabriel Cristóver Pérez/Texas Standard Gladys Martínez in her home in Yuriria “I told her that I wanted to go back because I don’t like it here that much but I couldn’t do a thing,” Gladys says says the girls suffered through the process “Our family’s been broken,” she says “The girls used to cry every evening and count the days until they could go back.” The Martinez Garcia girls are just three out of thousands of children that this region is expecting to receive along with their deported parents who’s in charge of bilingual education in the neighboring state of Michoacán says the governments of Mexico and the U.S have told him to get ready for about 5,000 kids to arrive in Michoacán this year “The situation is very complex,” he says most of the children do not speak Spanish and therefore face discrimination and their psychological trauma is huge after their deportation or their parents’ deportation.” Schools in Texas could lose a ton of children and Mexican governments are talking about it former TEA Commissioner Williams says that also translates into lost school funding “One child responds to about 8,000 in federal and state dollars to a campus.” So if eight kids were to leave the school system that alone would account for a loss of $64,000 “That’s about what you pay a teacher,” Williams adds In some Texan school districts, the Hispanic student body population is huge: like Rocksprings ISD with 58 percent, or Alice ISD with 84 percent, or even Progreso ISD with 97 percent you wouldn’t necessarily have to work real hard to get to eight students or 16 students or 24 students that would be removed from school,” Williams says “That could have real financial consequences.” There are dozens of small school districts in Texas that could be severely affected Even large districts like Austin and Houston could feel the consequences “It may be easier to say what districts might not be affected,” Williams says The loss of sales and property taxes could also follow as those deported parents would stop paying – and in Texas if SB 4 further ramps up federal deportations the biggest challenge wouldn’t be to schools Wong teaches at the University of California San Diego the City of Austin hired him to estimate the negative effects the city would face if deportations were to escalate significantly under SB 4 He focused on the law’s effects on public health Wong compiled the number of reported absences in the week after Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Austin earlier this year He then compared those absences to the same period of time last year “As interior immigration enforcement ramps up the concern is that there’s a chilling effect … on the day-to-day behavior of undocumented immigrants,” says Wong That could translate into more kids missing school 14,000 Austin children were absent in February; after the ICE raids this year And all of those absences were of Hispanic children the dominos start to fall,” Wong says “based on this analysis – we can then see how this can impact the college educated and college trained for the City of Austin as well as the state of Texas more generally.” Former education commissioner Williams says that “nobody thought about this when people were proposing the legislation or debating it.” “I am hoping and praying we don’t get to this.” the children playing in Edinburg or Austin elementary school playgrounds are Americans; only four percent are not But they are American children that could be gone ©2024 Texas Standard. 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investigation confirmed that three private clinics were offering abortion services to women who weren't pregnant A BuzzFeed News Mexico investigation has found that some private clinics in Mexico City have offered abortions to women who weren't pregnant – claiming to confirm the pregnancies by ultrasound without performing any blood or urine tests The cost for the procedures varies across clinics but can run upwards of 4,900 pesos or $250 a BuzzFeed News Mexico reporter was even shown a small spec on an ultrasound that she was told was the embryo confirming her pregnancy and then felt pressured by doctors to decide which abortion method she would like No blood or urine tests were provided to confirm the pregnancy the doctor's just had the information provided by the reporter – her period was late and she saw a faint line on a home pregnancy test In addition to the BuzzFeed News Mexico investigation a group of three psychology students doing a class exercise visited 12 private clinics in Mexico City and were offered unnecessary procedures by six of them The women told the doctors that their menstrual cycles were 10 to 15 days late and that they had taken a home pregnancy test that came back positive Six of the clinics told the non-pregnant women they were between four and six weeks along and then pressured them to get abortions even telling them if they didn't have the procedure A BuzzFeed News Mexico reporter visited three of these clinics and replicated the exercise with a similar outcome the reporter was given a wrong diagnosis and was offered a legal abortion When I set the appointments over the phone I asked what was included in the consultation to confirm that I was pregnant I was told that the consultation included an examination with a pelvic ultrasound the consultation included a pregnancy test and a hemoglobin test Fundación Naiset advertised the prices for the three legal pregnancy termination methods that it offers: medication ProMédica Mujer's website says that only the medication option is offered they also offered the surgical procedure with local anesthesia and anesthesia with sedation GinecaFem does not show the methods it practices or the prices on its website I said that I was two to three weeks late and that I had taken a home pregnancy test that came back positive Fundación Naiset has a network of eight clinics throughout the city The facility I visited was clean and comfortable and the visit cost 850 pesos I was told that no gestational sac could be seen the endometrium —a layer of the uterus— supposedly looked very thick and which is a sign of being under four weeks pregnant When I asked the doctor if they were certain about the pregnancy but with the positive test and the ultrasound You are more likely to get a false negative than a false positive." they didn't do the blood work or perform the pregnancy test that I was told they would when I made my appointment over the phone The consultation was made in location of Fundación Naiset found in Aguascalientes 6 I was charged 350 pesos and they did a vaginal ultrasound because they could not find the proof of pregnancy After an examination that took several minutes they showed me a spot on the screen and told me that it was a 5-mm embryo They had no way of printing out the ultrasound so I asked if I could take a photo of the screen with my cell phone The reply was categorical: I could NOT take a photograph of my ultrasound The offices of Promédica are located at San Borja 1151 My appointment at Ginecafem was 500 pesos and the experience was similar: "Did you do a pregnancy test?," the doctor asked When you are pregnant you can't see anything the second line is very faint," the doctor told me before performing the ultrasound Image of the ultrasound performed at the GinecaFem clinic my experience was similar to that described by the three psychology students I was offered a procedure to terminate the pregnancy I was offered to terminate the pregnancy with medication or through aspiration for 2500 pesos or through aspiration with sedation for 4900 pesos termination with medication was 3000 pesos and aspiration and sedation was 3500 at Fundación Naiset termination with medication was 900 pesos; aspiration with local anesthesia was 2000 pesos and aspiration with sedation was 4000 pesos I felt some pressure to have the procedure Both at Fundación Naiset and ProMédica Mujer I was asked which method I preferred even before they asked me if I was sure or if I wanted to think about it before going through with it Safe abortion in CDMX is a historical victory for women's rights When I called Fundación Naiset to make the appointment they told me I would be charged for the consultation and that I would have to pay an additional fee for the procedure They also asked me to choose which type of termination I wanted without first confirming whether or not I was pregnant if I made the appointment for the termination the cost of the consultation would be included When I paid the 850 pesos for the consultation they offered to keep the money and deduct it from my bill if I chose a termination procedure they talked to me about the different procedures at the front desk and diarrhea as side effects of the medication method for the first two days which could be extended up to 15 to 30 days "If you have remains we have to do an evacuation procedure and maybe we can do that right now [through aspiration] without letting so much time go by it takes from 20 to 30 minutes and you go home protected," the doctor said regional director for Latin America at Women's Health & Progress called it business and gynecological fraud Even though the pregnancy termination is a completely safe procedure with few complications it is not ethical to have a woman undergo the treatment if there is no pregnancy are not exclusive to the legal termination of pregnancy but also happen in other fields of medicine with an aim to get money from patients The specialist said that fetal age can be manipulated based on the positioning of the ultrasound device in the woman's pelvis it should be performed by a trained practitioner ultrasound equipment can store and reproduce images that were taken at a previous time and those may not correspond to the body of the woman who is being examined The side effects of a legal and safe abortion are a few days of bleeding a doctor cannot expose patients to unnecessary risks The three clinics visited by BuzzFeed News Mexico have been certified by the local Secretary of Health and the Federal Commission for the Protection against Health Risks (COFEPRIS) which is the agency in charge of reviewing the application of protocols and health measures through regular evaluations BuzzFeed News Mexico contacted the three clinics for an explanation if there are signs of pregnancy in the ultrasound They acknowledged that in an ultrasound an embryo can be mistaken with the production of progesterone but the urine test confirms that the patient is pregnant but there are sign of pregnancy in the ultrasound A second faint line is a sign of a low level of pregnancy hormones but it reflects that the pregnancy is real a blood test is done because the urine test has an error margin When I asked why they had not performed a hemoglobin test and a pregnancy test as they had told me they would over the phone they said that the doctor decides during the consultation whether or not to perform the urine and the hemoglobin tests the Legislative Body of Mexico City approved a reform of the Criminal Code to allow for the legal termination of pregnancy up to the 12th week of gestation Pregnant women from all over the country can go to the Mexico City to terminate their pregnancy legally in public and private clinics Some private clinics have even opened branches near the airport or the truck terminal to accommodate patients from other states About 176,000 abortions have been performed in government-run clinics in the city since they were legalized It is not known how many procedures have been performed at private clinics which is performed three times more than the manual intrauterine aspiration (AMEU) and 35 times more than uterine curettage (LUI) The World Health Organization (WHO) establishes that safe abortion practices should foster and protect "the health of women and adolescents and their human rights" and "informed and voluntary decision-making" the guidelines for pregnancy termination in the Mexico City establish that the procedure "should be performed with discretion without an intention to delay or induce the woman's decision This post was translated from Spanish Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb A former Estero High School clinical assistant pleaded not guilty to having a relationship with a student ahead of her Monday arraignment deputies received information regarding a female employee having sexual contact with a 15-year-old The suspect was identified as Angeles-Sanchez She faces a felony charge of lewd behavior by a person 18 years or older The investigation began with the school resource officer A student told the officer she heard a rumor stating the victim was sexually involved with the clinical assistant Clinical assistants provide first aid and health care to students The arrest: Former Estero High School employee had relationship with a 15-year-old student, police say Lee County Schools immediately suspended her when notified of the allegations according to district spokesperson Robert Spicker "She never returned to the school and her contract expired in June," Spicker wrote in an email The Department of Child and Family Services was notified and took over the investigation Two detectives from the Special Victims Unit were also involved Emma Behrmann is a breaking news reporter for The Naples Daily News and News-Press You may reach her at emma.behrmann@naplesnews.com losing their legal immigration statuses because of domestic abuse The little girl sat on her mother’s lap as her mother pulled up her favourite cartoon on her phone “Por favor,” she said to her daughter as she placed the phone in front of her She wore a glittery hairpin and clasped a pink water bottle she was engrossed in the screen with a tiny frown she had only known her now-husband for a month who asked for anonymity because she still shares a home with her husband He was loving and said he wanted something serious even though they barely knew each other The guy would show up to her doctor appointments and offer lots of support “It was too good to be true,” said the woman on Saturday Her pregnancy stretched into the early months of the pandemic and lockdowns That’s when she noticed her partner’s drinking problem She would wake up to empty beer cans and whiskey bottles stacked up on their coffee table He began asking her to chip in for the rent ‘You’re living in my house for free,’” she says but it was mostly verbal and emotional abuse “I didn’t have anybody here,” says the woman Now she has a protection order against him that she renews every six months But it took her a long time to muster the bravery to tell others about what was happening to her Latina Women Against Violence a group formed by Latin American women to support other Hispanic women in Ireland who are seeking respite from gender-based violence is one place that gave her the confidence to speak up says immigration problems and language barriers make it harder for migrant women facing gender-based violence to get support – and they’re trying to bridge the gaps “We realised we almost couldn’t find any information in our language,” she says who is also the president of the Association of Bolivian Residents in Ireland noticed how often in this role she was coming across cases of domestic abuse and gender-based violence and we realised that we didn’t know where to go and what to do,” said Burnett during a Zoom call on Friday Women with precarious immigration statuses or those who had lost their immigration statuses as a result of domestic violence were especially impacted And there was a dearth of information in Spanish on what to do Through the Association of Bolivian Residents she and others tried to put out some information in their first tongue “Because we didn’t understand very well how it works,” Burnett said While pandemic curbs were still in place and everything was online Offaly which offered remote training – Offaly Domestic Violence Support Services “I asked the person in charge if I could have some information in Spanish and she told me she didn’t have it,” says Burnett she could translate their material for others about how migrant women are particularly vulnerable in domestic abuse situations The charity worker offered training so that Burnett and others could set up a group to help those women That’s how the Latina Women Against Violence group was born “Right now we have 12 volunteers,” says Burnett They offer companionship and support, and run workshops with lawyers and mediators who can advise women in Spanish about things like coercive control. They put videos on their YouTube channel sometimes the guy had brought a woman to Ireland on a tourist visa promising to sort out her immigration status later Burnett accompanied the woman once to a domestic-violence charity outside Dublin “They literally told her that she was illegal in front of me.” Burnett told them she was just undocumented they found support for the woman in Dublin Being undocumented can silence women in other ways, too. They may avoid reporting abusers to the Gardaí fearing the guards would investigate their own immigration statuses and try to deport them The Department of Justice has an immigration scheme for victims of domestic violence whose status is tied to an abuser laying out a route for them to get their own independent permissions But its website and the guidelines appear to contradict each other when it comes to the eligibility of those who are undocumented “You are not eligible under these guidelines if you are unlawfully resident in Ireland,” says its Irish Immigration website The guidelines issued in June 2021 also say that people need to have some form of legal status as a dependent of an Irish citizen or non-Irish immigrant to apply then they also say that people can still make an application if their permission has lapsed “But it will have to be clearly explained in the application as to the circumstances in which the permission was not renewed,” say the guidelines People should report abuse to the Gardaí regardless of their immigration status who has a master’s degree in conflict resolution says she volunteers with Latina Women Against Violence because the cause is close to her heart a culture of machismo and male entitlement drives up cases of domestic abuse In the early months of the pandemic, as Mexico’s domestic violence calls climbed dismissed the rising pleas for help as pranks and fake “I always wanted to have some sort of involvement in this,” said Herrera on Thursday evening She values offering companionship to women and giving pep talks to support them to report their abusers or seek help “Because it’s always intimidating when you have to face an authority to explain your situation.” looks after the group’s marketing and communication She was born in Costa Rica and is a survivor of gender-based violence and it’s something that if I have the opportunity to help prevent for another woman sitting at Blás café on King’s Inns Street Garro says the impact of male violence in her country of birth is a motivating factor behind her volunteer work – plus a growing wave of anti-immigrant sentiment here Herrera says the difficulties of navigating Ireland’s work-permit system provide an opportunity for abusive men to take advantage of migrant women who struggle to get permits that give them independence and to use their desire to live where they want to live to silence them She knows of cases where guys took away women’s passports “If you can have an independent permission who knew Herrera before reaching out to the group says she is hopeful that one day she can volunteer alongside her I know one day I’m going to be on the other side,’” she says You can reach Latina Women Against Violence through Facebook or Instagram If you or somebody you know might need help, Women’s Aid’s national 24-hour hotline can also be contacted at 1800-341-900 Shamim Malekmian covers the immigration beat for Dublin Inquirer You've successfully subscribed to Dublin InQuirer Check your email for magic link to sign-in The Court of Appeal for British Columbia has allowed the appeal of a strata lot owner ruling that no equitable easement was created by representations made by the lot’s former owner that could be enforced against its new owner In Stratton v. Richter the parties owned units in a three-lot strata development doors from strata lots 1 and 3 opened to an outside deck with a stairway descending from the deck to the backyard While the strata plan designated the deck as limited common property for the exclusive use of strata lot 1 strata lot 3 owners had historically used the deck to access the stairway without complaint Judy Zaichkowsky previously owned strata lot 1 that the strata lot 3 owner had a right to cross the deck to get to the stairway and that Zaichkowsky would always grant Richter that right When Neal Stratton and Yuriria Perez bought strata lot 1 they assumed that the strata lot 3 owner had no right to cross the deck to reach the stairway Richter applied for an order granting her an easement over the deck Stratton and Perez applied for an injunction prohibiting her from entering it The proceedings were heard together in the BC Supreme Court and the judge declared that Richter was entitled to an easement over the deck based on the doctrine of proprietary estoppel Examining the previous strata lot 1 owner Zaichkowsky’s promise to Richter to allow her passage to the deck which the chambers judge had relied upon in his decision the court of appeal said Zaichkowsky had given Richter a licence rather than an interest in land while the strata lot 1 owner had substantial control over the deck as limited common property designated for that unit the owner did not have full ownership or property rights that would allow them to grant an easement over it The court of appeal also said that it could not apply the doctrine of propriety estoppel in this case as it would conflict with the Strata Property Act While admitting that the situation seemed unfair the court noted that the strata plan clearly showed that the deck was limited common property for the exclusive use of strata lot 1 and that this plan controlled unless properly amended The court held that title to strata lot 3 did not carry with it the right to cross the deck leading to the stairway It then pointed out that Richter was still free to ask the strata council to grant her the easement she sought As to Stratton’s and Perez’s petition for injunction the court did not believe it was necessary to issue one as there was no reason to think Richter would refuse to recognize the court’s decision Mexican authorities say no fewer than 10 suspected criminals were killed and three police officers injured on Monday in a clash between security forces and unidentified gunmen It was gathered that the early morning shootout occurred during a joint patrol by police and the military in the municipality of Yuriria in Guanajuato a central industrial region that is also home to warring drug cartels The Guanajuato state security department initially reported that eight gunmen had been killed but later said two more bodies had been found with gunshot wounds it is confirmed that there are 10 members (of a criminal group) neutralized,” it said personnel employed a legitimate and proportional use of force during the clash in which three police officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries a dozen firearms were seized along with several stolen vehicles and ballistic vests Violence in Guanajuato is linked to ongoing conflict between the local Santa Rosa de Lima gang and the Jalisco New Generation cartel one of the most powerful in the Latin American nation drug-related violence has seen more than 450,000 people killed in Mexico since the government deployed the army to combat trafficking in 2006 Gang-related violence has shown no sign of abating since Claudia Sheinbaum took office on October 1 She has ruled out declaring war on the cartels and instead proposed to continue her predecessor’s strategy of using social policy to tackle crime at its roots while also making better use of intelligence Implement LG autonomy with caution – ALGON boss Claudia Sheinbaum turned down my offer – Trump President Sheinbaum rejects Trump’s offer to send US troops to Mexico US sets up second military zone along border with Mexico to deter migrants IMF too negative on its economic outlook – Mexico Mexico records first human case of screwworm myiasis Copyright © Daily Post Media Ltd has continued to face more acts of violence Local media reported that four women were murdered in Celaya city a woman was shot dead on the stretch of highway between San Miguel de Allende and Dolores Hidalgo Another woman was murdered on the same day in a house in Joyas del Pedregal neighborhood in Uriangato One of the women in Leon was shot in San José Obrero neighborhood earlier that day The other woman was killed in Leon's Lomas del Mirador community by armed men riding motorcycles that afternoon who were selling knives in the Rancho Seco community Another woman in Irapuato was killed in an armed attack that night a young woman was kidnapped from her apartment in the central part of Yuriria and after being murdered the perpetrators hung her from the bridge at the Cuatro Caminos community Two more women were killed that day in the community of Juan Martín in Celaya No one has been detained yet for these crimes Earlier this week, a man was shot dead while standing at the entrance of his home at San Francisco del Rincón in Guanajuato some armed men riding on motorcycles approached him and suddenly shot him several times The man tried to get inside the house to avoid the bullets he was still shot on different parts of his body The man was already dead when the police arrived Authorities said the victim was between 30 and 35 years old Guanajuato is currently the most violent state in Mexico by murder count due to disputes between Mexican drug cartels The state has recorded more than 1,560 homicide cases so far this year Mexican drug cartels like the Jalisco cartel and the home-grown Santa Rosa de Lima gang are reportedly fighting for control of trafficking routes for drugs and stolen fuel The bloodbath in Guanajuato reportedly started in 2018 when the Jalisco New Generation Cartel or Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) moved into the state The Jalisco cartel is infamous for its public displays of violence and military power the Jalisco cartel is one of the most violent drug trafficking organizations currently operating in Mexico and methamphetamine trafficking capacity." Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera is currently leading the Jalisco cartel government has offered a $10 million reward for information leading to his arrest as he continues to evade capture The Jalisco cartel leader remains to be the most elusive criminal and is reportedly hiding in Mexico WATCH: No Longer Just Cartels: Criminal Groups Increasingly Seek Control of Mexican Territory - From Washington Post Sign up for our free newsletter for the Latest coverage!