Anonymous ID: 199a35 March 24, 2019, 7:25 p.m. No.5874493   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4699 >>4846 >>5014

'A family against a billionaire': twist in battle over Zuckerberg's Hawaiian estate

 

Parcels near Facebook CEO’s property auctioned off amid lengthy fight over Native Hawaiian land rights

 

Amid angry shouts of “hewa!” (wrong!) and “illegal sales”, four parcels of land surrounded by the 700-acre estate of the Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, were auctioned Friday on the island of Kauai. But in a surprise twist, the bidder backed by Zuckerberg won only three of the parcels, while a rival group prevailed on the fourth.

 

In a contentious transaction, attorneys bid on behalf of their clients. On one side was a group led by several members of the holdout Rapozo family; on the other was the retired Hawaiian studies professor Carlos Andrade, a relative of the Rapozos said to have the financial backing of Zuckerberg. A commissioner read parcel numbers as the attorneys quietly called their bids until all four parcels were sold: parcels 19, 25, and 26 went for $300,000, $460,000, and $300,000 to Andrade. But parcel 17 was bought for $700,000 by the Rapozos. Andrade and the self-described “holdout” Rapozos are descendants of Manuel Rapozo, a Portuguese citizen who emigrated from the Azores to Hawaii in 1882.

 

“A family against a billionaire. That’s what this is. It’s one family against a billionaire. Having to bid for our own property!” shouted one of the land owners, Alika Guerrero, dressed in a black T-shirt reading “Culture, Heritage, Ohana (family)”. The four land parcels, called kuleana in Hawaiian, range from 5,200 sq ft to 1.59 acres and are entirely surrounded by Zuckerberg’s property. They were ordered to be auctioned by fifth circuit judge Kathleen Watanabe in an attempt to resolve a dispute that has pitted relatives and neighbors against one other. Even before the midday auction, family and community members protested outside the courthouse, holding Hawaiian flags, ceremonial ti plant leaves, and handmade signs bearing slogans like “Mark you Zuck!” and “Study kuleana, Zuckerberg!”

 

Angry members of the Rapozos marked Zuckerberg as absent, even as he was being schooled in the complex world of traditional Hawaiian land ownership. Andrade did not attend the auction or respond to earlier requests for comment, but he did make his case for quiet title in an op-ed column today in Kauai’s Garden Island newspaper. Andrade maintains he alone cleared, surveyed, and maintained the parcels, planted crops, paid taxes, and built a dwelling on the remote, undeveloped land.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/23/mark-zuckerberg-hawaii-estate-land-parcels-auction

Anonymous ID: 199a35 March 24, 2019, 7:37 p.m. No.5874711   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Maduro Allegedly Foils US Assassination Plot Against Him That Used BofA Funds

 

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday said the country's special forces have thwarted a plan to assassinate him, directed by the opposition’s leader Juan Guaido, reported Agence France-Presse. The North American imperialism wants to kill me. We have just exposed a plan to kill me, which was personally led by the devil’s puppet [Guaido]," Maduro told thousands of supporters in Caracas, noting that government prosecutors had made significant progress in investigating the "terrorist plot."

 

Maduro claimed that Colombia was deeply involved in the assassination plot, and said that an unnamed Colombian paramilitary chief had been captured within the borders of the country "and is giving testimony." While AFP didn't provide the Colombian paramilitary chief's identity, we believe his name is Wilfrido Torres Góme, "one of the chiefs of Assassins entered x the far right from Colombia. Requested with code blue x Interpol x Homicide and killings," Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez tweeted (Translated from Spanish by Microsoft).

 

The Maduro regime presented new evidence over the weekend of the alleged plot on state television, with Rodriguez stating that "hitmen" from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras had been recruited "using big sums of money" and were sent to Colombia ahead of "targeted assassination" missions. Rodriguez said Guaido's chief of staff, Roberto Marrero, was bankrolled by Washington and is one of the point men behind the alleged plot.

 

Hours after last week's arrest, Maduro's government showed several pictures of weapons it said special forces discovered in Marrero's home, claiming that he was part of a "terrorist cell." Rodriguez played WhatsApp conversations between Marrero and Guaido in which they held various talks about funds blocked by US sanctions to finance mercenaries with the support of Colombian President Ivan Duque.

 

Maduro also repeated the accusations to a crowd of thousands in the capital on Saturday. Rodriguez said funds to finance the terror plot were derived from Bank of America and Banesco Panama. Guaido has asked the international community to continue sanctioning the Maduro regime. The Trump administration is expected to increase sanctions on Venezuela this Thursday when sanctions in crude exports will increase. Trump has warned Maduro not to arrest Guaido or his aids, or face the wrath of undefined consequences. With Trump indicating "all options are on the table" – it seems that Washington is ready for a military intervention in the country, but for that to play out, terror cells allegedly funded by the US must first take out Maduro.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-24/maduro-allegedly-foils-us-assassination-plot-against-him-used-bofa-funds

Anonymous ID: 199a35 March 24, 2019, 7:44 p.m. No.5874844   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4887

Caravan of migrants in Mexico starts moving towards U.S.

 

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A caravan of some 1,200 migrants from Central America and Cuba began moving towards the U.S. border from southern Mexico this weekend, migration authorities said on Sunday. The National Migration Institute said the migrants were already inside Mexico when they opted to form a caravan in the southern city of Tapachula on the border with Guatemala. Early on Saturday, the large group of people set off towards the town of Huixtla in the southern state of Chiapas, a route followed by previous groups heading north, the institute said.

 

Caravans of migrants bound for the United States have sparked friction with U.S. President Donald Trump, who has accused Mexico of failing to contain illegal immigration and wants a border wall built to stop people crossing. The new government of leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has pledged to curb the migrant flows by better regulating the movement of people, and by offering job opportunities and better pay for those willing to stay. The migration institute said the roughly 1,200 migrants were from Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Cuba.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-caravan/caravan-of-migrants-in-mexico-starts-moving-towards-u-s-idUSKCN1R50XJ?il=0