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Time of India
4 days ago
- Sport
- Time of India
Francisco joins Geno as head coach
Francisco Bruto da Costa has had stints with NorthEast United FC and Kerala Blasters as assistant to Portuguese coach Nelo Vingada Panaji: Geno FC have confirmed the appointment of Francisco Bruto da Costa as their head coach for the season. Francisco, an AFC Pro coaching licence holder, has had several roles with the national youth teams, besides stints with NorthEast United FC and Kerala Blasters as assistant to Portuguese coach Nelo Vingada. He has also worked abroad with assignments in Malaysia, Bangladesh, Egypt and Vietnam, where he most recently worked with Cong-Viettel FC in the Vietnam League 1. He was part of the Malaysian FA's technical team when Vingada was strategic advisor and technical director with Carlos Queiroz as coach and Mohamed Salah leading the team. 'Francisco's appointment represents a bold step forward in our club's evolution,' said club owner Sagar Salgaocar. 'His wealth of international experience, combined with a deep understanding of Goan football culture, makes him the ideal person to lead our senior team.' Joyner Antao, former coach at Sesa FA, will join the technical team as assistant coach. He is known for his work in youth development and local football structures. 'Together, they will shape a new footballing identity for Geno,' said Salgaocar.
Newsweek
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Newsweek
Harvard Graduate Self-Deports to Mexico
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. A Harvard graduate has self-deported to Mexico alongside his husband amid fears about President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. Why It Matters Trump pledged to deport millions of immigrants without legal status as part of his campaign message. The Trump administration announced it will pay undocumented immigrants to self-deport rather than await arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Those without legal status could be paid as much as $1,000 if they use the CBP Home app to leave the country. What To Know Francisco Hernandez-Corona, 34, and his United States citizen husband, Irving Hernandez-Corona, decided to leave the country because the federal government ramped up immigration enforcement, NBC10 Boston reported. The couple traveled to Mexico's west coast, arriving in Puerto Vallarta three weeks ago. "We started seeing ICE everywhere and people sent to El Salvador," said Francisco. "There would be knocks at the door and [Francisco] would be scared and be terrified," said Irving. "It was never our intention to leave under these circumstances. We left, basically fleeing." Francisco came to the U.S. when he was 10, sent by his father to cross the border with the help of a coyote. He described the journey through the desert as "the worst three days of my life," adding, "Nobody asked me if this is what I want to do. I didn't have a choice." Migrants walk into Tijuana, Mexico after being deported from the United States on January 21, 2025. Migrants walk into Tijuana, Mexico after being deported from the United States on January 21, 2025. Felix Marquez/AP Francisco's mother passed away from a rare disease several months before his high school graduation. Following her death, his younger sister moved to Texas to live with their older sister, while Francisco remained in their hometown. His teachers provided support, helping him complete high school and pursue higher education at an Ivy League university. He earned a degree in clinical psychology from Harvard University, graduating in 2013 Following his graduation, Francisco sought legal protection through immigration programs. He initially applied for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) during the Obama administration. Later, he pursued a visa under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which is available to victims of domestic abuse, citing the violence he and his mother experienced from his father. However, due to significant delays in visa processing and complications arising from his two instances of unauthorized entry into the U.S.—once as a child traveling with his mother on a tourist visa and crossing the border at age 10—Francisco faced legal barriers that included a potential permanent ban from reentering the country. "Because of the choice my dad made when I was a child, U.S. law says it doesn't matter. I don't care that you were 10, I don't care if you were bleeding in the desert, or crying in the desert alone. I don't care that you didn't choose this; you can no longer stay in a place that you call home," said Francisco. After marrying Irving last year, Francisco hoped his immigration status could be resolved. However, he was informed that a permanent bar prevented him from adjusting his status within the U.S. and that he would need to leave the country. Legal advisers recommended canceling their honeymoon plans to Puerto Rico due to concerns that Francisco could be detained. Faced with these challenges, the couple decided to voluntarily leave the U.S. Francisco told his husband, "Then, I guess we have to leave," feeling there was little reason for them to remain. What People Are Saying Francisco Hernandez-Corona told NBC 10 Boston: "I made it. This little brown boy from Lennox is going to Harvard. That's crazy." Irving Hernandez-Corona told NBC 10 Boston: "It's such a hateful place, a hateful environment." What Happens Next Francisco expressed hope that one day he would be able to return to the United States, start a family with Irving, and eventually send their children to Harvard. The Trump administration has maintained that those who self-deport have a chance to return to the country legally.
NBC News
21-05-2025
- Politics
- NBC News
Undocumented Harvard grad from Los Angeles self-deports to Mexico
Despite his undocumented status, Francisco Hernandez-Corona, 34, and his U.S. citizen husband, Irving Hernandez-Corona, never thought they would leave the United States. But the new administration changed all that when it came in in January, according to the couple. 'We started seeing ICE everywhere and people sent to El Salvador,' said Francisco. 'There would be knocks at the door and he (Francisco) would be scared and be terrified,' said Irving. 'It was never our intention to leave under these circumstances. We left, basically fleeing.' They fled to Mexico's west coast, flying into Puerto Vallarta three weeks ago, where they say they finally felt safe and wanted. '(Mexicans) all were saying, 'Welcome back home! You belong here,'' said Francisco. The warm welcome was greatly appreciated, but they still felt sad leaving behind their family in the United States. 'We still sit here in silence sometimes, hold each other and cry because of what we left,' said Irving. 'We felt pushed out.' The couple had just celebrated a milestone -- married last fall after three years of dating. Francisco graduated from Harvard, where he studied clinical psychology and graduated in 2013. It had not been an easy road to get there. When he was only 10 years old, Francisco's father arranged for him to cross into the U.S. through the desert with a 'coyote,' or migrant smuggler. "The worst three days of my life, I remember every moment walking through the desert,' he said. 'Nobody asked me if this is what I want to do. I didn't have a choice.' His family settled in Lennox, a small city near the airport in Los Angeles. Francisco excelled in school and was accepted to Harvard in 2009. Around that time, he was hit with another challenge. 'My mom died my senior year of high school,' said mother lost her battle with a rare disease just months before he graduated. His younger sister moved to live with his older, adult sister in Texas, but Francisco stayed and was taken in by his teachers, who saw him through graduation and into an Ivy League education. 'I made it. This little, brown boy from Lennox is going to Harvard, that's crazy,' Francisco said. In 2012, he applied for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, under President Obama, which does not grant legal immigration status but allows young undocumented immigrants who qualify to live and work in the U.S. He later didn't renew DACA since he filed for a Violence Against Women (VAWA) visa; he and his mom were victims of abuse by his dad, he said, adding his parents had divorced. But Francisco said processing of the VAWA visas have been delayed by more than a decade. And because he technically re-entered the country illegally when he was forced to cross the border at 10 — his mom had brought him on a tourist visa when he was 6 and she had overstayed their visit — Francisco was told he'd be barred from returning to the U.S. 'Because of the choice my dad made when I was a child, U.S. law says it doesn't matter. I don't care that you were 10, I don't care if you were bleeding in the desert, or crying in the desert alone. I don't care that you didn't choose this; you can no longer stay in a place that you call home,' said Francisco. After marrying Irving last year, he thought there might be a way to fix his status but his attorneys instead recommended they cancel their honeymoon to Puerto Rico, fearing Francisco might be detained at some point. That's when the couple decided to self-deport. 'That's when I looked at him and said, 'Then, I guess we have to leave,'' said Francisco. 'There isn't any reason for us to stay here.' 'It's such a hateful place, a hateful environment,' said Irving. Now living in Mexico, they are trying to figure out the next steps and are grateful to still be working remote jobs from the U.S. Francisco hopes to visit the Mexican grave where his mother was interred after she died in Los Angeles. He has never seen it in person, but worries that he will feel guilt that he failed to fulfill his dying mother's wish. 'She said, 'I will die here so that you and your sisters could have a better life, so that you and your sisters could have the life that I've never had,'' he said.
Daily Mirror
21-05-2025
- Business
- Daily Mirror
'I won £5.4m on lottery but ended up homeless after bank destroyed my life'
Francisco Guerrero won a 6.5 million Euro (about £5.4m) jackpot in a Spanish lottery – but says he never saw a penny of his winnings after he was advised to make a series of 'toxic' investments A lottery winner who bagged a whopping 6.5 million Euro (around £5.4m) lottery jackpot claims he didn't receive a single penny of his windfall due to poor advice from a bank official. Francisco Guerrero, a builder from Cádiz, purchased a ticket for the Spanish BonoLoto lottery in December 2005. When his numbers were drawn, he was initially unsure about the size of his winnings. Spain had only switched to the Euro a few years before Francisco's win, and so when he was first notified about his good fortune he mistakenly believed he had only won 6.5m Pesetas – roughly £33,000. It wasn't until later that he grasped the she scale of his wealth. Describing himself as a man "without education" and "completely ignorant of financial matters", Francisco sought advice on how to manage his newfound wealth. He recounted: "I signed because I trusted them; they invited me several times for lunch and then took me to the bank to sign. With two glasses of wine, I was on a roll and signed whatever they told me to. To this day, I still don't know what I signed; I can't even pronounce it." He was advised that the best move would be to invest all his prize money into high-risk, high-reward financial products. He maintains that he did not understand the documents he signed during his meetings with the bank. Francisco had been careful not to dip into his savings, but in 2009, a knee surgery led him to discover that his investments in "toxic financial products" had wiped out his fortune. It has been estimated that Francisco had lost an amount it would have taken him over 270 years to earn as a builder. Upon winning his windfall, Francisco generously shared it with his five children, keeping 60% for himself and allocating the remainder to them, but their money was lost too, because it had all been kept in one account. Now aged 73, Francisco lamented his lack of understanding about the financial products he invested in: "I didn't even know what it was. I trusted them blindly and they destroyed my life." The devastated builder sought justice through the courts, and outside the courtroom, he expressed his despair, saying "I am dead in life". He faced the grim reality of being unable to pay his mortgage and living like a "living as a squatter" in his own house. Haunted by the threat of eviction, Francisco fought back and triumphed in three separate legal battles against the bank. In a landmark ruling in 2016, the bank was compelled to reimburse Francisco €1.06 million for locking his money away in "complex products". According to the verdict from Castellón's Court of First Instance No. 4, the bank was caught in a web of its own making, with the judgement noting it "showed inconsistency and contradiction by claiming that the contractor had sufficient experience and knowledge to carry out the contracted investment". Fast forward three years to 2019, and Francisco clinched back an additional €1.2 million for his two offspring's investments, each having poured in €600,000. The court ruled there was a clear "defect in consent".
Canada Standard
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Canada Standard
Timor-Leste shows us the true spirit of independence
While Timor-Leste flies flags for a freedom it fought for, Australia still hesitates to claim its own, writesGJ Burchall. THE FLAGS were all out and it was a joy to behold. They started to appear about a week ago. Or more. There was already an abundance of flags on permanent display here, on public and private buildings, a-flap from microlet buses and motorbike handlebars. But in the last few days, they have sprouted like roof leaks in the wet season. All the special occasion flags had been plonked out in front of even the smallest of businesses, flying from sturdy, makeshift flagpoles set into concrete-filled black plastic flower pots. Really, they began to emerge right after the week of half-mast mourning ended forPapa Francisco. The flags were out in the lead-up to Timor-Lestes celebration of Independence on 20 May. Sort of. Its complicated. This tiny country has a fraught history of being an uncared-for colony, a target of military invasion, an arena of conflict and the recipient of cruel inaction by its neighbours. As a result, 20 May marks Timor-LestesRestoration of Independence. 'Used to dying' memoir tells brutal history of East Timor The hardships endured by the East Timorese are detailed in a memoir by Dr Vacy Vlazna, both a story of courage and a political analysis. It went like this: following theCarnation Revolutionof 1974, Portugal began to divest itself of its costly colonies. The people of Timor-Leste were happy to shuck almost 300 years of benign neglect and declared themselves an independent democracy on 28 November 1975. It lasted nine days. Indonesia invaded and took occupation. Australia allowed it. Britain merrily sold weapons to the invaders to thwart any resistance. Fast forward to 1999, when Indonesia, finding itself in a similar economic bind to Portugal 25 years earlier, agreed to an UN-sponsored referendum on the future of its erstwhileProvince 27. The Timorese people voted overwhelmingly for independence over any autonomy within the sprawling archipelago nation. The UN administered the half-island for the next three years until nationhood was granted. Thus, the Timorese celebrate three distinct milestones to their independence. Original independence (28 November), Popular Consultation (30 August), and Restoration of Independence (20 May). They deserve each one. No wonder the flower-pot flags come out. No forced patriot-stir dates, these. They are as meaningful as they were hard-won. Of course, the place has problems. But they are their own. These people are so resilient, positive, tolerant and hopeful. There is a whole generation now who have grown up post-independence. They honour the past but embrace the future. No flag flies in cynicism. Australias appalling Timor legacy and why it matters May 20 will mark 20 years of independence for Australias near neighbour, the nation of Timor-Leste. You cannot help but compare this to Australias lame national day. What was 26 January? The (second) attempt to pitch camp for displaced prisoners, gaolers and bureaucrats after an abandoned Botany Bay foray. Pitch camp on private property. At least New Zealand also still under thrall to the British hasWaitangi Day, when a treaty was signed between coloniser and land-owner. Australia is indeed a most fortunate nation, never having suffered major wars civil or uncivil and not having a shared border. It is now far too multicultural to be declared British to its bootstraps. The royals dont care if Australia becomes a republic; they probably wonder why it isnt already. In contrast, Timor-Leste is so proud of its culture and its emergence from many dark years of oppression, aggression and desperation. Hence the flags: from the hanky-sized ones on sticks waved by kids, to the bold, beach-towel-breadth banners outside the humblest home. Australia will never have a truly relevant, inclusive national day until it becomes a republic, until it reconciles with an Indigenous past, present and future. TheVoice to Parliamentshamefully failed recently. But now the Government has a clear mandate to put an Indigenous treaty and an Australian republic back onto the agenda. Even Barbados took the step and became a parliamentary republic in 2021. And Canada got its own distinctive flag, back in 1965 one without the conquerors brutal jack in the hoist quadrant. Have some pride, Australia. Lets debate a governance model and speed the republic. Then everyone can proudly plant a flag in a flowerpot. A new flag, that is. GJ Burchallis a journalist, scriptwriter and educator who was born and bred in Melbourne and lives in the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. Related Articles Democracy takes poll position in Timor-Leste Australias appalling Timor legacy and why it matters
