DOMINGO 2 DE MAYO DE 2021 // CIUDAD DE MÉXICO // AÑO 37 // NÚMERO 13209 // Precio 10 pesosDIRECTORA GENERAL: CARMEN LIRA SAADEDIRECTOR FUNDADOR: CARLOS PAYÁN VELVER

No nos rendimos ni claudicamos: niños indígenas

Arrasa en encuestas Evelyn Salgado; va en Guerrero por Morena

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Obtuvo 37.9% de preferencias en el proceso interno

Sondeos espejo le dieron 44%

Registra su candidatura en Chilpancingo

Nestora tuvo 13.9% de votos

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sorpresa de todos, cuatro integrantes de las autoridades comunitarias abrieron varias cajas donde llevaban juguetes para los 200 menores, quienes reprocharon a los gobiernos federal y estatal el abandono de sus comunidades. Foto Jair Cabrera SERGIO OCAMPO / P 23

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● Docentes demandan que las pensiones se calculen en minisalarios, no en UMA

● Estamos sirviendo al pueblo y a los trabajadores, dice el Presidente en video

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$3.66 DESIGNATED AREAS HIGHER © 2021 WST D latimes.comSUNDAY, MAY 2, 2021

BUSINESS INSIDE: Regulators target corporate secrecy over plans on climate change. A13

“D-day,” as some in the entertainmentindustry were calling it, was looming.

It was just two weeks before May 6, thedate when the Hollywood Foreign PressAssn. — the group that puts on the Gold-en Globes — had promised to unveil aslate of reforms aimed at “transforma-tional change.” The pledge had come af-ter a Times investigation highlighted alle-gations of financial and ethical lapses bythe group and pointed out that not one ofits 86 members is Black, spurring outragein Hollywood.

On that April Tuesday, a handful ofconsultants for the embattled associ-ation met with a group of activists andpublicists who’d been vocal in their criti-cism. The publicists represented a con-

tingent of more than 100 powerful firmswho’d declared that their clients wouldboycott the HFPA — refusing to partici-pate in screenings, interviews or awardshows — until the organization reformed.The activists included representativesfrom Color of Change and Time’s Up, in-cluding director Ava DuVernay andshowrunner Shonda Rhimes.

The HFPA was represented on theZoom call by Shaun Harper, a diversitystrategist, and attorneys from Ropes &Gray, an outside law firm, both recentlyhired to help manage the crisis. The con-versation was intended as a precursor tothe reveal this Thursday.

It did not go well.The publicists and advocates ex-

pected a preview of substantive reforms.Instead, as one later complained, the

Time’s ticking for the Golden GlobesAs deadline looms for reforms at the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.,a drumbeat of criticism, infighting may culminate in drastic measures

By Stacy Perman

[See HFPA, A10]

MEHER TATNA, boardchair of the HFPA, has oftenbeen the group’s public face.

Chris Pizzello Invision

Like other Black entre-preneurs in her Inglewoodneighborhood, Annie Gra-ham has struggled to keepher business afloat duringthe pandemic.

At Ms. Ann’s clothingboutique on ManchesterBoulevard, the Easter fineryGraham stocked last springremains on the racks. Alsountouched are many of theexclusively white outfits forweddings and parties thatshe sells at her storefrontnext door, the White House.Customers, she said, mostlybuy dresses now for funerals.

So last year, as she fell be-hind on rent at her store-fronts and at home, Grahamhad to let go of her team ofsix, all independent contrac-tors and most of them fam-ily. She also turned to thePaycheck Protection Pro-gram, a federal governmentinitiative that promised tohelp businesses like hers byproviding one of the largestfinancial bailouts since theGreat Depression.

In signing the Corona-virus Aid, Relief, and Econo-mic Security, or CARES,Act, then-President Trumpannounced that PPP loanswould provide “unprece-dented support to smallbusinesses” in order “to keep our small businessesstrong.” Since April 2020, theprogram has injected morethan $770 billion into busi-nesses, including the LosAngeles Times and Revealfrom the Center for Inves-tigative Reporting, whichcollaborated with TheTimes on this report.

But after submitting her

application, Graham wasnotified that her request wasrejected. In her corner of In-glewood, only 32% of busi-nesses received PPP loans.

“For me not to be able toget any help, it’s hurtful,that’s all I can say,” she said.

Through the CARES Act,Congress ordered the SmallBusiness Administrationand the Treasury Depart-ment to issue guidance tolenders to ensure that theloan program “prioritizessmall business concerns andentities in underserved andrural markets.”

Yet a Reveal analysis ofmore than 5 million PPPloans found widespread rac-ial disparities in how thoseloans were distributed. Inthe vast majority of metroareas with a population of 1 million or more, the rate oflending to majority-whiteneighborhoods was higherthan the rates for any neigh-borhoods with Latino, Blackor Asian majorities.

Los Angeles had some ofthe worst disparities in thenation. Although communi-ties of color were hit far hard-er by COVID-19, businessesin majority-white neighbor-hoods received loans attwice the rate that majority-Latino census tracts re-ceived, 1.5 times the rate ofbusinesses in majority-Black areas and 1.2 times therate in Asian areas.

Shannon Giles, a spokes-person for the Small Busi-ness Administration, saidthe agency does not com-ment on third-party analy-ses of its data.

Racial inequityplagued rolloutof PPP fundsData analysis finds small businessesin Latino, Black and Asian areashad greater barriers, fewer loansthan those in white communities

By Laura C. Morel, Mohamed Al Elew,

Emily Harris and Alejandra Reyes-Velarde

[See PPP loans, A8]

Oscar winnerOlympiaDukakis diesThe theater veteran,89, had memorableturns in films such as“Moonstruck” and“Steel Magnolias.”OBITUARIES, B3

Hospital fireamid India crisisA blaze kills 18 patientsin a COVID-19 ward asthe nation sets anotherdaily record for co-ronavirus cases with401,993. WORLD, A3

Visionary Broadwas like no otherBusinessman plowedahead — donating,demanding and build-ing — and L.A. is thebetter for it, writes JimNewton. OPINION, A17

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Two women, both AsianAmericans raised in South-ern California, enrolled inUSC graduate programs afew years apart. Both wentto the student health clinicfor gynecological care andboth ended up in an examroom with Dr. GeorgeTyndall. Both later said theywere sexually assaulted bythe doctor, and struggled for

years afterward to trust menand medical professionals.

When it came time forUSC to compensate themfor their injuries, however,their stories divergedsharply. Lucy Chi, a 2014graduate who works inhealthcare informationtechnology, reached a settle-ment expected to totalabout $1.2 million. The otheralumna, an Orange Countymother, was awarded lessthan $200,000.

“I am sad for my kids,”the second woman said re-cently through tears. “Imade the wrong decision.”

USC’s $1.1 billion in settle-ments with about 17,000 for-mer patients of Tyndall was

USC abuse payoutleaves many bitterTyndall accusers whojoined a class actiongot far less than thosewith individual suits.

By Matt Hamilton

and Harriet Ryan

AUDRY NAFZIGER, left, hugs Lucy Chi in Marchafter the landmark USC settlement was announced.

Dania Maxwell Los Angeles Times

[See USC, A12]

‘I am sad for my kids.’— A REGRETFUL CLASS-ACTION PLAINTIFF

WASHINGTON — With shaking hands, KarenCruz Caceres manages to hit record on the call.

“How many days have you gone without food?”she asks into the phone.

Tani, her younger sister, is heard sobbing. “Helpme,” she gets out.

Cruz Caceres assures her: “I am going to pay to-day. I’ll make another deposit.”

The April 1 call ends abruptly, and Cruz Caceresstops recording.

A week before, Cruz Caceres, a single motherfrom Honduras who won asylum in Tennessee, hadgotten another call that upended her already pre-carious life: Kidnappers in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico,had abducted her pregnant sister Tani and Tani’s4-year-old son, and they wanted more than $20,000,according to a video recording of the call and mes-sages reviewed by the Los Angeles Times. The fam-ily asked The Times not to use her sister’s lastname, for fear of retribution from the kidnappers inMexico and gangs back home.

Tani, 33, and her son were kidnapped onMarch 25, Cruz Caceres and lawyers said — just af-ter U.S. authorities expelled them from Texasalongside other mothers and children under aTrump-era pandemic policy known as Title 42,

FAMILIES sent back over the border to Mexico from the U.S. rest in Reynosa in March. Many are fromGuatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, and are preyed upon by Mexican organized crime networks.

Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times

‘SITTING DUCKS’Biden policy fuels kidnappings of expelled immigrants

By Molly O’Toole

U.S.-Mexico border under Title 42

Border cities where families including Tani and her son

have been transferred, expelled or kidnapped under

Title 42.

ReynosaReynosa

Nuevo LaredoNuevo Laredo

BrownsvilleBrownsvilleNogalesNogales

SasabeSasabe

TucsonTucson

TijuanaTijuana

San DiegoSan Diego

CALIFORNIACALIFORNIA

ARIZONAARIZONA

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Molly O’Toole Los Angeles Times

[See Title 42, A6]