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➤ MURDERS IN PUERTO RICO, from p.24
“These arrests are a step in the
right direction, but these murders
have to be prosecuted as hate
crimes,” Serrano said prior to the
FBI fi ling its criminal complaint.
“We must warn that Puerto Rico
prohibits the death penalty in our
constitution and we call upon federal
authorities in Puerto Rico not
to impose the death penalty on
this case or any case. An eye for an
eye will make us all blind.”
Serrano is also maintaining a
spotlight on other murders on the
island, where more than a halfdozen
LGBTQ people have been
slain in the past year. He has often
voiced concerns that probes into
the deaths of LGBTQ individuals
on the island have either been
botched by authorities or not investigated
as thoroughly as possible.
“We urge the government to fi nish
the investigations in the other
seven murders of LGBTQ people
on the island and serve justice for
all of them,” Serrano said May 1.
Police have yet to make headway
in the February murder of a homeless
transgender woman known
as Alexa, who was mocked and
hunted down after using the women’s
restroom at a restaurant. Serrano
told Gay City News that cops
“mishandled that investigation” by
➤ JAGUAR HEALTH, from p.24
are dependent on the success of the
company’s ongoing development
and commercialization efforts, as
well as the securing of additional
fi nancing and generating positive
cash fl ows from operations. There
is no assurance that the company
will have adequate cash balances
to maintain its operations. In addition,
as a result of the recent outbreak
of novel COVID-19 (see Note
15), the company may experience
disruptions in the fi scal year 2020
and beyond that could severely impact
its supply chain, ongoing and
future clinical trials, and commercialization
of Mytesi.”
The leader of Treatment Action
Group (TAG), which is an activist
and community-based research
and policy think tank focused on
HIV/ AIDS, tuberculosis, and hepatitis
C, told Gay City News that
there is still no good reason why
the price of Mytesi should have
rushing to arrest people of interest
before inviting them to fi rst come
in for questioning.
In another recent case, Serrano
said he learned about the April 13
death of Penelope Diaz, a gender
non-conforming individual who
was incarcerated at Bayamón Correctional
Center. According to Serrano,
Diaz died in what appeared
to be a hanging, but activists are
concerned that they were actually
murdered prior to the scene being
staged to appear as if they died by
suicide. Diaz was not allowed to
receive hormone treatment while
incarcerated, Serrano asserted.
The initial investigation of the
Peláez and Velázquez killings, too,
started off on shaky footing when
authorities initially misgendered
them, Serrano said.
“They said there were two men
found burned in a vehicle,” Serrano
said on April 24 before any
arrests were made. “When they
are members of the LGBTQ community,
they need to not misgender
anybody.”
Serrano added regarding the
island’s governor, “We cannot continue
to be ignored like our lives
don’t mean anything or have no
value for the government of Wanda
Vázquez who has not acknowledged
this epidemic of anti-LGBTQ
violence in Puerto Rico.”
been jacked up so high, especially
considering that no data has indicated
that it could be effective
against the coronavirus.
“It appears that Jaguar Health is
a company tottering on the edge of
bankruptcy, which, whether from
desperation or cynicism, is trying
to repackage crofelemer — a relatively
unsuccessful treatment for
HIV-associated diarrhea — into a
wonder drug for COVID-19 associated
diarrhea,” Mark Harrington,
TAG’s CECO, said in an email.
He continued, “I’m not aware of
any clinical data which would justify
the more than tripling of the
price of crofelemer. Hence, I believe
that the attempt to associate the
drug with COVID-19 and seek an
emergency authorization from the
US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) for its use in this connection
may be more likely attributable
to the company’s fragile fi nancial
situation as indicated in its most
recent SEC 10-K fi ling.
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