#Glenda León

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She is Glenda León Mora

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Ecuador cerró su temporada con el Nacional Interclubes

Fuente: Fed. Ecuatoriana La Federación Ecuatoriana realizó este fin de semana (9 y 10 de diciembre) en Quito el Campeonato Nacional Interclubes, donde participaron varias de las figuras de ese país. Entre ellas, la reciente medallista de los Juegos Panamericanos en marcha, Glenda Estefanía Morejón quien ahora participó sobre 10 mil metros y marcó 47:16.4, quedando segunda Paula Torres con 51:48.7. También entre los hombres estuvieron destacados marchistas y allí Jordy Rafael Jiménez recorrió la misma distancia en 43:03.5, seguido por Jonathan Amores con 45:05.4 y el juvenil Saúl Wamputsrik con 47:24.0. Marlon de León dominó las pruebas de velocidad con 10.2 en 100 y 21.6 en 200 (nwi) y Emerson Chalá –su escolta en 200 con 21.9- se adjudicó los 110 metros vallas en 14.5. También ganaron Marcos Luis Ponce en largo con 7.26, Estiven Palacios en triple con 16.01 y los juveniles Saúl Cuero en martillo con 50.44 y Yirmar Torres en jabalina cn 61.20. Nereida Santa Cruz fue una de las más destacadas en damas con sus 62.93 m. en lanzamiento del martillo. También ganaron Samantha Rosero en 100 con 12.2, Adriana Alajo en 100 metros vallas con 14.8, Joyce Micolta en salto en alto con 1.70, Merari Herrera en disco con 44.01 y la juvenl Hasly Ayoví en jabalina con 40.41. Read the full article

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Exposición "Lecturas", Colectiva

Exposición “Lecturas”, Colectiva

Exposición “Lecturas” Colectiva 12.03.2020 Galería 23 y 12 En la literatura, a lo largo de la historia, varios libros se han inspirado en obras de arte. Ejemplos son “La joven perla”, inspirada en la pieza de Johannes Vermeer “Muchacha con turbante o La Mona Lisa del Norte” o “El Código Da Vinci” de Dan Brown por solo mencionar algunos. En esta ocasión han sido textos literarios, nacionales e…

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holis. aqui les dejo una lista de nombres comunes para sus pjs de america latina, (pronto subire otra lista con nombres unisex). no duden en preguntar si necesitan ayuda o ideas. disfruten. 💫

( here’s a long list of more common / less fancy latine names. some are a combo of first name + middle name bc it’s a v common thing here. keep in mind i’m venezuelan and can’t possibly know every single name in every latin american country but this lil list should help you. also in some countries like venezuela, colombia, etc, most ppl have two names and two last names // eg. juan luis londoño arias // so keep that in mind when naming your character. lmk if u need any help. enjoy ♡  – pls don’t stress if you dont see unisex/androgynous names on this list, im working on one just for those. ) 

「combos. masc / male;

manuel;  josé manuel / juan manuel 

carlos;  juan carlos / josé carlos 

gabriel;  gabriel david / juan gabriel 

pablo;  juan pablo 

luis;  luis jose / josé luis / juan luis 

andrés;  andrés eloy / andrés alonso / andrés alejandro 

alejandro;  daniel alejandro 

daniel;  luis daniel / carlos daniel / josé daniel 

david;  josé david / juan david 

fabio;  fabio rafael / fabio ricardo / fabio raniel 

ricardo;  ricardo david / josé ricardo 

miguel;   miguel alejandro / josé miguel 

「masc / males;

A ⋆  aron, antonio, agustin, alberto, adrian, alexander, alejandro, alexis, alonso, álvaro, andrés, ángel, alfredo, asdrubal, armando, anibal.

B ⋆  benjamin, bruno, braulio.

C ⋆  camilo, carlos, cristian, christian, celso, cesar, claudio, cristóbal.

D ⋆  diego, daniel, deivi, david, darío, diego, domingo, dante.

E ⋆  enrique, esteban, esteven, elio, erik, eric, eduardo, efraín, eloy, emilio, emanuel, ernesto, ezequiel, elías.

F ⋆  fabian, fabio, favio, fernando, félix, felipe. flavio, francisco, facundo, franco, 

G ⋆  gabriel, gabriel, gilberto, germán, gaspar, gregorio, guido, guillermo, gustavo.

H ⋆  héctor, hernán, horacio, hugo, humberto.

I ⋆  ignacio, isaac, issac, iván, israel, ismael.

J ⋆  josué, jacobo, jaime, javier, jacinto, jesús, josé, joan, jhoan, joaquín, joel, jonás, john, jordán, jorge, joshua, julio, julián, jeremias, jonatan, jonathan, juan.

K ⋆  kevin, kike, kamilo. 

L ⋆  lisandro, leonardo, lenin, lucas, leandro, luciano, leopoldo, leonel, león, lorenzo, lucas, luis, luca. 

M ⋆  marcos, manuel, mauricio, matías, martin, mateo, máximo, moisés, miguel, marcel, mariano, maximiliano, marcelo.

N ⋆  nicolás, néstor, noel, noé.

O ⋆  oscar, omar, octavio, oliver, osmar, oswaldo, osvaldo, orlando.

P ⋆  pablo, paul, paulino, pedro, patricio, pascual, paco, paulo, pepe, peter, 

R ⋆  ruben, ruvens, rafael, raimundo, ramón, raúl, reinaldo, rey, rené, ricardo, raniel, rodolfo, roberto, román, romeo, rolando, roque.

S ⋆  sebastian, salomón, salvador, samuel, santiago, saúl, sergio, silvano, silvestre, simón, sixto. 

T ⋆  thiago, tiago, tito, tadeo, teodoro, tomás, teo, ticiano. 

U ⋆  ulises, unay.

V ⋆  valerio, valentín, vicente, victor, victorino, vladimir. 

Y ⋆  yonatan, yordan, yoan, yoel, yeremia.

Z ⋆  zander, zachary. 

「combos. fem;

maria; dulce maria / maria fernanda / maria josé / maria victoria / maria eugenia / maria paz / maria paula / maria elena / maria alejandra

sofia; sofia antonella / sofia alejandra / sofia valentina / danna sofia

mia; mia isabella / mia victoria / mia camila

ana; ana maria / ana valentina / ana victoria / ana paula / ana luisa / ana mercedes

emma; emma sofia / emma victoria / emma isabella / emma valentina 

luz; luz elena / luz celeste  

carla; carla valeria / carla estefania / carla valentina

eva; eva luna / eva martina / eva maria

zoe; zoe valentina

sarah; sarah lucia / sarah sofia

「fem;

A ⋆  ariana, arianna, adriana, ana, arantza, arantxa, antonella, agustina, antonella, alejandra, alexandra, andreina, alicia, andrea, anaís, angelica, ailín, alma.

B ⋆  barbara, beatriz, berenice, berta, bianca, blanca, brígida.

C ⋆  camila, catalina, carla, catherine, cristina, carola, carolina, cecilia, celestina, claudia, cruz, celeste.

D ⋆  danna, dana, diana, daniela, doris, damaris, denise, desireth, desirée, dafne, dilvana.

E ⋆  eva, edith, elena, elizabeth, elisabeth, elsa, elvira, emilia, erica, esperanza, emily. 

F ⋆  fabiola, flavia, fátima, fernanda, fabiana, fabricia, fiorella, flaviana, flor, florentina, francisca, frida, florencia.

G ⋆  gabriela, gladis, gloria, graciela, grisel, gail, génesis, georgina, geraldin, giovanna, gisela, giuliana, glenda, guadalupe.

H ⋆  haydee, helena, hilda. 

I ⋆  inés, irene, irma, isabel, isabella, ivanna, ivannela, ivonne, isis.

J ⋆  jessica, jennifer, jael, jasmin, jasmine, jade, janet, joana, jhoanna, judith, julia, juliana, jaqueline, josefina, juana.

K ⋆  katherine, katiuska, kristina, karla, krisbel, kendall, kimberly, kelly, 

L ⋆  liliana, luisana, luisa, luiza, laura, lujan, luna, luz, linda, lucia, luciana.

M ⋆  mia, mayerlin, maria, mayra, mariana, merida, miranda, maite, margarita, marta, miriam, monica, michelle, melany, melisa, micaela, melanie.

N ⋆  natalia, norma, nidia, nazaret, nomeí, nataly, natasha.

O ⋆  oriana, orianna, oscary, osmary, olga, olivia, orlanda. 

P ⋆  paula, paola, pamela, paulina, paloma, patricia, penelope, pilar, pia, perla, petra.

R ⋆  ramona, rebeca, reina, regina, rita, roberta, rosa, rosalia, roxana, rosana, rosario, ruth, rafaela, roselyn, rosalina, rosalba, rubi, rosangela, rosangel. 

S ⋆  samantha, stephanie, stefany, sandra, sara, sabrina, sabina, salomé, sheila, silvana, silvia, sofia, soledad, sonia, soraima, susana, susej.

T ⋆  tamara, teresa, triana, thais, talía, tania, tatiana, teodora, ticiana, tina.

U ⋆  ursula.

V ⋆  valentina, valeria, vanesa, vera, veronica, victoria, vilma, violeta, virginia, viviana.

Y ⋆  yaray, yuliana, yessika, yazmin, yasmin, yanet, yoana, yoanna, yudith, yvonne, yolanda. 

Z ⋆  zulay, zarai.

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Conceptual Typewriter Sculptures by Glenda León Replace Keys With Dripping Candles and Acrylic Nails

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Conceptual Typewriters

Cuba-based artist Glenda León affixes objects such as matchsticks, melted candles, and acrylic nails to typewriters she sources from antique dealers in Havana, Cuba. The Cuban artist currently splits her time between Havana and Madrid. Her work is currently included in the group exhibition Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago at the Portland Museum of Art through May 5, 2019 and Never Real / Always True at the Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao, Spain through September 22, 2019. 

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Glenda León’s Cada respiro (2004)

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Conceptual Typewriter Sculptures by Glenda León Replace Keys With Dripping Candles and Acrylic Nails

ArtNews http://dlvr.it/R3wlQT See More at: https://artistmichaelm.tumblr.com

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Conceptual Typewriter Sculptures by Glenda León Replace Keys With Dripping Candles and Acrylic Nails https://t.co/lKggOlr63U https://t.co/MK1qBIAl3A

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@PradoGlenda, escritora, poeta, periodista y activista trans de derechos humanos llega a #Querétaro a integrar la familia de @Queretrans (Foto con @IlsaAguilarB )

@PradoGlenda, escritora, poeta, periodista y activista trans de derechos humanos llega a #Querétaro a integrar la familia de @Queretrans (Foto con @IlsaAguilarB )

El 22 de septiembre Glenda Prado Cabrera, periodista, poeta, escritora y activista trans de derechos humanos salió de Nuevo León para radicar en Querétaro como parte de la familia de QuereTrans. Despedida de Nuevo León Bienvenida a Querétaro (Más fotos próximamente)

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Otra notable victoria de Kimberly García, con récord nacional: 1:26:40

La peruana Kimberly García confirmó su excepcional momento al ganar -este sábado 3 de junio- la 36ª. edición del Gran Premio de Marcha Cantones de La Coruña, en España, por el Trofeo Sergio Vázquez (el impulsor de la prueba, fallecido en julio pasado). La elite mundial de esta disciplina, por el circuito de WA, se dio cita allí y la bicampeona mundial de Oregón 2022 cumplió una gran actuación al ganar en 1:26:40, nuevo récord para su país -tenía 1:26:58 desde aquel triunfo- y segundo registro histórico de Sudamérica. Una vez más, la actuación de conjunto de las sudamericanas fue notable, ya que la también peruana Evelyn Inga llegó 6ª. con 1:27:32, su mejor marca personal y clasificación olímpica, además de cuarto registro del historial sudamericana. Enseguida se ubicaron la brasileña Erica Rocha de Sena, cuya marca de 1:28:53 indica que está volviendo a los primeros planos tras su pausa por maternidad, mientras que la ecuatoriana y recordwoman sudamericana Glenda Estefanía Morejón fue 9ª. con 1:29:04. García consiguió doblegar a la poderosa escuadra china, relegando al segundo puesto a Quanming Wu (1:26:48). Tercera llegó la mexicana Alegna González con 1:26.59, delante de la china Shijie Quieyang (1:27:15) y la española María Pérez (1:27:59), quien venía de establecer el récord mundial de los 35 km. en Podebrady, hacía dos semanas. Shijie Quieyang había ganado en tres oportunidades esta prueba. Marchistas de 25 países se dieron cita en La Coruña, en una prueba declarada “Patrimonio” por World Athletics, con la categoría World en el circuito de marcha. María Pérez, procedente de Granada, había apostado por un ritmo más fuerte en el kilómetro 8 y se marchó en solitario con hasta 18 segundos de ventaja. Pero le costó caro, tras pasar los 10 km. en 43:25. Primero perdió el ritmo y fue alcanzada por varias corredoras. Después, cuando probaba con una nueva remontada debió tomarse una pausa al sufrir problemas gástricos.   Las otras sudamericanas se ubicaron así: 20ª. Johana Ordoñez (Ecuador) 1:33:23, 21 Magaly Bonilla (Ecuador) 1:34:02, 25 Gabriela de Souza Muniz (Brasil) 1:34:43, 27 Nataly León (Ecuador) 1:35:05, 29 Paula Milena Torres (Ecuador) 1:35:46, 32 Natalia Alfonzo (Venezuela) 1:36:56, 35 Karla Joana Jaramillo (Ecuador) 1:37:43, 37 Sara Patricia Pulido (Colombia) 1:38:01, 41 Laura Cristina Chalarca (Colombia) 1:39:59 y 43 Lina Geraldine Bolívar (Colombia) 1:40:39.   Read the full article

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Exposición “Amora” Colectiva 07.09.2019 Galería Habana “Me han estremecido / un monton de mujeres / mujeres de fuego / mujeres de nieve/: Me estremecieron mujeres / que la historia anoto entre laureles / y otras desconocidas gigantes / que no hay libro que las aguante./ Me han estremecido…” Estos fragmentos de la canción de Silvio Rodríguez vinieron a mi mente al ver la exposición “Amora”.…

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#Repost @museumweek • • • • • • "Social networks are useful for announcing all events and shows I’m involved. It requires a lot of time so usually it’s not me who does all posting".⠀ .⠀ 5 questions to the Cuban artist Glenda León⠀ . 👉https://museum-week.org/magazine/⠀ Interview by @fabiopariante⠀ -⠀ #magMW #museumspeople #whois #firstpost #museum #instagram #interviews #glendaleon #fabiopariante #cuba #havana #exhibition #museumweek #visualartist #culture #performer #modernart #conceptualart #azul #artwork #art #magazine #contemporaryart #performance #people #whoiswho #artist #picture #arteducation https://www.instagram.com/p/B_-ATSJKaAV/?igshid=1beuuim6a02zs

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For Many on Puerto Rico, the Most Coveted Item is a Plane Ticket Out

By Jack Healy and Luis Ferré-Sadurní, NY Times, Oct. 5, 2017

SAN JUAN, P.R.--On a hurricane-battered island where people may still wait hours for gasoline, cash and ice, one of the scarcest, most precious commodities has become a plane ticket out.

Two weeks after Hurricane Maria, thousands of Puerto Ricans are cramming onto the small number of scheduled flights and charter jets and are fleeing for the mainland United States, rather than endure months more without power, cellphone service or regular running water.

“Nothing is beautiful anymore,” said Glenda Gomez, 31, who is planning to leave for Miami on Friday with her three children.

So people are selling their cars, abandoning wrecked houses and leaving their property in the hands of relatives who are staying behind. Some expect to return after a few months on the mainland; others say they are going for good.

Puerto Rican airports have become scenes of tearful goodbyes as families send their children, spouses and parents to live with relatives in Orlando, New York, Washington--wherever.

On the mainland, cities and states with large Puerto Rican populations are preparing for the influx by trying to help people find housing, work and schools. Florida alone--already home to 1 million Puerto Ricans--anticipates as many as 100,000 arrivals to the Orlando and the Tampa Bay area.

In the two weeks since the storm gutted Ms. Gomez’s home on the eastern coast of Puerto Rico and ruined her dreams of renting rooms to tourists, Ms. Gomez said, her family has been surviving on canned food and boxed milk, paid for with the only cash they had on hand--her three children’s private-school fees. Her husband has been waiting in line for hours to buy fuel for their generator. She has been making two-hour trips to buy groceries from a swampy supermarket. Finally, she decided: Enough.

Relatives in Miami offered to buy plane tickets for her and the children, and Ms. Gomez made plans to use the last few gallons of gasoline in her car--it was just enough for the drive to the San Juan International Airport.

Puerto Ricans have streamed off the island for so many decades and in such numbers that migration is woven into Puerto Rico’s identity and culture. One aching anthem pines that “I’m leaving, but one day I’ll return to find my love, to dream again, in my Old San Juan.”

Now, the exodus of families like the Gomezes is accelerating a decade-long slump in population that has seen Puerto Rico lose about 400,000 people during a period of economic strain. Experts say the new wave of migration raises concerns about who will be left to rebuild the island’s shattered infrastructure, and how an economy suffocated by $73 billion in debt and 10 percent unemployment will rebound if tens of thousands more residents suddenly leave.

“It’s going to be a stampede,” said Jorge Duany, a professor at Florida International University who studies migration to and from the island--and has left the island himself. “I thought I’d go back and retire. But now it looks like it’s going to take a little longer.”

Mr. Duany said it was too early to say how many were migrating on the packed planes leaving San Juan, or how many might boomerang back if Puerto Rico heals and life eases back to normal sooner than expected.

Working-age adults made up the bulk of migrants over the past decade, Mr. Duany said, but this storm has prompted many families to put older relatives and children onto planes, to ensure that they get necessary medical care or to salvage something of the school year.

In interviews across the island and in packed airport departures halls, people said they were already registering their children for school in Orlando, Charlotte or New York. They are starting to line up jobs and apartments with relatives across the country.

Nancy Santos, 58, who was waiting in an ice line in Ponce last week, said she plans to leave as soon as possible with her daughter and three grandchildren. They will join family in Connecticut at least until Christmas, while they wait for l conditions to normalize in Puerto Rico. Once things settle down, she plans to return to Ponce to sell her cars and furniture and then leave for good.

“Everyone will leave--everyone,” she said. “Things are so bad here. Look at us, making lines in the middle of the night for two bags of ice that are half water.” She added: “I have to do it for the kids. I am not going to think about it twice.”

Nayda Dávila, a 69-year-old retired judicial worker, said she could not stop crying as she packed her only piece of luggage by candlelight earlier this week. Her daughter in Washington, D.C., bought her a one-way ticket to get out of her rural hometown of Salinas.

“It’s the heat, the sun,” Ms. Dávila said. “There’s no water, no food, and six to eight hours for gas.”

She locked up her home, left her three dogs with a close friend and said she will remain stateside with her daughter indefinitely. She said had never considered leaving her patria, her motherland, until now.

“At my age, how much longer do I have left?” Ms. Dávila said. “And this island won’t recover for much, much longer.”

Ms. Dávila was one of the 10 passengers waiting on Wednesday to board a humanitarian flight on a private jet departing from Isla Grande Airport, a small airfield next to the convention center in San Juan where hurricane relief efforts are headquartered.

“I’m a strong woman,” Ms. Dávila said, holding back tears as she stared at the runway. “But Maria defeated me.”

Many of the dozen waiting passengers were older or had medical conditions for which treatment was impeded by the storm.

Juan Delgado Torres, 75, was still recovering from a knee operation he had two months ago. Since Maria lashed the island, he hasn’t been able to get the medication he needs or a doctor to prescribe it. To get him stable care, his daughter in Philadelphia organized a way out of the island and offered him her home.

“I’m going one way, until things get better,” said Mr. Delgado, a retired office clerk. “It’s painful, I don’t want to do it, but I have to.”

The decision can be just as painful for the young.

Hurricane Maria’s winds blew away parts of Hacienda Don José, a popular tourist restaurant in Condado, and took José Manuel Ureña’s job as a cook with it. Left without a source of income, Mr. Ureña decided it was time to leave.

“I want a change,” said Mr. Ureña, sitting on the curb at Juan Ponce de León Avenue in Santurce, where residents gather at a popular Wifi spot, many to arrange a way out of the island. “I haven’t accomplished anything here,” he said.

On October 19, Mr. Ureña, 24, plans to board a flight to Newark where a friend, who is also leaving Puerto Rico, found him a job as a cook at a Thai restaurant. Mr. Ureña says he only knows “basic English,” but he’s migrating “with an open mind.”

“I feel nervous and scared,” he said. “As the day looms closer, the worse I feel.”

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SAN JUAN, P.R. — On a hurricane-battered island where people may still wait hours for gasoline, cash and ice, one of the scarcest, most precious commodities has become a plane ticket out.

Two weeks after Hurricane Maria, thousands of Puerto Ricans are cramming onto the small number of scheduled flights and charter jets and are fleeing for the mainland United States, rather than endure months more without power, cellphone service or regular running water.

“Nothing is beautiful anymore,” said Glenda Gomez, 31, who is planning to leave for Miami on Friday with her three children.

So people are selling their cars, abandoning wrecked houses and leaving their property in the hands of relatives who are staying behind. Some expect to return after a few months on the mainland; others say they are going for good.

Puerto Rican airports have become scenes of tearful goodbyes as families send their children, spouses and parents to live with relatives in Orlando, New York, Washington — wherever.

On the mainland, cities and states with large Puerto Rican populations are preparing for the influx by trying to help people find housing, work and schools. Florida alone — already home to 1 million Puerto Ricans — anticipates as many as 100,000 arrivals to the Orlando and the -Tampa Bay area.

In the two weeks since the storm gutted Ms. Gomez’s home on the eastern coast of Puerto Rico and ruined her dreams of renting rooms to tourists, Ms. Gomez said, her family has been surviving on canned food and boxed milk, paid for with the only cash they had on hand — her three children’s private-school fees. Her husband has been waiting in line for hours to buy fuel for their generator. She has been making two-hour trips to buy groceries from a swampy supermarket. Finally, she decided: Enough.

Relatives in Miami offered to buy plane tickets for her and the children, and Ms. Gomez made plans to use the last few gallons of gasoline in her car — it was just enough for the drive to the San Juan International Airport.

Puerto Ricans have streamed off the island for so many decades and in such numbers that migration is woven into Puerto Rico’s identity and culture. One aching anthem pines that “I’m leaving, but one day I’ll return to find my love, to dream again, in my Old San Juan.”

Now, the exodus of families like the Gomezes is accelerating a decade-long slump in population that has seen Puerto Rico lose about 400,000 people during a period of economic strain. Experts say the new wave of migration raises concerns about who will be left to rebuild the island’s shattered infrastructure, and how an economy suffocated by $73 billion in debt and 10 percent unemployment will rebound if tens of thousands more residents suddenly leave.

“It’s going to be a stampede,” said Jorge Duany, a professor at Florida International University who studies migration to and from the island — and has left the island himself. “I thought I’d go back and retire. But now it looks like it’s going to take a little longer.”

Mr. Duany said it was too early to say how many were migrating on the packed planes leaving San Juan, or how many might boomerang back if Puerto Rico heals and life eases back to normal sooner than expected.

Working-age adults made up the bulk of migrants over the past decade, Mr. Duany said, but this storm has prompted many families to put older relatives and children onto planes, to ensure that they get necessary medical care or to salvage something of the school year.

In interviews across the island and in packed airport departures halls, people said they were already registering their children for school in Orlando, Charlotte or New York. They are starting to line up jobs and apartments with relatives across the country.

Nancy Santos, 58, who was waiting in an ice line in Ponce last week, said she plans to leave as soon as possible with her daughter and three grandchildren. They will join family in Connecticut at least until Christmas, while they wait for l conditions to normalize in Puerto Rico. Once things settle down, she plans to return to Ponce to sell her cars and furniture and then leave for good.

“Everyone will leave — everyone,” she said. “Things are so bad here. Look at us, making lines in the middle of the night for two bags of ice that are half water.” She added: “I have to do it for the kids. I am not going to think about it twice.”

Nayda Dávila, a 69-year-old retired judicial worker, said she could not stop crying as she packed her only piece of luggage by candlelight earlier this week. Her daughter in Washington, D.C., bought her a one-way ticket to get out of her rural hometown of Salinas.

“It’s the heat, the sun,” Ms. Dávila said. “There’s no water, no food, and six to eight hours for gas.”

She locked up her home, left her three dogs with a close friend and said she will remain stateside with her daughter indefinitely. She said had never considered leaving her patria, her motherland, until now.

“At my age, how much longer do I have left?” Ms. Dávila said. “And this island won’t recover for much, much longer.”

Ms. Dávila was one of the 10 passengers waiting on Wednesday to board a humanitarian flight on a private jet departing from Isla Grande Airport, a small airfield next to the convention center in San Juan where hurricane relief efforts are headquartered.

“I’m a strong woman,” Ms. Dávila said, holding back tears as she stared at the runway. “But Maria defeated me.”

Many of the dozen waiting passengers were older or had medical conditions for which treatment was impeded by the storm.

Juan Delgado Torres, 75, was still recovering from a knee operation he had two months ago. Since Maria lashed the island, he hasn’t been able to get the medication he needs or a doctor to prescribe it. To get him stable care, his daughter in Philadelphia organized a way out of the island and offered him her home.

“I’m going one way, until things get better,” said Mr. Delgado, a retired office clerk. “It’s painful, I don’t want to do it, but I have to.”

The decision can be just as painful for the young.

Hurricane Maria’s winds blew away parts of Hacienda Don José, a popular tourist restaurant in Condado, and took José Manuel Ureña’s job as a cook with it. Left without a source of income, Mr. Ureña decided it was time to leave.

“I want a change,” said Mr. Ureña, sitting on the curb at Juan Ponce de León Avenue in Santurce, where residents gather at a popular Wifi spot, many to arrange a way out of the island. “I haven’t accomplished anything here,” he said.

On October 19, Mr. Ureña, 24, plans to board a flight to Newark where a friend, who is also leaving Puerto Rico, found him a job as a cook at a Thai restaurant. Mr. Ureña says he only knows “basic English,” but he’s migrating “with an open mind.”

“I feel nervous and scared,” he said. “As the day looms closer, the worse I feel.”

In Florida, Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency on Monday for all 67 counties in the state, making it easier for the counties to house, educate and help Puerto Ricans by waiving regulations. The declaration could also attract more federal money to the state.

For more immediate help, the governor announced that Florida will set up three one-stop relief shopping centers inside airport terminals and the Port of Miami, where Puerto Ricans can seek assistance with jobs, education, housing and programs like Medicaid and food stamps.

But some families like the Ortizes have no idea exactly what awaits them when they step off the plane. Raymond Ortiz plans to put his teenage son and daughter on a plane on Sunday, to travel to his sister’s home in Rocky Mount, N.C. He and his wife will follow later. Mr. Ortiz, 50, was born in New York, but he has lived in Puerto Rico for 16 years, and his wife and children were born here.

He said he will probably do maintenance work, and his wife — an office assistant at a health agency — has a lead on a job at Dunkin’ Donuts. He said his wife is especially anxious because she speaks halting English and has lived only in Puerto Rico.

But the family looked at a satellite view of their new hometown on Google Maps, and Mr. Ortiz said he loved all the green he saw. The high school that his 16-year-old son will attend has two baseball diamonds — a dream for a player whose team has not had a practice or game since before the hurricane.

Mr. Ortiz had wanted to return to the mainland even before Maria, because he was fed up with the island’s schools, hospital system, politics and crime. The lingering mess created by the hurricane was the last straw for him. Still, he said he felt a twinge about leaving.

“I feel really at home here — more than those 35 years I lived in New York City,” he said. “I’m going to a place I’ve never been. I don’t know nobody. I don’t know the neighborhood. It’s like starting all over again.”

Linked article published October 5, 2017.