A Resilience Milestone
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GOOD MORNING August
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By THE STAR STAFF
The judge overseeing the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) Title III bankruptcy case has extended the mediation among stakeholders to Oct. 31, after a local group requested it be allowed to participate in the talks as a consumer representative.
The decision from U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain comes amid a request made by the mediation team.
The judge directed the mediation team, meanwhile, to continue filing monthly status reports.
Last month, Swain ordered all parties to go to mediation and imposed a 60-day moratorium on all litigation and plan proposals to help push for an adjustment plan for PREPA’s $9 billion debt.
The latest effort to get a debt adjustment plan approved was thwarted by a U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit decision in June that bondholders have an $8.5 billion secured claim, rather than a $2.4 billion claim as Swain had ruled. Swain is now tasked with determining how much bondholders would be able to collect, so she is pushing for the parties to reach a consensus.
The Puerto Rico Institute of Economic Competitiveness and Sustainability (ICSE by its initials in Spanish) filed a petition Wednesday to grant it permission to be part of the negotiations with the mediation team.
The nonprofit group said that if the government represented island consumers, there would not be a need for such representation directly elected by consumers. At this moment in time, the citizen ombudsman has not certified candidates to occupy the position of consumer representative on the PREPA governing board and has left the position vacant since March 20 of this year.
ICSE said it has been the only active party in PREPA’s debt restructuring process from the beginning, consistently advocating for the public interest.
“This has included submitting detailed expert analyses and compelling requests to address the severe socioeconomic impacts on Puerto Rican consumers who can no longer endure additional financial burdens,” the organization said. “Supported by various sectors in Puerto Rico through numerous joinder motions, ICSE has facilitated significant citizen participation before this court.”
“It is clearly an objective fact that the interests of the People of Puerto Rico (i.e., residential, commercial, and industrial customers) are not represented, either in reality or in the mediation proceedings before this Court,” the group added. “An effective step toward this goal is providing a seat at the table for those that promote their interests without biases [that are] inconsistent with Puerto Rico’s public policies.”
Governor insists he will not convene special session for nominations Judge extends PREPA mediation as ICSE seeks to represent consumers in talks
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Wednesday that he has no plans at this time to convene a special session so lawmakers can confirm certain vacant positions.
There are vacancies in both the island Supreme Court and comptroller’s office, which he said he would leave to the following governing administration to handle.
The governor said he did not want to waste his time or the time of possible nominees, only to have the Popular Democratic Party-controlled Senate reject or table a confirmation.
“It would depend on whether the Senate president assures me that there is good faith and the best intention to attend to the appointments because I am not here to put someone through an ordeal in confirmation processes for the rest of the year,” the governor said. “I am not going to
call a special session for appointments unless I once again feel that those people that I designated will be confirmed by the Senate or have their day or that they are going to have a fair process instead of going through a calvary. So, at least for the next two months, I do not see any extraordinary situation in the appointment process.”
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi
$18 million in federal funds approved for STEM research, other educational projects
By THE STAR STAFF
Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón congratulated each of the recipients of the new approval of federal funds totaling $18,073,380, which allow the expansion of resources for education in the fields of science, medicine, humanities and recycling.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) approved $4.2 million for the UPR-UW PREM, or the Center for the Advancement of Research and Training for Success in STEM, at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Mayagüez Campus, which brings together researchers from the UPR in Mayagüez, the UPR Medical Sciences Campus in Río Piedras, and the Materials Science and Engineering Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The UPR-UW PREM’s goal is to create a sustainable, intercultural and multidisciplinary research ecosystem that allows for greater participation
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Sof the historically underrepresented population in materials research and contributes to strengthening the STEM workforce.
The NSF also approved $4.2 million for the project titled “Center for Interfacial Electrochemistry of Energetic Materials (CIE2M): Advancing the PREM Pathway in Puerto Rico -- Nanomaterials for Sustainable Renewable Energy” at the UPR Río Piedras campus.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), meanwhile, is granting $142,419 to UPR under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarians Program, with the funds seeking to develop capacity-building workshops on digital collection management, among others.
The Metropolitan Library Consortium will conduct a digital preservation needs assessment for public libraries and municipal archives in the metropolitan area of Puerto Rico using the Coalition for Digital Preservation’s Rapid Assessment Model. The project will develop and implement a bilingual,
free-to-use online database to make data accessible to the public. ThE initiative will receive $118,334 from the IMLS.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $4,728,798 through the Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to the Ponce School of Medicine for its Specialized Center on Health Disparities, which seeks to establish strategies to prevent or reduce the incidence of health disparities in society, and particularly in disadvantaged communities.
The HHS’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences awarded $249,951 to UPR-Río Piedras to improve biomedical education and research through the acquisition of an electronic paramagnetic resonance instrument.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, meanwhile, approved $4 million for the municipality of Trujillo Alto to improve its recycling program.
top Social Security officials meet on expanding services in PR
en. William Villafañe met earlier this week with Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Martin O’Malley, Chief Actuary Stephen Goss and other federal government officials to discuss the disparities affecting American citizens in Puerto Rico.
The meeting highlighted the urgent need to expand Social Security services in Puerto Rico, the follow-up to the reopening of the Social Security District Office in San Juan, recruitment, achievements and expansion of the San Juan teleservice center, the implementation of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and the importance of programs such as the Low Income Subsidy and Medicare Extra Help for prescriptions.
O’Malley also outlined recent challenges faced by the SSA, including a significant increase in call volume due to misin-
formation about additional benefits. He also introduced the agency’s new performance management initiative, SecurityStat, which seeks to improve customer service and accelerate the implementation of process improvements.
Villafañe highlighted the issues raised by his constituents, who are often under-covered by existing Social Security and Medicare programs. He advocated for the extension of SSI to Puerto Rico and for a fiscal impact analysis to be conducted that would provide critical financial support to low-income seniors and people with disabilities.
“It is essential that we ensure that all Americans, no matter where they live, have access to the support they need,” Villafañe said. “Programs like the Low Income Subsidy, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Medicare Extra Help are vital for our constituents struggling with the high cost of prescriptions. Expanding these programs to adequately cover Puerto Rico will
make a significant difference in the lives of many.”
Villafañe, O’Malley and the other federal officials agreed on the need for continued dialogue and collaboration to improve the delivery of benefits and services to Puerto Ricans. They pledged to work together to push for legislative changes that bring increased equity to the Social Security and Medicare systems.
Elderly care, Urban Train expansion among topics at NPP platform hearing
By THE STAR STAFF
Care for the elderly, expansion of Urban Train routes in the San Juan metropolitan area and streamlining the processes for renovating abandoned government buildings were some of the proposals presented at a public hearing in San Juan earlier this week with the aim of incorporating them into the New Progressive Party (NPP) Government Action Program.
“Yesterday we heard from several leaders, including the Mayor of Aguas Buenas, Karina Nieves, in an open and transparent process,” said San Juan District 4 Rep. Víctor Parés Otero, who presided over the hearing held by the Luis A. Ferré Public Policy
Institute, which sponsors platform hearings throughout the island.
“The Mayor of Aguas Buenas addressed the issue of senior citizens and how to expand the services we provide to this population, which is so important for Puerto Rico. According to data from the United States Census Bureau, by 2022 there were more than 770,000 people aged 65 or older on the island. This is an issue that our president has been working closely on and the proposals presented yesterday will be evaluated. Likewise, concepts were presented to deal with unused government buildings, making the process of rehabilitating them more agile and transparent, and to expand Urban Train routes in the metropolitan area, among others.”
The public hearing was held at the campaign committee headquarters of San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero at 317 Juan Ponce de Leon Avenue and was attended by more than 100 NPP members.
Among the lawmakers and others in attendance were District 3 Rep. José “Cheito” Hernández, at-large Rep. Gabriel Rodríguez Aguilo, Sen. Nitza Moran, NPP Secretary General Hiram Torres, House District 2 candidate Ricardo “Chino” Rey, and former NPP President Carlos Pesquera.
A third hearing was scheduled for Wednesday at the campaign committee headquarters of Vega Alta Mayor María Vega. An initial public hearing was held Monday in the Bayamón region.
Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón
Sen. William Villafañe Ramos (Facebook via Jenniffer González Colón)
USACE advances plan to prevent coastal storm damage, erosion in 2 PR locations
By THE STAR STAFF
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) commanding general has signed the Chief’s Report for the Puerto Rico Coastal Storm Risk Management Study, paving the way for a plan to prevent damage to infrastructure and homes from coastal storms.
Lt. Gen. Scott A. Spellmon’s signature on the report starts the process of congressional consideration of project authorization for future construction. The recommended plan is a risk management system of features that will reduce the risk of damage from coastal storms to residential and commercial structures, public infrastructure, and critical facilities.
“After almost six years of relentless dedication, perseverance, and hard work, you have achieved a monumental milestone by getting the Chief’s Report signed,” said Col. Brandon L. Bowman, Jacksonville District commander.
The recommended plan consists of two separable elements – Ocean Park and Rincón. Due to the very different nature of the two study areas, in terms of location, problems, and coastal dynamics, a recommended plan has been proposed for each planning area as a separable element, meaning one can be constructed independently of the other.
The recommended plan for the Ocean Park community is to reduce the risk of coastal
flooding, including constructing two floodwalls over a length of 1,600 feet in the Barbosa Park area and 1,200 feet in the vicinity of Las Marías skate park. The plan also maintains recreation access and aesthetic qualities and supports recreational, environmental and regional economic benefits into the future.
The recommended plan for the Rincón area includes
acquisition of some 71 parcels, where structures are most vulnerable to structural failure due to erosion along around 1.1 miles of shoreline, and restoration to a natural sandy beach. It uses nature-based and non-structural solutions to proactively prevent 82% of the first-row structural failures that are projected to occur in the future without project conditions. The recommended plan will afford homeowners with structures most at risk to erosion the time and incentive to relocate in a coordinated effort before structural failure of homes occurs in a piecemeal fashion.
In concert with establishing and enforcing a coastal regulatory program, the newly established shoreline will function as a buffer, allowing government entities to manage the shoreline and increase coastal resiliency in the future. The plan also supports future social, recreational, environmental and regional economic/tourism-based benefits.
The overall estimated total project initial cost for the recommended plan is $252.3 million ($112.5 million for Ocean Park and $139.7 million for Rincón). The federal share is $97.1 million and the non-federal share is $155.1 million.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commanding general’s signature on the Chief’s Report for the Puerto Rico Coastal Storm Risk Management Study starts the process of congressional consideration of project authorization for future construction in two separate areas of the island: Rincón and the Ocean Park district of San Juan.
The overall project has been determined to be justified based on comprehensive benefits, both national and regional economic development benefits, other social benefits, and environmental benefits.
Mayagüez independence leader Muñiz Bonet mourned
By THE STAR STAFF
The Graduate Students Association of the Mayagüez Residential Center for Educational Opportunities (CROEM ALUMNI by its acronym) on Wednesday announced the death of its community adviser, Mayagüez leader Orlando Muñiz Bonet, who had been facing health complications.
“It is with great sadness that we are facing the death of a ‘hero’ of culture, politics, communications, and above all, a great human being who supported causes every day to benefit his people,” CROEM ALUMNI Executive Director Wilson Nazario said. “Orlando Muñiz Bonet served several four-year terms as a municipal assemblyman and spokesperson for the Puerto Rican Independence Party in his hometown of Mayagüez. He was president of the Mayagüezano Carnival and is recognized as the person who managed to get the largest number of people to attend that parade in the ‘city of
pure waters.’ In his professional life he acted as a political commentator on various radio and television programs. In recent years he served as vice president of the group that makes up the Puerto Rican Delegation that annually attends the National Puerto Rican Parade that is held every year on the second Sunday of June. He acted as an advisory member of the Salsa Museum in New York and helped in the project that will give Puerto Rico a similar museum in the coming years. At the time of his death, the Mayagüez leader was 75 years old (1949-2024), had five children and was still working in his own permit management company.”
“Due to what happened and the circumstances we are going through after our brother’s death, we still do not have complete information about Orlando Muñiz Bonet’s wake, but all we can say is that his remains will be laid to rest at the Martell Funeral Home in Mayagüez,” said Muñiz Bonet’s sister, Julia Muñiz Bonet. “Knowing the number of friends and acquaintances of
Orlando, we suggest that you call the funeral home (787-834-6565) so that we can provide you with information about the wake hours. We want to thank all the staff at the Pavia Hospital in Santurce for the care they gave my brother.”
“Mayagüez has lost a leader whose strong voice denounced injustices, but at the same time was a human being who coordinated help for all those who contacted him or asked for his advice,” Nazario said. “For many years Orlando was the voice of the Puerto Rican Independence Party in Mayagüez, managing to earn the respect and admiration even of those who were not members of his party. Although he was not a student at CROEM, he distinguished himself as a defender of the Mayagüez Residential Center for Educational Opportunities, especially at a time when the ex-convict Secretary of the Department of Education Julia Keleher planned to close the number one school in Puerto Rico located in Cerro Las Mesas in Mayagüez.”
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Harris created a huge wave of energy. How long can Democrats ride it?
By LISA LERER, MAYA KING and REID J. EPSTEIN
Everything is different now for Democrats. Their crowds are dancing. Beyoncé has conquered the soundtrack. The celebrities — from Southern rappers to Hollywood actors — are showing up.
And by the time Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage Tuesday night in Atlanta for what her aides billed as the kickoff for her new-and-improved campaign, it was clear that President Joe Biden had been left a distant memory — a name not even mentioned in her remarks.
“The momentum in this race is shifting,” she declared from behind a lectern embossed with the vice presidential seal. “There are signs that Donald Trump is feeling it.”
Harris’ ascent to the top of the ticket has transformed the presidential race into a fundamentally different contest, delivering an electric shock to a listless Democratic Party that for more than a year struggled to mobilize its base behind Biden.
But the real test awaits: whether Harris can convert the wave of pent-up liberal energy into sustained momentum. While polling shows that the party’s core voters have rallied behind Harris, the race remains in a dead heat, reflecting the politics of a fiercely divided nation. After months of Democratic attrition over a weakened candidate, Harris must now rebuild the coalition that powered Democrats — and the Biden-Harris ticket — to victory in 2020.
In some ways, her campaign remains a work in progress. Though Harris inherited the
dominated social media and created the kind of energy that some Democrats say they haven’t seen since Barack Obama first ran for the White House nearly two decades ago. A series of recent polls show a significant increase in the number of voters who view her more favorably than even just a month ago.
Harris aides say this new sense of energy has already opened up fresh opportunities for their campaign. By the time Biden exited the race, Democrats had quietly acknowledged that his path to victory had narrowed to the “blue wall” states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Harris’ campaign now says the plan is to compete across a wider range of more racially diverse Sun Belt and Southern states, including Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina.
1,300 people working for Biden’s reelection operation and its $96 million in the bank, her plans to reshape it remain unsettled. She has yet to fully reveal her own vision for the party and the country, beyond what she inherited, or to hold a news media interview.
And she still needs to pick a running mate, though an announcement is expected early next week. Cautioning that no vice presidential decisions have been made, her campaign announced Tuesday night that the new ticket would begin a swing through the seven battleground states next week — starting in Philadelphia.
She will be operating in one of the most unpredictable political environments in recent memory. Not since the era of blackand-white television have two candidates competed in a race measured in weeks, rather than the nearly yearlong traditional battle to the White House.
The condensed timeline could extend her support enough to last through the election — or send it crashing down.
“How long does the honeymoon last? Who knows,” said Neil Newhouse, a Republican pollster. “When you have an unprecedented event like this, people take time to digest it.”
So far, Democrats are thrilled with what
they see. With thousands of people, her rally in Atlanta was far larger than any event hosted by the Biden campaign. But it was also a hard tonal shift away from the president.
The Biden campaign, as in 2020, had been about restoring the “soul of the nation,” a paean to a lost pre-Trump comity he hoped to bring back. Harris is pushing a message squarely about what’s next.
“This campaign is about two very different visions for our nation: one focused on the future, the other focused on the past,” she said Tuesday. “We are not going back because ours is a fight for the future and for freedom.”
Like the president, Harris promised to lower housing costs and tackle prescription drug prices. She vowed to protect “hardfought freedoms” including voting rights, pledged to expand access to abortion and, as she did last week in Wisconsin, told supporters, “The baton is on our hands.”
Campaign aides say they now face the challenge of converting the burst of enthusiasm into more durable support.
There are early signs that Democratic voters may be giving her a second look, after they largely rejected her during her ill-fated 2020 primary campaign. In a little more than a week, she has broken fundraising records,
For now, the Harris team intends to skip some of the traditional markers of a presidential bid. While Harris released a host of policy papers during her 2020 campaign — some of which she has since disavowed — this time she plans to cast herself as a policy extension of Biden’s administration. She may release some economic plans that largely mirror what the president has proposed, but is unlikely to offer any policy surprises.
Republicans have struggled to adapt to the changed environment, cycling through a series of attacks against Harris over the past week before settling on the playbook that they have been pursuing against Biden for more than a year.
“When Kamala tells us she is weak, failed and dangerously liberal, we should believe her,” the Trump campaign said in a statement about Harris on Tuesday. That language almost exactly echoed the attacks used against Biden throughout the campaign: “Joe Biden is weak, failed, dishonest and not fit for the White House,” Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, Trump’s top campaign aides, said in a July 3 statement. Trump campaign officials attribute the shift in the race to what Tony Fabrizio, a campaign pollster, has called the “Harris honeymoon.” They plan to focus on the same set of issues that have driven Trump’s campaign for months: economic discontent, concerns about the border, high housing costs and worries about crime.
Trump’s aides believe those issues may override concerns among moderate Republican voters about the former president’s polarizing style and criminal record.
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Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, points out Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) during a campaign rally in Atlanta on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. Harris’s ascent has delivered an electric shock to a listless Democratic Party that for more than a year struggled to mobilize its base behind President Joe Biden. (Nicole Craine/The New York Times)
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Facing Harris’ momentum, Trump allies plan $45 million ground game
By KENNETH P. VOGEL and THEODORE SCHLEIFER
Allies of Sen. JD Vance of Ohio are aiming to spend $45 million on a super PAC campaign to mobilize swingstate voters in support of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to a memo circulated to donors.
The super PAC, Turnout for America, is being spearheaded by Christopher Buskirk, a close friend and political ally of Vance who has been developing a donor network with help from the Ohio senator that includes some of Trump’s wealthiest backers.
In the memo from Buskirk seen by The New York Times, Turnout for America claims to have trained a network of at least 945 canvassers, “who are ready for deployment” in seven battleground states.
The group, which has come together quickly this month, is finishing an agreement to share data and coordinate voter mobilization with the Trump campaign, according to two people with knowledge of the effort who requested anonymity to discuss it. In the week before the memo was sent, the group said it had received donations and commitments for more than $5 million and was “actively raising the balance” toward its $45 million goal. Buskirk, who made some money in the insurance business, has strong relationships with tech donors. He runs a venture-capital firm called 1789 Capital that specializes in investing in companies and products popular with conservatives.
Buskirk’s effort is underway as Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ de facto nominee, is riding a wave of fundraising and organizing momentum after President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed her. In the week after Harris began consolidating the party’s support, her campaign said it had raised more than $200 million, had gained 170,000 new volunteers and had begun investing in ground operations in states that had seemed out of reach with Biden atop the ticket.
Harris’ campaign told supporters on a video call on Tuesday night that it had “the support, resources and campaign infrastructure” to “play offense” in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina, as well as the so-called blue wall states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Those are the states that Buskirk’s group lists as its targets. Even more Democratic states such as Minnesota, New Hampshire
and Virginia “could be added as polling and trends and resources justify,” according to the memo. It boasts that the group intends to use an innovative artificial intelligence “workforce optimization tool” that will “monitor all performance data systemwide in live time and distribute individualized improvement advice to each canvasser in the field via text, call and email.”
The memo suggests that the group intends to rely on a mix of paid and volunteer canvassers to target low- and mid-propensity voters. The 945 canvassers cited in the memo include people who have been trained by the super PAC and its vendors, some of whom will not be sent into the field until the final days of the cycle, according to one of the people with knowledge of the plans.
On the super PAC’s website, it is soliciting applications for full-time paid, part-time paid and unpaid canvassers.
Unlike many super PACs, the group emphasizes that it will focus only on field operations and will not become involved with paid media.
The memo indicates that the group intends to “operate in concert” with Trump’s campaign.
The group is one of several new pro-Trump organizations seeking to take advantage of new advisory guidance from the Federal Election Commission that allows outside groups to coordinate field programs with campaigns without violating a ban on coordination that applies to advertising. Another new outside group, America PAC, was co-founded by Elon Musk to fund canvassing in battleground states, and that group is also in conversations with the Trump campaign about a data-sharing agreement, one of the people said.
“Our mission is simply to execute on the president’s ground game plan — the thought leadership is theirs,” Buskirk wrote in the memo. “The ads and the air war are theirs. The on-the-ground-muscle is ours.”
Trump chose Vance as his running mate in part because he was close with some major donors from the tech industry. Some of those contributors are among those involved in a donor collective called the Rockbridge Network that Buskirk created. Its twice-a-year meetings have drawn appearances by Trump, as well as megadonors including Peter Thiel, Rebekah Mercer, Steve Wynn and David Sacks. Members pledge to spend $100,000 a year on Rockbridge-recommended programs, and the group said last year that it had about
125 members. Its most recent conference was held this year at Mar-a-Lago and featured appearances by Vance, Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. Buskirk has pitched Turnout for America to members of the Rockbridge Network, according to one of the people with knowledge of the plans.It was not immediately clear who had donated to Turnout for America, but it
will be required to disclose its donors to the FEC in October.
Buskirk gained a following in the Trump orbit with a publication called American Greatness. On his podcast in 2020, he hosted Vance, who argued that when adults opt against having children, it makes them “more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less, less mentally stable.” The
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the Republican Party’s nominee for vice president, speaks at a prayer breakfast hosted by the Faith and Freedom Coalition in Milwaukee, on July 18, 2024. (Haiyun Jiang/ The New York Times)
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Microsoft profit jumps 10%, but cloud computing grows less than expected
By KAREN WEISE
Microsoft closed its first full fiscal year of aggressive artificial intelligence investment with a mixed bag of results for people worried about how much big tech companies are spending on AI.
Sales from April through June hit $64.7 billion, up 15% from the same period last year, the company reported earlier this week. Profit rose 10%, to $22 billion.
The results beat Wall Street’s expectations and Microsoft’s own predictions. But the company’s cloud computing business did not grow as quickly as investors had expected, leading its share price to drop more than 6% in after-hours trading.
Azure, Microsoft’s flagship cloud computing product that includes AI services, grew 30% in the quarter after taking into account currency fluctuations. Investors had been hoping it would grow between 30% and 31%, as Microsoft had told them to expect.
On a call with investors, Satya Nadella, the company’s CEO, and Amy Hood, the finance chief, said that Microsoft could have sold more if they’d had enough data center capacity — and that those constraints would last through the end of 2024. They added that the AI investments are attracting new customers to Microsoft’s cloud business.
“These are generational things once they get going with you,” Nadella said.
The earnings report showed how the company is spending mightily to build the data centers and acquire the pricey chips that power AI technology. Microsoft’s capital expenses have grown every quarter since late 2022, when Nadella pushed his top executives to make big investments in AI Microsoft spent almost $19 billion on capital expenses last quarter, more than twice as much as two years earlier.
Investors have turned their attention to Microsoft’s spending after Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reported slowing growth and a 91% increase in capital expenses, prompting a sell-off in technology stocks last week.
Markets have generally given Microsoft more leeway to spend than other companies, said Rishi Jaluria, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, an investment bank. That’s because Microsoft has disclosed some details of its AI sales, and has said that it could have sold even more if it had more computing capacity, he
said.
“There is an AI halo effect that happens to the rest of Microsoft’s businesses,” Jaluria said.
Microsoft told investors to expect its operating profit to be slightly lower in the next fiscal year, which runs from July through June 2025, and that its capital expenditures would continue growing as it invested more in AI.
The company has a strong position in the technology through its $13 billion investment in OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT. Microsoft sells access to OpenAI’s systems to its own customers, and it also earns a cut of sales that OpenAI makes directly to customers, because OpenAI uses Microsoft’s cloud computing infrastructure.
In the latest quarter, artificial intelligence accounted for 8 percentage points of the company’s cloud computing growth, more than last quarter. That indicated that growth of the non-AI parts of the cloud business slowed slightly. “As soon as we get capacity available to sell, we are selling it,” Brett Iversen, Microsoft’s head of investor relations, said in an interview.
On the investor call, Hood said there was also some weakness in June in cloud demand in some European markets.
The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news content related to AI systems. The two companies have denied the suit’s claims.
Commercial sales of Microsoft’s productivity software, including Excel and Teams, grew 12%. That includes a little of the new AI features the company has been infusing into the software, which customers have begun trying out.
Nadella said many customers are expanding their pilot programs to give more employees access to the AI tools.
Video games, Microsoft’s increasingly important consumer business, grew from $3.5 billion to $5 billion in revenue, driven by its $69 billion acquisition of game publisher Activision Blizzard that closed last year.
Other parts of its personal computing business had more modest growth. Revenue from Windows software that was preinstalled on new personal computers was up 4%, less than the previous quarter, as it stabilizes coming out of the pandemic’s volatile mix of demand for new personal computers and supply chain shortages.
S&P 500, Nasdaq rise on chip sector rally, Fed signals of upcoming rate cut
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq finished higher on Wednesday as chip stocks rallied and the Federal Reserve left U.S. interest rates unchanged but indicated it could begin easing monetary policy in September if inflation cools.
The Fed kept its benchmark overnight interest rate in the 5.25%-5.50% range as it ended its two-day policymaking meeting on Wednesday, but opened the door to easing in September, seven weeks shy of the November U.S. elections.
According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 gained 85.84 points, or 1.58%, to end at 5,522.28 points, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 451.98 points, or 2.64%, to 17,599.40. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 99.73 points, or 0.24%, to 40,843.06.
“It was the worst kept secret on the planet that the Fed was not going to cut in July,” said Jake Dollarhide, chief executive of Longbow Asset Management in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “The Fed is going to have its day in the sun in September with a 25 or 50 basis point cut, but I would not be surprised if that is already priced into stocks.”
During his press conference, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said policymakers discussed the case for cutting rates, but a “strong majority” agreed that now was not the appropriate time.
“The statement didn’t move the needle at all,” said Mark Malek, chief investment officer at Siebert Next in New York, referring to the Fed’s official statement. “But listening to him speak, it’s clear they’re all locked and loaded for September rate cut and they’re going to maintain their optionality.”
Data released early Wednesday showed July U.S. private payrolls increased far less than expected, indicating an easing in persistent labor market tightness.
Nvidia jumped, helped by a rosy 2024 sales forecast for artificial intelligence chips by peer Advanced Micro Devices, whose shares also gained.
Microsoft dipped after it reported massive AIrelated expenses. Meta jumped ahead of its results. Apple and Amazon.com, which will report earnings on Thursday, gained as well.
The digital advertising market is bouncing back from a slump seen in 2022 and early 2023, but pockets of weakness are eating into Pinterest’s growth.
California-based Pinterest flagged material weakness in demand from advertisers in the consumer goods space, particularly food and beverage companies, which offset strength in ad spend in the technology and financial services sectors.
“The optics of a lighter (third quarter) guide will not help recently growing ad fears, and some will be concerned that food & beverage pressure — which has been isolated — could spread to other verticals with a potentially softer consumer,” J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth said.
Pinterest’s outlook could spell trouble for other
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smaller ad players such as Snapchat owner Snap and ad tech firm Trade Desk, analysts said, noting 18% of the gross spend at Trade Desk last year came from food and beverage firms.
“Slowing in ad spend and shifts toward promotions or discounts from (food and beverage) companies could cause some weakness in the digital ad markets...Ad platforms with fewer advertisers, more branded exposure are more at risk. Snap seems most at risk,” said Morgan Stanley’s Brian Nowak.
Shares of Snap and Trade Desk were each up nearly 1% on Wednesday after dipping about 2% premarket. Pinterest
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looked set to lose about $2.5 billion in market value, with at least 13 brokerages cutting their price targets. Pinterest could take yet another hit from the lack of political ads on its platform, unlike Meta and Alphabet which are set to benefit from political advertising ahead of the U.S. elections. RBC analysts noted it could be a “few hundred” basis points of a headwind.
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BODAS NOTARIALES
In Lebanon, Israeli strike and prospect of war leave many unsettled
By EUAN WARD and HWAIDA SAAD
The morning after an Israeli strike targeted a Hezbollah commander in the suburbs of Beirut, officials in the country sought to reassure the public amid mounting fears of an all-out war.
“My call to the Lebanese is to join hands and demonstrate unity,” said Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, in a statement following an emergency Cabinet meeting Wednesday.
“Lebanon does not want war,” he said. But those reassurances did not seem to provide much calm. Beirut’s international airport was crammed with people trying to leave the country amid a flurry of suspended flights. Staff members were overwhelmed, luggage belts had stopped working, and lines for passport control stretched through the terminal. Embassies urged their citizens to leave while commercial flights remained available.
Adnan Berro, 61, a father of three and resident of Beirut’s southern suburbs, said he was visiting family elsewhere when the airstrike hit his neighborhood, Haret Hreik, a stronghold of the militant group Hezbollah. “These are innocent victims who have been killed or injured,” he said.
Israel said it had targeted and killed Fuad
country sought to reassure the public amid mounting fears of an all-out war. (Diego Ibarra Sanchez/The New York Times)
Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander. The group confirmed Wednesday that Shukr had been inside the building that was struck but said rescue teams were still digging through the rubble looking for victims. Hours after the strike, a senior Hamas official was assassinated in Tehran, Iran, though Israel has not said
that it was responsible for that attack.
“I hope the situation will get better,” said Berro, “but I’m anticipating that things are only going to get worse.”
The civilian death toll from the strike continued to rise Wednesday, with Lebanon’s health ministry saying that at least four people,
including two children, had been killed and more than 80 others injured.
As the funeral procession for the two children made its way through the streets of suburban Beirut on Wednesday, Maryam Sultan, whose sister-in-law lives in the residential building that was targeted, recounted how a dozen of her family members had been injured.
Sultan and her two children were returning from Quran lessons at the local mosque when the airstrike hit, sending half of the building crashing to the ground. A neighboring building was heavily damaged.
“My children were stepping into the building that was attacked,” she said, her eyes welling up with tears. “The house was full. There was the father, the aunts and the children.
“My husband and son are still in the hospital,” she said.
Her mother, Nazha Sultan, took a defiant tone.
“The Israelis are only good with drones. Let them dare to come to Dahieh,” she said, using the Arabic name for Beirut’s southern suburbs.
While touring the scene of the strike Wednesday, Ali Ammar, a Hezbollah lawmaker, said: “The enemy is asking for a war, and we are up for it.”
Venezuelan election denounced by international monitoring group
By FRANCES ROBLES
The only independent observer monitoring the polls in Venezuela said that Sunday’s vote for president did not meet international standards and was undemocratic, raising more questions about the legitimacy of the results.
The mission, led by the Carter Center, a pro-democracy organization, said late Tuesday that the election violated Venezuela’s own laws and the government’s failure to release a vote count was a “serious breach of electoral principles.”
The group joined the United States and many other countries that have said Venezuela’s election was marred by irregu-
larities. At least 16 people have been killed in protests that erupted after election officials declared the country’s autocratic leader, President Nicolás Maduro, the winner.
The condemnation by the Carter Center, which was the lone independent election monitor the government allowed into Venezuela before the vote, came hours after opposition leaders announced updated election results showing Maduro received less than a third of votes cast.
Venezuelans went to the polls Sunday to choose between Maduro, who has been in power since 2013, and Edmundo González, a former diplomat who served as a stand-in for María Corina Machado, a more popular opposition leader
who had been barred by the government from running. Machado released data showing that with more than 81% of the machines counted, González received 67% of the vote, compared to 30% for Maduro. The opposition’s calculations came from voting machine tallies provided to election observers, she said.
The country’s election authority, which is run by an ally of Maduro, said that Maduro received 51% of the vote and González 44%. But the elections council has yet to provide voting data, and critics say the body essentially expected that the nation would take its word that Maduro was reelected to another six years in office.
Residents at the site of an Israeli strike in a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on July 31, 2024. The morning after an Israeli strike targeted a Hezbollah commander in the suburbs of Beirut, officials in the
The Carter Center, which is based in Atlanta and was founded by former President Jimmy Carter, has observed more than 100 elections around the world and sent a delegation of 17 people to Venezuela. They met with the elections council, the candidates, political parties, the armed forces and other interested groups.
The organization waited until its team had flown out of the country before making any public declarations.
The Venezuelan election “cannot be considered democratic,” the Carter Center said in a statement Tuesday. “The Carter Center cannot verify or corroborate the results of the election declared by the National Electoral Council (CNE), and the electoral authority’s failure to announce disaggregated results by polling station constitutes a serious breach of electoral principles.”
The Carter Center’s statement is noteworthy because in the past Maduro has often cited the number of observers present to prove that elections were fair.
José Ignacio Hernández, a senior associate at the Center for Strategic International Studies, said the statement could divide the leadership of the Maduro regime.
“Maduro will dismiss the report,” Hernández said, “but Maduro invited the Carter Center, and the defense minister had praised the labor of the Carter Center.”
José Cárdenas, a former Bush administration official who follows Venezuela closely, said the statement was important because the Carter Center had defended Venezuela’s electoral system after a 2004 referendum failed to oust Hugo Chávez, Maduro’s predecessor as president and his longtime mentor.
“They have now done a 180,” Cardenas said.
While there were other election observ-
ers in Venezuela, they are friendly to Maduro and not considered impartial.
The United Nations sent a panel of experts to Venezuela, but it was not an official observation mission. The panel will draft a report that will not be made public until it is delivered to the U.N. secretary-general, an agency spokesperson said.
The Carter Center’s report came after human rights groups, government officials and family members of victims said that 16 people, including one soldier, had died amid protests. Penal Forum, a human rights organization in Caracas, tallied 11 deaths, but The New York Times identified at least four more cases at a Caracas morgue.
“They are young people who were simply protesting,” said Alfredo Romero, president of Penal Forum. “That in a single day there have been 11 murders in demonstrations is definitely an alarming figure.”
On Wednesday, opposition leaders said security forces had surrounded the Argentine Embassy, where several of Machado’s campaign employees with arrest warrants against them have been holed up for months.
The Venezuelan government has threatened to arrest opposition leaders after accusing them of inciting violence. Jorge Rodríguez, Maduro’s campaign chief and the national assembly leader, said he hoped that Machado and González would be arrested soon.
“I am not only referring to María Corina Machado, who has to go to jail,” Rodríguez said Tuesday. “I am referring to Edmundo González Urrutia, because he is the head of the fascist conspiracy that they are trying to impose in Venezuela.”
The attorney general’s office in Venezuela did not respond to a request for comment about whether any criminal charges were being pursued.
People protest outside of a polling station in Petare, Venezuela, on Sunday, July 28, 2024. The United States and countries around the world denounced the results of Venezuela’s presidential election, in which the incumbent, Nicolás Maduro, declared victory in the face of accusations of widespread fraud. (Adriana Loureiro Fernandez/ The New York Times)
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL
Kamala Harris and the audacity of desperation
By ROSS DOUTHAT
Across Donald Trump’s presidency, the American establishment achieved an unprecedented level of ideological unity and conformity — first in opposition to Trump himself, and then in the embrace of progressive ideology, in the “Great Awokening” that reached a crescendo in the hotter months of 2020.
Since then we’ve watched cracks spread throughout this edifice, dividing groups and institutions that once seemed to move in lock step. These fault lines include the split between a more ideological academic culture, where wokeness seems entrenched, and corporate and media realms, where its hold has somewhat weakened. They include the divisions between donors, university administrators and activists exposed and heightened by the Hamas attacks and the Israel-Gaza war. They include the struggle over Joe Biden’s fitness to run again, in which the liberal intelligentsia and the Democratic Party were temporarily at war, and the emergence of new right-leaning factions within the American elite.
But now, with the surge of support for Kamala Harris’ candidacy, you can sense an effort to overcome these divisions, to reassert the establishment’s anti-Trump consensus, to recover the unity of 2020 and put the full power of what Nate Silver once called the “indigo blob” at the presumptive Democratic nominee’s disposal.
This means money: a surge of tens of millions of dollars into Democratic coffers. It means star power, whether through endorsements or just associations: Olivia Rodrigo and George Clooney, Charli XCX and Beyoncé. It means soft-focus media treatments and even the updating of inconvenient language, as Axios did when it corrected a past reference to Harris as the Biden administration “border czar” amid conservative criticism of her role in immigration policy. It means squelching any chance of an intraDemocratic conflict or a convention fight,
leaning independent voters she needs to persuade now. She flopped completely in her bid for national office in 2020 and was rescued and elevated only by the exigencies of George Floyd-era progressive politics. As vice president, she has no notable successes, no impressive portfolio, and her struggles and miscues have inspired comparisons to HBO’s “Veep” for a reason.
Today she occupies an odd position as presumptive nominee, having succeeded in neither of the traditional means of ascent: She won no primaries or caucuses, and no smoke-filled room of Democratic grandees agreed on her electability. Democrats have made their peace with her nomination, but they are making a virtue of necessity, not crowning a victor or rewarding a great success.
That necessity has brought us to a double test. For Harris herself, the question is whether she can rise to the occasion, conduct outreach more effectively than the current president has, shed her Quaylian baggage and show skills that even her allies have worried that she lacks.
while delivering hype from every corner, from liberals to exRepublicans to TikTok users, in an attempt to gild the Harris candidacy with the magic of Obamamania.
What the Kamalamentum effort shares with that 2008 phenomenon is one of Barack Obama’s favorite words: “audacity.” But not the audacity of hope this time, so much as the audacity of desperation — a sense that in this late hour the only hope for stopping Trump is to set aside all differences, bury all doubts and present Harris to the world not as an unhappy default but as a potentially transformative candidate, the kind that any Trump opponent should have wanted all along.
This is especially audacious because the agony that the Democrats only just escaped, the disgraceful attempt by Biden’s inner circle to prop him up through one more campaign cycle, was itself a direct response to a consensus among savvy political observers that Harris was an exceptionally poor candidate, exactly the wrong person to set against Trump, not another Obama but a liberal answer to Dan Quayle.
The speed at which this consensus shifted should not exactly be surprising; we just watched, after all, the rapid dissolution of a shared liberal reality in which Biden’s aging was at most a minor problem magnified by Fox News and Republican disinformation efforts. Just as that consensus turned out to be a fond delusion, perhaps the underestimation of Harris will look unmoored from reality in hindsight. Even poor Quayle might have outperformed his reputation if someone had only given him a chance.
But the basic facts that made Harris seem like a dubious choice remain. She is a politician who built her career inside a liberal state where what matters is winning over Democratic Party elites and liberal-leaning voters, not the conservative-
For the establishment rallying around her, the question is whether the united front that’s contained Trump but failed to bury him has enough remaining juice, enough potency despite its divisions, to achieve a great and heretofore unlikely seeming feat: making Kamala Harris happen.
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Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, arrives at a campaign rally in Atlanta on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
Cooperativa inaugura su nueva sucursal en Aguas Buenas con enfoque en la sostenibilidad energética y la continuidad
Conuna inversión de $5.5 millones, la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Aguas Buenas (Buena Coop) inauguró una sucursal equipada con un robusto sistema de placas solares, dos estaciones de carga para autos eléctricos, doble generador eléctrico, cisterna de 7 mil galones de agua y está rodeada por más de 100 árboles.
El edificio, de 12 mil pies cuadrados de construcción y tres niveles, está ubicado en la entrada del pueblo de Aguas Buenas, justo al lado de la Estación de Bomberos. La instalación, donde también están las oficinas centrales de la cooperativa, se destaca porque más allá de presentar un diseño contemporáneo, ofrece una variedad de herramientas pensadas para brindar continuidad de servicio y mejor accesibilidad a los socios.
“Esta nueva sucursal representa un hecho importante en la expansión de nuestros servicios. Es un edificio ecoamigable. Muchos recordarán que tras el paso del huracán María fue complicado servir a los socios y clientes porque no teníamos energía eléctrica. Eso aquí queda superado. El nuevo edificio central de Buena Coop no solo es un ejemplo de modernidad, sino también de sostenibilidad
de servicio
energética y responsabilidad con el ambiente. Eso nos hace sentirnos muy orgullosos de este proyecto”, sostuvo el presidente ejecutivo de Buena Coop, Jesús Carrasquillo Medina.
El ejecutivo destacó además que el diseño demuestra un compromiso firme con la comunidad discapacitada que requiere de los servicios de la institución. “Esto lo demostramos al contar con ascensores amplios, áreas de estacionamiento iden-
El presidente de la Junta de Directores de Buena Coop, Luis A. Martínez Rivera y el presidente ejecutivo de Buena Coop, Jesús Carrasquillo, anunciaron la apertura de la nueva sucursal de la institución financiera.
Nueva sucursal de la cooperativa está ubicada en la Carretera #156 Km 50.5, Barrio Sumidero en Aguas Buenas.
tificadas, rampas de acceso al edificio y un cajero automático en el autobanco”, añadió.
“Nuestro compromiso con el ambiente fue más allá y como parte del proyecto de construcción llevamos a cabo un programa de reforestación en el que se sembraron cerca de 130 árboles alrededor de la nueva sucursal. Entre las especies plantadas se encuentran el roble nativo, indio, maría, abey amarillo, capá blanco, millo, guaremá y moralón”, señaló Carrasquillo, quien por 15 años ha estado al mando de Buena Coop.
Por su parte, el presidente de la Junta de Directores de Buena Coop, Luis A. Martínez Rivera, expresó su satisfacción con la culminación del proyecto.
Recordó que la razón de ser de las cooperativas en Puerto Rico es el bienestar común de los socios y que la construcción de esta nueva sucursal reafirma los valores cooperativos por los que se rigen como lo son la solidaridad, la democracia y la ayuda mutua. “Creemos firmemente que la inversión en infraestructura sostenible no solo beneficia a nuestra cooperativa, sino que también contribuye significativamente al cuidado del medio ambiente. Nuestra razón de ser siempre ha sido y seguirá siendo el bienestar de nuestros socios, y con esta nueva sucursal, reafirmamos nuestro compromiso de brindarles un servicio de excelencia al alcance de todos”, indicó. En la actualidad, BuenaCoop tiene 41 empleados, $118,395,308 en activos y sirve a 17,417 socios y clientes residentes en Aguas Buenas, Caguas y pueblos limítrofes.
Sobre Buena Coop:
Buena Coop se incorporó el 10 de julio de 1962 como Cooperativa de Crédito Puritana. En 1990, cambió su nombre comercial a Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Aguas Buenas. La primera sucursal de la cooperativa estuvo ubicada en una oficina dentro de la Fábrica Puritana de Aguas Buenas y luego se mudó a un local más amplio frente a la plaza pública. En 1994, mudaron las operaciones a un local más amplio en la calle Rafael Lasa. Esta sucursal será cerrada tras la inauguración de la nueva sede.
Sinead O’Connor died of pulmonary disease and asthma, death report says
By AMELIA NIERENBERG
Sinead O’Connor, the Irish singer who shot to fame in the 1980s and ’90s and was known for her activism, died at age 56 last July of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchial asthma, according to her death certificate.
In January, a coroner in London said O’Connor had died of “natural causes” but did not provide details. Police said at the time of O’Connor’s death that it was “not being treated as suspicious.”
O’Connor’s death certificate, which was registered last week, filled in some gaps. The singer died of “exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchial asthma together with low-grade lower respiratory-tract infection,” the report said. It was submitted by John Reynolds, O’Connor’s first husband.
O’Connor become a global star in the 1990s with a cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U.” The album the song was on won a Grammy Award in 1991 for best alternative music performance.
She also wielded her fame as an activist, speaking out against sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, misogyny, the
Sinead O’Connor at her home in Wicklow, Ireland, May 10, 2021. O’Connor died at age 56 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchial asthma, according to her death certificate. (Ellius Grace/The New York Times)
British subjugation of Ireland and other issues. In her later life, she spoke about her mental struggles and her recovery from child abuse.
O’Connor’s death shook Ireland, which mourned her as a national treasure even though she had been a controversial figure for her political provocations onstage and off. In 1992, O’Connor tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II during a “Saturday Night Live” performance to protest sexual abuse of children in the Roman Catholic Church.
In the year since she died, debates have continued over O’Connor’s legacy and representation.
In March, a risqué performance honoring her life and her first studio album opened in London and drew crowds in New York. And last week, a wax museum in Dublin removed a figure of her after her brother said it was “hideous” and “looked nothing like her.”
“She was something grander than a simple pop star,” Jon Caramanica, a pop music critic for The New York Times, wrote in an appraisal of O’Connor’s career.
“She became a stand-in for a sociopolitical discomfort that was beginning to take hold in the early 1990s,” he continued, “a rejection of the enthusiastic sheen and power-atall-costs culture of the 1980s.”
Books by Rachel Kushner and Richard Powers are among Booker Prize nominees
By ALEX MARSHALL
Six novels by U.S. authors, including Percival Everett, Rachel Kushner and Richard Powers, are among the 13 titles nominated for this year’s Booker Prize, the award’s organizers announced on Tuesday.
Everett’s book “James” is a retelling of Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of an enslaved runaway; Kushner’s “Creation Lake,” is a forthcoming novel about a spy who infiltrates an environmental activist group; and Powers’ “Playground,” another forthcoming title, imagines a plan to send floating cities into the Pacific Ocean.
ooker Prize is one of the most coveted literary awards, given each year to a novel written in English and published in Britain or Ireland. Recent winners include Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments” and Douglas Stuart’s “Shuggie Bain.” Last year’s winner was “Prophet Song,” a novel by Paul Lynch set in a near-future Ireland torn apart by civil war. Founded in 1969, the Booker Prize was for most of its
life only open to books by writers from Britain, Ireland, the Commonwealth and Zimbabwe, but in 2014, organizers expanded its eligibility criteria to any work written in English. Ever since, British literary figures have regularly complained about the prize’s dominance by American authors.
Tuesday’s announcement could reignite those concerns, especially because only two novels by British authors have been nominated: Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital,” a dayin-the-life story of six astronauts circling Earth on a space station; and Sarah Perry’s “Enlightenment,” about unrequited love in an English town.
As well as the books by Everett, Kushner and Powers, the three other American novels nominated are Rita Bullwinkel’s “Headshot,” set in a women’s boxing tournament; Claire Messud’s “This Strange Eventful History,” a family saga that explores France’s colonial history; and “Wandering Stars,” by Tommy Orange, which is about the impact of coloni-
zation on a Native American family. Orange is the Booker Prize’s first ever Native American nominee.
The nominated titles vary wildly in subject matter and tone — but Edmund de Waal, chair of this year’s judges, said in a news release that the 13 books all had a similar emotional impact. “These are not books ‘about issues,’” he said. “They are works of fiction that inhabit ideas by making us care deeply about people and their predicaments.”
“The precarity of lives runs through our longlist like quicksilver,” de Waal added.
The judges will now cut the list down to a six-book shortlist, scheduled to be announced on Sep. 16. The winning title will be revealed during a ceremony in London on Nov. 12.
The full list of nominees:
— Colin Barrett, “Wild Houses”
— Rita Bullwinkel, “Headshot”
— Percival Everett, “James”
— Samantha Harvey, “Orbital”
— Rachel Kushner, “Creation Lake”
— Hisham Matar, “My Friends”
— Claire Messud, “This Strange Eventful History”
— Anne Michaels, “Held”
— Tommy Orange, “Wandering Stars”
— Sarah Perry, “Enlightenment”
— Richard Powers, “Playground”
— Yael van der Wouden, “The Safekeep”
— Charlotte Wood, “Stone Yard Devotional”
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. BAUTISTA CAYMAN ASSET COMPANY
Plaintiff v. CENTRO CARDIOVASCULAR DE MANATÍ III, C.S.P.; JOSÉ RAMÓN MARTÍNEZ BARROSO; VIRGEN MILAGROS RIVERA COLÓN; AND THE CONJUGAL LEGAL PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THEM; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Defendants
Civil No. 16-cv-3129 (CCC). COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALES.
TO: DEFENDANTS AND GENERAL PUBLIC
On April 12, 2024, this Court issued an Opinion and Order over the mortgages in controversy where it granted, among other matters, the Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment, against Defendants, Centro Cardiovascular de Manatí III CSP; José Ramón Martínez Barroso; Virgen Milagros Rivera Colón, and the Conjugal Legal Partnership Between Them. As of November 30, 2017, Defendants owed the amount of $933,324.74, composed of the sum of $803,313.96 in principal amount; interests in the amount of $122,605.28 which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at the default annual rate of 11.00% and $245.46 per diem; accrued late charges in the amount of $7,406.50; and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by Bautista, on behalf of Defendants, in accordance with the Loan Agreement, plus costs and agreed attorney’s fees in the amount of $87,000. Pursuant to the Judgment, the Order of Execution of Judgment, and the Writ of Execution of Judgment, the undersigned appointed Special Master was ordered to sell, at public auctions for U.S. currency in cash or certified check, without appraisement or right to redemption, to the highest bidder, at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at any other place designated by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjud-
ged to be paid to the Plaintiff, the following properties: a. Property A (7,284): “URBAN: Lot number G-9 in the inscription plat of the 0143 Project located in the Coto and Sabana Seca awards of the municipality of Manatí, Puerto Rico, with a superficial area of 284.62 square meters. Its boundaries are: by the NORTH with Marginal Street South, at a distance of 13.00 meters; by the SOUTH, with lots numbers 8 and 21 of the G block, at a distance of 10.20 meters; by the EAST with lot number 10 of the G block at a distance of 19.78 meters; and by the WEST with lands owned by widower Teresa Fernandez, Eusebio Carbajal and Anselmo Rosario at a distance of 24,25 meters.” It appears registered on page 149 of volume 175 of Manati, Lot 7,284. Physical Address: Lot #G-9, 1 Marginal Street State Road #2, Corner of Fernández Vangas Street, San Salvador Dev., Manatí, Puerto Rico 00674. Property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Affected with easements in favor of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, Puerto Rico Railway, Light and Power Authority, and Municipality of Manati. By itself: MORTGAGE: guaranteeing a note payable to the order of Banco Santander de Puerto Rico in the principal amount of $220,000.00 with an annual interest rate of 8.5% and due on demand, as per deed number 119 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on November 20, 1998, before Notary Public María de Lourdes González Rivas, recorded at page 1 of volume 456 of Manatí, 7th inscription. MODIFIED its due date, now October 18, 2024 as per deed number 55, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 18, 2013 before Notary Public Joseorlando Mercado Gely, recorded at page 25 of volume 584 of Manatí, 7th inscription (marginal note). ANNOTATION OF DEMAND: The subject of this annotation is the Mortgage in favor of Banco Santander de Puerto Rico, for the amount of $220,000.00 arising from registration #7. Plaintiff: Bautista Cayman Asset Company; Defendant: Centro Cardiovascular De Manatí III, C.S.P., José Ramón Martínez Barroso, Virgen Milagros Rivera Colón, And The Partnership Between Them, The United States Of America, Amount Owed $862,509.00, for principal plus interest, according to the complaint filed by the United States District Court for the District of
Puerto Rico in Civil Case number 16-CV-3129, on December 12, 2016, and Recorded in volume Karibe de Manatí, Annotation C dated June 27, 2018. FEDERAL TAX LIEN against José R. Martínez Barroso and “Servicios Ambulancia de Manatí, Inc.”, in the principal amount of $7,104.10. File number: 208199905 on April 28, 2005, at page 31 of volume 4 of the Federal Tax Liens inscription book. STATE ATTACHMENTS: Against José Ramón Martínez Barroso for $752,150.48, followed by the Department of the Treasury, refers to a 248.42 square meters lot on Marginal Sur Street in the Coto and Sabana Seca Ward of Manatí, dated June 13, 2016, submitted on March 3, 2017, to the Karibe Embargo system and recorded on March 6, 2017. b. Property B (3,485):
URBAN: Lot number 1 of the E block of the San Salvador Development located in the Cotto ward of the municipality of Manatí, Puerto Rico, with a superficial area of 386.10 square meters. Its boundaries are: by the NORTH at a distance of 29.83 meters with marginal street of the Development; by the SOUTH at a distance of 29.82 meters with lot number 2; by the EAST at a distance of 11.14 meters with the Public Housing project known as Cordova Davila; and by the WEST at a distance of 14.75 meters with street number 4. It contains an one level and single family reinforced concrete and concrete blocks house; today a two level concrete and concrete blocks commercial building. It appears registered on page 40 of volume 91 of Manati, Lot 3,485. Physical Address: Lot #E-1, 1 Marginal Street State Road #2, Corner of Fernández Vangas Street, San Salvador Dev., Manatí, Puerto Rico 00674. Property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Affected with an easement in favor of the Puerto Rico Railway, Light and Power Authority and Restrictive Covenants. By itself: MORTGAGE: guaranteeing a note payable to the order of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico in the principal amount of $650,000.00 (Mortgage Responsibility: $535,000.00) with an annual interest rate of 8.5% and due on demand, as per deed number 185, executed in Manatí on December 16, 1999 before Notary Public Francisco J. Arraiza Donate, recorded at mobile volume 445 of Manatí, 19th inscription. MODIFICATION OF MORTGAGE: The subject of this modification is the Mort-
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gage for $650,000.00, which arises from the 19th registration, as per deed #54 granted in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 18, 2013, before Notary Públic Joséorlando Mercado Gely, registered in volume Karibe de Manatí, property #3485, Marginal Note 19.1. ANNOTATION OF CLAIM: The subject of this annotation is the Mortgage in favor of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, for the amount of $650,000.00, arising from registration #19. Plaintiff: Bautista Cayman Asset Company; Defendant: Centro Cardiovascular De Manatí III, C.S.P., Jose Ramón Martinez Barroso, Virgen Milagros Rivera Colón, And The Partnership Between Them, The United States Of America, Amount Owed $862,509.00, for principal plus interest, according to the complaint filed by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico in Civil Case number 16-CV-3129, on December 12, 2016, and registered in volume Karibe, Annotation A dated June 27, 2018. FEDERAL TAX LIEN against José R. Martínez Barroso and “Servicios Ambulancia de Manatí Inc.”, in the principal amount of $7,104.10. File number: 208199905 on April 28, 2005, at page 31 of volume 4 of the Federal Tax Liens inscription book. STATE ATTACHMENTS: Against José Ramón Martínez Barroso for $752,150.48, followed by the Department of the Treasury, refers to a 248.42 square meters lot on Marginal Sur Street in the Coto and Sabana Seca Ward of Manatí, dated June 13, 2016, submitted on March 3, 2017, to the Karibe Embargo system, recorded on March 6, 2017. c. Property C (3,587): URBAN: Lot located in the San Salvador Development located in the Cotto ward of the municipality of Manati, with a superficial area of 376.647 square meters. Its boundaries are: by the NORTH, with lot number 1 at a distance of 29.82 meters; by the SOUTH, with lot number 3 at a distance of 29.53 meters; by the EAST with the Public Housing Project known as Cordova Davila, at a distance of 12.69 meters; and by the WEST, with street number 4 at a distance of 12.69 meters.” It appears registered on mobile volume 445 of Manatí, Lot 3,587. Physical Address: Lot #E-2, 1 Marginal Street State Road #2, Corner of Fernández Vangas Street, San Salvador Dev., Manatí, Puerto Rico 00674. Property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Affected with an easement in
favor of the Puerto Rico Railway, Light and Power Authority and Restrictive Covenants. By itself: MORTGAGE: guaranteeing a note payable to the order of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico in the principal amount of $650,000.00 (Mortgage Responsibility: $115,000.00) with an annual interest rate of 8.5% and due on demand, as per deed number 185, executed in Manatí, Puerto Rico, on December 16, 1999, before Notary Public Francisco J. Arraiza Donate, recorded at mobile volume 445 of Manatí, 9th inscription. MORTGAGE: guaranteeing a note payable to the order of Doral Bank in the principal amount of $650,000.00 with an annual interest rate of 6.5% and due on demand, as per deed number 23 of Mortgage, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 12, 2004, before Notary Public Tomás Correa Acevedo, recorded at Karibe, volume of Manatí, Property #3587, 10th inscription abbreviated. MODIFICATION OF MORTGAGE: The subject of this modification is the Mortgage for $650,000.00, which arises from the 9th registration, as per deed #54, granted in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 18, 2013, before Notary Public Joséorlando Mercado Gely, recorded at Karibe, volume of Manatí property #3587, 10th inscription abbreviated. ANNOTATION OF CLAIM: The subject of this annotation is the Mortgage in favor of Doral Bank, for the amount of $39,000.00 arising from registration #10. Plaintiff: Bautista Cayman Asset Company; Defendant: Centro Cardiovascular de Manatí III, C.S.P., José Ramón Martínez Barroso, Virgen Milagros Rivera Colón, And The Conjugal legal Partnership Between Them, The United States Of America., Amount Owed $862,509.00, for principal plus interest, according to the claim filed by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, in Civil Case number 16-CV3129, on December 12, 2016, and Recorded in the Karibe de Manatí volume, Annotation A, dated June 27, 2016. FEDERAL TAX LIEN against José R. Martínez Barroso and “Servicios Ambulancia de Manatí, Inc.”, in the principal amount of $7,104.10. File number: 208199905 on April 28, 2005, at page 31 of volume 4 of the Federal Tax Liens inscription book. STATE ATTACHMENTS: Against José Ramón Martínez Barroso for $752,150.48, followed by the Department of
the Treasury, refers to a 248.42 square meters lot on Marginal Sur Street in the Coto and Sabana Seca Ward of Manatí, dated June 13, 2016, submitted on March 3, 2017, to the Karibe Embargo system and recorded on March 6, 2017. The Properties are described in the Spanish language as follows: a. Propiedad A (7,284):
URBANA: Solar marcado con el #9 del bloque G del plano de inscripción del Proyecto 0143 radicado en los Barrios Coto y Sabana Seca del término municipal de Manatí, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 284.62 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle Marginal Sur, distancia de 13.0metros; por el SUR, con los solares #8 y 21 del bloque G, distancia de 10.20 metros; ESTE, con el sola#10 del bloque G, distancia de 19.78 metros y por el OESTE, con terrenos propiedad de Teresa viuda de Fernández y Eusebio Carbajal, Anselmo Rosario, distancia de 24.25 metros.” Consta inscrita al folio 149 del tomo 175 de Manatí, finca número 7,284, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. Dirección Física: Solar G-9, 1 Calle Marginal Carretera Estatal #2, Esquina Calle Fernández Vangas, Urb. San Salvador, Manatí, Puerto Rico 00674. b. Propiedad B (3,485): URBANA: Solar marcado con el #1 del bloque E de la Urbanización San Salvador en el Barrio Cotto del municipio de Manatí, Puerto Rico, compuesto de 386.10 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 29.83 metros, con la calle marginal de la urbanización; por el SUR, en 29.82 metros, con el solar #2; ESTE, en 11.14 metros, con el Caserío Córdova Dávila y por el OESTE, en 14.75 metros, con la calle #4. Enclava una casa de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto de una sola planta para una sola familia antes, hoy edificio comercial de dos niveles de concreto y bloques de concreto.” Consta inscrita al folio 40 del tomo 91 de Manatí, finca número 3,485, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. Dirección Física: Solar E-1, 1 Calle Marginal Carretera Estatal #2, Esquina Calle Fernández Vangas, Urb. San Salvador, Manatí, Puerto Rico 00674 c. Propiedad C (3,587): URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización San Salvador, situado en el Barrio Cotto de Manatí, con un área de 376.64 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar #1, distancia de 29.82 metros; por el SUR, con el solar #3, distancia de 29.53 metros; ESTE, con el
Caserío Córdova Dávila, distancia de 12.69 metros y por el OESTE, con la calle #4, distancia de 12.69 metros.” Consta inscrita al tomo 445 de Manatí, finca número 3,587, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. Dirección Física: Solar E-2, 1 Calle Marginal Carretera Estatal #2, Esquina Calle Fernández Vangas, Urb. San Salvador, Manatí, Puerto Rico 00674. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect. It being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The liens executed are over the properties, and for the purpose of the first judicial sales the minimum bids amounts are as follows: a. Property A (7,284). The amount of $220,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $146,666.67 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $110,000.00. b. Property B (3,485). The amount of $535,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $356,666.67 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $267,500.00. c. Property C (3,587). The amount of $115,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $76,666.67 shall serve as the minimum
bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $57,500.00. Said sales to be conducted by the appointed Special Master are subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the properties may be executed and delivered after the judicial sales. Upon confirmation of the sales, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. THEREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master –pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment, the Order of Execution of Judgment, and the Writ of Execution of Judgment, on the 4th day of October, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. for Property Number 7,284; at 10:45 a.m. for Property Number 3,485; at 11:00 a.m. for Property Number 3,587, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder the properties described herein, the proceeds of said sales to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sales set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the second judicial sales of the properties described in this Notice will be held on 11th day of October, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. for Property Number 7,284; at 10:45 a.m. for Property Number 3,485; at 11:00 a.m. for Property Number 3,587, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Should the second judicial sales set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the third judicial sales of the properties described in this Notice will be held on 21th day of October, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. for Property Number 7,284; at 10:45 a.m. for Property Number 3,485; at 11:00 a.m. for Property Number 3,587, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. The records of the captioned case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Clerk’s Office of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico,
el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $101,190.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 19 DE AGOSTO DE 2024 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $67,460.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 26 DE AGOSTO DE 2024
A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $50,595.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán
de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de julio de 2024. ALEJANDRO URBINA ROQUE, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #997, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS. ***
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. ELIUD GARCÍA MORALES; SU ESPOSA AIDA RIVERA ROMEU, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado
Civil Núm.: HU2023CV01176. Sala: 206. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 18 de junio de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Solar número 27 radicado en la Urbanización Jardín del Este situada en el Barrio Húcares del término municipal de Naguabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 470.44 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en 14.20 metros lineales, con el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas; por el SUR, en 14.19 metros lineales, con la Calle número 4; por el ESTE, 32.98 metros lineales, con el Solar
número 28; y por el OESTE, en 33.32 metros lineales, con el Solar número 26. Sobre dicho solar se encuentra enclavada una casa de hormigón de una planta, con tres dormitorios, dos baños, sala-comedor, cocina, balcón y marquesina. Este solar se encuentra afectado en su frente con una servidumbre telefónica de 1.50 metros de ancho. Inscrita en la finca número 12,182, al tomo hoja móvil 217 de Naguabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Humacao. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada el 7 de mayo de 2024 y notificada en este caso el 8 de mayo de 2024 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $116,178.65 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 4.50%, anual desde el 1ro de agosto de 2020, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $12,306.51 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 27 DE AGOSTO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $123,065.11. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 3 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $82,043.40, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $61,532.55, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se
declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Artículo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de julio de 2024. JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL PLACA #249, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO, INC.
Demandante V. JUAN EDGARDO FRANCO RODRIGUEZ
Demandado
Civil Núm.: BY2024CV02133. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JUAN EDGARDO FRANCO RODRIGUEZ
- URB. VILLA DE SAN AGUSTÍN M53 CALLE 13, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO 00959-2083.
De: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO.
Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Cobro de Dinero; la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a pagar: la suma principal de $14,151.55 por la tarjeta bancaria número xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-9032; más una suma por costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.
Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Abogado Número 15693 PO Box 194089, San Juan, PR 00919
Teléfono: (787) 296-9500
Correo Electrónico:j lamas@lvprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy: 15 de julio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE COMERÍO LUNA PERFORMANCE II, LLC
Demandante V. RICHARD RODRÍGUEZ MATOS, JOSÉ ROLANDO
RODRÍGUEZ MATOS Y GLADYS ENID RODRÍGUEZ MATOS
COMO MIEMBROS
CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE VÍCTOR
ROLANDO RODRIGUEZ
RIVERA Y LA SUCESIÓN DE GLADYS ESTHER MATOS SALGADO; MARILU WILLIAMS
GARCÍA; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE VICTOR
ROLANDO RODRIGUEZ
RIVERA: FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GLADYS ESTHER MATOS
SALGADO
Demandada Civil Núm.: CR2024CV00214.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA E INTERPELACIÓN. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: FULANA DE TAL & FULANO DEL TAL COMO MIEMBROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GLADYS ESTHER MATOS SALGADO - PO BOX 331, BARRANQUITAS, PR 00794; BO. HONDURAS, CALLE H #5, SAN CRISTÓBAL, BARRANQUITAS, PR 00794; URB. SAN CRISTÓBAL, BO. HONDURAS, CALLE H-5, BARRANQUITAS, PR 00794; URB. SAN CRISTÓBAL, BARRANQUITAS, PR 00794-0331.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en Ia Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de Ia mismas al (a Ia) abogado(a) de
Ia parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en Ia demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se la apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 572029, titulada Ley para La Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para La Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menos fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para Ia privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Articulo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Ni:im. 57-2023). Se Ie advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a Ia parte demandante el Lcdo. Javier Montalvo Cintrón, RUA #17,682, Delgado Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414, jrnontalvo@ delgadofernandez.com. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Comerío, Puerto Rico, a 18 de julio de 2024. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN L. APONTE FLORES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE COMERÍO LUNA PERFORMANCE II, LLC
Demandante V. RICHARD RODRÍGUEZ MATOS, JOSÉ ROLANDO RODRÍGUEZ MATOS Y GLADYS ENID RODRÍGUEZ MATOS COMO MIEMBROS
CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE VÍCTOR
ROLANDO RODRIGUEZ
RIVERA Y LA SUCESIÓN DE GLADYS ESTHER MATOS SALGADO; MARILU WILLIAMS
GARCÍA; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE VICTOR
ROLANDO RODRIGUEZ
RIVERA: FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL
COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GLADYS ESTHER MATOS SALGADO Demandada Civil Núm.: CR2024CV00214. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA E INTERPELACIÓN. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE VÍCTOR ROLANDO RODRIGUEZ RIVERA - PO BOX 331, BARRANQUITAS, PR 00794; BO. HONDURAS, CALLE H #5, SAN CRISTÓBAL, BARRANQUITAS, PR 00794; URB. SAN CRISTÓBAL, BO. HONDURAS, CALLE H-5, BARRANQUITAS, PR 00794; URB. SAN CRISTÓBAL, BARRANQUITAS, PR 00794-0331. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en Ia Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de Ia mismas al (a Ia) abogado(a) de Ia parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en Ia demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se la apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 572029, titulada Ley para La Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para La Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menos fuera de
su hogar, el inicio de procesos para Ia privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Articulo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Ni:im. 57-2023). Se Ie advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a Ia parte demandante el Lcdo. Javier Montalvo Cintrón, RUA #17,682, Delgado Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414, jrnontalvo@ delgadofernandez.com. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Comerío, Puerto Rico, a 18 de julio de 2024. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN L. APONTE FLORES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCN JOSE LUIS
MALDONADO MARTINEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2024CV02098. (Salón: 401). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. RAQUEL DESEDA BELAVALRDESEDA@DELGADOFERNANDEZ. COM.
CENTRO DE MEDIACIÓN DE CONFLICTOS - CMC-BAYAMON@ PODERJUDICIAL.PR.
CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES - OFICINA ASESORAMIENTO LEGAL, PO BOX 195387, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, 00919-5387.
DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA - PO BOX 9024140, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, 00902-4140.
FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO
MIEMBROS DE LA SUCN JOSE LUIS
MALDONADO MARTINEZ - URB. ALTURAS DE FLAMBOYÁN C18 CALLE 5, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO, 00959-8145.
SUTANO Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO
MIEMBROS DE LA SUCN LUZ
AMPARO CANDELARIA MARTINEZ - URB. ALTURAS DE FLAMBOYÁN C18 CALLE 5, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO, 00959-8145.
A: FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCN JOSE LUIS
MALDONADO MARTINEZ, SUTANO Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCN LUZ
AMPARO CANDELARIA
MARTINEZ, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS
MUNICIPALES, DEPARTAMENTO DE
HACIENDA, CENTRO DE MEDIACIÓN DE CONFLICTOS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 23 de julio de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 23 de julio de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA.
NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN. BIENVENIDO MORENO HEREDIA DEMANDANTE VS. MAGILI
CEDANO SILVESTRE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚMERO: SJ2024RF00771. SOBRE: CUSTODIA. PRIVACIÓN PATRIA POTESTAD. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTEAMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. ss.
A: Sra. Magili
Cedano Silvestre
Dirección Desconocida
Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la solicitud del epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere que radique en esta Secretaría el original de la contestación a la Demanda de Divorcio y que notifique con copia de dicha contestación a la Lcda. María Pagán Hernández, P.O. Box 21411, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928-1411, teléfono 787-282-6734, abogada de la parte demandante, dentro de
los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Si dejare de hacerlo, podrá dictarse contra usted sentencia en rebeldía concediéndole el remedio solicitado en la demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 18 de julio de 2024. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretaria.
DALIA RODRIGUEZ ESTRADA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. JOREL M. LOPEZ VILLAMIL
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV11367. (Salón: 504 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: JOREL M
LOPEZ VILLAMIL.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 23 de julio de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 23 de julio de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. RAQUEL DÍAZ LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
ISLAND PORTFOLIO
SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante V. ABDIEL
GARCIA FELICIANO
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: PO2023CV02149. (Salón: 301 - SALA MUNICIPAL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANEROKEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM. A: ABDIEL
GARCIA FELICIANO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 11 de junio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 23 de julio de 2024. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 23 de julio de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. SANDRA GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
YARIVETTE
GÓMEZ DE JESÚS
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE INÉS DELGADO RIJOS
COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; JUAN GARCÍA; SUCESIÓN DE JUAN GARCÍA, COMPUESTA POR JOHN
DOE Y JANE DOE; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV06001. (802). Sobre: USUCAPIÓN - LEY 188 - 2022. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE INÉS DELGADO RIJOS; JUAN GARCÍA; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN GARCÍA; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO CUALQUIER PERSONA CON INTERÉS EN LA PROPIEDAD INMUEBLE OBJETO DE ESTA DEMANDA. Por la presente, se le notifica que la parte Demandante de epígrafe ha presentado ante este Tribunal una Demanda de Usucapión, solicitando adquirir su dominio sobre la siguiente finca: URBANA: Solar número novecientos treinta y seis (936) sito en la Calle Verdejo según plano de inscripción del proyecto de solares denominado Tras Talleres (PRHA-102), radicado en el Barrio Santurce Sur del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Dicho solar tiene un área de ciento veinticuatro metros cuadrados en cincuenta y cuatro (124.54) centésimas de metros cuadrados y colinda por el Norte, con Calle Robles, distancia de once metros y setenta y un (11.71) centímetros; por el Sur, con solar novecientos treinta y ocho (938), distancia de dieciséis metros con noventa y siete (16.97) centímetros; por el Este, con Calle Verdejo, distancia de ocho metros con sesenta y siete centímetros; por el Oeste, con solar mil cuarenta y seis (1046), distancia de nueve metros en sesenta y un (9.61) centímetros. 7717 inscrita al Folio 236 del Tomo 252 de San Juan, Sección Primera. Número de Catastro: 040-068-175-06-001. La parte Demandante se encuentra representada por:
LCDA. CAROLINA GARRIGA CESANÍ, RUA 15227
Calle Resolución #33, Suite 302 San Juan, PR 00920
Teléfono: 787-782-6500 x. 282 Correo electrónico: cgarriga@ titlesecuritygroup.com Se le apercibe y notifica para que comparezca, si lo creyere pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro del plazo improrrogable de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este edicto, a exponer sus derechos en el
caso promovido por la Parte Demandante para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca antes descrita. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia, previo escuchar la prueba de valor de la Parte Demandante, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda o cualquier otro si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende pertinente. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. En San Juan, Puerto Rico a 12 de julio de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NANCY I. GARCÍA FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
ALBERIC COLÓN SOLÍS; CELMARIE COLÓN SOLÍS; ALBERIC COLÓN ZAMBRANA
Demandante V. DEYANIRA BRAND ECHEVERRY; HENRY
JOHN COLÓN
CARRASQUILLO; JIMMY HENRY COLÓN
CARRASQUILIO Y DAVID HENRY COLÓN CARRASQUIILO
Demandados Civil Núm.: KAC2013-0898. Sobre: PARTICIÓN DE HERENCIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. A: DEYANIRA BRAND ECHEVERRY; HENRY JOHN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO; JIMMY HENRY COLÓN CARRASQUILLO Y DAVID HENRY COLÓN
CARRASQUILLO - FÍSICA:
COND. FLAMBOYAN, 864 AVE ASHFORD APT 410, SAN JUAN, PR 00907; POSTAL: COND FLAMBOYAN, 864 AVE ASHFORD APT 410, SAN JUAN, PR 00907. PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace cons-
tar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por Ia Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del tribunal, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga Ia Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: APARTAMENTO NÚMERO CUATROCIENTOS DIEZ (410). Apartamento individualizado de concreto armado y bloques de hormigón de uso residencial identificado con el número 410, localizado en Ia esquina Noreste del cuarto piso del edificio conocido como Condominio Flamboyán Apartments, que se identifica con el número ochocientos sesenta y cuatro (864) de Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico Avenida Ashford de Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Este apartamento tiene una cabida superficial de setenta y nueve metros cuadrados y veintiuna centésima de otro (79.21 m.c.) y consta de un vestíbulo de entrada, una sala-comedor, un dormitorio con vestidor, un baño y una cocina. La puerta principal está localizada en el vestíbulo Ia cual lo comunica con el pasillo de uso común que conduce a los vestíbulos del edificio y a Ia calle. Colinda por el NORTE, en ocho metros ocho centímetros (8.08 m.) con elementos exteriores del edificio; por el SUR, en tres metros cinco centímetros (3.05 m.) con elementos exteriores del edificio y en cinco metros tres centímetros (5.03 m.) con el pasillo de uso común; por el ESTE, en nueve metros ochenta y cinco centímetros (9.85 m.) con elementos exteriores del edificio; y por el OESTE, en nueve metros ochenta y cinco centímetros (9.85 m.) con eI apartamento número cuatrocientos nueve (409). Este apartamento está equipado con dos (2) unidades de ventana de acondicionador de aire, un calentador eléctrico de agua, una estufa eléctrica con horno, una nevera, un triturador de desperdicios y gabinetes de cocina. Le corresponde a este apartamiento en los elementos comunes generales una participación equivalente de uno punto cincuenta y cinco centésimas por ciento (1.55%). Se separa de a finca número 15968 inscrita al Folio 158, del Tomo 495 de Santurce Norte. Finca número 21743 inscrita at Folio 180, del Tomo 610 de Santurce Norte, Sección Primera de San Juan. B.
Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes at procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en Ia Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables baja el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta coma bastante Ia titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en Ia responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D. Que el licitador y/o mejor postor pagará el importe de su oferta en efectivo, cheque certificado a giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. E. Que Ia Propiedad se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen: AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE DE ESTE CASO CIVIL NÚM. KAC2013-0898. F. Dicha subasta se celebrará para satisfacer a Ia parte demandante Ia suma de $20,661.85 para eI pago de honorarios del contador partidor y el sobrante para eI pago de deudas del caudal de Ia Sucesión Alberic Colón Bermúdez y su distribución conforme at Cuaderno Particional. Se fija como tipo mínimo para Ia subasta Ia cantidad de $200,000.00. La subasta se celebrará eI día 26 DE AGOSTO DE 2024 A LAS 11:30 DE IA MAÑANA, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan. El tipo mínimo de licitación es Ia cantidad de $200,000.00. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a Ia ley, expido Ia presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 24 de julio de 2024 en San Juan, Puerto Rico. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Demandante V. ÁNGEL DANIEL MEDINA, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ÉSTE Y PERLA IVELISSE RODRÍGUEZ WALKER Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
baño, closet en pasillo, dos dormitorios con closet, closet de lavandería, dormitorio master con área de lavamanos, closet vestidor y baño. A este apartamento le corresponde el estacionamiento doble número ciento noventa y tres (193) frente a este edificio de apartamentos. A este apartamento le corresponde una participación de cero punto siete mil doscientos setenta y uno por ciento (0.7271%) en los elementos comunes del condominio. Consta inscrito al Folio 11 del tomo 1449 de Guaynabo, finca #46,627 del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guaynabo. La propiedad está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Condominio Portal de Sofía, Apto. 1003, Calle Cecilio Urbina, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $162,444.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #238, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de marzo de 2014, ante el notario Angel L. Rolón Prado, inscrita al folio 11 del tomo 1449 de Guaynabo, finca #46,627, inscripción 4ta y última. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 20 DE AGOSTO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el cuarto piso del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $162,444.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 27 DE AGOSTO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $108,296.00. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 3 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $81,222.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: La suma principal de $159,051.49, más los intere-
ses correspondientes a razón de 6% anual, desde el 1ro de enero de 2016 y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma equivalente 5% de cualquier pago que esté en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento. Más una suma estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de $16,224.40, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 18 de julio de 2024. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. BRUCE LEE NEWBOLD, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO
COMO BRUCE NEWBOLD Y DANIEL EARL VAUGHN TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO
COMO DANIEL VAUGHN
Demandados
Civil Núm.: NSCI2013-00967. Salón: 303. Sobre: COBRO
DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). AVISO DE PÚBLICA
SUBASTA. A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DE EPIGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:
El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 12 de julio de 2022 y Notificación de Sentencia archivada en autos el 13 de julio de 2022; y de un Mandamiento de Ejecución emitido el día 10 de julio de 2024, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, procederá a vender en subasta, y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, y/o giro postal, dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra bancaria, con similar garantía de todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 4 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: PROPIEDAD
HORIZONTAL: Vista del Faro de Luquillo. Apartamento: 304. Cabida: 1,319.66 pies cuadrados. Consta de un solo nivel dividido en las siguientes dependencias: Balcón que corre a todo lo ancho del apartamento, sala, comedor, cocina, área de lavandería, tres habitaciones dormitorios con sus respectivos closets unidos por un pasillo central, dos cuartos de servicio sanitario, uno con acceso al pasillo central y el segundo ubicado dentro del área del cuarto dormitorio principal, jardinera en el lado oeste y en el lado norte de la habitación principal, otra en lado oeste de la habitación #2, otra en el lado norte de la cocina. Contiene calentador de agua y gabinetes de cocina. Su forma es rectangular; en lindes por el NORESTE, en una distancia de 25’9”, con espacio exterior; por el SUROESTE, en una distancia de 26’ y otra de 4’3”, con espacio exterior; por el SURESTE, en una distancia de 3’6” y otra de 12’8”, con el área ilustrada en el plano como “mechanical área” y área de vestíbulo, ascensor y escalera; por el NOROESTE, en una distancia de 44’ y otra de 5’6”, con espacio exterior. Se le asigna en forma permanente e inseparable, 2 espacios de estacionamiento, marcados con el #304, lo cual se hace constar en la escritura
de constitución de Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal y se ilustra en los planos generales del condominio. La orientación de la puerta de entrada está localizada al Noroeste, según plano. PORCENTAJE: Elementos Comunes Generales: 4.8694%. FINCA: Número 13957 de Luquillo, inscrita al tomo Karibe de la Sección de Fajardo. Dirección física:304 Apt. Vistas del Faro, Luquillo PR 00773. El siguiente pagaré consta inscrito en la propiedad antes mencionada y es el que se pretende ejecutar: HIPOTECA: Por $220,000.00, con intereses al 7.125% anual, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, que vence el 1ro de junio de 2037. Según escritura #439, otorgada en Trujillo Alto, el 29 de mayo de 2007, ante Carlos R. Garriga Blanco, inscrita al tomo Karibe de la Sección de Fajardo, finca #13957 de Luquillo, inscripción 3ra. y última. La referida hipoteca grava el bien inmueble antes descrito. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por las siguientes sumas: $211,410.46 por concepto de principal, más intereses acumulados al 7.125% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2011 hasta su completo pago, recargos por atraso, más 5% de todo pago en atraso, más $22,000.00 como cantidad estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Fajardo, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá Libre de Cargas y Gravámenes posteriores. Los tipos mínimos a utilizarse para la subasta son los siguientes: El inmueble antes descrito ha sido tasado en la suma de DOSCIENTOS VEINTE MIL
DÓLARES ($220,000.00) para que dicha suma sirva de tipo
mínimo en la primera subasta a celebrarse. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 11 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha segunda subasta, una suma equivalente a las dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CIENTO CUARENTA Y SEIS MIL SEISCIENTOS SESENTA Y SEIS DÓLARES CON SESENTA Y SEIS CENTAVOS ($146,666.66) para la finca antes descrita. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 18 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha tercera subasta, una suma equivalente a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CIENTO DIEZ MIL DÓLARES ($110,000.00) para la finca antes descrita. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 29 de julio de 2024, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #737, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE FAJARDO. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622.
LEGAL NOTICE
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Parte Demandante V. JORGE JUAN SANTIAGO
SOTO; SU ESPOSA: ROSA MINERVA LÓPEZ SOTO Y LA SLG COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Parte Demandada
Caso Núm.: CA2024CV01468. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE PRENDA E HIPOTECA (MATERIA O ASUNTO). EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JORGE JUAN
SANTIAGO SOTO Y LA SLG COMPUESTA CON ROSA MINERVA LÓPEZ SOTO (Nombre de la parte demandada
que se emplaza)
CB 20, CALLE 126 URB. JARDINES DE COUNTRY CLUB, CAROLINA, P.R. 00983, LA POSTAL:
CB 20, CALLE 126, CAROLINA, P.R. 00983; URB. JARDINES DE COUNTRY CLUB CB-20, CALLE 126, CAROLINA, P.R. 00983.
(Dirección de la parte demandada que se emplaza) POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 572023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Lcdo. Roberto C. Látimer Valentín Nombre del (de la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante, o de la parte, si no tiene representación legal 18,717 Número ante el Tribunal Supremo (RUA), si es abogado(a) PO BOX 9022512 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00902-2512 Dirección 787-724-0230
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Correo electrónico
Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, el 8 de mayo de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JACQUELINE MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
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Demandante Vs. JAZMÍN
GONZÁLEZ CABÁN
Demandado
Civil Núm.: AG2022CV01641. Salón: 0002. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JAZMÍN
GONZÁLEZ CABÁN
URB. ESTEVES 1641 CALLE SAUCE AGUADILLA, PR 006037327.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de mayo de 2024. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 23 de mayo
de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. TAMARA SOSA ROMÁN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
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Demandante Vs. EDGARD G. RIVERA TORRES
Demandado
Civil Núm.: CZ2023CV00183. Salón: 505. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: EDGARDO G. RIVERA TORRES - URB. MONTE REY H23 CALLE 5, COROZAL, PR 00783 / PO BOX 1241, COROZAL, PR 00783.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de enero de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 31 de enero de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Their parents fled war. now South Sudan’s young team is in the Olympics.
By ABDI LATIF DAHIR
When South Sudan’s young basketball team members took to the court for an exhibition game against America’s basketball royalty, there were few expectations that they could hold on against the likes of LeBron James and Stephen Curry. Then they lost by just one point, 101-100, stunning not only their loyal followers but also the team’s players, who had grown up revering the NBA stars.
The South Sudanese faced the United States again Wednesday afternoon in a game that was still in progress at press time, this time at the Paris Olympics, and with the Americans now on notice, the odds were distinctly against the African team. But for many of their fans in Africa and elsewhere, that is beside the point.
The way they see it, it is a bit of a miracle that a team of refugees and their descendants, whose home country is just 13 years old and has suffered through devastating wars, made it to the Olympics at all.
Despite having no place of their own to train, the team won the only slot open to Africa for men’s basketball. They already beat the odds by not only coming within a hair of winning against the Americans — James made the winning layup with just 8 seconds remaining — but also by beating Puerto Rico in their first match of the Games in Paris.
“South Sudan and its people are known all over the world now,” said Aninyesi Tereza Mark, a 33-year-old university lecturer in the South Sudanese capital, Juba. “We are very proud of them, and we are happy.”
South Sudan is the world’s youngest country. It won its freedom from neighboring Sudan only in 2011 and since then, has suffered through a civil war that has claimed the lives of some 400,000 people and displaced more
than 4 million. While a shaky peace deal has been in place since 2018, inter-communal violence persists. Poverty and corruption are endemic.
None of the members of the basketball team — nicknamed the Bright Stars — live in the country; many of their parents fled its wars before and after independence.
Still, their accomplishments have offered a modicum of hope to those who have remained behind.
Mark, who has been watching the games with her four children and brother, said, “Our image is not positive outside” the country, but “they made it to the top.”
South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, weighed in, gushing about the near-win against the American team and posting the score on social platform X along with this message: “Your impressive performance has inspired many open-minded people across the globe to get to know that South Sudan as a country has more to offer the world.”
The team’s road to Paris was not an easy one.
Although it was created after independence, South Sudan’s men’s basketball team only began its dizzying ascent in 2019, after Luol Deng, a former NBA player, became the president of the South Sudan Basketball Federation. Deng, whose family fled to Egypt in 1990 during the war of independence and later moved to Britain, used his own money to fund and corral the team.
In 2021, he was joined in the endeavor by Royal Ivey, who was then an assistant coach for the Brooklyn Nets. In an interview, Ivey said he had called Deng to propose working as an assistant coach, but Deng offered him the head coaching job instead, and he accepted.
He was attracted by the idea of helping
Pierce and Gilbert Arenas, belittled the team members, suggesting, among other things, that they were not tall enough to win.
“Almost lost to some Africans,” Arenas said dismissively after the nail-biter of a game.
The comments generated widespread public condemnation, including from Deng, who said the remarks were “disrespectful and cruel” and “showed misinformation and a lack of research.” The two players later apologized for their comments.
Although some team members have been in the NBA, none currently play for an NBA team, and many of them have gone undrafted. Some play in leagues in countries including Australia, Canada, China and Serbia. The roster includes rising stars like Khaman Maluach, a 17-year-old, 7-foot-2 player who grew up in Uganda and is an incoming freshman at Duke University.
South Sudanese people put aside their differences and nurturing new talent.
“We are blazing a new path for the nation,” said Ivey, now an assistant coach with the Houston Rockets. “Through sports, you can bring a country together, heal, give hope and inspire.”
Together, Deng and Ivey began to bring together players of South Sudanese descent.
In some places, the only practice venues they could get featured concrete courts with no gyms and, in one case, a flooded field. Many players, spread across the globe in pro leagues, brought vastly different styles.
With no home court in South Sudan, the team assembled before the Olympics to train at the BK Arena in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. When the arena lights went off for a short time on a recent afternoon, some players laughed, saying it was par for the course, given their previous experiences.
“I have never been a part of something where you have to travel to a different country just to have some resources,” Ivey said. “This whole thing has been humbling.”
Still, over time, Ivey and several players said they managed to build camaraderie. Their big break came in September, when the team qualified for the Olympics by beating Angola at the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup in the Philippines.
That did not stop the naysayers.
Before and after the Olympics warm-up match against the United States, two former NBA players from the United States, Paul
In interviews, team members admitted to challenges, including sloppy play when new athletes joined. But they said they learned to embrace their different playing styles, with a goal of making their homeland proud.
“I am here not just to be a basketball player but also to be a brother,” said Carlik Jones, a point guard who recorded a historic triple-double during the friendly game against the U.S. and scored 19 points against Puerto Rico.
“It’s more than just basketball.”
Despite their differences, the team’s players also share similarities. Many of them said they were united by their experience of being migrants and the financial hardships, language barriers, discrimination and social isolation that can come with it. At least some harbor lofty ambitions of playing full time in the NBA.
Nuni Omot, who was named the MVP at the Basketball Africa League last year, said he is thrilled about being at the Olympics and especially excited that his mother plans to be in the stands. He said she worked two jobs while raising him and a brother in Minnesota and said she always had wanted to see Paris.
But he is also proud of what the team is accomplishing for South Sudan, saying he expected their successes to challenge the negative stereotypes that many have about his country or other African nations.
“Nobody can deny that we made it to the biggest stage on earth,” he said. “Everybody’s going to be tuned into it.”
The San Juan Daily Star
Nuni Omot, left, and Carlik Jones, members of South Sudan’s Olympic basketball team, practice at BK Arena in Kigali, Rwanda, July 8, 2024. The South Sudanese team has stunned detractors who never thought they would make it this far. (Guillem Sartorio/The New York Times)
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