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Over 2,800 JYNNEOS vaccines have been re ceived on the island, and of those, 1,056 had been dis tributed as of early Sunday, while only 247 people had been Joséinoculated.Joaquín Mulinelli, CEO of Coaí Inc., said that although monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted infec tion, it has affected the LGBTQ+ community dispropor tionately.“In the same way that we get vaccinated against COVID, it is imperative that LGBTQ+ people prioritize this monkeypox vaccination process,” he said.
Over 2,800 JYNNEOS vaccines have been re ceived on the island, and of those, 1,056 had been distributed as of Sunday, when 292 peo ple were inoculated against monkeypox. Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López said 500 vaccines were available to anyone considered to have been in contact with people with confirmed or suspect ed monkeypox, as identified by the Surveillance and Tracking System of the Office of Epidemiology.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia on Sunday appointed Anaís Rodríguez Vega as secretary of the De partment of Natural and Environmental Re sources (DNER), a position she had held on an interim basis for several months. “I am pleased to designate Ms. Rodríguez Vega as secretary of the Department of Natural and Envi ronmental Resources, because since she took office as interim secretary in April of this year and previously as undersecretary of the agency, she has done a com mendable job of making accurate and correct decisions to the benefit of our natural resources throughout Puer to Rico,” the governor said in a written statement. “I am sure that thanks to that work, which she has highlighted in these past months, as well as her administrative ca pacity, she will be able to count on a fair and meritori ous evaluation in the Senate of Puerto Rico.”
Rodríguez Vega said “it is an honor to continue serving the people of Puerto Rico, now as Secretary of Natural and Environmental Resources.”
“I fully understand what the mission of a public servant is and nothing will distract me from the respon sibility that the law imposes on me,” she said. “I will continue to vigorously promote the various and broad initiatives that we have developed in this agency for the protection and conservation of natural resources, with out obstructing economic development compatible with established rules and regulations. I thank Governor Pierluisi for the trust placed in me to carry out this task.”
Monkeypox vaccination drive seeks to protect LGBTQ+ community
Governor appoints Rodríguez Vega to lead DNER
Some 500 vaccines were available at a Health Department inoculation event on Sunday to anyone considered to have been in contact with people with a confirmed or suspected case of Naturalmonkeypox.andEnvironmental Resources Secretary Anaís Rodríguez Vega
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Michael Pagán Castañer, executive director of the True Self Foundation, added that in the face of the pub lic health emergency posed by the monkeypox virus, “it is time for solidarity and action. Not stigma.”
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The NPP legislative agenda also includes achieving reductions in electricity and drinking water rates. “The goal is to lower the electricity bill for people now. For that you need cheaper fuel,” the legislator added. “The price of Bunker C, the fuel that the Electric Power Authority (PREPA) uses to generate electricity, is very volatile, in addition to the fact that the system cannot comply with federal regulations in the Mercury and Air Toxicity Standard (MATS). Natural gas costs half the price of oil, which means that the electricity bill could be reduced by over 45 percent instantly when this conversion takes effect.”
“Our delegation is committed to the approval of HR 8393 (The Puerto Rico Status Act),” Méndez Núñez said. “In addition to making affirmative steps in Congress, we will be pressuring the candidates for federal representatives who now, in these months, have primaries, to support the bipartisan measure that would give Puerto Rico the equal rights that the people have called for at the polls, freely and democratically.”
The Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority’s objection to the Highways and Transportation Authority’s plan of adjustment, which is on its fifth version, had to do with changes to HTA’s operational structure, which will be reduced. highway authority debt
NPP lays out legislative agenda for new session AAFAF pulls its objection to
The AAFAF had said the debt adjustment plan could not require the HTA to take on certain functions of different government agencies, could not require non-debtor governmental agencies to take on functions of the HTA, and should not include provisions that govern operations of a governmental non-debtor that performs vital functions in the transportation sector.
The final version of the HTA plan of adjustment states that upon approval of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration, the reorganized HTA will separate the highway assets from the transit assets, and then transfer the transit assets to PRITA, the Puerto Rico Integrated Transit Authority.
After 15 months, the highway assets will be operationally and financially separated between toll road assets and non-toll road assets, with a “Ring-Fenced” structure and allocation of cost and expenses implemented, including, without limitation, the internal separation of legal, financial and operational functions and the establishment of separate toll road assets and non-toll road assets management offices.
All HTA retirees will be paid by way of the commonwealth pay-as-you-go mechanism.
Rep. Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Núñez
The AAFAF, however, said it reached an agreement with the Financial Oversight and Management Board last week allowing for HTA’s expeditious emergence from Title III bankruptcy. The modifications, the AAFAF said, are reflected in the latest plan of adjustment, which may be confirmed Wednesday, and was filed on UnderSaturday.theplan of adjustment, the HTA, which has been in Title III bankruptcy since 2017, would restructure about $6.4 billion in claims against the HTA. The plan cuts the HTA’s outstanding debt by more than 80%, to $1.2 billion, and saves Puerto Rico more than $3 billion in debt service payments.
Party (NPP) minority leader in the island House of Representatives, Rep. Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Núñez, announced on Sunday the party’s legislative agenda for the new ordinary session that begins today. “This session, among the initiatives that we will be working on are identifying actions to lower the cost of food products,” Méndez Núñez said in a written statement. “We are facing a historic inflation rate of 9.1 percent. This has a devastating effect on the purchasing power of our people. The prices of items in supermarkets are too high. Comrade Joel Franqui has presented legislation on this matter. That is something that we will look at, as well as proposals to reduce the cost of food and basic necessities.”
The AAFAF’s objection to the plan of adjustment, which is on its fifth version, had to do with changes to HTA’s operational structure, which will be reduced.
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The Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF by its Spanish initials) on Saturday withdrew its limited objection to the bankrupt Highways and Transportation Authority’s debt reorganization.
Other areas that the NPP House delegation will be working on are to assist in the transition to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as SNAP, retention of medical students and improvements to schools, among other issues.
Loíza’s school semester starts on Wednesday, so the parents took time out of their Sunday to take their children to get their hair done. The girls looked forward to going back to school looking fresh and pretty. Most boys decided to get the latest fadeouts or shave their heads clean.
front of the camera, but they looked happy: in a few moments, skilled fingers were making intricate braids to protect their hair and reflect their African heritage, the pride of Loíza, on Puerto Rico’s northern coast east of San Juan. Early in the morning, little girls waited their turn for their braids and “piojitos” (little colorful rings placed in their new hairdos.) The girls were encouraged to pick their favorite colors, and, after posing with their new hairstyles, they went and picked up a new backpack to start their new school year.
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“This is a joint effort between members of the NPP and several statehood organizations that have said yes to the call for this demonstration in favor of equal rights, of statehood for Puerto Rico. We have been working hard to outline the parameters details of this march and we are sure that it will be an impressive event for everyone.”
Sen. Keren Riquelme
“What makes me happy and grateful is that, despite it all, we’ve been able to keep up the tradition for five years and the kids are happy that they’re ending their summer together,” Nazario Fuentes said.
The march, which is scheduled for 10 a.m., will depart from the north area of the U.S. Capitol and end at the National Mall.
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The styling fair continued until 1: p.m. Then the party moved to the area near the bridge over the Herrera River, where the community gathered to dance bomba, a traditional Puerto Rican dance with African roots, and enjoy music and food, and a COVID vaccination fair. The Herrera River divides the municipalities of Río Grande and Loíza and flows into the Atlantic Ocean. “It makes us very happy,” added Nazario Fuentes. “They take home a new backpack and spend a good time here, and then they move to the bridge, where we have the fifth edition of ‘The Beginning,’ to remind them that summer has ended and the school year is starting. The littlest ones can enjoy a bouncy house, sweets, and hotdogs, and later in the day, the bigger ones can listen to bomba music and later in the evening to reggaetón, which is what they like,” the mayor added.
Dozens of children have their hair cut or braided before the new semester
“I have to be grateful for everything the town’s done for me, so I give back every year,” Plaza Canales said, running an electric razor through Eloys’ hair. In another chair, Enrique Rivera, of Jaime’s Hair Styling Salon in Medianía Alta, told the STAR, “this is, for me, a passion project, and I like to give back to the community and love what I do.”
The barbers and stylists donate their time and experience to up to 100 children each year. (Photo by Alejandra M. Jover Tovar)
Pro-statehooders plan march in Washington
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A fresh start for the school year in Loíza
Loíza Mayor Julia Nazario Fuentes said this was the fourth edition of “Groomed for School.”
By THE STAR STAFF New Progressive Party (NPP) Sen. Keren Riquelme, along with NPP Rep. José Aponte Hernández, on Sunday announced a march in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 14 to support statehood. “To emphasize the need for equality, statehood, we have developed a demonstration, in the form of a march through various areas of Washington, D.C., in order to impress upon congressmen, as well as members of the executive branch and the public in general, that Puerto Rico wants permanent union with our nation, the United States, and that can only be achieved through statehood,” Riquelme said in a written statement.
“In it, barbers, stylists and the girls who braid hair come and gift us their time and expertise,” Nazario Fuentes said. “Normally, we fix the hair of 80 to 100 kids so they can get a fresh start for school.”
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Letty Vázquez, a worker for the municipality who braided the girls’ hairs, kept encouraging every little one sitting on her chair while she parted, braided and detangled each strand. The kids left smiling broadly. Yuneily Vázquez, a five-year-old girl, is ready to start kindergarten on Wednesday and picked up pink and silver “piojitos” for her hair. Then, she chose a pink Totto backpack, a gift from the municipality for each child. “She was very willing, very quiet and even chose the hair ornaments that she liked the most,” Letty said. All the decorations for the braids were courtesy of Mile dys Magic, a business from Loíza that has also collaborated in previous years. Nitchelis Rodríguez, who will begin in Head Start at four years old, demanded a headful of braids, making the women laugh.“She loves having her hair braided,” her grandmother said. “I don’t cry while I’m being braided,” said Jesueilyz Nichole Pizzaro, a four-year-old starting kindergarten. “My favorite color is pink, and I’m going to take all the butterflies,” she said while taking handfuls of accessories, all donated to the municipality by local hair shops. On the other side of the Center for Integrated Services in Loíza, a group of boys played and laughed as they waited their turn with the barbers. However, when approached by the STAR, they turned shy. Eloy Cruz Matos, 11 years old, got a short haircut from Ralph Plaza Canales, of Ralph’s Barbershop. He’s been at all of the event’s editions, only interrupted last year by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Julio Herrera Velutini
The Herrera & Velutini families have had a strong influence on Venezuelan and Latin American history since the time of José AntonioVelutini Ron – a politician, congress man, diplomat and president of Venezuela between 1871 and 1912, according to the publication.Herrera Velutini’s family has always influenced the Venezuelan banking and real estate industries. In 1590, his family founded the Hacienda de La Vega in Caracas, one of the first properties owned by the House of Herrera in Latin America. The family founded Banco Caracas in 1890, and later chaired the institution. Over the next 100 years, future family members were either chairmen or senior directors of Banco Caracas, right up until its sale in 1998. The Velutini family retained major ity control of Banco Caracas until 1989, holding a 70% stake in the institution. The family then went on to found other banking enterprises, including Banco Bolivar, Banco Activo and Banco Real. Herrera Velutini spent most of his child hood in New York. He later studied at The American School in England (TASIS England) and The American School in Switzerland (TASIS). He later went back to Venezuela to pursue a degree at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.Hethenstarted his career as a stockbro ker in 1991 at the Caracas Stock Exchange in a brokerage firm called the Multinvest Casa de Bolsa. Eight years later, at the age of 28, he was already an internationally influential broker who bought out share holders, including those of George Soros’s family holdings, to become the majority shareholder at the firm, of which he was a boardBymember.2007,along with the board of di rectors of Inversiones Transbanca, and his partners, José Herrera Velutini and Belén Clarisa Velutini, Julio Herrera Velutini had acquired companies such as Caracas Casa de Bolsa, IBG Trading, Banco Real and Banreal International Bank, recovering what once was a family holding, the publication said. He served as chairman of the Board of Banco Real, and Banreal Holding, from early 2007 until February 2009. In 2009, Julio M. Herrera Velutini founded Bancredito in Puerto Rico, a bank dedicated to private banking, corporate banking and institutional banking with a clientele mostly from Latin America, the publication said.
The charges in Puerto Rico are not the only ones the banker has faced. He was charged in Venezuela over his role in the shutdown of the Banco Real Banco de De sarrollo and other financial institutions, and he ended up leaving the country. Herrera Velutini comes from a long line of bankers. As a financial industry executive with extensive banking and start-up experience, Herrera Velutini hails from a lineage that established a Central Bank and an in dependent national currency in Venezuela. His ancestor, Julio César Velutini Couturier, ran Banco Caracas at a time when banks printed their own currencies. He played a major role in the growth of Banco Caracas. Velutini Couturier centralized control of the institution’s stock and oversaw the printing of money, which Banco Caracas did, up until the establishment of the Central Bank of Venezuela, according to the British Bugle.
HerreraVelutini is also director of Britan nia Securities, regulated by the Central Bank of Bahamas, and the Securities Commis sion, according to the British Bugle. When the OCIF detected certain irregularities in the bank that the institution was unable to correct, Herrera Velutini allegedly offered former governor Vázquez Garced money for her political campaign in exchange for her to remove OCIF head George Joyner to stop the investigation against the bank. Herrera Velutini through intermediaries sought to replace Joyner, who ended up re signing, with someone from his own bank, Víctor Rodríguez Bonilla. When the latter left following the change in government in 2020, the banker also allegedly attempted to bribe current Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, according to a federal indictment.
Herrera Velutini also acquired Londonbased Berkeley Futures, an FCA-authorized securities broker, in 2019. Berkeley Futures was founded in 1980, and is a bespoke, allencompassing brokerage house.
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By THE STAR STAFF Julio Herrera Velutini, the Venezuelan banker who resigned as head of Ban crédito International Bank & Trust after his indictment along with former Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced and others on federal cor ruption charges, has led a high-powered life of financial influence. The STAR made a profile of Herrera Velutini using media and other reports. This week Bancrédito stopped operating on the island over different failures, including the failure to maintain certain capital levels. Sources said the Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions (OCIF by its Spanish acronym) found instances in which the bank tried to hide money from businessmen in Venezuela that were being investigated by the United States, including one who helped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro evade U.S.-imposed sanctions.
International man of finance: A profile of indicted Venezuelan banker Herrera Velutini
Former Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and ZOLAN KANNOHYOUNGSepromised a new social safety net. He pledged to develop a robust plan to fight global warming. He vowed to reduce the gap between rich and poor by making the wealthy “pay their fair share.”
Biden’s achievements — even shrunken in the eyes of some — may also prove to be his legislative high-water mark. After the final votes were tallied, Biden made a video call to his longtime adviser, Steve Ricchetti, to congratulate a couple dozen staffers in the Roosevelt Room. Congressional elections are around the corner, a time when there is typically little ap petite for high-profile lawmaking. Democratic majorities in both chambers may slip away in the elections, and even if they don’t, the presi dent may not be able to use the same legislative tactics he did this year to get around Republican opposition. Few people in Washington expect Democrats to end the filibuster so they can pass the parts of his agenda that ended up on the cutting room floor. Despite the moment of real euphoria inside the West Wing and among Democrats on Capitol Hill about likely passage of the spending bills, it will take an enormous amount of effort for Biden and his party to capitalize politically on their legislative success. The president’s signing of a bipartisan infrastructure package last year did little to improve his approval rating among voters frustrated with soaring inflation. Passing a bill is the hard part — but convincing Ameri cans that it was a victory could be harder still.
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And along the way, Joe Biden often said as he battled Donald Trump for the White House in 2020, he would prove that democracy still works in WithAmerica.finalHouse passage of the Inflation Reduction Act on Friday, Biden was poised to deliver the latest in a series of legislative victories that will ripple across the country for decades — lowering the cost of prescription drugs, extending subsidies to help people pay for health insurance, reducing the deficit and investing more than $370 billion into climate and energy programs.
President Obama signs the Affordable Care Act at the White House in Washington on March 23, 2010.
“The choice we face as Americans is whether to protect the already-powerful or find the courage to build a future where everybody has a shot,” Biden said on Twitter. “Today, I proudly watched as House Democrats chose families over special interests.”
Biden’s legislative victories will ripple across the country for decades
Even with the latest legislative triumph, the president’s accomplishments on Capitol Hill fall far short of the scale and ambition of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal or Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. And passage of Friday’s bill may say less about Biden’s ability to restore American bipartisanship than it does about the deep ideological breaches in his own party, which forced him to accept a much scaled-back version of his original legislative goals. But taken together, the bills Biden has helped usher through a closely divided Congress since taking office 18 months ago touch many parts of American society. There will be a vast new pot of money to combat climate change. Medicare will be free to negotiate for lower drug prices. The go vernment will invest billions to help computer chipmakers compete. Health care subsidies will be extended for years. Lead pipes will be replaced. Broadband internet will be built in poor and rural communities. Roads, bridges and tunnels will be restored. New gun safety measures will go into effect and background checks will be expanded. The nation’s budget deficit will be reduced. To pay for some of it, investors will send more of their profits to the government, with a new tax on company stock buybacks and a 15% corporate minimum tax for wealthy companies. Republicans immediately assailed pas sage of Friday’s bill. “Can’t believe this has to be said again, but raising taxes during a recession is NOT a good idea,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said on Twitter moments after the bill had enough Democratic votes for passage. Since taking office, Biden has already signed a $1.9 trillion pandemic rescue plan, a $1 trillion infrastructure measure, a $280 billion chip manufacturing bill and bipartisan gun legislation intended to prevent dangerous people from accessing firearms. Along with Friday’s bill, the legislation will likely end up as the centerpiece of his legacy as the nation’s 46th president.“It’sstillconsistent with what the presi dent has always done, which is keep his head down and do the necessary work,” said Cedric Richmond, a senior official at the Democratic National Committee who served as a senior adviser for Biden. “Families were feeling the effects of higher costs and the president wanted to keep his head down and address it. That until now has been the focus.” The challenge now for Biden and his administration is to convince the American people of that after more than a year of griping and political hand-wringing among some in the Democratic Party. For all his legislation will achieve, Bi den fell into a kind of political trap, setting expectations at sky-high levels and allowing a sense of disappointment to harden among his closest allies as key priorities — once included in his Build Back Better agenda — had to be abandoned. To the dismay of many of the president’s supporters, there will be no free community college, no federally paid family leave, and no new climate enforcement measures. The nation’s young children will not go to preschool for free. Parents will not receive federal help with child care. Medicaid will not be expanded in a dozen states and immigrants living in the country illegally will not be given legal status. There will not be a tax on the superrich, and no extra money will go toward creating affor dable Bidenhousing.has said that it is all about com promise. But the process of negotiating, which played out day after day on social media and in newspapers, left many people with the feeling that more was lost than gained. “My instinct is that these don’t add up to transformative matters on the scale of So cial Security, Securities Exchange Act, Federal Housing Administration, Civil Rights Act of ’64,” said David M. Kennedy, a historian at Stanford University and the author of “Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945.”“They’rejust not in that league,” he said.
Kennedy noted that Roosevelt had a wide majority in Congress, while Biden’s party is barely in control — and with deep disagree ments internally. “Today’s Democratic Party is far more fractionated with all kinds of divisions,” Ken nedy said. “It’s proving very, very difficult to get that body of Democrats in both chambers to legislate coherently.”
The main message, strategists said, will be that Biden and his Democratic allies have successfully defeated the special interests in Washington who for decades had tried to stand in the way of similar legislation. They said Biden will remind voters that pharmaceutical lobbyists have for years tried to block Medicare from negotiating drug prices. Oil and gas executives have fought climate change provisions. Corporate interests have tried to keep Congress from instituting a minimum tax. Conservatives have fought the subsidies in the Affordable Care Act. Gun rights groups stopped new legislation for years.
The president and his aides will tell voters that “those tables have been turned,” one of the strategists said.
“The package is much smaller, more mo dest and that was to be expected,” he added.
At least one lawyer for former President Donald Trump signed a written statement in June asserting that all material marked as classified and held in boxes in a storage area at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and club had been returned to the government, four people with knowledge of the document said.
The Justice Department also subpoenaed surveillance foot age from Mar-a-Lago recorded over a 60-day period, including views from outside the storage room. According to a person briefed on the matter, the footage showed that, after one instance in which Justice Department officials were in contact with Trump’s team, boxes were moved in and out of the room.
The search encompassed not just the storage area where boxes of material known to the Justice Department were being held but also Trump’s office and residence. The search warrant and inventory unsealed Friday did not specify where in the Mara-Lago complex the documents marked as classified were found.
The warrant said FBI agents were carrying out the search to look for evidence related to possible violations of the obstruction statute as well as the Espionage Act and a statute that bars the unlawful taking or destruction of government records or docu ments. No one has been charged in the case, and the search warrant on its own does not mean anyone will be.
A short time after the meeting, according to people briefed on it, Bratt sent Corcoran an email telling him to get a more secure padlock for the room. Trump’s team complied.
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An inventory of the material taken from Mar-a-Lago on Monday showed that F.B.I. agents seized 11 sets of documents with some type of confidential or secret marking on them.
An inventory of the material taken from Trump’s home that was released Friday showed that FBI agents seized 11 sets of documents during the search with some type of confidential or secret marking on them, including some marked as “classified/ TS/SCI” — shorthand for “top secret/sensitive compartmented information.” Information categorized in that fashion is meant to be viewed only in a secure government facility.
Trump said Friday that he had declassified all the material in his possession while he was still in office. He did not provide any documentation that he had done so. In an appearance on Fox News on Friday night, right-wing writer John Solomon, whom Trump has designated as one of his representatives to interact with the National Archives, read a statement from the former president’s office claiming that Trump had a “standing order” during his presidency “that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them.”
Corcoran and Bobb showed Bratt and his team boxes hold ing material Trump had taken from the White House that were being kept in a storage area, the people said.
Last year, officials with the National Archives discovered that Trump had taken a slew of documents and other govern ment material with him when he left the White House at the end of his tumultuous term in January 2021. That material was supposed to have been sent to the archives under the terms of the Presidential Records Act.
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In recent months, investigators were in contact with roughly a half-dozen of Trump’s current aides who had knowledge of how the documents that had been kept at Mar-a-Lago were handled, two people briefed on the approaches said. At least one witness provided the investigators with information that led them to want to further press Trump for material, according to a person familiar with the inquiry.
Trump lawyer told Justice Dept. that classified material had been returned
That activity prompted concern among investigators about the handling of the material. It is not clear when precisely the footage was from during the lengthy back-and-forth between Justice Department officials and Trump’s advisers, or whether the subpoena to Trump seeking additional documents had already been issued.Budowich said it was “no surprise that boxes may be moved in and out of a storage room.”
The written declaration was made after a visit June 3 to Mar-a-Lago by Jay I. Bratt, the top counterintelligence official in the Justice Department’s national security division. The existence of the signed declaration, which has not previously been reported, is a possible indication that Trump or his team were not fully forthcoming with federal investigators about the material. And it could help explain why a potential violation of a criminal statute related to obstruction was cited by the department as one basis for seeking the warrant used to carry out the daylong search of the former president’s home last Mon day, an extraordinary step that generated political shock waves.
A spokesperson for the former president, Taylor Budowich, said Saturday, “Just like every Democrat-fabricated witch hunt previously, the water of this unprecedented and unnecessary raid is being carried by a media willing to run with suggestive leaks, anonymous sources and no hard facts.”
“That’s not news,” he said. “If there was actual concern, the DOJ could have asked, just like they had previously, and they would have, again, received full cooperation.”
It also helps to further explain the sequence of events that prompted the Justice Department’s decision to conduct the search after months in which it had tried to resolve the matter through discussions with Trump and his team.
According to two people briefed on the visit, Bratt and his team left with additional material marked classified and around that time also obtained the written declaration from a Trump lawyer attesting that all the material marked classified in the boxes had been turned over.
Trump returned 15 boxes of material in January of this year. When archivists examined the material, they found many pages of documents with classified markings and referred the matter to the Justice Department, which began an investigation and convened a grand jury. In the spring, the department issued a subpoena to Trump seeking additional documents that it believed may have been in his possession. The former president was repeatedly urged by advisers to return what remained, despite what they described as his desire to continue to hold onto some documents.
In an effort to resolve the dispute, Bratt and other officials visited Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, in early June, briefly meeting Trump while they were there. Two of Trump’s lawyers, M. Evan Corcoran and Christina Bobb, spoke with Bratt and a small number of investigators he traveled with, people briefed on the meeting said.
The attack happened in a center dedi cated to learning and reflection. A video on TikTok that was subsequently taken down showed the chaotic scene moments after the attacker had jumped onto the stage at the normally placid institution. Salman Rushdie, who had been living relatively openly after years of a semi-clandestine existence, had just taken a seat to give a talk when a man attacked him. A crowd of people immediately rus hed to where the author lay on the stage to offer aid. Stunned members of the audience could be seen throughout the amphitheater. While some were screaming, others got up and moved slowly toward the stage. People started to congregate in the aisles. A person could be heard yelling “Oh, my God”Securityrepeatedly.atthe Chautauqua Institution is minimal. At its main amphitheater, which regularly hosts popular musical acts and celebrity speakers and where Rushdie was scheduled to speak, there are no bag checks or metalLittledetectors.isknown about Matar, the man accused of the attack. At a house listed as his residence in Fairview, New Jersey, no one answered the door Saturday morning. Many of Matar’s neighbors said they did not know him or his family, although some resi dents, when shown a photograph of Matar, said they recognized him as someone who would walk around the neighborhood with his head down, never making eye contact. In Lebanon, the mayor of Yaroun, a village on the southern border with Israel, said that Matar’s father lives there and that authorities had been trying to reach him without success. The father lives in a stone house in the village’s center and tends to flocks of goats and sheep, said the mayor, Ali Tihfe. “He’s refusing to see anyone or even open the door for us,” Tihfe said in a phone interview.Rushdie had been living under the threat of an assassination attempt since 1989, about six months after the publica tion of his novel “The Satanic Verses.” The book fictionalized parts of the life of the Prophet Muhammad with depictions that offended some Muslims, who believed the novel to be blasphemous. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who led Iran after its 1979 revolution, issued an edict known as a fatwa Feb. 14, 1989. It ordered Muslims to kill Rushdie.
By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS
Salman Rushdie, badly wounded, is off ventilator and starting to recover
Rushdie, who had spent decades under proscription by Iran, was attacked onstage minutes before he was to give a talk at the Chautauqua Institution in wes tern NewHadiYork.Matar, a 24-year-old New Jersey man, was arrested at the scene and charged with second-degree attempted murder and assault with a weapon. In court Saturday, prosecutors said that the attack on the author was preme ditated and targeted. Matar traveled by bus to the intellectual retreat and purchased a pass that allowed him to attend the talk that Rushdie was to give Friday morning, according to the prosecutors. Nathaniel Barone, a public defender, entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf. Ma tar was held without bail, with his next court appearance scheduled for Friday at 3 p.m. Rushdie had been put on a ventilator Friday evening after undergoing hours of surgery at a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania. Wylie said then that Rushdie might lose an eye, his liver had been damaged and the nerves in his arm were severed.
Hadi Matar, 24, center, made an appearance at the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, N.Y., for his arraignment on charges of second-degree attempted murder and assault with a weapon.
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Author Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed roughly 10 times Friday, has been removed from a ventilator and is on the mend, his agent said Sunday. “The road to recovery has begun,” Andrew Wylie said in a text. “It will be long; the injuries are severe, but his condition is headed in the right direction.”
On Sunday, Rushdie’s son Zafar Rus hdie said his father remained in critical condition and was receiving extensive treatment. He said the author was able to speak a few “Thoughwords.hislife-changing injuries are severe, his usual feisty and defiant sense of humor remains intact,” Zafar Rushdie said in a statement. “We are so grateful to all the audience members who bravely leapt to his defense and administered first aid, along with the police and doctors who have cared for him and for the outpouring of love and support from around the world.”
Green’s housing plan includes easing regulations to speed up home construction, allowing development on more public land and targeting illegal vacation units.
In a pair of horrific scenes Saturday night that compoun ded the tragedy of a recent fatal fire in eastern Penns ylvania, a man plowed his car into a fundraising event for families affected by that fire, killing one and injuring 17, then drove off and fatally beat a woman before police arrested him, authorities said.
Massina said that the community rarely saw violence “other than your stupid Saturday night bar fights.”
Kahele, a first-term congressman and former state se nator, focused more on campaign finance and governance issues than on housing, arguing that reforms like banning corporate campaign contributions and imposing term limits for elected officials would “break the barriers that keep ave rage voters from steering our state government.” But his campaign suffered after he decided to rely on Hawaii’s public funding system and then failed to file a do cument required to receive the money.
Driver kills 1 and injures 17 at Pennsylvania benefit, then kills another, police say
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The event had started joyously, with scenes of laughing children, country music and water-balloon fights. “It’s going to be an amazing day!” organizers had posted on Facebook early Saturday. The bar posted a statement late Saturday on Face book calling the day “an absolute tragedy” and said that it would be closed until further notice.
The suspect, identified by police as Adrian Oswaldo Sura Reyes, 24, was arraigned on two counts of homicide and denied bail. He is being held at the Columbia County Correctional Facility.
Five of the injured in the crash in Berwick, a borough about 45 miles southwest of Scranton, Pennsylvania, were in critical condition Sunday morning, said Matt Mattei, a spokesperson for Geisinger Medical Center, where many of the victims were taken. The woman was found dead in neighboring Nesco peck, which was the site of the fatal fire Aug. 5 that tore through a two-story home and killed 10 people. Further information about the victims was not availa ble Sunday morning. The fundraiser was meant to benefit the victims and families of the house fire, including Harold Baker, a volun teer firefighter who responded to the fire and ended up losing his 22-year-old daughter and 19-year-old son, as well as six other family members, in the blaze. Among those killed in the fire in Nescopeck were three children, ages 5, 6 and 7, the Pennsylvania State Police said. The oldest victim was 79. In a cruel twist, just eight days after the fire, Baker res ponded to the scene Saturday in Nescopeck, where the wo man was killed. He said a daughter-in-law and several other relatives had been injured, and an aunt of his daughter-inlaw had been killed, in the crash at the fundraiser. “I haven’t processed the fire yet, and now I got to deal with this,” he said. The crash Saturday night added another wave of grief to a small community devastated by the fire that was described as “violent” and “forceful.” The cause of the fire has not been released. At a news conference late Saturday, trooper Anthony Petroski said the suspect in Saturday’s deaths was not currently a suspect in the fire, according to The Times-Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Penns ylvania.Area residents struggled to process what had hap pened in barely more than a week’s time. The confusion and anger were compounded because there were so many unanswered questions about the fire, Robin Massina, a Berwick resident who is the daughter of the Nescopeck mayor, said in an interview late Saturday. “What is this madness?” Massina said. “Why is it hap pening? We’re a small town that probably hasn’t been in the news since the flood of like 1978.”
She said that the community had pulled together af ter the fire and that she believed enough money had been raised so that families could bury their loved ones and get back on their feet. The event Saturday demonstrated the community’s spirit, but the violence that followed destro yed the healing process. Before the crash, Lauren Hess, owner of Intoxicology Department, the bar and restaurant that hosted the bene fit, said she had quickly planned the event to help people affected by the fire, according to WNEP, a TV station based in Scranton. Donations from the community had poured in, she said.
Green, 52, a former state legislator and emergency room doctor, was elected lieutenant governor in 2018. Initially, he focused on combating homelessness. But his medical background became an asset when the pandemic began and Ige named him the state’s coronavirus liaison. As vaccines were becoming widely available in the spring of 2021, a poll conducted by two Hawaii news or ganizations, Honolulu Civil Beat and Hawaii News Now, found that Green had a 63% approval rating. That was nearly three times Ige’s 22% approval rating, as voters see med to credit Green — the public face of the state’s pande mic response — rather than the governor for the improving situation. One of Green’s campaign ads this year highlighted the fact that Hawaii’s COVID infection rates have been among the lowest in the country, though they have still been de vastating, particularly in Native Hawaiian communities. But the main focus of the Democratic primary was housing. Hawaii’s comparatively low infection rate drew many wealthy remote workers from the mainland, exacer bating the state’s existing shortage of affordable housing — a crisis that, like the pandemic, has hit Native Hawaiians especially hard. As of July, Hawaii was the most expensive state in the nation to live in.
Lt. Governor Josh Green, left, campaigning with his family Saturday in Honolulu.
“I got a call on Friday, and I was immediately like, ‘What can I do to help because they are going through so much grief and pain?’” Hess told the station, adding that she was friends with mothers who lost children in the fire.
“And now it’s devastation after devastation, literally a few days apart,” she said.
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Cayetano — a businesswoman who co-founded Hawaii’s largest laundry services company and whose hus band, Ben Cayetano, was governor from 1994 to 2002 — campaigned on creating a state-funded pipeline for renters to earn ownership of their homes, and on eliminating state income taxes for people earning less than $50,000.
By MAGGIE ASTOR Lt. Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii won the Democratic pri mary for governor, according to The Associated Press, putting himself in a strong position to secure the top office in a reliably blue state. Green defeated six other Democrats, including Rep. Kai Kahele and Vicky Cayetano, a former first lady of Hawaii. He will face the Republican nominee, Duke Aiona, in Nov ember; the winner then will succeed Gov. David Ige, a De mocrat who cannot run for reelection because of term limits.
Josh Green, Hawaii’s second-in-command, wins Democratic primary for governor
The Fox News studio in Manhattan on election night in 2020. A defamation suit by Dominion Voting Systems threatens a huge financial and reputational blow to Fox.
In the weeks after former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, Fox Business host Lou Dobbs claimed to have “tremendous evidence” that voter fraud was to blame. That evidence never emerged, but a new culprit in a supposed scheme to rig the election did: Dominion Voting Systems, a maker of election technology whose algorithms, Dobbs said, “were designed to be inaccurate.”
Fox is expected to dispute Dominion’s estimated selfvaluation of $1 billion and argue that $1.6 billion is an ex cessively high amount for damages, as it has in a similar defamation case filed by another voting machine company, Smartmatic.Aspokesperson for Dominion declined to comment.
The case has caused palpable unease at the Fox News Channel, said several people there, who would speak only anonymously. Anchors and executives have been preparing for depositions and have been forced to hand over months of private emails and text messages to Dominion, which is hoping to prove that network employees knew that wild ac cusations of ballot rigging in the 2020 election were false.
Maria Bartiromo, another host on the network, falsely stated that “Nancy Pelosi has an interest in this company.”
Those bogus assertions — made day after day, inclu ding allegations that Dominion was a front for the commu nist government in Venezuela and that its voting machines could switch votes from one candidate to another — are at the center of the libel suit, one of the most extraordinary brought against a U.S. media company in more than a ge neration.First Amendment scholars say the case is a rarity in libel law. Defamation claims typically involve a single dis puted statement. But Dominion’s complaint is replete with example after example of false statements, many of them made after the facts were widely known. And such suits are often quickly dismissed, because of the First Amendment’s broad free speech protections and the high-powered lawyers available to a major media company like Fox. If they do go forward, they are usually settled out of court to spare both sides the costly spectacle of a trial. But Dominion’s $1.6 billion case against Fox has been steadily progressing in Delaware state court this summer, in ching ever closer to trial. There have been no moves from either side toward a settlement, according to interviews with several people involved in the case. The two companies are deep into document discovery, combing through years of each other’s emails and text messages, and taking deposi tions. These people said they expected Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, who own and control Fox Corp., to sit for deposi tions as soon as this month. The case threatens a huge financial and reputational blow to Fox, by far the most powerful conservative media company in the country. But legal scholars say it also has the potential to deliver a powerful verdict on the kind of pervasive and pernicious falsehoods — and the people who spread them — that are undermining the country’s faith in democracy.
Dominion is trying to build a case that aims straight at the top of the Fox media empire and the Murdochs. In court filings and depositions, Dominion lawyers have laid out how they plan to show that senior Fox executives hatched a plan after the election to lure back viewers who had swit ched to rival hard-right networks, which were initially more sympathetic than Fox was to Trump’s voter fraud claims.
In its initial complaint, the company’s lawyers wrote, “The truth matters,” adding, “Lies have consequences.”
Those unfounded accusations are now among the dozens cited in Dominion’s defamation lawsuit against Fox Corp., which alleges that Fox repeatedly aired false, far-fet ched and exaggerated allegations about Dominion and its purported role in a plot to steal votes from Trump.
Libel law does not protect lies. But it does leave room for the media to cover newsworthy figures who tell them.
For Dominion to convince a jury that Fox should be held liable for defamation and pay damages, it has to clear an extremely high legal bar known as the “actual malice” standard. Dominion must show either that people inside Fox knew what hosts and guests were saying about the election technology company was false or that they effectively igno red information proving that the statements in question were
And Fox is arguing, in part, that is what shields it from liabi lity. Asked about Dominion’s strategy to place the Murdochs front and center in the case, a Fox Corp. spokesperson said it would be a “fruitless fishing expedition.” A spokesperson for Fox News said it was “ridiculous” to claim, as Dominion does in the suit, that the network was chasing viewers from the far-right fringe.
Defamation suit about election falsehoods puts Fox on its heels
“We’re litigating history, in a way: What is historical truth?” said Lee Levine, a noted First Amendment lawyer who has argued several major media defamation cases. “Here, you’re taking very recent current events and going through a process which, at the end, is potentially going to declare what the correct version of history is.”
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Hosts Steve Doocy, Dana Perino and Shepard Smith are among the current and former Fox personalities who either have been deposed or will be this month.
Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News personality, speculated that “tech nical glitches” in Dominion’s software “could have affected thousands of absentee mail-in ballots.”
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said in his nightly address Saturday that Russia had resorted to “nuclear blackmail” at the complex, reiterating a Ukrainian analysis that Moscow was using it to slow a Ukrai nian counteroffensive toward the Rus sian-occupied city of Kherson, where Russian conventional military defens es appear increasingly wobbly. Contrary to the fears of some ana lysts when Moscow launched its in vasion in February, the more urgent nuclear threat in the Ukraine war now appears to be Russia damaging the ci vilian plant, rather than deploying its own nuclear Engineersweapons.saythat yard-thick re inforced concrete containment struc tures protect the reactors from even direct hits. International concern, however, has grown that shelling could spark a fire or cause other dam age that would lead to a nuclear ac cident.The six pressurized water reactors at the complex retain most sources of radiation, reducing risks. After pressur ized water reactors failed at the Fuku shima nuclear plant in Japan in 2011, Ukraine upgraded the Zaporizhzhia site to enable a shutdown even after the loss of cooling water from outside the containment structures, Dmytro Gortenko, a former plant engineer, said in an Ukraine’sinterview.military intelligence agency said that Saturday, Russian artillery fire hit a pump, damaged a fire station and sparked fires near the plant that could not be immediately extinguished because of the damage to the fire station. In fields near Enerhodar, long lines of cars carrying fleeing civilians formed Saturday, according to social media posts and another former engi neer at the plant who has remained in touch with local residents.
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Ukraine has accused Russia of staging artillery attacks targeting Ukrainian towns across the Dnieper River from the plant starting in July, as Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the south ramped up. Overnight into Sunday morn ing, Russian howitzers fired on the Ukrainian town of Nikopol, which lies across a reservoir from the power plant, Yevheny Yetushenko, the Ukrai nian military governor of the town, said in a post on Telegram. The Ukrainian military has said it has few options for firing back. In July, it used a self-destructing drone to strike a Russian rocket artillery launch er that sat about 150 yards from one of the plant’s reactors.
Natalia Lytvenenko, left, with her three daughters and their grandmother, in a convoy of civilian cars as they tried to flee the area surrounding a nuclear power plant, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022.
Residents flee Ukraine town near nuclear site as shelling continues
“Locals are abandoning the town,” said the former engineer, who asked to be identified by only his first name, Oleksiy, because of security concerns. Residents had been leaving for weeks, but the pace picked up after Satur day’s barrages and fires, he said. Since Russia captured the plant in March, its army has controlled the fa cility, while Ukrainian engineers have continued to operate it. Ukrainian employees are not flee ing but sending their families away, said Oleksiy, who left in June. Ener hodar was built for plant employees in the Soviet period and had a prewar population of about 50,000.
By ANDREW E. KRAMER and MARC SSANTORAhelling near a nuclear power complex in southern Ukraine killed a foreman from the facil ity at his home in a neighboring town, Ukrainian officials said Sunday. The Ukrainian company that oversees the nation’s nuclear power plants, Energoatom, said that Russia had directed at least six shells at the town of Enerhodar, where most of the workers at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant live. The town is under Russian occu pation, and the Russians have blamed the Ukrainians for the shelling of the giant nuclear complex — Europe’s largest — and nearby residential ar eas. However, the Ukrainians have said that it is the Russians who are fir ing on civilians, suggesting the intent is to discredit the Ukrainian army. A statement Energoatom posted on Telegram identified the employee of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Pow er Plant who was killed as Marko Maksym Petrovych and said that two other workers were injured and were receiving medical care. The shelling in and around the plant in recent days has set off a flight of civilians from the area. The Zaporizhzhia plant is the first active nuclear power complex to be caught up in a combat zone. The United States and European Union have called for the establishment of a demilitarized zone, as the fighting in and around the plant and its active reactors and stored nuclear waste has sparked grave concern that an errant strike and resulting fire could cause a meltdown or release radiation.
Ukrainian soldiers patrolling near a frontline position in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine on Aug. 11, 2022.
With new weaponry, Ukraine is subtly shifting its war strategy
Critical to Russia’s efforts to hold onto land in Ukraine’s south is Moscow’s control over Crimea, which Russia illega lly annexed in 2014. Before its full-scale invasion of Ukraine early this year, Mos cow sent tens of thousands of soldiers to the peninsula, and they captured large swaths of the southern regions of Kher son and Zaporizhzhia within days. Since then, rail lines from Crimea have been critical in enabling Moscow to move heavy weapons and equip ment into southern Ukraine. Last week, Britain’s Defense Intelligence Agency said that the Ukrainians had hit a key railroad line from the peninsula, making it “highly unlikely the rail link connecting Kherson with Crimea remains operational.”
The Russians are likely to race to re pair it, the agency said, but the attack un derscored a critical vulnerability. The southern theater is now essentia lly cut in two — divided by the Dnieper River — and the British intelligence agen cy said that even if Russia managed to make significant repairs to the bridges that Ukrainian forces have hit, the struc tures would remain a potential weak spot.
In eastern Ukraine, the main Rus sian effort is now focused on trying to gain ground in the Donetsk region, and there has been intense fighting in recent days in the area around the town of Pis ky. Russia’s Defense Ministry said Satur day that the town had fallen, a claim that could not be independently verified. The Ukrainian way, as is becoming more apparent by the day, is to carry out strikes that undermine Moscow’s ability to sustain the forces it has deployed at the front.“We look for the weak points of the Russians, determine the critical points of the enemy and gradually bleed them,”
Andrii Ryzhenk, a former top Ukrainian military official who is now an adviser at the Center for Defense Strategies, a Ukra inian think tank, said this month. While the approach has been aided by the long-range Western weapons, it has also been encouraged by Western officials. Reznikov, Ukraine’s defense mi nister, said this past week that the U.S. and British defense ministers had both offered him a piece of advice: “The Rus sians use meat-grinder tactics. If you plan to fight them with the same tactics, we will not be able to help you.”
Smoke rising after a strike on a Russian military base near Novofedorivka, in Crimea, on Tuesday. Ukraine is exploiting its new capacity to strike deep behind enemy lines to deplete Russia’s combat potential.
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By MARC SANTORA, MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ and JACK NICAS F rom spring into summer, the Ukra inian military was pummeled by Russian artillery in eastern Ukrai ne, steadily losing ground and as many as 200 soldiers a day in a mismatched, head-to-head contest. But in recent wee ks, Ukraine has shifted its strategy with the help of new weaponry and succee ded, at least for now, in slowing Russia’s advances.Supplied with a growing arsenal of long-range Western weapons and aided by local fighters known as partisans, Ukraine has been able to hit Russian for ces deep behind enemy lines, disrupting critical supply lines and, increasingly, striking targets that are key to Moscow’s combat potential. The new weapons have also forced Russia to recalibrate on the battlefield, creating some breathing room for the Ukrainians to make more strategic deci sions.One blow to the Russians this past week was a series of explosions at an air base on the occupied Crimean Peninsu la that destroyed at least eight warplanes and that a Ukrainian official said had re sulted from a strike carried out by spe cial forces troops aided by local partisan fighters. The approach has been particularly well suited to the Kherson region in the south, where for weeks Ukrainian offi cials have been engaged in the opening salvos of a counteroffensive. The city of Kherson in particular, dependent for supplies on four bridges spanning the Dnieper River, is considered more vulne rable than other occupied cities. On Saturday, the Ukrainians claimed to have hit the last of those four key brid ges, leaving thousands of Russian troops in danger of becoming isolated and cut off from resupply, according to Western intelligence officials. “We do not have the resources to lit ter the territory with bodies and shells, as Russia does,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said in an interview this past week with Pravda, a Ukrainian news media outlet. “Therefore, it is necessary to change tactics, to fight in a different way.”The strategy seems to be producing some results. While the Ukrainian mi litary has not made major territorial ga ins, it has managed to slow the Russian advance across the country — for now, at least — and stanch the heavy losses Ukraine was suffering in recent months, which had led to wavering morale and some soldiers even deserting their pla toons.But the Russians have continued to apply pressure in the east and the south on Ukrainian front-line positions, with some that are slowly buckling. The in cremental advances have indicated that despite setbacks from Ukraine’s attacks, the Russian military effort still has enough forces to continue offensive operations. Ukraine’s efforts in the south repre sent less a change in approach than an extension, with the aid of new longerrange weapons, of a strategy adopted at the start of the war meant to level the pla ying field with Russia. With the Russian army far outmatching Ukraine’s forces in the number of troops, weapons and am munition, Ukraine’s military has had to be innovative and nimble. “It’s clear the Ukrainians can’t match the Russians unit for unit and soldier for soldier. And Ukraine, like the Russians, is running out of soldiers,” said Samuel Bendett, a Russian weapons analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses. “So Ukraine has to be very judicial in how they draw out the Russian forces.” Ukraine successfully repelled Russia’s efforts to seize the capital, Kyiv, using smaller, adaptable fighting units that ex ploited its home-field advantage for light ning attacks on Russian forces, which were concentrated in large, lumbering columns that made easy targets. In the east, with its wide, rolling pla ins, Russia initially was able to take ad vantage of its superiority in numbers and firepower, wearing down the Ukrainian troops with relentless artillery barrages before moving to seize territory. But now, supplied with new longerrange artillery pieces, like the U.S.-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, Ukraine has been able to slow Russia’s advance and divert some atten tion to what Ukraine’s generals see as more advantageous territory in the south. It is there, particularly in the Kher son region, which was the first region of Ukraine lost to Russian forces, that Ukrai ne hopes it can begin to turn the tide of the war. Using HIMARS and other longrange weapons, Ukrainian forces have slowly chipped away at Russia’s ability to supply troops holding territory west of the Dnieper River, including the city of Kherson, which Russian forces have con trolled since the first weeks of the war.
“You have one crisis after another, after another,” said Crocker, the former U.S. ambassador. “No one is thinking much about Afghanistan anymore. This administration would rather never hear the word Afghanistan again.”
By MIRIAM JORDAN As a pilot in the Afghan air force, Abdul Wajed Aha di conducted thousands of missions against Taliban strongholds. He made his final flight last year on Aug. 15, piloting his plane to Tajikistan to prevent it from falling into the hands of the insurgents who were surrounding Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital. He eventually made his way to safety in the United States. But he has spent much of the past year in a state of prolon ged anxiety. His wife and three children are still in Afghanistan, where the economy has collapsed and the families of those who fought alongside the United States face possible reprisals from the Taliban.
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The Biden administration has pushed to reinvigorate refu gee programs, but immigration experts caution that the resett lement of people seeking safe haven in the United States has always been a long game, and, if history is any guide, Afghans could be arriving in the country for years to come. About 130,000 Vietnamese were airlifted during the hasty U.S. withdrawal from Saigon in 1975, but by 1995, the country had taken in more than 1 million. “It’s impossible to save everybody, but there was a hercu lean effort over a 20-year period,” said Amanda Demmer, a historian at Virginia Tech who has studied U.S. relations with Vietnam since 1975. “The million-dollar question is, will the Afghan evacuation happen over 20 years?”
A year after the evacuation of Kabul, urgent new problems — rising gun violence, inflation, a growing outbreak of monke ypox — have diverted attention from the plight of those left behind after America’s longest war.
On a recent day, several Afghan families now living in nor thern Virginia attended a workshop sponsored by the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service to fill out applications for permanent residency in the United States. They were among the minority of evacuated Afghans who had been approved for special immigrant visas before the frantic U.S. withdrawal.
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“I am all the time thinking about my children, my wife, my family — what will they eat, what will happen to them,” said Ahadi, 31, who shares a house in Vancouver, Washington, with three other pilots whose families are also in Afghanistan. It could be years before they are reunited. Although fasttrack permanent residency was offered to Cubans in the 1960s and Southeast Asians in the 1970s, a similar effort to help Afghan refugees settle permanently in the United States with their families has just been introduced in Congress, a first step. “Things are just limping along, and that is as far away as we can think of from meeting our moral obligation,” said Ryan Crocker, a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan. The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and the tumultuous U.S. pullout a year ago spawned a new refugee crisis. More than 120,000 Afghans were airlifted and scattered around the world. About 76,000, the biggest influx of wartime evacuees since the fall of Saigon in Vietnam, have reached the United States.Canada has committed to receiving 40,000 Afghans by 2024, with about 17,000 admitted so far. Germany, Britain and Norway are among the European nations that have also agreed to accept the refugees. But the Afghan exodus hit at a time when American refu gee resettlement agencies had been sharply downsized under the Trump administration and the number of refugees accepted had plunged to historic lows; with millions of refugees fleeing Syria, the United States admitted only 76 Syrians in the 2018 fiscal year, along with 147 Iraqis.
“Half of myself is there, back in Afghanistan,” he said. Afghan refugees
After spending about four months on military bases, Afghans have landed in every state but Wyoming, with the largest numbers in Texas, California and Virginia. But arrivals have slowed to a trickle since late February, when focus shifted to the war in Ukraine, and the overall resettlement process has been challenging. “What makes Afghan evacuees unique is that they arrived without knowing where in the United States they would be re settled, unlike people admitted officially as refugees who walk off the plane with a clear pathway to a green card and a pro cess to reunite with immediate family left behind,” said Mark Hetfield, president of HIAS, one of the nonprofits contracted to resettle Afghans.
The vast majority of Afghan refugees have been admitted on what is known as humanitarian parole, which gives them permission to live and work in the United States for two years; to remain permanently and to bring family members over, they must apply for asylum, an arduous, yearslong pro cess that requires a litany of documents to prove they would face persecution if returned to Afghanistan. Yet, legal paperwork is only the beginning. Many Afghans have found housing to be expensive and sometimes scarce. Learning English, navigating public transportation and getting a driver’s license have been colossal challenges for many. Others have suffered from depression after being uprooted abruptly from their homeland, abandoning their homes and leaving behind loved ones. Many members of the educated elite have had to take menialFindingjobs.
Congress announced Tuesday that it had introduced bipar tisan legislation to streamline the process for bringing Afghans to the United States, the Afghan Adjustment Act. Advocates are pushing for the bill to be passed this year, but senior Re publicans who oppose more immigration are likely to object, especially during an election year.
The Biden administration recently simplified the special immigrant visa application, but processing is still likely to take three years. About 250 to 300 people have been arriving to the United States each week — nearly all of them having applied for the visas even before the Taliban takeover.
affordable housing for big families has been es pecially challenging. And it is proving very difficult for wo men with many children at home to attend English classes. In addition to family members of those already here, tens of thousands of other Afghans who supported the U.S. mission are still stranded in their home country or living in other countries. Among them are more than 74,000 people, and their families, who are in the pipeline for special im migrant visas, which offer a direct path to a green card for those who worked alongside U.S. forces.
“We can’t claim mission accomplished,” said Jennifer Quigley, senior director of government affairs at Human Rights First. “There are still too many vulnerable people abroad.”
“She is so upset that she cannot go to school,” he said.
Mr. Ahadi’s pilot uniform.
Ahadi said that he longed to put his flying skills to use in the United States. For now, he has been working the graveyard shift at a Frito-Lay warehouse and driving Uber part time to support his family in Afghanistan. They talk every day.
Nearly 3,000 miles away in Washington state, Ahadi, the pilot, lamented that the education back home of his 10-yearold daughter, Kainat, had been disrupted because his family had to constantly move to hide from the Taliban.
“As President Biden has said, we will continue to remain vigilant, along with our partners, to defend our nation and ensure that Afghanistan never again becomes a safe haven for terrorism,” Adrienne Watson, a spokes person for the White House’s National Security Council, said in an email Saturday.
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The terror group does not have the ability to launch attacks from the country against the United States, the assessment said. Instead, it said, al-Qaida will rely on, at least for now, an array of loyal affiliates outside the region to carry out potential terrorist plots against the West.But several counterterrorism analysts said the spy agencies’ judgments represented an optimistic snapshot of a complex and fast-moving terrorist landscape. The assessment, a declassified summary of which was pro vided to The New York Times, represents the consensus views of the U.S. intelligence agencies. “The assessment is substantially accurate, but it’s also the most positive outlook on a threat picture that is still quite fluid,” said Edmund Fitton-Brown, a former top U.N. counterterrorism official.
And government analysts as well as outside terro rism experts agreed that al-Qaida in Afghanistan would, in the short term, most likely call upon a range of affilia tes outside the region to carry out plots.
None of these affiliates pose the same kind of threat to the U.S. homeland that al-Qaida did on Sept. 11, 2001. But they are deadly and resilient. The al-Qaida affiliate in East Africa killed three Americans at a U.S. base in Kenya in 2020. A Saudi air force officer training in Florida killed three sailors and wounded eight other people in 2019. The officer acted on his own but was in contact with the al-Qaida branch in Yemen as he com pleted his attack plans.
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Some counterterrorism experts also took issue with the government analysts’ judgment that fewer than a do zen al-Qaida members with longtime ties to the group are in Afghanistan and that most of those members were likely there before the fall of the Afghan government last summer.“Their numbers of active, hard-core al-Qaida in AfPak make no sense,” said Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations, referring to Afghanistan and Pakistan. “At least three dozen senior alQaida commanders were freed from Afghan jails a year ago. I very much doubt they have turned to farming or accounting as their post-prison vocations.”
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Administration officials have pushed back on the most recent criticisms, noting a pledge that Biden made when he announced al-Zawahri’s death.
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Republicans have said that the president’s pullout has endangered the United States. The fact that the alQaida leader felt safe enough to return to the Afghan capital, they argue, was a sign of a failed policy that they predicted would allow the terror group to rebuild trai ning camps and plot attacks despite the Taliban’s pledge to deny it a safe haven. In October, a top Pentagon offi cial said that al-Qaida could be able to regroup in Afgha nistan and attack the United States in one to two years.
Hoffman said that al-Qaida operatives or their affi liates had been given important administrative responsi bilities in at least eight Afghan provinces. He suggested the timing of the government assessment was “to deflect attention from the disastrous consequences of last year’s shambolic withdrawal from Afghanistan.”
The assessment was prepared after Ayman alZawahri, al-Qaida’s top leader, was killed in a CIA drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, last month. The death of al-Zawahri, one of the world’s most-wanted terrorist lea ders, after a decadeslong search was a major victory for President Joe Biden, but it raised immediate questions about al-Zawahri’s presence in Afghanistan a year after Biden withdrew all U.S. forces, clearing the way for the Taliban to regain control of the country.
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Yet some outside counterterrorism specialists saw the new intelligence assessment as overly hopeful. A U.N. report warned this spring that al-Qaida had found “increased freedom of action” in Afghanistan sin ce the Taliban seized power. The report noted that a number of al-Qaida leaders were possibly living in Kabul and that the uptick in public statements by al-Zawahri suggested that he was able to lead more effectively after the Taliban seized power. “This seems like an overly rosy assessment to the point of being slightly myopic,” Colin P. Clarke, a coun terterrorism analyst at the Soufan Group, a security con sulting firm based in New York, said of the intelligence analysis. He added that the summary said “little about the longer-term prospects of al-Qaida.”
By ERIC SCHMITT U .S. spy agencies have concluded in a new intelli gence assessment that al-Qaida has not recons tituted its presence in Afghanistan since the U.S. withdrawal last August and that only a handful of longti me al-Qaida members remain in the country.
The intelligence summary also said that members of the al-Qaida affiliate in Afghanistan, formerly known as al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent, or AQIS, were lar gely inactive and focused mainly on activities like media production. But a U.N. report in July estimated that the affiliate had 180 to 400 fighters — “primarily from Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Pakistan” — who were in several Taliban combat units. “We know from a range of sources that AQIS par ticipated in the Taliban’s insurgency against the U.S. as well as operations against ISIS-K,” Mir said, referring to the Islamic State group’s branch in Afghanistan, a bitter rival of al-Qaida.
There was broad agreement on at least two main points in the intelligence summary, including that alQaida does not yet have the ability to attack the United States or U.S. interests aboard from Afghan soil.
The U.N. report in July concurred with that judg ment, explaining that al-Qaida “is not viewed as posing an immediate international threat from its safe haven in Afghanistan because it lacks an external operational ca pability and does not currently wish to cause the Taliban international difficulty or embarrassment.”
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According to a Trafalgar Group/Convention of States Action survey, 83% of likely Republican voters said the FBI search made them more motivated to vote in the 2022 elections. More than 75% of likely Republican voters believed Trump’s political enemies were behind the search rather than the impartial justice system, as did 48% of likely general election voters overall. In a normal society, when politicians get investigated or charged, it hurts them politically. But that no longer applies to the GOP. The judicial system may be colliding with the political system in an unprecedented way. What happens if a prosecutor charges Trump and he is convicted just as he is cruising to the GOP nomination or maybe even the presidency? What happens if the legal system, using its criteria, decides Trump should go to prison at the very moment that the electoral system, using its criteria, decides he should go to the White House?
By DAVID BROOKS Why is Donald Trump so powerful? How did he come to dominate one of the two major parties and get himself elected president? Is it his hair? His waistline? No, it’s his narratives. Trump tells powerful stories that ring true to tens of millions of Americans.Themain one is that America is being ruined by corrupt coastal elites. According to this narrative, there is an interlocking network of highly educated Americans who make up what the Trumpians have come to call the Regime: Washington power players, liberal media, big foundations, elite universities, woke corporations. These people are corrupt, condescending and immoral and are looking out only for themselves. They are out to get Trump because Trump is the person who stands up to them. They are not only out to get Trump; they are out to get you. This narrative has a core of truth to it. Highly educated metropolitan elites have become something of a self-enclosed Brahmin class. But the Trumpian propaganda turns what is an unfortunate social chasm into venomous conspiracy theory. It simply assumes, against a lot of evidence, that the leading institutions of society are inherently corrupt, malevolent and partisan and are acting in bad faith. It simply assumes that the proof of people’s virtue is that they’re getting attacked by the Regime. Trump’s political career has been kept afloat by elite scorn. The more elites scorn him, the more Republicans love him. The key criterion for leadership in the Republican Party today is having the right enemies. Into this situation walks the FBI. There’s a lot we don’t know about the search at Mar-a-Lago. But we do know how the Republican Party reacted. The right side of my Twitter feed was ecstatic. See! We really are persecuted! Essays began to appear with titles like “The Regime Wants Its Revenge.” Ron DeSantis tweeted, “The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents.” As usual, the tone was apocalyptic. “This is the worst attack on this Republic in modern history,” Fox News host Mark Levin exclaimed.Theinvestigation into Trump was seen purely as a heinous Regime plot. At least for now, the search has shaken the Republican political landscape. Several weeks ago, about half of Republican voters were ready to move on from Trump, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll. Last week the entire party seemed to rally behind him. Republican strategists advising Trump’s potential primary opponents had reason to be despondent. “Completely handed him a lifeline,” one such strategist told Politico. “Unbelievable … It put everybody in the wagon for Trump again. It’s just taken the wind out of everybody’s sails.”
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I presume in those circumstances Trump would be arrested and imprisoned. I also presume we would see widespread political violence from incensed Trump voters who would conclude that the Regime has stolen the country. In my view, this is the most likely path to a complete democratic breakdown. In theory, justice is blind, and obviously no person can be above the law. But as Damon Linker wrote in a Substack post, “This is a polity, not a graduate seminar in Kantian ethics.” We live in a specific real-world situation, and we all have to take responsibility for the real-world effects of our actions. America absolutely needs to punish those who commit crimes. On the other hand, America absolutely needs to make sure that Trump does not get another term as president. What do we do if the former makes the latter more likely? I have no clue how to get out of this potential conflict between our legal and political realities.We’re living in a crisis of legitimacy, during which distrust of established power is so virulent that actions by elite actors tend to backfire, no matter how well founded they are. My impression is that the FBI had legitimate reasons to do what it did. My guess is it will find some damning documents that will do nothing to weaken Trump’s support. I’m also convinced that, at least for now, it has unintentionally improved Trump’s reelection chances. It has unintentionally made life harder for Trump’s potential primary challengers and motivated his base. It feels as though we’re walking toward some sort of storm and there’s no honorable way to alter our course. the FBI just reelect Donald Trump?
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The San Juan Daily Star Monday, August 15, 2022 19 POR CYBERNEWS A GUADILLA – El director de la Au toridad de Acueductos y Alcanta rillados (AAA), en el área de Aguadi lla, Luis Cabán Medina informó sobre el inicio de un plan de interrupciones programadas en el servicio de agua por periodos de 24 horas para abonados en sectores del municipio de Isabela. “Estamos ampliando el plan de in terrupciones de servicio de agua que se llevaba a cabo en Isabela, a uno de 24 horas en dos zonas de servicio, debido a que el canal de riego que suple a las plantas de filtración de la AAA conti núa cerrado, por la reparación de una rotura”, informó el director del área operacional de la AAA en Aguadilla. El plan de interrupción será de 24 horas, comenzado desde las 9:00 de la mañana de hoy domingo, 14 de agosto de 2022, hasta las 9:00 de la mañana del lunes, 15 de agosto de 2022 para abonados residentes en la Zona B: Mora, Coto, Galateo, Guerrero, Lla nadas, Arenales, Poncito, Los Pinos, sector Ramal, Mantilla, Chevin en Isabela; camino Trujillo del sector Carmelo Serrano y sector Sombrero del Bo. Saltos en San Sebastián; al igual que el barrio Rocha en Moca. La zona de gravedad, Zona A, tendrá interrupción del servicio de agua mañana lunes, 15 de agosto desde las 9:00 de la mañana hasta las 9:00 de la mañana del martes. Esta zona incluye al centro urbano, Jobos, Bajura, Bejucos, Guayabos, sectores en la parte norte de la PR 212 del Bo. Mora, y sectores en la PR 466 y PR 472 del Bo. Guerrero. Así continuará, un día con agua y un día sin agua, hasta nuevo aviso.
POR CYBERNEWS S AN JUAN – La matrícula del Colegio de Contadores Pú blicos Autorizados (CCPA) alertó sobre los numerosos problemas que presenta la nueva plataforma del Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipal, CRIM 360. Dichos pro blemas han dificultado e impedido a miles de ciudadanos y profesionales de la contabilidad la radicación de la Planilla de Propiedad Mueble, correspondiente al año contributivo 2021.El CPA Oscar Cullen Ramos, presidente del CCPA, indi có que los problemas reportados son numerosos y una gran cantidad aún no han sido corregidos por la entidad guberna mental, a pesar de la colaboración de voluntarios del CCPA, quienes por meses han identificado y comunicando situacio nes relacionadas a la plataforma. Por esta razón, la matrícula solicita a la Junta de Gobierno del CRIM y a su director eje cutivo, Reinaldo Paniagua, que se posponga la fecha de radi cación de la Planilla de Propiedad Mueble hasta el miércoles, 15 de noviembre de 2022.
S AN JUAN – El informe de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el domingo, sobre 531 casos po sitivos confirmados, 1,595 casos probables y dos muertes. Las personas fallecidas fueron dos hombres de 60 y 85 años de las regiones de Bayamón y Metropolitano, respec tivamente. Ambos estaban sin vacunas al día. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 29 de julio de 2022 al 12 de agosto de 2022. La tasa de positividad está a 31.38 por ciento. Hay 319 adultos hospitalizados y de ellos, 45 están en intensivo. Mientras, 39 menores están hospitalizados y uno está en intensivo. 21 adultos están en ventilador y un menor.Laspersonas con vacunas al día son 1,017,444 per sonas.El total de muertes atribuidas es de 4,852. Mueren dos y 2,126 casos nuevos por COVID-19 según informe del DS Aviso de plan de interrupciones de servicio de 24 horas en Isabela
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“El Colegio de CPA entiende que obligar a que los con tribuyentes tengan que seguir el proceso establecido en la Carta Circular 2020-004 – (revisada) del CRIM y por ende verse forzados a radicar una planilla con errores a causa de problemas en la programación de los sistemas no es una sana práctica de administración tributaria. Esta situación aumen ta los costos de cumplimiento e incide sobre el derecho de los contribuyentes a un debido proceso de ley”, destaca el CPA Cullen Ramos en una carta enviada el 4 de agosto a Paniagua en donde se detallan algunos de los problemas que enfrenta el portal. Además de que dicho proceso redundará en múltiples reclamaciones que tendrán que ser atendidas subsiguientemente ante el CRIM por los contribuyentes o sus representantes con un costo adicional. En la misiva, el presidente del CCPA afirmó que, ante esta situación sin precedentes, “el CRIM debe proveer un sistema que permita que las Planillas de Propiedad Mueble sean radi cadas de forma correcta. Desafortunadamente, para la fecha de radicación original el pasado mes de mayo, el CRIM no tenía un sistema que pudiera procesar adecuadamente dichas planillas. Peor aún, a pocos días de vencerse la prórroga para la radiación aún no han provisto a los contribuyentes una plataforma adecuada para poder radicar dichas planillas”. El CPA Cullen Ramos recordó que, en una reunión con el director ejecutivo el 20 de julio de 2022, se le presentaron las irregularidades que aún afectan directamente al contribuyen te con esta nueva plataforma. Como consecuencia de dicha reunión, el CRIM emitió la Carta Circular 2022-004 – (revisa da) que no resolvió por completo dichas dificultades. Por el contrario, en esta Carta se informó que se había ubicado en la plataforma una “Hoja de Servicio”, a través de la cual debe canalizarse cualquier situación que surja en el proceso de la radicación de la planilla mueble. En la Carta Circular 2022-004 – (revisada), el CRIM justi ficó su acción alegando que la “Hoja de Servicio” estará dis ponible para someter cualquier evidencia o explicación que establezca la dificultad o error que se presente al radicar la planilla en el término establecido. Dicha “Hoja de Servicio” debe ser sometida en o antes del 16 de agosto de 2022. La Carta Circular indica que, si se determina que la dificultad o error es a consecuencia del Sistema, se le honrará al contri buyente los descuentos que apliquen. Asimismo, indica que se hicieron ajustes en la programa ción para honrar el 5% de descuento a todo contribuyente que haya realizado los pagos de estimada, según dispuesto en la Orden Administrativa 2022-002. Finalmente, la Carta Circular establece que el campo de créditos adicionales está abierto para añadir cualquier importe no reflejado en balance de cuenta, tanto en pagos de estimadas como en créditos de años anteriores.
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By ESTHER ZUCKERMAN Long before the car crash that led to actor Anne Heche be ing declared brain-dead at the age of 53, her work on screen was always on the verge of being overshadowed by tabloid interest in her life. In 1997, she became best known as the girlfriend of co median Ellen DeGeneres, appearing with her on red carpets at a time when open same-sex relationships were still rare in Holly wood. Her name was the butt of countless jokes after a “20/20” interview with Barbara Walters in 2001 in which she revealed that she had concocted a separate world for herself called a “fourth dimension” and a personality named “Celestia.” Never mind the fact that she also told Walters about the horrific sexual abuse she had endured at the hands of her father. She was faced with mockery that followed her for the rest of her career. But to filmgoers, Heche was an idiosyncratic presence who never quite seemed to fit into cookie-cutter blockbusters. Instead, she was brilliantly unnerving and frequently funny, her angular face a disarming mix of intelligence and wiliness that made her the perfect choice to play competent women in ex treme Insituations.someways, she operated in the most mainstream are nas of the entertainment industry. She got her start as a soap opera star on “Another World” and did stints on network dra mas like “Ally McBeal” and sitcoms like “Save Me” and “The Michael J. Fox Show.” And yet there was a subversiveness to Heche that threaded through her best performances, as well as an ability to laugh at herself that undermined her reputation in the culture at large. Early in her career, director Nicole Holofcener identified Heche’s capacity for honesty in the 1996 “Walking and Talking” (available to rent on Prime Video). Heche plays Laura, a thera pist-in-training and the longtime best friend of Catherine Keen er’s Amelia. Laura is, theoretically, the more together of the two.
Anne Heche in “Walking and Talking,” as the more together of two best friends.
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It would be easy to let the circumstances of her crash cloud the memory of her artistry, but it’s just as easy to picture her as Laura in “Walking and Talking,” hair full of flowers and heart full of nerves, heading to her wedding with her best friend.
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In the following year, Hollywood wrestled with how to fit Heche into its formulas. She appeared in four films in 1997, in roles ranging from the frustrated wife of an undercover cop in “Donnie Brasco,” opposite Johnny Depp, to a presidential aide trying to bury a scandal in “Wag the Dog,” opposite Robert De Niro. In teen slasher “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” she’s the sister of a murder victim. She is oddly slotted into the goofy thrills of disaster flick “Volcano,” in which she plays the seis mologist who figures out that Los Angeles is about to be over taken by lava. And yet even in the silliest of blockbusters, spout ing ludicrous exposition about just how this geological event is taking place in a major American city, she brings an easy truth to the circumstances that most performers would struggle to achieve. (“Donnie Brasco” is available on Netflix; “I Know What You Did” is on HBO Max; and “Wag” and “Volcano” are on most major platforms.) She never stopped working, but the Anne Heche offscreen soon started to overshadow the Anne Heche on. Still, there were artists, like Jonathan Glazer, who recognized what she could bring to a project. He tapped her for a pivotal role in his sur real 2004 film, “Birth” (HBO Max), in which Nicole Kidman plays an Upper East Side bride-to-be visited by a young boy who claims to be her dead husband reincarnated. During one of the opening scenes, Heche is disconcertingly on edge, balk ing before entering a party and instead going to bury her gift in the woods, then rushing to a store to replace what she hid, eyes flooded with guilt. Her character hovers around the action like a threat, until she snaps into focus, the true purpose of her existence floating into her intense gaze. “Birth” is an otherworldly piece, and it’s almost as if Glaz er uses Heche to further unsettle the audience, a task she takes on with vigor. More than 10 years later, Onur Tukel tapped into Heche’s rage in “Catfight” (Netflix), a comedy that cast her as an artist who gets into a vicious punching match with a college friend (Sandra Oh) over resentment and class conflict.
There was a chance that Heche was on the verge of yet another career revival. She had finished a role in the forthcom ing HBO series “The Idol,” created by musician the Weeknd, Sam Levinson of “Euphoria” and Reza Fahim. For all the ques tions about what opportunities she may not have gotten — be cause of homophobia or ridicule or mental health stigmas — in an interview with Los Angeles magazine around the time of the release of “Birth” she explained, “It’s funny, it’s not necessarily the career I had before, but it’s the life I want.”
While Amelia flounders, Laura is on a direct path, engaged to be married to her sweet jewelry-designer boyfriend (Todd Field). But as Amelia becomes jealous of the certainty in Laura’s life, doubt creeps into Laura’s psyche. In Heche, you can see Laura bristling at the restraints that come with the comforts of a close friendship and good relationship. As she tries on wedding dresses, Heche’s skin turns flushed amid the layers of tulle. Lau ra wrestles with the fabric as Amelia lightly paws at it, not help ing much, as she describes her date with a man they had both mocked. Laura doesn’t say it, but you can tell she’s thoroughly overwhelmed. She grabs her rear end. “I’m farting,” she says, with resignation. In that little gesture, Heche admits that her body is betraying her before her mind will allow her to say so. Holofcener’s screenplay allows this easy intimacy be tween women who have known each other for decades, but in Heche’s hands, Laura’s soul-searching becomes something hilariously palpable. When she and Amelia finally have it out, Heche never allows her character’s exasperation to fade into bitterness. Instead she finds all the wonderful nuances of a disagreement with a confidant, love still the dominant emo tion.
By KALIA RICHARDSON
As a middle schooler with big dreams living in San Bernardino, California, Doris Anahi Muñoz made her bedroom walls a canvas. She painted her hands on the back of her door with the words “These are the hands of Doris Anahi Muñoz, and they’re going to touch the hearts of millions.”
The film’s director, Isabel Castro, follows Muñoz as she works to catapult the careers of Latin musicians includ ing Cuco and Jacks Haupt while helping her Mexican fam ily navigate the green-card system. “A lot of us, we carry the weight of our families, and I needed a film like this growing up,” Muñoz said in a re cent video interview from Boyle Heights, California, where wooden bookshelves outlined with cascading foliage and porcelain vases filled the room. “So I’m just glad that be ing in this seat as a protagonist allows other people to see themselves.”Muñoz, the only of her parents’ three children who was born in the United States, grew up playing saxophone and violin in a family of evangelicals who hoped she would use her talents to become a worship leader. Dur ing the summer after her sophomore year of college, Ed Sheeran, with a nod, invited her onstage to sing along to his hit single “Lego House” at a radio event, reigniting her passion for music. She wrote songs and performed live for a while, but she realized that she was uncomfortable in the spotlight and would rather work behind the scenes. Her first major project on her own was managing Cuco, a bedroom-pop artist who broke out by staying true to his Mexican Ameri can heritage and making music for Latino kids who felt unseen. The film traces Muñoz’s early work with Cuco as she orchestrates his sold-out concerts and helps him land a seven-figure record deal, a success that helped fund her parents’ application to become permanent residents of the UnitedWhenStates.the pandemic hits and (spoiler alert!) Muñoz must cope with the pressure of splitting with Cuco, she re discovers her purpose in Haupt, an indie singer-songwriter from Dallas who, like many young artists, has struggled to find a wider audience.
Haupt, 22, grew up listening to Joe Bataan’s “Mujer Mía” and other Latin soul classics in her Chicano house hold, and also took inspiration from Amy Winehouse, Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin. Haupt’s bilingual music has since pivoted to a more electronic, trip-hop sound, and she often sings about heartbreak and mental health. Haupt calls music her diary, and it has been a sup
In the time since “Mija” was filmed, Muñoz has closed her management company and has begun releasing her own music under her artist name, Doris Anahí. Last week, she performed at the film’s premiere in New York’s Central Park, as did Haupt. (The film opened in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on Aug. 5, and will come to Disney+ on Sept. 16.)
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port system for her over the years. But at the beginning of her musical career, she said she lacked the support of her family.“Working in the arts as a photographer, videographer, immigrant, POC parents are more like, ‘This isn’t making money,’” Haupt said in a video interview from Dallas. Building a career in the arts can take money and time, resources that are in short supply for immigrant fami lies facing challenges like navigating the path to citizen ship and finding financial footing. The film documents Muñoz’s tight-knit bond with her family: expressing gratitude during a Thanksgiving meal, taking trips to visit her brother, who was deported to Tijua na, Mexico, and the ongoing battle for her parents’ green cards.“For those who feel alone in their process, I want this film to hold them,” Muñoz said. “I had big dreams about my family reuniting and coming together and hopefully telling their story one day as a kid.”
As the main subject of the Disney original documen tary “Mija,” Muñoz, an artist manager-turned-musician, aims for her story to do just that: connect with children of immigrant families who are yearning to pursue a career in the entertainment industry, yet who may feel alone or guilty about their desires when their households face urgent daily struggles.
“Our parents come from a generation of survival,” Muñoz said, “and we are a lucky generation that gets to think about thriving rather than surviving.”
Jacks Haupt, left, and Doris Muñoz, the subjects of “Mija,” in New York on Aug. 2, 2022. The new documen tary follows Muñoz, the daughter of undocumented Mexican immigrants, as she balances the needs of her family with artistic dreams.
The “Mija” director’s credits include the documentary shorts “USA v Scott,” about an American geographer facing prison time for aiding migrants in Arizona, and “Darlin,” a New York Times op-doc about a Honduran mother’s fight to reunite with her son after they were divided by the U.S. bor der detention policy. Castro said she was drawn to Muñoz’s and Haupt’s stories as an indie music lover who recognized a lack of representation for Latin artists in that world. “I just became really interested in the ways that Doris, Cuco and the entire community were really trying to figure out a place for themselves in this exact musical space that I had grown up listening to,” Castro said. The film shifts from Haupt’s dreamy onstage perfor mances and Los Angeles recording sessions to a heated phone conversation with her mother about what is tradi tionally considered profitable work. Castro said the con versation was reminiscent of ones she had had with her own mother, in moments when she felt guilty for not living up to “Myexpectations.ambition and my career is rooted in a sense of responsibility for the sacrifices that my parents made for me,” she said. “I hope people, especially Latinx viewers and view ers of color, will come away from the film feeling a sense of hope,” Castro added, “feeling a sense of security that pur suing creative careers is a worthwhile ambition, and that it can pay off with hard work and tenacity.”
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What should I do if I test positive for the virus? Isolate at home for at least five days and keep your distance from others in your house hold. This recommendation has not changed.
Diners in the River North neighborhood, where some streets are still closed car traffic to allow restaurants extra room for outdoor dining in Chicago, Ill. on July 14, 2022.
“Your viral load grows after you get in fected,” said Dr. Michael Mina, a former Har vard public health researcher who is now the chief science officer for eMed, which sells athome tests. “It goes up, and that takes time.”
The CDC’s guidelines said schools that are experiencing outbreaks may want to tem porarily adopt additional precautions, in cluding surveillance testing, contact tracing, mask-wearing and open windows and doors to improve ventilation.
The Centers for Disease Control and Pre vention relaxed many of its COVID-19 guidelines last week, shifting sharply away from several of the precautions, includ ing quarantines and social distancing, that have long defined the pandemic. The move was prompted by the fact that many Americans now have some immunity to the coronavirus — through a combination of vaccination and previous infection — and by the availability of vaccines, booster shots and antiviral medications that can reduce the risk of severe disease. Part of the public health agency’s goal in issuing the new guidance was to streamline the recommendations and help people manage their own risk, officials said. But the guidelines are still complex and contain plenty of nuance. Here are answers to some common ques tions about what the guidelines mean for you. Do I still have to stand 6 feet away from strangers? The CDC has not abandoned the idea of social distancing entirely — instead, the agency suggests keeping a distance from others as one of many strategies that people can use to help reduce their risk. The old guidelines recommended that people who were not up to date on their vac cinations “stay at least 6 feet away from other people” in indoor public spaces. Now, the agency recommends that people “may want to avoid crowded areas” or maintain a distance from others in order to minimize their exposure to the virus. This pre caution may be especially important for people who are at high risk for severe COVID-19, the agency noted. Do I still have to wear a face mask? The general mask guidelines have not changed. The CDC still recommends that ev eryone age 2 and older wear a well-fitting mask in public indoor spaces when the local COV ID-19 community level is high. People who are at high risk for severe disease should also wear a mask when their communities are at the me dium level, according to the guidelines. Nearly 40% of counties across the United States are at a high community level, according to the CDC. What should I do if I’ve been exposed to the virus?
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In an email to The New York Times on Fri day, the New York State Department of Health said it was reviewing the new CDC recommen dations and would issue its own back-to-school guidance “soon.” New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said Friday that it was also reviewing the new federal guidelines and still finalizing plans for the coming school year.
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What does this mean for schools and of fices? In theory, the new guidelines could free many schools and businesses from some of the restrictive measures that have been difficult to enforce, including navigating a different set of rules for vaccinated and unvaccinated people. Quarantines have been especially disruptive and divisive in schools. Under the new guidelines, children who have been in close contact with someone who has COVID-19 do not need to stay home, and schools do not need to administer frequent tests in order to keep these children in the classroom, an approach known as “test to stay.” Contact tracing and routine surveillance testing of as ymptomatic people are no longer necessary in most settings, the CDC said. In reality, the new guidelines may not change much at many schools, which had in creasingly been moving away from these mea sures. Massachusetts, for instance, dropped its quarantine requirements for asymptomatic chil dren inStill,May.some districts and officials do take their cues from the federal guidance, which could prompt some localities to relax their rules for the coming academic year.
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If you remained asymptomatic during your time in isolation — or if your symptoms are improving and you have been fever-free for at least a day — you can leave isolation after Day 5, according to the guidelines. Previously, the CDC recommended that people with COVID-19 wear a mask for 10 full days. Under the new guidelines, people can re move their masks sooner if they test negative on two rapid antigen tests, taken at least 48 hours apart. Others should continue to mask for 10 days. People who experience moderate to se vere illness, or have compromised immune systems, should isolate for at least 10 days, the agency said. If symptoms return after isolation, people should start their isolation periods over, accord ing to the new guidelines.
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As a precautionary measure, the CDC used to recommend that people who were not up to date on their vaccinations and had been in close contact with someone with COVID-19 stay home for at least five days, a practice known as quarantining. (People who were up to date on their shots did not need to quarantine if they were asymptomatic, according to the pre vious guidelines.)
The quarantine recommendation has disappeared, one of the biggest changes in the new guidance. “Quarantines are sort of a blunt tool,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health. “I do think we have to shift in how we think about controlling this virus.” Now, people who have been exposed to the virus can continue with their daily routines regardless of their vaccination status, as long as they remain asymptomatic. However, they should wear a well-fitting mask for 10 full days, monitor themselves for symptoms, take extra safety measures around vulnerable people and get tested at least five days after exposure. If you use an at-home antigen test, you may need to test yourself repeatedly. To reduce the risk of false negative results, people who have no symptoms should take at least three tests, each 48 hours apart, according to a new recommendation from the Food and Drug Ad ministration. People who do have COVID-19 symptoms should take at least two tests 48 hours apart.
“We welcome these guidelines,” Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federa tion of Teachers, said in a statement Thursday. “Every educator and every parent starts every school year with great hope, and this year even more so. After two years of uncertainty and dis ruption, we need as normal a year as possible so we can focus like a laser on what kids need.”
mandada de epígrafe en el in mueble que se describe a conti nuación: RÚSTICA: Solar marcado con el número treinta en el Plano de URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Ci lla Carolina, situada en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, Puerto Rico, que se describe con el número diecisiete de la manza na cincuentiuno con un área de trescientos setentisiete metros cuadrados con seis centímetros y en lindes por el NORTE, con los solares dos y tres, distancia de catorce metros; por el SUR, con la calle cuarenticuatro, dis tancia de catorce metros; por el ESTE, con solar dieciséis, dis tancia de veintiséis metros no ventitres centímetros; y por el OESTE, con el solar dieciocho, distancia de veintiséis metros noventitres centímetros. Con tiene una casa de cemento di señada para una familia. Finca número 15,776, inscrita al folio 221 del tomo 399 de Carolina. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Ca rolina. Dirección de la Propie dad: 51-17 calle 44 Villa Caroli na, Carolina, PR 00985. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcan ce, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte deman dante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $81,048.79, con interés al 3.543% anual , por concepto de balance principal del préstamo más intereses acumulados, y los cuales continúan acumulán dose, así como la cantidad lí quida estipulada en los docu mentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclama ción judicial y que correspon dan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $7,000.00, equiva lente al 10% de la suma princi pal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honora rios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la es critura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigi bles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue cons tituida mediante la escritura nú mero 25 otorgada el día 15 de julio de 2009, ante el Notario Público Maria S. Chevere Mou riño y consta inscrita al folio 223 del tomo 399 de Carolina, finca número 17,776, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II de Carolina. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipo tecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del eje LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CA GUAS PUERTOFIRSTBANKRICO
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Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2020CV02013. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO GENERAL.EN A: SUCESIÓN DE RAMON VELEZ PEÑA COMPUESTA POR RAMONITA CARABALLO;CARABALLOBURGOST/C/CRAMONABURGOSRAMONITABURGOSCARABALLOT/C/CRAMONABURGOSCARABALLO;LOSESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMÉRICA;YELCENTRODERECAUDACIÓNDEIMPUESTOSMUNICIPALES. Yo, HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍ GUEZ, AGUACIL PLACA #278, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con inte rés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al públi co en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 6 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Carolina, Carolina, Puer to Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor pos tor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 22 de abril de 2022. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento in coado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a cele brarse, se celebrará una SE GUNDA SUBASTA para la ven ta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 13 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MA ÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se cele brará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MA ÑANA; en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 16 de ju nio de 2022, procederé a ven der en pública subasta y al me jor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte de de $7,204.37 en seguro hipo tecario; $1,344.00 en seguro; $1,225.00 de tasación; $320.00 de inspecciones; $1,555.00 en honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $12,000.00, para gastos, cos tas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fe cha, desde este mismo día has ta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencio nada finca, a cuyo efecto se no tifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SU BASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los intere sados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por es pacio de dos semanas conse cutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los si tios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 22 de abril de 2022. MARÍA DEL PILAR RIVERA RI VERA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #796. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA CASCADE FUNDING MORTGAGE TRUST HB5 Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE RAMON VELEZ PEÑA COMPUESTA POR RAMONITA CARABALLO;CARABALLOBURGOST/C/CRAMONABURGOSRAMONITABURGOSCARABALLOT/C/CRAMONABURGOSCARABALLO;LOSESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMÉRICA;YELCENTRODERECAUDACIÓNDEIMPUESTOSMUNICIPALES 2022
Parte Demandante Vs. JOSUE RIVERA MASSA Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: ECD20111619. (402). Sobre: EJECU CIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, Oficina de Subasta; a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace sa ber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas labora bles y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en mo neda de curso legal de los Esta dos Unidos de América en efec tivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $101,426.33 de balance prin cipal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 7% desde el primero de septiembre de 2011 hasta su completo pago; el 5% computado sobre cada men sualidad de principal e interés por la suma de $712.54 por concepto de cargos por demora desde el día primero de octu bre de 2011 a razón de $28.50 mensuales hasta su total pago, más la suma de $107,100.00 como cantidad estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pacta da en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBA NA: solar radicado en la urba nización Estancias de la Ceiba, situada en el Barrio Ceiba Sur del término de Juncos, Puerto Rico, marcado con la designa ción letra “H” y el número uno (1) de la calle número ocho (8), con un área de trescientos uno punto cero siete metros cua drados (301.07). En lindes por el Norte, con la calle número uno (1), distancia de diecinueve punto cincuenta y ocho metros (19.58), por el Sur, con el solar número dos (2), distancia de veintitrés punto cero ocho me tros (23.08), por el Este, con calle número ocho (8), distancia de nueve punto setenta metros (9.70) y un arco de cinco punto cinco metros (5.5) y por el Oes te, con el solar número catorce (14), distancia de trece punto veinte metros (13.20). Este solar contiene una casa de ce mento diseñada para una fami lia. Inscrita al tomo Karibe, finca número dieciocho mil noventa y uno (18091) de Juncos, Re gistro de Caguas II. Dirección Física: H1 8 ST Estancias de la Ceiba, Juncos PR 00777. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 6 DE SEPTIEM BRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $107,100.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subas tado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MA ÑANA y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del pre cio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $71,400.00. Si tampo co hubiera remate ni adjudica ción en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SU BASTA el día 20 DE SEPTIEM BRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio estableci do para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $53,550.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efec to, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedi miento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipo tecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la últi ma subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada confor me a la sentencia, si ésta fue ra igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cual quier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contri buciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes al crédi to del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimien to de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamen te con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus in tereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, que dando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes poste riores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en gene ral y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el pre sente en Caguas, Puerto Rico a 19 de julio de 2022. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS. LEGAL NOTICE
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Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2020CV01196. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA DEMANDADA,PARTEAL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL GENERAL:PÚBLICO Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Humacao, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por mo neda de curso legal de los Esta dos Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 31 DE AGOS TO DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho títu lo, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte deman dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parce la marcada con el número cien to sesenta y cuatro “D” (164-D) en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural La Fermina del Barrio Collores del término mu nicipal de Las Piedras, con ca bida superficial de trescientos treinta punto cero cero (330.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela per tenecientes a Jose R. Pérez y Neftalí Pérez; por el SUR, con parcela marcada con el nume ro ciento sesenta y cuatro “E” (164-E) en el plano de inscrip ción y parcela de Don Edgardo Arroyo; por el ESTE, con parce la de Don Eduardo Pérez y por el OESTE, con camino sesenta y cuatro “E” (164-E) en el plano de inscripción. Inscrita al folio 110 del tomo 230 de Las Pie dras, finca 12201, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Pro piedad localizada en: COMUNI DAD LA FERMINA, #164-D CA LLE AMAPOLA, HUMACAO, PUERTO RICO 00791. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Ti tular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certi ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gra vámenes anteriores y los pre ferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas car gas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $120,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 7 DE SEPTIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se esta blece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $80,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido original mente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se estable ce como mínima para la TER CERA SUBASTA, la suma de $60,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubi cada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 14 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑA NA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandan te, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $51,920.00 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $21,067.37 en intere ses acumulados al 31 de marzo de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas
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Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2021CV00891. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTER PELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: LEXTER DANIEL REYES RODRIGUEZ COMO BENEDICTALACONOCIDOHEREDERODESUCESIONDERODRIGUEZRODRIGUEZ.
Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2022CV00539. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: AMENDALA,MARIODOMENICKDEGIORGIOPORSÍYEN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES BIENESLATERESAGANANCIALESMARYSTAUDTRUIZ,PORSÍYENREPRESENTACIÓNDESOCIEDADLEGALDEGANANCIALESYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEBIENESGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORELLOS.
Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido notificado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligen ciamiento. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pue de acceder utilizando la direc ción 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 dic tar 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 discre ción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte deman dante el Lcda. Raquel Deseda Belaval, Delgado Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernán dez Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414. DADA en Ma yagüez, Puerto Rico, a 08 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. NOR MA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ALEXANDRA MARIE LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYA GÜEZ ORIENTAL BANK Parte Demandante V. MARIA ESTHER CRUZ GALARZA Y LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL ANTONIO SANABRIA MOLINA COMPUESTA POR CRUZ,ANTONIOSANABRIA,YOLANDAMIGUELSANABRIACRUZ,LILLIANSANABRIACRUZ,ROBERTOENRIQUESANABRIACRUZ,IVONNESANABRIAIVETTESANABRIACRUZ,ALBERTOSANABRIACRUZ,FULANOYFULANADETAL Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2019CV02027. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y 2022
Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido notificado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligen ciamiento. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pue de acceder utilizando la direc ción 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 dic tar 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 discre ción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte deman dante el Lcda. Raquel Deseda Belaval, Delgado Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernán dez Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414. DADA en Ma yagüez, Puerto Rico, a 08 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. NOR MA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ALEXANDRA MARIE LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYA GÜEZ ORIENTAL BANK Parte Demandante V. MARIA ESTHER CRUZ GALARZA Y LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL ANTONIO SANABRIA MOLINA COMPUESTA POR ANTONIOSANABRIA,YOLANDAMIGUELSANABRIACRUZ,LILLIAN MATOS #833, URB. GUANAJIBO HOMES, MAYAGÜEZ, PR 006821163; COND. VILLAS DE FELISA, APARTAMENTO 187, MAYAGÜEZ PR 00680. CONOCIDOSTELÉFONOS(787)652-3407;(787)204-8840Y(787)666-1175.
Se le apercibe que si no com parecieran ustedes a contestar dicha demanda dentro del tér mino de 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dicta rá sentencia concediendo el re medio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, advirtiéndosele que de no hacerlo se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio soli citado sin más citarle ni oírle. Dado en Ponce, a 5 de agosto de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARA BALLO GARCÍA, SECRETA RIA. DORIS A. RODRÍGUEZ COLÓN, SECRETARIA AUXI LIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION,INC. Demandante Vs. CHARLES EDMOND LIBBY, ROCHELLECAROLELERMAN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENESCOMPUESTAGANANCIALESPORAMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2022CV00558. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: CHARLES EDMOND ha radicado mediante el por la parte demandante HA CIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. solicitan do un Cobro de Dinero. Se les emplaza y se les requiere que notifiquen a GARRIGA & MARI NI LAW OFFICES, C.S.P., P.O. Box 16593, San Juan, Puer to Rico 00908-6593, teléfono (787) 275-0655, con copia de su contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Ustedes deberán presentar su alegación res ponsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la se cretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. Si dejaren de contestar podrá anotarse la rebeldía y dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en re beldía concediéndose el reme dio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarles ni oírles. EX TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, a tenor con la Orden del Tribunal, hoy día 5 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LILIAN MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION,INC. Demandante Vs. DOMENICK MARIO DEGIORGIO AMENDALA, TERESA MARY STAUDT RUIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE COMPUESTAGANANCIALESBIENESPORAMBOS
sistema SUMAC una Demanda
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Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido notificado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligen ciamiento. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pue de acceder utilizando la direc ción 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 dic tar 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 discre ción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte deman dante el Lcda. Raquel Deseda Belaval, Delgado Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernán dez Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414. DADA en Ma yagüez, Puerto Rico, a 08 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. NOR MA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ALEXANDRA MARIE LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIATRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN PUERTO RICO, T/C/C BBV PUERTO RICO, QUIEN FUCIONÓ CON PONCEBANK , T/C/C PONCE FEDERAL BANK F.S.B Y PONCE FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF PR; JOHN DOE & ROERICHARD Demandado Civil Núm.: VI2022CV00095. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DOS DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE. Por la presente se emplaza y se les notifica que se ha pre sentado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal la demanda del caso de epígrafe solicitando la cancelación del Pagaré suscri to a favor de Ponce Federal Sa vings and Loan Association, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $29,000.00 con intereses al 15¼% anual, y con vencimiento el 1 de junio de 2010, habién dose constituido por la escritura número 238 otorgada el 15 de mayo de 1980, ante el Notario Público Wendell W. Colon, ins crita al folio 148 del tomo 70 de Villalba, finca número 3130. Representa a la parte deman dante la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consig na de inmediato: ENEL M. PEREZ MONTE RUA núm. 9019 Reina Isabel 175, La Villa de lcdaenelperez@gmail.comGuaynaboTorrimarPR00969Cel.:(787)646-9168
Se les notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la parte demandante HA CIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. solicitan do un Cobro de Dinero. Se les emplaza y se les requiere que notifiquen a GARRIGA & MARI NI LAW OFFICES, C.S.P., P.O. Box 16593, San Juan, Puer to Rico 00908-6593, teléfono (787) 275-0655, con copia de su contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Ustedes deberán presentar su alegación res ponsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la se cretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. Si dejaren de contestar podrá anotarse la rebeldía y dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el re medio solicitado en la Deman da, sin más citarles ni oírles. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, a te nor con la Orden del Tribunal, hoy día 5 de agosto de 2022. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN ME LÉNDEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SUBSECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAY NABO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. SUCESION DE EDGARDO ANTONIO MUÑIZ QUIÑONES COMPUESTA POR FULANO(A) DE TAL Y SUTANO(A) DE TAL COMO
A: IVETTE SANABRIA CRUZ COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL FELISA,1163;MAYAGÜEZ,GUANAJIBOSANABRIAANTONIOMOLINA.CALLEG.PALESMATOS#833,URB.HOMES,PR00682-COND.VILLASDEAPARTAMENTO187,MAYAGÜEZPR00680.TELÉFONOSCONOCIDOS(787)652-3407;(787)204-8840Y(787)666-1175.
LIBBY, POR SÍ Y BIENESLAREPRESENTACIÓNENDESOCIEDADLEGALDEBIENESGANANCIALES.CAROLEROCHELLELERMAN,PORSÍYENREPRESENTACIÓNDELASOCIEDADLEGALDEGANANCIALESYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEBIENESGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS. Se les notifica a ustedes que se
SANABRIA CRUZ, ROBERTO CRUZ,IVONNESANABRIAENRIQUECRUZ,SANABRIAIVETTESANABRIACRUZ,ALBERTOSANABRIACRUZ,FULANOYFULANADETAL Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2019CV02027. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE EMPLAZAMIENTOHIPOTECA.POREDICTO.ESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMÉRICA,ELPRESIDENTEDELOSESTADOSUNIDOS,ELESTADOLIBREASOCIADODEPUERTORICO. A: IVONNE SANABRIA CRUZ COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL FELISA,1163;MAYAGÜEZ,GUANAJIBOSANABRIAANTONIOMOLINA.CALLEG.PALESMATOS#833,URB.HOMES,PR00682-COND.VILLASDEAPARTAMENTO187,MAYAGÜEZPR00680.TELÉFONOSCONOCIDOS(787)652-3407;(787)204-8840Y(787)666-1175.
BENEDICTADESCONOCIDOS;HEREDEROSPOSIBLESSUCESIONDERODRIGUEZRODRIGUEZCOMPUESTAPORSUSHEREDEROSCONOCIDOSYAMELREYES;FRYDAREYESRODRÍGUEZ;LEXTERDANIELREYESRODRIGUEZ;CENTRODERECAUDACIONDEINGRESOSMUNICIPALES;YALOSESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMERICA
Por la presente se les notifica que se ha presentado en este Tribunal la Demanda de epí grafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Fer nando Gierbolini; MONSERRA TE, SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San Patricio, Edificio Maramar Plaza, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) 620-5300, abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publi cación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la Demanda radi cando el original de la misma 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 respon siva en la Secretaría del Tribu nal Superior dentro del término antes indicado, y notificando con copia a la parte deman dante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle. Además, se les interpela judicialmente, a tenor con el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, para que en un término de treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este edic to, excluyendo el día de su pu blicación, acepten o repudien, mediante instrumento público o comparecencia judicial espe cial, la herencia de la causan te BENEDICTA RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ apercibiéndosele que, de no expresarse dentro de dicho término, se tendrá por aceptada la herencia. B.B.V.A. y. Latinoamericana, 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005), por lo que respon derán por las cargas de dicha herencia. EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y el Sello del Tri bunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL. MAIRENI TREINTA, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYA GÜEZ ORIENTAL BANK Parte Demandante V. MARIA ESTHER CRUZ GALARZA Y LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL ANTONIO SANABRIA MOLINA COMPUESTA POR CRUZ,ANTONIOSANABRIA,YOLANDAMIGUELSANABRIACRUZ,LILLIANSANABRIACRUZ,ROBERTOENRIQUESANABRIACRUZ,IVONNESANABRIAIVETTESANABRIACRUZ,ALBERTOSANABRIACRUZ,FULANOYFULANADETAL Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2019CV02027. COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE EMPLAZAMIENTOHIPOTECA.POREDICTO.ESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMÉRICA,ELPRESIDENTEDELOSESTADOSUNIDOS,ELESTADOLIBREASOCIADODEPUERTORICO. A: ALBERTO SANABRIA CRUZ COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL SANABRIAANTONIOMOLINA.CALLEG.PALES EJECUCIÓN DE DOELDEAMÉRICA,TO.EMPLAZAMIENTOHIPOTECA.POREDICESTADOSUNIDOSDEELPRESIDENTELOSESTADOSUNIDOS,ESTADOLIBREASOCIADEPUERTORICO.
LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE TOA ALTA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. CARMEN BIENESPACHECOESCRIBANOIVETTEVÉLEZ,ALBERTODÍAZSANTIAGO,JOSÉFIGUEROA,CARMENRIVERAVILLAREALYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS
Sala: 407. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIEN TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: HILDA 184-25CAROLINA,184-25GONZALEZELENAORTIZ.C517VILLACAROLINA,PUERTORICO,00985YCALLE517VILLACAROLINA,CAROLINA,PR00985-3528.
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extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de los de mandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos corres pondientes. Librado en la Sala de Camuy, Puerto Rico, a 8 de agosto de 2022. WILFREDO OLMO SALAZAR, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, ALGUACIL.
Queden emplazados y notifi cados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega que usted le adeuda a la parte deman dante lo siguiente: La suma de $115,397.21 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 4.125%, anual desde el 1ro de octubre de 2021, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recar gos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipote ca, desde la fecha antes men cionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $11,775.61 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipo tecariamente. La propiedad hipotecada cuya ejecución se solicita tiene la siguiente des cripción y localización: URBA NA: Solar marcado con el nú mero veinticinco de la manzana ciento ochenta y cuatro en la Urbanización Villa Carolina, Quinta Sección situada en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de trescientos cuarenta y tres me tros cuadrados con doscientas milésimas de metro. En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle quinientos diecisiete, distancia de catorce metros y trescien tas milésimas de metro; por el SUR, con los solares treinta y dos y treinta y tres, distancia de catorce metros y trescientas mi lésimas de metro; por el ESTE, con el solar veinticuatro, dis tancia de veinticuatro metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar veintiséis, distancia de veinti cuatro metros. El inmueble an tes descrito contiene una casa de concreto, diseñada para una familia. Inscrita al folio 232 del tomo 839 de Carolina Sur, fin ca número 33,727, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda de Carolina. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publica ción del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca:
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 7 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente 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 notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento 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 edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de agosto de 2022. En Yauco, Puerto Rico, el 8 de agosto de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABA LLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR I. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE QUE BRADILLAS COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE RINCÓN AHORROCOOPERATIVA(ANTESDEYCRÉDITODEAÑASCO)
ABOGADOS DE LA DEMANDANTE:PARTE Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ, LLP Edificio Ochoa, 500 Calle De La Tanca Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) rdíaz@bdprlaw.com523-2664 Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este
Demandados Civil Núm.: D3CD2017-0111. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVI SO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, ROSAMARIE MELÉNDEZ PEÑA, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Su bastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Toa Alta a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cum pliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presen te caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 3 de marzo de 2022 y para sa tisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $46,348.67 de principal me diante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 15 de noviem bre de 2021, notificada y archi vada en autos el 2 de diciembre de 2021, y publicada mediante edicto en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” el 9 de diciem bre de 2021, procederé a ven der en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o che que certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demanda dos en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Corozal, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a con tinuación: 2-A SR 159 Ramal 5568 KM 2.1, Barrio Padilla, Corozal, Puerto Rico 00783. RUSTICA: Parcela de terre no sita en el Barrio Padilla del término municipal de Corozal, denominado A-2, en el plano
Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2022CV02599. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, S.S. A: IVIS T/C/CT/C/CALVAREZCONSUELOPEREZIBISCONSUELOALVAREZPEREZIRISCONSUELOALVAREZPEREZ.
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Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2022CV01234.
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CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Damandante V. HILDA GONZALEZELENAORTIZ
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción 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. Se le apercibe que de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará senten cia sin más citarle ni oírle. Los abogados de la parte deman dante son: Lcdo. Guillermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 009366603. Tel. (787) 919-0073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 08 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SAN TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. AMALYN FIGUE ROA NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE QUEBRADILLAS BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. EDUARDO MANUEL ESTELA BIENESSOCIEDADGRETCHENJOVE,MARYDIAZPAOLIYLALEGALDEGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: CICD2017-0025. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO mencionado; $70,250.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por termina do el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicase a opción del de mandante. Art. 104 de la Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, 30 L.P.R.A. sec. 2721. La PRI MERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el 6 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 , A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efec to una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el 13 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor al guno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy. Del Estudio de Título realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes: Con diciones Restrictivas de edifi cación y uso. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Uni dos de Norteamérica y para co nocimiento de la parte deman dada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para co nocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Regis trador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos pos teriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secre taría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLI CA SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Su bastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cum pliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presen te caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 1 de noviembre de 2019 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeuda da de $111,220.95 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 6 de junio de 2019, notificada y archivada en autos el 7 de junio de 2019, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certifi cado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, tí tulo e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deu dores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Quebradillas, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: #5 Urbanización Estancias del Pirata, Barrio Cocos, Quebra dillas, PR 00678. RUSTICA: Solar marcado #5 en el plano de inscripción, radicado en el barrio Cocos del término mu nicipal de Quebradillas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 615.8554 metros cuadra dos. En lindes al Norte, con Vicente Hernández; al Sur, con calle dedicada a uso público; al Este, con los solares ,marcados con los #3 y 4 en el plano de inscripción y al Oeste, con el solar marcado con el #6 en el plano de inscripción. Inscrita al folio 10 del tomo 224 de Que bradillas, finca número 12,047, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Segunda. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la par te demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epí grafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $111,220.95 principal, 6.50% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulán dose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $149.08 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acu mulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $236.82 de reser va “escrow”, más costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pac tada, la cual es $140,500.00 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo míni mo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $93,666.67. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual re girá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio mínimo antes
laprocedente.susilacederenTribunaldentrotificarustedsentepr/sumac/,https://unired.ramajudicial.salvoqueserepreporderechopropio.Sidejadepresentarynosualegaciónresponsivadelreferidotérmino,elpodrádictarsentenciarebeldíaensucontrayconelremediosolicitadoenDemanda,ocualquierotro,elTribunal,enelejerciciodesanadiscreción,loentiendeLosabogadosdepartedemandanteson: Tribunal, de agosto LIC. MA RILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA DA MARIS TORRES RUIZ, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR. NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO JAVIER J. GONZÁLEZMÉNDEZ Demandante V. ORIENTAL BANK; JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE Demandado(a) Civil: GB2022CV00405. Sala: 202. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 5 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente 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 notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento 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 edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de agosto de 2022. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 8 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL II. DIAMAR GONZÁ LEZ BARRETO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYANILLA EN SABANA GRANDE BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandantes Vs JOSÉ A. PACHECO CALIZ, DALIA DESOCIEDADCARABALLOPÉREZYLALEGALGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: PE2022CV00007. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO. A: JOSÉ A. PACHECO CALIZ, DALIA GINAFERRERMEDINA@MEDINA.DESOCIEDADCARABALLOPÉREZYLALEGALGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOSP/CLCDA.GINAH.FERRERLAWOFFICE.GMAIL.COM.
Parte Demandante Vs ANA E. VEGA MARTÍNEZ (SOCIO NÚM. 1108743) Y SUCESIÓN DE RAMÓN BADILLO RIVERA COMPUESTA POR, FULANO DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL Y JANE DOE Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: QU2021CV00045. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO. A: ANA E. VEGA MARTÍNEZ. Se le apercibe que la parte de mandante por mediación del Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-265-0334, ha radicado la acción de epí grafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden us tedes obtener mayor informa ción sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un tér mino de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción 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 de epí grafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tri bunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Camuy, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de agosto de 2022. TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE QUEBRADILLAS. MARITZA ABRAMS RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. IVIS T/C/CT/C/CALVAREZCONSUELOPEREZIBISCONSUELOALVAREZPEREZIRISCONSUELOALVAREZPEREZ
Demandado Civil Núm.: CA2022CV01505. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA Y COBRO DE DINE RO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN.
The San Juan Daily Star 31Monday, August 15, 2022
INGRESOSFIGUEROAÁNGELESMACHUCA,COMPUESTAPORSUMADREEUSEBIAMACHUCAPIZARRO;FULANODETALYZUTANODETAL,COMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSCONPOSIBLEINTERÉS;CENTRODERECAUDACIÓNDEMUNICIPALES(CRIM) Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01697. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA DE LOS FIGUEROAÁNGELESMACHUCA,COMPUESTAPORFULANODETALYZUTANODETAL,COMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSCONPOSIBLEINTERÉS.
Demandados Civil Núm.: FCD2016-0452. (403). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDI NARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, HÉC TOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, Alguacil Supervisor de la Divi sión de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Man damiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secreta rio del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 26 de febrero de 2020 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $57,754.25 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 20 de junio de 2019, notificada y archivada en autos el 13 de septiembre de 2019, y publica da mediante edicto en el perió dico “The San Juan Daily Star” el 20 de septiembre de 2019, procederé a vender en públi ca subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certifi cado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, tí tulo e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deu dores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se des cribe a continuación: 3 Ave. Laguna, Cond. Laguna Gar dens III, Apt. 3K, Carolina, PR 00979. URBANA: Horizontal Property: Residential apartment number three “K” (3K) of rectan gular shape located at Laguna Gardens Condominium three (III), which in turn is located at kilometer eight (8), hectometer two (2) of State Road number twenty six (26) in the Ward of Cangrejos Arriba, Municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico, with a total prívate area of one thou sand one hundred thirty one (1,131.00) square feet gross; being its lineal measurements twenty eight (28) feet and se ven (7) inches, long by forty one (41) feet and eleven (11) inches wide, and its boundaries access and description are as follows, by the NORTH, with parking lot of Building one (I) of the Laguna Gardens Project; buy the EAST, with open space overlooking apartment number three dash “J” (23-J) of the floor; by the SOUTH, with floor corridor and dada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para co nocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Regis trador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos pos teriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secre taría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de los de mandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspon dientes. Librado en la Sala de Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 8 de agosto de 2022. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUA CIL. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA PUERTOFIRSTBANKRICO Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE HERIBERTO HERNÁNDEZ,DÁVILAETAL.
POR LA PRESENTE se les em plaza y requiere para que con teste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Us ted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: trossesentacientolaelAlto,vassituadoUrbanizaciónBANA:propiedadobjetoPendens”)DEcorrespondiente,enpresentarápactado.rariosceptodeunacualpormáslalamastodoshastaelrazón$52,001.25,nuación:laprincipalladeclarópotecariadichoenincurrahonorariosmandanteAdemásdemorapresente,decorrespondienteslasdeellagacionadohipotecacobrose724-0230.00902-2512;BOXMariedequebunaldecasoporsumac/,http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/salvoquesepresentederechopropio,encuyodeberáradicareloriginalsucontestaciónanteelTricorrespondienteynotificoncopiaalosabogadoslapartedemandante,Lcda.L.QuiñonesTañón,alPO9022512,SanJuan,P.R.Teléfono:(787)Endichademandatramitaunprocedimientodededineroyejecucióndebajoelnúmeromenenelepígrafe.SealeendichoprocedimientoqueparteDemandadaincurrióenincumplimientodelContratoHipoteca,alnopoderpagarmensualidadesvencidasalosmesesoctubrede2021,hastaelmásloscargosporcorrespondientes.adeudaalapartedelascostas,gastosydeabogadoenqueeltenedordelpagaréestelitigio.DeacuerdoconContratodeGarantíaHilaparteDemandantevencidalatotalidaddedeudaascendentealasumaglobalde$52,421.79,cualsedesglosaacontilasumaprincipaldemásinteresesadel4.375%anual,desde1rodeseptiembrede2021,elpresente,asícomoaquelloscréditosysuquesurjandelafazdeobligaciónhipotecariaydehipotecaquelagarantiza,lasumaprincipaldiferidalacantidadde$420.54,lanogeneraintereses,mássumaequivalenteal10%lasumaprincipal,porcondecostas,gastosyhonodeabogadotodosegúnLaparteDemandanteparasuinscripciónelRegistrodelaPropiedadunAVISOPLEITOPENDIENTE(“Lissobrelapropiedaddeestaaccióncuyaeslasiguiente:URSolarradicadoenlaVillasdeCaney,enelBarrioLasCuedelMunicipiodeTrujilloPuertoRico,marcadoconnúmerodosguiónA(2-A)demanzanaR,conunáreadenoventaycuatropuntoysiete(194.67)mecuadrados.Enlindesporel de inscripción, compuesta de 15,782.38 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 4.0154 cuerdas. En lindes: al Norte, con camino dedicado a uso público; al Sur, con terrenos de Manuel De Jesús Rodríguez; al Este, con el solar A-1 y al Oeste, con el solar A-3. Inscrita al folio 136 del tomo 173 de Corozal, fin ca número 9,306, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. Con el importe de dicha ven ta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantida des adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $46,348.67 de principal, 9.50% de intere ses, los cuales continúan acu mulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $55.41 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $844.22 de reserva “escrow”; mas costas, gastos y honorarios de aboga do. El tipo mínimo para la su basta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $43,318.59 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo míni mo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $28,879.06. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual re girá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $22,659.30. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo ad judicase a opción del deman dante. Art. 104 de la Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmo biliaria del Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico, 30 L.P.R.A. sec. 2721. La PRIMERA SU BASTA se llevará a cabo el 14 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor al guno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el 21 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el 28 DE SEPTIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o su bastas antes indicadas se lleva rán a efecto en mi oficina, loca lizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Toa Alta. Del Estudio de Título realizado surgen los siguientes graváme nes: Por su procedencia: Libre de cargas. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Uni dos de Norteamérica y para co nocimiento de la parte deman dada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para co nocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Regis trador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos pos teriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secre taría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de los de mandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos corres pondientes. Librado en la Sala de Toa Alta , Puerto Rico, a 9 de agosto de 2022. Rosamarie Meléndez Peña, Alguacil. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE CRUZ ORTIZ INGRESOSINTERÉS;COMOFULANOCOMPUESTALUGO,PORDETALYZUTANODETAL,HEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSCONPOSIBLECENTRODERECAUDACIÓNDEMUNICIPALES(“CRIM”) Demandado(a) Civil: HU2022CV00352. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA; PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL, COBRO DE DINERO - ORDI NARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO YABUCOA,DEADESCONOCIDOSHEREDEROSDELASUCESIÓNDECRUZORTIZLUGO,SUSDIRECCIONESCONOCIDAS:M-4MAYAGUEZVILLASBUENAVENTURA,PR00767;POBOX915,YABUCOA,PR00767.P/CLCDA.ADELASURILLOGUTIERREZ.
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teammates travel to Washington for a threegame series that begins Friday, the optimism for what could be the Padres’ future will offer a harsh reminder to Nationals fans of what once was Washington’s reality. “The big challenge for us is to play win ning baseball, No. 1,” Seidler said last week.
But just as quickly as the Padres had re set all expectations for their season — and the franchise’s future — with a frenzied whirlwind at the MLB trading deadline, the Los Angeles Dodgers delivered a fiery re minder of what San Diego still has to over come, sweeping their division rivals in a three-game series at Dodger Stadium. As the sweep was happening, Seidler said the Dodgers remain “the dragon up the freeway that we’re trying to slay.” At the very least, San Diego’s bold moves made it clear that they’re all-in on the dragon chasing. And as Soto and his new
The Padres still held one of the NL’s three wild-card spots when MLB announced Tatis’ suspension, but it was a loose grip: just one game ahead of the Milwaukee Brewers in the loss column. And this is a team that went 11-30 down the stretch to blow a play off spot last season, with Tatis hitting .245 in those final 41 games. With the season slipping away in Sep tember, Tatis got into a dugout argument with veteran third baseman Manny Mach ado, who screamed and cursed at him. “It’s not about you,” Machado scolded Tatis after Tatis had pouted about a called third strike. “You go play baseball,” he added. Even so, Tatis finished the season with an impressive set of statistics: a .282 aver age, a .975 on-base plus slugging percent age, and 99 runs scored and 97 runs bat ted in to go with his 42 homers. He finished third in the voting for the NL MVP, behind Philadelphia’s Bryce Harper, the winner, and Soto, the runner-up. Tatis followed up by evidently overes timating his motorcycling skills. But he still had a chance to make the year special, to become the final addition to a fortified ros ter chasing the first championship in fran chise history. The two Padres players honored with statues at Petco Park, Tony Gwynn and Trevor Hoffman, could not deliver it. Neither could another Hall of Famer, Dave Winfield, the first player depicted in a Padres cap on his plaque. Tatis has time to win a title, but his legacy — the statue, the day in Cooper stown, the validity of his achievements — may never develop the way he expected. Fernando Tatis Jr. has not played in the majors this year following off-season wrist surgery. He was nearing a return when his suspension was announced. By SCOTT MILLER Juan Soto had barely landed, Josh Bell had just sat down and Josh Hader was start ing to learn his new teammates’ names when Peter Seidler, the Padres’ owner, de clared that “the art of the possible is here.”
So are the Padres, whose general man ager, A.J. Preller, told the San Diego UnionTribune that the team needs to rebuild trust with its cornerstone player: “Over the course of the last six or seven months, I think that’s been something that we haven’t really been able to have.” Preller made the splashiest move of the Aug. 2 trading deadline, acquiring superstar outfielder Juan Soto from the Washington Nationals. Soto, who cannot be a free agent until after the 2024 season, headlined a summer haul that also included first base man Josh Bell, closer Josh Hader and utility man Brandon Drury. When the Padres won Soto’s debut in a rout — helped by Drury joining the “Slam Diego” club with a grand slam — the sold-out crowd might have felt an added high: all this, and soon Tatis, too!
By TYLER KEPNER Statues can be made from many differ ent materials: stone, bronze, concrete, wood, and so on. The idea is to use something durable and lasting, something befitting a permanent monument that often serves as a point of pride. In other words, clay would be a bad choice. That is where the expression feet of clay comes from, connoting a weak founda tion, a flaw that could bring down a person of honor. Which brings us to Fernando Tatis Jr. When the San Diego Padres signed Tatis to a 14-year, $340 million contract in February 2021, he matched the boldness of their investment with a statement just as au dacious: “I want the statue.” Then Tatis led the National League in home runs and near ly won an MVP award, all before his 23rd birthday.Ifitseemed too good to be true, maybe it was. Major League Baseball suspended Tatis for 80 games Friday, ending his season before it began and casting doubt on the wisdom of the Padres’ commitment to him. Tatis tested positive for Clostebol, a perfor mance-enhancing drug. The suspension ends a troubling season for Tatis, who had wrist surgery in March af ter injuring himself in the offseason by fall ing off his motorcycle — more than once, he acknowledged. He began a rehabilitation assignment last week, but his four games with Class AA San Antonio will constitute all of his performance for 2022. The Padres had 48 games remaining on their schedule at the time of the announce ment, meaning that Tatis’ suspension will bleed well into 2023. The absence of so many games on his ledger will be a testa ment to the recklessness of a player who had been hailed as a prominent part of baseball’s future. “It turns out that I inadvertently took a medication to treat ringworm that contained Clostebol,” Tatis said in a statement issued by the MLB Players’ Association. “I should have used the resources available to me in order to ensure that no banned substances were in what I took. I failed to do so.” He apologized to the Padres, the league and the fans, and while he pointed out that he had never failed a drug test before this, he added that he had “no excuse for my er ror.” Tatis said he initially appealed the sus pension, but dropped it because his care lessness caused the result. “I am completely devastated,” the state ment said.
The Padres got a sword. But can they slay the ‘dragon’?
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Fernando Tatis Jr. seemed too good to be true. Maybe he was.
Reality intruded in the Padres’ next se ries, though, on the road against the Los An geles Dodgers, which ended in the Dodg ers’ emphatic three-game sweep.
The San Juan Daily Star Monday, August 15, 2022 35 “And No. 2, play it out and see when the best time is to talk to Juan about an ex tension. It’s all new to him right now. It’s not going to happen anytime soon, but you want him here long-term, period.”
This, to Seidler, would be the logical execution of “the art of the possible.” To others, it may seem outlandishly impos sible: The Padres already have third base man Manny Machado, 30, signed for 10 years and $300 million through 2028 and Fernando Tatis Jr., a 23-year-old shortstop and outfielder, for 14 years at $340 mil lion through 2034. Keeping Soto long-term would exceed both of those deals. Complicating matters is an 80-game suspension for Tatis that was announced by MLB on Friday. But the good news is that, in terms of Soto, there is time. He is a 23-year-old superstar who will be under club control for 2 1/2 years. Still, his eventual contract demands will loom large, even for a team with a rapidly expanding budget. This is a generational slugger who will reach free agency at 26. Before the trading deadline, he declined Washington’s offer of 15 years and $440 million, which would have set a record for largest dollar value of any contract in major leagueAndhistory.asSan Diego surely knows, Soto’s agent, Scott Boras, is not in the business of offering discounts. But Padres fans, in contrast to a reputa tion for occasional ambivalence, have re sponded with wild enthusiasm to the club’s recent string of big ideas and bigger gam bles. San Diego ranked fifth in MLB in at tendance at 36,947 fans per game through Wednesday, trailing only the Dodgers, the St. Louis Cardinals, the New York Yan kees and the Atlanta Braves, the reigning champion. The Padres have been playing to 91.5% capacity at Petco Park. According to figures obtained from MLB, only Atlanta (93.4%) ranks higher. The Padres also rank fifth in the majors with a club-record $220 million payroll. “What we’re still in the process of assessing is how much revenue we can generate from that increased fan support and then, long-term, run the payroll off of something that is organically supportable through revenue we can generate in our local market,” said Padres CEO Erik Gre upner, who added: “I would say the early returns on this increased commitment to payroll have been very strong and would seem to indicate we would be able to sup port — year in and year out — a level of payroll that exceeds what the Padres have historically been able to do in our market. “I don’t know the answer yet, and I don’t know that anyone does, but I know we’re sure going to find out what level this market will Beyondsupport.”thedollars and cents, the Pa dres paid a steep price for Soto and Bell, a switch-hitting first baseman, in prospects. They sent a six-piece package to Wash ington that included three players who had taken turns being ranked as the No. 1 prospect in the San Diego farm system: lefthanded pitcher Mackenzie Gore, shortstop C.J. Abrams and outfielder Robert Hassell III. A.J. Preller, the Padres’ president of baseball operations, speaks of the years’ worth of sweat equity that went into ac quiring and developing those players, the investment in them as people and getting to know their family members, and admits it never is easy to send away top-shelf tal ent. “But as hard as it was to deal those guys, you just don’t get an opportunity to get a Soto, a Josh Bell, a Hader, too,” Preller said. “Players who have been the best play ers in their positions or field, and still have years of control left. In Juan’s case, he’s just 23 years old and is doing historic things. It was more a unique opportunity, and we looked at it as such. We knew it was going to take a lot and we had a lot in the system leading us into making the deal.”
One year ago, the Padres swung and missed at the deadline, trying hard for start er Max Scherzer and shortstop Trea Turn er before the Nationals sent them to the Dodgers. The dragon became larger. The Padres kept chasing. The first inning of the first game of the new-look Padres came against Colorado on Aug. 3, and everything seemed to have fallen into place. One of the team’s other newcomers — Brandon Drury, an infielder acquired from Cincinnati — smashed a first-inning grand slam on the first pitch he saw as a Padre. The sellout crowd, buoyed by single-day, club-record ticket sales after the Soto news, roared. San Diego then lost five games in a row, including the three games to the Dodgers. Inexplicably, the Padres’ seemingly unstop pable offense was held scoreless for 26 consecutive innings before Soto hit his first home run in his new home in the fourth inning Tuesday night against San Francisco. With a team this talented, it is easy to write off such a streak as a blip that will be a distant memory come October. That kind of belief is made easy thanks to Soto, whose enthusiasm has already made an impression on the team. Manager Bob Mel vin describes him as “a ball of energy,” and Machado has noticed how Soto makes sure to high-five the other outfielders at the end of eachNothinginning.feeds good energy like suc cess, and Soto, who helped lead the Na tionals to the 2019 World Series title, is itching for a chance to do the same for San Diego.“It’s another level,” he said of playing on October’s big stage. “It’s another feel ing, so you want to get that taste every year, every day. For me, that year was amazing. It was incredible.”
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Juan Soto was acquired by the San Diego Padres in a massive deal with Washington at this year’s trading deadline.
In San Diego, a city that has never won a title in any of the major North American men’s sports leagues, dreams are growing. Season-ticket demand is such that, for the first time in history, the Padres are consider ing capping them for next year. Since last week’s trading deadline, the club already has fielded requests translating into about 1,000 more season tickets for 2023. “Obviously, it’s a Champagne problem, but we want to make sure our season-ticket members and our new season-ticket mem bers continue to get access to the best seat ing locations,” Greupner said. “And we’re starting to run out of those.” Said Hader, the new closer from Mil waukee: “We’ve got a good squad. I wouldn’t even call it talent anymore — it’s superstars, right?”
land Alexander by the Philadelphia Phillies, for example. Are there any unexpected retired numbers? Of course, the Chicago Bulls retired Mi chael Jordan’s No. 23. But so did the Miami Heat, even though Jordan never played for them. Pat Riley, the team president, said, “We retired his jersey because I had so much respect for him.” Pete Maravich never played for the New Orleans Pelicans, but he had played for Louisiana State and the New Orleans Jazz, so the Pelicans retired his No. 7 anyway. Kobe Bryant wore No. 8 for the first half of his career and No. 24 for the second. The Lakers retired both numbers for him. The Yankees had two great catchers who wore No. 8: Yogi Berra and Bill Dickey. Now, the number is retired to honor both of them. Among others who share a retired number: Greg Maddux and Ferguson Jen kins, No. 31 for the Chicago Cubs; Lem Bar ney, Billy Sims and Barry Sanders, No. 20 for the Detroit Lions; and Guy Lapointe and Bernie Geoffrion, No. 5 for the Canadiens. No. 00 has been retired (Robert Parish of the Celtics, for one), but so has 1,223, to honor the coaching victories of Jerry Sloan for the Utah Jazz.
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What about outside North America? Although the tradition is not as wide spread in world soccer and other interna tional sports, some clubs have retired a number or two. Among the notables: Johan Cruyff, No. 14 for Ajax; Bobby Moore, No. 6 for West Ham; and Diego Maradona, whose No. 10 was retired by Napoli. It’s harder for international teams. In an event like the World Cup, the 23-player squads have been required to number their players from 1 to 23, so retirement has not been an option. (Rosters were expanded to 26 players for this year’s tournament.) At the 2018 World Cup, Neymar wore Pelé’s No. 10 for Brazil, and Lionel Messi wore Mara dona’s No. 10 for Argentina, numbers that one certainly would expect to be retired. Many soccer clubs also don’t assign No. 12 in honor of their fans, whom they con sider “the 12th player” on the pitch. That’s the same reason the Sacramento Kings and the Orlando Magic of the NBA had already retired No. 6. Now, thanks to Russell, No. 6 soon will leave other teams’ courts, too.
Bill Russell’s No. 6 joins rare class of retired jersey numbers
Undefeated Pinkin win 18th league crown
The Pinkin de Corozal completed a four-match sweep of the Criollas de Caguas last Friday night to finish the Women’s Superior Volleyball League season as un defeated champions. The Pinkin did not lose a game or a set in any match of the finals series, winning 25-16, 30-28 and 25-23 on their home court Friday to capture their 18th league title. Setter and captain Raymariely Santos was named Most Valuable Player of the finals.
Bill Russell’s No. 6 is the first jersey number to be retired leaguewide in the N.B.A. Russell, who won 11 championships with the Boston Celtics, died last month at 88.
By VICTOR MATHER B ill Russell, who died last month at 88, is getting a rare honor: His No. 6 will be retired, not just for his team, the Boston Celtics, but for the entire NBA. Among major sports, only Jackie Robinson’s No. 42 in baseball and Wayne Gretzky’s No. 99 in hockey have been retired leaguewide. That raises some questions, which we will endeavor to answer. What about the NBA players who are currently wearing No. 6? These players, among them LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers, may continue to wear No. 6 until they retire. But no new players will be issued the number. The same rule applied when Robinson’s number was retired base ballwide in 1997. Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees was the last player still wearing No. 42 every day when he re tired in 2013. There have been other NBA greats who wore No. 6, right? Yes, quite a few, including Julius Erv ing. But the leaguewide retirement hon ors only Russell. Will anyone join Russell, Robinson and Gretzky? There has been a push for baseball to retire Roberto Clemente’s No. 21 league wide to honor his humanitarian work. In particular, many Puerto Rican players have said they would not wear the number. Com missioner Rob Manfred has said Clemente is honored in his own way with the Roberto Clemente Award, given for sportsmanship and community service. What teams have retired the most dif ferent numbers? In the four most venerable men’s leagues, the New York Yankees (21, with more planned this year), Boston Celtics (23), Montreal Canadiens (15) and Chicago Bears (14). Many WNBA teams have retired the numbers of their best players, including the Los Angeles Sparks, who retired Lisa Leslie’s No. 9. What are the lowest cardinal numbers that no team has retired? In baseball, 38; football, 2; men’s bas ketball, 26; and men’s hockey, 25. What things other than numbers have been retired? A number of teams have retired a sym bolic microphone for a legendary announc er, such as Vin Scully for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chick Hearn for the Los Ange les Lakers. Some baseball players who com peted before the dawn of uniform numbers are honored numberless: Rogers Hornsby by the St. Louis Cardinals and Grover Cleve
How to Play: Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9. Sudoku Rules: Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Sudoku CrosswordWordsearch Answers on page 38 The San Juan Daily Star Monday, August 15, 2022 37 GAMESGAMES
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21) No-one can persuade you that a certain course of action is good for you, but you could persuade yourself. You may be faced with an opportunity that is also a bit of a challenge. On the one hand you might wonder what you’re letting yourself in for. On the other, a side of you can jump at the chance to prove your worth. The confidence it gives you will be yours forever, Archer.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23) You could feel annoyed if things don’t happen as fast as you would like, or if disruptions and distractions play havoc with your plans. Don’t let such matters affect an important issue that might have a bearing on your goals and ambitions. Want to make a bigger splash? A potent aspect suggests you can. Commitment and work may be needed to take it to the limit, Leo. Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23) A dynamic Mars/Pluto aspect, encourages you to put your focus on an idea that could be a gamechanger. Don’t shy away from anything that puts you in the spotlight, even though you might prefer to work behind the scenes. If you know you’re good at something, this is not the time to waste your talents, Virgo. Get yourself noticed by all the right people and reap the rewards. Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23) This could be a time for a deep clean, that covers more than just your day-to-day clutter. The coming days may find you ready to release things that have been part of your life and your psyche for some time. There comes a point where the old has to go, so that something new can begin to take root. A clear-out might pave the way for something wonderful to blossom, Libra.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
You’ll benefit from connecting with people who are so passionate about what they do, they inspire you. A powerful line-up hints that when you see the lengths they go to, to make things happen, you’ll be astonished. It could set you thinking about something you love to do. If you put your heart and soul into making a go of it, your sense of accomplishment would increase, Taurus.
Gemini (May 22-June 21) You may not be able to change things overnight, but you could attend to smaller issues that are irritating you, and make some headway. A potent Mars/Pluto link gives you the determination to sort such matters out once and for all. You might be ruthless with your decisions, but if you want a better life, you’ll need to be. Plus, clearing the decks will bring new opportunities your way.
You may have outgrown an aspect of your life that’s been a big part of it for some time. The potent alignment between Mars and Pluto in private sectors, suggests that you might now be ready to let it go, even if grudgingly. You don’t have to do it all at once, but having the intention is a good place to start. This alone can leave you feeling freer and ready for new developments. Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20) The idea of pushing the boundaries of what is possible may be a feature of the current planetary landscape, and it might show up as a desire to team up with others to accomplish something big. You could also feel a need to retreat from the world and do your own thing. Let the Moon/Neptune tie guide you in this matter. It may be that you can do both if you really want to.
The current line-up suggests you’re not really in a mood to compromise, but you are ready to look at managing your time so that you can live life the way you want to, Scorpio.
Cancer (June 22-July 23) You may be very drawn to someone, and find it impossible to stop thinking about them. But if you haven’t had a chance to get to know them, then you could be wasting your time. While this person might play a part in your life, don’t overlook another on the side lines who may suit you much better. They can be quieter Cancer, but much more on your wavelength, than the first.
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22) Need to give up something that means a lot to you? If so, is it worth it, even if you’re doing this to assist someone close? There may be a way that you can continue, and still give more attention to this person.
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You have lots to do, but don’t get so caught up in the hustle and bustle of life, that you fail to heed your inner voice. The Moon in Pisces and its link to Neptune, means an idea could appear out of nowhere and change everything. You’ll realize that you don’t have to push so hard to make something happen. You can conserve your energy, and your intuition will show you how.
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 37Aries (Mar 21-April 20) Quality of life is vital, so don’t get so engrossed in your work that you have no time left to enjoy time out. Key influences can pressure you into carrying on, even if you know that you aren’t working to the best of your ability. Even a break of a couple of hours and chance to relish something that feeds your soul, could do you the world of good. Don’t feel guilty either, Aries.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
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