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Lawmaker: PREB-ordered RFP for a dual-fuel generation plant violates public policy
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The San Juan District 2 lawmaker said the new PREB order is completely contrary to Puerto Rico’s Energy Public Policy, which establishes the unwavering goal of achieving 100% electricity generation from renew able sources by the year 2050. The proposed combined plant would take about five years to design, permit, build and commission.
“I am not an engineer or an energy expert, but these questions require satisfying answers,” he added.
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By THE STAR STAFF Independent Rep. Luis Raúl Torres Cruz charged Monday that the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) has ordered the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and the Public-Private Partnerships Authority (P3A) to launch a request for proposals (RFP) for the construction of a new dual fuel (natural gas and hy drogen) combined cycle plant that could be located on the Torresisland.Cruz said the order issued Aug. 3 violates public policy in favor of renewable energy sources. “This is really a surprise, since on July 9, 2022, through a comment in a newspaper of general circula tion, PREB President Edison Avilés Deliz stated that ‘the Authority’s generation should be directed to renewable sources and the use of batteries’ and identified renew able sources as the future that is already here,” the legislator said. “However, the PREB justifies this order by citing the year and a half delay in the implementation of renew able energy projects, the uncertainty in the costs of near-future solar energy storage, and other potential system reliability concerns,” Torres Cruz noted. “In addition, the order provides that the authorized plant must comply with being highly cost-effective and its process must not further delay solar power generators.”
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“This with natural gas, because the use of hydrogen is still in the research and design stage,” he said. “In fact, hydrogen also presents challenges that must be understood and controlled, such as increased reactivity and risk in handling, among others.”
“So what will we do with our generation fleet in the meantime? Will we continue burning oil, failing to comply with air quality parameters?” Torres Cruz said. “Would it not be a viable option to convert some PREPA units that are accessible to natural gas and that could represent a lower investment and an achievable goal in less time? After all, isn’t this a precautionary step, as stated in the PREB order itself?”
“Especially when Sea One Holdings LLC, which has [former Gov.] Luis G. Fortuño Burset on its board of advisors, has already requested information from PREPA to justify the construction of a natural gas terminal in the Guayama region. Also, in the executive hearing of the Energy Committee of the House of Representa tives, AES President Jesús Bolinaga informed us that the future of clean energy is hydrogen and that AES PR does not rule out working with this source of energy in the future. This stirs up more questions: Where will the environmental justice claims of the citizens of that regionTheremain?”legislator said that if the order is aimed at the P3A carrying out an RFP for the construction of a combined cycle plant, more questions come up such as whether the process will be transparent, unlike the process to select LUMA Energy. “There are too many questions,” Torres Cruz said. “There are too many negative experiences. There are too many excuses that Governor Pedro Pierluisi has given us that do not satisfy anyone. For all this, we cannot allow the PREB to join this parade of negligent acts contrary to the well being of our island.”
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Among the plans of the veterans advocate are the construc tion of a second state cemetery, this time in the southeast of the island, and to continue the improvements to the Veteran’s House, as well as the veterans’ cemetery in Aguadilla.
Montañez-Allman holds a Juris Doctor from the Inter-Amer ican University of Puerto Rico School of Law and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Ohio University.
Puerto Rico Teachers Association President Víctor Bonilla Sánchez taps advocate
Prior to serving as the veterans advocate, Montañez-All man was deputy secretary of the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, assistant prosecutor of the Department of Justice in Utuado and deputy administrator of government agencies. He also directed the Legal Division of the Office of Youth Affairs after serving as assistant to the Legal Division of the Department of Labor and Human Resources.
For an example, Bonilla Sánchez said, take the Vocational School in Yauco, whose structure is in shambles. “Their students will have to get their education in 46 AEP [mobile units] that are going to be placed in the side yard of the main building in October,” he said. “Regrettably, our people from the south are still as they were two years ago after the earthquakes and after [Hurricane] María [in 2017], and there is money disbursed to have those schools up to date.”The same is also the case in the center and eastern part of Puerto Rico, the AMPR presidentBonillaadded.Sánchez pointed out that U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona is not pleased with the usage of federal funds that have been disbursed so far. “That is why the AMPR has formed a team of one teacher from each region to monitor the use of those federal funds and what project is taking place,” he said. The public schools’ poor maintenance has hastened some unforeseen changes, Bonilla Sánchez added. “At the moment, 1,975 teachers have retired,” he said. “We don’t know if all of them did it because they couldn’t stand the economic and emotional situation anymore, but we’ve seen in the past two weeks that the schools have been the same for five, 10 years. Only last week, the [Education] secretary signed a collaborative agreement with AEP to allocate the funds to attend to the matter. Now it’s time to see if they’re going to get serious.”
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During his tenure, Montañez-Allman was awarded over $15 million in compensation for veterans’ pension and disability claims and processed $5 million in veterans’ claims. Also, he worked to ensure that 140 veterans and their resident spouses did not lose their homes. Likewise, he managed to get the Veteran’s House to pass all federal inspections and secured an allocation of $7 million, in 2011, to build the first State Veterans Cemetery, which opened in 2014. “As a decorated veteran of the Persian Gulf War, we will never shy away from our duty to Puerto Rico and to the men and women who, with courage and valor, have defended our institutions, freedoms and democracy,” Montañez-Allman said.
the new school year, hundreds of public schools around Puerto Rico aren’t expected to receive their students due to infrastruc ture problems, a lack of teachers and poor government management, officials from the island’s main teachers’ organization insisted on Monday.ThePublic Buildings Authority (AEP by its Spanish initials) is the agency that bears the brunt of keeping schools functional, but that hasn’t happened in years, according to the Puerto Rico Teachers’ Association (AMPR by its Spanish initials) AMPR President Víctor Bonilla Sánchez charged that “40 percent of the schools have the same infrastructural problems: lack of vegetation management, paint chipping off the walls, leaks … and it’s even more outra geous given the amount of federal funds the government has gotten.” “After receiving so many millions of dol lars, we have to say that, unfortunately, the schools continue to suffer the same infrastruc ture problems as in previous years,” Bonilla Sánchez said. “One of our priorities is the schools in the south of the island affected by earthquakes two years ago. … I want to inform you that most schools in the south will remain under a hybrid education system [some days on campus, and the rest remotely].”
new ordinary session of the Legis lative Assembly, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia nominated Agustín Montañez-Allman as veterans advocate for a new term of 10 more years on Monday. “Montañez-Allman is a fervent defender of our veterans; together we have waged battles in favor of these heroes who fought with dignity for the democracy that we all enjoy today,” the governor said in a written statement. “The Veterans Office, under Agustín’s leadership, has come a long way over the past 10 years, and because there is still much to be done, I am pleased to appoint him to a new term as Veterans Advocate. I hope that his record and his contributions to all veterans are taken into consideration by the Legislative Assembly when evaluating this appointment.”
In a letter addressed to the governor, Montañez-Allman expressed his availability to remain in office “as well as to participate in any transformation that adds services to our ex-military personnel.”
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“We have entered into some agree ments where the municipalities do the necessary work, under contract, and the agency pays us for what we have worked on,” he said. As part of the meeting, the mayors pre sented in writing the particular situations of the schools. Some are missing paint or have structural damage after the 2020 earth quakes that struck the southern part of the island, while others lack air conditioners, not to mention teachers, and even whole classrooms lack the adequate infrastructure to receive“Oncestudents.again,we point out the problem of government centralism,” said Josián Santiago, the mayor of Comerío. “You, as secretary of Education, imagine yourself working on the fundamental issues of the agency, where the municipalities are solving the problems of infrastructure, beautification and minor repairs, in a fair agreement for both parties. In Comerío we have nine schools, and we can serve them, but they [the Education Department] have to allocate resources to us.”
As for the recruitment and appointment of teachers, the secretary said the DE is busy assigning substitutes for last-minute resignations.ThePuerto Rico Teachers’ Association won a negotiation to give teachers a $1,000 salary increase, thus making returning to school more attractive to island educators. The DE is filling 290 positions, including social workers, school counselors and librarians.Puerto Rican Independence Party Sen. María de Lourdes Santiago Negrón asked why the DE didn’t fix the schools during the pandemic. Ramos Parés pointed out that decisions made at that time aggravated the situation, and, when asked if respon sibility had been claimed, the secretary answered no.
Mayors Association President Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz pointed out that “there are schools that are practically in the same state since the passage of hurricanes Irma and “ThereMaria.”wastalk of a lack of funds in the past, but now the funds are there,” he said. “As long as the DE continues to wait for the AEP, the problem will not be resolved.”
The biggest hurdle is getting the DE to reallocate the disbursement of federal money from the AEP to the municipali ties. The mayors insist that they have the personnel and resources -- and the inside knowledge directly from teachers, students and communities -- about what needs to be fixed, and that they can do a better job.
initials) Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés met with Puerto Rico Mayors Association on Monday, where he heard the concerns of Popular Democratic Party mayors about the public schools with serious infrastructure problems in their towns and agreed that allocating the funds and starting to fix the problem is going to take time. “The start of classes will not be with the infrastructure we want,” Ramos Parés told the mayors. “We are asking the direc tors for minimum conditions for the start of classes so that maintenance work gets done during the semester.”
Members of the Puerto Rico Mayors Association, with Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés (front row, second from left) Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés
“What has the country paralyzed re garding the progress, development, and management of funds linked to schools is the distribution of blame between [the departments],” the senator said. Regarding the reconstruction plan for schools, Ramos Parés noted that “the Office of Infrastructure and Reconstruction has the information and we have Education personnel visiting the schools and the directors also report it.”
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Hernández Ortiz proposed that the DE “use as an example the collaborative agreements that the municipalities already have with the Department of Transportation and Public Works.”
Early in the day, the Puerto Rico Teach ers Association said 40% of public schools don’t meet the criteria to receive students this year. Ramos Parés denied those allega tions, stating that “most schools are ready.” “It’s a historical problem. … The most deteriorated buildings are those under the Public Buildings Authority [AEP by its Spanish initials],” the Education chief said. “We have to rethink the formula to oper ate. This dialogue should lead us to better management. Not now, but for next year.”
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“It is a fact that the current situation of the school campuses is far from optimal and even more so from the ideal conditions that we would like to provide to all our students,” the Education chief said. “However, it is also a fact that in the last 15 months there has been substantial progress, although not yet sufficient, concerning the most pressing structural conditions. Currently, the DE, through its Office of Infrastructure and Reconstruction, is leading an unprec edented challenge regarding all aspects of the physical plant of practically all the buildings that make up the school system.”
Mayors face bureaucratic obstacles if they want to take over the restoration of public schools
Ramos Parés acknowledged to the press that there’s no final plan to allocate resources to the municipalities, but he gave his word that he would work on it.
Ramos Parés acknowledged that even though the DE pays $76 million in rent to the AEP, the public schools under the latter agency’s jurisdiction are the most affected.
Ramos Parés faces Senate committee During a public hearing on the situation of public schools heading into the start of the school year, the chairwoman of the Senate Education, Tourism and Culture Committee, Ada García Montes, announced that she would convene a roundtable with the DE, the Office of Maintenance and Improve ment of Public Schools, the AEP and the Infrastructure Financing Authority to find a solution and define responsibilities.
“We are going to expand the collabora tive agreements in different areas,” he said.
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“An important part of the U.S. Depart ment of Labor, Office of Inspector General (DOL-OIG) mission is to protect the integrity of labor unions and affiliated benefit plans by investigating those who allegedly abuse their positions of trust for personal financial gain,” stated Jonathan Mellone, special agent-incharge, New York Region, U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General. Megan Underwood, northeastern regional director of the Office of LaborManagement Standards (OLMS), noted that “[t]oday’s indictment includes allegations of corruption against a union president as well as several union members.” “OLMS will continue to work with its law enforcement partners to hold accountable union officials, who hold positions of trust, as well as others who may seek personal gain through illegal activities, taking advantage of the union and the hardworking rank and file workers who the union represents,” she said.
According to the federal indictment, International Longshoremen’s Association-1740 of Puerto Rico President Carlos Sánchez Ortíz and six other people allegedly engaged in a criminal enterprise starting in 2005 to extort cargo owners that arrived at docks 9, 10 and 11 of San Juan with the Virgin Islands as a final destination.
Comptroller’s probe indicates falsified fuel invoices cost San Lorenzo almost $200,000
By THE STAR STAFF International Longshoremen’s Associa tion-1740 of Puerto Rico (ILA) President Carlos Sánchez Ortíz and six other people have been indicted by a federal grand jury for violations of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act for allegedly being part of a criminal enterprise since 2005 that was dedicated to extorting cargo owners that arrived at docks 9, 10 and 11 of San Juan with the Virgin Islands as a final destination.
The Comptroller of Puerto Rico on Monday published the results of an investigation into the billing and disbursements issued for fuel delivery to municipal vehicles in San Lorenzo which indicated that the supplier invoiced at a premium and sent wholesaler’s documents to the municipality that were not legitimate. The investigation revealed that the supplier presented the municipality with false invoices from the wholesaler, which represented an overpayment of $198,348 for the period of investigation from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2021. The situation, contrary to the second clause of the contracts formalized for fuel dispatch in 2019 and 2020, could have constituted a violation of Law 146-2012, the Puerto Rico Penal Code, as amended, the comptroller said. The result of the investigation was re ferred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice on March 3 of this year so that they can proceed as they deem pertinent. The comptroller’s report recommends that the mayor of San Lorenzo proceed with the recovery of disbursements paid in excess to the supplier, among other recommendations.Theanalysisof 48 invoices revealed that the supplier interspersed the false in voices among supporting documents. Those invoice documents lacked the company logo and the contact details of the wholesaler. In addition, the supplier’s invoices re flected higher prices than those invoiced by the wholesaler. The municipality’s pre-inter vention officer confirmed to Comptroller’s Office auditors that he had never com municated with the wholesaler to validate the authenticity of the invoices, nor did he notice the format change.
“Schemes such as the one uncovered and charged in this indictment negatively impact the local economy and stall the eco nomic progress the people of Puerto Rico deserve,” said Joseph González, special agent in charge of the FBI San Juan Field Office. “This scheme was sustained by silence, and I hope the work we’ve done here with our partners serves as a motivation for those with information to speak up.”
Last Thursday, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging the seven defendants with running a criminal enterprise dedicated to extorting and misleading shipping companies into paying fees for the loading and unloading of cargo at the Port of San Juan -- Piers 9, 10 and 11 -- under the threat of strikes and blockades on the part of union members of ILA-1740 and under false representations that companies had to pay a fee in order to be able to use “union-free labor” for the loading and unloading of cargo, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The indictment includes a forfeiture allegation related to the total value of the loss, some $1.18 million, and one residential property, a vehicle, and a boat. According to the indictment, Pedro Pastrana González and his ex-wife, Iara Clemente Rivera, owners and managers of JCPY Inc., aided by a public employee and Puerto Rico Ports Authority worker, Jorge Batista Maldonado and Carlos Sánchez Ortiz, the ILA-1740 president, are charged with running the fraudulent and extortionate scheme against shipping companies using the aforementioned piers 9. Members of the enterprise took some of the money made from the scheme and concealed it in JCPY and as payments to ILA-1740’s employee benefit plan called Plan de Bienestar UTM-PRSSA (the “Plan”). Pastrana González, Clemente Rivera, Victor F. Torres Barroso, José A. Fernández Cruz, and Carlos A. Hernández Laguer are also charged in the indictment for their par ticipation in an agreement to take funds and falsify records of the Plan. Pastrana González and Clemente Rivera agreed that Torres Bar roso, Fernández Cruz and Hernández Laguer -- members of ILA-1740 who worked in a company that provides stevedoring (cargo handling) services -- would do “chimbos” for Clemente Rivera. “Chimbo” is slang for a person who uses the union card of another individual when working at the docks so that it appears that the union member is working. Because it appeared that the person on the union card (Clemente Rivera) was working, the hours worked were fraudulently counted for Clemente Rivera’s yearly-hour requirement to qualify for plan benefits. The charges against the seven include RICO conspiracy, extortion; conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in violation; conspiracy to violate the Taft-Hartley Act (labor management relations); money laun dering; conspiracy to willfully convert funds and falsify records of the plan; and health care fraud. “These arrests are the result of a com prehensive investigation that now will put a stop to the illegal fees that the defendants were charging the shipping companies at Piers 9, 10 and 11,” Muldrow said. “I want to congratulate the attorneys and agents from all of these agencies who worked diligently to uncover this years-long scheme.”
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The investigation was carried out in consultation with attorneys of the Organized Crime and Gang Section of the U.S. Depart ment of Justice.
Indictment: ‘Fake’ stevedoring firm at SJ docks extorted companies with help of union president
Those are the ever shifting explanations that former Presi dent Donald Trump and his aides have given regarding what FBI agents found last week in a search of his residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump and his allies have cast the search as a partisan assault while amplifying conflicting arguments about the handling of sensitive documents and failing to answer a question at the cen ter of the federal investigation: Why was he keeping documents, some still marked classified, at an unsecured Florida resort when officials had sought for a year to retrieve them?
The stunning revelation made clear the gravity of the Justice Department’s inquiry months after the National Archives and Re cords Administration said it had discovered classified information in documents that Trump had held onto after leaving office. “What he doesn’t have the right to do is possess the docu ments; they are not his,” said Jason Baron, a former director of litigation at the National Archives for more than a decade. “There should be no presidential records at Mar-a-Lago, whether they are classified or unclassified or subject to executive privilege or subject to attorney-client privilege.” Documents covered by executive privilege are meant to be kept within the government.
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Kash Patel, a former Trump administration official, subse quently justified the handling of the documents by saying Trump had declassified them before leaving office — a claim echoed by Trump last week. Last week, Trump again accused the Justice Department of acting as a tool for his political opponents, a familiar tactic for a former president who had tried repeatedly to politicize the department during his four years in office. Describing the FBI as corrupt, Trump suggested that its agents had planted incrimina ting material at Mar-a-Lago during the search, and he demanded they return documents that he said were protected by executive privilege.Such accusations of political motivation prompted Attorney General Merrick Garland to defend the bureau’s agents during brief remarks last week. Trump’s unverified accusations also came as the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security last week issued an intelligence bulletin that warned of an increase in threats against federal law enforcement after the search of Mar-a-Lago, including general calls for a “civil war” or “armed rebellion.”
Former President Donald J. Trump and his aides have given inconsistent statements regarding the classified materials removed from his residence in Palm Beach, Fla.
Trump used Hillary Rodham Clinton’s mishandling of clas sified material, as seen in a Justice Department investigation into her email practices in 2015 and 2016, as political fodder during his first campaign. He is considering another national campaign for 2024, and questions about whether he mishandled the nation’s secrets could be problematic for him, even absent an investigation. After officials with the National Archives tried for several months to retrieve material from Trump, he turned over 15 boxes of documents in January. The next month, the National Archives confirmed the discovery of the classified information and referred the matter to the Justice Department. Over the following months, officials came to learn that Trump still had additional material at Mar-a-Lago that some of his advisers urged him to hand over.
The often contradictory and unsupported defenses perpetua ted by Trump and his team since the FBI search follow a familiar playbook of the former president’s. He has used it over decades but most visibly when he was faced with the investigation into whether his campaign in 2016 conspired with Russians and during his first impeachment trial. In both instances, he claimed victimization and mixed some facts with a blizzard of misleading statements or falsehoods. His lawyers denied he had tied his administration’s withholding of vital military aid to Ukraine to Trump’s desire for investigations into Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. When information contradicting that defense emerged in a forthcoming book by Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, Trump’s lawyers switched to insisting that he hadn’t connected the aid to the investigations, but that if he had, it wouldn’t have been an impeachable offense. Of the multiple investigations Trump currently faces — including a state inquiry in Georgia and two federal grand jury investigations, all related to his efforts to cling to power at the end of his presidency, as well as civil and criminal inquiries in New York related to his company — the federal investigation into his handling of sensitive documents taken from the White House has emerged as one of the most potentially damaging.
Trump described the handover of the 15 boxes as “an ordinary and routine process.” But administrations have been required to turn over documents to the National Archives before leaving office for more than 40 years, as part of the Presidential Records Act that was created in response to President Richard Nixon’s attempt to take his documents and recordings with him after resigning in disgrace.
A spokesperson for Trump did not respond to a message seeking comment.
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Trump’s shifting explanations follow a familiar playbook
First, he said he was “working and cooperating with” gover nment agents who he claimed had inappropriately entered his home. Then, when the government revealed that the FBI, during its search, had recovered nearly a dozen sets of documents that were marked classified, he suggested the agents had planted evidence.Finally, his aides claimed that he had a “standing order” to declassify documents that left the Oval Office for his residence and that some of the material was protected by attorney-client and executive privilege.
A search warrant made public Friday revealed federal agents had recovered top secret documents when they searched Trump’s Florida residence earlier in the week as part of an investigation into possible violations of the Espionage Act and other laws. Among the 11 sets of documents taken were some mar ked as “classified/TS/SCI” — shorthand for “top secret/sensitive compartmented information,” according to an inventory of the materials seized in the search. Those types of documents are meant to be viewed only in secure facilities. The inventory of documents included other material, some described as “confidential.”
That is a much different approach from Rep. Michael Turner of Ohio, the top Republican on the Intelligence Com mittee, who defended Trump on Sunday. Republicans on the committee have said they continue to support law enforce ment. Still, they said that tough questions remained for Attorney General Merrick Garland about his decision to take the bold step of ordering a search of the former president’s home, and they promised to hold the Justice Department accountable. “Clearly, no one is above the law,” Turner said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Donald Trump is not above the law. And Attorney General Garland is not above the law, either. And Congress has the powers of oversight. He needs to comply.”
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Some Republicans make a more restrained case for defending Trump
“We’re the world’s oldest democracy, and the only way that can come unraveled is if we have disrespect for institutions that lead to Americans turning on Americans,” he said, adding, “A lot of that starts with the words we’re Republicansusing.”have struggled to co alesce around a unified strategy to respond to the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, amid daily revelations and quickly shifting explana tions, excuses, defenses and false accusa tions by the former president. On Friday, a federal judge unsealed the warrant authorizing the search and an inventory of items removed from the property by federal agents. The list showed that the FBI had retrieved 11 sets of classi fied documents as part of an inquiry into potential violations of the Espionage Act and two other laws. Some of the documents were marked “classified/TS/SCI” — shorthand for “top secret/sensitive compartmented infor mation.” Such information is meant to be viewed only in a secure government facility.Trump and his allies have argued that former President Barack Obama also mishandled documents (an allega tion quickly dismissed as false by the National Archives); that the judge who signed the warrant authorizing the search must have been biased; that the FBI might have planted evidence; that the docu ments were covered by attorney-client or executive privilege; and that Trump had declassified the documents. But the shifting explanations have made it difficult for Republicans, many of whom are eager to please the former president, to come together with a unified defense. They are divided about whether to attack the nation’s top law enforce ment agencies and how aggressive to be in thoseRep.attacks.Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., whom the National Republican Congres sional Committee is featuring in fundrais ing appeals, has begun selling merchan dise that says “Defund the FBI.”
The Republican leaders in the Senate and the House, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, have also said that Garland needs to provide answers.
Garland, for his part, held a news conference Thursday defending the way the Justice Department has handled the case.
She pointed out that when she re views classified documents she must do so in a secure room. “I can’t even wear my Fitbit,” she said.
As Republicans continued over the past weekend to defend former President Donald Trump after an unprecedented FBI search of his residence in Florida, deep fissures were visible in the party’s support for law enforcement amid a federal investigation into Trump’s handling of top secret documents. Immediately after the search, congressional Republicans, including members of leadership, reacted with fury, attacking the nation’s top law enforce ment agencies. Some called to “defund” or “destroy” the FBI, and others invoked the Nazi secret police, using words like “gestapo” and “tyrants.” On Sunday, more moderate voices in the party chastised their colleagues for the broadsides against law enforcement, mak ing a more restrained case for defending Trump while also carrying out oversight of the Justice Department. Many Republicans called for the re lease of the affidavit supporting the search warrant that was executed last Monday, which would detail the evidence that had persuaded a judge there was prob able cause to believe a search would find evidence of crimes. Such documents are typically not made public before charges are filed. “It was an unprecedented action that needs to be supported by unprecedented justification,” Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., a former FBI agent, said on CBS’ “Face the Nation. But he added, “I have urged all my colleagues to make sure they understand the weight of their words.” The calls for a more cautious tone came as threats emerged against law enforcement. A gunman on Thursday attacked an FBI office in Cincinnati, and Friday, the Department of Homeland Secu rity distributed an intelligence bulletin to law enforcement around the country that warned of “an increase in threats and acts of violence, including armed encounters, against law enforcement, judiciary and government personnel” after the search.
“The FBI and DHS have observed an increase in violent threats posted on social media against federal officials and facilities, including a threat to place a so-called dirty bomb in front of FBI headquarters and issuing general calls for ‘civil war’ and ‘armed rebellion,’” said the bulletin, which was obtained by The New York AddingTimes.tothe sense of alarm, another gunman crashed a car into a barricade outside the Capitol around 4 a.m. Sunday. After he exited the car and it became engulfed in flames, he shot into the air several times before killing himself, the Capitol Police Fitzpatricksaid.said he had begun check ing in with his former colleagues at the FBI “to make sure they were OK.”
“Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly, without fear or favor,” he said. “Under my watch that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing.”The White House, trying to avoid the appearance of partisan interference, has been reluctant to comment on the investigation. “We do not interfere. We do not get briefed,” Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, said on ABC’s “This Week,” adding, “We’re going to let Merrick Garland speak for himself and hisButdepartment.”otherDemocrats immediately seized on Republicans’ anti-law enforce ment “Istatements.thoughtin the old days the Repub lican Party used to stand with law enforce ment,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And I hope some of them do today because this kind of rhetoric is very dangerous to our country.”
A Secret Service agent guards one of the entrances to former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Fla. on Aug. 9, 2022. The Justice Department’s warrant and two critical supporting memos shed considerable light on the investigation into former President Trump’s handling of official documents.
Liz Cheney’s detractors, though, belie ve her overwhelming focus on Trump and her detachment from other House Republicans, after she was ousted from party leadership, would render her ineffective, particularly should Republicans claim the House ma jority in “She’sNovember.notatrue Republican in the sense of our Republican values here in Wyoming,” said Gina Kron, who works in Casper for the federal Agriculture De partment, arguing that Cheney should be less consumed with the former president and “all about fossil energy.” To those with deep roots in Wyoming’s institutions, however, Cheney’s apparent de mise symbolizes something just as troubling as any debates about the future of energy.
Even headier was the administration of President George H.W. Bush. Cheney beca me defense secretary, and his wife, Lynne, served as chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, while Simpson was both the second-ranking Senate Republican and one of the president’s closest friends. On top of that, the secretary of state at the time, James Baker, spent summers on his Wyoming ranch, meaning two of the country’s top national security officials could be found doing unofficial promotional work for the state’s tourism industry. “You’d have Army choppers snatching Cheney and Baker from fishing holes,” recalled Rob Wallace, who was Wallop’s chief of staff. As conservative as the state was on the national level — Lyndon B. Johnson is the only Democrat to carry Wyoming in the past 70 years — the Wyoming Republican delegation worked effectively with two well-regarded Democratic governors in that same period, Ed Herschler and Mike Sullivan.Now, Liz Cheney hardly even speaks to the two other Wyomingites in Congress — Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis, both Republicans — and has little contact with Gov. Mark Gordon. Lummis has en dorsed Hageman. But Barrasso and Gordon, who are mainline Republicans in the Cheney tradition, have sought to maintain neutrality in hopes of avoiding Trump’s wrath. Gordon, though, has surely not forgot ten that when he ran for governor in 2018, in a primary that included Hageman, Cheney did not support “Everythinghim.is political in Wyoming except politics, which is personal,” Simpson likes to say. What alarms some longtime Wyoming Republicans more than campaign season tensions is what the combination of Trump fear and fidelity will ultimately mean for the strength of the delegation — and for the state’s future. Wyoming has neither a state income tax nor a corporate tax, having long relied on severance levies on oil, natural gas andWithcoal.growing national support for clean energy — and a large federal bill promoting climate-friendly power soon to become law — that pillar of Wyoming’s economy could face an uncertain future. “Wyoming has to fight to redefine itself with the decline of fossil energy,” said Wa llace, who also served as a senior official in the Interior Department under Trump. “We need a strategy at the state and federal level to figure out how Wyoming will grow and prosper for future generations.”
By JONATHAN MARTIN
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) attends the first public hearing of the House Select Com mittee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 9, 2022.
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“There are a lot of good people with good intentions on both sides of the aisle who don’t want anything to do with politics today, and that’s a frightening fact,” said Marilyn Kite, a Laramie native who was Wyoming’s first female state Supreme Court justice. This election is particularly poignant for Cheney admirers. Dick and Lynne Cheney both grew up in Casper, high school sweethearts at Natrona County High, where the football stadium is now called Cheney Alumni Field. Living in a cook tent and reading Churchill’s history of World War II by a Coleman lantern, Dick Cheney worked for a power line crew across the state after being twice thrown out of Yale — and before claiming a pair of degrees at Wyoming’s flagship university. That he’d rise to the vice presidency, the closest Wyoming has come to the Oval Office, and his daughter would eventually succeed him in the House is “a point of pride” for the whole state, Kite said. The Simpsons, however, are not sure the Cheney story is quite complete. After the ceremony in July at Heart Mountain — where the Cody-raised Simpson famously first struck up a friendship with Mi neta, his fellow Boy Scout — Ann Simpson, the former senator’s wife, approached Dick Cheney. She said she thought Liz Cheney should run for president. “Dick just nodded at that,” Simpson recalled his wife telling him later. “He just said, ‘I’m very proud of her.’”
In Wyoming, likely end of Cheney dynasty will close a political era
At an event last month honoring the 14,000 Japanese Americans who were once held at the Heart Mou ntain internment camp near here, Rep. Liz Cheney was overcome with emotions, and a prolonged standing ovation wasn’t the only reason.Herappearance — with her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, as well as former Sen. Alan Simpson and the children of Norman Mineta, a Democratic congressman turned transportation secretary who was sent to the camp when he was 10 — was part of a groundbreaking for the new Mineta-Simpson Institute. Liz Cheney was moved, she said, by the presence of the survivors and by their enduring commitment to the country that imprisoned them during World War II. There was something else, though, that got to the congresswoman during the bipartisan ceremony with party elders she was raised to revere. “It was just a whole combination of emotion,” she recalled in a recentAsinterview.Cheney faces a near-certain defeat today in her House primary, it is the likely end of the Cheneys’ two-generation dynasty as well as the passing of a less tribal and more clubby and substance-oriented brand of politics. “We were a very powerful delegation, and we worked with the other side, that was key, because you couldn’t function if you didn’t,” recalled Simpson, now 90, fresh off being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and as tart-tongued as ever about his ancestral party. “My dad was senator and a governor, and if I ran again today as a Republican I’d get my ass beat — it’s not aboutHeheritage.”waselected to the Senate in 1978, the same year that Dick Cheney won Wyoming’s at-large House seat, and they worked closely together, two Republicans battling on behalf of the country’s least populated state in an era when Democrats always controlled at least one chamber of Congress.It’snot mere clout, however, that tradi tional Wyoming Republicans are pining for as they consider their gilded past and ponder the state’s less certain political and economic future. Before Tuesday’s election, which is likely to propel Harriet Hageman, who is backed by former President Donald Trump, to the House, the nostalgia in the state is running deeper than the Buffalo Bill Reservoir. Dick Cheney and Simpson were not only in the leadership of their respective chambers in the 1980s; they, along with Sen. Malcolm Wallop, a Yale-educated cold warrior whose grandfather served in both the British House of Lords and the Wyoming Legislature, got along well and often appeared together as a delegation in a sort of road show across the sprawling state (“A small town with long streets,” as the Wyoming saying goes).
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Guns were perhaps the biggest issue in the race, with both Tokuda and Branco endorsing an assault weapons ban, a minimum age of 21 to buy firearms, and other steps that would go well beyond the bipartisan gun bill Congress passed in June. Much of their sparring was over who would be a stronger advocate for such measures. Outside groups supporting Branco ran attack ads condemning Tokuda over her 2012 endorsement from the National Rifle Association, though she subsequently supported gun control measures in the state Senate.Theprimary drew a large amount of outside spending for a relatively off-the-radar House race. The support Tokuda received from outside groups — which, in addition to the Congressional Progressive Caucus, included Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s Medicare for All PAC — was dwarfed by what Branco received, from organizations that included VoteVets, cryptocurrency groups and the centrist Mainstream MoreDemocrats.than $1 million in spending by such groups gave Branco a financial advantage, even though Tokuda’ campaign raised more than three times as much as his in the most recent fiscal quarter, according to Federal Election Commission filings. In addition to the 2012 NRA endorsement, pro-Branco ads attacked Tokuda for opposing a 2015 bill that would have banned pesticide spraying around HawaiiBeyondschools.guns and abortion, Tokuda — who spent 12 years in the Hawaii Senate and rose to become chair of the Ways and Means Committee, before stepping down in 2018 to run unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor — has called for suspending the federal gas tax, expanding the earned-income tax credit and extending the more generous child tax credit that Congress recently allowed to expire. In response to a questionnaire from the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, she emphasized the need for more federal funding for health care, education and housing in rural communities. The Congressional Progressive Caucus endorsed her in June, saying in a statement at the time, “In Hawaii, Jill has led on affordable housing, education, women’s reproductive freedom and gun violence prevention, and she’ll do the same in Congress.”
By MAGGIE ASTOR Jill Tokuda, a former state senator backed by the political arm of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, won the Democratic primary in Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District, according to The Associated Press, after a sometimes vicious campaign that drew more than $1 million in outside spending. Tokuda defeated her top rival, Patrick Branco, a first-term state representative, and several others. She is expected to win easily in November against Joe Akana, the winner of the Republican primary, for the seat being vacated by Rep. Kai Kahele, a Democrat who opted to run for governor but lost. On paper, the two main candidates held similar positions, including support for abortion rights and for stricter gun laws. They both want Congress to codify the rights Roe v. Wade used to protect and to repeal the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for most abortions.
Tokuda wins Democratic House primary in Hawaii Democrat Jill Tokuda campaigns on a street in Kapolei, Hawaii, on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Tokuda, a former state senator backed by the political arm of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, won the Democratic primary in Hawaii’s Second Congressional District, according to The Associated Press.
If the job market is so good, why is gig work thriving?
Picking up shifts offers something that traditional per manent employment still generally doesn’t: the ability to work when and as much as you want, demand permitting, which is often essential to balance life obligations such as school or child care. And lately, inflation has provided an extra incentive. As the cost of rent and food soars, gig work can supplement pri mary jobs that don’t provide enough to live on or are otherwi se unsatisfying.
The closest government metric that is more timely co mes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which asks people whether they count themselves as self-employed. That num ber rose significantly as a share of the labor force from early 2020 to early this year. But it generally captures people for whom self-employment is the main source of income — which, for most gig workers, it isn’t. More likely, the bump represents an increase in the number of people working as home-improvement contractors and owner-operator truck dri vers — two longtime means of self-employment that surged during the pandemic — and some white-collar freelancers.
Lexi Gervis, an executive at a financial management app called Steady, said that users’ data showed that more people were involved in gig work — and that the average gig income per worker grew — from the start of the pandemic through this summer.“Wewere seeing this move towards multiple income streams, because that work was picked up as a stopgap and then continued,” Gervis said. Take Denae Bettis, a 23-year-old Steady user living in Severn, Maryland. After dropping out of college, she got a job at UPS and, after a few years, rose to become a safety super visor, usually starting at 4 a.m. During the pandemic, she took on more“Theresponsibilities.jobgotreally stressful, and I felt like I had no way out,” Bettis said. So in June 2020, she started a side gig through Instacart, shopping for people holed up at home. The next month, she quit her job, making it easier for her to pursue her passion: working as a personal makeup artist, which often requires taking early-morning appointments. Surviving on income from gigs — which for Bettis now include DoorDash and Instacart — isn’t easy. But Bettis thinks she can save enough money to open her own storefront. “We just went through a period where millions died, so are you going to spend your time at your job if it doesn’t fulfill you?” Bettis said, summing up gig work’s appeal. “Everybody loves stability, but if the flexibility isn’t there, I don’t think a lot of people are going to go back.” Labor advocates have long been concerned about bu sinesses that depend on independent contractors, since those workers aren’t entitled to the rights and benefits that come with employee status, including employer contributions to payroll taxes and unemployment insurance. But although the model has gained traction, it has been difficult to pin down how fast the ranks of gig workers are growing.
Although gig work has retained and even enhanced its appeal through the pandemic and recovery, it is not clear what will happen if the economy tips into recession and the number of conventional jobs starts to shrink. Gig companies say it will bolster their labor supply, as the hardship caused by rising prices has. Uber said on its second-quarter earnings call that for 70% of its new drivers, the cost of living influenced their decision to join. “There’s no question that this operating environment is stronger for us,” said CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. But in an economic downturn, an increase in worker availability for online platforms could coincide with a fall in demand. If customers reduce delivery orders and take fewer cab rides, it would be harder for those who depend on the apps to make a living.
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Denae Bettis, center, supplements her income as a makeup artist by doing deliveries for DoorDash and Instacart.
By LYDIA DePILLIS American workers are experiencing, by many measures, one of the best job markets ever. The unemployment rate has matched a 53-year low. Job listings per avai lable worker are at historic highs. Wages, although not quite keeping up with inflation, are rising at their fastest pace in decades.So why would people keep doing gig work, a noto riously difficult and insecure way to make a living? Online platforms such as Uber and Lyft say the number of people providing services on their networks is rebounding steadily after a sharp decline early in the pandemic, while bu sinesses such as hotels and restaurants are breaking work into hour-by-hour increments available on demand.
Less comprehensive but more specific data comes from third-party platforms such as Steady, which allows nearly 6 million workers to track their often-variable sources of inco me and posts incentives from gig platforms to try working for them. From February 2020 to June 2022, Steady recorded a 31% increase in the share of workers on the app with 1099 income. More of those were women than men, with particu lar growth among single mothers. Freelance income per gig worker increased 13%.
That worries Willy Solis, a driver for Target-owned deli very service Shipt in the Dallas area who has been an organi zer for better conditions. “When people are desperate for work, that’s usually what they want to do, is find something that’s easily obtai nable,” he said. But what is good for the gig-work companies may not be good for the workers, he added. “Whenever they do hiring sprees,” he said, “we see an influx in gig work and a decrease in the amount of work that’s available to us.”
The most accurate measure is IRS data on 1099 tax forms — the freelancers’ counterpart to the W-2 forms filed for employees — but that is available only to select researchers and released with a lag of several years. At last count, in 2018, a team of economists found that about 1.2% of workers with any earnings had at least some income from online platform work. (A Pew survey from 2021 found that the share of all adults with gig income in a 12-month period was about 9%.)
The legislation effectively penalizes newer electric car companies, like Lucid and Rivian, whose vehicles may be too expensive to qualify for the credits. The incentives apply to sedans costing no more than $55,000 and pickups, vans or SUVs costing up to $80,000. Lucid’s cheapest sedan starts at more than $80,000. Rivian’s electric pickups start at $72,500 but can easily top $80,000 with options. The company said it was exploring whether customers could lock in the incentives by making a binding purchase agreement before the new law took effect. Even automakers that might lose access to tax credits could benefit from the law in other ways. The bill contains billions of dollars to help carmakers build factories and establish local supply chains. Dealers will profit from a provision granting $4,000 credits to used electric vehicles, with few strings attached.
The things that the bill pressures carmakers to do, such as using U.S.-made batteries, “cannot be achieved overnight,” GM CEO Mary T. Barra said during an appearance with Biden this month. But the legislation “will be part of the catalyst that helps us move forward,” she added.Ford expressed almost the same view as GM. “While its consumer tax credit targets for electric vehicles are not all achievable overnight, the bill is an important step forward to meet our shared national climate goals and help strengthen American manufacturing jobs,” the company said in a statement that urged the House to pass the legislation.
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The legislation contains other provisions that have received less attention but could accelerate sales of electric vehicles and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
There is money to help businesses install electric vehicle chargers, for example. That is important for people who do not have garages or driveways where they can install their own chargers.There are also tax credits of up to $40,000 for electric or hydrogen trucks and buses. Commercial vehicles account for a disproportionate percentage of greenhouse gases and harmful pollutants from the transportation sector because they spend a lot more time on the road than passenger cars.
“This makes battery electric propulsion for commercial vehicles compelling,” said Gareth Joyce, CEO of Proterra, a California company that makes electric buses and technology for trucks and other commercial vehicles.
Some of the restrictions on eligibility for a tax credit may not be as strict as they appear and may be up for interpretation. For example, Stabenow said, it appeared that the $7,500 credit would be valid for all manufacturers through next year before content restrictions kickedEventuallyin. the income limits will encourage carmakers to offer less-expensive vehicles, said Mark Wakefield, co-leader of the automotive and industrial practice at AlixPartners, a consulting firm. “You’re going to see a laser focus on getting below the $80,000 and $55,000 caps,” he said. The price limits and made-in-America rules will also encourage carmakers to develop cheaper batteries that require fewer imported raw materials. Tesla and other carmakers are already selling cars with batteries based on iron and phosphate, known as LFP, rather than batteries that contain nickel and cobalt, which are costly and come from countries with tainted human rights and environmental records. The iron-phosphate batteries are heavier but usually less expensive and longer lasting. The Inflation Reduction Act “is going to increase the growth of LFP,” Wakefield said.
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A feature of the bill that has generated the most complaints would require that by 2024 at least 50% of the components in an electric car battery come from the United States, Canada or Mexico. The percentage rises to 100% in 2028. And the share of the minerals in batteries that have to come from the United States or a trade ally will climb to 80% in 2026. Some industry executives said it would take car companies five years to revamp their supply chains enough for their products to qualify for tax Otherscredits.saythat is overblown. “I would be shocked if that was the case,” said Joe Britton, executive director of the Zero Emission Transportation Association, whose members include Tesla and suppliers of batteries and raw materials. While the organization would have preferred fewer restrictions, Britton said, “we still view this as a huge accelerant of electrification of transportation, especially compared to where we were a month ago.”
The climate and energy package approved by Congress late last week aims to achieve two goals that are not always compatible: Make electric vehicles more affordable while freezing China out of the supply chain. Auto industry representatives have been griping that the proposed $7,500 tax credits for electric vehicle buyers come with so many strings attached that few cars will qualify. Buyers can’t have very high incomes, the vehicles can’t cost too much, and the cars and their batteries have to meet made-in-America requirements that many carmakers cannot easily achieve.“It’s going to be a lot harder for cars to qualify and for consumers to qualify for a federal tax credit for the purchase of an EV,” said John Bozzella, president of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents large U.S. and foreign automakers. Some companies will benefit more than others from the sweeping legislation, known as the Inflation Reduction Act, which Democrats in the House approved Friday, clearing the way for President Joe Biden to sign it into law. The new credits favor companies, like Tesla and General Motors, that have been selling electric cars for years and have reorganized their supply chains to produce vehicles in the United States. A joint venture between GM and LG Energy Solution will soon open a battery plant in Ohio, part of a wave of electric vehicle investment by automakers and suppliers.
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A new Ford F-150 LIghtning at a dealership in Commerce, Ga., on July 1, 2022. The F-150 Lightning, paired with its growing slate of American-made competitors, could offer an all-around win: manufacturing revitalized, gas money saved, and the potential to curb the transportation sector’s leading 27 percent share of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. vehicle makers, losers
“We have to look at this law in its totality,” said Margo Oge, former director of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality at the Environmental Protection Agency. “Is it perfect? No. It will create jobs, and it will be good for theAndclimate.”once automakers make changes to their supply chains required by the bill, they will be able to offer customers generous incentives for the rest of the decade and then some. It may take a few years, but eventually the legislation will help make electric cars cheaper than gasoline and diesel vehicles, analysts say.
Vehicles sold by Tesla and GM will regain eligibility for incentives that the carmakers had lost because they had sold more than their quota of 200,000 electric cars under current law. The legislation eliminates that cap. The legislation could be thornier for companies like Toyota and Stellantis, which owns Chrysler, Jeep and Ram, because they have not started making or selling large numbers of battery-powered vehicles in the United States.
“The consumer tax credit was certainly not written in a way I would write it,” Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., told reporters this week, referring to the $7,500 incentive. But in the interest of getting the bill passed, she said, she acceded to the wishes of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. Manchin has said it makes little sense to subsidize electric vehicles because demand is so strong that there are long waiting lists for many Still,models.Stabenow added, “There are a lot of wonderful things in here for us.”
Several major Wall Street banks have begun offering to fa cilitate trades in Russian debt in recent days, according to bank documents seen by Reuters, giving investors anoth er chance to dispose of assets widely seen in the West as toxic. Most U.S. and European banks had pulled back from the market in June after the Treasury Department banned U.S. in vestors from purchasing any Russian security as part of eco nomic sanctions to punish Moscow for invading Ukraine, ac cording to an investor who holds Russian securities and two bankingFollowingsources.subsequent guidelines from the Treasury in July that allowed U.S. holders to wind down their positions, the largest Wall Street firms have cautiously returned to the mar ket for Russian government and corporate bonds, according to emails, client notes and other communications from six banks as well as interviews with the sources.
A source close to Deutsche Bank said the bank trades bonds for clients on a request-only and case-by-case basis to further manage down its Russia risk exposure or that of its nonU.S. clients, but won’t do any new business outside of these two categories.StrandedAssetsSome$40billion
of Russian sovereign bonds were out standing before Russia began what it calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine in February. Roughly half was held by foreign funds. Many investors got stranded with Russian assets, as their value plummeted, buyers disappeared and sanctions made trading hard. In May, two U.S. lawmakers asked JPMorgan and Gold man Sachs Group Inc for information about trades in Russian debt, saying they may undermine sanctions. The following month the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control banned U.S. money managers from buying any Russian debt or stocks in secondary markets, prompting banks to pull back. Regulators have since taken steps to help ease the pain for investors.TheTreasury provided further guidance on July 22 to help settle default insurance payments on Russian bonds. It also clarified that banks could facilitate, clear and settle transac tions of Russian securities if this helped U.S. holders wind down their positions.
The banks that are in the market now include JPMorgan Chase & Co, Bank of America Corp, Citigroup Inc, Deutsche Bank AG, Barclays Plc and Jefferies Financial Group Inc, the documents show. The return of the largest Wall Street firms, the details of the trades they are offering to facilitate and the precautions they are taking to avoid breaching sanctions are reported here for the first time. Bank of America, Barclays, Citi and JPMorgan declined to comment.AJefferies spokesperson said it was “working within glob al sanctions guidelines to facilitate our clients’ needs to navi gate this complicated situation.”
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Even though Ukrainian troops have not moved forward for weeks in Kher son, their artillery campaign appears to have borne fruit, slowing the flow of Russian arms, equipment and troops into the region, Ukrainian officials say. Using high-precision weapons such as the U.S.-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, Ukrainian forces have pounded the three bridges over the vast Dnieper River that connect thousands of Rus sian to their supply lines in occupied Ukrainian territory east of the river. The strikes have rendered these bridges “inoperable,” said Nataliya Gumenyuk, spokeswoman for the Ukrainian military’s southern com mand. Over the weekend, Ukrainian forces launched yet another strike on the Antonivsky bridge, the main sup ply artery into the city of Kherson. “We clearly understand that the occupiers depend on those arteries to keep bringing in reserves and ammu nition and military equipment,” Gu menyuk said. The question now is whether this pressure on Russia’s supply lines will be sufficient to cripple the fighting ca pacity of Russian troops and perhaps force the Kremlin to order at least part of the force to withdraw from Kherson and fall back across the river. Several Ukrainian officials in the region said this week that some Russian field com manders had already begun to move their headquarters east of the river, al though two senior Ukrainian military officials said there was no evidence of this.At the front, a withering barrage of Russian strikes inevitably kills a handful of Ada’s troops each day, the lieutenant said. A near miss by a grad rocket a day earlier charred the grass around one dugout position, and in the field nearby, the tail section of an other rocket was visible sticking out of the ground. Periodically, a lowdecibel thud reverberated across the plains.Itis the same all across the rough ly 50-mile Kherson front, which cuts roughly north to south through fertile fields. Ukraine’s commanders and military analysts say that any lunge forward would require vastly more troops and equipment than Ukraine has in the Kherson theater at the mo ment.Russia, meanwhile, has shifted re sources from fighting in the eastern Donbas to reinforce its positions in the Maj.south.Gen.
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ I n their summer campaign to drive Russian troops from the south ern region of Kherson, Ukraine’s forces have decimated Russian com mand centers and ammunition depots, severed supply lines with precision strikes on key bridges, and sown terror among collaborationist officials with a spate of car bombings, shootings and, Ukrainian officials said, at least one poisoning. But out in the sunbaked fields along the Kherson Region’s western border, the Ukrainian fighters who would be called on to deliver the knockout blow in any successful effort to retake ter ritory remain pinned down in their trenches. Cuts to Russian supply lines have not yet eroded the overwhelming advantage of Moscow’s forces in artil lery, ammunition and heavy weapon ry, making it difficult if not impossible for Ukrainian forces to press forward without suffering enormous casualties. “Without question we need a counteroffensive; I sincerely believe it will come,” said a 33-year-old lieuten ant with the call sign Ada, who com mands an outpost of trenchworks in the neighboring Mykolaiv region, a few miles from the Russian lines in Kherson.Buthe added: “We need the ad vantage in numbers; we need the ad vantage in heavy weapons. Unfortu nately, this is a bit of a problem for us.”
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Dmytro Marchenko, commander of Ukraine’s forces in the region, recently acknowledged bub bling frustrations with the slow pace of Ukraine’s efforts to retake Kherson, but he said he could give no time table for the start of major offensive actions.“Iwant to tell the people of Kher son to be a little patient — that it will not be as long as everyone expects,” Marchenko said in an interview last week with RBK-Ukraine. “We have not forgotten about them, no one will abandon our people, and we will come to help them, but they need to wait a little longer.” If the Ukrainians can fully sever the bridges over the Dnieper and keep them cut, the Kremlin will have no choice but to withdraw some forces or force Russian troops to fight with limited supplies and “hope they cope,” said Phillips P. O’Brien, a pro fessor of strategic studies at the Uni versity of St. Andrews in Scotland. “If they haven’t built up consider able depots on the west bank, one would think they would run into ma jor problems in a matter of weeks,” he said.
Fleeing Russian occupied territories, drivers travel in a long convoy on their way to Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022.
Residents remove debris after a Russian rocket strike in Nikopol, Ukraine, on Aug. 13, 2022.
Interrogators had asked for information on Ukrainian positions and military groups, he said, but the interrogations had often been pointless, as the next blow came befo re he could answer a question. “They don’t believe anything you say, even if you’re te lling the truth,” he said. “You cannot prove yourRussiainnocence.”hasdenied torturing or killing Ukrainian civilians and claims that it only attacks military targets. Other families, less fortunate than Vasiliy’s, have been left searching for missing relatives, torn with anxiety about where they are or even if they are alive. “I go to sleep crying, and I wake up crying,” said Olha, 64, whose son was de tained and beaten unconscious by Russian troops but was released after three days, and whose grandson, they learned from the In ternational Committee of the Red Cross, is being held in a Russian pretrial detention facility.Their village, Vilkhivka, outside Kharkiv, was overrun by Russian troops in late March. Warplanes were bombing the village, and the Russian soldiers told residents they had an hour to evacuate, she recounted in an in terview. “They said that Vilkhivka was going to be razed,” she said. Olha and several family members hu rried with other villagers through the fields for five miles to where they were told a Rus sian military truck would take them to a wai ting fleet of buses. Her son and grandson did not make it, so her husband went back to find them. As she sat on one of the buses, Russian soldiers pulled off two young men in bandages who she thought might have been wounded Ukrainian soldiers. In front of the other passengers, the Rus sian soldiers beat the men, she said, and then shot them in the head. “They were left in that forest,” she said. “I closed my eyes and Hercried.”grandson, Mykyta, 20, has not been seen since. Olha was evacuated with her daughter-in-law to Russia, where they were put up in a hostel. She returned home in July and was reunited with her husband, who had survived on his own. Her son managed to join them in Russia, and he and his wife have remained there to try to locate Mykyta.
I t was a particularly dangerous time for a military-age man in Russian-occupied northern Ukraine, where Russian troops were losing ground before a ferocious Ukrai nian counterattack this past spring. That was when soldiers from the occupying forces sei zed a young auto mechanic while he was walking in his home village with his wife and a neighbor, blindfolded him, bound his hands and shoved him into a bus. It was the beginning of six weeks of “hell,” said Vasiliy, 37, who like most people interviewed for this article declined to give his surname for fear of reprisals. Shunted from one place of detention to another, he was beaten and repeatedly subjected to electrical shocks under interrogation, with little understanding of where he was or why he was being held. He was far from the only one. Hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, mainly men, have gone missing in the five months of the war in Ukraine, detained by Russian troops or their proxies, held in basements, police stations and filtration camps in Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine and ending up incarcerated in Russia.Thousands have passed through this sprawling, ad hoc screening system in the war zone, but no one knows exactly how many have been sent to Russian jails. The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has documented 287 ca ses of enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions of civilians by Russia and says the total is almost certainly more, but probably in the hundreds, rather than the thousands. Vasiliy is one of a small number of people detained in Russia who have retur ned to Ukraine. He was released after about six weeks and eventually made his way back through a long, roundabout journey after a total of three months away. Back at work in an auto repair shop in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, he said he was just glad to have survived.“Itwas shaming, maddening, but I came out alive,” he said. “It could have been wor se. Some people were shot.”
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Vadym’s sister, Ms. Shepets, tried for months to find any information on her brother’s whereabouts, writing letters and scouring the internet. She ultimately learned from a Ukrainian government agency that he was in Russian custody. Then a friend found what appeared to be a prison mug shot of him in a Russian online chat room.
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“I was hysterical, to be honest, becau se it was only half my brother,” Ms. Shepets said. “He is very thin in the photo. You can see hollows under his eyes, and his collar bones.”The photo was subsequently removed from the social media group. “Now we don’t know anything — there is no more con nection; there is nothing,” she said, wiping away tears. ‘hell’: Russia’s brutal Ukraine detentions
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They have no idea if he will face charges, Olha said, as they have no access to him, even by phone. The Red Cross could tell them only that he was in custody, she said. Most of the civilians detained by Russia in the war zone are men with military ex perience or of fighting age. In the occupied areas, Ukrainians with leadership qualities — activists, local officials and journalists — are most likely to be detained, human rights officials said. But many ordinary civilians have been caught up in what is often a chao tic and arbitrary roundup. Vasiliy, the mechanic, said he had been picked up by chance because he was wal king down a street in Tsyrkuny, northeast of Kharkiv, when members of the security for ces were conducting a raid. His wife and a female neighbor were told to go home, but his hands were bound with tape and he was shoved into a bus as men in balaclavas burst into a nearby house firing weapons, forcing four men to the ground. Those men were then thrown into the same bus with Vasiliy. Among them was Vadym, 36, a welder and mechanic who lived in Tsyrkuny with his wife and small son. Vadym had ventu red out to get diapers and baby food for the toddler, according to his sister Darya She pets, 19. She said that some of those detai ned had served as border guards during hos tilities with Russia in 2014 but that he had no ties to the military. The detainees were taken to the base ment of a house in the village, where they were beaten and interrogated, Vasiliy said. Later they were moved to another village, where they were held in a group of about 25. After about three weeks, he was taken with a dozen men to a detention facility at Ukraine’s northern border. “It is difficult to understand who was de tained and for what,” he said. “They brought in this grandfather, who did not understand at all why he was detained. He was riding his bicycle with a sack of corn.” He added: “A young boy was brought in. He was just riding his bike to his grandmother’s.”Detaineeswere hauled off individually for interrogation, which involved heavy bea tings, including some to the head, and elec trical shocks. “It is as if your whole body is pricked with needles,” Vasiliy said. Human rights officials have recorded similar accou nts of electrical shocks being used. “We were given food and drink once a day,” Vasiliy said. “Sometimes we could go without food for two or three days. There was no toilet; they gave us bottles to use. We slept together on car tires. No sanitary standards to speak of.” He said Russian interrogators had been obsessed with rooting out members of Nazi groups — the main reason given by Moscow for its military operation against Ukraine. “They said they had come to liberate us from the Nazis, from the Ukrainian authori ties, so that we can live better,” he recoun ted. “I told them: ‘I worked all the time at the service station. I didn’t see Nazis. Everything wasHisgood.’”response enraged his interrogators, he said, adding: “They start to mess with you again. ‘You’re lying. You have Nazis here. Whole groups have been created. All your people have tattoos.’” The four men seized in the house raid, Vadym and his three friends, were taken away in the third week. They have not been seen or heard from since. Vasiliy thought they were being released and even told Vad ym to speak with his wife back in the village, saying she would help him with food for his toddler.But when he got home at the end of June, he was shocked to realize that he was the only one to have made it back. He got lucky when the leadership of the unit holding his smaller group changed and the detainees were suddenly turned out onto the street. Because of the fighting, they had to travel into Russia, where they were detai ned again, this time by officers of the Russian spy agency, the F.S.B., who Vasiliy said offe red him money and a job to work for them. He refused, and after three days, they let him go. “They probably realized that we were useless to them,” he said. Looking like a homeless man, with a large beard and unkempt hair, Vasiliy managed to borrow money from a friend of a friend to obtain new documents and travel through the Baltic countries and Poland back to Ukraine.
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Brittney Griner appeals conviction amid talk of prisoner swap
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ighteen children died in the fire that killed 41 people when it swept through a Coptic Orthodox church in a working-class neighborhood of Cai ro over the weekend, a spokesman for the church said Monday.TheRev.
A terrible toll in an Egyptian church fire: 18 children killed Brittney Griner, the American basketball star, leaving the courtroom in Khimki outside Moscow this month. She was found guilty of bringing illegal narcotics into the country. Fire damage at the Abu Sefein church in the Embaba district of Cairo on Sunday.
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The defense team for Brittney Griner, the Ameri can basketball star sentenced to prison in Russia on drug smuggling charges, said Monday that it had appealed the verdict as Russian diplomats began to speak more openly about a potential prisoner exchange with the United States.
The Biden administration has offered to free Bout in exchange for Griner and Whelan, according to people familiar with the proposal. Griner’s attorneys said earlier they could withdraw the appeal in case it would impe de the exchange process. The case of Griner, who was detained at a Rus sian airport in February and accused of carrying vape cartridges with hashish oil in her luggage, has become entangled in the deteriorating relations between Russia and the United States after Moscow’s invasion of Ukrai ne. This month, a Russian judge sentenced Griner to nine years in a penal colony. U.S. officials have said she was “wrongfully detained” and that her trial was politi callyAmotivated.dayafterthe verdict, the top diplomats of the Uni ted States and Russia said their governments were ready to negotiate the release of both the American basketball star and Whelan. The diplomats, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of Russia, said in separate news conferences that the nego tiations would be conducted through a channel establis hed by their two presidents.
The majority of the deaths and injuries resulted from smoke inhalation and the stampede, Egypt’s Health Mi nistryThesaid.blaze was the latest blow for Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority, which has long complained that government restrictions on the construction, renova tion and repair of churches have been part of a larger pattern of discrimination that has relegated them to se cond-class citizenship and left many of their houses of worship in disrepair.
The tragedy also raised questions in a country who se government has long been criticized over its lax safe ty standards and poor oversight. The country’s chief prosecutor, Hamada el-Sawy, said he had ordered an investigation into the fire.
Maria Blagovolina, a partner at the law firm that has represented Griner, confirmed the appeal of the verdict, which was reached this month by the Khimki City Court outside Moscow. The grounds of the appeal were not immediately clear. Griner’s legal team has said that the appeal, which was expected, would most likely take up to three months to be adjudicated. Russian officials have said that all legal avenues must be exhausted before a po tential exchange can be discussed. But over the weekend, Alexander Darchiev, a highranking Russian diplomat, said political negotiations with the United States were already underway, inclu ding discussion of Russians held by the United States whose release Moscow seeks in order to secure Griner’s freedom.“The discussion of the quite sensitive topic of pri soner exchange of Russian and American citizens has been ongoing along the channels set out by the two presidents,” Darchiev, director of the North American department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told TASS, a state news agency. One Russian whose release Moscow is seeking, Darchiev confirmed, is Viktor Bout, an imprisoned Russian arms dealer. Darchiev said that Griner as well as Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine convicted by a court in Moscow of espionage charges, have been dis cussed as potential candidates for an exchange.
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Moussa Ibrahim, spokesman of the Abu Sefein church in the Embaba district of Cairo, said all the children who died in the fire Sunday were 5 to 13 years old. Ibrahim said the fire originated with an electrical generator used at the church. He said he could provide no further details while the fire was under investigation.
Footage shared on social media and verified by The New York Times showed worshippers screaming for help as smoke poured from the building. Others were seen on the roof as the flames spread.
The fire broke out as worshippers gathered for a Mass in a small room of the church, where a generator was in use after a power cut. When the power came back on, witnesses said, the generator exploded, fo llowed by an air-conditioning unit, setting off a blaze that tore through the four-story church and started a stampede of churchgoers.
By RICHARD C. PADDOCK M yanmar’s ousted civilian lea der, Aung San Suu Kyi, is kept by herself in a prison cell measuring about 200 square feet. Daytime temperatures can surpass 100 degrees Fahrenheit, but there is no air conditioning. When it rains, which is often, water splashes in through win dows that have no coverings, according to two people with knowledge of her situation.Forthe foreseeable future, this is the life of the 77-year-old Nobel Peace laureate and onetime democracy icon.
Thinzar Wint Kyaw, a popular mo del, actress and singer with 1.6 million Instagram followers, was also arrested. The regime said it would continue hun ting online for others who offend the modesty the regime now demands of citizens.Human rights lawyer Kyi Myint said the regime was casting itself as safeguarding traditional morality in the deeply Buddhist country even as sol diers massacre civilians and rape wo men. “All dictators use religion and cul ture as a weapon to arrest people, so this is not a surprise,” he said. At the prison in Naypyitaw, Suu Kyi is kept isolated from other inmates when she is not attending her trials. Be fore court, she has 30 minutes to meet with her lawyers and co-defendants. Her trials are closed to the public, and the court has barred her lawyers from talking about her publicly. She is reported to be in good health overall but has gotten scabies and lost weight since entering prison. Mosqui toes plague her in her cell. But she is said to be taking her situation calmly. She also gets special treatment. Prison officials, apparently afraid that something might happen to her on their watch, have gone to unusual lengths to look after her. Her cell is unusually large for just one prisoner, especially in Myanmar’s overcrowded prison system. Three female staff members are assigned to attend to her and provide security. In addition to tasting her food, they are on standby to assist her at any time. While many inmates go without medical care even when facing lifethreatening illnesses, a doctor visits her weekly.The four corruption counts against her decided Monday centered on land and construction deals tied to the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation, an organization Suu Kyi founded in her mother’s name and which she headed until her arrest. The court found that she negotiated reduced payments to the government from the foundation worth more than $13 million. The court also ruled she violated the law when the foundation raised nearly $8 million from foreign donors and spent it on projects not ori ginallyDefendersadvertised.say the charges against her are trumped up to silence her. Suu Kyi is accustomed to spending long periods in isolation. Of the last 33 years, she has spent 17 in detention, mainly under house arrest. Now she confronts the possibility of spending her remaining years in custody. With Monday’s guilty verdicts, she has been convicted on 10 counts and sentenced to a total of 17 years in pri son. Still ahead are trials on nine more charges with a potential maximum sen tence totaling 122 years.
On Monday, a special court appointed by the military regime that detained her last year convicted Suu Kyi on four co rruption counts and added six years to her sentence, according to one of the people.She was already serving 11 years on half a dozen counts. Suu Kyi, who held the post of state counselor, was forced from office by the military and placed under house arrest in February 2021. In June, she was sent to a prison in Naypyitaw, the capital, after a courtroom was built the re for her trials. Allies bring her food and white-andbrown clothing so she doesn’t have to wear the louse-infested uniforms given to prisoners. Female staff come to her cell and taste her prison food to show her it isn’t poisoned, according to the two people with knowledge of her si tuation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. Suu Kyi is one of more than 15,000 people arrested for opposing military rule, and of these, 12,000 remain in detention, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. Many have been tortured in inte rrogation centers and sentenced by mi litary courts after brief trials at which defense attorneys and the public are barred. Convicted prisoners are often transferred to remote prisons, creating additional hardship for them and their families, said Aung Myo Kyaw, spokes man for the political prisoners group. He likened Myanmar to the closed, repressive society of North Korea un der its dictator, Kim Jong Un. “Anyone in Myanmar can be arrested at any time even for doing nothing related to poli tics,” he Aftersaid.hanging four pro-democracy activists last month, including popular activist Kyaw Min Yu and former hiphop artist and elected member of Par liament Phyo Zeya Thaw, the regime has promised more executions. Since the coup, more than 70 political priso ners have been sentenced to die. “If the death sentence was imposed according to the law, then, of course, the death sentence will be carried out,” the junta’s spokesman, Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun, said after the first executions. Journalists have also come under intensified scrutiny. At least 55 journa lists are now imprisoned, according to rights group Detained Journalist Infor mation Myanmar. Last month, reporter Ko Maung Maung Myo with the inde pendent Mekong News Agency was convicted of violating the counterterro rism law and sentenced to six years for possessing photos and interviews with a local guerrilla group. And Japanese documentary film maker Turo Kubota, 26, traveling on a tourist visa, was arrested after covering a protest. He faces seven years for in citing public unrest and violating immi gration rules. The junta recently began cracking down on behavior it deems inappro priate, arresting two well-known mo dels for posting explicit videos on subs cription website OnlyFans and a similar site,TheExantria.junta said the videos could harm Myanmar’s “culture and dignity” and were “without the modesty that should be maintained by Myanmar wo men,” state media reported. The mo dels face up to 15 years in prison. One of the models was Nang Mwe San, a former doctor whose medical li cense was revoked before the coup for posting photos of herself in bikinis and lingerie on Facebook. More recently, she criticized the junta for confiscating her passport — along with those of other celebrities — as she prepared to take her father to Bangkok for medical treatment. He died soon after.
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Protesters shout at security forces from behind a makeshift barrier in the Thaketa Township of Yangon, Myanmar, on March 28, 2021.
to learn more about how Donald Trump was using blueprints for the doomsday machine from “Dr. Strangelove” to impress his guests at Mar-a-Lago, let’s check in on America’s public health authorities. They were set free, 19 months ago, from Trump’s science-denying reign of error; presumably since then the rule of reason and competence has been restored. Sorry, I’m indulging in a little sarcasm. America’s response to COVID-19 went badly not just for Trumprelated reasons, but because of problems inherent to our public health edifice, from bureaucratic sclerosis to the ideological capture of putatively neutral institutions. All those problems have extended themselves across the Biden presidency, so that its Trust-the-Science restoration has only deepened a crisis of authority. I want to offer two examples. The first one is, at this point, relatively banal: the absurdity of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s at-long-last updated COVID-19 guidelines. In an ideal view of how expertise informs society, CDC guidelines would track the evolving nature of the pandemic closely and provide a road map back to normalcy.Inreality, the CDC has been consistently behind — behind evolving scientific knowledge, behind the curve of COVID’S evolution, behind how most Americans have already adapted. As my New York Times colleague Emily Anthes put it, gently, the new guidelines “effectively acknowledge the way many Americans have been navigating the pandemic for someExcept,time.” of course, in those institutions that still dutifully try to respect public health authority — like, say, the public schools that have been stuck trying to implement early-pandemic recommendations like the “6-feet rule,” or the “3 feet in masks in classrooms and 6 feet everywhere else” alternative, which the new guidelines finally jettisoned. The arbitrariness of those distances was widely understood even before the contagiousness of the delta variant made the rules still more absurd. Yet it’s taken a year, at least, for official science to finally catch up with the real thing. That lag is, at this point, more familiar than maddening. But it’s genuinely infuriating to see COVIDian patterns replaying with a completely different disease — the broadly non-fatal but stillpretty-terrible monkeypox epidemic, which the Biden administration just officially declared a public health emergency.
In each case what has been thrown over is neutrality — the idea that public health treats risky behaviors equally, regardless of what form of expression they represent. In June 2020 and again in June 2022, the message from important parts of public health officialdom has been that the rules bind only some groups — Orthodox Jews holding funerals, say, or parents hoping to find an open playground — while leaving others liberated if their political cause is just or the risk of stigma seems too high.
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S AN JUAN – El informe de COVID-19 del Departa mento de Salud (DS) reportó el lunes, sobre 525 ca sos positivos confirmados, 1,581 casos probables y una muerte. La persona fallecida fue una mujer de 80 años, de la re gión de Mayagüez. La mujer estaba sin vacunas al día. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 30 de julio de 2022 al 13 de agosto de 2022. La tasa de positividad bajó a 31.29 por ciento. Hay 321 adultos hospitalizados y de ellos, 46 están en intensivo. Mientras, 34 menores están hospitalizados y 1 está en intensivo. 21 adultos están en ventilador y 1 menor.Las personas con vacunas al día son 1,017,420 per sonas.El total de muertes atribuidas es de 4,853. Una muerte y 2,106 casos nuevos por COVID-19 según informe del DS Incendio en supermercado de Cataño
C ATAÑO – Personal del Negociado del Cuer po de Bomberos de Cataño, San Juan y la Di visión de Operaciones Especiales (DOE) de Hato Rey atienden este lunes, un fuego reportado en el área del almacén del supermercado JF Montalvo en el Barrio Amelia en Cataño. Exhortaron a las comunidades aledañas del área a tomar medidas de seguridad por la canti dad de humo en el área. Personal de Manejo de Emergencias Estatal y municipal de Cataño, Guaynabo, Bayamón y Toa Baja también trabajan la escena.
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S AN JUAN – Enactus Puerto Rico, organización dedicada la capacitación de los futuros líderes y emprendedores so ciales mediante una amplia red de estudiantes universitarios, facultad, empresas y comunidades; celebró su evento cumbre Social Enterprises – National Competition 2022 para elegir el campeón nacional. Más de 26 universidades y cientos de estudiantes se die ron cita en la competencia para celebrar un año de grandes esfuerzos, interactuar con sus mentores y competir ante un jurado de más 70 empresarios y líderes de organizaciones. En una agenda de intercambio, aprendizaje y motiva ción, los asistentes fueron testigos de la gran labor de los estu diantes – empresarios sociales – en una reñida competencia, en la que 5 finalistas defendieron sus proyectos. Se expusie ron 27 proyectos que compitieron en la ronda preliminar, además se realizó el conversatorio El cambio como agente catalizador de la innovación y progreso. Este año en la Competencia Nacional de Enactus Puerto Rico se seleccionó el equipo campeón que representará a la isla en la Copa Mundial 2022. Puerto Rico será, por primera vez, sede del evento mundial, que se llevará a cabo del 30 de octubre al 2 de noviembre.
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Las empresas Ford, Oriental, Walgreens y Puerto Rico Supplies otorgaron reconocimientos especiales a exalumnos y estudiantes distinguidos como el Social Enterprise en De sarrollo, los Retos de las Metas de Sustentabilidad Global y Premios a la Facultad del Año. Más acerca de la Copa Mundial Puerto Rico será la sede de la Copa Mundial Enactus 2022 por primera vez en la historia. El evento se celebrará del 30 de octubre al 2 de noviembre y es el escenario glo bal para mostrar el emprendimiento social y negocio de cada país participante. Una selección de entre más de 72 mil es tudiantes de 1,800 universidades, procedentes de 35 países, compiten por el Campeonato Mundial en el desarrollo de so luciones y empresas sociales en el marco de las 17 metas de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas. La celebración de la Copa Mundial en Puerto Rico generará un impacto directo sobre la economía del país que se estima sobrepase los $3 millones.Para obtener más información sobre Enactus y los equi pos que compiten en la Copa Mundial Enactus 2022, puede acceder a enactus.org/worldcup.
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“Celebrar la Copa Mundial en Puerto Rico es una opor tunidad única para nuestra comunidad empresarial, red edu cativa y la economía del país, por lo que estamos trabajando incansablemente para hacer de esta edición de la Copa una memorable, que muestre el acervo de talento con el que con tamos y que además continúe consolidando el liderato de Enactus en la isla,” compartió Rosa Hernández, presidenta de Enactus Puerto Rico en declaraciones escritas. Ante un auditorio de más de 300 asistentes, Jorge Pagán, director del Programa de Desarrollo de la Juventud del De partamento de Desarrollo Económico y Comercio (DDEC), reiteró el compromiso de la agencia de continuar apoyando a los jóvenes emprendedores puertorriqueños. “El entusiasmo y motivación de reunirse en la Compe tencia Nacional 2022, después de 2 años de eventos híbridos por el COVID-19, fue contagioso. Atestiguamos el potencial de estos proyectos y la efectividad de la nueva metodología de empresas sociales creada por Enactus”, destacó Rody Ri vera Rojas, director de Enactus Puerto Rico. Como resultado de la final, el equipo de Universidad de Puerto Rico en Mayagüez se proclamó campeón con su pro yecto Limitless, que brinda oportunidades de empleo a per sonas con diversidad funcional y Reco (Repurposed Coffee), una empresa social que utiliza los desechos de la harina de café como base para productos comerciales. El equipo subcampeón lo fue la Universidad Ana G. Méndez en Gurabo con su empresa social NutriBee-Eco, que desarrolla produc tos a base de miel de abeja, y trabaja programas educativos para la protección y desarrollo de las colmenas.
Heche was critically injured Aug. 5 when a Mini Cooper she was driving crashed into a two-story home in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, caus ing a fire that took firefighters more than an hour to extinguish. Heche, who was alone in the car, suffered burns and a se vere anoxic brain injury, caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain.
By RICHARD SANDOMIR Anne Heche, an actress who was as well known for her roles in films like “Six Days, Seven Nights” and “Donnie Brasco” as for her personal life, which included a three-year romance with comedian Ellen DeGeneres, died Sunday in Los Angeles, nine days after she was in a devastating car crash there. She wasHer53.death was announced by a rep resentative, Holly Baird, who said late Sunday in an email that Heche had been “peacefully taken off life support.”
“People wonder why I am so forth coming with the truths that have hap pened in my life,” Heche said in an in terview with the Times in 2009. “And it’s because the lies that I have been sur rounded with and the denial that I was raised in, for better or worse, bore a child of truth and love.” In 2018, she said she had been fired from a job at Miramax when she refused to give oral sex to Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced film magnate who founded the company with his brother, Bob, and who was accused of sexual assault by dozens of women. He was convicted of two fel ony sex crimes in 2020 and is serving a 23-year prison sentence. “If I wasn’t sexually abused as a child, I don’t know if I would have had the strength to stand up to Harvey — and many others, by the way,” she told the podcast “Allegedly … With Theo Von & Matthew Cole Weiss.” “It was not just Harvey, and I will say that.”
Heche wrote in her 2001 mem oir, “Call Me Crazy,” about being sexu ally abused by her father, and about her mother’s denial of that abuse. She said that when she called her mother after years of therapy to confront her about it, her mother ended the conversation by saying, “Jesus loves you, Anne,” before hanging up.
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The actress Anne Heche at the Directors Guild of America Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., in March.
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police said the department was continu ing to investigate whether drug use con tributed to the crash.
Heche was a soap opera star before she became known to movie audiences. In the late 1980s, soon after she gradu ated from high school, she joined the cast of the daytime drama “Another World,” where she played the good and evil twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love. She won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1991 for out standing younger actress in a drama se ries. By the mid-1990s, she was a rising star in Hollywood. She played Catherine Keener’s best friend in “Walking and Talk ing” (1996); Johnny Depp’s wife in “Don nie Brasco” (1997); a presidential aide in the political satire “Wag the Dog” (1997), with Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro; and a fashion magazine editor who crash-lands on a South Seas island in an airplane piloted by Harrison Ford in “Six Days, Seven Nights” (1998). “Romantic comedies don’t get more formulaic than this bouncing-screwball valentine, but they don’t get much more delightful, either,” Rita Kempley wrote in her review of “Six Days, Seven Nights” in The Washington Post. “The same goes for Heche and Ford as squabbling oppo sites drawn together during this tropical adventure.”Heche began a relationship with DeGeneres in 1997, at a time when samesex relationships in Hollywood were not fully accepted. The relationship became widely known in April of that year when they appeared, hand in hand, at the annu al White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington. A few days later, DeGe neres’ character on her sitcom, “Ellen,” came out as gay. Heche’s decision to reveal that she was in a lesbian relationship, The New York Times wrote, “confronted Hollywood with a highly delicate problem: how to deal with a gay actress whose career has been built on playing heterosexual roles.” After that relationship ended, Heche married and later divorced a man, Cole man Laffoon, with whom she had a son, Homer. She also had a son, Atlas Heche Tupper, from her relationship with actor JamesCompleteTupper. information on her survi vors was not immediately available. Heche told The New York Post in 2021 that she had been “blacklisted” in Hollywood because of her relationship with DeGeneres. “I didn’t do a studio picture for 10 years,” she was quoted as saying. “I was fired from a $10 million picture deal and did not see the light of day in a studio pic ture.”She appeared on Broadway in the play “Proof” from 2002 until it closed in 2003, then in the 2004 revival of “Twen tieth Century,” the 1932 comedy about a Broadway producer (Alec Baldwin) who, as a passenger on the Twentieth Century Limited train, meets a former discovery, Lily Garland (Heche), who has become a Hollywood star. The role earned Heche a Tony Award nomination for best perfor mance by a leading actress in a play. She appeared most recently in the films “The Vanished” (2020), a psycho logical thriller, and “13 Minutes” (2021), which centers on a tornado, as well as several episodes of the courtroom drama “All Rise.”Anne Celeste Heche was born May 25, 1969, in Aurora, Ohio, to Nancy and Donald Heche. Her father was an evan gelical Christian and, it turned out, a clos eted gay man. Her first acting role was in a New Jersey dinner theater production of “The Music Man,” which paid her $100 a week.In 1983, after her father died of AIDS, her mother became a Christian therapist and lectured on behalf of James Dobson’s organization Focus on the Fam ily about “overcoming” homosexuality.
A statement released by her publi cist on behalf of her family Thursday night said Heche had remained in a coma at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills Hospital in Los Angeles. “It has long been her choice to do nate her organs, and she is being kept on life support to determine if any are via ble,” the statement said. On Friday, a representative said Heche had been declared brain-dead Thursday night.
Anne Heche, actress known for ’90s film roles, dies at 53
“A lot of the Gen Z language, ‘gaslight’ and all that, some of that was cut, and we were like, ‘No, it has to stay in here,’” Herrold said. “Bodies Bodies Bodies” is one of a number of films from A24 to try to capture a generation — think “Spring Breakers” and “Lady Bird” before it — this time to the tune of Charli XCX’s “Hot Girl,” epitomizing the egotism of post, reply and repeat.This includes group chats. Comparable to cliques at a high school lunch table, the chat dictates who is in and out of the friend group. These chats hold political meanings, Sten berg said, and when Sophie strolls into the party without prop erly notifying the chat first, the house grows hostile.
Gen Zers rely heavily on digital spaces for self-expres sion, community building and news gathering, Stenberg not ed, but also face a sense of cognitive dissonance as they try to stay present in virtual life and reality. Indeed, said Sarah Bishop, a professor of communication studies at Baruch Col lege, “for them to be able to defamiliarize or step back from this massive presence in their life is asking them to do some thing impossible, right? It’d be like asking them to imagine liv ing without solid food.” Alice, played by Rachel Sennott (“Shiva Baby”), invites her 40-year-old Tinder match, Greg (Lee Pace), to the house party. In Reijn’s view, Greg serves as a bridge for older viewers: He tries to learn the rules of the game but uses sports analogies a dad might use, like “the best defense is a good offense,” and just bewilders the younger crew. For Reijn, who at 46 is a Gen Xer, Greg represented her personal detachment from Gen Z. “This goes, of course, for every generation that grows older; you always sort of lose touch,” she said.
From digital media addictions to gripping group chats, Stenberg said, “Bodies Bodies Bodies” doesn’t aim to classify social media as the villain but the mirror within us all.
Alip-locking close-up is the first we see of Sophie (played by Amandla Stenberg) and Bee (Maria Bakalova), her girlfriend of six weeks. Seemingly pulled from the pages of a fairy tale, Sophie confesses her love for Bee as they lie in a green meadow surrounded by nature. Within seconds, that affectionate scene gives way to a shot of the two absorbed in their phones as agitating dings and notifications dry up any remnants of intimacy or passion. These juxtaposed moments in the new satirical slasher “Bodies, Bodies, Bodies” ridicule the inability of its Genera tion Z characters to establish meaningful connections when a blinding screen forms a glaring barrier: “Sophie is expecting Bee to perform this intense level of vulnerability, even though she perhaps has not earned it,” Stenberg explained in a video call, “and I think that’s something that we expect now of ev eryone because we all perform vulnerability on the internet.”
“We have to think carefully and intentionally about how those tools can bring out and amplify the parts of us that are the scariest,” she said.
Still, Reijn wanted the film to be real and honest but also funny as each character shared the primal urge to belong when online usage swallows self-awareness. “I think we live in a time where we’re all very narcissis tic, because we’re constantly on the camera,” she said. “Right now, we’re constantly aware of how we look, and that is, of course, unprecedented, right? Normally, that was just actors or musicians, and now it’s all of us.” Despite the physical danger each character faces, their virtual realities remain central to the plot. As the lifelong friends, drunk and high, try to determine who the killer in the game is, Emma (Chase Sui Wonders) exclaims that her boy friend, David (Pete Davidson), is gaslighting her. David’s re sponse: The word is meaningless, and all she did was read the internet. Be more original. With the use of trauma-centered jargon such as “gas light,” “trigger,” “toxic” and “narcissist,” overuse can cheapen the language’s original value, Wonders said. “I think Gen Z has a brilliant, brilliant way of latching onto words, giving them so much beautiful meaning and hav ing it spread like wildfire across cultures,” she said, “and then have it swallowed by irony.”
Soon after arriving at the isolated mansion, Sophie, Bee and their friends play Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, a party game involving a mysterious killer the players must identify and vote off in each round. But when the power goes out amid a hur ricane, real bodies begin to fall. The characters’ behavior turns beastlike, Reijn said, and they forget how to respond to a crisis disconnected from the digital world. “We can totally live in the face of death and still speak about things that are so unimportant but are so big to us,” Reijn said. “I find that funny and tragic, of course, at the same time.”
Amandla Stenberg (Sophie) and Maria Bakalova (Bee) in “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” a horror film about a group of stranded friends.
“I’ve been in friend groups before where it’s a big deal if someone is removed from the group chat or someone is added,” she said, “and it’s this horrendous, toxic thing where someone’s presence can be physically determined.”
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Viewers can’t help but laugh at the friends’ misery as they take emotional stabs at one another. Sophie erupts about the double standard between Black and white drug users, but rather than admitting the disparity, Alice responds, “I’m an ally.” Or when Jordan (Myha’la Herrold) questions Sophie about ghosting the group chat, she responds, “You trigger me.” Herrold, who declared this her favorite scene, said the cast spent late hours editing and rewriting the sequence to make sure it remained relatable.
That’s one of several ways the film — about a group of privileged, internet-hungry 20-somethings stranded at a house party — tries to paint a portrait of the generation born within a few years before and after the millennium. Using humor, horror tropes and a cast of young stars, the film forces its char acters to reckon with their nondigital identities and pokes fun at their symbiotic relationship with cellphones, their jargon based in trauma and the despotlike force of the group chat. As director Halina Reijn said in a video call, “when the Wi-Fi goes out, it’s like they lose oxygen.”
Stenberg, star of “The Hate U Give” and the forthcom ing “Star Wars” series “The Acolyte,” served as an executive producer of the film and drew on her own experience with digital life. She said screenwriter Sarah DeLappe (a playwright known for “The Wolves”) embedded the script with so much wit that the moments of hypocrisy and vapidity became easy to create. “The point is not to say that Gen Z is not intelligent or sophisticated but, rather, to provide a commentary for how absurd the circumstances” are, Stenberg said. (DeLappe was not available for comment.) Among those moments, the partygoers, friends since childhood, playfully film TikToks over the Tyga-Curtis Roach anthem “Bored in the House” and rave about social media likes.
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“As a behaviorist,” Trevorrow said, “I would have to say very much that I’m in the camp of giving cats space to breathe and be outside.”But should cats have this much free dom? ‘We can only take so much animal out of them.’
In the United States, about 81% of domestic cats are kept inside, according to a 2021 de mographic study of pet cats. But elsewhere, it can be far more common to let them roam. In Denmark, only 17% of cats are strictly indoor pets, according to the same study. In Turkey, it is so common for feral cats to walk freely in and out of cafes, restaurants and markets that a documentary was made about the phenomenon. In Poland, they’ve recently been called an “invasive alien species.” And in Britain, where the 2021 study said that 74% of cat owners let their felines roam outside, many cat charities advise pet owners on the best ways to keep cats safe outdoors. The idea might be shocking to their American counterparts, which often refuse to adopt cats to people who want to keep their pets outside.“We’ve always done it that way,” said Nicky Trevorrow, a cat behaviorist at Cats Protection in Britain, which encourages own ers to bring cats in at night and feed them high-quality diets to deter predatory behavior.
During much of the 20th century, most cats stayed outside, said David Grimm, au thor of “Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Rela tionship With Cats and Dogs” and a deputy news editor at Science. The invention of kitty litter in 1947 made indoor cats more acceptable. “But even then, people considered cats the less domesticated animal,” Grimm said. “And no one wants to clean a litter box.” In 1949, the Illinois General Assem bly passed the “Cat Bill,” a measure aimed at protecting birds, which would have fined people who left their cats outdoors. Gov. Ad lai Stevenson vetoed the bill. “It is in the nature of cats to do a cer tain amount of unescorted roaming,” he said in a letter to legislators. “In my opinion, the State of Illinois and its local governing bod ies already have enough to do without trying to control feline delinquency.”
Trevorrow, the behaviorist in Britain, said people often fail to look at the larger threats facing birds, such as loss of habitat and the commercial use of pesticides that kill insects, the natural prey of birds.
Moreland Hills, Ohio on June 24, 2022. Wildlife conservationists and bird lovers blame outdoor cats for a decline in the bird population and the deaths of untold numbers of voles, chipmunks and other small animals.
It was not until around the 1980s and early ’90s that more Americans began bring ing their cats indoors, as conservationists warned of declining bird populations and veterinarians cautioned that an outdoor cat was more prone to diseases, parasites and infections, and could be vulnerable to at tacks from larger predators like coyotes and hawks, or speeding cars. But many owners have also felt con flicted about keeping a curious, restless crea ture inside, said Grimm, who has trained his own cats to walk on leashes when they’re outside.Keeping them inside “didn’t feel right,” he said. “Just like I wouldn’t keep my kids inside all day. We can only take so much ani mal out of Brennan,them.”Zeke’s owner, tried to keep him indoors at first. But he nipped heels, yanked at Brennan’s hair, and pounced so much that her teenage daughter locked her self in her room. “It’s an uneasy peace that you make,” Brennan, 65, said, “having an outdoor cat.”
A killer named Tibbles? Wildlife specialists often tell the story of Tibbles, a cat that traveled with her owner to New Zealand in 1894. The pair settled on Stephens Island, where a type of small, flightless bird abound ed. But when Tibbles arrived, she singlehandedly hunted the birds to extinction, con servationists have alleged. Where cats have been introduced, they have decimated native creatures, according to a 2011 study by biologists.
“I just feel like cats are used as a scape goat,” Trevorrow said.
By MARIA CRAMER Z eke, a white and gray short-haired cat with a penchant for taking down rats, is known in his Boston neighborhood as a fearless prowler. Once, a neighbor called his owner, Tri cia Brennan, sounding slightly panicked. “‘Zeke is in the back and seems to be antagonizing a raccoon,’” the neighbor said, according to Brennan, a Unitarian Universal ist minister.“‘What do I do?’” The showdown ended when the neigh bor scared off both creatures with a broom, but the story only cemented the legend of Zeke. It was also a reminder that cats are descendants of the Near Eastern wildcat, a fierce, solitary hunter. You’ve seen them out there — well-fed cats, sometimes with collars on, stalking the streets like they own them or collapsing on a warm sidewalk to loll in the sun. Cat lovers find them charming. Wildlife conservationists and bird lovers see furry kill ers and blame them for a decline in the bird population and the deaths of untold numbers of voles, chipmunks and other small animals. How you feel about outdoor cats may also depend on where you are in the world.
Jeff Goshe removes Catson, one of his family’s pets, from a hunt at their home in
“I feel pretty strongly that it is a pret ty devastating invasive species,” said Jason Luscier, an associate professor of biology at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York. He helped develop an app, called “Cat Tracker,” to get a more accurate reading on the num ber of outdoor cats around the world.
Luscier, who emphasized that he is fond of cats (“they’re super snuggly”), said it is colonies of feral cats, which multiply easily and can overwhelm an ecosystem, that are the bigger threat to birds and other wildlife, not outdoor domestic pets that come in at night and are fed regular meals. The best solution, he thinks, is to adopt feral cats, have them spayed or neutered and domesticate them, a policy pushed by the Wildlife Society. Can cats roam outside ‘without car nage’?
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in Britain said the decline in bird popu lations has been caused primarily by humanmade problems such as climate change, pol lution and agricultural management.
Trevorrow has written guides for cat owners who want to keep their pets outside and maintain a garden that will attract birds and other“Therepollinators.isaway to have both without carnage,” Trevorrow said.
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While there is evidence that cats may kill up to 27 million birds a year in Britain, “there is also evidence that cats tend to take weak or sickly garden birds,” said Anna Fee ney, a spokeswoman for the organization. “Cats are unlikely to have a major im pact on populations,” she said in an email.
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WHEREAS: For the purpose of the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on OCTO BER 12TH, 2022, AT 3:45 PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $225,090.77 and no lower offers will be accep ted. In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PU BLIC SALE shall be held on the OCTOBER 19TH, 2022, AT 3:45 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $150,060.51. lf said se cond public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the OC TOBER 26TH, 2022, AT 3:45 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $112,545.39. WHEREAS: The sale to be made by the appoin ted Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United Sta tes District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 6th of July of 2022. Beatriz Vázquez Solís, Special Master. LEGAL NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD. Plaintiff V. AURIEL COMPOSEDANDTORRESVAZQUEZ,RIVERASARAIALVELOTHECONYUGALPARTNERSHIPBYTHETWO Defendants Civil No.: 18-1447. (SCC). Re: MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE AND COLLECTION OF MO NIES. NOTICE OF SALE. To: AURIEL RIVERA VAZQUEZ, SARAI TORRES ALVELO AND THE MAYANDCOMPOSEDPARTNERSHIPCONJUGALBYTHEM,ALLPARTIESTHATHAVEANINTERESTINTHEPROPERTY.
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2021CV01396. Sala: 705. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Algua cil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 22 de abril de 2022, la Orden de Eje cución de Sentencia del 27 de junio de 2022 y el Mandamien to de Ejecución de Sentencia del 29 de junio de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 7 DE SEPTIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, lo calizada en el Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Sala Superior, en la Carretera Número Uno (PR 1), Intersección PR 189, Kilómetro 0.4, Barrio Bairoa, (Entrada norte Pueblo Caguas), Caguas, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de Amé rica, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Reparto Valencia no situada en el Barrio Mamey del término municipal de Jun mo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta pro piedad pesa el siguiente grava men posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende eje cutar: Aviso de Demanda: Plei to seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Sucesión de Rafael Maldonado Lugo com puesta por Rafael Maldonado Santos, Fulano y Mengano de Tal, Melba E. Santos Vázquez también conocida como Melba Eneris Santos Vázquez y como Melba Eneri Santos Vázquez, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el Caso Civil Nú mero CG2021CV01396, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un ba lance de $9,899.40 y otras can tidades, según Demanda de fecha 10 de junio de 2021. Ano tada al Tomo Karibe de Juncos. Anotación B. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su su cesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a prote ger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesa dos que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipote ca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas la borables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un pe riódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos re queridos por ley. 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 que la propiedad a ser ejecuta da se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. Y para el conoci miento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes inte resadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos corres pondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 19 de julio de 2022. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXI LIAR, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA GUAS, SALA SUPERIOR. LEGAL NOTICE cos, Puerto Rico, que se descri be en el plano de inscripción de dicha urbanización con el nú mero, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Número del solar: Cinco (5) del bloque “M”. Área del solar: 306.51 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 7.902 metros con Calle Número Cinco (#5); por el SUR, en 14.025 me tros, con el solar número siete (#7) y el solar número ocho (#8) del bloque M; por el ESTE, en 21.668 metros con la Calle A; por el OESTE, en 25.00 me tros, con el solar número cuatro (#4) del bloque M; y por el NO RESTE, en 5.530 metros, con la intersección de las Calles A y Cinco (5). Sobre este solar enclava una casa de concreto reforzado destinada a vivienda para una familia. Inscrita al folio 51 del tomo 206 de Juncos, Fin ca Número 8008, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. La hipoteca consta inscrita como asiento abreviado al folio 1050 del tomo 450 de Juncos, Finca Número 8008, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. Inscripción sexta. Dirección Física: Urb. Reparto Valenciano, M5 Calle 5, Barrio Mamey, Juncos, PR 00777. Número de Catastro: 49-227031-242-05-001. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $72,800.00. De no haber adju dicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 14 DE SEP TIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la prime ra subasta, o sea, $48,533.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 21 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MA ÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mi tad del precio pactado, o sea, $36,400.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $9,899.40 de princi pal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.875% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2020 hasta su completo pago, más $1,331.03 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $7,280.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del présta
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WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $126,500.00 of principal balance of the mortga ge note, plus interest at a rate of 6.00% per annum since April 1st, 2017, over said balance. Interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full in accordance with the tenants of 28 U.S.C. sec 1691. In addition, the defendant owes Plaintiff late charges amounting to 5.000% of any and any payments or installments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the ins tallment is due. The defendant also owes Plaintiff pursuant to the provisions or dispositions of all of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. Advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortga ge deed. The defendant also owes the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% of the origi nal principal balance as liquida ted amount to cover the costs, expenses and attorney fees. The record of the case and of the proceedings may be exa mined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by in ternet accessing https://ecf.prd. uscourt.gov.
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WHEREAS: Pur suant to the terms of the afo rementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging to Defendants will be sold at a public auction: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número trece (13) del proyecto de renovación urbana conocido como Vista Alegre, localizado en el Barrio Pájaros de la municipalidad de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área de cuatrocientos seis punto treinta y seis (406.36) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar treinta y siete (37), en quince punto cuarenta y siete (15.47) metros y terrenos de Juan Toro Pérez, en dieciocho punto trein ta y seis (18.36) metros; por el SUR, con la calle A, en dis tancia curvilínea en seis punto treinta y siete (6.37) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número doce (12), en dieciocho punto noventa y tres (18.93) metros; y por el OESTE, el solar número catorce (14), en treinta y uno punto noventa y dos (31.92) metros. The property is iden tified as land number 14,919, recorded at page number 126 of volume number 331 of Ba yamón, in the Registry of the Property, Section of Bayamón l. Physical Address: Ubr. Mansion del Mar, 179 MM Via Azure, Toa Baja, PR 00949. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof. lt is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. lt shall be unders tood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, inclu ding but not limited to any pro perty tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood fur ther that the successful bidder accepts then and is subroga ted in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward their cance llation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. NOW THEREFO RE, public notice is hereby gi ven that the appointed Special Master on the will celebrate the judicial sale in the dates and time set forth below, in front of Federico Degetau Federal Buil ding and Clemente Ruiz Naza rio United States Courthouse gates, at 150 Chardón Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1st, Floor in accordance with 28 U.S.C. §2001, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein. The proceeds of said sale will be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. WHEREAS: For the purpose of the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on OCTO BER 12TH, 2022, AT 3:00 PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $127,784.98 and no lower offers will be accep ted. In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PU BLIC SALE shall be held on the OCTOBER 26TH, 2022, AT 3:00 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $85,189.99. lf said se cond public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the OC TOBER 26TH, 2022, AT 3:00 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $63,892.49. WHEREAS: The sale to be made by the appoin ted Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United Sta tes District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 6th of July of 2022. BEATRIZ VÁZQUEZ SO LÍS, SPECIAL MASTER. LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA GUAS SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE ENERIMALDONADOMALDONADOMALDONADOMALDONADORAFAELMALDONADORAFAELLUGOCOMPUESTAPOR:MALDONADOSANTOS,GABRIELSANTOS,LORAIMAMICHELLEBURGOS,BÁRBARAYASLINBURGOS,RAFAELEDGARDOFONSECA,MENGANODETAL,POSIBLEHEREDERODESCONOCIDO,MELBAE.SANTOSVÁZQUEZT/C/CMELBAENERISSANTOSVÁZQUEZT/C/CMELBASANTOSVÁZQUEZENLACUOTAVIUDALUSUFRUCTUARIA
LEGAL NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD Plaintiff V. GEORGETTE MARIE PEREZ DE VARONA Defendants Civil No.: 19-1290 FAB. Re: MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE IN REM. NOTICE OF SALE. To: GEORGETTE MARIE PEREZ DE VARONA AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.
WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $234,608.76 of principal balance of the mortga ge note, plus interest at a rate of 4.250% per annum since December 1st, 2014, over said balance. Interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full in accordance with the tenants of 28 U.S.C. sec 1691. In addition, the defendant owes Plaintiff late charges amoun ting to 5.000% of any and any payments or installments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the installment is due. The defendant also owes Plain tiff pursuant to the provisions or dispositions of all of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. Advances made by Plain tiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortga ge note and mortgage deed. The defendant al so owes the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% of the original principal balance as liquidated amount to cover the costs, expenses and attorney fees. The record of the case and of the procee dings may be examined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by internet accessing https: https://eef.prd.uscourts. gov, the will celebrate the judi cial sale in the dates and time set forth below, in front of Fede rico Degetau Federal Building and Clemente Ruiz Nazario United States Courthouse ga tes, at 150 Chardón Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1st, Floor in accordance with 28 U.S.C. §2001, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein. The proceeds of said sale will be applied in the manner and forro provided by the Court’s Judgment.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HATILLO PUERTOFIRSTBANKRICO Parte Demandante Vs. CARLOS MARTINEZJAVIERMATOS Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AR2021CV00564. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: CARLOS JAVIER MARTINEZ MATOS: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: El Alguacil que suscribe, cer tifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Se cretaría del Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia, Sala Superior de Camuy, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor pos tor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subas tas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribu nal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cual quiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar marcado con la letra A guion tres en el Plano de Inscripción sustituto para la lotificación de la finca propie dad de Rafael Ramírez, antes, hoy de las Palmas Construc tion Corporation, que ubica en el Barrio Carrizales de Hatillo, Puerto Rico, compuesto de qui nientos metros cuadrados con treinta y ocho céntimos de me tro cuadrados, con las siguien tes medidas y colindancias: NORTE, en treinta metros con cuarenta y cuatro centímetros, con el solar A guion cuatro; por el SUR, en treinta metros con sesenta y siete céntimos con el solar A guion dos; por el ESTE, en dieciséis metros con treinta y cinco céntimos con calle en la finca y que corre de Norte a Sur; y por el OESTE, en dieci séis metros con treinta y cinco céntimos, con finca de Pedro Adrover. Consta inscrita al folio 89 del tomo 106 de Hatillo, fin ca número 4,694. Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Segun da de Arecibo. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está locali zada en la siguiente dirección: Urbanización Las Palmas, A-3 Calle Mafil, Hatillo, Puerto Rico 00659-2808. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se
WHEREAS: On September 13, 2019, Default Judgment was entered and grated on August 30, 2021, in favor of Plaintiff to recover from defen dants the principal amount of $207,886.20 plus interest at a rate of 2.5% per annum since May 1st, 2017, which continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full, late charges on the amou nt of 5.00% of each and any monthly installment not recei ved by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due, all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance pre miums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount $19,000.00 to cover, costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed un der the mortgage obligations. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Offi ce Building, 150 Chardon Ave nue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
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Yo, HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍ GUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ca rolina a los demandados, acreedores y al público en ge neral con interés sobre la pro piedad que más adelante se dante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: 158,439.84, con interés al 5.060% anual, por concepto de balance principal del préstamo más intereses acumulados a la fecha de 30 de abril de 2021 cuales continúan acumulándo se, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma 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 40 otorgada el día 15 de abril de 2013, San Juan Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Roberto Soto Tapia y consta inscrita al folio 136 del tomo 1,036 de Carolina finca número 4,776, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina Sección I de Caroli na. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan ins critos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscrip ción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o dere chos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipo tecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se cele brarán las subastas en las fe chas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abo gado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. En tiéndase: Hipoteca revertida, en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su or den, por la suma principal de $187,500.00, con intereses al 5.060% anual, vencedero el día 27 de abril de 2086, constituida mediante la escritura número 41, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de abril de 2013, ante el notario Rober to Soto Tapia, e inscrita al folio 136 del tomo 1,036 de Caroli na, finca número 4,776, inscrip ción 17ma. Que la cantidad mí nima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $187,500.00 según se estable ce en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de describe, y al público en gene ral, por la presente CERTIFI CO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONS TAR: Que el día 6 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:45 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 3 de diciembre de 2021. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento incoado, estarán de ma nifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudi cación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propie dad, el día 13 DE SEPTIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:45 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudica ción, se celebrará una TERCE RA SUBASTA el día 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:45 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes in dicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecu ción de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 16 de febrero de 2022, proce deré a vender en pública su basta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: UR BANA: Solar marcado con el numero setecientos setenta y tres (773) del Bloque “O” del Plano de Inscripción de la Urba nización Vistamar, Tercera Ex tensión, situada en el Barrio Sabana Abajo de la municipali dad de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos noventa y nueve metros cuadrados (299.00 m.c.), en lindes por el NORTE, en trece metros (13.00), con el solar número ochocientos nue ve (809); por el SUR, en trece (13.00) con la Calle W de dicha Urbanización; por el ESTE, en veintitrés metros (23.00), con el solar número setecientos se tenta y cuatro (774); y por el OESTE, con el solar setecien tos setenta y dos (772), distan cia de veintitrés metros (23.00). Enclava casa de vivienda de concreto, de una planta. Finca número 4,776, inscrita al folio 43 del tomo 133 de Carolina. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Caro lina. Dirección de la Propiedad: Vistamar, castellon St., #773, carolina PR 00983. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfa cer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte deman
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WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution the reof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. curren cy in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the Court, Room 150 or 400 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property described in Spanish: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Town Park, situa do en el Barrio Sabana Llana de Río Piedras, del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el pla no de inscripción de la Urbani zación, con el número diez (10) de la manzana “D” con un área de cuatrocientos cincuenta y cinco/punto cero cero metros cuadrados (455.00). En lindes por el NORTE, con los solares número veintisiete (27) y vein tiocho (28), distancia de quince punto treinta metros (15.30); por el SUR, con la calle núme ro tres (3), distancia de quince punto treinta metros (15.30); por el ESTE, con el solar nú mero once (11), distancia de veintinueve punto setenta me tros (29.70); y por el OESTE, con el solar número nueve (9), distancia de veintinueve punto setenta y seis metros (29.76). Enclava una casa. The property is recorded at Page 161 of Vo lume 252 of Sabana Llana, Pro perty Registry of Puerto Rico, and lot number 11,253, Fifth Section of San Juan. Property address: Urbanización Town Park Dev., D-10 Calle Santiam, San Juan, P.R. 00925. The mortgage is recorded at page 89 of volume 1,055 of Saba na Llana, lot number 11,253, eighteen inscription. WHE REAS: This property is subject to the following liens described in Spanish: Junior Liens: Au toridad para el Financiamien to de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico: Programa de Mi Nuevo Hogar, sujeto a Condiciones Restrictivas, para viabilizar la adquisición del bien inmueble, la Autoridad para el financia miento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico le concedió la suma de $9,500.00, según consta de la escritura número 190, otorgada en San Juan, el día 13 de junio de 2011, ante la Notario Público Waleska C. Colón Villanueva, para sufragar los gastos de cierre y/o para aplicar el pronto pago de la compraventa, ins crita al folio 88 del tomo 1,055 de Sabana Llana, finca núme ro 11,253, Inscripción 17ma.. Estas condiciones tendrán una vigencia de diez (10) años. Po tential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and pre ferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancella tion. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 6TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER OF 2022, AT: 10:05 AM. The minimum bid that will be accep ted is the sum of $190,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 13TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER OF 2022, AT: 10:05 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $126,666.67, which is twothirds of the amount of the mini mum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 20TH DAY OF SEPT EMBER OF 2022, AT: 10:05 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $95,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the third public sale, the property may be awarded to the credi tor for the entire amount of its debt if it is equal to or less than the amount of the minimum bid of the third public sale, credi ting this amount to the amount owed if it is greater. The un dersigned Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHE REAS: Said sale to be made by the undersigned Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an or der shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further parti culars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be exa mined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, 22nd day of July of 2022. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, 787-672-8269. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA
que el inmueble a ser subasta do no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $125,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebra ción de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $93,750.00. La pro piedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en mo neda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá dili genciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerra dura o candado que dé acceso adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se es tablece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $102,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #18, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de enero de 2010, ante la notario Waleska C. Colón Vi llanueva, inscrita al folio 175 del tomo 428 de Hatillo, finca #4,694, inscripción 7ma y últi ma. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 14 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Camuy, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $102,000.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni ad judicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 21 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la pri mera subasta, o sea, la suma de $68,000.00. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 28 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑA NA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la terce ra subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $51,000.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal de $82,766.73 más intereses a razón de 5.0% anual, desde el 1ro de marzo de 2020, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se correspon den a los plazos atrasados des de la fecha anteriormente indi cada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quin ce (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y con tribuciones, entre otros; más la suma equivalente a $10,200.00 estipulada para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipote cario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares pú blicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación gene ral en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continua rán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procede rá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de confor midad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal po drá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lan zamiento del ocupante u ocu pantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Camuy, Puerto Rico, a 22 de julio de 2022. WILFREDO OLMO SALAZAR, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, ALGUACIL PLACA #657. LEGAL NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD. Plaintiff V. JEAN ROSARIOCARLOSMATOS Defendants Civil Action Num.: 18-cv-1601. (JAG). Matter: COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLO SURE. NOTICE OF SALE. To: JEAN PUERTOELAUTORIDADROSARIOCARLOSMATOS:PARAFINANCIAMIENTODELAVIVIENDADERICO:ANDTHEGENERALPUBLIC:
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Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE GEORGINA ORTIZ AYALA, T/C/C GEORGINA ORTIZ TORRES, T/C/C AYALA,CARMENORTIZ-TORRES,T/C/CORTIZ-TORRES,GEORGINAGEORGINAT/C/CGEORGINAORTIZCOMPUESTAPORLYDIAORTIZAYALA,FÉLIXORTIZMARÍAESTHERORTIZAYALA,SAHARAORTIZAYALA;CENTRODERECAUDACIÓNDEINGRESOSMUNICIPALES;YALOSESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMÉRICA Civil CA2020CV00972. Sala: 404. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SU BASTA. PÚBLICO GENERAL.EN A: SUCESIÓN DE GEORGINA ORTIZ AYALA, T/C/C GEORGINA ORTIZ TORRES, T/C/C AYALA,CARMENORTIZ-TORRES,T/C/CORTIZ-TORRES,GEORGINAGEORGINAT/C/CGEORGINAORTIZCOMPUESTAPORLYDIAORTIZAYALA,FÉLIXORTIZMARÍAESTHERORTIZAYALA,SAHARAORTIZAYALA;CENTRODERECAUDACIÓNDEINGRESOSMUNICIPALES;YALOSESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMÉRICA.
DEMANDANTE: 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) rdiaz@bdprlaw.com523-2664 Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 9 de agosto de 2022. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LYDIA E. RIVERA MIRANDA, SECRETARIA AU XILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN GERMÁN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO FRANCISCOOLIVERACASIANOT/C/CCASIANOT/C/CFRANCISCOCASIANOOLIVIERACOMPUESTAPOR:GABRIELENRIQUECASIANOMERCADO,ANGÉLICAMARÍACASIANOMERCADO,FRANCESYVONNECASIANOMERCADO,FULANOYMENGANODETAL,POSIBLESHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOS,IVONNEMERCADOROMÁN Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SG2022CV00164. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: GABRIEL ENRIQUE CASIANO MERCADO, COMO HEREDERO DE 00637-2624,ÚLTIMASFRANCISCOCASIANOFRANCISCOOLIVERAT/C/CFRANCISCOCASIANOT/C/CCASIANOOLIVIERAASUSDIRECCIONESCONOCIDAS:URB.ALTURASDESANJOSÉ,MM12CALLE18,SABANAGRANDE,PR329KATLIANST.,SITKA,AK99835-7504,URB.PARCELASMAGINAS,220CALLEROBLES,SABANAGRANDEPR00637-2127.FULANOYMENGANO
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LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA MUNICIPAL DE SAN JUAN CARIBECREDITFEDERALUNION Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN EDWIN MEDINA PANETOMEDINAJOCELYNCOMPUESTAVÁZQUEZ,PORANNETTEPANETO,CELIAGUZMÁN,JOHNDOYYRICHARDDOE Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV06112. Sala: 802. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA 60). EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: JOHN DOE / RICHARD DOE POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y se le notifica que una Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero ha sido presentada en su contra. Se les advierte que el presente Edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y se le requiere para que contesten la Demanda de epígrafe den tro de los treinta (30) días si guientes a la publicación del edicto, radicando el original de su contestación en el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de la misma a la par te demandante a la siguiente dirección: BUFETE APONTE & CORTES LCDA. ERIKA MORALES MARENGO PO Box 195337 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919 Tel. (787) 302-0014 / (787) 239-5661 Email: emarengo@apontecortes.com 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: SECRETARIAADELLESECRETARIADAdeynitadoconcediendodictarnopropio.queramajudicial.pr/sumac/,https://unired.salvosepresenteporderechoSeleapercibequedehacerlo,eltribunalpodráSentenciaenrebeldíaelremediosolicienlademanda,sincitarleoírle.ExpedidobajomifirmasellodelTribunal,hoydía8agostode2022.GRISELRODRÍGUEZCOLLADO,REGIONAL.RIVERAAPONTE,AUXILIAR. DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION,INC. Vs. SHELLIA DESCONOCIDOSTAL,FULANOJENKINSLAVONIAWARD;YSUTANADECOMOMIEMBROSDELASUCESIONDECECILEDWARDWARD
Demandada Civil Núm.: VB2022CV00237. 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: SHELLIA LAVONIA JENKINS WARD; FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO DESCONOCIDOSMIEMBROSDELASUCESIÓNDECECILEDWARDWARD.
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 por la Vía Ordinaria. Se les emplaza y se les requiere que notifi quen a GARRIGA & MARINI LAW OFFICES, C.S.P., P.O. Box 16593, San Juan, Puer to Rico 00908-6593, teléfono (787) 275-0655, telefax (800) 481-7130, copia de su contes tación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Ma nejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acce der utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se representen por derecho pro pio, en cuyo caso deberán pre sentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. Si dejaren de con testar podrá anotarse la rebel día y dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en rebeldía conce diéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarles ni oírlos. Se les ordena además a que dentro del mismo término legal de treinta (30) días con tados a partir de la publicación del presente edicto, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponde en la herencia de Cecil Edward Ward. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expre sarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por acep tada. También se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencio nados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalados contados a partir de la fecha de la notifica ción de la presente Orden y pu blicación, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del cau sante y, por consiguiente, res ponden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, Ley Núm. 55-2020. EXTENDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, a tenor con la Orden del Tribunal hoy día 8 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SAN TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARITZA ROSA RIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FA JARDO SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE SOKI CARABALLO CARABALLO,DELILAHCOMPUESTARÍOS;PORBONANONATHASHABONANOCARABALLOYNADELAYSHKA cripción y localización: URBA NA: Solar radicado en la Urba nización Luquillo Mar, situada en los Barrios Sabana y Mata de Plátano del término muni cipal de Luquillo, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización con el número cuarenticinco del Bloque DD, con un área de cua trocientos cuarenticuatro punto cero cero metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en treinta punto cero cero metros con el solar DD cuarenticua tro de dicha Urbanización; por el SUR, en treinta punto cero cero metros con el solar DD cuarentiseis de dicha Urbani zación; por el ESTE, en catorce punto ochenta metros con los solares DD sesentisiete y DD trece de dicha Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en catorce punto ochenta metros con la Calle A de dicha Urbanización. Contie ne una casa de concreto dise ñada para una familia. Inscrita al folio 15 del tomo 125, finca #6,969 de Luquillo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. Por la pre sente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la deman da incoada en su contra den tro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Además, en cuanto a la interpelación de los herederos del causante, a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a par tir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2787 de no expre sarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por acep tada. También se le APERCIBE a los herederos antes mencio nados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a par tir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presu mirá que han aceptado la he rencia del causante y, por con siguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia con forme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2785. Usted deberá presen tar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: mandanteLosción,elcualquierdiosudictarridociónpresentarrechosalvounired.rarnajudicial.pr/sumac/,https://queserepresentepordepropio.Siusteddejadeynotificarsualegaresponsivadentrodelrefetérmino,elTribunalpodrásentenciaenrebeldíaencontrayconcederelremesolicitadoenlaDemanda,ootro,sielTribunal,enejerciciodesusanadiscreloentiendeprocedente.abogadosdelapartedeson: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE INGRESOSPOSIBLESRICHARD“JOHNCARABALLO,DOEYROE”COMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSDEDICHASUCESIÓN;CENTRODERECAUDACIONESDEMUNICIPALES(CRIM) Civil Núm.: FA2022CV00704. 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$63,509.21 adeudada por el contribuyente Gonzalo Falcón; siendo anotado el mismo para garantizar el pago de la deuda aplazada de conformidad con las disposiciones de la Ley 8 del 10 de abril del 1964 y el mis mo no se cancelará hasta la extinción total de la deuda apla zada; todo según consta de Certificación del 20 de agosto del 2008. Inscrita en virtud de las disposiciones de la Ley 216 para Agilizar el Registro de la Propiedad de 2010 y extendi das las líneas el 5 de diciembre de 2017 al folio 5293 del Tomo 1793 de Caguas, inscripción 9ª abreviada.
(iv) ANOTACIÓN DE EMBARGO a favor del Depar tamento de Hacienda por la suma principal de $103,442.42 por concepto de Contribuciones (Embargo Número CAG-150818) según consta de Certifi cación del Departamento de Hacienda del 19 de marzo del 2015. Inscrito el 16 de marzo del 2021 al Tomo Digital Karibe de la finca 48436, Anotación “B”. (v) EMBARGO a favor de Estado Libre Asociado De Puerto Rico contra Gonzalo Falcón Caro, seguro social nú mero xxx-xx-7961, expedido mediante Certificación del 20 de agosto de 2008 por el De partamento de Hacienda, por la suma de $63,509.00. Anotado el 24 de noviembre de 2008 al folio 101, orden 426, del Libro 44 de Embargos Estatales de Caguas. Este embargo es ano tado al amparo de las disposi ciones de la Ley 8 del 10 de abril de 1964 y el mismo no se cancelará hasta la liquidación total de la deuda aplazada. (vi) EMBARGO a favor de Estado Libre Asociado De Puerto Rico contra Gonzalo Falcón Caro, seguro social número xxxxx-7961, expedido mediante Certificación del 19 de marzo de 2015 por el Departamento de Hacienda, por la suma de $103,442.42. Anotado el 10 de abril de 2015 al folio 136, orden 538, del Libro 44 de Embargos Estatales de Caguas. La hipo teca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sen tencia dictada el 23 de marzo de 2022 por este Tribunal, a fa vor de la parte demandante por la suma $104,074.97 de princi pal, más $9,106.50 de interés al 7% anual que continuarán acu mulándose a $19.9594 diaria mente desde el 1 de noviembre de 2019 hasta el saldo total, $1,747.36 de cargos por demo ra, $625.00 de otros cargos, $25,920.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, in cluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. Previamente la parte demanda da presentó petición de quiebra ante el Tribunal de Quiebras. En la corte de quiebra se autori zó a la parte demandante para que ejecute la garantía hipote caria del préstamo. Habiéndose autorizado, no hay impedimen to alguno para que Oriental so licite la ejecución de la hipoteca y la venta en pública subasta de la propiedad. Oriental no está solicitando el cobro de di nero a la parte demandada, sino la ejecución de la hipoteca para que se venda la propiedad en pública subasta. Es decir, Oriental no perseguirá deficien cia, si alguna resultare de la subasta. Oriental reconoce que cualquier deficiencia, si alguna como resultado de la subasta, ha sido objeto de descargo pre viamente. La PRIMERA SU BASTA será celebrada el día 12 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $259,200.00, sin admitirse ofer ta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SE GUNDA SUBASTA el día 19 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $172,800.00. Si no hubiese re mate ni adjudicación en la se gunda subasta, celebraré TER CERA SUBASTA el día 26 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $129,600.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación de berá hacerse para pagar su im porte en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuer do con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento in coado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal du rante horas laborables. Se en tiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta seña lada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o grava men anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continua rá subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mis mos, sin destinarse a su extin ción cualquier parte del rema nente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acree dores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o dere chos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecu tada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipo tecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédi to, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados ase gurados, quedando subroga dos en los derechos del acree dor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la su basta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura públi ca de traspaso en representa ción del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el no tario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abo nar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adju dicación. Si transcurren los re feridos veinte (20) días, el tribu nal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedi miento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocu pante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocu pen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edic to bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 4 de agosto de 2022. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, AL GUACIL PLACA #593, TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.
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Queden emplazados, notifica dos e interpelados, que en este Tribunal se ha radicado De manda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca de la que surge lo siguiente: Que se ha incumplido con las cláusulas de la escritura de hipoteca ob jeto de ejecución por haberse dejado de pagarlas mensuali dades vencidas desde el día 1ro de agosto de 2020, adeu dándosele a la parte deman dante la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a: $96,088.46 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 5.00%, anual desde el 1ro de julio de 2020, 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 $11,385.00 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
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(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 3 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 Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 8 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MA RITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA PUERTOFIRSTBANKRICO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01699. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: SUCESIÓN DE NELSON RAMÓN MARTÍNEZCOMPUESTACANDELARIO,PORSUSHIJOSLUISALBERTOMARTÍNEZSCUOTTOYDAVIDERNESTOMARTÍNEZSCUOTTO;FULANODETALYZUTANODETAL,COMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSCONPOSIBLEINTERÉS. LA SECRETARIA que suscribe
Demandado(a) Civil: BY2021CV04392. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
IDENTIDADCASIANOFRANCISCOFRANCISCODESCONOCIDOSHEREDEROSPOSIBLESDECASIANOOLIVERAT/C/CCASIANOT/C/CFRANCISCOOLIVIERACONYDIRECCIÓNDESCONOCIDA.
Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega se adeu da las siguientes cantidades: $25,252.81 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.99% anual desde el 18 de agosto de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $912.77 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deu da, más la cantidad estipulada de $6,700.00 para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: UR BANA: Solar identificado con el número 12 del bloque MM localizado en la calle número 18 en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Alturas de San Jose, localizado en el Barrio Santana del término municipal de Sabana Grande, con una cabida superficial de 392.00 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE: en 14.00 metros con calle número 18; por el SUR: en 14.00 metros con Par que Pasivo y lote número LL-1; por el ESTE: en 28.00 metros con lote número 13; y por el OESTE: en 28.00 metros con lote número 11. Este solar está afectado en el lado Norte con servidumbre de 1.50 metros de ancho a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. Enclava residencia en hormigón arma do y bloques que consta de 3 dormitorios, un baño, sala, co medor, cocina, laundry, balcón y marquesina. Inscrita al folio 37 del Tomo 224 de Sabana Grande, Finca 12281. Registro de la Propiedad de San Ger mán. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 37 del Tomo 224 de Sabana Gran de, Finca 12281. Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. Inscripción tercera. La deman dante es tenedora por endoso, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. Se interpela a los demandados para que acepten o renuncien a la heren cia de los causantes dentro de los 30 días subsiguientes a la fecha que fuesen emplazados o requeridos que contesten, para darle cumplimiento el Artí culo 1578 del nuevo Código Ci vil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. § 11021, entendiéndose que, si no se expresan dentro de di cho término, aceptan el caudal relicto; la renuncia se hará por instrumento público o por escri to judicial. 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. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radi cando el original de la contes tación en este Tribunal y en viando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte de mandante, Lcda. Belma Alon so García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922, Tels. (787)7891826 y (787)708-0566, correo electrónico:
Demandante V. JAIME BRANA TORRES, SU ESPOSA VIDALINA LIZARDI REYES Y LA SOC. LEGAL DE BIENESCOMPUESTAGANANCIALESPORAMBOS
INGRESOSCOMPUESTACANDELARIO,MARTÍNEZPORSUSHIJOSLUISALBERTOMARTÍNEZSCUOTTOYDAVIDERNESTOMARTÍNEZSCUOTTO;FULANODETALYZUTANODETAL,COMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSCONPOSIBLEINTERÉS;CENTRODERECAUDACIONESDEMUNICIPALES
A: BIENESSTEWARDJACKSONCAMPOSGARCIA,IVELISSITURRINOPALOMOYLASOCIEDADDEGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS.
y según Orden y Mandamiento del 13 de julio de 2022, librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque cer tificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Las Lomas, situada en el Barrio Gobernador Piñero, (antes Mo nacillos) de Río Piedras, que se describe en el plano con el nú mero dieciocho (18) de la man zana V-3, con un área de dos cientos noventa y cuatro metros cuadrados con cuarenta y dos centésimas de metro cuadrado, (294.42 m.c.), en lindes por el NORTE, que es su frente, con la calle número treinta y cua tro, distancia de doce metros; por el SUR, con los solares número veintiséis y veintisiete, distancia de doce metros con un centímetro; por el ESTE, con el solar número diecinue ve, distancia de veinticuatro metros con ochenta y seis centímetros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número diecisiete, distancia de veinticuatro metros con veintiún centímetros. Sobre este solar enclava o está en proceso de construcción, una casa de hormigón, que contie ne sala-comedor, cocina, baño, tres habitaciones y balcón. FINCA NÚMERO: 2,557, inscri ta al folio 120 del tomo 71 de Monacillos, sección III de San Juan. Dirección Física: Urb. Las Lomas V-3, Calle Fernando Gómez Acosta, San Juan, PR 00921. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 12 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MA ÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Juan. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $95,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 19 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señala do en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $63,333.33. De no haber re manente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TER CERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 26 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la DE TAL,
Demandado(a) Civil: CA2021CV03288. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO. A: CARLOS J. BRAÑA LIZARDI, JAIME ARSENIO BRAÑA LIZARDI, JOSE E. BRAÑA LIZARDI COMO MIEMBOS DE LA SUCESION DE VIDALINA LIZARDI REYES. (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 8 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, le notifica a usted que el 3 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Senten cia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación ge neral en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sen tencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publica ción por edicto de esta notifica ción, dirijo a usted esta notifica ción que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de agosto de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 10 de agosto de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. ELSA MAGALY CANDELARIO CA BRERA, SECRETARIA AUXI LIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN FEDERAL ASSOCIATIONMORTGAGENATIONALT/C/CFANNIEMAE
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL ÁNGEL BERMÚDEZRODRÍGUEZCOMPUESTAPORSUHEREDEROCONOCIDOMIGUELRODRÍGUEZ;SUCESIÓNDEGABRIELACEDEÑOCEDEÑOCOMPUESTAPORSUHEREDERACONOCIDAYESENIACEDEÑO(CUYOPRIMERAPELLIDOESDESCONOCIDO);FULANODETALYSUTANADETALCOMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSY/OPARTESCONINTERÉSENDICHASUCESIONES
NAL.TARIABONILLATARIASANTANAPuertojunioelle.solicitadocontra,ycación,excluyéndoselatérminolonso@gmail.com,oficinabelmaadentrodeldetreinta(30)díasdepublicacióndeesteedicto,eldíadelapubliseleanotarálarebeldíaseledictaráSentenciaensuconcediendoelremediosinmáscitarlenioírEXPEDIDObajomifirmaysellodelTribunal,hoy,23dede2022,enSanGerman,Rico.LIC.NORMAG.IRIZARRY,SECREREGIONAL.MAGALYMORALES,SECREAUXILIARDELTRIBU 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: pr/sumac/,https://unired.ramajudicial.salvoqueserepre sente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y no tificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término. el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción , lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ LLP 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 Tribunal, hoy 09 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. AMALYN FIGUEROA NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BA RRANQUITAS DIRVA MARIS SANTOS SANTIAGO Demandante Vs. JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE PAGARÉDESCONOCIDOSTENEDORES(POSIBLESDELEXTRAVIADO)
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV08243. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER CERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en gene ral que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 25 de mayo de 2022 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 9 de agosto de 2022. En Caroli na, Puerto Rico, el 9 de agosto de 2022. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISSE TO RRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE NELSON RAMÓN
Demandados Civl Núm.: BQ2022CV00077. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, posibles tenedores del pagaré extraviados. Se le notifica por medio del presente edicto que se ha pre sentado en este tribunal una demanda en solicitud de cance lación de un pagaré extraviado a favor SMALL BUSINESS AD MINISTRATION, o a su orden, por $21,400.00, con intereses al 3.437% anual, vencedero en 30 años, según consta de la escritura número 170, otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de septiembre de 1999, ante el Notario Público José Luis Medero Medero, inscrito al folio 74 del tomo 215 de Aibonito, finca número 4685, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranqui tas, inscripción 3ra, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 6 del bloque “F” de la Urbani zación Residencial San José propiedad de Corujo & Mal donado, Incorporado, sita en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 273.00 metros cuadrados. En linderos por el NORTE, en distancia de 21.00 metros, con el solar número 5; por el SUR, en dis tancia de 21.00 metros, con el solar número 7; por el ESTE, en distancia de 13.00 metros, con la calle “C”; y por el OESTE, en distancia de 13.00 metros, con un canal que discurre paralelo a la carretera número 722. En clava una casa de hormigón reforzado de una sola planta para una sola familia, modelo primavera, fachada tres (3) y que contiene sala, comedor-co cina, tres dormitorios, un baño y marquesina para un solo au tomóvil. Consta inscrito al folio 201 del tomo 274 de Aibonito, finca número 4685. Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. Número de Catastro: (68) 297049-133-06-001. Por la pre sente se le emplaza y requiere para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, excluyéndose el día de la pu blicación. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: maciónparteresponsivaenviarcitadoconcediéndosedictaráque,deTribunalresponsivadeberárechosalvounired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/,https://serepresentepordepropio,encuyocasopresentarsualegaciónenlasecretaríadeldePrimeraInstanciaBarranquitas.Seleapercibesidejaredehacerlo,sesentenciaenrebeldía,elremediosolienlademanda.Deberácopiadesualegaciónalaabogadadelademandante,cuyainforeslasiguiente:
Lcda. Lisdaira Serrano Martínez RUA 17356 273 Ave. Ponce de León Hato Rey PR lisdairaserrano@gmail.com00917 Extendido bajo mi firma y sello del tribunal, hoy 5 de agosto de 2022. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO LOS HERMANOS Demandante V. JACKSON SOCIEDADIVELISSCAMPOSSTEWARDGARCIAITURRINOPALOMOYLADEBIENESGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS
LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC. Demandante V. ROSA MILAGROS RIVERA ANDALUZ, WILLIAM CARLOS SAURI RIVERA, BÁRBARA LUZ SAURI RIVERA, R-G CORPORATION,MORTGAGEJOHNDOE Demandadas Civil Núm.: BY2022CV03569. Sobre: CANCELACION DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLA ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, S.S. A: BÁRBARA LUZ SAURI RIVERA. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la
aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje cutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecuti vas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se enten derá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de agosto de 2022. PE DRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, AL GUACIL AUXILIAR, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN. LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. ALICE RIVERA RIVERA Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV07482. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA “IN REM”. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBAS TA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puer to Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumpli miento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expe dido el día 28 de julio de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Aviso de Demanda de fecha 22 de febrero de 2017, expe dido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el caso civil número 2017KCD0312, sobre IN REM, Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordina RUA 17356 273 Ave. Ponce de León Plaza 273, Ste. 700 Hato Rey PR lisdairaserrano@gmail.com00917
(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 27 de junio 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 en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede es tablecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se consi derará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Co pia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de agosto de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 8 de agosto de 2022.
Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su 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. ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presen tar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Cobro de Di nero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a pagar: la suma principal de $115,960.85, más la suma de $15,810.92, que incluye intereses, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio soli citado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Se ordena a los herederos a que dentro del mismo término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fe cha de notificación, ACEPTEN O REPUDIEN la participación que les corresponda en la he rencia del causante Sucesión de Joaquín Adorno Rodríguez compuesta por Joaquín, Melba y Harry todos ellos de apellidos Adorno Cruz, Lydia Esther Cruz Vázquez t/c/c Lidia Esther Cruz Vázquez t/c/c Lydia E. Cruz Vázquez por sí y en la cuota viudal usufructuaria. Se les apercibe que de no expresar se dentro del término de (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada. Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos, Número del Tribunal Supremo 19653 221 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900, San Juan, PR 00917, Teléfono: (787) 296-9500, Correo jlamas@lvprlaw.comElectrónico: EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 10 de agosto de 2022. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. CAR MEN J. ROSARIO VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN PUERTOFIRSTBANKRICO Demandante V. JUAN A. GUERRERO FIGUEROA Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2020CV03266. (602). Sobre: INCUMPLIMIEN TO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SU BASTA. AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; A LA PARTE DEMANDADA Y A LOS TENEDORES DEPOSTERIORES.GRAVÁMENES YO: ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, al público en general: CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Cumpliendo con un Manda miento de Venta de Ejecución de Sentencia del Secretario del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos, el cual se en cuentra en el Lote de Firstbank localizado en: Centro Industrial Rio Cañas, Calle North, Lote 1516, Carr. 175, Entrada Ca rrraízo, Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 9 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA el siguiente bien mueble: MARCA: HONDA. MODELO: ODYSSEY EX - L. VIN: 5FNRL6H70KB021633. Tablilla: JCN-621. AÑO: 2019. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer hasta donde sea posible, para responder por las siguientes cantidades a la parte deman dante: $52,285.15 de principal; la suma de $345.60 en cargos por mora; $15,789.23 en con cepto de gastos y honorarios de abogado; para un total de $68,419.98, más el interés legal anual de 4.25%. Por tal razón dicho producto será consigna do judicialmente para que su desembolso esté condiciona do a la ulterior resolución por el Tribunal con competencia sobre el caso de epígrafe. Se apercibe a todos los interesa dos que el vehículo objeto de la subasta se encuentra locali zada en el Centro Industrial Rio Cañas, Calle North, Lote 1516, Carr. 175, Entrada Carrraízo, Caguas, Puerto Rico, por lo que todo aquel que quiera participar de su subasta podrá pasar por dicha localización, en horas laborables, previo a su celebra ción, para inspeccionarlo física mente. La subasta se llevará a cabo el día y a la hora señalada habiendo las personas intere sadas inspeccionado o no el mencionado bien. En adición, por la presente se informa que siendo la propiedad a subas tarse un bien mueble no habrá tipo mínimo en la misma, por lo que el vehículo será adjudicado al mejor postor en ese momen to. La forma de pago deberá ser en efectivo, giro o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instan cia. Si se declarase desierta la subasta, se dará por terminado este procedimiento pudiendo adjudicarse el acreedor el ve hículo dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes, si así lo esti mare conveniente, por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la subasta, y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fue re mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado esta rán manifiestos en la Secretaría del Tribunal con competen cia sobre el caso de epígrafe durante horas laborables. De acuerdo con el mejor conoci miento de la parte demandante, la propiedad antes descrita que ha de venderse en subasta no tiene gravámenes anteriores, ni posteriores. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna continuará subsistente; enten diéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad del mismo, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Para la pu blicación de este Edicto en un periódico de circulación general una vez por semana durante dos (2) semanas consecutivas, y para la colocación del mismo en tres (3) sitios públicos visi bles del municipio en que se celebre la subasta, al igual que en el municipio en que reside la parte demandada, libro el pre sente en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 3 de agosto de 2022. ÁN GEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUA CIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y ORIENTALCREDITO Demandante V. PABLO E. OSORIO RIVERA Demandado(a) Civil: CN2019CV00616. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: PABLO E. OSORIO RIVERA. (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 8 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 en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de AGOSTO de 2022. En CAROLINA, Puer to Rico, el 10 DE AGOSTO de 2022. MARILYN APONTE RO DRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. KEI LA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. IRIZARRYMARIBELFLORES notificada a las partes el 9 de marzo de 2020, por la suma de $142,414.29 por concepto de principal, más los intere ses sobre dicha suma a razón del 6.75%, anual desde el 1ro de 1ro de diciembre de 2018; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses con tinúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclama da en este pleito, y la suma de $16,150.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y de más créditos accesorios garan tizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del algua cil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 13 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fi jado para la PRIMERA SUBAS TA es de $161,500.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $107,666.67, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 27 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El pre cio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $80,750.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la men cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confir mada la venta judicial por el Ho norable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en pose sión física del inmueble de con formidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV06713. Sala: 506. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBAS TA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Ins tancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚ BLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamien to de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 18 de julio de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tri bunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continua ción: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número (203). Apartamento de forma irregular localizado en la esquina Suroeste de la segun da planta del Condominio Tei de, situado en el número (158) de la Calle Costa Rica de Hato Rey, Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico. El apartamento tiene un área total aproximada de 1,278.49 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 118.819 me tros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en varias alineaciones que totalizan 45.75 pies, equi valentes a 13.948 metros, con el apartamento 202,la fosa de los elevadores y el recibidor de ese piso; por el SUR, en varias alineaciones que totali zan 45.75 pies, equivalentes a 13.948 metros, con la pared ex terior y el patio sur del edificio; por el ESTE, en varias alinea ciones que totalizan 28.01 pies, equivalentes a 8.54 metros con la fosa de los ascensores y el apartamento 204; y por el OES TE, en varias alineaciones que totalizan 31.96 pies, equivalen tes a 9.744 metros con la pared exterior y el patio Oeste del edificio. Esta unidad residencial consiste de 3 habitaciones con sus guardarropas, 2 baños, re cibidor, sala, comedor, cocinalavandería, y pasillo interior con su guardarropa. La entrada de esta unidad residencial está lo calizada hacia el Norte y da al vestíbulo o pasillo de escaleras y ascensores del piso. A este apartamento le corresponden como uso común limitado los estacionamientos enumera dos con el número 84 y 85 así como los jardines que sirven exclusivamente para esos pro pósitos. Inscrita al folio 161 del tomo 1281, finca # 35,631 de Río Piedras Norte. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de San Juan. La pro piedad según pagaré ubica en; 203 Apt. 185 Costa Rica Cond. Teide San Juan, PR. El produc to de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 3 de marzo de 2020, este Honora ble Tribunal dictó Sentencia en contra de la parte demandada,
GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ CO LLADO, SECRETARIA. JANE VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECI BO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE JOAQUÍN ADORNO DEHARRYJOAQUÍN,COMPUESTARODRÍGUEZPORMELBAYTODOSELLOSAPELLIDOSADORNOCRUZ,LYDIAESTHERCRUZVÁZQUEZT/C/CLIDIAESTHERCRUZVÁZQUEZT/C/CLYDIAE.CRUZVÁZQUEZPORSÍYENLACUOTAVIUDALUSUFRUCTUARIA DE ADORNO CRUZ Y A FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO DERÍORODRÍGUEZ.DESCONOCIDOSHEREDEROSDELASUCESIÓNDEJOAQUÍNADORNO5CALLEHUMACAO,BRISASTORTUGUERO,VEGABAJA,PR00693-9868;G-2,5ST,ISLADEROQUEESTATESDEV.,BARCELONETA,PR00617.De:BANCOPOPULARDEPUERTORICO.
Demandado Civil Núm.: BC2022CV00065. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE EMPLAZAMIENTOGARANTÍAS.POREDICTOEINTERELACIÓN.ESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMÉRICA,ELPRESIDENTEDELOSESTADOSUNIDOS,ELESTADOLIBREASOCIADODEPUERTORICO,SS. A: JOAQUÍN, MELBA Y HARRY TODOS ELLOS
Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00488. Sala: 908. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN TENCIA POR EDICTO. A: JOSE A. NEGRON,QUIÑONESFULANADETALYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS.
Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del tribunal, hoy 10 de agosto de 2022. ELIZABETH GON ZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETA RIA. CARMEN I. APONTE TORRES, SECRETARIA AU XILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. JOSE A. NEGRON,QUIÑONESFULANADETALYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS
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“If I could use the glove for more than a year, I would,” he said. “But I do have to changeThethem.”same is true for Yadier Molina, the St. Louis Cardinals catcher who has won nine Gold Glove Awards throughout his 19-sea son career and plans to retire after the 2022 campaign. Molina said he cleaned his glove frequently, but he still had to introduce a new one each year. His teammate, shortstop Paul DeJong, said he learned how to tend to his 5-year-old glove with a leather spray nearly every day in part by watching Molina do it. “I have to take care of them because they take care of me,” said Molina, 40.
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When Seattle Mariners third base man Eugenio Suárez misses a ground ball, he shoves his face into his glove and has a few choice words for his leather“I’llcompanion.say,‘Come on, come on,’” he re called recently in Spanish. “‘If I don’t eat, you don’tYes,eat.’”Suárez talks to his glove. It doesn’t have a name, but he admitted it is like a per son to him. “It’s there with me and helps me give my best on the field,” he said. And as a result, he goes out of his way to make sure his buddy is Suárez,comfortable.31,doesn’t put it on the ground, preferring to rest it on a bench or rack. In his locker, he said it always has its own shelf. In his travel duffel bag, it has a case and its own space. But what if a teammate wants to touch it? “You can, but use it? No,” he said. “A hand inside? I don’t like that.” Baseball players are a quirky and su perstitious bunch. The MLB season is ardu ously long: 162 regular-season games over six months, not including six weeks of spring training and a month of the playoffs if a team reaches the World Series. So players naturally develop routines to add some semblance of order. And when they are successful on the field, habits tend to stick — even if the differ ence exists only in their heads. So Suárez, in his ninth major league sea son, is not unlike many other baseball play ers who have, we’ll say, special relationships with their gloves.
“I’m working on breaking in another one right now,” he said, “and it’ll probably be ready in two years.”
Several players said they did not have much to say about their gloves, regardless of how often they use them. But even among those who insisted they weren’t particular about their gloves, there was a common third rail.
“A big no-no,” said Arenado, 31, who is on his second season with his current glove. “If someone wants to feel my glove, yeah, go ahead. If you try to put your hand in it, I’ll be like, ‘No, man, don’t be doing that.’ I stop them before they do it. It’s not that their hand is bigger or smaller than mine. I just don’t want anyone putting their hand in my glove.”
There are some who find the rules about other players and gloves to be a tad extreme.
Major leaguers form deep relationships with their gloves. You can look, you can touch, but don’t even think about trying it on.
“I care for it as if it were my wife,” Will son Contreras, an All-Star catcher for the Chicago Cubs, said with a smile. “It’s my baby. It’s the most precious thing I have in my locker.”Santiago Espinal, an All-Star second baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays, also sees his glove as family: “It’s like my son. There are even times I sleep with my glove. When I buy a new glove, I sleep with it.” (Technically, he clarified, the glove sleeps on his nightstand.) As a catcher, it makes sense for Contre ras, 30, to have deep feelings about his mitt. But the elements (heat, dryness, humidity) and pitchers’ throwing harder than ever (the average four-seam fastball was 93.9 mph this season) quickly wear down and rip Contre ras’ most essential tool. He does his best to pamper it so it can make it through the sea son, and then he donates the glove at the end of the year.
“Just don’t put your hand in it and take ground balls,” said Xander Bogaerts, an AllStar shortstop for the Boston Red Sox. Dans by Swanson, an All-Star shortstop for Atlanta, added: “I just don’t want people stretching it out.”Nolan Arenado, the Cardinals third base man who has won the Platinum Glove Award as the best overall fielder in the National League five times, has the same red line.
“Some guys are crazy about that, like they won’t let you put your hand in it or barely even touch it,” said Mariners shortstop J.P. Crawford, who won a Gold Glove Award in 2020 and normally uses a new glove each season. “That’s a little too much.”
Precious leather
By JAMES WAGNER
Some players are so attached to their gloves that they will do anything to keep them in action. Trea Turner, the All-Star shortstop of the Los Angeles Dodgers, begrudgingly admitted that this is the first season that his leather pal, which he has been using for at least four seasons, has started to look “old.” He then corrected himself: “It’s actually not that bad.” (Note: It is fairly bad.) “I think it’s the West Coast since it’s a little drier,” said Turner, 29, who spent parts of seven seasons with the Washington Na tionals before he was traded to the Dodgers during the 2021 season. “Because on the East Coast,” he contin ued, “that humidity keeps the moisture in the glove. So I’ve had to take care of the glove more this year, and it’s starting to get little holes in there. I’m trying to find Band-Aids for it. I’m trying to keep it alive as long as I can.” Turner plans to retire it, though, before it reaches the levels of a former teammate’s. Jordy Mercer, an infielder who was also on the 2021 Nationals, used a glove that was more than 10 years old, was held together by stitches and looked like it belonged in a museum rather than on a field. “It was pretty gross,” Turner said. “I’m going to have to get a new glove before then. I don’t really like how his felt, so I’m trying to keep mine alive.” Jeff McNeil, the All-Star second baseman of the New York Mets, disagrees that gloves have expiration dates. He has used the same glove since 2013, the year he was drafted in the 12th round by the Mets. He originally had two, but he retired one after his first season and framed it. The second is still going. “It’s flimsy, and it’s not the best. But it works for me,” said McNeil, 30, who reached the major leagues in 2018. “It’s broken in per fect. Once an infielder gets that glove, they use it for a long time.” McNeil said a ball once found its way through the loose webbing on his tattered glove, so he had it restrung. He also once had it “fixed up completely” by a professional, but holes remain. “It’s my baby,” he added. Despite all that affection, McNeil isn’t perfect. When he makes an error, he admit ted — with a chuckle — he has found occa sion to throw his glove to the ground. And he has secretly been forming a new relationship behind his glove’s back.
By MORGAN CAMPBELL T hat a new Mike Tyson project hits stores this summer should not surprise us.
The punches that Spinks missed received less attention, but they mat ter, too. Tyson timed Spinks’ right hand, dipping to avoid it, then landed a counterpunch. That was not luck or coincidence. Offense came from the peek-a-boo defense. Spinks thought some well-placed jabs and right hands could slow Tyson’s advance, but an other well-known Tyson quotation, also included in the book, explains what“Everybodyhappened. has a plan,” Tyson said, “until they get punched in the mouth.”The photos in Grinker’s book cov er a decadelong span that ends just before Tyson’s upset loss to Buster Douglas in 1990 and his arrest on rape charges the next year. Tyson, then 25, was convicted in 1992 of raping an 18-year-old woman in a hotel room. The serious crime (and loss in the ring) did little to diminish Tyson’s draw ing power or place in the sport after he was released from prison. He posted big numbers for his post-prison bouts against Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis.Tyson berated a Canadian journal ist, Nathan Downer, for mentioning the rape conviction in 2014, but he func tions in the current sports and social media environment as a jovial person ality who likes to smoke a little marijua na (a business in which he has invested significant money), deliver hot takes and occasionally show up at the gym to show young boxers how it’s done.
Cus D’Amato, at a gym in Catskill, N.Y., demonstrating the peek-a-boo style to Mike Tyson in 1981.
The latest, simply titled “Mike Ty son,” arrives Sept. 6 and is a collection of photographs from Lori Grinker, who followed the fighter for more than a decade, beginning in 1980. Next week, Hulu is set to begin its biographical series titled “Mike,” a dra matized retelling of the former heavy weight champion’s life in the spotlight. Tyson has criticized Hulu for produc ing the series without his consent, but Grinker’s book comes from the lens of an insider.Thecollection includes pictures of some of Tyson’s best-known moments, including when promoter Don King lifted him in celebration after he won his first title fight in 1986 and when he took a solitary, predawn run along the Atlantic City boardwalk in 1988. Tyson-related content, including books, podcasts, projects for televi sion and exhibition fights, keeps com ing, 16 years after his last official bout. If Tyson did not match Muhammad Ali’s in-ring accomplishments, he has certainly rivaled the boxer known as the Greatest in the pull he exerts on our attention, even deep into his re tirement. Feature films have appeared peri odically since 1995, when Michael Jai White played the fighter in a television movie, and the documentaries began even before that. “Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson” hit tele vision screens in 1993 and examined Tyson’s career from its genesis at a reform school in upstate New York to his rape conviction in 1992. More re cently, there was “Mike Tyson Myster ies,” an adult animated series, and his one-man show on Broadway, in which he spun his life story toward a redemp tion arc and denied the rape for which he served more than three years in prison.Grinker, with her photos, concen trates on Tyson’s rise from amateur to world champion. A quotation in the book, from trainer Cus D’Amato, helps explain the mix of ability and acumen that made Tyson such a phenom as a teenager.“Mike’s punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature,” said the trainer, who died in 1985 at age 77. “Both have no value unless you have a means of conveying it to the target. Mike has a means of conveying it to the target. He is boxing-smart.”
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Tyson’s legal problems and troubles in the ring, including his biting of Holy field’s ear in a fight in 1997, have only added to the curiosity about him. The idea of what could have been lingers like a shadow over Grinker’s photo col lection.Seeing anew his rise to the top of the boxing world is made even more intriguing because of what happens next.
The endless fascination with Mike Tyson
One sequence of pictures, dated 1981, features D’Amato, Tyson’s first trainer, straddling a bench at a gym in Catskill, New York, and teaching Tyson, who is 14 or 15. In one shot, D’Amato raises his fists in a defen sive pose, with the knuckles of his left hand stopping an inch from his billowy whiteThiseyebrows.isthe peek-a-boo, a meth od of turning defense to offense that D’Amato impressed on all of his fight ers like a fingerprint. It was an under rated element of Tyson’s early success. The high guard, head movement, foot work and angles all worked together to help shorter fighters work their way into punching range without sustaining damage. Stylistically, it was the oppo site of Ali’s floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee, but strategically, the aim was the same — hit and don’t get hit.Seven years after that picture was taken, Tyson trounced Michael Spinks in 91 seconds to become the undis puted heavyweight champion. Tyson’s offense was relentless that night — a right hand to the body dropped Spinks for the first time, and another on the chin ended the fight seconds later.
Sexual assault revelations turn Canada’s national game into the nation’s shame
And Gilhooly said that fans shared the blame.“This is one of these situations where people are put on pedestals, and they’re al lowed to get away with things,” he said. “It’ll be resolved only when society gets up in arms and teaches young men that just be cause you can, doesn’t mean you should.”
After Canada’s first game finished with the junior team’s first win, Dave and Lynette Jordan sat on a bench outside the arena and pulled soft drinks out of a small cooler. The couple had made the two-day drive from Virden, Manitoba, to attend their 14th world junior tournament. They’ve long billeted players for the Vird en Oil Capitals, including some that Dave Jordan said he believed had been abused by James.While the most recent revelation wasn’t enough for them to consider staying home, Jordan said that he was nevertheless dis tressed about the state of hockey.
“In the past, people were defensive be cause their sibling, child or their husband or wife, somebody was involved in the sport,” McGillis said. “So people felt that it was an attack on their identity. But when you find out that your dollars are being used to si lence victims of sexual assault and to pay for crimes and mistakes of others, now you feel culpable.”
Critics of hockey have long argued that the system for developing players in the country and the national idolizing of young men have created a culture of entitlement and hero worship that has served as an incu bator for bad behavior. In the 2018 case, in which all the names have been sealed by a court, a woman said in a court filing that she had been repeatedly sexually abused in a hotel room in London, Ontario, by eight members of the national ju nior team after a Hockey Canada fundraising golf game and dinner. Like players on the current team, most had been streamed into the sport’s elite channel by elementary school. By 16, they had moved away from home to play junior hockey in small towns, billeting with local families and becoming local celebrities. From there, they moved onto college or other mi nor leagues or were drafted by NHL teams. All the while, their only community was their hockey community. “There’s a lot of privilege to say or do whatever you want without any ramifications or questions that comes with that,” McGillis said. “You can say racist, sexist, homophobic things without any real consequences.”
“Hockey Canada has got to get them selves straightened out, but you have to honor and watch players who go out there and give their all,” he said. “It’s going to be a major shake up, and hockey’s going to have to figure out how to survive this.”
Exactly why the current revelations have begun to turn the national game into a na tion’s shame in a way that a string of previous ones did not is not entirely clear.
“It’s like Hollywood and the casting couch,” said Greg Gilhooly, a corporate law yer who was sexually abused by Graham James, a junior hockey coach who was a notorious sexual predator. “People knew for years, decades, that the casting couch was very much a part of the production of content in Hollywood. And yet, it took a grotesque violation of trust for people to say: ‘Enough is enough.’ My hope is that there’s finally going to be a reckoning here.”
By IAN AUSTEN T he pandemic shifted one of Canada’s long-standing holiday rituals, the World Junior Championship, from December to the middle of summer. But even allowing for that, the absence of a crowd before the Canadian team’s first game this week was striking. In a fan zone with sprawling television screens outside of the NHL arena in down town Edmonton, Alberta, a DJ entertained a group that never surpassed a dozen people in the hour before Canada took on Latvia in its first game. Up a long escalator, the number of open gates into Rogers Place often exceeded the number of people passing through them. And once inside, a preponderance of empty seats allowed the chants of eight enthusiastic Latvian supporters to be heard by all. In a country that many claim is defined by hockey, there have traditionally been three mandatory rituals for fans: the Stan ley Cup Final, men’s and women’s Olympic hockey and the men’s world juniors. Sev eral of the spectators who did show up for Canada’s opening game said its transforma tion into a shadow of a tournament was only partly explained by its unseasonal reschedul ing. In May, TSN, a sports television network, reported that Hockey Canada, the national governing body, paid 3.5 million Canadian dollars to settle a lawsuit by a woman who accused eight members of the world junior team of sexually assaulting her in 2018. Matters only got worse. Hockey Canada acknowledged that the money came from a slush fund generated from hockey registration fees, including those for children. The fund, it also said, had been used to pay another CA$7.6 million to settle nine sexual assault and sexual abuse claims since 1989. It then emerged that there were further allegations of sexual assault involving another national junior team in 2003. While shocking, they are far from the first reports of sexual assault and abuse by and against hockey players. But the current scandal appears to have shaken the faith that some Canadians have in a sport that is almost as much an obsession as a national pastime. Just outside the largely empty entrance gates, Jen Rutledge, a civil engineer with the City of Edmonton and an Edmonton Oilers season-ticket holder, said she was using the ticket purchased long ago only because a cousin visiting from England wanted to catch a game. “I’m a bit conflicted, honestly, about me even attending this tournament,” she said. “To hear about player fees being paid into a fund that goes toward silencing victims of some of these teams is really quite concern ing. Hockey is an important part of Canadian culture. But, at the same time, there have been a lot of atrocities done by this organiza tion.”Rutledge is not alone in her dismay and anger. All of Hockey Canada’s corporate sponsors, which include one of the country’s largest banks and the ubiquitous Tim Hortons coffee and doughnut chain, have abandoned it, leaving the arena free of the usual adver tising on the ice and rink boards. Edmon ton’s tourism board is no longer promoting the tournament, and the federal government has also cut off its funding to Hockey Canada and ordered an audit to make sure that its funds were not used to silence victims while lawmakers in Ottawa hold hearings. Police have also resumed investigating the events of 2018. As the story began to dominate the news, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for a “real reckoning” at Hockey Canada and condemned its leaders for their “willful blind ness.”All this comes at a time when participa tion and interest in hockey in an increasingly ethnically and racially diverse Canada have been ebbing in favor of soccer, basketball and other less costly and more global sports. Many of the sport’s longtime critics say it’s time for Canadians to accept that the sport that has come to define their nation — accu rately or not — is ingrained with misogyny, violence, racism and homophobia.
A pandemic-related rescheduling and the resurfacing of sexual-assault allegations have led to large numbers of empty seats at the World Junior Championship this month, even when Canada plays.
On top of that is a fractured system over seeing hockey in Canada. Hockey Canada’s authority is mostly limited to national and international events and teams. Most of the responsibility for organizing and running the sport is divided among 10 provincial govern ing bodies and a variety of leagues.
Brock McGillis, a former player in the Ontario Hockey League who was the first professional hockey player to come out as gay, said he believed that the use of registra tion fees to pay off victims had been taken as particularly egregious. (Hockey Canada offi cials told Parliament that the money mostly went to victims of James.)
“Everybody’s kind of running their own autonomous show,” said Courtney Szto, an assistant professor of kinesiology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. “So we find ourselves now in a situation where it’s quite easy for people to say: Well, that’s someone else’s responsibility. There’s a lot of finger pointing.”
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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 Tuesday, August 16, 2022 37 GAMESGAMES
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21) It’s better to be flexible, than dig your heels into the ground and refuge to budge. The current Sun/Saturn face-off, suggests it may be due to some stubbornness that things aren’t moving forwards. Be willing to compromise or at least to listen to a friend’s perspective, and this matter might soon be resolved. Keen to boost your finances? Someone could make you an offer.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23) Get your priorities right today, Leo. There’s no point in continuing a conversation that’s going nowhere. If you wait a few days, you’ll have more success. Now it’s time to channel your energies into a promising opportunity that will lead to fresh developments. If you feel an emotional push that borders on an obsession, just go with it and expect positive results.
A combination of energies in a dynamic zone, may have worked their magic to reassure you how talented and special you are. But before you make further headway creatively or romantically, there could be one emotional issue that needs to be resolved. Doing so means you can look to the future without the past holding you back. All it requires is that you let go rather than hold on.
Taurus (April 21-May 21) There can be risks to getting involved in any relationship, which you are likely aware of, Taurus. In this instance, it may help to trust your sixth sense and any feelings you have, rather than brush them to one side. As fruitful as this bond might seem, it could also be demanding. Be sure you want to make this kind of commitment to another, before it’s too late for you to back out of it.
Cancer (June 22-July 23) Your cash flow may have temporarily slowed, but this won’t stop you making the most of an opportunity that involves teaming up with others. The potent Mars/Pluto aspect, suggests that many heads are better than one, especially if some of them belong to people who have experience and influence. Putting your combined efforts into getting results can be so very satisfying.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23) You don’t have to feel bogged down in your daily schedule. Things may seem to be moving along slowly, but this is your chance to make a few changes that will free up your time. You likely know what the main issue is, so start with that. You’ll have huge energy to put into one project though, and you’ll have no problem finding time for it, if it’s close to your heart.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20) Should you, or shouldn’t you? As the Sun opposes prudent Saturn, you might swing between optimism and pessimism. Either way, this can cause you to dither. A dynamic aspect reveals that your chances of doing well are as good as they could be, but that you may be haunted by a past event that dents your confidence. Give it a go. If you succeed, you’ll never look back, Pisces.
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 37Aries (Mar 21-April 20) Seeing the funny side of a situation can be a great relief, enabling you to feel better about something that may have taken up too much of your time and attention. This doesn’t mean you won’t take it seriously, just that a lighter perspective might help you not to feel so anxious about it. Need something to keep you going, Aries? A small indulgence today could help you relax.
Today’s upbeat Moon/Jupiter link can find you confident in the face of obstacles, and assured that you will find a way out. You may be standing in your own way though, and once you see this, things might develop very quickly. You have inner strength at your disposal that you could make use of if you need to. Is there something you want? You have the willpower to get it.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
Does a situation seem ready to bubble over? This can A feeling of discontent could mean you lack motivation where your career and ambitions are concerned. It’s time to ask some soul-searching questions, so you can get to the bottom of this. Are you happy with your current life path? If not, this may be the time to make a few changes. If you’re pondering what to do, someone’s game-changing advice might be just what you need.
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The Moon’s buoyant tie with Jupiter in Aries, suggests you may get a compliment, gift or support from friends, just when you need it. If you’ve had a falling out with someone and this is upsetting you, discussing it with friends could leave you much more optimistic. On a financial note, you might hear news about funds coming your way, and not a moment too soon, Libra.
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Gemini (May 22-June 21) Blocked from moving in one direction? Your resolve to make progress in another is admirable, Gemini. As Mars links with Pluto, you’ll be ready to find closure on an issue that needs to be sorted out. It may mean letting go of something you’re attached to, which won’t be easy. You know why it’s necessary, and this knowledge can fuel your desire to make it happen soon.
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