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“An example of this is the professional and business services sector, which for fiscal year 2022 marked a level of 135,000 jobs, or a growth of 12,600 jobs (10.3 percent) when compared to the previous year and that for the pe riod from January to June 2022 it reached an average of 136,900 jobs or 11,700 additional jobs (9.3 percent), when compared to the same period of the previous year,” he said.
The Economic Activity Index of the Economic Devel opment Bank for Puerto Rico (EAI-EDB) marked 16 consecutive months of positive growth in June, EDB President Luis Alemañy González announced Thursday. “The Index, which is used to measure the general state of economic activity, registered 124.3 points in June, and at the end of fiscal year 2022 (July 2021 to June 2022) it reached a cumulative level of 124.2 points, a result higher than that obtained from fiscal year 2017 onwards,” Alemañy González said in a written statement. “This represents a growth of 4.5 percent, the first positive result, after two years of consecutive year-on-year reductions, of -2.2 percent in 2020 and -0.8 percent in 2021.”
This, tied to the billions in economic aid that individuals received directly, caused an increase in sales from that point on, which, as the construction projects were completed and the aforementioned economic aid was consumed, stabilized the total sales of cement above 1.1 and 1.3 million bags per month, remaining in the high range of the aforementioned average last June 2022, after applying the seasonal adjust ment, with a year-on-year growth of 3.7 percent and a low month against month of 1.4 percent. Employment remains high, registering levels not seen from 2014 to 2015 in total employment; that is, with an average of 900,200 jobs (5.8 percent) in fiscal year 2022.
“The end of the school semester for most schools and universities, together with the increase in fuel prices, explains that gasoline consumption, and will reflect month-on-month and year-on-year falls of -5.0 percent and -11.0 percent, respectively,” Alemañy González said. “In other words, during the month of June 2022, gasoline consumption was even lower than the average level that had been experienced and that should be attributed to the increase in price.”
The commercial sector, meanwhile, reached a level during 2022 not seen since 2008 to 2009, with an average of 162,900 jobs (6.0 percent) during fiscal year 2022 and 163,800 jobs (5.4 percent) for the period from January to June 2022. Therefore, employment in the private sector has marked an increase of 7.8 percent in the period from January to June 2022 with an average of 714,500 jobs, while the government has experienced a reduction of 1.1 percent with an average of 193,600 jobs. Seasonally adjusted, non-farm wage employment grew 4.9 percent during June 2022, down 0.5 percent month-on-month, Alemañy González said.
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“This is the highest data recorded since this series began to be computed in 1990.”
Along with manufacturing, the construction sector was among the first to start operations for May 2020, when the strictest restrictions against COVID-19 were still in effect.
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However, Alemañy González noted that if the growth in employment by sector is examined, sectors that have reached levels registered prior to 2015 or not previously measured are observed.
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“The improvement we are seeing in economic activity is consistent with the high levels of employment recorded on the island,” he said. “Cement sales continue to exceed one million bags per month, and electricity generation is on the rise. However, the increases in the retail prices of gasoline seem to have moderated monthly consumption, with reductions being noted in the quarter from April to June.” Development Bank President Luis Alemañy González
Total cement sales is an indicator that is highly sensitive to all types of local events: climatological, seasonal, socio economic, etc., which makes that indicator more volatile in statistical terms than the rest of the components of the Index.
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The EAI-EDB is a coincident index that summarizes the general behavior of the economic activity of the island, which has a high correlation with the levels and growth rates of the real gross product of Puerto Rico, although it is not its monthly estimate, since which, among other things, is calculated based on four components: non-agricultural salaried employment, electricity generation, gasoline con sumption and cement sales. The EDB president said the behavior of the EAI compo nents indicates that there was a combination of temporary factors, typical and recurring during the summer months, with external elements, such as the increase in the barrel of oil during the month of June, which was reflected in the results.The electricity generation component, after applying the seasonal adjustment, remained stable, or unchanged, when compared to the previous month (May 2022), which means that, with regard to economic activity, it was maintained, even when there was an increase in price. The year-on-year increase (June 2022 against the same month of the previous year) was 7.6 percent. LUMA Energy began operations on June 1, 2021. The average retail price of regular gasoline on the Island reached $5.09 per gallon (approximately $1.34 per liter) in June 2022, which, unadjusted for inflation, is the highest price on record since data collection began in 1980.
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Mellado López urged parents and guardians to consider administering the booster to their children to maintain a pro tected school environment and avoid the spread of infection. In the five- to 11-year-old population, only 2.9 percent of the population has the booster dose, he said. Meanwhile, 55.71 percent of the population aged 12 years and older has at least one booster dose. Adults 50 years of age and older have 15.93 percent with both booster doses.
“Every Puerto Rican and every Puerto Rican should know the work and legacy of Roberto Clemente, not only because of his sports career, but also because of all the contributions and help that he brought to those most in need,” said Cardona Quiles, who chairs the Recreation and Sports Committee of the House of Representatives, in a written statement. “For this reason I introduced this bill, so that future generations know and commemorate the sublime legacy of this illustrious Puerto Rican.”
In addition, he was a two-time World Series champion, won four batting titles, played 15 times in the All-Star Game, won 12 consecutive Gold Gloves, was the Most Valuable Player of the National League in 1966 and was the 1971 World Series MVP.
The law provides that the central government, through the departments of Education and Recreation & Sports, as well as public entities and municipalities, will be in charge of commemorating, promulgating, disseminating and preserving Clemente’s work, career, life and Clementelegacy.played 18 seasons in the Major Leagues, in which he reached 3,000 hits, with 1,305 runs scored, 240 home runs and a career batting average of .300.
He was posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. in 1973, two years after Major League Baseball instituted the Roberto Clemente Award, which is awarded annually to players who perform outstanding work in sports and the community.
“We are finally back to work. This week our children and young people are returning to school, thanks to the advances in vaccination,” she added. “Let’s continue to bring normality closer, and let’s keep our vaccinations up to date. Let’s not go back to the past.” Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López, meanwhile, urged the population to continue with their vaccination series and complete it, especially high-risk groups. “We continue with the call for the triple protection that the booster provides,” he said. “The new order on vaccina tion against the coronavirus says that to participate in mass events, everyone has to have their primary vaccine series and booster dose, corresponding to their age group. We call on everyone to protect their health and that of their family members by being fully vaccinated.”
VOCES Puerto Rico Immunization and Health Promotion Coalition and the island Department of Health are calling on citizens over three years old to go to the VOCES vaccination centers to get their vaccines or boosters against COVID-19 so that everyone can be protected against the coronavirus.
The initiative provides for the inclusion of the name of Roberto Clemente Walker in the Day of the Men and Women “Proceres” (Heroes) of Puerto Rico. House Bill 991 -- which Rep. Ángel Matos García joined as co-author -- would add Clemente to the list of illustrious Puerto Ricans such as Eugenio María de Hostos and Ana Roqué de Duprey, so that on the third Monday of February every year his life, work and legacy are commemorated.
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“Vaccination being up to date means having the entire primary series recommended for each age and the pertinent boosters,” said Lilliam Rodríguez Capó, CEO and founder of VOCES. “Vaccination remains the best option for protection and avoiding complications.”
Clemente died in a plane crash off the coast of his native Carolina on Dec. 31, 1972 while attempting to deliver earthquake relief supplies to Nicaragua.
Dr. Ana Rodríguez Acevedo, medical director of VOCES, said that without up-to-date vaccination, the variants of the disease are complicated and continue to present themselves. “Given the high infection rate, we must protect ourselves, especially our elders,” she said. Up-to-date vaccination against COVID-19 or being fully vaccinated refers to having completed booster doses. The Pfizer vaccine will be available for individuals 12 years and older and Moderna for the population 18 years and older for their first booster. The second booster will be available to the community over 50 after a minimum of four months from the first booster dose. Appointments are not required, and personnel will vaccinate on a first-come, firstserved basis. Those wishing to be vaccinated must present their original vaccination card and photo ID. Individuals vaccinated with Janssen can receive their booster with Pfizer or Moderna four months after their last vaccination. The new VOCES vaccination center is located on the second level of Plaza Las Américas between JC Penney and Macy’s from Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit vocespr.org and salud.gov.pr or call 787-789-4008.
By THE STAR Staff VOCES Puerto Rico Immunization and Health Promotion Coalition and the Department of Health have opened their second vaccination center on the second level of Plaza Las Américas in Hato Rey. Both institutions call on citizens over three years old to go to the centers to get their vaccines or boosters against COVID-19 so that everyone can be protected against the virus.
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The initiative provides for the inclusion of the name of Roberto Clemente Walker in the Day of the Men and Women “Proceres” (Heroes) of Puerto Rico, so that on the third Monday of February every year his life, work and legacy will be commemorated.
will be added to the list of Puerto Rican heroes after Gov. Pedro Pierlusi Urrutia signed Law 61-2022, filed by Rep. Eladio “Layito” Cardona Quiles, it was reported on Thursday.
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Puerto Rico is a prime tourist destination because “in surveys of visitors to Puerto Rico, travelers identify Puerto Rico as a destination that evokes happiness, satisfaction and relax ation,” Zayas pointed out. “Among the reasons visitors cite for visit ing Puerto Rico are seeing family and friends (36%), the weather (31%) and the local culture (29%),” he noted. “Travelers’ favorite activities are restaurants, bars and pubs (70%), beaches (70%), shopping (54%), water activities (39%), hiking (33%), and outdoor recreation (32%).”
The campaign focuses on helping tourists to learn and embrace the culture and amenities of Puerto Rico By ALEJANDRA M. JOVER TOVAR Special to The Walejandra.jover@gmail.comSTARhatdoes“boricua”
The MICE niche (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) is the main one the campaign aims to please. Distrito T-Mobile is one of the flagstaffs of “Live Boricua,” giving business travelers a reason to hold their events in Puerto Rico. With slogans such as “Make your Event Bo ricua,” Discover Puerto Rico is betting on the is land’s culture to attract corporate visitors through trade shows, events, and roadshows. Travelers can enjoy various festivals and activities, such as rum tastings, bomba and plena dance classes, and sight-seeing trips down historic sites on an island known for its lush flora, beautiful beaches and lively nightlife. Other attractive offers include sports events and venues where international games can be contested, including sports arenas, renowned surf spots and golf courses. To spearhead the campaign’s efforts, the DMO will place signage and banners in terminals A, B, and C at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Isla Verde to welcome visitors and invite them to take pictures to post on social media channels. Upcoming media campaigns on national cable TV also spotlight Puerto Rico as a destination and offer attractions such as wedding-themed media events, a branded bar bike (which serves local beer), and mixology and culinary experiences.
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Tourists are indeed in love with Puerto Rico: in its latest August report, Discover Puerto Rico announced that in the first seven months of this year accommoda tions generated $1 billion in revenue, three months earlier than in 2021.
What’s more remarkable is that even though the average tourist doesn’t think that right now it’s a good time to travel due to infla tion and high fuel prices (rising costs for airline travel), Puerto Rico is still a hotspot compared to other United States destinations. “The outlook for tourism is a mixed bag of positives and negatives, creating a lot of uncertainty for many in our industry,” said Brad Dean, CEO of Discover Puerto Rico. “Demand for travel remains high, yet concerns about inflation and the economy are creating a lot of uncertainty for businesses and travelers alike. In our local tourism industry, employment is at its highest level. However, most businesses are still understaffed and eagerly seeking to hire more people.”
To ensure that tourists come to the island even in the middle of the worst recession in 40 years, “we try to be agile in adjusting our promotional strategies to industry develop ments,” Zayas said. “Puerto Rico’s tourism industry has led the industry’s recovery nationwide. It is in an excellent position to face the challenges that the times present,” he noted. “Our cam paigns seek to maintain high demand for our destination by making data-driven marketing decisions. That same high demand allows the industry to receive good economic benefits for its services.”
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mean? It’s not only a person of Puerto Rican birth or descent but a way of living, accord ing to the Discover Puerto Rico, the island’s destination marketing organization (DMO). It comes from “Borinquen,” native Taínos’ name for the“Liveisland.Boricua” heralds the intimacy of local cuisine, culture and eternal summer days and nights in Puerto Rico. That’s the promise Discover Puerto Rico gives prospective leisure travel tourists, event planners and company retreats: come to Puerto Rico and live like a boricua during their stay. And tourists are indeed in love with Puerto Rico: during its latest August report, Discover Puerto Rico announced that, in the first seven months of 2022, accommodations revenue generated $1 billion, three months earlier than in 2021, a year that ended with about $1.3 billion. That record reflected a growth of 37% compared to 2019, according to combined data from firms STR and AirDNA provided by the DMO in a press release. “Despite the industry concerns, we’ve seen increased demand for lodging over last year’s record-setting pace,” said Alisha Valentine, director of research and analytics at Discover Puerto Rico, during a webinar presentation on the latest industry developments. “Through the end of July, total lodging demand was 18% higher than a year ago, with hotels booking 17% more business and rentals 20% more.”
The chief strategy officer said that by 2026, “traveler expenditures could reach between $5.871 and $6.871 billion, not including what domestic tourism could inject into the industry.”
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The island saw an increase in lodging supply, estimated at 15.5% for the first six months of the year compared to 2021. For the remaining two quarters of 2022, reservations are expected to be above pre-pandemic levels, with the fourth quarter being the most prom ising: Discover Puerto Rico expects bookings to be 6% higher than in 2021 in the case of hotels and 12% higher in the short-term rentals, ahead of 2019’s pace.
just compensation attributable in connection with the allowance of an Eminent Domain/ Inverse Condemnation Claim and treatment thereof pursuant to the terms and provisions of Section 19.1 hereof, “Allowed” shall not include interest, penalties, or late charges arising from or relating to the period from and after the HTA Petition Date, and (z) “Al lowed” shall not include any Claim subject to disallowance in accordance with section 502(d) of the Bankruptcy Code.” The oversight board also took steps to correct certain transcription errors to say that “If the United States Supreme Court reverses this portion of the Commonwealth Confirma tion Order and Commonwealth Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, the HTA Plan provides that the Eminent Domain/Inverse Condemnation Claims will receive payments from HTA equal to, and on the same time frame as, the payments to be made to holders of Allowed HTA General Unsecured Claims entitled to the same treatment as other holders of HTA General Unsecured Claims.”
The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico proposed Thurs day two amendments to the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority (HTA) debt restructuring plan that seek to bring the authority’s bankruptcy to an end. At a Wednesday hearing to consider con firmation of the Fifth Amended Title III Plan of Adjustment of the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority, which would reduce HTA’s debt by 80%, the oversight board proposed a modification to Section 1.10 of the HTA Plan to resolve Finca Matilde’s objections. Finca Matilde is fighting attempts to reduce the amount it is getting as part of an eminent domain litigation. The amendment reads: “Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, (x) Claims allowed solely for the purpose of voting to accept or reject the HTA Plan pursuant to an order of the Title III Court shall not be considered “Allowed” hereunder unless otherwise specified herein or by order of the Title III Court, (y) for any purpose under the HTA Plan, except with respect to amounts that are determined by a Final Order to be
‘Live Boricua’ leads a strong campaign Only 12% of visitors identified their trip’s primary purpose as visiting friends and relatives. Still, according to the DMO’s webinar, it’s the highest motivator. Also, nearly a third of Puerto Rico’s visitors come from the diaspora (Puerto Ricans living in the mainland U.S.), and local culture is a significant motivator for travel. These markers make the “Live Boricua” campaign all the more valuable.
It’s worth mentioning that the hospitality sector is the fifth-largest employer in Puerto Rico, generating 6,400 more jobs than in 2019. In a written interview with the STAR, Discover Puerto Rico’s chief strategy officer, Edward Zayas, said that “as of June of this year, the recreation and lodging sectors employed 86,700 people according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.”
By JOHN McPHAUL Pjpmcphaul@gmail.comuertoRicoPolice Bureau Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa on Thursday described as “a lack of respect” a news report on the use of hollow-point bullets in the incident where a teenager died at the hands of the police.“Thereport that came out today is disrespect ful to the Puerto Rico Police when comparing [the bureau] to an individual who shot up a school in Uvalde,Texas,” López Figueroa said at a press conference. “We are not murderers, we are police. We are here to protect life and property.”“And
Pierluisi urged LUMA Energy to accelerate reconstruction projects with the approval of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Central Office for Recovery, Recon struction and Resilience, and effectively use the available resources for essential matters, such as vegetation management along transmission lines and the updating of critical sections of the grid.“Ayear and three months after assuming control of the electrical grid, there’s no space or tolerance for excuses or regrets,” the gov ernorAtsaid.the same time, Pierluisi said that whenever there’s a power outage, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), LUMA Energy, and private generation plants have to act “with the utmost sense of urgency to restore service.”
Later in the day, LUMA Energy President & CEO Wayne Stensby rejected that it is the transmission and distribution lines that have caused damage to the generation plants, as asserted earlier in the week by PREPA Executive Director Josué Colón Ortiz. “That’s my point, transmission lines do not cause damage to generating plants,” Stensby said at a news conference. “These generators have protection and control equipment in order to maintain and avoid these situations. The important thing is not to assign blame, but that we work together, not to distribute the blame, but to solve the problem.”
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After three major outage events in less than two days that have left hundreds of thousands of people without power, the governor said that “it’s LUMA’s responsibility to operate the electrical grid under its critical state.”
Also on Thursday, the governor announced the creation, through an executive order, of an office of the auxiliary chief of staff for energy affairs, to be led by Francisco Berríos Portela, an engineer.“Inorder to guarantee that the public policy of this Administration on energy matters is implemented, it is necessary to create an auxiliary secretariat of the government that is in charge of supervising, supervising and coordinating everything related to the ener gy issue,” Pierluisi stated in Executive Order 2022-043. “The foregoing, in order to have a reliable and accessible electrical system, at a fair cost and that allows economic develop ment on the island.”
I have told my police officers, we are going to intervene with sensitivity, respect and empathy,” he added. “The person that you serve, think of him as a relative of yours. The only one who can talk about any situation that arises is the police and the citizen who is in the intervention.”
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The so-called hollow-point bullet produces a greater lethal effect on the body that receives the impact. In the case of Javier Cordero Morales, the 16-year-old who was killed by the police on Aug. 1 after allegedly stealing a motor vehicle, the subject sustained at least 12 hollow-point bullet wounds in his body after he allegedly tried to run over the agents who were attempting to arrestRegardinghim. the proposal to remove adminis trative investigations when an event of excessive force occurs, López Figueroa stated that he will abide by the law that is approved. López Figueroa said he hopes that as soon as possible, all police officers can have a body cam. “I agree with body cams. Why? Because you the media have published many recordings of police officers where you [include] profanity, tarnish the reputation and integrity of the police officer, but only show a portion of the situation,” he said. “With the body cam, the entire scene will be shown, without editing. And that is the difference.”
investiga tions leading to the prosecution of crimes against animals, the Puerto Rico Police Bureau on Thursday certified the first group of 16 instructors who will be in charge of offering, on an ongoing basis, training workshops to all members of the police force on the Law for the Welfare and Protection of Animals.
The colonel said the Police Bureau is going to start the implementation of body cams with 150 agents from the Highway Patrol Bureau. He said that although the equipment is not expensive, the cloud technology used to save the videos costs millions of dollars.
López Figueroa said hollow-point ammuni tion is allowed by the federal government and its use is legal. “I ask, the individuals who kill innocent peo ple every day, who kill people who are involved in drug trafficking, what types of ammunition do they use?” he pointed out. “The police use the type of ammunition regulated by the federal government and that is what is required of us.”
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Pierluisi said the secretariat, which will be attached to the office of Chief of Staff No elia García Bardales, will have the function of supervising the transformation and mod ernization of the electrical system, in order to ensure that all of Puerto Rico is provided with service that is efficient, robust and at the lowest possible cost. In addition, it will serve as a link between the government, the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, the State Office of Energy Public Policy and the municipalities in relation to energy issues.
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Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Thursday that LUMA Energy, the private con sortium that manages the distribution and transmission of energy in Puerto Rico, “has to make changes in its execution plan to improve the service they’re offering to our country significantly.”
The announcement was made at a press conference by Police Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa along with Lillian García, vice president of the Social Movement for Animal Welfare (MOSPBA by its Spanish initials), and Police Academy Chancellor Francisco RodríguezMOSPBAOrtiz.signed a collaborative agree ment with the Police Bureau and, in alliance with Puerto Rico Animals, the Organization of Animal Cruelty Investigation Officers and the Veterinary Doctors Association of Puerto Rico, was in charge of designing the courses that the Police Academy incorporated it into its curriculum last June. Cadets entering the police force and other members of the police must take the “United for Animal Welfare” workshops as part of the effort to raise awareness of animal rights and compliance with Law 154 of 2008, which criminalizes the mistreatment of animals, the police commissioner said. In a ceremony held at police headquar ters, López Figueroa presented certificates of compliance with the training workshop to 16 academy instructors. He said the Law 154 coordinators have al ready been installed in the 13 police regions. In general terms, the new workshop deals with issues such as the healthy coexistence between humans, animals and nature, and the training and management of animals, as well as regulations and research processes. The occasion also served to launch the educational campaign “United for Animal Welfare,” which includes videos and images on social networks, around the provisions of the law to protect animals against abuse. The videos feature the coordinators of Law 154 in the police regions.
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Puerto Rico Police Bureau Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa LUMA Energy President & CEO Wayne Stensby, at left
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Trump repeatedly had material sent up to the White House residence, and it was not always clear what happened to it. He sometimes asked to keep material after his intelligence briefings, but aides said he was so uninterested in the paperwork during the briefings themselves that they never unders tood what he wanted it for.
Outside the White House, secure rooms where Trump could review sensitive docu ments were set up at both Mar-a-Lago and the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, although he did not always use them.
Among the items that presidents are given on overseas trips are biographies of foreign leaders, a former administration official said. One version is unclassified and fairly routine. But the other is classified and can contain numerous personal details.
Trump was meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Mar-a-Lago in early 2017, for example, when North Korea laun ched a missile test. Rather than retreating to a secure room, Trump and his advisers reviewed security documents in the open air on the patio, using the flashlight from an iPhone. Paying members and their guests looked on at the show, taking photos and posting them on social media.
“No other president has lived in a ho tel,” said John Bolton, Trump’s third national securityOveradviser.time, Trump bristled against the guardrails people tried placing on him, particularly his second White House chief of staff, John Kelly, who tried to impose a more rigid system for classified information.
Personal information Trump, Bolton said, never told him he planned to take a document and use it for something beyond its value as a memento. It was “sort of whatever he wants to grab for whatever reason,” Bolton said. “He may not even fully appreciate” precisely why he did certain things. But officials worried, particularly about the documents falling into the wrong hands.
Other advisers wondered if Trump kept some documents because they contained details about people he knew.
One of the files the FBI seized at Mara-Lago was marked “info re: President of France,” about Emmanuel Macron.
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Another Trump mystery: Why did he resist returning the government’s documents?
embodied Louis XIV’s phrase “L’état, c’est moi,” or “I am the state,” his own advisers and several outside observers said. “From my own experiences with him, which is bolstered by those around him who are speaking in his defense, his actions seem to fit the pattern that as ‘king,’ he and the state are one and the same,” said Mark S. Zaid, a lawyer who frequently handles cases related to national security and secu rity clearances, including during the Trump presidency. “He seems to honestly believe that everything he touches belongs to him, and that includes government documents that might be classified.”
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Some of those letters were among the trove that Trump had with him at Mar-a-Lago. The former president’s thrills over the intelligence started early. In May 2017, Trump blurted out classified intelligence provided by Israel during a meeting with two high-level Russian government officials, horrifying his national security team. Two years later, when his intelligence briefers showed him a sophisticated and sensitive photo of a failed Iranian rocket launch, Trump was gleeful. “I want to tweet this,” he told the CIA director, the national security adviser and the director of national intelligence, according to a person with direct knowledge of the event. Officials tried to stop him, but Trump went ahead and shared the photo with what were then his 63 million Twitter followers. ‘L’état, c’est moi’
For four years, former President Donald Trump treated the federal government and the political apparatus operating in his name as an extension of his private real estate company. It all belonged to him, he felt, melded together into a Trump brand that he had been nurturing for decades. “My generals,” he repeatedly said of the active-duty and retired military leaders who filled his government. “My money,” he often called the cash he raised through his campaign or for the Republican National Committee. “My Kevin,” he said of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader. And White House documents? “They’re mine,” three of Trump’s advisers said that he stated repeatedly when he was urged to return boxes of documents, some of them highly classified, that the National Archi ves sought after Trump took them with him to Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, Florida, in January 2021. A nearly 18-month back-and-forth between the government and Trump ended in an extraordinary FBI search for the documents at Mar-a-Lago last week. The question, as with so much else around Trump, is why? Why did he insist on refusing to turn over government papers that by law did not belong to him, igniting another legal conflagration? As with so much else related to Trump, there is not one easy answer. Here are the main possibilities. Exciting documents Trump, a pack rat who for decades showed off knickknacks in his overstuffed Trump Tower office — including a giant shoe that once belonged to basketball pla yer Shaquille O’Neal — treated the nation’s secrets as similar trinkets to brandish. White House aides described how excited he was to show off all the material he had access to, including letters from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which he routinely waved at visitors, alarming his advisers.
Efforts intended in previous administra tions to prevent conflicts of interest in the presidency were viewed derisively by Trump, who never divested from his company and kept an eye on his properties, even as he said publicly he had turned over all management to hisTrumpsons.
Trump rarely used a Twitter handle that was assigned to the president, @POTUS, and instead preferred to have his digital director, Dan Scavino, promote the one in Trump’s own name.
Ripping up paper Although Trump White House officials were warned about the proper handling of sensitive material, aides said Trump had little interest in the security of government docu ments or protocols to keep them protected. Early on, Trump became known among his staff as a hoarder who threw all manner of paper — sensitive material, news clips and various other items — into cardboard boxes that a valet or other personal aide would cart around with him wherever he went.
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For 50 years, Alaska’s lone House seat was held by the same larger-thanlife Republican — a sharp-edged, profane-talking congressman with a history of incendiary remarks and ethics violations.Thewoman leading the race to replace Rep. Don Young after Tuesday’s electoral contests is in many ways his opposite: a warm and approachable Democrat with a reputation for kindness and empathy, even to the Republicans she is trying to beat.
On election day, Mary Peltola, 48, exchanged well wishes over text with her more famous and more outspoken Republican rival on the ballot, Sarah Palin. The two have been close since they were both expectant mothers working together in Alaska’s Statehouse, Palin as governor and Peltola as a lawmaker. “I think respect is just a fundamental part of getting things done and working through problems,” Peltola told reporters Tuesday, explaining her approach to cam paigning as the first vote tallies rolled in. Peltola, 48, was leading Palin, 58, in unofficial results Wednesday, a strong showing that thrilled and surprised Demo crats eager to see her become the first Alaska Native in Congress and the first woman to hold the seat.
Peltola, who is Yup’ik, is seen as having the same independent streak and devotion to Alaskan interests as Young, who died in March. Her father and the longtime congressman were close friends, and, as a young girl, she would tag along as he campaigned for Young. But she sharply diverges from Young and her top Republican contenders, including Palin, in her support for abortion rights, her understanding of fishing industries, her clear warnings about climate change and her commitment to sustain communities over corporate interests in developing Alaska’s“Maryresources.hasareal shot at this,” said Beth Kerttula, a Democrat and former minority leader of the Alaska House who served with Peltola in the state Legislature. The winner of the House race could remain unknown for days or even weeks as Alaskan election officials continue to count mail-in ballots sent from some of the most far-flung reaches of the state. Peltola took 38% of the vote in the special election to fill the House seat through January. She is ahead of two top Republicans: Palin, the state’s former governor and Sen. John McCain’s 2008 running mate, and Nick Begich III, a businessman and son of the best-known Democratic family in Alaska politics. Peltola was also leading Palin, Begich and 20 other candidates in a second, sepa rate primary race to fill that seat beyond 2023. If she wins the special election to fill the seat immediately, she will have an incumbent’s advantage in the general election in PeltolaNovember.hassought to highlight her Native roots in a state where more than 15% of the population identifies as In digenous. As a Yup’ik woman, she said, she has sought to use the teachings of her community in her broader appeals for bipartisanship. “Dry fish and pilot bread — that is how I got other legislators in the room when I was rebuilding the bipartisan Bush caucus,” she said in an ad introducing herself to voters. (“Bush caucus” refers to a group of legislators from rural Alaska.)
Peltola — the only Democrat in the 22-candidate primary — served in the Alaska House from 2009 to 2019 before becoming executive director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, which works with tribes to manage salmon resources. She has also served as a council member in Bethel, a small city in western Alaska, and as a judge on the Orutsararmuit Native Council Tribal Court. She has had a sharp rise in the public eye since she came in fourth out of 48 people in a June special election primary. The candidates included Palin, Begich and a council member legally named Santa Claus. Al Gross, an independent who unsuccessfully ran for Senate in 2020 and came in third, soon dropped out of the race and endorsed Peltola, helping clear her path for a strong performance Tuesday.Democratic and Republican poll sters and strategists said Peltola’s lead in the race stemmed from her focus on forging a coalition across class, party and ethnic lines, as well as skepticism about Palin’s political comeback and bickering between Palin and Begich in the campaign. Another advantage was the new, complex voting system that allowed voters on Tuesday to rank their preferences in the special election and was widely seen as designed to favor more centrist candidates. Leaving a polling location in south Anchorage, Maeve Watkins, 52, a nurse, and her 20-year-old daughter, Isabelle, a university student, said they were drawn to Peltola for her strong stance on abortion rights and her pledges to protect Alaska’s resources. “She is a quiet force,” Watkins said. “She is such a good listener. She’s all about kindness and hearing from everyone, but, at the same time, she has a backbone.”
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On Tuesday night, Peltola mingled with a couple dozen supporters at a brewery in central Anchorage, Alaska. She embraced relatives, campaign work ers and longtime friends who had served with her in the Legislature. “I’ve really been an advocate of thinking beyond partisanship and seeing people beyond party lines,” she said. “I think Alaskans are very receptive to that. We often vote for the person and not the party.”
Matar, whose lawyer, Nathaniel L. Barone II, has entered a not guilty plea on his behalf, remains jailed. Barone, a public defender, said he expected a grand jury to consider formal charges against his client in the next several days. Matar’s family came to America from Lebanon, settling first in California before his parents’ marriage dissolved. Matar’s father returned to the village of Yaroun. In New Jersey, where Fardos and her three children had lived for several years after moving from California, opinions about Matar were formed well before last Acquaintancesweek.and relatives described a man who pre ferred to remain at the fringes of daily life. “He’s the cliche of the loner,” said Desmond Boyle, who owns a small garage-style gym where Matar was learning to box.
Police establish a perimeter around the Chautauqua Institution after author Salman Rushdie was attacked, in Chautauqua, N.Y. on Friday, August 12, 2022.
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The FBI, which is leading the investigation, has disclosed no clear motive for the attack. Iran’s Foreign Ministry this week blamed the prizewinning author himself, and denied any role. But as national and international news crews continued to hover outside Fardos’ northern New Jersey house Tuesday, she confirmed that her son returned from a 2018 trip to the Middle East a changed man — reclusive and increasingly focused on his role as a follower of Islam.
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Onlookers at the Chautauqua Institution near Buffalo, New York, who came to listen to Rushdie, 75, deliver a speech, subdued Matar before he was taken into custody.
Matar had worked at a Marshalls clothing store before his arrest, a company official said. His mother told The Daily Mail, a British tabloid, in an interview that she confirmed Tuesday, that he went months without speaking to her or his siblings. He blamed her for encouraging him to focus on academics rather than religious studies.
Jorge Diaz said he often attended the same 6:30 p.m. class as Matar at State of Fitness Boxing Club, a gym in North Bergen, New Jersey, about 2 miles from Matar’s house. “Always, like, isolated,” Diaz, 34, said. “Always by himself — very quiet.”
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Calabrese said she noticed the avatar on the email only after Matar’s arrest: Just to the left of his name is a circular image of a bearded cleric, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s 83-year-old current supreme leader, a copy of the correspondence viewed by The New York Times shows.
Matar had little boxing experience — “two left feet,” Boyle said — and made limited progress during the 27 sessions he attended in the brick-lined workout space filled with punching bags that hang from thePeopleceiling.who witnessed the stabbing at Chau tauqua described the assailant’s raw strength. At the gym, the man photographed after the attack in handcuffs appeared to have little in common with the thin, awkward student they remembered. “He didn’t seem aggressive, because he didn’t know how to fight,” said Diaz, an amateur boxer who has been competing for about three years and tried to offer Matar friendly tips. “There was a couple times where I actually was: ‘This is how you throw a punch. This is how you do it.’ That’s the type of guy he was.” A childhood friend from California recalled a similar lack of aggression. “It is completely out of character for him to do what he is being accused of doing,” said Uriel Alberdin, 26. Alberdin was 10 when he met Matar, then 8. The two became close friends during regular visits the younger boy made to see his father, who lived in Bell, California, a town near Los Angeles, after separating from Matar’s mother, Alberdin said. “It doesn’t sound like him,” said Alberdin, an architecture student who described playing video ga mes with Matar and sharing a love for the comic heroes Spider-Man and Superman. “He was like a best friend to me,” Alberdin said. But the email Matar sent suddenly asking that his gym membership be canceled suggested that he had indeed become interested in the politics of a nation the United States has designated a state sponsor of terrorism.
“I have nothing to say to him,” Fardos said Monday as she walked quickly toward the two-story brick home in Fairview, asking for privacy, her face shielded by a mask, glasses and hat.
It was Khamenei’s predecessor, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who issued the fatwa calling for the death of Rushdie, who quickly became a worldwide symbol of free speech. The edict led the Indian-born writer who was rea red in Britain to live in and out of hiding before eventually moving to the United States, where he has maintained an increasingly public life despite past death threats.
‘I’m done with him’: A mother’s anger over Rushdie attack
“It looked like the saddest day of his life,” Boyle said, “but he came in looking like that every day.” “You can tell he grew up quiet,” he added. “Ma ybe a little bit on the outside. Never really fitting in.”
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He had been scheduled to talk Friday about the United States as a safe haven for exiled writers. Prosecutors said Ma tar had ridden a bus to the Chautauqua Institution’s bucolic 750-acre gated compound, a center founded on the idea of earnest inquiry and discourse. And just after Rushdie sat down, Matar rushed the stage, prosecutors said, and began furiously jabbing his fists at a man three times his age. Witnesses realized moments later that the assailant was holding a knife.
HFACIO-KRAJCERadiMatar had resented being pushed to pursue schoo lwork. At 24, he worked a low-level job at a discount store, made clumsy attempts at boxing and became increasingly focused on religion. Now, accused of trying to kill a preeminent figure of free expression, Matar has lost even the support of his mother. “I’m done with him,” Silvana Fardos said in a brief interview, disavowing Matar, who is accused of repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie in a brazen daytime attack at an intellectual retreat in western New York.
This week, a portrait of Matar as a troubled recluse began to emerge. Fardos said that she had not talked to him since he was charged with attempting to kill Rushdie on Friday. The writer has lived in and out of hiding since Iran’s supreme leader in 1989 issued an edict calling for his death after he published “The Satanic Verses,” which provoked outrage among some Rushdie,Muslims.whowas stabbed roughly 10 times, was hos pitalized with what relatives have described as life-altering injuries. His agent has said he was likely to lose an eye.
Unlike most beginning students, he had arrived in April prepared to register immediately, without first taking a sample class as most students do, said the club’s manager, Rosaria Calabrese.Polite and reserved, he kept almost entirely to himself, rarely speaking above a whisper, several students and ins tructorsBoylesaid.said that he had pulled Matar aside at least twice to engage him, an effort that fell flat. Boyle, a firefighter, said decades as a recovering alcoholic had made him especially attuned to “working with those who need help.”
Trump’s lieutenants installed his sup porters at state parties throughout the country to ward off any potential 2020 primary cha llenge. Because of that, the state chairs and committeemen and women who oversee the Republican National Committee remain in Trump’sWilliamcorner.Kristol, the longtime neocon servative writer turned Trump critic, said the best-case scenario for a Cheney candida cy in the primary would be akin to Eugene McCarthy’s insurgent challenge of President Lyndon Johnson in 1968. McCarthy, an an ti-war Democratic senator from Minnesota, elevated opposition to the Vietnam War and eventually helped drive the president out of the race. (Ultimately, the Republican nomi nee, Richard Nixon, won the White House).
“The path forward is more complicated right now than people want to acknowledge,” said Kristol, adding that she won’t have to make any decisions soon because “the Jan. 6 committee gives her a focus for the next four months.”
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A policy wonk with no great enthu siasm for retail politics, Cheney could build a political operation dedicated to defeating Re publicans who endorse Trump’s false claims of winning the 2020 election. That would inevitably mean openly supporting Demo crats, something she has yet to commit to. On Wednesday, when asked if she believes the country would be better off under Democra tic control in Washington, she dodged. “I think we have to make sure that we are fighting against every single election de nier,” she said. “The election deniers, right now, are Republicans. And I think that it shouldn’t matter what party you are. Nobody should be voting for those people, supporting them or backing them.” Cheney also could focus on laying the groundwork for her own candidacy for presi dent — either as a Republican or as an inde pendent. The latter effort risks peeling away votes from Democrats and ultimately helping Trump win if he runs, as is widely expected. If she runs as an expressly anti-Trump candidate in the 2024 Republican primary, harnessing the media attention that would come with even a long-shot bid, it may only serve to fracture the share of the GOP elec torate eager for a Trump alternative. Cheney needs no reminding that the former president claimed the 2016 nomination with pluralities in many early nominating states, as he had no single, formidable opponent. Cheney could instead decide to mount a third-party candidacy. There’s a well-heeled constituency of donors who would prefer a third option to Trump or President Joe Biden. No Labels, a centrist group, has said it has $50 million in commitments for an indepen dent candidacy and has sought to woo Sen. Joe Manchin, the moderate West Virginia De mocrat as a potential candidate. The group’s organizers, whose efforts were first reported by Politico, is also open to seeding an inde pendent Cheney campaign, according to a person familiar with their thinking and who asked not to be named discussing private con versations.Yetshould she run as a sort of modernday Bull Moose and attempt to forge an alliance with the Democrats, independents and lapsed Republicans she urged to “stand together” in her remarks Tuesday, she may strengthen Trump’s hand further. While she may pick up votes that would otherwise go to the Republican nominee, she also could si phon the critically important support of some moderate voters from the Democratic nomi nee in 2024, whether that’s Biden or someone else. While hardly expecting Cheney to de feat Harriet Hageman, a Cheyenne lawyer, many Trump-skeptical Republicans across the country were watching Wyoming closely, hoping Cheney could at least run competiti vely. That she lost so resoundingly has only confirmed their fears that they are confronting a demand-side challenge: Most Republican primary voters want Trump or one of his aco lytes as their standard-bearer in 2024. Even in New Hampshire, where ma verick candidates in both parties have found success over the decades, longtime Republi cans wondered whether there was a market for a Cheney candidacy within the GOP.
After loss, Cheney begins difficult mission of thwarting Trump
Representative Liz Cheney spoke to her supporters on Tuesday night in Jackson, Wyo., and on Wednesday announced her new anti-Trump political organization.
Hours after her landslide loss, Rep. Liz Cheney wasted no time earlier this week taking her first steps toward what she says is now her singular goal: bloc king Donald Trump from returning to power. Cheney announced that her newly re branded political organization, the Great Task, would be dedicated to mobilizing opposition to Trump. And in an early morning television interview, she for the first time acknowledged what many have suspected: She is “thinking” about running for president in 2024, she said on NBC’s “Today Show,” and would decide in the “comingDespitemonths.”theeffort to shift quickly from her defeat to her future, Cheney and her advi sers remained vague about precisely how the congresswoman, who lost to a Trump-backed primary challenger by 37 points in Wyoming on Tuesday, planned to build a movement that could thwart a figure with a strong hold on many of his party’s voters and a set of im posingAllies,advantages.advisers and Cheney herself in sist there are no detailed plans prepared for her mission. Her focus remains on the panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, they said. (As if to underscore the point, Cheney on Wednesday jetted from Wyoming back to Washington, where Congress is in recess for the summer.)ButCheney’s every move will be wat ched closely by a pocket of the political class that has been increasingly agitating for a third party that they argue could not only block Trump, but ease the rising political polariza tion. “The amount of money that is available for Liz Cheney to continue her work to keep Trump from terrorizing us depends on how good her plans are,” said Dmitri Mehlhorn, an adviser to several major Democratic donors, including Reid Hoffman, the billionaire cofounder of LinkedIn. “If she has really good plans, then the amount of money available to her is definitely in the double-digit millions.”
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“I’d love to see a path forward for her because I’m one of those frustrated Republi cans, but I’m left pondering the appeal of a traditional-style candidacy given the disap pointing results last night,” said Maura Wes ton, the former finance chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party. Even more depressing to Cheney’s ad mirers is that the party itself, at both the sta te and national level, is so in thrall to Trump that even a protest campaign may not prove fruitful.
— For any other vehicles purchased af ter Tuesday, but before the end of this year, the new North American assembly rules apply. That means your choices for a quali fying car or truck have been limited fairly sig nificantly, compared with what they were on Monday. But under Treasury’s guidance, that’s the only new rule that takes effect this year. If your household earns more than $300,000 annually, or you’re eyeing a Rivian pickup truck or SUV with options that push its price above $80,000, you have a few months left to make a purchase that qualifies for the credit.
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Another part of the extension has made other vehicles ineligible for the credit, even if they did qualify a few days ago. That’s becau se the law immediately restricts the credit to vehicles that are assembled in North America — a limit that rules out several electric cars made by Hyundai, Porsche, Toyota and Kia. Only 21 car and truck models, including three from Rivian and a half-dozen from under the Ford umbrella, for 2022 and 2023 are eli gible to receive the credit if buyers snag them after Tuesday but before the end of the year. The Energy Department released a list of vehi cles that probably still qualify. It gets trickier from there. Starting next year, there will be limits on how much a qualifying vehicle can cost, and how much income an individual or household can earn to be eligible for the credit. Eventua lly, the law phases in requirements for how much of the vehicle’s battery must be made in North America to qualify.
— No later than 2024, the government will begin applying the requirements for bat tery content, a portion of which must be sou rced from North America. It will also require critical minerals for the electric motor to be sourced from the United States or a country with which it has a free-trade agreement — a list that notably excludes China. The percenta ge requirements will ramp up over time. That could knock more vehicles out of eligibility.
Or, if the Democrats’ bet pays off, it could push automakers to bring more of their supply chain and production to the United States.
By JIM TANKERSLEY If you are a well-paid lawyer eyeing an elec tric Rivian SUV, you might want to buy it before New Year’s Day. If you’re a middleclass nurse saving up for a compact Chevrolet Bolt, you might want to wait until January. Those calculations — and a host of others pertaining to the red-hot electric vehi cle market — come courtesy of an energy, tax and health care law that President Joe Biden signed Tuesday. It includes more than $370 billion in spending and tax incentives meant to address climate change, largely by encoura ging people, businesses and electric utilities to reduce their use of fossil fuels. One incentive is the extension of a tax credit for the purchase of electric cars and trucks that can be worth up to $7,500.Butthat extension is complicated. The new law, passed with only Demo cratic votes in the House and Senate, contains lots of new rules that do not all take effect at the same time. Many of those new conditions were added to win over Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who has expressed reservations about offering subsidies for electric vehicle models that are so popular they have waiting lists stretching out for months. A central feature of the extension is that it will allow vehicles made by General Motors or Tesla to qualify for the tax credit. Cars made by the two companies had lost access to the credit in recent years because the companies had each already sold more than 200,000 electric vehicles, a quota that the new law does away with, but only starting next year.
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—Starting next year, the income limits and the vehicle-price limits kick in. Some ve hicles will regain their eligibility for the cre dit — initially, that means any electric SUV, pickup truck or van made by General Motors or Tesla that costs $80,000 or less (provided you’re under the income limit) or any sedan that costs $55,000 or less.
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The reason for those restrictions is two fold. First, Democrats in Congress and Biden do not want to encourage only electric vehicle sales; they also want to push automakers to as semble electric cars and their batteries in the United States, from components that are made domestically or by friendly countries. A cen tral aim is to make the United States less re liant on China, which currently controls much of the supply chain of electric car batteries. This is what economists call industrial policy: using the power of government to fos ter the growth of strategically chosen domes tic industries. Democrats are betting that auto makers will change where they buy materials and make cars and batteries to take advantage of the new Second,credits.the income limits are an effort to keep relatively high earners from benefiting from the government incentives. Tesla’s fastgrowing sales in recent years have demons trated that buyers of luxury cars are willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars on electric cars that are not eligible for tax credits. The whole package has left industry analysts — and some prospective car buyers — confused about the details. The Treasury Department began to issue guidance this week on how all those new rules and limits will be implemented. It will be a while before all the guidelines are set. This is what we know so far: — If you bought an electric vehicle bet ween the start of the year and Tuesday, and it previously qualified for the credit, don’t sweat it. You can still claim the credit on your taxes next year.— If you ordered a qualifying elec tric vehicle before Tuesday and it hasn’t yet arrived at the dealer, you can most likely still claim the credit, provided you entered into a “written binding contract.” The Internal Reve nue Service has said that could be as simple as having put down a nonrefundable deposit.
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The ruling is the first by a federal judge that assigns a firm money figure against the phar macy chains for their roles in the opioid crisis. Here, the judge, Dan Polster of the U.S. Dis trict Court in northern Ohio, who has overseen more than 3,000 cases in the opioid litigation, ruled that the pharmacies bore responsibility for one-third of the amount that Ohio’s hard-hit Lake and Trumbull counties need to address the continuing damage wrought by the epidemic. Drug manufacturers and drug distributors, two other groups in the pharmaceutical chain that have been sued, also bear responsibility, he said.Mark Lanier, the Texas lawyer who led the plaintiffs’ trial team, said of the pharmacy cha ins, “These companies are rending the fabric of society apart. They should not only show re morse; they should show they need to rectify what they’ve done. And they won’t do it. So the judge is doing Representativesit.” for CVS, Walgreens and Walmart expressed their disappointment in Polster’s ruling and said their companies would appeal. Fraser Engerman, a spokesperson for Walgreens, described the judge’s analysis as flawed and said the company would appeal. “We never manufactured or marketed opioids, nor did we distribute them to the ‘pill mills’ and internet pharmacies that fueled this crisis,” he said.Michael DeAngelis, a CVS spokesperson, also said the company would appeal, adding, “Pharmacists fill legal prescriptions written by DEA-licensed doctors who prescribe legal, FDA-approved substances to treat actual pa tients in Randyneed.”Hargrove, a spokesperson for Wal mart, said, “Instead of addressing the real cau ses of the opioid crisis, like pill mill doctors, illegal drugs and regulators asleep at the switch, plaintiffs’ lawyers wrongly claimed that phar macists must second-guess doctors in a way the law never intended and many federal and state health regulators say interferes with the doctorpatient relationship. ” At trial, Lanier’s experts said the counties would need more than $3 billion, which he described as an amount equivalent to “the sun, the moon and the stars.” Polster, however, had agreed only to “the moon,” Lanier added, ack nowledging that he was nonetheless quite plea sed with that result.
By JAN HOFFMAN Afederal judge this week ordered three of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains — CVS, Walgreens and Walmart — to pay $650.5 million to two Ohio counties, ruling that the companies must be held accountable for their part in fueling the opioid epidemic. The decision is a companion piece to a November jury verdict that found the compa nies had continued to dispense mass quantities of prescription painkillers over the years while ignoring flagrant signs that the pills were being abused.
The money must be paid in installments over 15 years, the judge ruled. He also ordered the companies to comply with a strict series of monitoring and reporting rules within 90 days to ensure that they improve how they dispense opioids and spot potential problems. Those re quirements include putting in place hotlines for anonymous tips and policies for internal com pliancePolstercommittees.notedthat both CVS and Walgre ens had already agreed to such restrictions in a May settlement of opioid claims with the state of Florida. Although such practices should al ready exist in accordance with federal regula tions, this order gives additional oversight to an outsidePolster’sadministrator.rulingnot only sharply scolds the pharmacy chains for their business dealings in the two Ohio counties but also implicitly stands as a warning to these companies in other pending cases. Of the three groups of de fendants, the pharmacy chains have been the most reluctant to settle cases.
Even after the Cleveland jury found aga inst them, Polster noted, the defendants “lar gely ignored” his orders to submit remedial proposals of their own. In contrast to the volu minous plans offered by the counties, the jud ge wrote, the pharmacy chains’ suggestions for addressing the continuing epidemic amounted to a scant three-paragraph description of drug take-backWalgreensprograms.could be in line to pay yet another heavy award for its practices during the opioid epidemic. Earlier this month, a fe deral judge who had presided over a bench trial in a case brought by the city and county of San Francisco issued a blunt ruling against the company, holding it responsible for looking the other way while the wreckage brought by opioid abuse piled up. A hearing to determine what Walgreens must pay to rebuild budgets depleted by the epidemic has yet to be sche duled.
Adam Zimmerman, who teaches complex litigation at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles and who has closely followed the national opioid litigation, said, “Just imagine the costs for the other 3,000 similar plaintiffs in this litigation, or the nearly 20,000 incorporated cities around the country. With those kinds of numbers, it’s no wonder so many defendants have chosen to settle out of court.”
Judge Dan Polster, who presided over a major case against opioids manufacturers and distributors, in Cleveland, Jan. 29, 2018.
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Earlier this month, for example, the nation’s big three distributors settled with more than 100 West Virginia counties and cities for $400 million for their business practices during the opioid epidemic. Loosely comparing that settlement to Polster’s ruling, Lanier said the takeaway was that “it’s a heck of a lot cheaper to settle than it is to lose at trial.” Referring to the pharmacies, he added, “I mean, they could have settled this for a heck of a lot less than they’re doing now.”
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The S&P 500 gained in a choppy session after strong earn ings results from Nvidia, the world’s largest chipmaker by market value, and various retailers. The S&P 500 was 0.3% higher to 4,704.54 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.5% to 15,993.71. The Dow fell 60 points, or 0.1%, dragged lower by big losses in Cisco shares. The S&P 500 fell as much as 0.3% at one point before recovering. The markets are in a normal seasonal lull coming off earn ings season, according to Jay Hatfield, CEO of Infrastructure Capital Management. Refreshed Covid concerns weighed on short-term trades too, he added, particularly in travel stocks and other reopening plays. Even with those mixed market moves, company earnings continue to show strength and eventually pushed the major averages higher. Nvidia shares surged 8.3% after the company reported beats on the top and bottom lines and issued a bullish revenue forecast for the current quarter ending in January. The chipmaker saw a 55% gain in data center sales from the same period a year ago and a 42% increase in gaming, its biggest market. The gain brought its market value to $791 billion. Nvidia’s strong results caused investors to buy other chip makers. Advanced Micro Devices moved more than 2.4% higher. Qualcomm ticked up by more than 1%, and Micron Technology added 2%. Separately, GlobalFoundries saw a big pop after revealing it entered a partnership with Ford to help the automaker increase its chip supply. Its shares ended the day higher by 2.5%. Investors also moved into tech stocks broadly as U.S. Trea sury yields took a dip of roughly 2 basis points. Scott Brown, technical strategist for LPL Financial, noted the S&P 500 In formation Technology sector has gained 27% in the past six months, outperforming the broader S&P 500 by more than 10%.“The theme of 2021 has been rotation, rotation, rotation,” he said. “But technology is the only sector to recently hit a 52-week relative high and we believe that sets up a favorable outlook heading into 2022.”
In other tech moves, Apple jumped 2.9% to an all-time high after Bloomberg News reported the company is refo cusing its electric vehicle efforts on self-driving capabilities. Amazon gained 4% as its first cashierless coffeeshop, which it partnered on with Starbucks, opened in New York. It also got a lift from continued positive momentum in retail, particularly in digital. Earnings reports from big retailers continued to lift stocks. Macy’s and Kohl’s kicked the day off smashing quarterly profit and revenue estimates, much like their peers who reported earlier in the week. Macy’s shares surged more than 21%. The company re ported comparable sales growth, on an owned plus licensed basis, of 35.6%, and digital sales increased by 19%. It also teased the launch of a digital marketplace next year, and said 41% of its 4.4 million new customers in the quarter came through the digital channel.
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Among the major challenges is the danger fighting po sed to the giant Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which is con trolled by Russia. Guterres again called for a demilitarized zone to be established around it, an idea that has been re jected by ShellingRussia.has endangered the plant and raised the chan ces of a nuclear accident, U.N. officials have warned. Ukrai ne has accused Russian forces of using the plant as a base for rocket attacks and of causing explosions on the grounds in false-flag operations. Russia accuses Ukraine of attacking the site with artillery.
But Thursday’s news conference came as requests from Guterres and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey for Russia and Ukraine to sit down at the negotiating table have been buried in issues that have only exacerbated the two sides’ willingness to keep fighting. During his opening remarks, President Volodymyr Ze lenskyy of Ukraine recounted a conversation he had with Erdogan earlier in the day. The Turkish president said that the “grain initiative opens the window of opportunity for further peace negations,” Zelenskyy said. “And I said ‘there is no trust to Russians who rape and shell and fire cruise missiles at Ukrainians.’” He added, “First they have to free all of our territories and then we will see.”
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By LYNSEY ADDARIO and MARC SANTORA B y spring, a semblance of normal life had returned to Bucha after 33 days of terror. The destroyed remnants of the Russian army, which was driven out of the city by April, were long gone, and the rhythms of normal life had returned. Now, nearly six months since the Russians abandoned their effort to seize Kyiv and left behind mass graves of slaughtered civilians in this Kyiv suburb, Bucha is bustling. But they are still burying the dead. On Wednesday, another 21 bodies were put into the ground. They had no names, only numbers.When No. 124 was taken from the truck brought to ferry the dead, two feet, bony and bruised, peeked out of the soiled black body bag. A grave digger put No. 154 in the ground, a vast row of crosses behind him. After roughly 400 bodies of Ukrainians were discovered in April, the killing of civi lians in Bucha quickly became a symbol of the savagery of the war. Hundreds have been buried; those put in the ground Wednesday were among the last. The Rev. Andrii Halavin, the priest of the town’s church, has buried nearly all of the town’s unidentified dead. He performed the task one more time, offering a traditional pra yer for the dead, walking around the graves with incense and blessing each one. But as an anxious nation looks south, to the lands occupied by Russia for nearly six months, there is growing fear that the burials in Bucha were not just a coda to one tragedy but perhaps a prelude to another. Every day, more stories of Russian brutality are being told by witnesses who managed to flee places under Russian occupation. The stories they tell bear striking similari ties to the crimes committed in Bucha. People taken from their homes at night and never seen again. Looting, torture, murder. The sto ries come pouring out of people who have fled, nearly all impossible to independently verify but also bearing many of the same hall marks of the documented atrocities in Bucha. As Ukraine attacks Russian positions deep behind enemy lines with the assistance of lo cal partisans, the reports of brutal efforts to weed out the insurgents have grown.
UN chief urges Ukraine and Russia to continue grain deal’s ‘spirit of compromise’
Burial teams prepare unidentified bodies to be laid to rest in Bucha, Ukraine, on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. The official
Guterres acknowledged the litany of issues around the plant but did not attribute blame to either side for the attacks. “We must tell it like it is — any potential damage to Zaporizhzhia is suicide,” Guterres said, echoing his pre vious comments. He added that an agreement was urgently needed to reestablish the plant as a purely civilian area and ensure its safety. But Zelenskyy made it clear that no agreement was possible unless Russia withdrew its forces from the halfsquare-mile plant, which has six reactors. And in Moscow, the Russian Ministry of Defense accused Ukrainian forces of preparing a “terrorist attack” involving the nuclear complex. Guterres also spoke about a U.N. fact-finding mission announced this month into an explosion at a Russian prison camp that killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war. At the news conference, Guterres announced that a Brazilian general, Carlos dos Santos Cruz, would lead this mission. “To put it simply, a fact-finding mission must be free to find the facts,”Guterres said. Each side has blamed the other — with Russian officials claiming that Ukrainians attacked the prison themselves, to deter defectors, and Ukrainian authorities rejecting the na rrative as absurd and saying that the deaths were a preme ditated atrocity committed by Russian forces from within the prison.
António Guterres urged Mos cow and Kyiv on Thursday to continue to show the “spirit of compromise” that led to a breakthrough grain deal, but any hope for ending the conflict through di plomacy appeared far off. Guterres traveled to western Ukraine and met with the Ukrainian and Turkish presidents. There, they assessed the state of grain exports, which have been steadily flowing from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports since the beginning of the month, and discussed the hopes for a political solution to end the violence. The risks posed by fighting near Europe’s largest nu clear power plant in Zaporizhzhia was also a topic at the meeting, and Ukraine’s foreign minister said on Thursday that the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency had accepted a Ukrainian invitation to lead a delegation to the plant.“From day one, the parties have worked professionally and in good faith to keep the food flowing,” Guterres said at a news conference after the meeting, referring an agree ment last month to allow Ukrainian grain exports to resume flowing from Black Sea ports. “I appeal for this to continue and for them to overcome all obstacles in the spirit of com promise and permanently settle all differences.”
In Bucha, burials continue for victims of wartime atrocities
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In the sticky heat of an August afternoon, the stench of the dead filling the air, the task in Bucha was as simple as it was grim: to try to offer some dignity in death to those whose identity in life remains unknown. The official tally of the dead in Bucha, re leased by the City Council last week as the burials began, is 458. They include nine chil dren. But officials said it was probably an in complete tally. And after the numbers were released, a Bucha Territorial Community foot patrol found a human body in the forest near the side of road. The body belongs to a resident of Kyiv, born in 1964, who was shot by the Russian invaders, according to a statement by the Bu cha City Council. The victim’s daughter, the Council said, was kidnapped by the Russians and taken to the territory of Belarus on Feb. 28. Her whereabouts remain unknown.
Transmission lines of a hydropower station in Aseral, Norway, on Aug. 16, 2022, that supplies electricity to Denmark as well as southern Norway.
By JASON HOROWITZ
I n a Nordic land famous for its steep fjords, where water is very nearly a way of life, Sverre Eikeland scaled down the boulders that form the walls of one of Norway’s chief reservoirs, past the driftwood that protruded like something caught in the dam’s teeth, and stood on dry land that should have been dee ply submerged.“Youseethe band where the vegeta tion stops,” said Eikeland, 43, the chief ope rating officer of Agder Energi, pointing at a stark, arid line 50 feet above the Skjerkevatn reservoir’s surface. “That’s where the water level should be.” “We are not familiar with drought,” he added with a shrug. “We need water.”
Europe’s scorching summer puts unexpected strain on energy supply
In addition to the Russian gas cuts, a spike in demand as the economy emerges from the pandemic, a failure to add other renewables like wind to its energy portfolio, and the worst drought in years have sent Norway’s electri city prices to record levels, especially in the more heavily populated south. While Norway is eager to integrate into the European market, the resource-rich cou ntry, which is a major exporter of gas, is un der pressure to keep more of its energy for itself. “The best way to solve this crisis and get energy security is to as fast as possible be in dependent from Russian gas,” said Syvertsen. “But that is a big task.”
It has been a summer of heat and drought across Europe, affecting nearly every part of the economy and even its normally cool re gions, a phenomenon aggravated by man-ma de climate change. France has been scarred by vast wildfires, and its Loire Valley is so dry the river can be crossed in places on foot. The Rhine in Germany is inches deep in parts, pa ralyzing essential commerce and stranding ri verboat cruises. Italy is drier than at any time since 1800, and the growers of its iconic rice used for risotto now risk losing their harvest. But perhaps the drought’s most surpri sing impact can be found in Norway’s usua lly drenched south, where sheep have gotten stuck in exposed mud banks and salmon have lacked enough water to migrate upriver. Hy dropower reservoir supplies — responsible for 90% of Norway’s electricity as well as electricity exports to several of its neighbors — have sunk to the lowest point in 25 years, causing shortages that have driven up both prices and political tensions.
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On Tuesday, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store told the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, during a visit to Oslo that while Norway would keep its commitments for de livery of electricity to the EU market, it could not spare any extra exports of gas. And Germany needs more gas. The seve re drought there has reignited talk of investing in nuclear power and has dried up the wa terways crucial for transporting coal. Germany’s coal-fired power plants dot the Rhine’s banks from Duisburg in the West to Karlsruhe close to France, but the shallow water level means that large, coal-bearing cargo ships can carry only about a third of their capacity. Last week, Uniper, a major utility, annou nced that it would have to lower output from two of its coal-burning power plants because not enough coal could be brought up the Rhi ne to fire them at full potential. On Wednesday, the official level of the Rhine at Emmerich am Rhein, a town just upstream from the Dutch border, fell below zero, shattering a record set in October 2018. Boats that run too deep to make it up to the higher reaches of the Rhine must now stop to offload some coal and continue on with a lighter load. Smaller boats have sought to pick up the slack, clogging up the waterways. “We have a lot more ships on the quay wall,” said Pascal van Berk, a dispatcher at Orsay coal harbor just north of Duisburg, where a sprinkler system runs around the clock to suppress coal dust and workers load 150 train carriages of coal to carry to already overtaxed rail yards. “I have a lot more to do.”
The summer’s extreme heat and devas tating drought, coming on top of Russia’s weaponization of natural gas exports — in response to European Union sanctions for its war in Ukraine — have all combined to expose the vulnerabilities of Europe’s energy system in unexpected places and unanticipa ted ways.InFrance, the warmed rivers have threa tened the use of nuclear reactors. In Ger many, the Rhine is too low to transport the coal to which the country is resorting in order to make up for lost Russian gas. And in Bri tain, the driest July in almost 90 years ignited wildfires around London and left thousands of northern homes without electricity. “We call it a perfect storm,” said Steffen Syvertsen, the CEO of Agder Energi, who was in nearby Arendal, where the country’s poli tical and industry leaders gathered to debate whether the “Energy Crisis,” as the local me dia now call it, required a revisiting of elec tricity export deals with the European Union and Britain, or new subsidies for Norwegians to alleviate skyrocketing prices.
The reservoirs were about 60% full, about 10% less than the average over the pre vious two decades, according to data from the energy Southernregulator.Norway, which holds more than a third of the country’s reservoirs, is dotted with red barns on green fields and fis hing boats along the coast. On a stream in the Agder region, a sign put up by the energy company, like a relic from another time, war ned, “The water level can rise suddenly and without warning.”
The most severe drought on record in France has also cost the country’s energy production, as nuclear plants responsible for more than 70% of the country’s electricity had to cut down activity temporarily to avoid discharging dangerously warm water into ri vers.Many of France’s 56 nuclear plants were already offline for maintenance issues. But the rivers that cool reactors have become so warm as a result of the punishing heat that strict rules designed to protect wildlife have prevented the flushing of the even warmer water from the plants back into the France’swaterways.nuclear power regulator granted temporary waivers this month allowing five plants to continue dis charging warmed water into rivers out of what it called “a public necessity.” In Britain, the extreme heat that turned lush fields to straw has led power grid operators to hire more wor kers amid fears of electricity shortages. In Norway, a winter without much snow and an exceptionally dry spring, including the driest April in 122 years, reduced water levels in lakes and rivers. Shallow waters in Mjosa, the country’s largest lake, kept its famed Ski bladner paddle wheel boat tied up at port and prompted city officials in Oslo to send out text messages urging people to take shorter showers and avoid watering lawns. “Do that for Oslo,” read the text messa ge, “so that we’ll still have water for the most important things in our lives.” In May, Stat nett SF, the operator of the national electricity grid, raised the alarm about shortfalls. But the skies offered no relief and this month, as the country’s hydro reservoirs — especially in the south — approached what Energy Minister Terje Aasland has called “very low” levels, hydropower producers cut output to save water for the coming winter.
But recent months have shown that there is danger in the water level dropping, too.
Reservoirs had dwindled to their lowest point in 20 years, at just 46% full. One, Rygene, was so low as to force the tempo rary closing of the plant. On Tuesday, the rainstorms returned, but the ground was so dry, Eikeland said as he surveyed the ba sin, that the earth “drinks up all the water” and the water levels in the reservoirs barely rose.
López Obrador, who hails Cárdenas as an inspiration, has made regaining a near monopoly over energy for the state a top priority. One of his first acts was installing loyalists on the board of an energy regulatory commission responsible for over seeing the power sector, turning what had been an inde pendent agency, analysts say, into a tool to carry out the president’s agenda. “You’ve lost any semblance of autonomy or indepen dence there,” said Jeremy M. Martin, vice president for ener gy and sustainability at the Institute of the Americas, a public policy research institute.
The president’s press office, Mexico’s Energy Ministry and the state electric company did not respond to requests for comment. López Obrador has argued that while the transition to renewable energy will happen eventually, Mexico is simply not ready. “That technological advancement will become a reali ty,” he said during the refinery inauguration. “To get there, we need more time.”
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López Obrador’s governing Morena party also appro ved a bill to rewrite rules governing how power plants inject electricity to the grid, reversing previous changes that requi red cheaper, often renewable energy to be dispatched first, and instead prioritizing state-owned plants.
The Biden administration said recently it was seeking high-level discussions with Mexico over its energy policies, raising the specter of new tariffs.
O n a recent scorching afternoon in his home state of Tabasco, the president of Mexico celebrated his government’s latest triumph: a new oil refinery. Though not yet operational, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador hailed the refinery as a centerpiece in his grand campaign to secure Mexico’s energy independence. “We ignored the sirens’ song, the voices that predicted, in good faith, perhaps, the end of the oil age and the massive arrival of electric cars and renewable energies,” he told the cheering crowd. At a moment when scientists are sounding alarms about the need to move away from fossil fuels that contribute to catastrophic climate change, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked a global shift in the opposite direction, with the United States and European countries moving to increase oil and gas production to counter bans on Russian energy. But Mexico is going even further. Driven by López Obrador’s long-held goal to wrest con trol of the energy sector from private companies and allow state firms to dominate the market, the government is under mining efforts to expand renewable power and staking the nation’s future on fossil fuels. The policy is central to López Obrador’s ambition to reverse what he sees as corrupt privatization of the industry, guarantee Mexican energy sovereignty and return the coun try to the glory days when oil created thousands of jobs and helped bolster the economy. To this end, Mexican authorities are using the might of their regulatory agencies to keep renewable firms out of the market, blocking their power plants from operating, and ins tead propping up fossil fuel-powered plants owned or run by the state, according to interviews with more than a dozen former government officials, analysts and energy executives.
With U.S. firms already having invested heavily in the Mexican energy sector, the policy changes have become an increasing source of tension with Washington.
The authorities’ targeting of the renewable sector has had a major economic impact: Foreign direct investment in the energy sector plunged from $5 billion in 2018, when Ló pez Obrador took office, to less than $600 million last year, according to government figures.
A solar plant that has not yet opened in Jalisco, Mexico, July 14, 2022.
López Obrador has also focused on reversing sweeping energy reforms approved by his predecessor, which opened Mexican energy markets to private companies, including fo reign firms working on renewables, for the first time in deca des. In 2019, he canceled a public auction for the rights to generate wind and solar power, even though earlier auctions had led to some of the world’s cheapest renewable prices.
The Mexican leader has said his country would be open to foreign investment in renewable projects only if the ener gy ministry was in charge of planning and the state-owned utility company had a majority share — a likely violation of Mexico’s trade agreement with the United States.
The government has not completely abandoned re newable energy. It plans to spend about $1.6 billion to build a giant solar plant in northern Mexico as well as refurbish more than a dozen state-owned hydroelectric plants. Mexico generates nearly 80% of its energy from fossil fuels, while renewables and nuclear power provide the re maining 20%, according to government figures.
“Mexico is not open for energy investment,” Payan said. “It’s simply shut down.”
By OSCAR LÓPEZ
Mexico sees its energy future in fossil fuels, not renewables
As a result, Mexico will almost certainly fail to meet its pledge to the world to reduce its carbon output, according to analysts. The country has also potentially jeopardized bi llions of dollars in renewable investment and created another source of tension with the Biden administration, which has made combating climate change a key pillar of its foreign policy“Peopleagenda.say: ‘How is he going to fulfill his commitments to climate change?’ And I always tell people, ‘Well, he doesn’t care,’” Tony Payan, a Mexico expert at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, said of López Obrador. “He’s an oil man.”
López Obrador’s supporters also contend that the government’s strategy will allow the state more control over the energy sector and any shift to renewables. The policy is critical in a country where public oversight of the private sector has often been weak, according to Fluvio Ruíz Alar cón, an analyst and former adviser at Pemex, the state-ow ned oil firm. “Once a sector as important in our country as energy is controlled by private hands, state regulation becomes very, very difficult,” Ruíz said. Keeping the sector under state con trol “gives you the ability to manage the energy transition at your own pace.”
The new law, which was widely criticized by the private sector and environmentalists, was narrowly upheld by the Supreme Court in April, but it remains tied up in several lawsuits. Government authorities have also prevented at least 14 privately owned wind and solar plants that have already been built from operating commercially, according to two industry executives who requested anonymity out of fear of government reprisals. And even as it blocks renewable energy, the state is planning to invest $6.2 billion to build 15 fossil fuel-powered plants by 2024, government documents show.
López Obrador has insisted that Mexico will meet its goal under the 2015 Paris Agreement to produce 35% of its power from renewable sources by 2024, but a government report released this year showed that the country is now years behind that target. Many environmentalists and renewable energy experts said they were focused on Mexico’s next presidential elec tions in two years, hoping for an administration friendlier to renewable“Whoeverpower.takes office in 2024 is going to have to deal with some serious deficiencies in the energy sector,” Martin said. But as far as the Paris Agreement, he added, “that ship has sailed.”
For Mexico, sovereignty over energy production holds a special place. In the 1930s, President Lázaro Cárdenas seized the assets of foreign oil firms, including U.S. corporations, accused of exploiting Mexican workers and nationalized the industry, an iconic event celebrated as a national holiday.
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“Following this trend, future extreme heat waves will affect even larger areas and impact more population,” said Xiaoming Shi, an as sistant professor in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s environment and sustainability“Everyone,division.fromindividuals to city gover nors and developers, should prepare for the new norm of extremes and be aware that tho se new extreme events can be dangerous,” he said. China’s heat river
By TIFFANY MAY and JOY DONG
With scant rainfall, the Yangtze River, the world’s third-longest river, has receded to a record low, with water levels falling by 16-20 feet compared with the same period last year. “The situation of the reservoirs in the up per reaches of the Yangtze River is grim,” Liu Weiping, deputy minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, said at a news conference Wednesday, adding that the low level of ra infall and water flowing in from various river sources is expected to last until next month. The drought has severely strained elec tricity supplies in Sichuan, a province heavily dependent on hydropower. The capacity of Sichuan’s hydropower plants has fallen by half, Zhou Jian, deputy chief engineer of the State Grid Sichuan Electric Power Control Center, said on state television. To conserve energy, subway stations and trains in Sichuan’s provincial capital, Cheng du, turned off overhead lights to conserve energy, while office buildings there as well as in Dazhou, a neighboring city, were asked to stop using air conditioning. The province also issued an order to factories to suspend operations from Aug. 15-20, and Toyota and Foxconn, a supplier for Apple, were among companies that confirmed that their factories wouldClimatecomply.scientists said that the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events will increase in the next few decades, given the slow reduction in greenhouse gas emissions globally. Even as parts of China were parched with drought, other areas saw heavy rainfall — including in Xining, a northwestern city, where flash floods Thursday killed 16 people and left 36 missing, state media reported.
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F aced with China’s most searing heat wave in six decades, factories in the country’s southwest are being forced to close. A severe drought has shrunk rivers, disrupting the region’s supply of water and hydropower and prompting officials to limit electricity to businesses and homes. In two cities, office buildings were ordered to shut off the air con ditioning to spare an overextended electrical grid, while elsewhere in southern China local governments urged residents and businesses to conserve energy. The rolling blackouts and factory shutdowns, which affected Toyota and Fox conn, a supplier for Apple, point to the ways that extreme weather is adding to China’s eco nomic woes. The economy has been headed toward its slowest pace of growth in years, dra gged down by the country’s stringent COVID policy of lockdowns, quarantines and travel restrictions, as consumers tightened spending and factories produced less. Youth unemploy ment has reached a record high, while trouble in the real estate sector has set off an unusual surge of public discontent. Now China is also facing an intense heat wave that has swept across the country for more than two months, from central Sichuan province to coastal Jiangsu, with temperatu res often exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). In the southwestern metropolis of Chongqing, the mercury rose to 113 Fahren heit Thursday, prompting the government to issue its highest heat warning for the eighth time this summer. The country has recorded an average of 12 days of high temperatures this summer, about five days more than usual, and the heat wave is forecast to persist for at least another week, according to statistics from the official China Meteorological Center. The intense heat is expected to signifi cantly reduce the size of China’s rice harvest because it has caused long periods of drought, drying up rice paddies that are irrigated by rain, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. “At this time, the heat has the biggest impact, and has brought about extremely un favorable effects,” Fang Fuping, a researcher at the China Rice Research Institute in Hang zhou, told an official news outlet. The intense weather is affecting other agriculture as well. In the eastern city of Hang zhou, tea farmers preparing for the fall harvest have covered their crops with nets in an effort to shield them from the scorching heat. In the cities, motorists donned face co verings and sleeves to protect themselves from sunburn. Residents and delivery workers sought cool in underground shelters or with a swim in rivers and pools. Office workers tried to cool off with ice and frozen snacks. “It’s too hot, like a furnace,” said Ella Wan, a 24-year-old property agent in the eas tern city of Hangzhou. She found welcome relief from tepid office air conditioning by pla cing a large bucket of ice on the floor by her feet. “It has an effect on both the physics and the psychology,” she said. Humans were not the only ones oppres sed by the heat. Pandas in zoos lay on sheets of melting ice. Pigs being transported by truck in the southwestern city of Chongqing beca me dehydrated, prompting firefighters to hose them down. Chickens rejected their feed and struggled to lay eggs in the heat, causing egg prices to surge across the country, according to state media reports. Li Xinyi, owner of a chicken farm in the eastern city of Hefei, told a local news site that he had installed a large fan in his henhouse that he said could keep temperatures from ex ceeding 88 Fahrenheit, but said he was still getting fewer eggs than usual. Another farmer, in the central province of Henan, told a state news outlet that about 20% of his hens were refusing to lay eggs. In Chongqing, a sprawling metropolis in southwestern China with around 20 million people, the heat has been compounded by a severe drought, parching 51 rivers and 24 reservoirs and disrupting the water supply of more than 300,000 residents. Several other provinces are also experiencing droughts that are expected to worsen in the coming weeks.
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Falsehoods about diets and school shootings easily spread in the app, Tiffany reported, as have variations on the PizzaGate conspiracy. And on the serious even if not terrible side, American politicians and their allies are embracing TikTok to spread their campaign messages and promote policies such as the Child Tax Credit. This may not be exactly what TikTok has in mind. Executives have continued to describe TikTok as an entertainment app. And sure, most people use TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest, Nextdoor, YouTube and Twitch in fun, productive and informative ways. But it is inevitable that apps must plan for what will go wrong when online conversations eventually encompass the full scope of human interest. That will include political information and social activist movements, as well as nasty insults and even incitements to violence and hawking of bogus products for financial gain.
Wasn’t TikTok supposed
The tricky part, of course, is how to manage apps that evolve from “We’re just for fun!” to “We take our responsibility seriously.” (TikTok said that almost verbatim in its blog post on Wednesday.)
There is a predictable trajectory for social media apps. Many of them start out as helpful or even pure fun. But when they get popular enough, just about every app becomes a place for consequential discussions about politics and social issues, too. And with that comes both meaningful conversations and a litany of nastiness. This reality has come for TikTok. An app better known for viral dance videos has become a significant source of political and social misinformation, as my colleague Tiffany Hsu detailed in a recent article.
Pinterest is best known for pretty posts for wedding planning or meal inspiration, but it also has policies to weed out false information about vaccines and steers people to reliable sources when they search for terms related to self-harm. Roblox is a silly virtual world, but it also takes precautions — such as exhorting people to “be kind” — in case children and young adults want to use the app to do harmful things such as bullying someone. TikTok knows that people use the app to discuss politics and social movements, and with that comes the potential risks. On Wednesday, TikTok laid out its plans to protect the 2022 U.S. elections from harmful propaganda and unsubstantiated rumors. Maybe more so than other apps, TikTok doesn’t start with a presumption that each post is equally valid or that what becomes popular should be purely the will of the masses. TikTok creates trending hashtags, and reporters have found the app may have tried to direct people away from some material, like Black Lives Matter protests. (TikTok is owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance. And posts on Douyin, ByteDance’s version of TikTok in China, are tightly controlled, as all sites in China are.)Whether TikTok is more or less effective at managing humans than Facebook or YouTube is open to debate. So is the question of whether Americans should feel comfortable with an app owned by a Chinese company influencing people’s conversations. To put it frankly, it stinks that all apps must plan for the worst of the human condition. Why shouldn’t Twitch just be a place to enjoy watching people play video games, without fans abusing the app to stalk its stars? Why can’t neighbors coordinate school bus pickups in Nextdoor without the site also harboring racial profiling or vigilantism? Can’t TikTok just be for fun? Sorry, no. Mixing people with computerized systems that shine attention on the most compelling material will amplify our best and our worst. I asked Douek how we should think about the existence of rumors and falsehoods online. We know that we don’t believe every ridiculous thing we hear or see, whether it’s in an app or in conversations at our favorite lunch spot. And it can feel exhausting and self-defeating to cry foul at every manipulated video or election lie online. It’s also counterproductive to feel so unsure about what to believe that we don’t trust anything. Some days it all feels awful.Douek talked me out of that fatalism and focused on the necessity of a harm reduction plan for digital life. That doesn’t mean our only choices are either every single app becoming full of garbage or Chinese-style government control of internet content. There are more than two options. “As long as there have been rules, people have been breaking them. But that doesn’t mean platforms shouldn’t try to mitigate the harm their services contribute to and try to create a healthier, rather than unhealthier, public sphere,” Douek said. to be fun?
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“It’s the life cycle of a user-generated content platform that once it reaches a critical mass, it runs into content moderation problems,” said Evelyn Douek, an assistant professor at Stanford Law School whose research focuses on online speech.
Ahead of Kenya’s recent presidential election, a widely shared TikTok post showed an altered, violent image of one of the candidates with a caption that described him as a murderer. (The post was eventually removed.)
The San Juan Daily Star August 19-21, 2022 19 POR EL STAR STAFF A ibonito ahora cuenta con una clínica de cui dados médicos especializados gracias a MMM y MSO Puerto Rico. En MMM Multiclínica, los pacientes de la montaña abre una nueva etapa en los cuidados de salud que, para los afiliados de MMM, re sultará en menos tiempo de espera y $0 copago en ser vicios“MMMespecializados.Multiclínica es un modelo único que rompe las barreras de acceso a especialistas”, señaló el licen ciado Orlando González Rivera, presidente de MMM Puerto RIco y de la Región Este de Medicare para Ele vance Health, Inc. (antes Anthem, Inc.). “Con 14 clíni cas alrededor de la Isla, nuestro afiliado cuenta con cui dado coordinado entre médico primario y especialista. Además, la Multiclínica en Aibonito contará próxima mente con laboratorio”, agregó. El modelo de MMM Multiclínica cuenta con diversas especialidades para atender las necesidades de afilia dos de Medicare Advantage, así como de miembros del Plan Vital. En Aibonito, el afiliado encontrará especia listas en gastroenterología, endocrinología, neurología, neumología, dermatología y cardiología. Además, con tará con servicios de psicología, psiquiatría, nutrición y trabajo social, y un médico generalista que labora en horario extendido. Próximamente, la clínica contará con servicios de Rayos X, sonografía, mamografía, den sitometría ósea y farmacia, y se unirán en el futuro un nefrólogo y un ginecólogo. El doctor Raúl Montalvo Orsini, presidente de MSO Puerto Rico, destacó su compromiso con los proveedo res y pacientes que visiten MMM Multiclínica. “Esta Multiclínica representa un nuevo modelo de cuidado en Puerto Rico. Desde el MSO, seguiremos apoyando a cada proveedor para continuar llevando bienestar con la excelencia que nos caracteriza, en MMM Multiclínica y en cualquier otro espacio que es temos presentes”, acotó el galeno.
Representantes de sobre 100 agencias gubernamen tales participaron de la capacitación, la cual fue ofrecida por el personal de la recién creada Oficina de Subvencio nes LosFederales.adiestramientos son parte de la primera fase del plan estratégico a largo plazo enfocado en brindar apoyo en el uso y manejo de fondos federales que se le asignan a la Isla.
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POR CYBERNEWS SAN JUAN – La Oficina de Gerencia y Presupues to (OGP) concluyó este jueves su primer ciclo de adiestramientos para fomentar la mejor utilización de los fondos federales, conforme a la reglamentación y las leyes Segúnaplicables.explicóel director de la OGP, Juan Carlos Blanco, el adiestramiento título “Grants Management 101 Training”, tiene como objetivo principal ofrecerles a los funcionarios que trabajan con subvenciones federa les las herramientas para lograr efectivamente, la imple mentación de los programas federales disponibles para las agencias del Gobierno de Puerto Rico. “Queremos que todo el personal que trabaja con fondos federales en las agencias cuente con las herramientas de desarrollo profesional necesarias para manejar fiscalmente respon sable los fondos y allegar incentivos adicionales. Somos facilitadores en el proceso para asegurar el cumplimiento con la reglamentación aplicable. De esa manera se podrá lograr que las entidades gubernamentales maximicen sus fondos”, dijo Blanco en declaraciones escritas.
SAN JUAN – El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el jue ves 9 muertos y 386 personas hospitalizadas. El total de muertes atribuidas es de 4,881. Hay 333 adultos hospitalizados y 53 menores. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del tres al 16 de agosto de 2022. La tasa de positividad está a 28.51 por ciento. 9 muertos y 386 hospitalizados en informe preliminar COVID-19 OGP capacita a funcionarios del gobierno sobre uso y manejo de asignaciones y subvenciones federales
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, June 15, 2022.
Retouched and revitalized, Washington looks forward
Riverfront hotels and a high-end lodging boom Washington spent the past two years in a building spree, bringing flagship hotels and a wealth of new high-end accommoda tions. Part of the frenzy has been tied to a larger drive to dramatically reshape the area around the city’s southwest waterfront and the Washington Navy Yard, which is seeing a concurrent explosion of designer shops and restaurants.TheCambria hotel in the Capitol Riv erfront area (rooms from $178) and the bou tique Pendry hotel at the Wharf (rooms from $405, opening in November) now tower over the confluence of the Potomac and Anacostia rivers in Washington’s southern end. Both add capacity near a district where the city recently invested $2.5 billion to cor rect a botched effort at urban renewal and transform the waterfront into a commercial area with tourist-friendly establishments and a performance venue.
In January of this year, lagging business led to the closure of Thamee, a Burmese fa vorite that had won the attention of locals and national food publications alike with pickled tea leaves and turmeric-smeared steamed fish. In July, a similar announce ment came from the owners of Bad Saint, a deeply cherished Filipino gem whose own ers cited the changed business environment in explaining their decision to close.
Moving away from Washington’s gen erally prim and staid options, Selina (stan dard rooms from $109), an independent brand that openly caters to millennial and Gen Z travelers, also opened a location in Union Market in June. The hotel offers guests co-working spaces, wellness classes and experiences like live concerts and group excursions in a way that appears to blend traditional hospitality with backpacker and hostelInculture.all,eight new hotels have opened or are on schedule to in 2022 alone, bring ing with them more than 1,200 additional rooms. Resilience through music
By ZACH MONTAGUE Visitors are back in Washington, for all the reasons they came before. Gaggles of school groups and tour buses are on the National Mall, enjoying the green space and the museums. Demonstra tors are marching. Convention centers have 19 large-scale events scheduled this year, with the largest — booked by the Associa tion of the United States Army nonprofit — anticipating as many as 30,000 attendees. The city has yet to fully rebound from the coronavirus; the number of international visitors is not expected to reach pre-pan demic levels until 2025, according to Des tination DC, the district’s official marketing organization. But timed entry passes to fa vorite sites and reservations at coveted res taurants are vanishing quickly, and many lo cal businesses and attractions, which spent the past two years reassessing operational practices and evolving, are now seeing re sults from their planning. These are some of the new hotels, res taurants and events that visitors can expect to encounter. New dining in every style Albi was welcoming diners to take in its stunning wood-burning hearth and Middle Eastern flavors for less than three weeks when the World Health Organiza tion declared the coronavirus a pandemic. This year, the restaurant in Washington’s Navy Yard received a Michelin star, proving its staying power and the prowess of its chef and owner, Michael Rafidi. A meal, which the menu describes as “a journey through Levantine cooking,” ($95 per person) includes rotating seasonal choices as classic as the fire-charred baba ganoush or as fun as chermoula-covered bass served with lump crab meat. Rafidi’s Yellow cafe sits next door and slings more takeout-friendly options like pita sandwich es and savory pastries dusted with za’atar or harissa.In downtown Washington, which was badly hollowed out by a prolonged lack of workers, the regal design work in the din ing room at Shoto seems to remind everyone that even in an area packed with drab of fices, they are still in the nation’s capital. The creators behind Shoto clearly paid as much attention to its décor as to its thoughtfully crafted Japanese haute cuisine, with every table placed near some specta cle, whether under a hanging ornament of rock from an active volcano in Japan or fac ing the ornate sushi counter and bar. Shoto features two tiers of omakase for those aiming to sample the range of its menu (one for $115 and a premium step up for $195). For anyone else who prefers direct control over dinner, they also offer a vast as sortment of sushi, tacos (from $8 for salmon to $19 for premium Wagyu) and robatayaki, a style of charcoal barbecue applied to ev erything from grilled tiger prawns ($39) to an Australian tomahawk steak ($295). In September 2020, as remote work became standard, the Roost arrived with a 12,500-square-foot food hall stuffed with an excellent selection of vendors but still of fering plenty of breathing room. The Roost, which describes itself as a “culinary club house,” has cushioned booths and seclud ed alcoves that are ideal for long visits and private conversations. As for food, one can find a pork belly poutine ($11.50 from Red Apron), beets with smoked trout ($14 from Leni), crispy avocado tacos ($7.50 for two from Hi/Fi) or 50 beers on tap at Shelter. But even many months after restau rants could open fully, the long hangover of the pandemic has continued to stalk small, independent restaurants.
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Just a few blocks away, the Velvet Lounge, a dance hall known for its all-embracing per formance calendar, folded some months later.
The newest of Washington’s three AC Hotels by Marriott (rooms from roughly $200), close by in the Navy Yard, has also become popular thanks to its all-weather rooftop bar, Smoke & Mirrors, which offers a superb, unobstructed view of the Capitol.
The first year of the pandemic was a time of mourning for many in Washington’s music scene, as initial shutdowns became permanent for some of the city’s older and more celebrated venues. Among the biggest losses was Twins Jazz, a storied club founded by Ethiopian mi grants in 1987 in the city’s U Street corridor.
Many feared the worst when a simi lar announcement came in 2020 from 18th Street Lounge, a beloved nightclub that oper ated for 25 years in Dupont Circle. Through some resolve and popular de mand, 18th Street Lounge kept its name, but took up new digs on 9th Street beside other bars and restaurants occupying Blagden Al ley, a back street once singled out by Eleanor Roosevelt and other New Deal reformers as an emblem of the city’s urban decay, but now lined with trendy shops. In a similar move, Joe Lapan and Ali sha Edmonson, co-owners of Songbyrd Mu sic House, relocated to the formerly industrial Union Market area and personally redesigned a converted warehouse into a stylish new concertFightingspace. through forced cancellations and diminished crowds, the pair kept shows going through last winter, at times even throw ing open the new building’s roll-up doors for extra ventilation.Atitsoriginal location, Songbyrd be came a Washington staple after hosting artists such as Khalid, Jessie Reyez and Tyler
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“I know that bands we have playing here now, today, will be the ones going on like that,” Lapan said. Last year also saw the launch of Capital Turnaround, a multiuse entertainment space built inside the castle-like structure of the former Navy Yard Car Barn, which was once used to flip streetcars on a track running from the Navy Yard to Georgetown. Though the pandemic held up its de but, the building fits an 850-seat main stage, which has already hosted a mix of comedy shows, live podcast tapings and musical acts, and seems well positioned to complement the city’s other midsize venues and theaters that are largely concentrated in other areas.
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Museums reoriented toward the future Washington added to its famously rich collection of museums and monuments in 2020 with the launch of Planet Word, a nov el museum focused on language and speech (free admission with a suggested $15 dona tion). Planet Word sends visitors through a host of interactive and self-guided exhibits touching topics from humor to early-child hood language acquisition, with futuristic technological presentations. The pandemic took a toll on Wash ington’s long-standing museums, with some like the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum closing down twice in 2020, and others significantly scaling back hours because of staff shortages and other safety concerns. The Smithson ian network, whose 17 free museums and galleries in the Washington area slowly re opened last summer, saw attendance fall to 5 million last year from nearly 30 million in typicalButyears.closures have also provided time for many museums to forge ahead on need ed renovation work and install highly antici pated exhibitions, strengthening the city’s museum system with a range of improve ments and updates. The National Gallery of Art used the downtime to modify its guiding vision, and emerged from the pandemic with a fresh brand and a goal of increasing its relevancy by diversifying its collection and staff to bet ter represent the country’s demographics. This fall, the Air and Space Museum will have a dramatically redesigned west wing, unveiling eight exhibits including one on lunar exploration and another on the WrightThebrothers.Renwick Gallery, which closed for several months this year to install work for its 50th anniversary celebration, reopened in May. The anniversary exhibition, “This Present Moment,” is the culmination of a campaign started in 2020 through which the museum acquired more than 200 crafts by American artists from underrepresented backgrounds.Andwhile the Lincoln Memorial per sisted throughout the pandemic as a con veniently open-air space, accessible at all hours, visitors may also notice some extra shine.In preparation for the monthlong cele bration of the memorial’s centennial in May, the site was refurbished with a new roof and other cosmetic touch-ups as part of an ongo ing long-term rehabilitation effort. 920-6606 (787) 746-1400
A performance at Songbyrd Music House in Washington, June 15, 2022.
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bunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Salinas, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace sa ber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas labora bles y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certifica do, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $78,412.28 de balance de principal, el cual se compone de $81,280.83 de primer principal y la suma de $1,248.16 de balance diferi do, más los intereses sobre la suma de $81,820.8, y compu tados al 6.50% anual hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el4% computado sobre cada mensualidad de $538.33; cargos por demora devengados desde el primero de noviembre de 2014, a razón de $21.53, más la suma de $8,517.00 como cantidad estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pacta da en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBA NA: Predio de terreno denomi nado como solar numero trece (#13) del Bloque B (B-13) en el Plano de Parcelación de la Ur banización Estancias de Evely mar, sita en el barrio Pueblo del término municipal de Salinas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos veinti séis punto ochocientos catorce (326.814) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto cero ochocientos treinta (0.0830) cuerda, y en lindes por el Norte, en catorce punto ochocientos ochenta y uno (14.881) metros lineales con los solares numero B guión tres (#8-3) y número B guión dos (#B-2) de la Urbani zación; por el Sur, en catorce punto ochocientos ochenta y uno (14.881) metros lineales con la calle numero dos (#2) de la Urbanización; por el Este, en veintiuno punto novecientos sesenta y dos (12.962) metros lineales, con el solar numero B guión catorce (#B-14) de la Urbanización; y por el Oeste, en veintiuno punto novecientos sesenta ay dos (21.962) metros lineales con el solar numero B guión doce (#B-12) de la Ur banización. Enclava en dicha propiedad una casa propia para vivienda de una planta cons truida totalmente de hormigón. Inscrita al folio cincuenta (50)
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 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following pro perty described in Spanish: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Quintas Villamar, antes Quintas de Dorado, Puer to Rico, situado en el Barrio Hi guillar de Dorado, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de dicha Urbaniza ción, con el número, área y co lindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Solar número cin cuenta y nueve (59) del bloque “H” con área de trescientos ca torce punto veinticinco (314.25) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de veinticinco (25.00) metros, con el solar número cincuenta y ocho (58); por el SUR, en una distancia de veinticinco (25.00) metros, con el solar número se senta (60) de la Urbanización; por el ESTE, en una distancia de doce punto cincuenta y sie te (12.57) metros, con la Calle Boulevard Sur, por el OESTE, en una distancia de doce pun to cincuenta y siete (12.57) metros, con el solar número diez (10) de la Urbanización. Enclava una casa. The proper ty is identified with the number 7,872 and is recorded at Page number 195 of Volume num ber 158 of Dorado, Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Baya mon, Fourth Section. Property Addres: Urbanización Quintas Villamar, H-59 Calle Nogal, Do rado, P.R. 00646. The deed of mortgage is recorded at Page 197 of Volume 159 of Dorado, Property Registry of Bayamón, Section IV. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the fo llowing liens: Senior Liens des cribed in Spanish: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage, LLC., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $31,500.00, con intereses al 9.875% anual, vencedero el día 1 de noviembre del 2018, constituida mediante la escri tura número 427, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de octubre del 2008, ante el notario David Toledo David, e inscrita al folio 197 del tomo 158 de Dorado, finca número 7,282, inscripción 6ta., como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 19 de octubre del 2011, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de di ciembre de 2010. AL ASIENTO 2021-167808-BY04 DEL SIS TEMA KARIBE, se presentó el día 29 de diciembre de 2021, la escritura número 162, otor gada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de diciembre de 2021, ante el notario Juan C. Salichs Pou, mediante la cual se cancela la hipoteca por la suma de $31,500.00, según inscripción 6ta relacionada. Junior Liens described in Spa nish: Embargo Federal contra Juan Marrero Ortiz, seguro social xxx-xx-6002, dirección P.O Box 780, Dorado, Puerto Rico 00646, por la suma de $9,369.82, notificación número 595344009, presentado el día 10 de noviembre de 2009, ano tado al folio 76, Asiento 2, del libro de Embargos Federales número 2, finca número 7,872. No podemos precisar que la persona embargada y el titular en esta finca sean la misma persona. Other Liens: NONE. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and 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: 10:00 AM. The minimum bid that will be accep ted is the sum of $168,000.00. 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: 10:00 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $112,000.00, 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: 10:00 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $84,000.00, 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.
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NOTICE OF SALE. To: JUAN MEDINA;PARTNERSHIPANDHISMARRERORAMONORTIZ,WIFE,LISAIDAMEDINAMENDEZTHECONJUGALORTIZ-UNITEDSTATESOFAMERICA:ANDTHEGENERALPUBLIC:
WHEREAS: On May 31st, 2019 Default Judgment was entered and grated in favor of Plaintiff to recover from de fendants the principal amount of $179,208.01, itemized as follows: $160,002.80, plus ac crued interest at an annual rate of 6.0% since April 1st, 2017, to the present, and an additional payment of $19,205.21, that does not bear any interests, plus a stipulated fee equivalent to 10% of the original mortgage loan amount, that is $16,180.00 for fees, costs and attorney’s fees and a late charge fee equi valent to 5% of each and any monthly installment not recei ved by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due. Such late charges conti nue to accrue until the debt is paid in full under the mortgage obligations. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interes ted parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States Dis trict Court, Room 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
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, this 18th day of July of 2022. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, 787-672-8269. NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO LINA REVERSEFUNDINGMORTGAGELLC. Demandante Vs. SUCESION JORGE ARMANDO FERRE ZEÑA COMPUESTA POR JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES
Defendants Civil No.: 18-cv-1799. (GAG). Re: COLLECTION OF MO NIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE.
Lcda. Xana M. Connelly Pagán Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC P.O. Box 11550 San Juan, P.R. 00922-1550 Tel. (787) 625-9999 Fax (787) 705-7387 E-mail: xconnelly@lawpr.com Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presen te Edicto que firmo y sello en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 12 de agosto de 2022. DOMINGA GÓMEZ FUSTER, SECRETA RIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE M. MONCLOCA CRUZ, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR. saldo total de la deuda reclama da en este pleito, y la suma de $24,357.66 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 5 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Al guaciles de Subastas de Cen tro Judicial de Bayamón, Baya món, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $243,576.61. Que de ser necesaria la ce lebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 12 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $162,384.40, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SU BASTA será de $121,788.30, 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 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 documen tos correspondientes al proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas la borables. b. Que 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. 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 EDIC TO, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 08 de agosto de 2022. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXI LIAR PLACA #193, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA SALA DE CAROLINA ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE Demandados Civil Núm. CA2022CV02550. 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 P.R., SS. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, desconocidaspersonasquesedesignanconestos nombres ficticios, que puedan ser tenedor o tenedores, o puedan tener algún interés en el pagaré hipotecario a que se hace referencia más adelante en el presente edicto, que se publicará una sola vez. Se les notifica que en la De manda radicada en el caso de epígrafe se alega que el 12 de septiembre del 2008, se otor gó un pagaré a favor de Sco tiabank de Puerto Rico (hoy Oriental Bank), o a su orden, por la suma de $89,600 00 de principal, con intereses al 10% anual, y vencedero a la presen tación, ante la Notario Miguel A. Frau Catasus, mediante afidávit 8336. En garantía del pagaré antes descrito se otorgó la es critura de hipoteca número 174 del 12 de septiembre del 2008, ante la Notario Miguel A. Frau Catasus, inscrita al folio 169 del tomo 993 de Carolina, finca 40968, inscripción 5, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. El inmueble grava do mediante la hipoteca antes descrita es la finca número 40968 inscrita al folio 120 del tomo 982 de Carolina Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. La obliga ción evidenciada por el pagaré antes descrito fue saldada en su totalidad. Dicho gravamen no ha podido ser cancelado por haberse extraviado el ori ginal del pagaré. El original del pagaré antes descrito no ha podido ser localizado, a pesar de las gestiones realizadas. Scotiabank de Puerto Rico (hoy Oriental Bank) es el acreedor que consta en e! Registro de la Propiedad. Oriental Bank (antes Scotiabank de Puerto Rico) fue último tenedor cono cido del pagaré antes descrito.
Yo, JOSÉ L. RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 21 DE SEP TIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Hu macao, Humacao, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se or denó por la vía ordinaria al me jor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Humacao durante horas labora bles. Que en caso de no produ cir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 28 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 5 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA de en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBAN: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: Dwelling unit No. A-19, which is part of the Horizontal Property Regime known as LA JOLLA DE PALMAS CONDOMINIUM I, located at Candelero Abajo Ward, Municipality of Huma cao, Puerto Rico. It is a three bedroom, two story unit with a total construction area of 1,873.67 square feet, equiva lent to 174.07 square meters. The maximum length of this unit is 48.00 feet and its maximum width is 24.42 feet. This unit is No. 19 of area “A”, located on the Northeast side of the Regi me. Its boundaries are: by the North, in a distance of 42.00 feet, with common area; by the East, in a distance of 24.42 feet, with common area; and by the West, in a distance of 24.42 feet, with common area. It has an entrance porch which leads to the living-dining and kitchen area. The living-dining area opens into a terrace and the Embargo número HUM-180322, según Certificación de fecha 9 de febrero de 2018, presentado el día 13 de febrero de 2018 y anotado al Asiento 2018-000864-EST del Sistema Karibe. Embargo Federal con tra de Héctor L. Rivera Arocho, seguro social xxx-xx-0322, por la suma de $16,795.78, noti ficación número 344922419, del día 26 de febrero de 2019, presentado el día 11 de marzo de 2019, anotado al Asiento 2019-002060-Fed del Sistema Karibe. Fecha renovación: 23 de julio de 2024. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subas ta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Huma cao, Puerto Rico, a 5 de agosto de 2022. JOSÉ L. RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL RE GIONAL INTERINO, ALGUA CIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #249. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO libre ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE VICTOR MANUEL TORRES TROCHE, Y SUCESIÓN DE ANA ELBA VALE MERCADO COMPUESTAS POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMODESCONOCIDOSHEREDEROS Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2019CV01661. (206). COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). NO TIFICACION DE ORDEN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS ESTADOS UNI DOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMO SUCESIÓNDESCONOCIDOSHEREDEROSDELASUCESIÓNDEVICTORMANUELTORRESTROCHEYDELADEANAELBAVALEMERCADO. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que el Honorable Tribunal ha dictado la Orden que se transcribe a continua ción: ORDEN ENMENDADA: VISTA la Moción radicada por la parte demandante, se decla ra la misma Con Lugar y en su consecuencia se autoriza la en mienda al epígrafe para incluir como co-demandados en la presente acción a FULANO DE kitchen opens into a patio for its private use measuring approxi mately 9.83 feet by 11.53 feet which has been included as part of the surface area of the unit. On the lower floor there are also a storage and laundry room, a half bathroom and the stairway leading to the upper floor. The upper floor conta ins a master bedroom with its dressing area, and bathroom, two other bedrooms with clo set, a bathroom and a linen closet. This dwelling unit has for its private use two parking spaces which area is numbered with the same number of the unit. This dwelling unit has a participation of 1.7389% in the common elements of the Con dominium. La hipoteca antes mencionada consta inscrita al folio 175 del tomo 560 de Hu macao, finca número 19,502, inscripción séptima. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satis facer a la parte demandante la suma de $82,867.49 de principal, intereses al 6.125% anual, desde el día 1ro. de diciembre de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $28,900.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acu mulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $289,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la canti dad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $192,666.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subas ta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $144,500.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá sa tisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudica ción y que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continua rán subsistentes, entendiéndo se que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravá menes posteriores: Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por la suma de $11,757.88 contra Héctor L. Ri vera Arocho, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos, según Certificación de fecha 25 de febrero de 2013, presentado el día 26 de febrero de 2013 y anotado al folio 184, Orden número 732 del Libro del ELA número 1, (Ley 12). Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por la suma de $136,997.26 contra Héctor L. Rivera Arocho, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos,
Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 11 de agos to de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. LI LLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este empla zamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. 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: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de pre sentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, e! 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. LCDO. JAVIER SanDELGADORUACINTRÓNMONTALVONÚM.17682&FERNÁNDEZ,LLCPOBox11750,FernándezJuncosStationJuan,PuertoRico00910-1750,Tel.(787)274-1414/Fax(787)764-8241E-mail:jmontalvo@delgadofernandez.com
SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMA CAO COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE MEDICOS Y PROFESIONALESOTROSDELASALUD(MEDICOOP) Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE HECTOR RIVERA INGRESOSSUCESIONRIVERA,AROCHOSUCOMPUESTAAROCHO,PORMADREAIDALUZMONTALVO;YPORLASUCESIONDESUPADREROBERTORIVERASANTOSCOMPUESTAPORIVANRIVERAAROCHO,ROBERTORIVERAAROCHO,DAVIDRIVERAAROCHO,YPORSUSNIETOSLUISA.RIVERASANTIAGO,LEMARIEGONZALEZVERONICALEEGONZALEZRIVERA;YPORFULANODETALYZUTANODETALCOMOPOSIBLESHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSDELASUCESIONDEHECTORRIVERAAROCHO,DEDEROBERTORIVERASANTOSYDESUCESIONDELUZMARIARIVERAAROCHO;CENTRODERECAUDACIONDEMUNICIPALES“CRIM” Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2018CV00249. (208). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO GENERAL.EN A: SUCESION DE HECTOR RIVERA AROCHO COMPUESTA POR SU MADRE AIDA LUZ INGRESOSSUCESIONMONTALVO;AROCHOYPORLADESUPADREROBERTORIVERASANTOSCOMPUESTAPORIVANRIVERAAROCHO,ROBERTORIVERAAROCHO,DAVIDRIVERAAROCHO,YPORSUSNIETOSLUISA.RIVERASANTIAGO,LEMARIEGONZALEZRIVERA,VERONICALEEGONZALEZRIVERA;YPORFULANODETALYZUTANODETALCOMOPOSIBLESHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSDELASUCESIONDEHECTORRIVERAAROCHO,DESUCESIONDEROBERTORIVERASANTOSYDESUCESIONDELUZMARIARIVERAAROCHO;CENTRORECAUDACIONDEMUNICIPALES“CRIM”;ESTADOLIBRE ASOCIADO DE SU$11,757.88ANOTADOSRICO-DEPARTAMENTOPUERTODEHACIENDA,PORTENEREMBARGOSASUFAVORPORLASSUMASDEY$136,997.26;ESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMERICAPORTENEREMBARGOANOTADOAFAVORPORLASUMADE$16,795.78.
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TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL como herederos desconocidos de la SUCESIÓN DE VICTOR MA NUEL TORRES TROCHE y de la SUCESIÓN DE ANA ELBA VALE MERCADO; se ordena a FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL para que en el término de veinte (20) días muestren causa por la cual la Sentencia dictada el día 26 de febrero de 2020, notificada y archivada en autos el día 5 de marzo de 2020, no deba ser extensiva a éstos como miembros de la Su cesión y cotitulares del inmue ble objeto de la presente causa de acción. Esta Orden se notifi cará por medio de edicto el cual será publicado una sola vez en de la fecha de su publicación. Además, dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto se dirigirá a los de mandados antes indicado por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, copia de la Senten cia y del Edicto al lugar de su última dirección conocida. El Secretario del Tribunal expe dirá el correspondiente Edicto. REGÍSTRESE Y NOTIFÍQUE SE. DADA en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 12 de agosto de 2022. f/ HON. MARÍA JOSÉ DABAS TOS ANGLADE, JUEZA SUPE RIOR. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica para que presente al tribunal su alegación respon siva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado esta Orden, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. 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: procedente.susilacederenhacerridocióntedmásdemandantepresentacióntribunalresponsivadeberáderechosalvounired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/https://queserepresenteporpropio,encuyocasopresentarsualegaciónenlasecretaríadelyenviarcopiaalarelegaldelapartecuyadirecciónadelanteseindica.Siusdejadepresentarsualegaresponsivadentrodelrefetérmino,eltribunalpodráextensivalasentenciarebeldíaensucontrayconelremediosolicitadoendemanda,ocualquierotro,eltribunal,enelejerciciodesanadiscreción,loentiende
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2022CV01540. Sobre:
JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs. LYNETTE MAYSONETMAYSONETORTIZT/C/CLINNETTEORTIZPORSI Y EN LA CUOTA YORTIZ,WILFREDOFUSSA,WILFREDOUSUFRUCTUARIA;VIUDALLASUCESIÓNDECINTRÓNCOMPUESTAPORIVELISSEA.CINTRÓNGREGORY,R.CINTRÓNGREGORY,ROSALÍACINTRÓNORTIZ,LYNETTEM.CINTRÓNFULANODETALMENGANODETALLOSPOSIBLESHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOS;DEPARTAMENTODEHACIENDA;DEPARTAMENTODEJUSTICIA
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(EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: JUAN TAL,FRANCESHERNANDEZ,CARLOSMARIAHERNANDEZYHERNANDEZ,COMOMIEMBROSDELASUCESIONDEFRANCISCOGANDHIHERNANDEZTORRES;TAMBIÉNCONOCIDOCOMOFRANCISCOHERNANDEZTORRESYCOMOFRANCISCOHERNANDEZ;FULANODETALYZUTANODECOMOHEREDEROS.DESCONOCIDOSDELASUCESIONDEFRANCISCOGANDHIHERNANDEZTORRES,TAMBIÉNCONOCIDOCOMOFRANCISCOHERNANDEZTORRESYCOMOFRANCISCOHERNANDEZ.
VÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SA RAY SALGADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO LINA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs. MARCOS ALEXIS ORTIZ ALBINO T/C/C MARCOS A. ORTIZ, TERESA MARICEL REYES RIVERA T/C/C TERESA M. REYES RIVERA T/C/C TERESA MARCIEL REYES RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE COMPUESTAGANANCIALESPORAMBOS Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2022CV02028. (403). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A LA MISTYMARCIELT/C/CDEMANDADA:PARTEMARCOSALEXISORTIZALBINOMARCOSA.ORTIZ,TERESAMARICELREYESRIVERAT/C/CTERESAM.REYESRIVERAT/C/CTERESAREYESRIVERAYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOSASUSÚLTIMASDIRECCIONESCONOCIDAS:COND.VILLASDELGIGANTE,APT.202-G,CAROLINA,PR00987,1645HOLLOWBROOKCT.,SUGARHILL,GA30518-2870,295LN.,ROSWELL,GA30076-4112.
Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radica do demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordina ria en la que se alega que se adeuda las siguientes cantida des: $88,388.56 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.5% anual desde el 1 de agosto de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $771.53 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $9,801.10 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del présta mo. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: URBANA: PRO PIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apar tamento residencial G-202 de forma rectangular, constituido por un nivel, localizado en la pri mera planta del Edificio “G” del Condominio Villas del Gigante, que está situado en la carretera número 853, intersección nú mero 852, Barrio Barrazas, Ca rolina, Puerto Rico. Consta de un nivel, siendo sus linderos los siguientes: por el NORTE: con el elemento exterior y lobby, en una distancia de 6.65 metros lineales; por el SUR: con ele mento exterior, en una distancia de 6.65 metros lineales; por el ESTE: con el apartamento nú mero G-203, en una distancia de 12.20 metros lineales; y por el OESTE: con el apartamento número G-201 y lobby, en una distancia de 12.20 metros linea les. Consta el mismo de 3 ha bitaciones con sus respectivos “closets” una sala-comedor, cocina, un baño, área de al macenar. El baño está equi pado con bañera, lavamanos, servicio sanitario, “laundry”. El área total de apartamento es de 75.07 metros cuadrados. La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en su lindero Oeste y por ella se sale a la escalera y al área de circulación del proyecto. Este apartamento tiene una partici pación de .00595238% en los elementos comunes generales del condominio. Le corres ponde como elemento común limitado el estacionamiento identificado con el mismo nú mero del apartamento G-202. Inscrita al folio 105 del tomo 1441 de Carolina, Finca 60034. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. La escritu ra de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 14 vuelto del tomo 1450 de Carolina, Finca 60034. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. Inscripción séptima. La demandante es la tenedora por endoso en blanco, por va lor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. La parte de mandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Admi nistración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acce der utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tri bunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo Puerto Rico 009703922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, (787) 708-0566 correo electrónico: edicto,díastromaalonso@gmail.com,oficinabeldendeltérminodetreinta(30)delapublicacióndeesteexcluyéndoseeldíade la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Senten cia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 10 de agosto de 2022, en Carolina, Puerto Rico. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍ GUEZ, SECRETARIA. LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CA GUAS ORIENTAL BANK Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE FRANCISCO GANDHI HERNANDEZ TORRES, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO INGRESOSHERNANDEZCOMPUESTAHERNANDEZFRANCISCOTORRESYCOMOFRANCISCOHERNANDEZ,PORSUSHÍJOSJUANCARLOSHERNANDEZ,MARIAYFRANCESHERNANDEZ;FULANODETALYZUTANODETAL,COMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSCONPOSIBLEINTERÉS;CENTRODERECAUDACIONDEMUNICIPALES(‘’CRIM”) COBRO DE DINERO
POR MEDIO del presente edic to se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honora rios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sen tencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar la cantidades reclamadas en la demanda.
Quedan emplazados y notifica dos de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca en sus contras. Se les notifica para que comparezcan ante el Tribunal dentro del tér mino de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus dere chos convenga, en el presente caso. Se les apercibe y notifica que si no contestan la deman da radicada en sus contras, ra dicando el original de la misma y enviando copia de su contes tación a la parte demandante, Lcdo. Guillermo A. Somoza Colombani, PO BOX 366603, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 009366603, Tel. (787) 919-0073, Co rreo electrónico: billysomoza@ yahoo.com, dentro del término LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SAIA DE BARCELONETA ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. JORGE RIVERA BURGOS Demandado Civil Núm.: BC2022CV00056. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: RIVERAJORGEBURGOS.
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presen te al tribunal su alegación res ponsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de ha ber sido diligenciado este em plazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. 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: díaenmi00617-2737.G12conocida:lugardecopiadoaedicto,alosSetrónico:(787)PR450,númeroes:gadosinción,elcualquiersolicitadocontra,tartérmino,responsivadejacretaríaalegacióncuyosentepr/sumac/,https://unired.ramajudicial.salvoqueserepreporderechopropio,encasodeberápresentarsuresponsivaenlaSedelTribunal.SiusteddepresentarsualegacióndentrodelreferidoeltribunalpodrádicsentenciaenrebeldíaensuyconcederelremedioenlaDemanda,ootro,sieltribunal,enejerciciodesusanadiscreloentiendeprocedente,máscitarlenioírle.ElabodelapartedemandanteJaimeRuizSaldaña,RUA11673;Dirección:PMB400CalleCalaf,SanJuan,00918-1314;Teléfono:759-6897;Correoeleclegal@jrslawpr.com.leadviertequedentrodediez(10)díassiguienteslapublicacióndelpresenteseleestaráenviandoustedporcorreocertificaconacusederecibo,unadelemplazamientoylademandapresentadaaldesuúltimadirecciónUrb.VillaBarcelona,Calle4,Barceloneta,PREXPEDIDObajofirmayelsellodeltribunalManatí,PuertoRico,hoy10deagostode2022.VI
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radi cado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda Enmendada sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega adeuda la suma princi pal de $134,807.72 intereses al 3.50% anual, desde el día 1ro de noviembre de 2021, hasta su completo pago, más la can tidad de $16,531.00, estipulada para costas, gastos y honora rios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas su mas están líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta es: URBANA: Solar marcado con el Número Diez (10) del Bloque “K” del plano de inscripción de la URBANIZACIÓN EXTEN SIÓN LLANOS DE GURABO del Barrio Mamey en el término municipal de Gurabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS CINCUEN TA Y OCHO PUNTO SETENTA y CUATRO (358.74) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes: por el NORTE. en una distancia de trece punto sesenta y tres (13.63) metros, con el solar número Uno (1) del Bloque “K”; SUR, en una distancia de cinco punto ochenta y siete (5.87) metros, con el solar nú mero Uno (1) del Bloque “J” y en diez punto sesenta y cuatro (10.64) metros, con la Calle número Quince (15); ESTE, en una distancia de veintiuno punto noventa y siete (21.97) metros, con el solar número Nueve (9) del Bloque “K”; y por el OESTE, en dos distancias en dieciocho punto treinta y seis (18.36) metros y once punto dieciocho (11.18) metros, con terrenos de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscri ta al folio 170 vuelto del tomo 435 de Gurabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda, finca número 16,611, inscripción sexta. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su ale gación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamien to, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), a) cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: lacederentribunaldentrotardica.direccióndecopiasecretaríasuenrepresentedicial.pr/sumac/https://unired.tamaiusalvoqueseporderechopropio,cuyocasodeberápresentaralegaciónresponsivaenladeltribunalyenviaralarepresentaciónlegallapartedemandantecuyamásadelanteseinSiusteddejadepresensualegaciónresponsivadelreferidotérmino,elpodrádictarsentenciarebeldíaensucontrayconelremediosolicitadoendemanda,ocualquierotro, 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 10 de agosto de 2022 . En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 10 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SAN TA SANCHEZ, SEC. REG. F/ ELIDA D. VILLEGAS PAGAN, Secretario(a) Auxiliar. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO JESÚS OBRERO Demandante V. PUMAREJOPABLOTORRES Demandado(a) Civil: GB2020CV00729. Sala: 101. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE RO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: PUMAREJOPABLOTORRES. (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 20 de enero 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 9 de agosto de 2022. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 9 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. LAURA SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. BRENDA ZAMOT SALGADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Lcdo. Baldomero A. Collazo Torres Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC P.O. Box 11550 San Juan, P.R. 00922-1550 Tel. (787) 625-9999 Fax (787) 705-7387 E-mail: bcollazo@lawpr.com Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que conforme el caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria v. Latinoamericana de Exportación, lnc., 164 D.P.R. 6891 696 (2005) y a tenor con las disposiciones del Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31 LP.R.A. sec. 11021), deberá aceptar o repudiar la herencia del causante Francis co Gandhi Hernández Torres, dentro del término de treinta (30) días. De no expresar su in tención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Se le notifica también por la presente que la parte demandante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este plei to, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción. Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TES TIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 12 de agosto de 2022. LI SILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. VILMA OYOLA RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE Estado Libre Asociado de Puer to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia Sala Superior de Guaynabo. REGLA RAÚL ROJAS GÓMEZ Demandante v. ROSA VELÁZQUEZELIAGARCÍA Demandado(a) Civil: GB2022RF00032. SALA 201. Sobre: DIVORCIO, RUP TURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: ROSA ELIA VELÁZQUEZ GARCÍA (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 12 de julio de 2022, este Tri bunal 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
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Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV04913. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: LYNETTE ORTIZ MAYSONET T/C/C LINNETTE ORTIZ MAYSONET POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE OTILIO RAFAEL LUGO LUGO, ET AL. Demandados Civil Núm.: SG2022CV00339. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA - IN REM. EMPLA ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTAD LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES DESCONOCIDOSHEREDEROSDELASUCESIÓNDEOTILIORAFAELLUGOLUGOYDELASUCESIÓNDEMARÍACRISTINAÁVILADEJESÚS.
LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN SEBASTIÁN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. DAVID
Demandados Civil Núm.: CZ2018CV00149. (504). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDI NARIA. ORDEN. Examinada la demanda radicada por la parte demandante, la solicitud de interpelación contenida en la misma y examinados los autos del caso, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación y en su virtud acepta la Demanda en el caso de epígrafe, así como la inter pelación judicial de la parte de mandante a los herederos del codemandado conforme dis pone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2787. Se Ordena a los herederos del causante a saber, Jaime de Tal, Elizabeth de Tal t/c/c Cucusa de Tal, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de nom bres desconocidos, herederos de nombres desconocidos a que dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante Carmen Elise Ma rrero Padilla t/c/c/ Carmen Elly Marrero Padilla t/c/c Carmen E. Marrero t/c/c Carmen E. Marre ro Padilla. Se le Apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados: (a) Que de no expresarse den tro del término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repu diación de herencia la misma se tendrá por aceptada; (b) Que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la noti ficación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y por consiguiente, responden por la cargas de dicha herencia con forme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2785. Se Ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la sucesión del causante Carmen Elise Marrero Padilla t/c/c/ Carmen Elly Marrero Pa dilla t/c/c Carmen E. Marrero t/c/c Carmen E. Marrero Padi lla incluyen como herederos a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, como posibles herederos des conocidos, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. DADA en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 21 de julio de 2022. JAIME J. FUSTER ZALDUONDO, JUEZ SUPERIOR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA MUY SALA SUPERIOR E.M.I. MORTGAGE,EQUITYINC.
POR LA PRESENTE se les em plaza y requiere para que con teste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Us ted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: 00902-2512;BOXMariedequebunaldecasoporsumac/,http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/salvoquesepresentederechopropio,encuyodeberáradicareloriginalsucontestaciónanteelTricorrespondienteynotificoncopiaalosabogadoslapartedemandante,Lcda.L.QuiñonesTañón,alPO9022512,SanJuan,P.R.Teléfono:(787)
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Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Se cretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda Enmendada en Co bro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en contra de La Sucesión de Jesús Armando lrizarry Rodríguez, en la cual se alega que adeuda a la parte demandante por con cepto de hipoteca la suma de $78,969.26 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de marzo de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además La Sucesión de Jesús Armando Irizarry Rodríguez adeuda a la parte demandante a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Se le(s) emplaza y requiere que dentro de los sesenta (60) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publica ción de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda radicando el origi nal de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte De mandante. 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: riaYolandaGonzález,Puertoagostodelbajocitarle(s)seciatarseantesmandasitribunal.responsivadeberáderechosalvounired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/,https://queserepresenteporpropio,encuyocasopresentarsualegaciónenlasecretaríadelSele(s)adviertequedejare(n)decontestarlaDeenelperiododetiempomencionado,podrádiccontrausted(es)SentenenRebeldía,concediéndoelremediosolicitadosinmásnioírle(s).EXPEDIDOmifirmayconelSelloTribunal.DADAhoy16dede2022,enCamuy,Rico.VivianY.FresseSecretariaRegional.RiveraColón,SecretaAuxiliar. BIENESARIADNAROMANARTURORIOS,RODRIGUEZHERNANDEZYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: SS2022CV00456. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO. A La Parte CoDemandada: DAVID ARTURO ROMÁN RIOS, ARIADNAHERNÁNDEZRODRÍGUEZYLA los cargos por demora equiva lentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritu ra de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de aboga do equivalentes a $16,119.20. Además La Sucesión de Jesús Armando Irizarry Rodríguez se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $16,119.20 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la es critura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $16,119.20 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cual quiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 137, otor gada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de junio de 2009, ante el notario Pedro Juan Cari de Cruz, de la finca número 16,759, inscrita al Folio 150 del Tomo 297, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Segunda. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha de clarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su tota lidad. Este Tribunal ha ordena do que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de cir culación general. Quedan em plazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda enmendada en su contra. Se les ordena a que dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la notifi cación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la partici pación que les corresponda en la herencia de Jesús Armando Irizarry Rodríguez. Los codemandados miembros de la Sucesión de Jesús Armando Iri zarry Rodríguez se incluyen en la demanda enmendada ya que como herederos responden por las cargas de la herencia según lo dispuesto en Nuestro Orde namiento Jurídico. Se les aper cibe y notifica que, de no expre sarse dentro de ese término de 30 días en torno a su acepta ción o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por acep tada. También se les apercibe que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días antes se ñalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguien te, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 2785. Se ordena a la parte demandante a que, se incluye a los herederos conoci dos y herederos desconocidos de Jesús Armando Irizarry Ro dríguez denominados Xavier Rodríguez Andrades, Winifred Rodríguez Andrades, Marnid Rodríguez González y Jenni fer Rodríguez González; Fu lano y Fulana De Tal, proceda
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724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número men cionado en el epígrafe. Se ale ga en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de septiembre de 2020, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además adeuda a la parte de mandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hi potecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de principal de $85,831.67, más intereses a razón del 5.00% anual desde el 1 de agosto de 2020 hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha an teriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su ven cimiento, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribucio nes, entre otros; más una suma equivalente a $10,710.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte De mandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspon diente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Solar número tres (3) del bloque “E” de Urbanización La Alborada, localizada en el término munici pal de Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, con un área de trescien tos veinticinco metros cuadra dos (325.00 m.c.). En lindes: por el NORTE, en una distancia de veinticinco (25.00) metros, con el solar E-cuatro (E-4); por el SUR, en una distancia de veinticinco (25.00) metros, con el solar E-dos (E-2); por el ESTE, en una distancia de trece (13.00) metros, con los solares E-nueve (E-9) y E-diez (E-10); y por el OESTE, en una distancia de trece (13.00) metros, con la calle número uno (1) de dicha urbanización. Este solar esta afecto a servi dumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company en el patio frontal y la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico. En el solar de referen cia se ha construido una casa de hormigón para una familia. Consta inscrita al folio 270 del tomo 200 de Sabana Grande, finca número #10,053. Regis tro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Germán. SE LES ORDENA a ustedes a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la heren cia de la DE LA SUCESIÓN DE OTILIO RAFAEL LUGO LUGO Y DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA CRISTINA ÁVILA DE JESÚS. De no hacerlo dentro de dicho término, se dará la herencia por aceptada. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará senten cia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribu nal en San Germán, Puerto Rico. LIC. NORMA G. SANTA NA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. MAGALY BONI LLA MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN BROAD FUNDINGSTREETTRUST I Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN ELISE MARRERO PADILLA T/C/C/ CARMEN ELLY MARRERO PADILLA T/C/C CARMEN E. MARRERO T/C/C CARMEN E. MARRERO PADILLA COMPUESTA POR JAIME DE TAL, ELIZABETH DE TAL T/C/C CUCUSA DE TAL, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE MUNICIPALES;DESCONOCIDOS;NOMBRESALCENTRODERECAUDACIÓNDEINGRESOSYALOSESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMÉRICA
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Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE JESUS INGRESOSRODRÍGUEZIRIZARRYARMANDORODRIGUEZCOMPUESTAPORJERRYRODRIGUEZFLORES,XAVIERANDRADES,WINIFREDRODRÍGUEZANDRADES,MARNIDRODRÍGUEZGONZÁLEZYJENNIFERRODRÍGUEZGONZÁLEZ;FULANOYFULANADETALCOMOPOSIBLESHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSDELASUCESION;CENTRODERECAUDACIONDEMUNICIPALES(CRIM) Civil COBRO DE DE HIPOTECA DE INTERPELA CIÓN. UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO. A La Parte CoA) XAVIER RODRÍGUEZ ANDRADES, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JESÚS ARMANDO ORANGERODRIGUEZSIGUIENTERODRÍGUEZ,IRIZARRYALADIRECCIÓN:136LAKEVIEWAVE.CLIFTONNJ07011.B)WINIFREDANDRADES,COMOMIEMBRODELASUCESIÓNDEJESÚSARMANDOIRIZARRYRODRÍGUEZ,ALASIGUIENTEDIRECCIÓN:1613FAIRVIEWLANEEASTJACKSONNJ08527.C)MARNIDRODRIGUEZGONZALEZ,COMOMIEMBRODELASUCESIÓNDEJESÚSARMANDOIRIZARRYRODRÍGUEZ,ALASIGUIENTEDIRECCIÓN:1368ODENCOURTMIDDLEBURGFL32068.D)JENNIFERRODRIGUEZGONZALEZ,COMOMIEMBRODELASUCESIÓNDEJESÚSARMANDOIRIZARRYRODRÍGUEZ,ALASIGUIENTEDIRECCIÓN:2201ASTORST.#14PARKFL32073.E)FULANOYFULANADETALCOMOPOSIBLESHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSDELASUCESIÓNDEJESUSARMANDOIRIZARRYRODRIGUEZ,ALASIGUIENTEDIRECCIÓN:(A)URB.ALTURASELMAESTRO#4CALLEMIRAMARCAMUY,PR00627-2718.
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES CONOCIDAS:ÚLTIMASCOMPUESTAGANANCIALESPORAMBOS,ASUSDIRECCIONES(A)POBOX610SANSEBASTIAN,PR00685-0610;(B)BARRIOSONADORPOZASLOTE15BRISASDELRIOSANSEBASTIAN,PR00685. Por la presente se le(s) noti fica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipote ca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $104,621.26 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de agosto de 2019, más intere ses al tipo pactado de 6.50% anual que continúan acumu lándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos acce sorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipote ca; y las costas, gastos y hono rarios de abogado equivalentes a $13,390.00. Además la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $13,390.00 para cubrir cual quier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hi poteca y una suma equivalente a $13,390.00 para cubrir intere ses en adición a los garantiza dos por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en vir tud de la escritura de hipoteca número 1, otorgada en San Se bastián, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de julio de 2006, ante el notario Leonardo Muñiz Gómez, de la finca número 27,009, inscrita al Folio 20 del Tomo 589 de San Sebastián, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián. Por razón de dicho incumpli miento, y al amparo del dere cho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudien do usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le empla za por este edicto que se publi cará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. 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: unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/,http:// 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 18 de agosto de 2022. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 18 de agosto de 2022. Marilyn Aponte Rodrí guez, Secretaria. Keila García Solís, Secretaria Auxiliar. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN GERMÁN PUERTOFIRSTBANKRICO
Mickelson, who is reported to have received as much as $200 million to sign with the breakaway tour, is among 11 golfers who defected from the PGA Tour and then filed an antitrust lawsuit earlier this month against the PGA Tour, seeking to challenge its suspensions and other measures that have been used to disci pline players who have joined LIV Golf.
Adding to Tuesday’s drama, Patrick Reed, the winner of the 2018 Masters who joined LIV Golf in June, filed a defa mation lawsuit against Golf Channel and commentator Brandel Chamblee, seeking $750 million in damages. The lawsuit, which was filed in a fe deral court in Texas, claims that the net work and Chamblee have conspired with the PGA Tour to defame LIV players “with the intention to destroy them and their fa milies professionally and personally” and eliminate LIV Golf as a competitor. According to the lawsuit, Golf Chan nel, Chamblee and the PGA Tour have conspired since Reed was 23, about nine years ago, “to destroy his reputation, create hate and a hostile work environ ment for him, and with the intention to discredit his name and accomplish ments.”For Chamblee and Golf Channel, “it does not matter how badly they destroy someone’s name and life, so long as they rake in more dollars and profit,” the law suit Larrysaid.
PGA stars seek ‘some sort of unity’ with LIV after meeting with Tiger Woods
Rory McIlroy, the world No. 3, described the meeting to reporters Wednesday as “impactful.”McIlroy said Woods’ leadership at the meeting was crucial as players discussed how to improve the PGA Tour and con tend with the rift in the golf world since the emergence of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational series. (The PGA Tour announced in June that it would suspend players who joined the LIV series.) “His role is navigating us to a place where we all think we should be,” McIl roy said of Woods’ presence. “He is the hero that we’ve all looked up to. His voi ce carries further than anyone else’s in the game of golf.”
What’s the medium-term? What’s the long-term?” McIlroy said. “That’s something that we have to figure out.” Xander Schauffele told reporters Wednesday that he wanted to see a reso lution that ended in “some sort of unity.” “It was a really nice meeting. It was great. It was exciting. It was new. It was fresh,” Schauffele said. “I am very hope ful with what’s to come.” Schauffele, the world No. 6, told re porters there was “a little bit of a code” to keep“Iquiet.think I’d be pretty unhappy if I saw one of those guys from last night just blabbering to you guys what we talked about,” Schauf fele said. “That would be really frowned upon, and you pro bably wouldn’t get invited back to the mas,Justinmeeting.”Thotheworld No. 7, said at a news conference that the meeting was “productive” and that the players who attended “just want the best for the tour and want what’s in the best interest.”“I’djust hope for a better product,” Thomas said. “I think that’s the hope in general of anything, is just to try to im prove ourselves, where we’re playing, everything the best that we can.” Thomas said that having Woods pre sent gave the meeting added credibility.
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By JESÚS JIMÉNEZ PGA Tour stars, including Tiger Woods, met earlier this week to grapple with the LIV Golf series, which has lured away tour players with staggering sums of money, and emerged feeling positive but unwilling to detail how they planned to fend off the rebel golf startup or live somewhat peacefully alongside it. The meeting was the latest turn in what has been an uncharacteristically an tagonistic year in golf, and it came a week after a federal judge ruled that the PGA Tour can bar LIV golfers from the FedEx Cup playoffs, which conclude at the end of August.Before the BMW Championship, PGA Tour players on Wednesday were reluc tant to share specifics about the previous day’s meeting, held in Wilmington, De laware, that attracted Woods, who flew in from his home in Florida to attend.
Klayman, a lawyer for Reed, said that “we are confident of prevailing in court,” adding that “it’s a very strong complaint.”“While Chamblee’s and NBC’s Golf Channel’s never-ending defamation with regard to Mr. Reed, as set forth in the complaint is not new, with his joining of LIV Golf, it has reached new, intolerable heights,” Klayman said in a statement. Lawyers for Golf Channel and Cham blee could not be reached. The LIV Tour, which is financed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, has drawn much attention and criticism in recent months. Among those who have left the PGA Tour for LIV Golf are Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka and Phil Mickelson. Mickelson sparked outrage in February when it was reported that he had said that the LIV series was a “once-in-a-lifetime oppor tunity” even as he called Saudi Arabia’s record on human rights “horrible.”
Rory McIlroy said Tiger Woods’s leadership at a meeting of PGA Tour golfers was crucial as players discussed how to improve the Tour and contend with the rift in the golf world.
“I think if someone like him is passio nate about it, no offense to all of us, but that’s really all that matters,” Thomas said. “If he’s not behind something, then, one, it’s probably not a good idea in terms of the betterment of the game, but, two, it’s just not going to work. He needs to be behindMcIlroysomething.”saidthat in addition to dea ling with LIV Golf, the PGA Tour would also eventually have to handle a world without Woods on the tour. “The tour had an easy job for 20 years,” McIlroy said. “They’ve got a bunch of us, and we’re all great players. But we’re not Tiger Woods.”
While players were quick to praise Woods, they demurred when it came to sharing any actionable steps that came from the “What’smeeting.theshort-term?
Q: When do you think you’ll start to realize that the championship window is dwindling, and how will you manage that?
A: A phrase we’ve been throwing around is “Attack Success.” We’ve really been all in since 2017; it wasn’t just last year. Once we broke through, we realized we’ve got a special head coach and play caller, difference makers on the offen sive side of the ball and have always had a salty defense. Let’s attack this window and we’re still going to attack it.
A: It could be as simple as we start to lose more games. But I think where we’re at is realizing when you have players in their primes, that means that maybe more than half of their career is over. At that point in time, it’s on us to kind of moni tor where someone could be dropping off. That doesn’t necessarily mean you now might replace them. It could mean that he gets less reps. It might mean that he prac tices less. How do you keep it going? And you’re always going to try to fill your holes when necessary.
Q: How do you marry being aggres sive and trading first-round picks while also using later-round picks to your ad vantage? A: We were aware that we were in this window and had an opportunity to contend. Now we have this subset of draft picks. [Twelve of the Rams’ 22 starters in the Super Bowl were drafted by the team.] What’s the most effective way to use them? It means you can trade back and collect more draft picks, which we do a lot.
The neat thing about our system is when we draft a rookie, we’re not neces sarily relying on him to start. We can de velop and bring him along. So I would say that the new meme that will not become a meme would really be that the Rams “fo cus on the draft picks.”
A: Some would say there’s a young er, maybe less traditional group of head coaches and general managers. Maybe it’s the influx of analytics. It just might be teams realizing that maybe we’re more in a mi crowaveable time in that the five-year plan is maybe outdated. Can you get this thing done in a two-year plan? I think you’ve got to add to the element of the players, too.
The Rams’ GM does not hate draft picks
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“We’ve really been all in since 2017, it wasn’t just last year,” Les Snead, the Rams’ general manager, said about the team’s investment in contending for a championship.
Q: Did you enjoy becoming a meme? A: I’m intentionally not on social me dia, but the teenagers had fun with it. It didn’t surprise me that it took off because we ended up winning the Super Bowl. Heck, it might have taken off if we had gone in the other direction and lost. So cial media is good at that, right? Making fun of you to an extent. It’s an easy thing to catch fire. But I do think there’s an ele ment of shallowness to it.
Q: What’s your take on other teams making more bold trades this offseason? A: If that’s the case, I think they’re do ing it because we actually won the world championship. So, selfishly, I’m glad we won the world championship and if teams think what we did can offer them some version of a blueprint. But I do think in the last five to 10 years, teams have started to do things differently and attack their windows or attack their rebuilds. I’m not saying it was just us — maybe what we’ve done accelerated it — but there’s been a trend of teams being less conservative.
By EMMANUEL MORGAN S ix months ago, as the Los Ange les Rams celebrated winning Super Bowl LVI with the usual parade and pep rally, their top front office executive took a cheeky victory lap of his own. Les Snead, the Rams’ general manag er, built the team’s win-or-bust roster with trades for quarterback Matthew Stafford and other key players by offloading 12 of Los Angeles’ draft picks ahead of last sea son. Most observers viewed it as an all-in bet that the Rams could win now, not wait to build a team based on potential. Bask ing in the victory at the parade, Snead wore a T-shirt that bore his face and the profanity laced internet meme about his view of draft picks that emerged around him and his aggressive approach. The Rams’ bold methodology cut against conventional approaches to roster construction in the NFL, where draft picks are typically coveted because they allow teams to sign potentially impactful players at the lowest salaries allowed. Snead may have forced a reassess ment. Eight teams — one-fourth of NFL clubs — entered the 2022 draft without a first-round selection. They included the Miami Dolphins and the Las Vegas Raid ers, teams that gave up picks in exchange for receivers Tyreek Hill and Davante Ad ams this offseason. Quarterbacks Russell Wilson and Matt Ryan, who each had led teams to Su per Bowl appearances, were also traded for picks, with Wilson landing with the Denver Broncos and Ryan with the India napolis Colts. As other teams follow the Rams’ blueprint, Snead will try to keep the team competitive without a first-round draft pick until 2024 as its highly paid stars age. In an interview during training camp in Ir vine, California, Snead talked about how he actually evaluates draft picks, what he thinks is behind other teams’ aggressive personnel moves and how he assesses when the prime of a player’s career is over.The interview has been condensed and lightly edited.
Some are saying: “Wait a minute, I’m in my prime and I’m not sure this is the place to be. Could you move me to a place that I could win?” There’s a lot of factors.
Q: If it wasn’t you, then what do you think caused it?
Q: What were the biggest factors to persuading Aaron Donald not to retire? (Donald, a seven-time All-Pro de fensive tackle, considered retiring at 30 before signing a contract extension that made nearly $46 million of its $95 million total payable in bonuses over three years.) A: Sean (McVay, the coach of the Rams) and him have a good relationship, so I think they were able to talk about big picture, life, football and talk through things. I think myself and the front office, talking with his reps, were really: “OK, if Aaron wants to play football, then really it’s on us to figure out a way to get the money right. Aaron shouldn’t retire be cause of us.” The third part, and I think Aaron did a really nice job, is because he was actually honest and said, “Look, I know I got three years.” Then it’s working creatively to be able to reward Aaron, but also engineer a contract where if he does retire in three years, it doesn’t punish the club for the future.
Q: How does Donald’s impending retirement affect how you build the de fense? A: We’re never having another Aaron Donald, so we shouldn’t look for that. What we should do is figure out other ways to pressure the quarterback. But re placing Aaron Donald? That’s a fruitless call. Q: Last year, the motto seemed to be ‘All In.’ After winning the Super Bowl, is the team’s sense of urgency the same?
The league had sought a season-long suspension of Watson, but the settlement heads off a potential challenge of the dis cipline in federal court — a route the NFL Players Association has taken, with mixed success, in other player suspensions.
Watson will also pay a $5 million fine and must undergo evaluation by behavioral experts, followed by a treatment program. The fine, as well as $1 million each from the league and the Browns, will be donated to groups that work to prevent sexual assault.
The agreed upon penalties, among the most severe in league history, come as the NFL has faced heightened scrutiny over its treatment of women and after backlash to the initial suspension handed down by an arbitrator earlier this month, which some said wasn’t harsh enough to deter others and did not address the scope of accusa tions against Watson. In a statement released through the team Thursday, Watson said he was “grate ful” that the disciplinary process had ended. “I apologize once again for any pain this sit uation has caused,” he said. “I take account ability for the decisions I made.”
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The settlement was less than the indefi nite suspension the NFL sought but nearly doubled the one initially imposed by a thirdparty disciplinary officer this month.
By JENNY VRENTAS and KEN BELSON A fter the NFL appealed what many thought was a lenient six-game sus pension, Deshaun Watson, the Cleve land Browns quarterback accused by more than two dozen women of sexual miscon duct in massage appointments, agreed to be suspended for 11 games in a settlement, the league said in a statement Thursday.
Peter C. Harvey, an NFL adviser and former New Jersey attorney gen eral, to hear the league’s appeal of the ini tial ban. As Harvey considered the appeal, settlement talks between the league and the players’ union continued. Before starting the Browns’ first preseason game in Jack sonville, Florida, last week, Watson issued his first apology “to all of the women that I have impacted in this situation” in a brief interview with a member of the Browns’ preseason broadcast team. “The decisions that I made in my life that put me in this position, I would definite ly like to have back, but I want to continue to move forward and grow and learn and show that I am a true person of character,” Watson said. In its appeal for harsher discipline, the NFL had pointed to Watson’s lack of re morse, a factor Robinson also cited in her ruling. Watson, who has steadfastly denied the accusations against him, settled this summer 23 of the 24 lawsuits filed against him by women who said he harassed or as saulted them in massage appointments. Watson will continue to be eligible to participate in practices and preseason games. His suspension will begin Aug. 30, well before the Browns’ regular-season opener against the Carolina Panthers on Sept.Watson11. can return to the Browns’ fa cility on Oct. 10, the midway point in his suspension. He is eligible for reinstatement on Nov. 28, the day after the Browns’ 11th game. He will be eligible to play in the Browns’ 12th game, on Dec. 4, against Wat son’s old team, the Houston Texans. After the first accuser filed a lawsuit against Watson in March 2021, Goodell opted not to place him on the commission er’s exempt list, which would have granted Watson paid leave as the allegations were investigated. Watson sat out the 2021 NFL season after asking that his former team, the Texans, trade him. The team did so in March 2022 after a Texas grand jury declined to charge Watson. At least four teams recruited Watson’s ser vices, and the Browns won what became a bidding war, at least in part because they were willing to guarantee his entire contract. Watson’s base salary is about $1 million this season, a provision that ensured that Wat son would forfeit only a small portion of his overall compensation this year for games missed while serving a suspension. The deal led to questions about wheth er the Browns, Falcons, Panthers and other teams bidding for Watson’s services were dismissive of the allegations made against him. Browns owner Jimmy Haslam has said that he supports Watson but last week told reporters that he would respect the league’s judiciary process.
After the N.F.L.’s appeal, Deshaun Watson received a penalty nearly twice as long as the six-game suspension originally handed out by an arbitrator two weeks ago.
Watson’s initial discipline, which did not include a fine or a recommendation for counseling, was issued on Aug. 1 by Sue L. Robinson, a retired federal judge jointly ap pointed by the league and the players’ union to rule based on the results of the league’s investigation and arguments made by both sides during a three-day disciplinary hear ing.
Robinson found that Watson had com mitted multiple violations of the personal conduct policy by engaging in what she de scribed as “predatory” and “egregious” conduct. But she also suggested that she was limited in her author ity to mete out stricter dis cipline by the NFL’s policies and past rulings. Two days after her rul ing, the NFL appealed the decision as per a new pro cess agreed to by the league and the players’ union in the 2020 collective bargaining agreement. As it had argued to Robinson, the NFL again sought to bar Watson from playing for at least a year, after which he would have to make a case for reinstate ment.
Watson suspended 11 games, fined $5 million in sexual misconduct case
“We’ve seen the evidence,” NFL Com missioner Roger Goodell told reporters at a meeting of NFL team owners in Minneapolis this month. “She was very clear about the evidence, she reinforced the evidence that there was multiple violations here and they were egregious and it was predatory behav ior. Those are things that we always felt were really important for us to address in a way that’sGoodellresponsible.”picked
The decision ended one of the most high-profile tests of the league’s personal conduct policy, a case that involved a star quarterback in his prime who was accused of serially harassing and assaulting women but who was never charged with a crime. In the 18 months since the first allega tions surfaced, Watson was traded by the Houston Texans for a bevy of draft picks to the Browns, who signed him to a $230 million fully guaranteed contract, prompting questions about whether teams were taking the accusations seriously.
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Taurus (April 21-May 21) The Moon in your sign aligns with electric Uranus, so you might surprise someone with a suggestion they hadn’t expected. If it involves something spe cial and indulgent that you can enjoy in private, then go for it. A get-together could also be on the cards. It may be a small and cosy affair at your pla ce, but it will hit just the right note, and might be a high-point, Taurus.
Gemini (May 22-June 21) Fiery Mars is in the final degrees of your spiritual zone, before moving into your sign this weekend, Gemini. Watch out for a vivid dream or coincidence, that has something to tell you about a golden op portunity coming up very soon. Plus, an indulgent Venus/Jupiter tie means you can admit any mistakes to a friend or partner, and they’ll love you even more for being honest.
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22) After a rocky start to the week, you may be able to breathe a sigh of relief, as you get some good news at last. And there’s a chance of some extra cash if you play your cards right. It might be linked to your work or business, so it’s an idea to put your best foot forward, Scorpio. You could prefer to take the path of least resistance, but it’s best to snap to, as there can be more to come.
Cancer (June 22-July 23) This could be a day of dynamic change, whether you want it or not, Cancer. A potent lunar phase oc curring in your sector of transformation may bring a matter to a head, and in a most unexpected way. If the tension has been ramping up, this Supermoon might act as a catalyst that encourages a decision. Has this been in the back of your mind already? If so, it can now become a reality.
Even if small issues continue to irritate you Archer, all the big plans, projects and events will go better than expected. With an uplifting Venus/Jupiter as pect cheering you on, how can you go wrong? The only thing you might do, is not take something im portant seriously. You could miss the cues that are telling you to give more attention to an opportunity or encounter. Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20) Had a falling out? This is the best time to make amends. Lovely Venus in a healing and transforma tive zone, encourages you to reach out, even if it wasn’t your fault. And the outcome looks to make a positive difference to you, as good things can come from your actions. It’s also possible that a family gathering could be a source of uplifting and heartwarming news.
You’ll come into your own this week, and show up as someone who is great company and a delight to be around. A fabulous Venus/Jupiter tie suggests this is the perfect time for a collaboration, especia lly if it has creative potential. Romance is also on the cards, with this aspect giving long-term partner ships extra sparkle and encouraging a new bond to get cosier.
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Leo (July 24-Aug 23) Opportunity knocks for you Leo, but you must push yourself to do something about it. A positive Venus/ Jupiter aspect may coincide with an offer that takes you out of your comfort zone. You’ll realize its many benefits from the outset, but could delay taking ac tion. Something or someone might act as a catalyst, prodding and poking you until you do. You won’t re gret it at all.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20) Success may come to you, if you acknowledge your gifts and abilities and sell them for their true wor th. There are people around who might be on the lookout for talent such as yours, so don’t hold back. There’s also potential for money out of the blue or an unexpected gift. It could only be a small amount, but it can be enough for a treat, a date or a meal with family or friends.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23) What you want and what you need may be diffe rent. But you’re in luck today, as it’s possible for you to have both. It might be easier to move in the direction of something that is indulgent and very desirable, than to do whatever is necessary to get what you need. Get the hard work out of the way first, then you’ll have a chance to make the most of something you’ll really enjoy. Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23) You’ll stand out from the crowd at any social event, and you’ll love it. With Venus your personal planet aligning with lucky Jupiter, other people will notice your star quality too. This aspect will be effective to morrow and over the weekend, although with less impact, but it means you’ll have time to arrange so mething special, or go on a date with your romantic partner.
This may be one of your best days for a while. As se ductive Venus aligns with Jupiter in your sign, there’s nothing you can’t do if you put your mind to it. Wha tever you desire could be yours, if you’re ready to use charm and persuasion. This can be a peak romantic time too. An instant attraction might become a fiery relationship. And passion may be rekindled in an on going bond.
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