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‘Governor Did Not Exceed His Mandate’

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Governor in favor of extending DMO contract for another 10 years

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Wednesday that he is in favor of extending the Destination Market Organization (DMO) contract for an additional 10 years, even though the current one has four years left.

“Well, Discover Puerto Rico requested that extension. The Board of Directors, I understand, is in favor of it, and so am I,,” the governor said at a press conference. “The contract amendment is being drafted so that it can be granted.”

“No, I am not involved in that matter, I am not the one who signs those things, that is actually a contract signed by the Tourism Company,” Pierluisi added. “I am aware of it because I do know that Discover Puerto Rico requested that extension, and I know the reason. They are constantly promoting Puerto Rico for events, they can be conferences, conventions, and in many cases that takes years, and they are promoting Puerto Rico beyond 2028. So it is important for them to show that this entity has the support of the government of Puerto Rico and will be in operation again for an extended period of time. So that is the reason for the extension request, the board sees it favorably, I do too, so let us hope that yes, that the matter is settled, the amendment is signed and that Discover Puerto Rico, that is, the DMO, the entity for the management of the district, can continue to have the success it has had.”

Regarding the criticisms that the request has drawn, for example, from Rep. Ángel Matos García, the governor said “in this area, really, no one can even raise a criticism.”

tract, there are also some spaces to terminate them at some point, without effect, it is not understood that good service is being provided,” he said. “In this case, yes, we think so, it seems that a vote of confidence is being given in the sense of extending the validity [of the contract]. Here, the terms are not being changed nor are benefits being added. We are practically giving them a space so that they can go and negotiate on meetings and conventions directly, although one sees 2028 as far away, the reality is that it is not like that. The same thing happens to us when we deal with the issue of cruises, since the airlines practically have these negotiations taking place for 24 to 36 months. In this case, that is the space that the airline has been hanging on to. It is rather a validity of terms; they are the same benefits and the same contractual relationship.”

On Tuesday, José Suárez, chairman of the Discover Puerto Rico board of directors, warned that the island economy would lose a great opportunity to grow if the organization’s contract with the Tourism Company is not extended beyond 2028.

“There are more than $52 million in events and conventions after 2028 that are already being put out to tender, and if Discover Puerto Rico’s contract with the Puerto Rico Tourism Company is not extended beyond that year, the Puerto Rican economy will lose a great opportunity to grow,” Suárez said in a written statement. Suárez stressed that “the renewal is intended solely to benefit the more than 100,000 families who earn their living from tourism.”

“I mean, it is impossible, because we have had so many achievements that they speak for themselves,” he said. “Representative Matos has had an agenda since Discover Puerto Rico was created, an agenda to attack it, to destroy it, to make it not exist. But he has not managed to convince his peers in the Legislative Assembly and that is why the legislation he has presented has not been approved. But I take his words and his criticisms under the premise that it is obvious, he has no objectivity. In other words, he has lost all objectivity in this matter, because again everything that has to do with tourism has been working excellently well and no one can refute it.”

Puerto Rico Tourism Company Executive Director Carlos Mercado Santiago said: “Here, as the governor said, there are periods in which it is difficult to negotiate, to bring conventions and unions, when their viable operating contract has an expiration date.”

“Let us remember that, like any government con-

Island Supreme Court upholds Nov. 5 plebiscite call through executive order

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Supreme Court issued an opinion on Wednesday in which it supports the call for a plebiscite for Nov. 5, 2024 through Executive Order OE-2024016, signed by Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia.

The decision rejects the challenge filed by the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), which alleged that Law No. 165-2020 and the aforementioned order violated the separation of powers and were unconstitutional.

“The Governor did not exceed his mandate by issuing Executive Order OE-2024-016, which complies with the criteria and safeguards established by Act No. 165-2020,” the island’s top court stated in its decision.

The PIP argued that the law authorizing the plebiscite improperly delegated legislative functions to the executive

branch, and that the executive order usurped functions that should correspond to the Legislative Assembly and the State Elections Commission. However, the court concluded that the Legislative Assembly had provided sufficient criteria for delegating power to the governor and that the executive order met those parameters.

The court’s opinion also rejected claims that the provisions of the law and executive order violated freedom of speech or nullified the right to vote. The court found that the provisions on certification and regulation of campaign activities were consistent with existing law and did not impose unconstitutional restrictions.

The court also reaffirmed that blank or spoiled ballots cannot influence the results of the plebiscite, thus upholding the doctrine established in previous cases.

The Supreme Court decision allows the plebiscite on

Puerto Rico’s status to be held as scheduled, without the changes that the PIP had requested.

PDP mayoral candidate González Denton presents environmental plan for San Juan

By THE STAR STAFF

Terestella González Denton, the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for mayor of San Juan, presented on Wednesday her government proposal called “San Juan Habitable: Conservation of the Environment.”

During the presentation at her campaign office in Hato Rey, González Denton emphasized that for San Juan to be truly habitable, it is essential to adopt a comprehensive vision that considers the well-being of citizens, equality in access to resources and environmental conservation.

“The lack of vision in past administrations has had negative implications for the quality of life of San Juan residents and the economic development of our city, in addition to affecting responsibility for environmental impact in all its forms,” González Denton said in a written

statement.

Among the initiatives highlighted in her proposal are the implementation of green infrastructure to mitigate flooding, the promotion of recycling and renewable energy, water decontamination, and reforestation throughout the city. In addition, the candidate proposed the creation of the Office of Environmental and Energy Affairs, which will be responsible for developing and implementing sustainable environmental policies.

González Denton stressed the importance of robust environmental planning and the need to efficiently use the budget and federal funds available to make San Juan a healthier and more sustainable city.

“San Juan must be at the forefront of innovation to address, with immediacy and professionalism, the challenges that new times present to us,” the candidate said.

US education chief talks decentralization during visit to Juncos high school

By THE STAR STAFF

U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona visited José Collazo Colón High School in Juncos on Tuesday, where the official addressed members of the school faculty and students about the island Department of Education’s (DE) decentralization process.

“The secretary was emphatic in stating that the decentralization of our education system cannot occur without the participation of the teaching profession,” said Víctor Manuel Bonilla Sánchez, president of the Puerto Rico Teachers As-

sociation (AMPR by its initials in Spanish), which arranged Cardona’s visit, in a written statement.

Bonilla Sánchez stressed that, despite the controversies regarding the decentralization of the DE, the process is necessary to improve public education, ensuring that resources reach all school communities in a rapid and effective manner.

The AMPR leader stressed the importance of teachers being protagonists in decision-making, in line with the intentions of Cardona and his team, who showed interest in collecting the opinions of teachers and students during their visit.

U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona

Terestella González Denton, left, the Popular Democratic Party candidate for mayor of San Juan

The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, in San Juan, Aug. 6, 2019. (Erika P. Rodriguez/The New York Times)

Governor recognizes outstanding public servants Bill allowing participation of executive branch volunteers in nonprofits signed into law

Among the award winners were Aymée M. Alvarado Cardona and Leví Rivera Sánchez from the Police Bureau; Mirelly Colón Ortiz from the Treasury Department; and Danilys Hernández López and Elizabeth Vargas Méndez from the Courts Administration, who stood out among more than 30 nominees.

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia and Zahira Maldonado Molina, director of the Office of Administration and Transformation of Human Resources, recognized outstanding public servants on Wednesday with the presentation of the Manuel A. Pérez Awards, the highest award in public service in Puerto Rico.

“We are honored to be part of a work that directly impacts the quality of life of our Puerto Rican sisters and brothers,” Pierluisi said in a written statement. “You are the main reason why today we can celebrate the growth of our economy and

the improvement in services to our people.”

Among the award winners are Aymée M. Alvarado Cardona and Leví Rivera Sánchez from the Police Bureau; Mirelly Colón Ortiz from the Treasury Department; and Danilys Hernández López and Elizabeth Vargas Méndez from the Courts Administration, who stood out among more than 30 nominees.

During the event, the career of ELA Employees Association Executive Director Pablo Crespo Claudio, who is retiring after decades of service, was also recognized.

The governor highlighted Crespo Claudio’s work, stating that his legacy will endure and continue to benefit future generations.

By THE STAR STAFF

Sen. William Villafañe Ramos on Wednesday lauded Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia’s approval of House Bill (HB) 161 recognizing the work done by nonprofit organizations throughout the 78 municipalities of Puerto Rico.

“My thanks to the Governor of Puerto Rico Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia for once again taking a step toward strengthening our communities through the work done by nonprofit organizations to benefit those most in need,” Villafañe Ramos said in a written statement. “This law is a recognition of the crucial role of nonprofit organizations in the Third Sector. Equally, I thank my colleagues in the House and the Senate who backed this bill, recognizing its worth and contribution to our beloved island.”

Villafañe Ramos, the New Progressive Party candidate for resident commissioner, noted that the new Law 161 of 2024, which will be known as the Special Licence for Community Leaders and Volunteers, promotes as public policy, in an effective manner, the continuity of the work and existence of the nonprofit sector by permitting the recruitment and participation of executive branch volunteers.

According to the approved law, the public employees of the executive branch will accumulate a maximum of one year toward a special license for volunteer and community leaders.

To be eligible, the employee must have

worked at least 139 hours during the year and be a volunteer or leader of a nonprofit organization or community organization distinct from the one at which he or she works.

Three emergency management centers to be repaired with FEMA funds

By THE STAR STAFF

More than 45,000 residents of Fajardo, Vieques and Maricao will benefit from repairs that will take place at their municipal offices for emergency management (OMME by its initials in Spanish), thanks to an obligation of over $1 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

“Emergency management offices are vital to save lives and property in emergency and disaster scenarios,” said Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator José G. Baquero.

“As a Joint Recovery Office for the agency, we are aware that responders must have optimal facilities to deploy support and resources during times of urgency and we are committed to repairing them.”

In Fajardo, the OMME is now in the final construction phase after an allocation of over $644,000. The office has a team of 27 employees, volunteers, paramedics and rescuers.

Like other OMMEs, their intervention during emergencies includes rescuing and transporting people to shelters, and collaborating with the Municipal Public Works

Department in the removal of vegetative material and garbage collection. In addition, they carry out mitigation work such as cleaning up channels and streams. During the year they also offer other services to the community such as training and orientation talks on hurricane season preparedness.

Some of the repairs at th Fajardo OMME include waterproofing the roof and replacing the emergency exit doors, acoustic ceiling tiles, a concrete retaining wall, the metal fence and air conditioners. Some of the office contents, such as projectors, cabinets and desks, will also be replaced.

Sen. William Villafañe Ramos

How the federal cases against Trump came sputtering back to life

By ALAN FEUER

The two federal criminal cases against former President Donald Trump sputtered back to life this week after periods of delay and major legal setbacks.

With 10 weeks left until Election Day, prosecutors in the office of special counsel Jack Smith filed an appeal Monday of Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling last month dismissing the indictment that accused Trump of mishandling classified documents after leaving office and obstructing the government’s repeated efforts to retrieve them.

Then on Tuesday, Smith took action in a second case, in which Trump stands accused of plotting to overturn the 2020 election. Prosecutors filed a pared-down version of their original indictment that sought to maintain the bulk of the election charges against Trump while also bringing them into line with the Supreme Court’s recent ruling granting broad immunity to former presidents for official acts they took in office.

Neither of the cases the special counsel is overseeing will go to trial before Election Day, and if Trump regains the White House in November, he will have the power to fire Smith and have both of the proceedings put to rest altogether. Still, Smith appears intent on aggressively pursuing the cases even as the campaign enters its homestretch, and has signaled that he will keep pushing them forward even up to Inauguration Day if Trump wins the election.

Here is how the two prosecutions have gotten to this point of remaining alive but still being mired in legal and political uncertainty.

Election interference case

Until a few weeks ago, Trump’s election case had been on hold for nearly eight months, with all proceedings frozen, as a series of federal courts — including the Supreme Court — considered his claims to be immune from prosecution on any charges arising from his official acts as president.

After the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Trump in July, granting him — and all other future former presidents — broad protections against criminal prosecution, the case was sent back to the trial judge, Tanya Chutkan.

As part of their decision, the justices gave Chutkan a daunting and complicated task: She was ordered to sort through Trump’s indictment line by line and make decisions on which of its many allegations would have to be thrown out under the immunity decision and which could survive and go to trial.

Wasting no time, Chutkan set a schedule to decide next steps and eventually settled on a deadline of Friday for Trump’s lawyers and Smith’s prosecutors to send her proposals for how to proceed.

Smith got ahead of that schedule by filing his revised indictment Tuesday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Washington.

The new indictment kept the basic structure of the old one, retaining all four of the original charges against Trump. Prosecutors

are still accusing him of overlapping plots to defraud the United States, to obstruct the certification of the election at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and to deprive millions of Americans of their rights to have their votes counted.

Perhaps the most significant change in the new indictment was that Smith removed all of the allegations that touched on Trump’s attempts to strong-arm the Justice Department into supporting his false claims that the election had been rigged against him.

In its ruling on immunity, the Supreme Court had struck those charges from the case, finding that Trump could not face prosecution for any of his interactions with Justice Department officials. The court decided that a president’s dealings with the department were part of the core official duties of his office and were thus immune from prosecution.

Chutkan, who was appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama, still has the authority to determine how much of the new indictment can survive under the immunity ruling. In that sense, Smith was setting out his opening position in the coming courtroom battle.

Whatever Chutkan decides, Trump’s lawyers — or Smith, for that matter — will be able to appeal any decisions she makes to higher courts, including the Supreme Court.

She is likely to offer her vision of how things will unfold at a hearing scheduled to take place in Washington on Sept. 5.

Classified documents case

In a stunning decision last month, Cannon threw out the classified documents case in its entirety, ruling that Smith had been illegally appointed to his post as special counsel.

The ruling shocked many legal experts for the way that it upended a quarter-century of Justice Department practice and flew in the face of previous court decisions about the appointments of special prosecutors reaching back to the Watergate era.

Issued on the first day of the Republican National Convention, the decision also gave Trump a major legal victory at an auspicious political moment.

Cannon based her dismissal of the case on the appointments clause of the Constitution. The clause requires presidents to nominate and the Senate to confirm all principal officers of the government, but allows “inferior officers” to be put in place by leaders of federal departments, including the attorney general, under the guidance of specific laws.

In her ruling, Cannon found that there were no specific laws that authorized Attorney General Merrick Garland to name Smith to the post of special counsel in November 2022. She also found that Smith’s appointment was illegal because he had not been named by the president and confirmed by the Senate.

But in their challenge to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Smith’s deputies pointed to four current statutes that they believe give the attorney general the authority to name special counsels.

They also argued that independent prosecutors have long been used to conduct sensitive political investigations, reminding the appeals court that the practice reached back to the days when Jefferson Davis, the Confederate leader, was charged with seditious conspiracy after the Civil War.

There will not be any quick resolution of the current appeal. Smith’s appellate brief Monday was merely the start of a legal battle that may ultimately end up in front of the Supreme Court and is likely to drag on until well after the election in November.

Trump’s lawyers are scheduled to file their own brief to a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit in late September, after which the court is likely to schedule a hearing for oral arguments.

Jack Smith, the special counsel, at a news conference in Washington on Aug. 1, 2023. Neither of the cases Smith is overseeing will go to trial before Election Day, and if former President Donald Trump regains the White House in November, he will have the power to fire Smith and have both of the proceedings put to rest. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

First Jan. 6 rioter to enter Capitol gets more than 4 years in prison

By ORLANDO MAYORQUIN

The first rioter to breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced earlier this week to more than four years in prison, federal prosecutors announced.

In March, a federal jury found Michael Sparks, 47, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, guilty on felony charges of obstructing an official proceeding and civil disorder and several misdemeanor charges for being on the premises of the Capitol building on Jan. 6.

On Tuesday, Judge Timothy J. Kelly of U.S. District Court in Washington sentenced him to 53 months in prison and ordered him to pay a $2,000 fine. Sparks will be on supervised release for three years after his prison term ends, prosecutors said.

Video footage presented in court showed that Sparks entering the Capitol building at 2:13 p.m. on Jan. 6 through a window near a door leading into the Senate Wing that rioters had smashed with a police shield.

Sparks was among the initial group of rioters confronted by Eugene Goodman, a Capitol Police officer, who helped hold off the mob from reaching members of Congress.

The rioters chased Goodman up a flight of stairs as they demanded to know where Congress was certifying the results of the election, prosecutors said.

At the top of the stairs, Goodman and other officers faced off with the agitated mob, prosecutors said, including Sparks, who yelled “This is our America!,” at the police officers.

In court, Sparks’ lawyer, Scott T. Wendelsdorf, argued at sentencing that the focus on his client’s status as the first to enter the Capitol was misplaced and that what really mattered was “how long he was there and what he did while inside.”

In a sentencing memo asking the judge for a sentence of one year under house arrest followed by three years of supervised release, Wendelsdorf tried to draw a distinction between his client’s actions and the violent actions of other rioters. Wendelsdorf noted that Sparks never assaulted or threatened an officer and that he left the Capitol building 20 minutes after he entered.

“Michael Sparks may have started the game, according to the government, but he was out of the game on the sidelines before the first quarter was over,” Wendelsdorf said at trial in March.

Prosecutors had asked Kelly to sentence Sparks to 57 months in prison — four more than he eventually got — and three years of supervised release.

Sparks’ forced entry, they said in a sentencing memo, had immediately set off “the forced interruption of the 2020 Electoral College vote count and threatening the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 Presidential election.”

Kelly’s view appeared to be in line with that characterization. The judge said Tuesday that it was undeniable that Sparks’ entry would have “an emboldening and encouraging effect on everyone who was at least in your vicinity,” according to The Associated Press.

“To say it wasn’t a material, key point in the mob’s taking of the Capitol, I think, is just ignoring the obvious,” the judge added, according to The AP.

During the trial, the prosecution had also honed in on remarks Sparks had made on social media in the days leading up to Jan. 6, including a post on the social media site Parler calling for a civil war. He also posted on Facebook three days before the Capitol breach, prosecutors said.

“It’s time to drag them out of Congress,” he wrote in a post. “It’s tyranny.”

Sparks, who had a job supervising a factory in Cecilia, Kentucky, turned himself in to the authorities on Jan. 19, 2021.He did not testify at trial, but Sparks did submit a letter before his sentencing in which he stated that one of his only regrets was that the events of Jan. 6 “did not change anything.”

On Tuesday, he reaffirmed before Kelly that he still believed the false claim that the 2020 election was “completely taken from the American public,” The AP reported.

Messages to Sparks’ lawyer Tuesday evening were not immediately returned.

Sparks is the latest to be sentenced of the more than 1,300 people the Justice Department has charged in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

Can tech executives be held responsible for what happens on their platforms?

By ADAM SATARIANO and CECILIA KANG

This month, the social platform X closed its Brazil operations after one of its executives was threatened with arrest for not taking down certain content. Last year, Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, pleaded guilty to federal moneylaundering violations that took place on his cryptocurrency platform. In 2021, Twitter executives in India faced arrest over posts that the government wanted removed from the site.

And on Saturday, Pavel Durov, who founded the online communications tool Telegram, was arrested in France as part of an investigation into the platform’s complicity in crimes including possession and distribution of child sexual abuse imagery.

For years, internet company executives rarely faced personal liability in Western democracies for what took place on their platforms. But as law enforcement agencies, regulators and policymakers ramp up scrutiny of online platforms and exchanges, they are increasingly considering when to hold company leaders directly responsible.

That shift was punctuated by Durov’s arrest over the weekend, raising questions over whether tech executives like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg also risk being arrested when they next set foot on European soil.

For now, tech executives have little to fear, with cases like Durov’s likely to be outliers, experts said. Historically, companies have been held responsible for a platform’s transgressions, rather than individuals. And legally, the bar is high in the United States and Europe to prosecute individuals for activities at their companies, especially with U.S. laws like Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects internet platforms from being responsible for harmful speech.

But the threshold for holding executives liable for what takes place on their sites is lowering in specific areas, particularly child safety, said TJ McIntyre, an associate professor at University College Dublin’s School of Law.

Last year, Britain passed an online safety law that can hold

Pavel Durov, founder of the Russian social media giant Vkontakte, at a tech industry conference in San Francisco, Dec. 2, 2014. Durov was arrested in France as part of an investigation into the messaging app Telegram’s alleged complicity in crimes including possession and distribution of child sexual abuse imagery. (Jim Wilson/ The New York Times)

tech leaders personally responsible if their company is made aware of content that risks child safety and systematically fails to remove it. Even Section 230 doesn’t apply to some forms of outlawed speech, such as child sexual abuse.

“There’s a 30-year arc here,” McIntyre said. Since the 1990s, he said, tech executives have not typically been held responsible for what users did on their platforms, though that approach is now being questioned by those who want stronger accountability.

Durov, 39, has not been formally charged with any offenses and could remain in the custody of French authorities through Wednesday. While French authorities have provided few specifics, he faces a raft of potential charges related to activities on Telegram, including child sexual abuse material, drug trafficking, fraud, money laundering, abetting criminal transactions and refusing to cooperate with law enforcement.

Durov made himself a target with an anti-authority ethos that governments should not restrict what people say and do online except in rare instances, experts said. Unlike Meta, Google and other online platforms that typically comply with government orders, Telegram was also called out by French authorities for failing to cooperate with law enforcement.

After Durov’s arrest, Telegram said that it abided by EU laws and that it was “absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform.”

Tech companies are paying close attention to the legal liability that their executives may face. This year, Meta successfully fought to have Zuckerberg, its CEO, removed as a named defendant in a lawsuit brought by New Mexico’s attorney general against the company for child protection failures.

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tech companies have sometimes pulled out their employees to prevent them from being arrested. The concern is employees will be used as leverage to force companies to do things like remove content unfavorable to the government.

Previously, only a few notable cases surfaced in which tech executives were seen as potentially liable for activities that took place on their services. In 1998, Felix Somm, a former executive at CompuServe, an online services company, was given a suspended two-year sentence in Germany for complicity in the proliferation of pornography on the internet. He was later acquitted. In 2002, Timothy Koogle, a former CEO of Yahoo, faced charges in France for the sale of Nazi memorabilia on the website. He was also later acquitted.

In 2012, Kim Dotcom, the founder of Megaupload, was arrested by U.S. authorities for copyright infringement related to his website. Ross W. Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road online black market, was convicted in the United States for facilitating illicit drug sales in 2015. In 2016, Brazil briefly imprisoned a Facebook executive for failing to turn over WhatsApp messaging data in a drug trafficking investigation.

These instances were capped over the weekend by Durov’s arrest.

One challenge for prosecutors and law enforcement agencies is proving a tech executive had knowledge of illegal activity on their platforms and did not try to curb the harms, said Daphne Keller, a professor of internet law at Stanford University Law School.

That’s difficult to demonstrate, since TikTok, YouTube, Snap and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, have worked to take down and report illegal content to law enforcement officials, so their executives can argue they tried to do the right thing.

“Knowledge is the key issue here,” said Keller, a former lawyer for Google. “It’s the usual trigger for anyone losing immunity.”

Still, the risk of prosecution is needed to force tech companies to act, said Bruce Daisley, who was a vice president at Twitter before Elon Musk bought the site in 2022 and renamed it X.

“That threat of personal sanction is much more effective on executives than the risk of corporate fines,” Daisley wrote recently in The Guardian.

Musk, who takes a hands-off approach to policing content on X, may be putting himself at particular risk just like Durov, said Kate Klonick, an associate professor at St. John’s Law School who is researching EU regulation of online platforms.

“If I was a betting person, I would say that there will be a day that Elon Musk is on trial or be in prison in some country because of his refusal and his thumbing the nose at the rule of law,” she said.

Musk did not respond to a request for comment, but that prospect appears to be on his mind, too. The tech mogul, who has declared Durov’s arrest an affront to free expression, raised the question of his own liability Sunday.

“Should I be worried about flying to Europe after the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in Paris,” Musk wondered in a post on X.

Wall Street ends down; investors brace for Nvidia report

U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday ahead of a quarterly report from Nvidia, Wall Street’s centerpiece event of the week that could shatter or add fresh fuel to a rally driven by optimism around artificial intelligence.

Shares of the dominant seller of AI processors, due to report after the closing bell, dipped, trimming their gain so far this year to around 150%.

Following several blowout quarterly reports, Nvidia is viewed as the biggest winner so far from AI technology. Its latest results follow concerns about increases in alreadyhefty spending by Microsoft, Alphabet and other major players in the race to dominate emerging AI technology.

“It’s been the poster child for the AI boom and it’s really led the charge, so it would be hard for the market to move on in spite of a disappointment from Nvidia,” warned Keith Buchanan, senior portfolio manager at GLOBALT Investments in Atlanta.

“Nobody has their arms around how long Nvidia can continue to surprise on the upside, but, naturally, it can’t last forever,” Buchanan added.

Options pricing shows traders anticipate a move of around 9.8% in Nvidia’s shares on Thursday, a day after it reports its results, data from analytics firm ORATS showed.

Other chip stocks also dipped, with Broadcom and Advanced Micro Devices each losing ground.

Google-owner Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon also fell.

According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 lost 33.30 points, or 0.59%, to end at 5,592.50 points, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 198.79 points, or 1.12%, to 17,556.31. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 156.26 points, or 0.38%, to 41,094.24.

Investors widely expect the U.S. Federal Reserve will lower interest rates at its September meeting after Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s support for imminent policy adjustment last week sparked broad-based market gains.

The CME Group’s FedWatch Tool currently sees a 64% chance of a 25-basis point reduction and a 37% chance of a 50-bps cut.

The Personal Consumption Expenditure report for July, due on Friday, may provide further insight into the central bank’s likely rate-cut trajectory.

Super Micro Computer tumbled after the AI server maker said it would delay the filing of its annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30, a day after Hindenburg Research disclosed a short position in the company.

The market value of billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway briefly surpassed $1 trillion for the first time.

Shares of the dominant seller of AI processors, due to report after the closing bell, dipped, trimming their gain so far this year to around 150%.

Following several blowout quarterly reports, Nvidia is viewed as the biggest winner so far from AI technology. Its latest results follow concerns about increases in alreadyhefty spending by Microsoft, Alphabet and other major players in the race to dominate emerging AI technology.

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“It’s been the poster child for the AI boom and it’s really led the charge, so it would be hard for the market to move on in spite of a disappointment from Nvidia,” warned Keith Buchanan, senior portfolio manager at GLOBALT Investments in Atlanta.

“Nobody has their arms around how long Nvidia can continue to surprise on the upside, but, naturally, it can’t last forever,” Buchanan added.

Options pricing shows traders anticipate a move of around 9.8% in Nvidia’s shares on Thursday, a day after it reports its results, data from analytics firm ORATS showed.

Other chip stocks also dipped, with Broadcom and Advanced Micro De

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vices each losing ground.

Google-owner Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon also fell.

According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 lost 33.30 points, or 0.59%, to end at 5,592.50 points, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 198.79 points, or 1.12%, to 17,556.31. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 156.26 points, or 0.38%, to 41,094.24.

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Shelling kills 6 in Ukraine as Russia pushes ahead in east

By MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG

Bombing eased across Ukraine after two nights of deadly barrages, but strikes near the front line killed six people and Russian troops pressed ahead in the east, closing in on the key city of Pokrovsk.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has called Moscow’s far-reaching bombing campaign this week one of the largest since the war began 30 months ago. Several people in the capital, Kyiv, said Wednesday that they were pleased to have been given a respite after air-raid sirens and explosions shattered the predawn calm Monday and Tuesday.

The eastern region of Donetsk, which has seen some of the fiercest fighting this year, came under fire. A Russian attack killed four members of a family in the tiny community of Izmailivka, the state prosecutor’s office said on Facebook. The settlement is a few miles west of Russian lines and in the path of Moscow’s assault on Pokrovsk, a small city that is a vital transport hub for Ukrainian forces in the

Donetsk region.

“The people died buried under the rubble,” the statement said. The regional military administration said two other people were killed in another attack on a Ukrainian-held settlement close to the city of Bakhmut, which Russian forces captured more than a year ago after some of the most brutal combat since the full-scale invasion began.

The Donetsk region is one of two that make up the Donbas, and Russian forces have been pummeling it with daily barrages of missiles, drones and artillery fire.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia has made controlling the whole of the Donbas a major aim.

Ukrainian authorities have for months pressed civilians to evacuate as Russian forces advanced. But many people have stayed for reasons of poverty, ill health or attachment to their homes and farms.

Russian forces seized the Donetsk cities of Marinka and Avdiivka early in the year and have since then been moving slowly west toward Pokrovsk, which had a population of around 61,000 before the

full-scale invasion.

Military analysts say there is little chance that the city of Pokrovsk could fall imminently given the pace of Russia’s advance and the distance to the front line. But nearly half of the population has left the city, said Vadym Filashkin, the head of the regional military administration. And, in a further sign that the war is coming closer, Filashkin said Wednesday that banks would remain open only until the end of the week.

Officials also announced a curfew for Pokrovsk from 3 p.m. to 11 a.m. No reason was given for the decision.

The advance has accelerated slightly in the last three weeks since Ukraine launched an incursion into the Kursk region of southwestern Russia, a significant development in the war.

Despite the peril in the east, the absence of a large-scale missile and drone attack overnight still came as a relief to some in Ukraine. Ukraine’s air force said Wednesday that it had issued warnings about possible attacks, but that no missiles or exploding drones had been launched.

Tanya Parkhuvenka, who fled the village of Halytsynivka outside the city, cries as she holds her two-year-old son Dmitry at a humanitarian hub in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. Russian troops are approaching the outskirts of the city of Pokrovsk, a stronghold and logistics hub for the Ukrainian Army in the eastern Donetsk region. (Nicole Tung/The New York Times)

Julia Boiko, 46, a resident of Kyiv who works as a nanny, said the sounds of explosions this week had terrified her 3-month-old kitten as they sheltered in the corridor of her apartment building.

“It was stressful for me and for him,” Boiko said.

At least 10 killed as Israel begins major military operation in West Bank

By AARON BOXERMAN

Hundreds of Israeli troops mounted major overnight raids in the occupied West Bank, Israeli officials said Wednesday, targeting Palestinian militants after what they called months of rising attacks. At least 10 people were killed, and an Israeli military official said the operation was continuing.

The operation was concentrated in Jenin and Tulkarem, two cities that have become militant strongholds, Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an Israeli military spokesperson, told reporters. A Palestinian armed group based in Jenin said it had fired on Israeli forces in two villages on the city’s outskirts, and Palestinian residents in both cities described hearing intermittent gunfire.

The operation followed months of escalating Israeli raids in the occupied territory, where nearly 3 million Palestinians live under Israeli military rule. Israel has arrested thousands of Palestinians suspected

of involvement in armed groups since the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks, an increasingly deadly campaign that has unfolded alongside its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Despite the toll in the West Bank — more than 580 Palestinians have been killed since Oct. 7, according to the United Nations, in violence involving both the Israeli military and extremist Jewish settlers — the raids have failed to tamp down the armed groups. They have also further immiserated Palestinian civilians in the territory, who saw Israeli bulldozers tear up roads early Wednesday and feared being caught in the crossfire.

The raids Wednesday appeared to be the largest since July 2023, when about 1,000 Israeli soldiers carried out a 48-hour incursion in Jenin that killed 12 Palestinians, at least nine of whom militant groups claimed as members.

Palestinian officials said the Israeli operation included drone strikes. Troops also

operated farther east in the Far’a neighborhood, conducting an aerial strike that killed four militants, Israeli authorities said.

Here is what else to know

— Gunfire and explosions: Kamal Abu al-Rub, the Palestinian governor of Jenin, said the Israeli incursion was unusually fierce, with the sounds of gunfire and blasts intermittently resounding through the city. Israeli officials had informed their Palestinian counterparts that they were imposing a formal curfew on parts of the city and that soldiers had surrounded Jenin’s hospitals, entrances and exits, he said, adding: “People are living in a state of terror and anxiety.”

— Iranian smuggling: The raid comes as U.S., Israeli and Iranian officials have said that Iran is trying to flood the West Bank with weapons. The covert operation, employing intelligence operatives, militants and criminal gangs, has heightened concerns that Iran is seeking to turn the territory into another flashpoint in its long-

standing conflict with Israel.

— Settler violence: While the Israeli military cited rising Palestinian violence, extremist Israelis have also stepped up attacks against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank. Many escape legal accountability for the mob attacks, some of which turn deadly. This month, a 23-year-old Palestinian was killed when dozens of Israeli settlers attacked the town of Jit in the northern West Bank.

— Jenin a symbol: The city is synonymous with Palestinian rebellion, the source of dozens of suicide bombers who were sent into Israel during the second intifada, or uprising, against the Israeli occupation in the early 2000s. More recently, the impoverished city has been a hotbed for recruiting by Hamas and the militant group Islamic Jihad, as well as newer militias that have emerged among a disaffected younger generation. Israeli officials say more than 50 shooting attacks on Israelis have emanated from the Jenin area this year.

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Last crusade of Mexico’s president: A drastic redesign of the judiciary

By SIMON ROMERO and PAULINA VILLEGAS

As Mexico’s president nears the end of his six-year term, his final mission is a sweeping redesign of the judiciary that he says is needed to fight corruption.

But in a potential turning point for Mexico’s democracy, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is facing a backlash from critics who say the move is a power grab aimed at eroding judicial independence and expanding the sway of his political movement.

The proposed changes would shift the judiciary from an appointment-based system largely grounded in training and qualifications to one where voters elect judges and there are few requirements to run. The move could potentially force more than 5,000 judges from their jobs, from the chief justice of the Supreme Court down to those at local district courts.

The judiciary rift in Mexico is the latest flashpoint in López Obrador’s tenure during which he has pushed for sweeping change that he argues will enhance governance, but critics warn could imperil the nation’s democracy and rule of law.

Thousands of judges and court workers around the country have gone on strike in protest, and the U.S. ambassador last week called López Obrador’s push in the final weeks of his six-year term “a major risk to the functioning of Mexico’s democracy,” provoking a diplomatic spat between the two nations over the wisdom of the proposals, and whether the United States should be weighing in at all.

Claudia Sheinbaum, the president-elect who takes office in October, has hit back at such criticism, including the labeling of elections as a risk to democracy, reflecting the consensus among López Obrador’s allies in favor of the overhaul. The determination to push through the measures has kept financial markets on edge, marked by a 13% plunge since early June in the value of the currency, the peso.

The contentious debate highlights the growing unease in Mexico over the prospect that López Obrador and his political party, Morena, are trying to lock in the political advantages they have now over a

Judicial experts, and many Mexican judges themselves, acknowledge that changes are needed to address corruption in Mexico’s legal system, especially at the local level. But they say the overhaul isn’t designed to address the deeper problems of graft nor the high levels of impunity for criminals, for which they say underfunded prosecutors and unprofessional police are more often to blame.

In addition to judicial elections, the measures would downsize the Supreme Court to nine justices from 11, shorten their terms to 12 years from 15 and create a Tribunal for Judicial Discipline, also elected by popular vote, with broad powers to investigate, sanction or possibly even fire or impeach judges and Supreme Court justices.

much longer period of time.

Norma Piña, who as chief justice of Mexico’s Supreme Court has been a frequent target of López Obrador’s ire, said the proposed changes were already sending a chill throughout the legal profession in Mexico. Asked whether the overhaul could be a matter of simple retribution, she did not rule such motivation out.

“I hope that’s not the case, because as a woman, a Mexican citizen, and a lawyer, this would be the worst thing that could happen to the country,” Piña said in an interview.

Lenia Batres, a justice on the Supreme Court and a top ally of López Obrador in the judiciary, brushed aside concerns over the proposed changes, arguing in an interview that they were needed because of a lack of “collaboration” between the judicial and executive branches.

“While one branch is thinking about building infrastructure, the other is sabotaging it,” Batres said, referring to court rulings that have thwarted some of López Obrador’s most ambitious plans, including measures favoring the state-owned electrical power company over private companies.

Ken Salazar, the American ambassador to Mexico, in his official residency in Mexico City, Sept. 15, 2021. Salazar called proposed judicial changes to the country’s judiciary “a major risk to the functioning of Mexico’s democracy.” (Alejandro Cegarra/The New York Times) Para cita llamar al

The proposed judicial changes are already casting a pall over Mexico’s economy, which had benefited from a near-shoring boom in recent years as companies shifted

manufacturing operations to Mexico from China, making Mexico the top trading partner of the United States.

Legal experts say there’s widespread fear about the effect the overhaul could have on the judicial impartiality needed to resolve disputes between the government and businesses. Concerns have grown that companies could place future investment plans on hold.

Before going public with his criticism of the judicial measures last week, Ken Salazar, the U.S. ambassador, had long adopted a conciliatory approach to managing his relationship with López Obrador, sometimes siding with Mexico’s president in domestic disputes in an effort to preserve cooperation in areas like migration enforcement.

But such diplomatic posturing became untenable as resistance to the judicial overhaul coalesced among American investors, parts of the Biden administration and both Democratic and Republican members of the U.S. Congress, said Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez, a political scientist at the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico.

“An opposing view emerged that is distinct from Ambassador Salazar’s betting everything on a friendship with President López Obrador,” Silva-Herzog Márquez said.

His allies are also planning to push other far-reaching initiatives through Congress in the coming weeks. These include shutting down the government agency set up to uphold freedom of information laws and another agency designed to coordinate anti-corruption efforts at all three levels of government.

“This president does not believe that judges have the legitimacy to challenge him,” said Ana Laura Magaloni, one of Mexico’s top legal scholars.

But allies of the president, flexing their political muscle with large legislative majorities, are minimizing such concerns.

Mario Delgado Carrillo, a Cabinet appointee in Sheinbaum’s incoming administration, said legislators should approve the overhaul as a “great gift” for the departing López Obrador.

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The Supreme Court’s supreme opportunity

By GREGORIO IGARTÚA DE LA ROSA Special to The STAR

In Puerto Rico, several plebiscites have been held, and all won by the pro-statehood New Progressive Party, but without any results in Congress.

We do not vote in federal elections. So it is pertinent to ask, Why haven’t we moved toward statehood status? The reasons are several, but they revolve around confusing people with the need for a plebiscite to grant us statehood. In Puerto Rico, a plebiscite process is unnecessary and questionable. In addition, there is the issue of protagonism and/or ignorance in many cases, even at high levels of the political leadership of the parties. Why a plebiscite again? Why not claim our rights in Congress as American citizens, which we have been since 1917 by our own free will?

It is discriminatory and shameful that we expose ourselves to a process with an alternative of a republic, which would result in us (3.3 million American citizens) leaving the nation. The Free Association alternative proposed by the Popular Democratic Party pursues an association with our nation with terms that are unknown and that the United States cannot grant as it would not grant them to a state. If the two previous alternatives were supported by the people of Puerto Rico, let them be proposed by the Popular and/or the pro-statehood party in a plebiscite, not by us statehood supporters, who are already citizens of our nation, and who on the path of assimilation only need certification to be an incorporated territory in transit toward statehood. (We are de facto incorporated).

One should not think that a plebiscite is a tool to win elections (That is protagonism without reason; in the 2012 elections, statehood won the plebiscite while Luis Fortuño lost the race for governor). Furthermore, it lends itself to an agreement by a group of parties against statehood. However, Governor Pedro Pierluisi issued an executive order to hold a plebiscite on Election Day. This is without including the indispensable part, the United States government. In addition, with the alternatives of free associated state and independent republic, that is, secession from the nation,

which is questionable within our permanent union with the United States as embodied in the Constitution of Puerto Rico (preamble, Const. of P.R.).

The Puerto Rico Supreme Court has before it a case brought by the Puerto Rican Independence Party. In essence, it questions the legality of the plebiscite by executive order. Even determining that the plebiscite proceeds, or that it does not proceed, the Supreme Court has before it the supreme opportunity to issue an opinion that clarifies the rule of law that exists in Puerto Rico within the correct legal context of what we really are in our relationship with the United States, not what we could hypothetically be. (Not as concluded in Sánchez Valle.) The truth is that Puerto Rico is the territory that has been most assimilated to the point of being like a state in the history of our nation, and is already a de facto incorporated territory.

The opinion must be issued within the correct legal political perspective. That is, with knowledge of how far we have traveled, if anything along the way, within the elements of statehood that make it up. As noted above, the truth is that since 1898 Puerto Rico has been the American territory that has been gradually most assimilated into being like a state. Our ancestors voluntarily, with their consent, renounced Spanish citizenship in 1898; we have complied with all the requirements of the Northwest Ordinance of 1789 whose criteria were used as requirements to move the territories (more than 30) to be states; we have been American citizens since 1917 with our consent; we have voted for our governor since 1948; we have had a Constitution to govern our internal affairs since 1952, approved by the vote of the people and ratified by the vote of Congress; our Constitution confirmed our loyalty to the U.S. federal system of government, to the democratic system of government by consent, to American citizenship, and to the Constitution of the United States (preamble, Const. P.R.); we pay federal taxes of various concepts; we have defended democracy in military conflicts; we have the minimum population necessary to vote for the president and members of Congress; and the federal Constitution is applied every day in the federal courts and federal laws throughout Puerto Rico, as in the states. Very correctly and honestly, former Governor Rafael Hernández Colón said during his lifetime, at a law conference: “The commonwealth is heading toward statehood within 15 years. …” He had already advised Don Luis Muñoz Marín that with the 1952 Constitution we had completed the requirements to be a state (P.R. Bar Association Journal 207, 1959).

What then is the true perspective (not confusing to the American citizens of Puerto Rico, nor to members of Congress, nor to the courts) of affirmative and correct action to advance equality? Do not demand an alternative that is hypothetical (such as the republic and/or the commonwealth) because it has to be a request to the indispensable part, the United States, channeled and based on what we are, American citizens. In other words, it has to be a claim that follows the parameters of the American system itself in Congress and that they understand there, and not to vote on whether they give us the

The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, in San Juan, Aug. 6, 2019. (Erika P. Rodríguez/The New York Times)

right to equality. As American citizens we already have that right. Slaves would not be asked to vote for freedom. The true perspective is to promote, promote and promote the certification in Congress that Puerto Rico is an incorporated territory in transit toward statehood, the correct and safe path to follow (see G. Igartúa, The U.S. Incorporated Territory of PR; see Judge G. Gelpi, Consejo de Salud Playa de Ponce v Rullan). The island Supreme Court has before it the supreme opportunity to make history with an opinion that does not continue to confuse the people of Puerto Rico and the United States Congress. It cannot certify us as an incorporated territory, but it can in opinion conclude that we are de facto incorporated as a result of the assimilation process.

Gregorio Igartúa de la Rosa is a lawyer and longtime supporter of statehood for Puerto Rico.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Puerto Rico Supreme Court on Wednesday issued an opinion in which it supported the call for a plebiscite for Nov. 5, 2024 through Executive Order OE-2024-016, signed by Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia. The decision denied a challenge filed by the Puerto Rican Independence Party, which alleged that Law No. 165-2020 and the aforementioned order violated the separation of powers and were unconstitutional (see story on page 3).

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Acusan a 52 miembros de la violenta ganga del “Burro” en Caguas

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SAN JUAN – Un gran jurado federal emitió un pliego acusatorio sustitutivo el 21 de agosto de 2024, en el que se acusa a 52 miembros de una violenta ganga del municipio de Caguas de conspiración para poseer con intención de distribuir, posesión y distribución de sustancias controladas, violaciones de armas de fuego, asesinato y lavado de dinero, anunció el miércoles, W. Stephen Muldrow, fiscal federal para el Distrito de Puerto Rico.

“Hace un año, anunciamos los arrestos de algunos miembros de esta violenta ganga, pero nuestra investigación no terminó con esos arrestos. Hoy, anunciamos que, gracias a los esfuerzos de nuestros socios en la aplicación de la ley y fiscales, se han arrestado y acusado a más individuos por asesinatos adicionales”, dijo Muldrow en declaraciones escritas.

“Continuaremos responsabilizando a los miembros de esta violenta ganga por sus crímenes. Aunque el líder de esta violenta ganga sigue siendo un fugitivo de la justicia, continuaremos persiguiéndolo a él y a sus asociados criminales, sin importar dónde se escondan o cuánto tiempo tome”, añadió.

El pliego acusatorio inicial acusó a 38 individuos de narcotráfico, violaciones de armas de fuego y un asesinato. El pliego sustitutivo añade a 14 acusados adicionales, e incluye delitos de lavado de dinero y cuatro tiroteos más que involucraron a ocho víctimas, incluyendo el tiroteo del 7 de diciembre de 2021 en Cidra, donde cinco personas fueron asesinadas.

“Nuestras comunidades están siendo destrozadas por el devastador impacto del narcotráfico. Es crucial entender que todos los involucrados, desde los capos hasta aquellos que apoyan sus operaciones criminales, comparten la responsabilidad por la destrucción y violencia que siguen en su estela. No descansaremos hasta que los responsables de perpetuar este ciclo de sufrimiento sean

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llevados ante la justicia”, indicó Joseph González, agente especial a cargo de la Oficina de Campo del FBI en San Juan.

“En el FBI, estamos comprometidos a seguir todas las vías posibles para desmantelar esta red criminal, lo que incluye incautar y confiscar todas las ganancias y activos obtenidos ilegalmente a través del narcotráfico. Esto abarcará desde barcos y autos hasta casas y negocios, e incluso el arresto de aquellos que hacen posible que los fugitivos de esta organización permanezcan prófugos. No habrá refugio seguro para aquellos que se benefician de esta actividad ilegal”, añadió.

La acusación alega que, desde 2017 hasta el presente, la organización de narcotráfico distribuyó heroína, cocaína base (crack), cocaína, marihuana, Fentanyl, Oxycodone (Percocet) y Alprazolam (Xanax) en varias áreas de Caguas y otras partes de Puerto Rico.

Los acusados incluyen a Nelson Torres Delgado, Edwin Padilla López, Ronald Aponte Marquez, Eroz Rodríguez Hernández, José Jiménez Ramos, Lenne Carrasquillo Serrano, Giovanny Solis Carrasco, Evaristo González Vega, Jariel Figueroa Maymi, José Torres Pagán, Carlos De Jesús García, Gabriel Vázquez Roldán, José Martinez Galvez, Armando L. Rivera Rodríguez, Jan Borges De Jesús, Lester Vélez Rodríguez, Vanessa Santiago Cotto, Diana Mimoso Figueroa, José de la Vega, Michael Rodríguez Flores, José Gautier Medina, Miguel González Sánchez, Brian Sierra Feliciano, Eric Camacho Castro, Héctor Torres Pagán, Christian Martines Franco, Edward Vázquez Concepción, Juan Acevedo Ramos, Jean Villanueva Figueroa, Waldemar Pedraza Díaz, Melquiades Santana Martínez, Juan Orellano Díaz, Cesar Acevedo Adorno, Elimelec García Escoda, Christopher Contreras Baez, Luis Burgos Ofarril, Francisco López Sánchez, José E. Ortiz Colón, Jean Carlos Baez Algarín, Juan Manuel González Cotto, Carlos Rolón Pérez, Joel Omar Jiménez Díaz, Edgard González Vázquez, Rafael Acosta Vega, Joey Divan

Del Valle Delgado, Minerys Burgos Caez, Glenda Irizarry Campos, Sebasthian García Agostini, Jeremy Johan Pérez Bonilla, Steven Omar Padilla López y Wesley Abel Pedraza Díaz.

El gobierno federal busca la confiscación de varias propiedades como parte del caso, incluyendo:

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•Urb. La Campiña, Las Piedras, PR

•Urb. Lake View State, Caguas, PR

•Jardines Palmarejo, Canóvanas, PR

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•Yagrumos St. Monteverde Cupey 1, San Juan, PR

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SAN JUAN – La candidata a la Cámara de Representantes por el Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC), Eva Prados Rodríguez, solicitó el martes información a la Administración de Vivienda Pública estatal y federal sobre la asignación y administración de fondos en 15 residenciales públicos del Distrito 3 de San Juan, incluyendo la Égida Leopoldo Figueroa, donde recientemente fallecieron dos residentes en condiciones deplorables.

“Hemos realizado más de tres visitas a la Égida Leopoldo Figueroa, donde los residentes se quejan constantemente de la falta de mantenimiento, limpieza y ser-

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vicios, además de denuncias sobre pagos en efectivo de la renta y aumentos abusivos. Estas situaciones también se presentan en otros residenciales públicos de la zona, como Monte Hatillo y Monte Park, todos administrados por A & M Contract”, explicó Prados Rodríguez en declaraciones escritas.

La licenciada Prados Rodríguez subrayó la necesidad de transparencia en la administración de los fondos asignados a estos proyectos de vivienda pública y solicitó informes detallados sobre presupuestos, procesos de pago de renta, y auditorías realizadas tanto por el Departamento de Vivienda Pública como por el Departamento de Vivienda Federal.

August 29, 2024

Russell Malone, acclaimed jazz guitarist, dies at 60

By CLAY RISEN

Russell Malone, a jazz guitarist whose encyclopedic knowledge of musicians and songs, combined with a precise yet relaxed playing style, earned him jobs with Harry Connick Jr., Diana Krall and many others, as

well as a dedicated following as a solo artist, died Friday in Tokyo. He was 60.

His death, from a heart attack, was announced on social media by bassist Ron Carter, in whose trio Malone had worked for many years. The trio, with Donald Vega on piano, was touring Japan and had just finished a performance

at the Blue Note Tokyo when Malone died.

Carter said that he and Vega would continue the tour as a duo.

Malone was highly regarded for his versatility: He was able to support a variety of singers and instrumentalists in a range of styles, but he also had his own well-defined sound as a bandleader and soloist.

He was open about his influences — among them B.B. King, Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino — and he was never shy about pointing out how much he had learned from them, and how much of their sound showed up in his playing.

“When I hear a player play, if I don’t hear a smidgen of influences, I get suspicious,” he said in a 2023 interview with the online magazine Jazz Guitar Today.

He managed to carry the weight of those influences without sounding derivative. He was known for a distinctive style that was precise and spare but at the same time warm and luscious.

“He was an absolute natural musician,” pianist Bill Charlap, who worked closely with Malone over the years, said in an interview. “He had perfect time and rhythm, and you heard the whole history of jazz guitar in the way he played.”

Malone emerged on the jazz scene in the late 1980s with organist Jimmy Smith. He joined Connick in 1990 and played with him on tour and on seminal albums like “We Are in Love” (1990) and “Blue Light Red Light” (1991). He was with Krall from 1995 to 1999.

He recorded 10 albums as a leader, beginning with “Russell Malone” in 1992, while continuing to work with a long list of notable artists, including B.B. King, Branford Marsalis, Christian McBride, David Sanborn and Sonny Rollins — all of whom said they valued his ability to fit into, and elevate, their own sound.

“He had great swing,” drummer Lewis Nash, who frequently played with Malone, said, “but he was also like a chameleon, in the sense that he could play in so many scenarios.”

The guitarist Russell Malone in New York, Dec. 9, 2019. Malone, a jazz guitarist whose encyclopedic knowledge of musicians and songs, combined with a precise yet relaxed playing style, earned him jobs with Harry Connick Jr., Diana Krall and many others, as well as a dedicated following as a solo artist, died on Friday, Aug. 23, 2024 in Tokyo. He was 60. (Jeffrey Henson Scales/The New York Times)

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Russell Lamar Malone was born Nov. 8, 1963, in Albany, Georgia. His father, Robert Barnes, died in the Vietnam War when Russell was 2 years old. His mother, C. Veronice Malone, who worked in a warehouse, later married Jimmy Jones, and raised Russell with him.

He started playing music at 4, after his moth er gave him a green, four-string plastic guitar. He gravitated toward blues and gospel and played in his church band. He fell in love with jazz at 12 after watching George Benson play with Benny Good man on television.

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He began teaching himself licks by listening to records by Benson, Montgomery and other guitar greats and practicing them over and over.

By the time he graduated from high school, he was playing professionally around Atlanta, both alone and in groups. The repertoire he played ranged far beyond jazz to include country (Chet At kins), rock ’n’ roll (Elvis Presley) and even punk (the Ramones).

After wrapping up a gig at a Holiday Inn one evening in 1987, he went to see Jimmy Smith per form at a club. When Smith saw the young player in the audience, still dressed in a tuxedo and sit ting anxiously beside his guitar, he invited him up to play.

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Malone started out cocky, he later recalled, but couldn’t keep up with the renowned organist.

After Malone stepped down from the stage, red-faced, Smith turned to the crowd.

“Now, whenever we let youngsters sit in with us, we always like to make sure that they learn something,” Smith said. “Now, did you learn something, junior?”

“I said, ‘Yessir,’” Malone recalled.

As a consolation, Smith invited Malone to his hotel room, where they talked and played until 6 a.m. A year later, Smith asked him to join his band.

Malone’s wife, Belinda (West) Malone, died in 2006. He is survived by his companion, Mariko Hotta; his children, Darius and Marla; his mother; his brothers, Tony Barnes, Ricardo Jones and Stanley Jones; and his sisters, Tametrice Jones and Felicia Campbell.

Malone joined the jazz faculty at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, as an ad junct professor in 2021, when guitarist Gene Bert oncini retired. Though he had never taught before, he proved a natural in the classroom.

“On the days he taught, he changed the whole building with his energy,” David Demsey, the coor dinator of jazz studies at William Paterson, said in an interview. “He treated everyone the same.”

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Jueves, 29 de agosto:

8:00 p.m. DJ King Arthur

9:00 p.m. Banda Algarete

10:30 p.m. Nio García

Viernes, 30 de agosto: NOCHE DE

6:30 p.m. Reinado

8:30 p.m. Los Cuatro Fantásticos (Raúl Armando, Richard “El Flaco”, Juancho y Tito Bonilla)

10:00 p.m. José Alberto “El Canario”

11:45 p.m. Orq. Ala Jaza

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8:00 p.m. Orq. Willie Rosario

Malone brought the same sort of humility to his playing.

“I’m not concerned about living up to someone else’s idea of the perfect jazz guitarist,” he told The St. Louis Post Dispatch in 2001. “Or what’s considered to be cutting edge. But I’m committed to being the best musician I can be.”

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SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA LUIS ALBERTO SANTOS TORRES; ROSA MARÍA ALICEA MAISONET Peticionaria EX PARTE

Civil Núm.: SA2023CV00145.

Sala: 302. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO BAJO

EL ART. 13 DE LA LEY 118, PROCEDIMIENTO EXPEDITO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

A: ISRAEL RIVERA, COLINDANTE POR EL SUR - DIRECCIÓN

FÍSICA: CARR 717 KM.

1.8 BARRIO MONTE GRANDE, SALINAS, PUERTO RICO.

POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Tract of land located at Monte Grande ward municipality of Salinas, Puerto Rico. Bounded at North with Ema Santos Torres; at East with Pedro Gonzalez; at South with Israel Rivera; and at the West with Municipal Road. Which is the point of beginning, having an area of 657.3968 Square Meters, equivalent to 0.1673 Cuerdas. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es la Lcdo. Ernesto Rovira Gándara, PMB 767, 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, Guaynabo, PR 00966; Tel. (787)-758-3277; Email:

erovira@partnerslegalservicespr.com. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 11 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En GUAYAMA, Puerto Rico, a 12 de agosto de 2024. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. STEPHANIE ESCALANTE ORTIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. LIME HOMES, LTD.

Plaintiff, v. MARCELO TORCHIO GOMEZ

Defendants Civil Action Num.: 19-cv-01833 (JAG). Matter: Foreclosure of Mortgage. NOTICE OF SALE. TO: MARCELO TORCHIO GOMEZ: AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC:

WHEREAS: On January 24th, 2023, Default Judgment was entered and grated day in favor of Plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal amount of $250,423.40, plus interests at a rate of 2.50% per annum since November 1, 2018, which continues to accrue until the debit is paid in full, late charged on the amount of 5.00% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment is due, all advances made in accordance with the mortgage note including, but not limited to, insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($17,460.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings

may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master or its appointee was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the following address: Rondapro, 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698414, -66.1125080), to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property described in Spanish: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Condominio Los Pinos de Carolina Norte. Apartamento: G-3 Oeste. Cabida: 55.58 metros cuadrados. Colindando el mismo por el NORTE, con el apartamento G dos Oeste; por el SUR, con el apartamento G cuatro Oeste; por el ESTE, con el patio central Sur del Condominio; y por el OESTE, con el pasillo central del piso, por donde tiene su puerta de entrada el apartamento por cuyo pasillo tiene salida el apartamento al vestíbulo central y a las demás áreas comunes del piso terrero de ambos edificios del condómino y a sus patios circundantes y a la calle en la colindancia Norte del solar. Le corresponde un área de estacionamiento marcado con el número y letra del apartamento. Enmendada la descripción Registral de este apartamento en cuanto a lo siguiente: que por error o inadvertencia en las operaciones Registrales al momento de individualizar este apartamento conforme a la escritura número 770, al Registro expresó incorrectamente el número del apartamento como 3-G Oeste, cuando lo correcto es que dicho apartamento fue descrito en la referida escritura como el apartamento G-3, Oeste, quedando nuevamente descrita la propiedad conforma a dicha escritura como se describió nuevamente al comienzo; segón Instancia suscrita el día 20 de septiembre de 2015, ante la notario Frances I. Ascencio Guido, inscrito al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 31,628, inscripción 7ma. The property is recorded at Page 127 of Volume 598 of Carolina, Property Registry of Puerto Rico, and lot number 31,628, First Section of Caguas. The deed of mortgage is recorded at Page 213 of Volume 941 of Carolina, Property Registry of Puerto Rico, and lot number 31,628, 6th inscription.

Property address: Condominio Los Pinos, Apartamento G-3, Carolina, Puerto Rico 00979. The deed of mortgage is recorded at Page 213 of Volume 941 of Carolina, Property Registry of Carolina, Sixth Section. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: NONE. Junior Liens: NONE. 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 preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the September 20, 2024 at 9:45 am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $174,600.00. 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 September 27, 2024 at 9:45 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $116,400.00, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum 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 October 4, 2024 at 9:45 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $88,300.00, 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 creditor 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, crediting this amount to the amount owed if it is greater. The undersigned 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. WHEREAS: 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 order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 31 day of july, 2024. By: Josel Ronda, Special Master.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. LUIS CARRASQUILLO HERNÁNDEZ

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: CA2023CV03393. (407). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 7 de mayo de 2024, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 12 de julio de 2024 y Mandamiento de Ejecución del 18 de julio de 2024 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el dÍa 12 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, Carretera Número Tres (3) Km. 11.7, Avenida 65 de Infantería, Intersección Carr. Núm. 853, Entrada Urb. Lomas de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico. al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento 2903, ubicado en el tercero y cuarto piso del Edificio 29-30 en su sección #29 y en su lado derecho cual edificio está en la parte central del inmueble sometido al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal, conocido como Condominio Jardines del Parque, ubicado en el Barrio San Antón del

Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, cuya entrada y salida dan hacia el área del apartamento. Esta construido de hormigón reforzado y bloques de hormigón con un área de piso en 2 niveles de 1,434.32 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 133.30 metros cuadrados. Su forma es aproximadamente rectangular y consta de dos niveles: el primero ubicado en el tercer piso y el segundo en el cuarto piso, que a su vez da acceso a la azotea. Su entrada está localizada en el tercer piso orientada hacia el Este del edificio y da acceso directamente el vestíbulo de dicho piso que a su vez da acceso a las comunes generales de la propiedad a través de los pasillos, escaleras y acera para llegar a la vía pública. El primer nivel ubicado en el tercer piso está dividido en los siguientes elementos: Una cocina, salacomedor, un medio baño, un closet para lavandería, un balcón y unas escaleras que dan acceso al segundo nivel ubicado en el cuarto piso. Contiene un calentador de agua y gabinetes de cocina. El tercer piso tiene una cabida de 645.00 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 59.94 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 30’ con el exterior del edificio; por el SUR, en 34’ con el apartamento #2904; por el ESTE, en 21’ 7’ con el exterior del edificio; por el OESTE, en 18’ 3” con el pasillo y las escaleras del edificio que dan acceso al apartamento. El segundo nivel ubicado en el cuarto piso está dividido en los siguientes elementos: 3 cuartos dormitorios con sus closets unidos por un pasillo central, dos baños uno con acceso al pasillo central y el segundo ubicado dentro del arrea del cuarto dormitorio principal y una escalera con acceso a la azotea y al tercer piso. A este apartamento le corresponde el uso de la azotea sujeto a las disposiciones de la Ley y sujeto a las limitaciones contenidas en la Escritura de Constitución del Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal. El cuarto piso consta de un área de 789.32 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 73.36 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 34’ con el exterior del edificio; por el SUR, en 34’ con el apartamento 2904, por el ESTE, en 23’ 9” con el exterior del edificio; por el OESTE, en 21’ 6” con el apartamento 3003. Le corresponde en forma permanente e inseparable dos espacios de estacionamientos los cuales están debidamente identificados en el plano de estacionamiento que se une a la primera copia certificada de la escritura del Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal y que forma patio de los planos generales

del condominio. Los espacios de estacionamiento que le corresponde a este apartamento serán adjudicados en la escritura de individualización y compraventa y llevarán el mismo número de apartamento. Le corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes generales el 0.5428363%. Le corresponde a este apartamento en los gastos de operación y mantenimiento generales del Condominio el 0.5490837%. Inscrita al folio 210 del tomo 1261 de Carolina, Finca 54129, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. La hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 71 vuelto del tomo 1375 de Carolina, Finca 54129, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. Inscripción cuarta. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: COND. JARDINES DEL PARQUE (JARDINES DE PARQUE ESCORIAL), EDIF 29-30, APT. 2903, BO. SAN ANTÓN, CAROLINA, PR 00982. Número de Catastro: 2-008-804-132-50-211-5. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $190,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el dÍa 19 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $126,666.66. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta, el día 26 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $95,000.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia la suma de $147,091.99 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6% anual desde el 1 de julio de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $1,911.11 de recargos acumulados los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $19,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral

que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: AVISO DE DEMANDA: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Luis Carrasquillo Hernández (soltero), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, en el caso civil número CA2023CV03393, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $147,091.99 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 24 de octubre de 2023. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Carolina. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 31 de julio de 2024. Enrique Vergé Hernández, Alg Auxiliar Placa #960, Alguacil, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial De Carolina, Sala Superior.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE LEGACY MORTAGE TRUST 2019-PR1 Parte Demandante Vs.

6,189 (Propiedad A), A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE para la finca 10,580 (Propiedad B), A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE para la finca 29,480 (Propiedad C), en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA será por la suma de $500,000.00 correspondientes a la propiedad A; por la suma de $170,500.00, correspondientes a la propiedad B; y por la suma de $100,000.00, correspondientes a la propiedad C. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 19 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE para la finca 6,189 (Propiedad A), A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE para la finca 10,580 (Propiedad B), A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE para la finca 29,480 (Propiedad C), en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de por la suma de $333,333.33 correspondientes a la propiedad A, por la suma de $113,666.67, correspondientes a la propiedad B; y por la suma de $66,666.67, correspondientes a la propiedad C; equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 26 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE para la finca 6,189 (Propiedad A), A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE para la finca 10,580 (Propiedad B), A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE para la finca 29,480 (Propiedad C) en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de por la suma de $250,000.00 correspondientes a la propiedad A, por la suma de $85,250.00, correspondientes a la propiedad B; y por la suma de $50,000.00, correspondientes a la propiedad C.; equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarasen desiertas las terceras subastas, se adjudicarán las fincas número 6,189, 10,580 y 29,480 a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. Las propiedades a ser ejecutadas se adquieren libre de toda carga y gravámenes que afecten las mencionadas fincas según el Artículo

102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física de los inmuebles de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción de los gravámenes que se están ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de julio de 2024. Ivelisse Figueroa Vargas, Alguacil, División De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De Mayagüez. ***

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN EDUARDO ACOSTA RODRIGUEZ Y VIRGINIA ANNE OWENS WILLIAMS

Demandante V. FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA

DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV07887. Sala: 603. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS

DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.

Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de Bayamón Federal Savings & Loan Association of Puerto Rico, por la suma de $90,000.00. Dicho pagaré fue suscrito el día 3 de abril de 1988, ante el notario José R. Fournier Torres, garantizado por hipoteca constituida mediante la Escritura número 88 otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, inscrita al folio 23 del tomo 198 de Monacillos Este y El Cinco, finca número 5,004, inscripción 8va. Se describe la propiedad a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número uno del Bloque S cuatro del Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Quintas Norte del Señorial antes, ahora Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Paraná, situado en el Barrio Monacillos de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de quinientos sesentaiun metros cuadrados con sesentaitres centésimas de otro (561.63 m.c) y en lindes por el NORTE, en treintisiete metros con cuatro centésimas de otra con el solar número dos; por el SUR, en treinticuatro metros con noventisiete milésimas de otro, con la calle número dos; por el ESTE, las dos distancias una en arco de cinco metros con seiscientos setenticuatro milésimas de otra y otra de doce metros con trescientos sesentitres milésimas de otra con la calle número tres; y por el OESTE, en catorce metros con ciento cincuentinueve milésimas de otra con terrenos de Cupey Heighlands Development Corporation antes, hoy servidumbre de paso Expreso Las Américas. This is the description after measurement, pursuant to deed number 80, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 16, 1979, before notary Estela I. Valles Acosta, and recorded at the margin of the 1st inscription. Finca número 5,004, inscrita al folio 97 del tomo 161 de Monacillos Este y El Cinco. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan. La par-

te demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, y notifique con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante la Lcda. Zilmarie Delgado Pieras, 33 Calle Resolución, Suite 302, San Juan, PR 00920-2727; Tel. (787) 7826500, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de agosto de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. KEREN OLIVERAS PADILLA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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Demandante Vs. ALEXIS

VAZQUEZ CABRERA Demandado

Civil Núm.: CZ2023CV00062. Salón: 401. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ALEXIS VAZQUEZ CABRERAHC 6 BOX 14819, COROZAL, PR 00783. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección

electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Jan Miguel Otero Martínez cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jan.otero@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de julio de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 29 de julio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE

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BANCO POPULAR DE PR Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE IVAN BARTOLOME BANUCHI DOMENECH T/C/C IVAN B BANUCHI Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2022CV02054. (Salón: 508 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

ADELA SURILLO GUTIÉRREZADELA.SURILLO@GMAIL.COM. A: IVAN FELIX ARNALDO BANUCIII CRESPO, VICTORIA EUGENIA BANUCHI CRESPO E ISABEL MARIA BANUCHI GARCIA, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE IVAN BARTOLOME BANUCHI DOMENECH, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO IVAN B. BANUCHI; IRMA CRESPO MARTINEZ, POR SI Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESION DE IVAN BARTOLOME BANUCHI

DOMENECH, TAMBÉN

CONOCIDO COMO IVAN B. BANUCHI. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus-

cribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de agosto de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 21 de agosto de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 21 de agosto de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARTHA ALMODOVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. SUCESION ORLANDO RODRIGUEZ BACALLAO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: GB2022CV00932. (Salón: 201). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDOFRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM. A: ORLANDO RODRIGUEZ PORTAL Y CARIDAD RODRIGUEZ PORTAL COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION MAYRA A. PORTAL DE RODRIGUEZ T/C/C MAYRA ALEIDA CARIDAD PORTAL CAMEJO; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION MAYRA A. PORTAL DE RODRIGUEZ T/C/C MAYRA ALEIDA CARIDAD PORTAL CAMEJO; MAYRA A. PORTAL DE RÓDRIGUEZ T/C/C MAYRA ALEIDA CARIDAD

PORTAL CAMEJO POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; ORLANDO RODRIGUEZ

PORTAL, CARIDAD RODRIGUEZ

PORTAL; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION ORLANDO RODRIGUEZ BACALLAO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de agosto de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 22 de agosto de 2024. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 22 de agosto de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. HELEN N HERNANDEZ COLON

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BQ2023CV00178. (Salón: 1). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM.

A: HELEN N. HERNANDEZ COLON. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de agosto de 2024, 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 notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 22 de agosto de 2024. En Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, el 22 de agosto de 2024. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. CARMEN APONTE FLORES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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DR. QUEEN GREEK, AZ 85142; MANSIONES HACIENDA JIMÉNEZ, CALLE MAGA A-3, RÍO GRANDE, PUERTO RICO; POSTAL: HC 4 BOX 11752 RIO GRANDE PR 00745-9689; HC-04 BOX 1752 RIO GRANDE, PR 00745; MANSIONES DE HACIENDA JIMENEZ 3 MAGA ST. RIO GRANDE, PR 00745. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de agosto de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 26 de agosto de 2024. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 26 de agosto de 2024. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. JOSE DIAZ PEREZ

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: TA2024CV00489. (Salón: 703). Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GLENDALY MOLINA JORGEGMOLINALAW@GMAIL.COM.

A: JOSE DIAZ T/C/C JOSE DIAZ PEREZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de agosto de 2024, 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 notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 21 de agosto de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 21 de agosto de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. ANTHONY HERNANDEZ MACHADO Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BC2023CV00093. (Salón: 105 CIVIL - CRIMINAL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROREGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM. KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANEROKEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM. A: ANTHONY HERNANDEZ MACHADO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de agosto de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se

considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 23 de agosto de 2024. En Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, el 23 de agosto de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE

GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA.

LOURDES AGOSTO JIMENEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. NYDIA LOPEZ RUIZ

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: LJ2021CV00039. (Salón: 0001). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM.

A: NYDIA LOPEZ RUIZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de agosto de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de agosto de 2024. En Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, el 21 de agosto de 2024. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA.

MARÍA M. AVILÉS BONILLA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. ERIC CRUZ BETANCOURT

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CB2023CV00697. (Salón: 0001). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.

A: ERIC CRUZ BETANCOURT. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 11 de agosto de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de agosto de 2024. En Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, el 20 de agosto de 2024. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA.

MARÍA M. AVILÉS BONILLA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE SELINA

ALMA ROSA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AG2023CV01950. (Salón: 603 CIVIL). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BELMA ALONSO GARCÍAOFICINABELMAALONSO@GMAIL. COM. MARINILDA RIVERA VARGAS -MRIVERAVARGAS@YAHOO.COM. A: ZULMA FELICIANO ALMA, DÉBORA FELICIANO ALMA T/C/C

DEBORAH FELICIANO ALMA, GABRIEL FELICIANOARCE HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE SELINA

ALMA ROSA DIRECCIONES:PASEOS REALES K2 CALLE 1, AGUADILLA, PR 00603URB. PASEOS REALES 372 CALLE ALARCÓN, SAN ANTONIO PR 006901407PO BOX 4427, AGUADILLA PR 00605-44274766 ELON CRES,LAKELAND FL 33810-3713URB. VISTA VERDE 533 CALLE 16 AGUADILLA, PR 006036442585 MACOPIN RD, WEST MILFORD NJ 07480-3902407 W 2ND ST. LAKELAND FL 33805-4438FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL,POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE SELINA ALMA ROSADIRECCIÓN: SE DESCONOCE. Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de agosto de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia,Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, SentenciaParcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de agosto de 2024. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 20 de agosto de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante Vs. JACINTO YUPA

LUNA Y SU ESPOSA

MARILETZI MARTINEZ CARABALLO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: CM2024CV00149. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: JACINTO YUPA

LUNA Y SU ESPOSA

MARILETZI MARTINEZ CARABALLO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

Yo, LUIS E. ROMAN CARRERO, 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 18 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Camuy, Camuy, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor 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 correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Camuy durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 25 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el 2 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Catorce (14) del Bloque B en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Las Veredas, localizado en el Barrio Puente del término municipal de Camuy, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS ONCE PUNTO SEIS DOS SEIS SIETE (311.6267) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con el Lote número Trece (13); por el SUR, con el Lote número Quince

(15); por el ESTE, con la Calle número Uno (1): y por el OESTE, con la Urbanización Villa Del Carmen. Sobre dicho solar se ha edificado una estructura de hormigón y bloques de cemento para fines residenciales. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Camuy, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Segunda, finca número 20,715, inscripción cuarta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Las Veredas, B-14, Calle Caoba, Camuy, Puerto Rico. La Subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $150,220.65 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.50% anual, desde el 1ro. de junio de 2013, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $15,700.40 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $157,004.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $104,669.33 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $78,502.00. De declararse desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta 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. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta

y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Camuy, Puerto Rico, 22 de agosto de 2024. WILFREDO OLMO SALAZAR, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, ALGUACIL DE LA DIVISIÓN DE EJECUCIÓN DE SENTENCIAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAMUY.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ASOCIACIÓN DE RESIDENTES SAN GERARDO, INC. Demandante V. SUCESION DE LORELEI LOPEZ NIEVES Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV11462. (Salón: 803 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MELVYN E. FONTÁN LOZADAMELVYNFONTAN@GMAIL.COM. A: NELSON FELICIANO LOPEZ Y DIEGO FELICIANO LOPEZ, POR SI Y COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE LORELEI LOPEZ NIEVES. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 21 de agosto de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 21 de agosto de 2024. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Marily López Martínez, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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Caguas tops Manatí in double OT to force a 7th game

Travis Trice scored 32 points for Caguas, including a 3-pointer to send the game into overtime.

By THE STAR STAFF

The Caguas Criollos defeated the Manatí Bears in double overtime, 122121, on Tuesday night in Manatí, forcing a seventh game to determine the National Superior Basketball Championship.

Game 7 will tip off at 8 p.m. Friday in Caguas.

After a contested 3-pointer by Travis Trice culminated a Criollos rally late in the 4th quarter, knotting the score at 91 and sending the game into overtime, Caguas opened the first extra session by taking their first lead since the middle of the third

quarter with a dunk by Onzie Branch (15 points, seven rebounds) on the first basket of overtime. After Trice and Norris Cole (who finished with 35 points and seven assists on 13-23 from the field) traded baskets from outside on three straight possessions, the Criollos were up by three points with less than two minutes left until a threepointer from the corner by Alex Morales tied the score at 104 with 42.1 seconds left. That led to the Bears (Osos) having the ball again with the shot clock running out, with a chance to win without giving the Criollos any time to execute, but Ethan Thompson couldn’t score. Another overtime.

Despite the wasted opportunities, Manatí started up by four points in the first minute and a half, but a basket by Akil Mitchell (25 points, 14 rebounds, 9-for-14 from the field) tied it again. In the next two minutes there were five lead changes, and it was the Bears who had a three-point lead with 24 seconds left. This time, they wouldn’t fail to foul Trice to prevent a tying 3-pointer, and they were rewarded when he missed his first attempt from the line. However, Jihvvan Jackson missed his first free-throw attempt for Manatí, and Trice then scored two to pull Caguas to within a point, 121-120. Thompson’s night of offensive struggles would culminate with him missing both of his free throws, and Mitchell then scored two at the other end to put the Criollos ahead 122-121 (after he had missed two free throws in the same situation with 28 seconds left).

One defensive stop against Jackson later, and Caguas did the seemingly improbable … again.

The Criollos started the game with in-

tense defense that put them up 17-7 in the first seven minutes of play. They held Manatí to only 30% shooting from the field, and Louis King (23 points, 12 rebounds, 7-for10 from inside the arc) led the offense with six points. However, a 15-6 run led by Cole (13 points, including 11 in a row, with three three-pointers and one assist during the run) put the Bears back to within a point at the end of the first quarter.

Cole entered Tuesday’s game shooting 4-for-18 from beyond the arc in the series, but improved those percentages by connecting on nine 3-pointers.

The comeback was completed with a triple by Jackson (32 points, 10-for-18 from the field, 6-for-9 on 3-pointers, 6-of-9 on free throws). The Bears extended the lead to 38-29, but the Criollos finished the first half with a 12-3 run to tie it at 41.

But, once again, Manatí’s triples (they made 19 in the game) would be the story to help them take off in the second half: a deep one by Cole with 17 seconds left in

the third quarter made it 65-58, and three by Jackson in the fourth -- the second was an ‘and-one’ -- put them ahead 76-65.

Caguas’ turnovers, 20 in the game (14 between King and Mitchell), led to 23 points by Manatí, and the depth of the host team seemed to be too much. The party began with two minutes left.

Except now the triple helped the Criollos get back into the game. One by Trice (32 points, six assists, 7-for-13 from the field) under defensive pressure and one in transition by Christian López (11 points, 4-for-4 from the field) made it a one-point game with 41 seconds left. Thompson (10 points, 3-for-17 from the field) would ease the tension for Manatí coming out of the Bears’ timeout by scoring from mid-range, but it was Trice who again worked his magic in the clutch, escaping the Bears’ defense to score a 3-pointer to tie it at 91 and send the game to overtime after Jackson couldn’t score what would have been the winning basket on Manatí’s previous possession.

Uruguayan soccer player dies days after collapsing during a match

By QASIM NAUMAN

Juan Izquierdo, a Uruguayan soccer player who collapsed on the field during a game in Brazil last week, died Tuesday, his team said.

Izquierdo, 27, was playing for Nacional, a Uruguayan club, in the Copa Libertadores, a top South American tournament, when he suffered cardiac arrhythmia, or an irregular heartbeat, and cardiac arrest Aug. 22, his team said. They were playing against the Brazilian team São Paulo.

Players from both teams appeared shocked and distressed at the Morumbi stadium as Izquierdo was placed in an ambulance and rushed to a hospital.

Nacional said doctors at a hospital in São Paulo put Izquierdo in intensive care and placed him on a ventilator. The episode also affected his brain.

Izquierdo started his professional career in 2018. This was his second stint for Nacional, one of Uruguay’s top soccer clubs. He was married with two children, according to the Montevideo-based team.

San Juan Daily Star

Juan Izquierdo with Nacional (Wikipedia)

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