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By THE STAR STAFF
Popular Democratic Party (PDP) mayors have announced their support for the energy proposal
PDP gubernatorial candidate Jesús Manuel Ortiz González presented to cancel the contract with LUMA Energy, the operator of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s transmission and distribution system.
The proposal calls for stabilizing the energy system and establishing a new administrative model to guarantee a more efficient and reliable electrical service for all in Puerto Rico.
Mayors Association President Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz confirmed his fellow PDP mayors’ endorsement of the proposal. “Everyone knows the quality of life problems that our people are going through due to poor electricity service. LUMA has proven to be ineffective and insensitive to this issue, resulting in energy insecurity, high costs, and poor service,” he said. “That is why we support Jesús Manuel’s proposal; it is time for real change.”
In addition to Hernández Ortiz, the mayor of Villalba, the mayors of Luquillo, Jerry Márquez; of Loíza, Julia Nazario; of Barceloneta, Wanda Soler; of Trujillo Alto, Pedro Rodríguez; and of Lares, Fabián Arroyo, were present, while the mayors of Juncos, Alfredo “Papo” Alejandro; Ponce, Marlese Sifre; Comerío, Josean Santiago; Guánica, Ismael “Titi” Rodríguez; and Adjuntas, José Hiram Soto Rivera, also agreed with the proposal.
The group highlighted that among the points included in the resolution are support for a new administration model proposed by Ortiz González focused on consumer service, the commitment to the development of renewable energies that guarantee optimal service for Puerto Rico residents and municipal integration in the proposal.
lopment of Puerto Rico and at the same time highlights the importance of the collaboration of the municipalities in the effort.”
“Jesús Manuel Ortiz is the only candidate for governor who has put together a concrete and responsible plan with a comprehensive solution that not only addresses the cancellation of the LUMA contract, but also promotes a new management model focused on customer service and sustainability of the system,” the Mayors Association president added. “This model includes measures to ensure transparency, compliance with metrics and the development of renewable energy sources, essential for the sustainability of the electrical system and the economic development of Puerto Rico.”
The PDP mayors asserted that New Progressive Party gubernatorial candidate Jenniffer González Colón has forgotten about LUMA after winning her party’s primary.
“Why does she no longer appear to criticize LUMA?” said Hernández Ortiz, who is running for an at-large seat in the island Senate. “In fact, the [resident] commissioner does not talk about LUMA or anything. She has disappeared from public discussion and the country expects those who intend to run its institutions to express themselves about their problems. The country is attentive to the conduct of the absent commissioner, Jenniffer González.”
“The electrical system of the island must be reliable and satisfy the needs of economic development and quality of life of the country,” Hernández Ortiz said. “We support the proposal because it is specifically focused on the needs of the people. In addition, it allows the development of renewable energy projects that ensure an electrical system that contributes to the economic deve-
Popular Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate Jesús Manuel Ortiz González’s proposal calls for stabilizing the energy system and establishing a new administrative model to guarantee a more efficient and reliable electrical service for all in Puerto Rico. It includes canceling the public-private contract with LUMA Energy to operate the island’s electric power transmission and distribution system.
By THE STAR STAFF
The island Senate will continue hearings next week on the circumstances that allowed Hermes Ávila Vázquez, who is accused of killing Ivette Joan Meléndez Vega, to go free despite his criminal background.
The case of Ávila Vázquez has been full of discoveries, among which are the multiple requests he made to different governing administrations to be released from prison under Act 25, as well as an alleged relationship with a correctional nurse and his criminal background. He appeared at a hearing Tuesday.
Ávila Vázquez, a convicted murderer, was released from prison under an early release program that allows inmates to leave jail if they suffer certain terminal conditions. However, after he was released, he allegedly killed Meléndez Vega in April of this year. Ávila Vázquez had been diagnosed as para-
plegic even though it was later found that he could walk. Since then, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Department
(DCR) has been the target of criticism for allowing his release.
Now, a new allegation has emerged in the investigation. It indicates that the accused, who will face a trial starting on Aug. 19, worked as a prison guard in the DCR and that his father was superintendent of penal institutions.
The information was allegedly revealed in an agency report.
“I am asking for Hermes’ personal file during the time he was employed,” Independent Sen. José Vargas Vidot said. “I am asking for the file of a family member who has spoken with the system. […] The [confidential sources say] that while Hermes was working as a prison officer for four years […] the reality is that it is said that he was engaged in drug trafficking, it is said that he had links with the entry of drugs and other things.”
Corrections Secretary Ana Escobar Pabón will be summoned to the public hear-
ings next Tuesday and Wednesday; as will the firm UtiCorp and several doctors.
Vargas Vidot said his information contains data that would be “devastating” for both Escobar Pabón and Physician Correctional, the company in charge of operating the prison health system. However, he previously described the results of a report prepared by UtiCorp, the company hired to oversee correctional health services, as a disaster.
Among the information handled by the senator is evidence that under Correctional Health Services, Ávila Vázquez requested passes in 2011 and executive amnesty in 2012, both of which were denied in 2013. In 2015, he also requested passes that were denied for not being meritorious, a situation that was repeated in 2017 and 2019.
“No one in their right mind can let a situation of this nature pass without linking it to some network of corruption within the system,” Vargas Vidot said.
By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul1@gmail.com
Acommunity-based nonprofit organization aiming to create community resilience, Atma Connect of Puerto Rico, will launch a safe water project that aims to educate the public about septic system health.
“With ‘Alianzas para las aguas limpias’ [Alliances for Clean Water] we will bring together government, and for-profit and nonprofit organizations all engaged in building a better septic system on the island,” said Ericka Marrero, the program’s project manager.
Atma CEO Meena Palancappan noted meanwhile that the project “is funded by an Environmental Protection Agency $500,000 cooperative agreement over two years.”
The project’s goals are fivefold:
* To expand and strengthen a Safe Water Quality Network of residents, community organizations, private sector entities, and health and environmental agencies as the engine to conduct a mass education campaign that mobilizes Puerto Ricans to come together and collaborate toward short and long-term solutions;
* To disseminate to residents guidance, tools and affordable and no-cost options for
testing water and septic systems;
* To assist homeowners and building owners in accessing public funding programs for septic system upgrades;
* To engage academics and health professionals to collaborate on data-gathering to assess the health impact of contaminated water;
* To collect lessons learned from the project to facilitate the engagement of residents, especially from disadvantaged communities, in promoting impactful solutions that will ensure safe drinking water throughout the island.
One of the key goals of the project is to give people funds for free and low-cost upgrades of their septic systems, Palancappan said.
“This project is an important step toward achieving safer water and greater climate resilience in Puerto Rico,” she said. “We are honored to embark on this vital environmental justice work in partnership with residents and leaders on the island.”
Atma will also conduct community workshops throughout the island to educate on septic tank health.
Close to the end of August, the nonprofit will launch a website on “How to check for your septic system’s health.”
Atma has worked in Puerto Rico since 2017 on food security and climate resilience, and for this project the organization is partnering with Asociación Enlace Asuntos Comunitarios de Sabana Seca, Finca Higuaca, SaniPlant, University of Puerto Rico, Northwestern University, and the Environmental Protection Network, along with the more than 50 community-based organizations in its network.
Another Atma project that is underway
in Puerto Rico aims to reduce the impact of disasters by activating mutual aid through vetted peer-to-peer communication, delivering early warnings to communities, and creating peer-to-peer hazard alerts in local areas.
Atma also works on neighborhood resilience and on a “de la tierra a la mesa” (from the land to the table) project, a community garden program in which the group endeavors to encourage “eat what you grow” programs taking advantage of elders’ food knowledge.
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia on Tuesday inaugurated the facilities of the Punta Salinas beach resort in Toa Baja, the first permanent construction project related to Hurricane Maria completed by the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER).
The total investment in the project exceeded $1 million, with an allocation of $959,000 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
“We continue to make efforts to improve the facilities of the most important resorts on our island,” Pierluisi said in a written statement. “By investing in the infrastructure and maintenance of our resorts, we promote a healthy and welcoming environment for all residents of Puerto Rico.”
Renovation work at Punta Salinas included improvements to the activity center infrastructure, office and warehouse buildings, public restrooms, outdoor showers, gazebos and lifeguard towers.
“As a result of the collaborative work between the municipality and our administration, today I am pleased to announce the inauguration of the Punta Salinas beach resort as the first permanent work related to
Hurricane Maria that has been completed by the DNER,” he added.
The work included improvements to the activity center infrastructure, office and warehouse buildings, public restrooms, outdoor showers, gazebos and lifeguard towers. In addition, risk mitigation measures and building reinforcements were implemented for greater resilience, along with the addition of four new all-terrain vehicles for surveillance and emergency management.
DNER Secretary Anaís Rodríguez Vega emphasized that the completion of the works “represents a significant advance for the DNER, being the first project that we have completed in its entirety under FEMA funds.”
“This initiative demonstrates our commitment not only to restoration, but also to the improvement of key infrastructures for the enjoyment and well-being of our community,” she said.
“The reconstruction included reinforcement with sheet metal, the installation of additional stainless steel screws and the construction of reinforced concrete for the columns,” said Laboy Rivera.
The resort, administered by the municipality of Toa Baja through an interagency agreement, was transferred in 2022 with the endorsement of the federal government’s National Park Service, and this year the agreement was extended for an additional 15 years.
“I thank the governor, Natural Resources and the entire interagency component that made this rehabilitation project possible,” Toa Baja Mayor Bernardo “Betito” Márquez said. “We have worked together to maximize the socioeconomic development potential of this great treasure of our people.”
Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience (COR3) Executive Director Manuel A. Laboy Rivera highlighted the measures implemented to strengthen the facility’s structures against future disasters.
By THE STAR STAFF
After State Elections Commission (SEC) Alternate Chairwoman Jessika Padilla Rivera decided late last week to require certified mail to cast early votes, Edwin Mundo, the former New Progressive Party (NPP) alternate electoral commissioner, recommended that the party refrain from challenging the decision in court.
“They now have 10 days from Friday to go to court. My recommendation is that they do not go to court so as not to delay the process further,” Mundo said in a radio interview earlier this week. “Three weeks have already been lost due to the debate over whether it should be regular mail or certified. Now, they must use this time to begin to direct the process in the commission and in the balance meetings that must prepare for this.”
Regarding the concern on the part of the five parties’ electoral commissioners about the age range for casting early votes and
Former New Progressive Party alternate electoral commissioner Edwin Mundo
the capacity of the SEC to manage the votes, Mundo pointed out that the principals have already had time to prepare.
“They’ve had a year to prepare for that. Everyone knows that
By THE STAR STAFF
Police reported that early Tuesday morning they were alerted by personnel from the Mayagüez Medical Center about a 10-month-old child who arrived convulsing and with a skull fracture, taken by his mother to receive medical assistance.
According to the authorities, the complainant, a nurse at the institution, indicated that a woman, a resident of the Jardines de Concordia housing complex in Mayagüez, arrived with her 10-month-old son, who was having convulsions.
After performing a CT scan of the infant’s head, the doc-
tor on duty diagnosed a cranial fracture. The child, who was intubated, was referred to another hospital in San Juan where he will continue under medical treatment.
As part of the protocol in such cases, Department of Family Affairs staff and Agent Janitza Rodríguez of the Mayagüez Sexual Crimes Division were notified, and will continue with the investigation.
Agent David Noguet, assigned to the Mayagüez district, conducted a preliminary investigation into the complaint.
The Police Department urged citizens to provide any information that may help solve the case by calling the Puerto Rico Police Bureau’s confidential line at 787-343-2020. They
the elections are on November 5. Everyone knows they have to make some arrangements,” he said. “The five parties are represented in the Administrative Board of Early Voting, which is called the JAVA, so the five parties, with the chairwoman, have had all this time to prepare, knowing that they had to do it, regardless of whether the age was 60 or 80 [years].”
Likewise, Mundo recalled that the SEC decided in 2020 to include people over 60 and older in early voting .
“The age was maintained because four years ago, in the last elections, it had been decided that it was 60 years old and, in addition, the parties that had primaries in these elections used that date, and the federal court determined that it will be the date for early voting,” he said. “[…] [The qualifying age was] 80 [years old] for those who request to vote at home and who have to go get the [ballot in order to] vote at home. But it was agreed that even those over 60 [years of age] can seek a vote from their homes or send it by mail. That has been [the case] since 2020.”
After performing a CT scan of the 10-month-old’s head, the doctor on duty diagnosed a cranial fracture. The child, who was intubated, was referred to another hospital in San Juan for further treatment.
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By REID J. EPSTEIN, KATIE ROGERS, ERICA L. GREEN and SHANE GOLDMACHER
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, has chosen Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate, elevating a former football coach whose rural roots, liberal policies and buzzy takedowns of former President Donald Trump have recently put him on the map. Walz, 60, emerged from a field of candidates who had better name recognition and more politically advantageous home states. Minnesota is not a top-tier presidential battleground and is unlikely to prove critical to a Harris-Walz victory.
But he jumped to the top of Harris’ list in a matter of days, helped by cable news appearances in which he declared that Republicans were “weird.” The new, clear articulation of why voters should reject Trump caught on fast and turned the spotlight on the plain-spoken Midwesterner behind it.
“One of the things that stood out to me about Tim is how his convictions on fighting for middle class families run deep,” Harris said in a social media post confirming his selection. “It’s personal.”
Walz (pronounced Walls) was to appear with Harris at a rally on Tuesday evening in Philadelphia, their first appearance as the Democratic ticket. In his own post on social media, Walz said it was the “honor of a lifetime” to be chosen as her running mate.
“Vice President Harris is showing us the politics of what’s possible. It reminds me a bit of the first day of school,” he said.
Walz leapfrogged better-known contenders in part because Harris viewed him as an Everyman figure from Minnesota whose Midwestern-dad-vibe balanced out her Bay Area background, according to three people familiar with the vice president’s thinking.
With his straight-talking style, Walz was thought to be someone who could match up well in a debate against Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, whom Trump chose last month as his running mate. And after two weeks of vetting and deliberations, Harris connected best with Walz in comparison with the other choices.
Over and over in the selection process, loyalty had been emphasized as one of the most important criterion for Harris. This suggests that Walz convinced her he would support her not only in winning but also in helping her govern.
In her social media post, Harris highlighted Walz’s biography as a National Guardsman and his time as a high school teacher, football coach and adviser of the Gay-Straight Alliance. She also pointed to his efforts as governor to work with Republicans on bipartisan measures while pushing progressive priorities.
Walz is in his second term as governor and spent 12 years in Congress, where he was the rare Midwestern Democrat representing a largely rural district. He served for 24 years in the Army National Guard and taught high school social studies before entering politics.
While his background was tailor-made for moderate voters, his policies as governor have been firmly liberal, reflecting what his allies call “prairie populism.” He signed into law a Democratic wish list of bills on marijuana, paid family leave,
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks to reporters after meeting with President Joe Biden, at the White House in Washington, on July 3, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, has chosen Walz as her running mate, the New York Times reported on Aug. 6, 2024. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)
abortion rights and gun control, something Harris highlighted in her announcement of him as the pick. Republicans call him a left-winger in homespun clothing.
“In Gov. Walz, Democrats get the left’s full policy agenda from someone who often looks like he just climbed down from his deer stand,” said Tim Pawlenty, the last Republican to serve as Minnesota’s governor.
Republicans quickly signaled that they planned to attack Walz in particular over the violence and unrest in Minneapolis that unfolded after the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
“Harris-Walz: most left-wing ticket in American history,” Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida posted on social media Tuesday morning. “Walz sat by and let Minneapolis burn.”
But Walz’s complex political identity was part of what appealed to Harris, who came up through liberal San Francisco politics and prioritized in her search for a running mate the appearance of ideological balance that might help her win swing voters. Every one of Harris’ finalists for the job, including Walz, was a white man who had some record of winning in Republican areas.
That list included Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, who was better known and more polished, hailing from a critical battleground state. Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, a former astronaut, came with an impressive resume and a deep knowledge of border issues in his swing state that might have proved beneficial in blunting some Republican attacks.
But Walz, in providing a simple, cogent message about Trump and the Republican Party as Democrats were still processing President Joe Biden’s exit and Harris’ elevation, transformed himself in just two weeks from a little-known governor to someone who by January could be next in line for the presidency.
Shapiro confirmed in a social media post after the news broke about Walz’s selection that he would be at the Philadelphia rally on Tuesday evening, throwing his support behind the ticket and promising to work “to unite Pennsylvanians behind my friends Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and defeat Donald Trump.”
Walz was born and raised in rural Nebraska, and as a young man moved to Mankato, Minnesota, where he taught high school social studies and coached the school’s football team to a state championship. He retired from the Army National Guard in 2005 when he began his first run for public office.
Walz’s political origin story appears ripped from a Hollywood movie script.
In August 2004, he chaperoned some of his students to a campaign rally in Mankato for President George W. Bush. According to Walz, the group was turned away because one of the students had a sticker on his wallet for Bush’s opponent, John Kerry, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts.
Walz was furious, and went the next day to volunteer for the Kerry campaign. By the end of the year, Kerry had lost but Walz was determined to run for office himself.
In 2006, with a campaign staffed largely by his former students, Walz won an upset victory in a rural congressional seat that had been held by Republicans for 12 years. He served six terms in Congress before he won his first election as governor in 2018. His House seat has been represented by a Republican ever since.
“One of my favorite things is when I’m in Minnesota and someone will come up to me and say, ‘I had Coach Walz for geography’ or ‘He changed my life and his classroom was a safe space for me as a queer student,’” said Minnesota’s lieutenant governor, Peggy Flanagan, who was a volunteer for Walz’s 2006 congressional race. “That is how he ran his campaign.”
In Congress, Walz was considered a moderate Democrat who served on the House agriculture, veterans affairs and armed services committees. He had an A rating from the National Rifle Association for years, but when he ran for governor in 2018, after the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, he renounced the group’s support and called for an assault weapons ban. Walz said he was influenced by an appeal from his daughter and has since turned the decision into an applause line.
“I’ll take my kick in the butt for the NRA,” he has said. “I spent 25 years in the Army and I hunt.”
In 2022, riding a wave of Democratic anger over the Supreme Court’s decision ending the constitutional right to an abortion, Walz helped usher in full Democratic control of the Minnesota Legislature for the first time since 2014.
Walz and state Democrats flexed their new power. In 2023, he signed legislation codifying abortion rights into state law, legalized marijuana, enacted new gun control laws, provided free lunch to all public school students, created a paid leave program and provided undocumented immigrants access to Minnesota driver’s licenses.
By the end of the year, he took over as chair of the Democratic Governors Association, a perch that afforded him access to party donors across the country.
During Trump’s most recent visit to Minnesota, a state last carried by a Republican presidential candidate in 1972, Walz was asked to deliver preemptive counterattacks.
His description of the former president and his running mate Vance — “These guys are just weird” — ricocheted online. Almost overnight, the “weird” label was adopted by Democrats around the country, including Harris.
By AMANDA HOLPUCH, RACHEL NOSTRANT and JUDSON JONES
The mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, extended the city’s curfew for another day, and officials warned people living near a stressed dam southwest of Walterboro, South Carolina, to evacuate on Tuesday as Tropical Storm Debby crawled across the Southeastern United States for a second day. The former hurricane could dump more than 2 feet of rain on coastal cities in Georgia and the Carolinas by the end of the week.
Debby’s center was forecast to drift offshore later Tuesday, refueling with additional moisture from the Atlantic Ocean, and then meander near the South Carolina coast before making a second landfall sometime on Thursday. Governors in Georgia and the Carolinas declared states of emergency and warned residents to prepare for potentially catastrophic flooding, including in places that have never seen rising water before.
Here is what else to know:
— Flooding fears: Some of Debby’s worst impacts in Florida were felt not on the coast but hundreds of miles away, in more
densely populated Gulf Coast cities, as high tides further swelled flooding rivers and forced evacuations and emergency rescues.
After Debby moves back out to sea, storm surge from the Atlantic could further swell coastal rivers, increasing the flood risk.
— Fatalities in Florida and Georgia: The storm, which made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane with 80 mph winds on Florida’s Big Bend coast, was blamed for four deaths in the state. Three people died in traffic accidents, and a child was killed when a tree fell on a home. In Georgia, a 19-year-old man was also killed by a falling tree.
— Another hit on Cedar Key: Howling wind and waves crashed high on the fishing pier in Cedar Key, a chain of tiny islands 3 miles into the Gulf of Mexico, as Hurricane Debby slammed ashore. The storm hit the same part of the Big Bend coast where Hurricane Idalia, a more powerful Category 3 storm, made landfall less than a year ago.
— Climate’s role: Hurricanes have become more destructive over time, in no small part because of the influences of a warming planet. Climate change is producing more powerful storms that generate heavier rainfall and flooding. But humans also make storm damage more extensive by continuing to build in vulnerable parts of the coast.
By RAYMOND ZHONG
In its brief time this week as a hurricane, Tropical Storm Debby only reached Category 1, not enough to be considered a major hurricane. That hasn’t stopped the storm from causing plenty of havoc as it moves across Georgia and South Carolina. The National Hurricane Center predicted “potentially historic” rainfall of up to 25 inches in some places.
If it feels like there’s a disconnect here, it’s because the category rating can never fully capture how destructive a storm is, said Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate who studies hurricanes at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science.
A hurricane’s rating on the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from 1 to 5, is based only on its maximum sustained wind speed, not on the rain, storm surges or tornadoes it produces.
Factors in the environment, including the warmth of the ocean, can influence both a storm’s rain and its winds. But the main reason for Debby’s extreme precipitation is simply how slowly it is crawling across the Southeast, McNoldy said. And that leisurely pace is the result of the large systems of atmospheric currents that are steering the storm.
“The primary ingredient for being a rainmaker is just the duration,” McNoldy said. “If it’s moving right along, you’re going to get less rain.”
Debby is certainly loaded with a lot of water. One big reason: The waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean have been abnormally hot for months. This warmth causes more of the water to evaporate, providing storms with more moisture to unleash as rain. The extra heat in the ocean also gives storms more energy with which they could potentially generate stronger winds.
But other factors stopped Debby’s winds from intensifying to the highest levels, said Kim Wood, an associate professor of hydrology and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona. Before making landfall in Florida this week, the storm crossed Cuba, where the mountainous terrain very likely disrupted the low-level winds that channel energy from the sea surface into the storm.
“The water was plenty warm, but the storm itself had to be organized,” Wood said.
The fact that hurricanes can vary so much in how they cause harm makes communicating the risks tricky, said Jennifer Collins, a professor of geosciences at the University of South Florida.
“If you tell people that a Category 5 is coming, they are more inclined to evacuate and/or
prepare,” she wrote in an email. “But we don’t tend to see the same response when informing people of a Category 1 or 2 hurricane” or a tropical storm, she said, even though the threats to lives and property can be just as great.
Past hurricanes, including Harvey in 2017 and Florence in 2018, wrought much of their devastation after being downgraded.
“Ultimately, we need to message that huge rain and associated catastrophic flooding events occur even when they are weaker storms,” Collins said.
By STEVE LOHR
In 2000, a ruling in a U.S. antitrust case against Microsoft helped set the rules of competition for the digital giant of its day.
At the time, a federal judge said Microsoft had abused the monopoly power of its Windows operating system and ordered that the company be split up. A breakup was reversed on appeal, but key legal findings were upheld. And Microsoft was prohibited from forcing restrictive contracts on its industry partners and ordered to open some of its technology to outsiders — preventing the company from single-handedly controlling the internet.
More than two decades later, a ruling in a Google antitrust case similarly promises to shape new rules for the tech industry. Judge Amit P. Mehta of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found on Monday that Google had violated antitrust laws by stifling rivals in internet search to protect its monopoly.
Google’s loss could have major ripple effects for competition today. U.S. regulators have also accused Apple, Amazon and Meta of violating antitrust laws by advantaging their own products on the platforms they run and acquiring smaller rivals. The Google ruling, and potential remedies to be decided by Mehta, are likely to weigh heavily on those cases, including a second lawsuit against Google over ad technology, which is scheduled to go to trial next month.
Mehta’s ruling is “a predictor of what other courts might do,” said Rebecca Haw Allensworth, a Vanderbilt University law professor who studies antitrust. “You can also expect other judges to read this opinion and be influenced by it.”
The influence of the Microsoft antitrust case was, in fact, apparent in the Google decision. In Mehta’s 277-page judgment, Microsoft appeared on 104 pages, both as an aspiring rival to Google and as a legal precedent. Google has said it will appeal the ruling.
After years of little enforcement, antitrust activism has taken off over the past few years, first under the Trump administration and then under President Joe Biden’s. The heads of antitrust enforcement at the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission, Jonathan Kanter and Lina Khan, have sued the other tech giants over allegations that they are monopolies engaged in illegal corporate behavior.
All of those cases hinge on the 19th-century Sherman Antitrust Act, which makes it illegal for a monopoly to engage in corporate conduct to thwart competition. But that law, designed for companies like Standard Oil, faces the continuing challenge of being applied in a different industrial environment to the new technology of its day. And both agencies have sought to test the old law by applying new legal arguments when it comes to the tech giants.
Without major cases, “the law will stagnate,” Kanter said in a speech in 2022. “Congress designed antitrust law to play out in the courts.”
In the 1990s, Microsoft was the ruling digital platform, with its Windows software controlling the experience of users on more than 90% of personal computers. Today, Google has a comparable grip on internet search.
That changed for Microsoft after a judge ruled it was a monopoly. Regulators had brought the suit after the software giant waged a campaign to try to crush an upstart, Netscape, the pioneering commercial browser company. Microsoft bullied PC makers with contracts that effectively stopped them from offering the Netscape browser. Ultimately, Microsoft was prohibited from restricting, in its contracts, the freedom of PC makers to offer other software, and was forced to open up some of its technology. The time, money and management attention spent, as well as the adverse public scrutiny, some antitrust experts say, did have a deterrent effect, moderating the company’s behavior.
That prevented Microsoft from controlling the development of the internet, said Fiona Scott Morton, an economics professor at the Yale University School of Management.
“The goal is to open a path for future innovation,” she said.
A Google logo at the company’s campus in Mountain View, Calif., on May 2, 2024. Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search, a federal judge ruled on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, a decision that strikes at the power of big tech companies and that may fundamentally alter the way they do business.
(Jason Henry/The New York Times)
On Monday, Mehta found that Google had broken the law through its exclusive deals with Apple, other device makers and browser companies to make Google’s search engine the automatic selection.
Mehta praised the company for its engineering skill and investment in search. “But Google,” he wrote, “has a major, largely unseen advantage over its rivals: default distribution.”
The Google ruling is significant because “it applies to big tech platforms the notion that while you can be dominant, you can’t abuse that dominance,” said Bill Baer, a former top antitrust official in the Justice Department.
Unlike Microsoft, Google is a pure internet company with a very different business model, relying mainly on advertising rather than software licensing.
In the Google case, as in Microsoft’s, the court found that contracts illegally excluded rivals. But Google’s were more carrot than stick, offering industry partners generous payments rather than threats. Google paid smartphone companies and browser makers more than $26 billion in 2021, according to
court testimony, to set its software to automatically handle all search queries.
In the Google case, data was described as a vital asset. The more user queries that flow through a search engine, the more data that is collected and then harnessed to improve search results, attracting still more users and generating more data.
“At every stage of the search process,” Mehta wrote, “user data is a critical input that directly improves quality.” Google’s multibillion-dollar default deals ensured that the company had a huge data advantage in search, the government claimed. It also presented studies in behavioral economics that concluded people rarely switched from the automatic settings, even if doing so was not a daunting technical task. Consumer behavior was not forced but strongly steered by the power of defaults.
In his ruling, Mehta pointed to “the power of defaults.” He cited and agreed with an expert witness for the government, Antonio Rangel, a professor of neuroscience, behavioral biology and economics at Caltech, who testified that the “vast majority” of searches were done by habit.
In court, Google countered that its search engine was the leader because it was a superior product; that data was important but clever software was its real advantage; and that its contracts were deals freely entered into by its industry partners.
But Google struggled to credibly explain why it paid so much to get preferred distribution if its search software was clearly the best technology. Those payments made sense, the government insisted, to ensure that Google was the winner, with its monopoly entrenched.
“That’s how the government told the story, and it’s a pretty convincing story,” said Herbert Hovenkamp, an antitrust expert at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School.
Mehta will now decide what remedial steps he should order to open the search market to greater competition and new innovators.
Even before his ruling, antitrust experts offered a flurry of recommendations. They run the gamut from prohibiting Google from striking exclusive deals for search distribution and sharing its search data with competitors to splitting off Google’s Chrome browser or its Android mobile operating system.
“This is the first significant monopolization case against one of the dominant digital companies — it’s super-important in that sense,” said Nancy Rose, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Some corporate bond issuers are expected to delay sales this week, after market volatility caused investors to trim corporate bond holdings in favor of safer U.S. Treasuries, according to bond market participants.
Weaker-than-expected employment and manufacturing growth data last week have stoked recession fears, hitting stocks and causing investors to seek safety in U.S. government debt.
That has pushed down Treasury yields, which move inversely to prices, and caused corporate bond spreads over Treasuries to reach their widest level since January.
No investment-grade or junk bond deals priced on Monday, according to International Financing Review data, the 13th day
this year without a deal outside a Friday or a holiday.
Market participants expect this week’s pipeline to comprise higher-quality names which investors deem relatively safe, while riskier issuers will likely hold off until spread volatility subsides.
Utility sector issuers made up the majority of high-grade bond offerings on Tuesday, including a $300 million 10-year first mortgage bond by Connecticut Light and Power.
“The recent equity and credit market volatility won’t eliminate the pipeline altogether, but it will have an impact,” said Chris Forshner, head of investment grade finance at BNP Paribas.
“The issuers that will be most impacted are those that ... need a very solid backdrop from which to sell new-issue bonds.”
Junk spreads - the premium investors demand to hold riskier, low-rated debt over Treasuries – rose to 393 basis points on Monday, the widest since November 2023, according to the ICE BofA U.S. High Yield Index.
Spreads for high-grade corporate bonds surged to 112 basis points on Monday, their highest since December, the ICE BofA U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index showed.
The moves followed a credit market rally through most of the year, as optimism around the U.S. economy despite high interest rates sent investors hunting for yields.
Just two weeks ago, junk spreads hit their lowest level since December 2021, while high-grade spreads have also been contained this year, remaining well below 2023 levels.
Still, the corporate bond sell-off has been milder than for other risk assets such as stocks, and some investors bought back into corporate bonds on Monday after trimming exposure earlier in the year in favor of high-yielding assets.
Dan Krieter, director of fixed income strategy at BMO Capital Markets, noted on Tuesday that buying made up 54% of BMO clients’ activity in the high-grade market on Monday, the highest daily share since mid-June.
“They are better value now than they were,” said Andrew Jackson, head of fixed income at Vontobel. “Having taken quite a lot of risk out of our positions, we’re now adding at the margin risk on the credit side.”
Selling pressure by volatility-linked funds that exacerbated losses in U.S. stocks over recent days may be on track to ease, analysts said.
Volatility-linked strategies, including volatility control funds and equities trend-following commodity trading advisers (CTAs) control funds, are systematic investment strategies that typically buy equities when markets are calm and sell when they grow turbulent. They became heavy sellers of stocks over the last few weeks, exacerbating a market rout brought on by economic worries and the unwind of a massive global carry trade.
Monday’s selloff, during which the S&P 500 fell 3%, saw the strategies offload some $70 billion worth of stocks, according to estimates from options research provider Tier 1 Alpha. The move came as the Cboe Volatility Index notched its biggest intra-day rise on record and closed at its highest level since Oct 2020.
In aggregate, the funds have sold $150 billion over the last three weeks, according to Tier 1 Alpha estimates.
However, the fastest-reacting strategies, including volatility control funds and equities trend-following commodity trading advisers (CTAs), may have lightened up their exposure enough to ease up on the selling pace.
“These balancing requirements typically resolve over the course of a couple of days max,” said Craig Peterson, CEO of Tier 1 Alpha. “I wouldn’t expect this to bleed into the end of the month necessarily unless we see a lot more weakness.”
By HIBA YAZBEK
Less than a week after the killing of a top Hamas leader in Tehran, Iran, and a top Hezbollah commander in Beirut, the entire Middle East is on edge. Fears of a broader regional war have been mounting amid vows of revenge from Iranian leaders that have left Israel in a state of deep uncertainty.
Why is an Iranian attack expected?
Iran has vowed to avenge the death of Ismail Haniyeh, a senior Hamas leader who was killed in Tehran after he and other leaders of Iranian-backed militant groups attended the inauguration of the new Iranian president. Israeli leaders would not confirm or deny whether their country was behind the breach of Iran’s defenses, but Iranian leaders and Hamas officials immediately blamed Israel and vowed retaliation.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued an order for Iran to strike Israel directly, according to three Iranian officials briefed on the order.
And Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Nasser Kanaan, said Monday that “Tehran is not interested in escalating the regional conflicts, but it is necessary to punish” Israel.
How is Lebanon connected to the crisis?
The Iranian government has said that any retaliatory attack will also involve its proxy forces, which include Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and militants in Iraq.
Tensions between Israel and Iran’s proxies were already running high before the killing of Haniyeh, which took place the day after an Israeli strike in Beirut killed Fuad Shukr, a top-ranking commander of Hezbollah. The leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said after the Beirut strike that the group’s conflict with Israel had entered a new phase and threatened a major retaliation.
Hezbollah has been engaged in titfor-tat attacks with Israel for months amid Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Hezbollah has fired thousands of rockets and drones at Israel, professing to act in solidarity with Hamas, which is also backed by Iran. Israel has retaliated, as well as evacuating tens of thousands of its
Iranians gather in Tehran on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, a top Hamas leader. Iran has vowed to retaliate for the killing of Haniyeh in an attack for which it has blamed Israel. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)
citizens in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon.
The World Health Organization said on Monday that it had delivered 32 tons of emergency medical supplies to Lebanon in case of a wider conflict.
Hours later, a rocket attack targeting U.S. personnel housed at a base in Iraq’s western desert injured several American troops, according to American defense officials. The attack, on Ain al Asad Air Base, resembled previous ones carried out by Iran-backed Iraqi armed groups, which have targeted the base repeatedly over the past several years and intensified their attacks since the war in Gaza began in October.
What have Israeli leaders said?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Sunday that his country was “in a multifront war against Iran’s evil axis” and was “prepared for any scenario — both offensively and defensively.”
Netanyahu added, “I reiterate and tell our enemies: We will respond and we will exact a heavy price for any act of aggression against us, from whatever quarter.”
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant spoke with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Monday and briefed him on the Israeli military’s “readiness to defend Israel against potential threats posed by Iran and its proxies,” according to a statement by the Israeli government’s
press office.
On Sunday, Gallant said at an Israeli base: “We are prepared very strongly in defense, on land and in the air, and we are ready to move quickly to attack or to respond. We will exact a price from the enemy, as we have been doing in recent days. If it dares to attack us, it will pay a heavy price.”
What diplomacy is going on?
With Iran and its proxies threatening an attack on Israel, frantic diplomatic efforts are underway to prevent a wider war.
President Joe Biden convened his national security team to discuss developments in the Middle East and spoke with King Abdullah II of Jordan on Monday, a day after the Jordanian foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, traveled to Tehran for meetings with his Iranian counterpart. Jordan is a close Western ally and helped intercept Iranian missiles and drones in April during a tit-for-tat attack between Iran and Israel.
“Escalation is in no one’s interest,” Matthew Miller, the State Department spokesperson, told reporters in a briefing on Monday. He added that the United States did not consider escalation “inevitable” and was sending messages to Iran through its allies in the region that an attack would not serve Iranian interests or the region’s.
“The leaders discussed their efforts to de-escalate regional tensions, including through an immediate cease-fire and hostage release deal,” a White House description of the call said.
Egypt’s foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, spoke with the American secretary of state, Antony J. Blinken, urging him to pressure Israel to “seriously engage” in cease-fire talks, the Egyptian foreign ministry said in a statement. Blinken “reiterated that all parties should refrain from actions that would escalate the conflict,” according to the State Department.
Gen. Michael E. Kurilla, who leads the U.S. Central Command, arrived in Israel on Monday to complete coordination with the Israeli military in anticipation of a possible Iranian attack, according to the Israeli military.
Gallant said that Kurilla’s “arrival in Israel at this time is a direct translation of U.S. support for Israel, into action.”
“The relationship between Israel and the United States is unshakable,” he said in a statement.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation plans to hold a meeting of Arab and Muslim foreign ministers in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to discuss “the continued crimes of the Israeli occupation,” including the assassination of Haniyeh, and Israel’s “aggressions” against Iran, the organization said in a statement.
How are Western governments advising their citizens in the region?
Countries including the United States, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden urged their citizens over the weekend to leave Lebanon immediately.
France also urged its citizens in Iran to leave as soon as possible and to avoid travel to Israel or Palestinian territories. Canada urged Canadians on Saturday to avoid all travel to Israel because of “the unpredictable security situation.”
Several airlines had suspended or canceled flights to and from Beirut, and many flights were sold out. International airlines including Delta, United, the Lufthansa group and Aegean Airlines have also suspended flights to and from Israel. The flight disruptions have left many traveling Israelis unable to return home.
By MUJIB MASHAL
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s life, as well as her politics, had been defined by an early trauma at once personal in its pain and national in its imprint.
In 1975, her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s charismatic founding leader, and most of their family were massacred in a military coup. Hasina, who was abroad at the time, was forced into exile in India.
Her eventual return and elevation to prime minister embodied Bangladesh’s hopes of a better, more democratic future. She was celebrated as a secular Muslim woman who tried to rein in a coup-prone military, stood up to Islamic militancy and reformed the impoverished country’s economy.
But in time, she changed. She grew more authoritarian, crushing dissent and exuding an entitlement that treated Bangladesh as her rightful inheritance. Then, on Monday, the years of repressive rule finally caught up with Hasina, and her story came full circle: She resigned under intense pressure from a vast protest movement and fled once again into exile.
Student-led protesters enraged at her deadly crackdown on their initially peaceful movement stormed her official residence and plundered nearly everything inside. They defaced her portraits and tore down statues of her father around the city, and attacked the homes and offices of her party officials.
Hasina’s hasty exit comes just months after she had secured a fourth consecutive five-year term in office and thought her grip on power was unbreakable. In her wake she leaves a Bangladesh plunged back into the chaos and violence that have marked the country from the beginning, when her father helped bring the nation into being.
Beyond the immediate jubilation among the protesters over her departure are more worrisome questions.
For now, this country of 170 million appears leaderless. Law enforcement agencies that killed at least 300 protesters have been discredited. The animosities between Hasina’s party and the opposition are unlikely to fade soon, and revenge for years of harsh suppression under her will be on the minds of many. There is also fear that a streak of Islamic militancy in Bangladesh society could resurface in the political vacuum.
“We are finally free of a dictatorial regime,” said Shahdeen Malik, a prominent constitutional lawyer and legal activist in Dhaka, the capital. “Earlier, we had military dictators.
Sheikh Hasina, then the prime minister of Bangladesh, in her office in Dhaka on June 11, 2023. Hasina, who once brought democratic hope to Bangladesh, turned increasingly autocratic and met her downfall in a crackdown on protesters. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)
But this civilian dictator was more dictatorial than previous military dictators.”
Malik said that Hasina, during an initial term as prime minister in the late 1990s, was a breath of fresh air. Bangladesh’s politics had been marked by coups, counter-coups and assassinations. Hasina was democratic, and her party was trying to act with more accountability.
But after her return to power in 2009 — following electoral defeat, exile and an attempt on her life that left more than 20 dead — she appeared driven by darker instincts. In her opponents she saw an extension of the forces that had caused her lasting trauma.
The student protest that began last month was over a seemingly small issue: a quota system that gave preferential treatment in government jobs. But the anger was a manifestation of the wider economic stress.In response to the demonstrations, Hasina, 76, turned to the repressive playbook that had thwarted all previous challenges. This time, though, it would lead to her downfall.
At first, she dismissed the students, describing them as the descendants of those who had betrayed Bangladesh in the war of inde-
When the curfew and the communications blackout eased, it quickly became clear that the protest movement had not been snuffed out and that it had expanded to seeking accountability for the earlier bloodshed.
On Sunday, the protesters gathered in their largest numbers yet. When Hasina responded once again with force, and nearly 100 people were killed in the deadliest single day of the protests, it became clear that the fear she had long engendered had been broken.
When the protesters Sunday called for a march on her residence the next day, her response seemed defiant — she called on the nation “to curb anarchists with iron hands.”
In the early hours Monday, the roads leading to her residence in Dhaka were heavily barricaded. The internet was shut down and public transport halted. Security forces tried to hold back the large crowds at the city gates.
But by midday, it became apparent that those tactics were meant only to buy time for what was happening behind the scenes. Hasina had resigned and was leaving the country, and the army chief was in consultations with the political parties over an interim government.
pendence that her father had won. When that angered the students, she resorted to a crackdown.
She sent her party’s aggressive youth wing to target what had been peaceful protesters. When clashes broke out, she sent more force into the streets — the police, the army and even the Rapid Action Battalion, an anti-terrorism unit that has been accused of torture and disappearances.
Her situation turned precarious once the streets turned to carnage late in July, with more than 200 people, most of them students and other young people, killed. She deepened the crackdown — declaring a curfew, cutting off the internet, rounding up 10,000 people into jails and accusing tens of thousands more of crimes. The protest movement appeared dispersed.
“Ultimately, of course people will be silenced if this goes on forever,” Naomi Hossain, a scholar of Bangladesh at the School of Oriental and African Studies, said as the crackdown intensified. “How long can you keep protesting when your friends are being gunned down? But the cost may be so high that, you know, all support” for Hasina is lost.
Grainy cellphone videos showed Hasina getting out of a black SUV at a military air base, where a helicopter was waiting. She departed for India, where she is expected to stay before moving on to another destination, most likely London.
The army chief, Gen. Waker-uz-Zaman, addressed the nation, announcing the end of her rule. He promised “justice for all the murders and wrongdoings.”
For the protesters, jubilation was immediate. They poured into the streets and stormed her residence — to take selfies and souvenirs. One protester walked away with a plant, another some chickens and yet another a single plate. One had a giant fish from the prime ministerial pond.
But signs of lingering anger were evident as night fell. Protesters pulled down statues of Hasina’s father, set fire to the museum erected in his name (at the house where he had been assassinated) and attacked the homes of her ministers and party officials. There were also reports of attacks against the homes and places of worship of minority Hindus, raising fears that the Islamic elements she had contained might be emboldened.
“It will not be enough for Sheikh Hasina to flee,” Nahid Islam, one of the student protest leaders, who was detained twice during the crackdown and tortured, said after the prime minister fled. “We will bring her to justice.”
A help wanted sign outside a gas station in Millcreek, Utah, June 4, 2024. The American job market significantly slowed in July, the Labor Department reported on Aug. 2, adding 114,000 jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis. (Kim Raff/The New York Times)
By PAUL KRUGMAN
As an American of a certain age, I know quite a few people who’ve been warned by their doctors that they’re prediabetic. That is, their blood sugar is sufficiently elevated to put them at risk of Type 2 diabetes, even though they aren’t yet showing any symptoms. The good news is that they can greatly reduce that risk by losing weight, improving their diet and getting more exercise. But they need to take action quickly to avoid serious health problems.
No, this isn’t a medical advice column. But I found myself thinking about medical analogies when looking at recent economic data. The United States probably (probably) hasn’t entered a recession yet. But the economy is definitely looking prerecessionary. And policymakers — right now basically meaning the Federal Reserve — need to move quickly to head off the risks of serious economic deterioration.
It’s clear that the Fed made a mistake by not cutting rates last week; indeed, it probably should have begun cutting months ago. Unfortunately, we can’t turn back the clock. But the Fed’s open market committee, which sets short-term interest rates, can and should make a substantial cut — probably half a percentage point, rather than its usual quarter-point — at its next
meeting, scheduled for mid-September.
And we can only hope that the recent plunge in long-term interest rates, which reflects expectations of future Fed cuts, will be enough to avert a gratuitous economic slump.
Why do I say that the economy looks prerecessionary? The most important factor is the unemployment rate, which has been gradually trending up over the past few months. Friday’s employment report triggered the Sahm rule, which says that a sufficiently large rise in the unemployment rate is a strong indication that a recession has started. Many economists, including Claudia Sahm, who devised the rule, believe that for a variety of technical reasons things may not be as dire as they look. But even so, the situation is worrisome.
It’s not just the official data. Private surveys and general buzz also point to a softening economy. The appraisal of the labor market by consumers surveyed by the Conference Board has deteriorated, Amazon has warned that consumers seem cautious, and so on. None of this screams recession, but it does point to a rising risk of a near-future recession.
Am I 100% sure that we’ll have a recession unless the Fed moves quickly to cut rates? Of course not — nothing is certain in economics, or in life more generally. But policymakers who wait for perfect certainty before acting will always move too late.
So how did we get to this point? The Fed increased interest rates a lot in response to the 2021-22 surge in inflation. I didn’t oppose that move; I don’t think the Fed had a choice, given the perceived risk that inflation might become entrenched in the economy the way it did in the 1970s.
By the second half of 2023, however, it was clear that fears of a return to that ’70s show were misplaced; inflation was coming down steadily without the years of high unemployment some economists wrongly claimed would be necessary.
But the Fed didn’t respond to falling inflation by cutting interest rates, seemingly unwilling to act until it was sure inflation was back to target. (Another example of how waiting for perfect certainty guarantees that you’ll move too late.) To some extent, the Fed may have been the victim of a statistical head-fake: Official numbers showed rising monthly inflation in early 2024, but as I wrote at the time, this looked more like noise in the data rather than anything that really happened.
Beyond that, however, it’s hard to escape the sense that the Fed has to some extent been paralyzed by inflation PTSD. Having faced harsh criticism for moving too slowly to raise rates when inflation began rising a
few years ago, it may have compensated by failing to cut rates when inflation began to fall. For a long time, our economy held up remarkably well despite very high interest rates; now the cracks are starting to show.
What’s especially galling about the current situation is that we may be about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. As of right now, America has basically achieved what many economists had considered impossible: a soft landing, in which we managed to get inflation way down without high unemployment. But we are increasingly at risk of experiencing a lot of unnecessary pain simply because the pilot waited too long to pull up the plane’s nose.
One more thing: If the Fed cuts rates in September, it will probably face a firestorm of criticism from Republicans accusing it of trying to help Kamala Harris defeat Donald Trump in the presidential election. And yes, a rate cut would probably help Democrats, largely because it would help drive home how successful America has been in bringing inflation under control.
But politics shouldn’t, and I hope won’t, affect the Fed’s decision. For the fact is that the economic case for major rate cuts is overwhelming; the Fed would be acting politically if it didn’t respond to that economic case simply because the election is looming.
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SAN JUAN – El Recinto de Ciencias Médicas (RCM) de la Universidad de Puerto Rico recibió a 708 estudiantes de nuevo ingreso para el año académico 2024-
2025. Estos estudiantes fueron seleccionados entre 1,428 solicitantes y comenzarán sus carreras en las seis escuelas del Recinto.
“Como alumnos de nuestros programas y escuelas debidamente acreditadas, tengan la seguridad de que cuentan con una facultad sólida, con proyectos innovadores y cursos de vanguardia. Adquirirán los conocimientos y el desempeño necesarios para obtener el grado académico. Ustedes son esenciales para que el RCM continúe siendo la institución líder en la investigación y en la prestación de servicios clínicos”, indicó la doctora Myrna Quiñones Feliciano, rectora del Recinto, en declaraciones escritas.
La doctora Quiñones destacó el compromiso del Recinto de brindar servicios de excelencia y acompañar a los estudiantes junto a un equipo multidisciplinario que les proporcionará las herramientas necesarias para
su formación profesional. De los estudiantes admitidos, 578 cursarán estudios en programas de maestría, doctorado y certificados posgrado.
En la Escuela de Medicina, 102 estudiantes fueron admitidos, mientras que 19 ingresaron al Programa Graduado de Ciencias Biomédicas. La Escuela de Medicina Dental admitió a 40 estudiantes, 20 al Programa Internacional de Ubicación Avanzada y 21 a los Programas Graduados de Medicina Dental.
La Escuela de Farmacia admitió a 45 estudiantes en su Programa Doctoral y 3 en su Programa de Doctorado en Filosofía en Ciencias Farmacéuticas (PhD). Otros 125 estudiantes fueron admitidos a la Escuela de Profesiones de la Salud, 148 a la Escuela Graduada de Salud Pública y 34 a los Programas Graduados de Maestría de la Escuela de Enfermería. A nivel subgraduado, el Recinto admitió a 151 estudiantes.
Juan Dalmau presenta propuesta para enfrentar la violencia y criminalidad en Puerto
SAN JUAN – El candidato a la gobernación por el Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño (PIP) y la Alianza, Juan Dalmau Ramírez, presentó el martes su propuesta de seguridad para enfrentar la violencia y criminalidad en el país, señalando que estos son fenómenos multifactoriales que responden a diversas causas individuales y sociales.
“Proponemos eliminar el Departamento de Seguridad Pública y regresar al modelo de independencia administrativa de las agencias bajo esa sombrilla”, afirmó Dalmau Ramírez en declaraciones escritas.
La propuesta de Dalmau Ramírez, desarrollada junto a un grupo de profesionales expertos, sugiere un enfoque integral que trabaje preventivamente con las causas de la violencia y la criminalidad, y al mismo tiempo atienda sus efectos inmediatos. Entre las iniciativas destacadas, se incluye la creación del “Observatorio de Pre-
vención y Manejo de la Violencia en Puerto Rico”, cuyo objetivo es identificar y atender los factores de riesgo que fomentan actitudes violentas y proporcionar apoyo técnico a las agencias y organizaciones involucradas en la prevención.
Dalmau Ramírez también propuso campañas educativas, la creación de cursos para fomentar una cultura de paz, y la integración de sectores marginados de la fuerza laboral.
“En lo que las estrategias preventivas surten efecto, hay que tomar medidas a corto plazo para controlar la actividad criminal”, añadió Dalmau Ramírez. Su plan se centra en enfocar los esfuerzos del sistema penal y de justicia en los grupos más violentos y de mayor jerarquía criminal, y desarrollar alternativas al encarcelamiento para componentes de menor jerarquía en el mercado de drogas ilícito.
Además, propuso una reforma del sistema penitenciario basada en el principio constitucional de la re-
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CAGUAS – La Policía informó el martes que agentes adscritos a la División de Delitos Sexuales y Maltrato a Menores del Cuerpo de Investigaciones Criminales (CIC) de Caguas realizaron dos investigaciones que culminaron en la radicación de cargos por actos lascivos y maltrato a menor, en hechos por separado.
Según la Uniformada, Ángel Ortiz Morales, de 24 años y residente en Aguas Buenas, fue acusado de violar el artículo 133 (Actos Lascivos) del Código Penal de
habilitación, y la creación de un “Programa de Desvío Temprano de Usuarios y Usuarias de Sustancias Controladas” dentro de la Rama Judicial, con comisiones evaluadoras en cada región judicial compuestas por profesionales de la salud.
La propuesta de Dalmau también abarca áreas específicas para proteger a poblaciones vulneradas como niños, menores de edad, adultos mayores y miembros de la comunidad LGBTTQIA+.
Puerto Rico y el artículo 53B (Maltrato) de la Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores.
Ortiz Morales supuestamente cometió actos lascivos contra una menor de edad en febrero de este año en el municipio de Aguas Buenas.
La fiscal Sharlynn Sánchez instruyó la radicación de cargos y la evidencia fue presentada ante la juez María Del Rosario Rojas, quien determinó causa probable e impuso una fianza de 60,000 dólares. Al no poder
prestarla, Ortiz Morales fue ingresado en la cárcel de Bayamón hasta la vista preliminar. La agente Mariliza Dónes, bajo la supervisión de la sargento Hilda González, estuvo a cargo de la pesquisa.
En otro suceso, la Policía precisó que, Ramón Rodríguez, de 40 años y residente en Aguas Buenas, fue acusado de violar el artículo 133 (Actos Lascivos) del Código Penal de Puerto Rico y el artículo 53B (Maltrato) de la Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores.
Rodríguez supuestamente cometió actos lascivos contra una menor de 14 años en marzo de este año en el municipio de Aguas Buenas.
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By AMY NICHOLSON
“Dad, this is the literally the best day of my life,” teenager Riley (Ariel Donoghue) beams to her doting father, Cooper (Josh Hartnett), in the opening minutes of M. Night Shyamalan’s “Trap.” That feeling won’t last — but for the first half of this mischievous thriller, we’re also having fun.
Riley is ecstatic to have stadium floor seats for her favorite pop icon, Lady Raven (Saleka). The child’s attention is on the stage. Ours is on her father who is having visible difficulty concentrating on the show. He’s clocking the cameras, the exits, the unusual number of cops, the no-nonsense FBI profiler (Hayley Mills) muttering into her walkie-talkie. The police are hunting a serial killer named the Butcher, but all they’ve got to go on is that he’s a middle-aged man in this majority girl crowd. Underneath the thumping bass and the squeals, Shyamalan wordlessly clues us in that the unassuming Cooper is also a slayer desperate to escape.
Instead of telegraphing evil, Hartnett cranks up that gee-willikers likability that once trapped him as one of Hollywood’s factory-stamped generic leading men. At his most devilish, he’s all apple cheeks, grinning so amiably that a merch seller (Jonathan Langdon) reveals that the
Butcher has his own obsessives. When no one’s watching, Cooper’s eyes narrow at whatever is on his mind. Should he pull the fire alarm? Slip through the hydraulic lift in the floor? Can his daughter tell he’s acting weird?
It takes cleverness and control to pull off this unspoken tension. Shyamalan boasts the former and feigns the latter for a while before his hot-dogging impulses take over. He’s like a guy who karaokes Hitchcock and then starts ad-libbing his own tune. We’re never onboard with the premise that a 20,000-plus crowd is the perfect place to arrest an unknown man. But we’re willing to play along until it starts to feel like Shyamalan so enjoys being inside Cooper’s head that he doesn’t want to leave. One fairly satisfying ending launches into encore after encore, with Shyamalan holding court past the time the audience is antsy to wrap up.
The plot is at its best when it’s simply a dad, a daughter and the puzzle he must solve to stay in her life. Hartnett and Donoghue have an affectionate, believable chemistry that’s boosted by the young actor’s natural charm — she doesn’t hit a phony note. To root for Riley’s happiness means rooting for Cooper’s, so every so often, particularly after we’ve cheered his latest brazen bit of genius, we’re reminded there’s a victim (Mark Bacolcol) handcuffed in his murder house. Worse, whenever
Cooper needs a diversion, he’s willing to send a stranger’s daughter to the ER.
The bigger the scope and the more Cooper’s psychology is explained, the less taut the film feels. There’s too much unnecessary trauma talk and hallucinations. Better is the tragic beat when Riley has a once-in-a-lifetime moment but her dad is too distracted to be present. Restless thoughts ripple underneath Cooper’s skin. Then he feels guilty, then he realizes smiling publicly at his daughter will help him survive. It’s pure silent comedy pathos.
Shyamalan captures the rhythms of a modern arena show, even squeezing in a dig at an egomaniacal surprise guest, a zesty bit of mockery by Scott Mescudi, aka Kid Cudi. Parents of Swifties will get déjà vu from the pretzels, the folding chairs, the Jumbotron and the church-like spirituality of a mass of fans holding up their lit phones to make something beautiful out of their shared pain.
Lady Raven’s groupies are called, naturally, “The Flock,” and they have a fancy for feathered wings and glittery mesh sleeves. Shyamalan’s eldest daughter, Saleka, plays the star and wrote and performed original songs in the film. She’ll probably take some nepo baby grief for it, especially since Shyamalan was a producer on a movie by her sibling, Ishana Night Shyamalan, this summer. But Saleka’s music is pretty good, a kind of ethereal Goth powered by her husky voice and a propulsive beat. Executing Cora Kozaris’ choreography in thigh-high boots, she’s a convincing pop star — and underneath her croons, you can practically hear Shyamalan whisper, “I love my daughter, too. Is that a crime?”
‘Trap’
Rated PG-13 for bloodless violence and brief strong language. Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes. In theaters.
Tasa mínima, promedio ponderado, y máxima para préstamos personales pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el sábado, 3 de agosto de 2024
By CARL ZIMMER
For generations, physicists have puzzled over life. Their theories about matter and energy have helped them understand how the universe produced galaxies and planets. But physicists have struggled to understand how lifeless chemical reactions give rise to the complexity stored in our cells.
In a new book, “Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence,” out Tuesday, Sara Walker, a physicist at Arizona State University, offers a theory that she and her colleagues believe can make sense of life. Assembly theory, as they call it, looks at everything in the universe in terms of how it was assembled from smaller parts. Life, the scientists argue, emerges when the universe hits on a way to make exceptionally intricate things.
The book arrives at an opportune time, as assembly theory has attracted both praise and criticism in recent months. Walker argues that the theory holds the potential to help identify life on other worlds. And it may allow scientists like her to create life from scratch.
“I actually think alien life will be discovered in the lab first,” Walker said in an interview.
Walker went to graduate school planning to become a cosmologist, but life soon grabbed her attention. She was struck by how hard it was to explain life with standard physics theories. Gravity and other forces are not enough to produce the self-sustaining complexity of living things.
As a result, scientists still struggled to explain how an assortment of chemicals reacting with each other might give rise to life. Scientists had no way to measure how life-like a group of chemicals were, in the way they might use a thermometer to measure how hot something is.
“Without a concept of absolute zero, you don’t know what you’re doing,” she said.
Walker’s thinking about life took a major turn in 2015, when she went to a conference in Washington, D.C., on the origin of life. There she listened to Lee Cronin, a chemist at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, describe a theory he was developing.
Cronin focused on the fact that the proteins and
the other molecules that make up our bodies do not jump into existence. They have to be assembled step by step from simpler building blocks. Outside living things, molecules can also be assembled through chemical steps. In outer space, for example, carbon dioxide and other compounds can combine to produce amino acids in meteorites. Cronin set out to develop a way to compare molecules — living or not — based on how many steps they took to form.
Walker was so intrigued by this approach that she joined Cronin to further develop the theory. “Sara has an incredible ability to articulate complex problems quickly and succinctly,” Cronin said.
Over the past few years, Walker, Cronin and their colleagues have developed methods to measure the complexity of a molecule. Their test uses a number they call the assembly index: A higher index means a molecule needs more steps to assemble.
To determine the assembly index of a molecule, it’s not necessary to painstakingly craft the molecule from scratch. Instead, scientists can blast it apart with a laser and count the different kinds of fragments left behind. A molecule with a high assembly index will produce many different fragments.
In 2021, Walker and her colleagues found a striking pattern in the assembly index of hundreds of molecules they blasted apart. When they looked at nonliving molecules, such as compounds that formed in a meteorite, they never found one with an assembly index over 15. But proteins and other molecules formed inside cells scored as high as 64.
The scientists suggested that the cutoff of 15 they discovered in their experiments might be evidence of a threshold for life. Ordinary chemistry could assemble molecules only through a limited number of steps, whereas life could carry it much further.
If that’s true, the assembly index might be a new way to look for life on other planets or moons — either by sampling molecules with an interplanetary probe, or by inspecting their atmospheres with a telescope.
While Walker and her colleagues have been developing assembly theory for nearly a decade, many scientists first became aware of it last year, when the team laid it out in a high-profile essay in the journal Nature. In an accompanying paper, George F.R. Ellis, a mathematician at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, wrote about the theory in glowing terms. “Assembly theory is potentially a profound approach to evolution and its foundation in physics,” he said.
But some biologists criticized the paper’s sweeping claims and obscure language. “How did this nonsense get past peer review?” Rosemary Redfield, a microbiologist at the University of British Columbia, asked on the social platform X.
Others have developed a more nuanced opinion. “I really like the core idea of assembly theory,” said Robert Hazen, a mineralogist and astrobiologist at Car-
In an undated image provided by ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona, an image made from data collected by the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe in 2005 of the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan, a candidate for life outside of our planet. In a new book, physicist Sara Walker argues that assembly theory can explain what life is, and even help scientists create new forms of it. (ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona via The New York Times)
negie Science in Washington, D.C. But he questioned whether scientists could draw a clean line between life and non-life. “I’m not sure they should set a number,” he said.
Hazen and his colleagues tried to measure the assembly index of some of the more complex minerals known to geology, such as ewingite, a golden-hued crystal that includes calcium, carbon and uranium. In January, they reported that the minerals had scored as high as 30, far above the threshold of 15 that Walker and her colleagues found in their 2021 study.
Walker said Hazen’s study was flawed. His team copied experiments that she and her colleagues had designed specifically to look at molecules. But minerals are different from molecules in some important ways. Instead of free-floating clusters of atoms, they are lattices that include some disorder in their structures.
Walker said that she and Cronin are working with their colleagues to extend the assembly theory of life. They also have a far more ambitious effort underway: to build what she calls “an origin-of-life engine in the lab.” Robots will mix inert chemicals in a vast number of combinations, looking for ones that produce more complex compounds.
Under the right conditions, the chemicals may form droplets that may be able to bootstrap themselves to a higher and higher assembly index. Above a certain threshold, they might become alive — but as a form of life we’ve never seen before.
If we do discover life on other worlds, Walker expects it will be a milestone in human history. But the idea of an origin-of-life engine has made her more interested in watching new life emerge in a lab here on Earth.
“To me, it’s more exciting as a scientist, because you can test the theory and see it happen,” she said.
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By GINA KOLATA
The United States spent $43 billion annually on screening to prevent five cancers, according to one of the most comprehensive estimates of medically recommended cancer testing ever produced.
The analysis, published Monday in The Annals of Internal Medicine and based on data for the year 2021, shows that cancer screening makes up a substantial proportion of what is spent every year on cancer in the United States, which most likely exceeds $250 billion. The researchers focused their estimate on breast, cervical, colorectal, lung and prostate cancers, and found that more than 88% of screening was paid for by private insurance and the rest mostly by government programs.
Dr. Michael Halpern, the lead author of the estimate and a medical officer in the federally funded National Cancer Institute’s health care delivery research program, said his team was surprised by the high cost, and noted that it was likely to be an underestimate because of the limits of the analysis.
For Karen E. Knudsen, CEO of the American Cancer Society, the value of screening for the cancers is clear. “We are talking about people’s lives,” she said. “Early detection allows a better chance of survival. Full stop. It’s the right thing to do for individuals.”
“We screen for cancer because it works,” Knudsen added. “The cost is small compared to the cost of being diagnosed with late-stage disease.”
Other researchers say the finding supports their contentions that screening is overused, adding that there is a weak link between early detection and cancer survival and that the money invested in cancer testing is not being well spent.
Colonoscopies are a big source of screening costs, ac-
counting for 55% of the total. The cost is driven, Halpern said, by the fees charged by the medical or surgical centers where colonoscopies are performed.
Dr. David Lieberman, a specialist in colon cancer screening speaking for the American Gastroenterological Association, said that while the cost of colonoscopies was high, the test could prevent cancer as well as detect it. Surgeons can see and cut out growths on the colon wall that occasionally can turn into cancers, thereby stopping a cancer before it can take hold.
The test, he said, has “a large upstream cost and potential downstream benefits.”
Critics of the current amount of screening said the large price tag researchers documented for screening wasn’t worth the cost.
“What are we actually getting of value for that amount of money?” asked Dr. Adewole Adamson, a dermatology researcher at the University of Texas at Austin who studies screening.
“If it was actually doing something I could say, ‘Yes, it is justified,’” he said. But, he added, studies repeatedly failed to show that people live longer if they are screened. And, he said, screening barely lowers the death rate from the cancer being screened — some cancers are deadly from the start, and detecting them may not help.
“People have an outsized idea of what the benefits are,” Adamson said.
But supporters of screening point to the recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent and influential group that issues advice on preventive health. The task force’s guidance has broad impact in the United States, setting standards for health insurance coverage. It conducted its own analyses of the data on screening and recommended it to reduce the death rates for four of the five cancers in the study, with
evidence strongest for cervical cancer and colorectal cancer. For prostate cancer, it recommended neither for nor against screening and is currently updating its analysis.
And while preventive testing against cancer could be carried out more efficiently, advocates for the practice argue it remains necessary.
“Too many people undergo screening who are unlikely to benefit, but many more who could benefit have never been screened or are not screened regularly,” Knudsen said.
She added that “the value of screening is settled science.”
Cancer death rates have been plummeting in the past few decades. Experts debate the reasons, but Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, a senior researcher in the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital who wrote an editorial that accompanied the paper, said it was a mistake to attribute that solely, or even mostly, to screening.
With colon cancer, for example, the death rate has been on a linear decline for 40 years, falling by nearly 50% from the 1980s — when few were screened — to today, when about 50% of eligible adults are screened. In an earlier paper published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Welch reported that the increase in screening did not accelerate the decline.
A much applauded clinical trial concluded that screening could reduce the risk of dying from colorectal cancer over 30 years by one-third. But, Welch said, in that study the absolute risk fell from 3% to 2% — a 33% drop but just 1 percentage point. And there was no change at all in the overall mortality rate with screening.
“I’m not saying there is no effect from screening, but it is so small that something else is going on,” Welch said. And that something, he added, is vastly improved treatment for colon cancer and, he speculated, changing diets and exposures to other factors, like medications that might decrease risk.
The lesson from cancer screening, Welch said, is that the effects on mortality “are so small it takes huge clinical trials to see them.” Typically, he said, about 1 person out of 1,000 screened over 10 years will avoid death from that particular cancer.
Dr. Daniel Morgan, who directs the Center for Innovation in Diagnosis at the University of Maryland, said he agreed with Welch’s assessment of the limits of cancer screening.
“I hope his editorial stimulates a conversation about the true value of screening,” he said.
The issue, he said, is “Should we get screening independent of the cost?”
That matter, Morgan said, is “one we should continue to discuss.”
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL ANTONIO ACOSTA BURGOS COMPUESTA POR FULANA DE TAL Y FULANO DE TAL; Y SUCESIÓN DE ANA ELBA CALDERON MONSERRATE COMPUESTA POR FULANA DE TAL Y FULANO DE TAL
Demandados CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA
Parte con interés Civil Núm.: BY2023CV03792. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, hago saber a la parte demandada, SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL ANTONIO ACOSTA BURGOS compuesta por FULANA Y FULANO DE TAL; y SUCESIÓN DE ANA ELBA CALDERÓN MONSERRATE compuesta por FULANA Y FULANO DE TAL y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 18 de junio de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: EC-16 Calle Roble Urb. Los Almendros Bayamón, PR 00961 y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el #16 del bloque EC del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Los Almendros (Estancias de Rio Hondo IV), radicada en el Barrio Hato Tejas del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 264.680 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con el solar #15, distancia de 20.36 metros; por el SUR, con el solar #17, en distancia de
20.36 metros; por el ESTE, con la calle #4, distancia de 13.00 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar #9, distancia de 13.00 metros. Enclava una casa. Finca 7057 (antes 54,337), inscrita al Folio 46 del tomo 152 de Bayamón Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA en garantía de un pagaré, aff #12677, a favor de RG Premier Bank of PR, o a su orden, por $133,600.00 al 5 5/8%, vencedero el 1 de noviembre del 2039, según Esc. #175 en Arecibo a 17 de octubre de 2009 ante Digna E. Landrove de la O., inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Bayamón Sur, Finca #54337 inscripción 8va. Comparece Ana R. Calderón Monserrate casada con Miguel Antonio Acosta Burgos. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 29 de abril de 2024, mediante la cual se determinó que la cantidad adeudada y vencida, ascendiente a $100,574.60 de principal, más intereses acumulados, que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más cargos por demora, más penalidades e intereses, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 20 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $133,600.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 27 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $89,066.67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 3 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo,
la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $66,800.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la
confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de julio de 2024. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #198, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN.
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MANUEL FERNANDEZ
SOTO T/C/C HECTOR M. FERNANDEZ SOTO T/C/C
HECTOR M. FERNANDEZ COMPUESTA POR
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T/C/C PATRICIA ENGEL; ANA PAULA FERNANDEZ
BORGES; PRISCILLA FERNANDEZ BORGES, STHEFANIE FERNANDEZ
BORGES; JOHN RE Y JANE ROE COMO
POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION NEIDA
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RIVERA T/C/C NEIDA
P. BORGES RIVERA
T/C/C NEIDA P. BORGES
T/C/C PRISCILA
BORGES T/C/C NEYDA
PRISCILLA BORGES
COMPUESTA POR ANA
PAULA FERNANDEZ
BORGES, PRISCILLA
FERNANDEZ BORGES, STHEFANIE FERNANDEZ
BORGES; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
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Civil Núm.: CG2020CV00634. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LA PARTE
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GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 19 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número cinco (5) en el Bloque Q del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Reparto Villa Blanca, radicada en el Barrio Bairoa del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de seiscientos ochenta y cinco metros con veintiún centímetros cuadrados (685.21). Colinda por el NORTE, en cuarenta y dos metros veinticuatro centímetros (42.24) con el solar número seis (6) del bloque Q del mencionado plano; por el OESTE, en trece metros cincuenta centímetros (13.50) con la calle cinco (5) del mencionado plano; por el SUROESTE, en treinta y cinco metros cincuenta y un centímetros (35.51) con el solar número cuatro (4) del bloque Q del mencionado plano y por el SURESTE, en veintitrés metros veintiún centímetros (23.21) con Antonio Longo, hijo. Enclava una casa de concreto dedicada a vivienda. Inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 347 de Caguas, finca 9,398, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 118 vuelto del
tomo 1768 de Caguas, finca 9,398, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I, inscripción 10ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. VILLA BLANCA, #28 CALLE ONICE, CAGUAS, PR 00725. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $270,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 25 de marzo de 2089. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $270,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 26 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $180,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $135,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 3 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $130,074.18 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $81,135.30 en intereses acu-
mulados al 25 de agosto de 2023 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $23,643.40 en seguro hipotecario; $14,537.44 de seguro; $600.00 de tasaciones; $1,035.00 de inspecciones; $2,463.00 de mantenimiento; $5,028.90 en adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $27,000.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de julio de 2024. CARLOS DELGADO CRUZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593. ***
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Caso Núm.: HU2023CV01107 (SALÓN 205). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO A: NILS HERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZ
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(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 JULIO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de JULIO de 2024. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 30 de JULIO de 2024. EVELYN FELIX VAZQUEZ, Secretario(a). f/ARSENIA MARTINEZ SANCHEZ, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GURABO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC.
Demandante Vs. JEREMY MONTAÑEZ PÉREZ
Demandado Civil Núm.: GR2024CV00091. Salón: 803. Sobre: COBRO
DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JEREMY MONTAÑEZ PÉREZHC 02 BOX 13879, GURABO PR 00778. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Gabriel Antonio Ramos Colón cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de junio de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 4 de junio de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. GLORIMAR RIVERA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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CONDOMINIO BAHÍA PROPERTIES, LLC
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE FRANCES MARRERO GARCÍA
COMPUESTA POR FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, FULANO DE TAL
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV03258. Sala: 908. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO VÍA ORDINARIA. IN-
TERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: SUCESIÓN DE FRANCES MARRERO GARCÍA COMPUESTA POR SUTANO DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, FULANO DE TAL.
Quedan notificados que en este Tribunal se ha solicitado y aceptado, una interpelación judicial de la parte demandante a herederos de la SUCESIÓN DE FRANCES MARRERO GARCÍA a saber, SUTANO DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, FULANO DE TAL; conforme dispone el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 LP.R.A. §11021. Se ordena a dichos codemandados a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación del presente Edicto, acepte o repudie la participación que le corresponda en la Sucesión de Frances Marrero García. Si los herederos antes mencionados no se expresaren dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de la herencia, ésta se tendrá por aceptada. También se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación del presente Edicto, se presumirá que ha aceptado la herencia del causante, y por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme disponen los Artículos 1587 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11041, y 1588, 31 L.P.R.A. §11042. Los abogados de la parte demandante son el Lcdo Alejandro Bellver Espinosa y la Lcda. Yaira Droz, cuya dirección física y postal es: Cond. El Centro I, Suite 801, 500 Muñoz Rivera Ave., San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 946-5268, y sus correos electrónicos son: alejandro@bellverlaw.com y yaira@bellverlaw.com. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparecen a repudiar o aceptar la herencia, radicando el original de la misma través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá
presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se presumirá que ha aceptado la herencia del causante, y por consiguiente, responde por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme disponen los Artículos 1587 y 1588 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 31 de julio de 2024. SRA. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ENID DÍAZ RÍOS, SUBSECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
BAUTISTA CAYMAN ASSET COMPANY
Demandante V. ASMA ABOUKHEIR; Y LA SUCESIÓN DE ADEL ABOUKHEIR COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS KAWKAB
ABOUKHEIR ATRACH, JULUD ABOUKHEIR
ATRACH T/C/C JULUD
ABOU KHEIR ATRACH, ALAAELDIN ABOUKHEIR
ATRACH T/C/C ALDUA
ABOUKHEIR, APIR ABOUKHEIR ATRACH
T/C/C APIR ABOU
KHEIR ATRACH, AMMAR ABOUKHEIR
ATRACH T/C/C AMMAR
ABOUKHEIR ATTRACH T/C/C ARMMAR
ABOUKEHIR T/C/C
AMMAR ABOU KHEIR ATRACH, Y LA VIUDA RODAINA ATRACH, POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ADEL ABOUKHEIR; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV04843. (508). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: ASMA ABOUKHEIR1061 WILLIAM JONES, RÍO PIEDRAS, PUERTO RICO 00926.
POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la presentación de una Demanda y
Demanda Enmendada en su contra. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través de Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria 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, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
Ferraiuoli LLC
Looking Forward
Lcdo. Luis G. Parrilla Hernández P.O. Box 195168
San Juan, PR 00919-5168
Tel.: 787-766-7000 / Fax: 787-766-7001
lparrilla@ferraiuoli.com
EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 30 de julio de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. CARMEN E. GARCÍA FIGUEROA, SUB-SECRETARI.
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CARMEN MILAGROS RODRÍGUEZ SUÁREZ, ELIO IVÁN RODRÍGUEZ MÉNDEZ
Demandantes Vs. R&G MORTGAGE CORPORATION; CORPORACIÓN FEDERAL DE SEGUROS DE DEPÓSITOS (FDIC); BRALO EQUIPMENT RENTAL, INC.; DEMANDADOS
DESCONOCIDOS: “JOHN DOE”, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2024CV02520. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: R&G MORTGAGE CORPORATION; BRALO EQUIPMENT RENTAL, INC.; DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS: “JOHN DOE”, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.
Por medio del presente edicto se les notifica la radicación de
una Demanda de Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado en la que se solicita la cancelación del siguiente pagare hipotecario, desconociéndose su paradero, luego de haber sido pagado en su totalidad: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de R&G Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de Ochenta Mil Seiscientos Dólares ($80,600.00), con interés al (5-1/2%) anual, suscrito bajo Affidávit Núm. (15,909), vencedero el día primero de abril de 2014, constituido mediante la escritura número Cuatrocientos Treinta y Siete (437), otorgada el día (27) de marzo de (1999), ante el Notario Armando J. Martínez Vilella. Inscripción (4ta.) de la Finca (49,053) de Caguas. La referida hipoteca grava el siguiente inmueble: “URBANA: Solar marcado con el #15 del bloque Y, en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Santa Juana IV, ubicada en el barrio Bairoa del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 373.50 metros cuadrados, colindando por el NORTE, en 25.50 metros, con el lote Y-14; por el SUR, en 22.00 metros y 2.75 metros en arco, con la calle #12; por el ESTE, en 14.75 metros, con el lote Y-16 y por el OESTE, en 11.25 metros y 2.75 metros en arco, con la calle #11. ENCLAVA: Una estructura de hormigón y bloques, para una residencia, consta de 3 habitaciones, 2 baños, sala-comedor, cocina, “laundry” interior y marquesina doble”. Inscripción: Finca (49,053) de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera; Catastro Núm. (199-086-009-15-001).
La parte demandante solicita del Honorable Tribunal que declare con lugar la demanda y en su consecuencia ordene al Secretario del Tribunal que expida Mandamiento al Registrador de la Propiedad, para que dicho funcionario proceda a cancelar en los libros a su cargo la referida hipoteca dejando la propiedad aquí descrita libre de dicho gravamen hipotecario. Por medio del presente edicto se le emplaza y requiere para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la Demanda de epígrafe dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso
deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal, Sala de Caguas y notificándole con copia de dicha contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Abogada de la Parte Demandante: Lcda. Beatriz Cay VázquezRUA 18,234
P.O. Box 1809, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00726-1809 Tel. (787) 731-0526; Email: beatrizcayvazquez@gmail.com
POR ORDEN DEL TRIBUNAL, expido el presente Edicto en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 24 de julio de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. SANDRA J. TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Demandante V. SUCESION DE VICTOR MANUEL GASCOT VAZQUEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2024CV00741. (Salón: 702). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZRDIAZ@BDPRLAW.COM. A: SUCESION DE VICTOR MANUEL GASCOT VAZQUEZ, COMPUESTA POR: LUZ HAYDEE SOTO SANTIAGO, POR SI Y COMO VIUDA DEL CAUSANTE; “JOHN DOE V RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS. (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 31 de julio de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 31 de julio de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN EDWARD JOHN ENRÍQUEZ FLORES
COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOHNNY ENRÍQUEZ APONTE
Peticionario V. SUCESIÓN DE JOHNNY ENRÍQUEZ APONTE
COMPUESTA POR SEBASTIÁN MONTANER ENRÍQUEZ, VIVIAN JANNETTE ENRÍQUEZ
FLORES T/C/C VIVIAN JANET ENRÍQUEZ
FLORES T/C/C VIVIAN J. ENRÍQUEZ FLORES POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE SEBASTIÁN MONTANER ENRÍQUEZ, CONRAD WEAVER Y SPENCER MANCHESI, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS
Peticionados
Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV00644. Sala: 504. Sobre: SENTENCIA DECLARATORIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: CONRAD WEAVER Y SPENCER MANCHESI, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, TODOS COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOHNNY ENRÍQUEZ APONTE.
El Causante Johnny Enríquez Aponte era dueño de la
siguiente propiedad, la cual forma parte de su Caudal Relicto: URBANA: PROPIEDAD
HORIZONTAL: Apartamento setecientos uno (701) ubicado en el piso terrero del edificio número siete-ocho (7-8) en su sección número siete y en su lado derecho, cual edificio está localizado en el lado Este del inmueble sometido al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal, conocido por Condominio Tropical Courts, ubicado en el Barrio Cupey del Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, cuya entrada y salida da hacia la Avenida La Marina, la cual radica en el lado Suroeste del inmueble; está construido de hormigón reforzado y bloques de hormigón con un área de piso de mil ciento setenta y ocho pies cuadrados con dos centésimas de otro (1,178.02 p.c.), equivalentes a ciento nueve metros cuadrados con cuarenta y ocho centésimas de otro (109.48m.c.). Su entrada está localizada en el lado derecho del piso número uno en el lado Sur del edificio y da acceso directamente al vestíbulo de dicho piso que a su vez da acceso a las áreas comunes generales de la propiedad y a los estacionamientos para llegar a la vía pública. El apartamento consta de un solo nivel y está dividido en los siguientes elementos: sala-comedor, cocina, área de lavandería, tres cuartos dormitorios con sus closets, unidos por un pasillo central, dos baños, uno con acceso al pasillo central y el segundo ubicado dentro del área del cuarto dormitorio principal, la sala-comedor a su vez da acceso a una terraza cubierta y a un patio exterior. Contiene un calentador de agua y gabinetes de cocina. Su forma es rectangular aproximadamente, en lindes por el NORTE, en treinta y ocho (38’) pies con el pasillo común y las escaleras del edificio; por el SUR, en treinta y ocho (38’) pies con el exterior del edificio que da hacia un área común; por el ESTE, en una alineación de treinta y dos pies seis pulgadas (32’6”) hacia el patio exterior que a suvez colinda con la verja que da hacia el inmueble colindante y en una segunda alineación de un pies seis pulgadas (1’6”) con el pasillo de entrada; y por el OESTE, en treinta y cuatro pies (34’) en lindes con el exterior del edificio que da hacia una área verde del frente del edificio que a su vez colinda con la plazoleta de los buzones. Existe un área común limitada en la pared posterior cuyo uso es exclusivo de este apartamento, sujeto a las disposiciones de Ley y de la escritura de Constitución de Régimen de Propiedad
Horizontal. Le corresponde en forma permanente e inseparable dos espacios de estacionamientos los cuales están debidamente identificados en el plano de estacionamiento con el mismo número del apartamento, cual plano se une a la primera copia certificada de la escritura del Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal, como parte 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 del apartamento. Le corresponde a este apartamiento en los elementos comunes generales el punto noventa y uno veinticinco cuarenta y dos por ciento (0.912542%). Le corresponde a este apartamiento en los gastos de operación y mantenimiento general del condominio el uno punto cero cero cincuenta y ocho treinta y un por ciento (1.005831%). Inscrita al folio 11 del tomo 619 de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 19,443, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de San Juan. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede accesar utilizando la siguiente dirección: https:// unired.ramajuducial.pr , salvo que se represente por Derechos Propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal De no contestar la demanda radicando el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Ilia C. Ramírez Martínez Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936-7308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos 60 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. INTERPELACIÓN: A: Sucesión de Johnny Enríquez Aponte compuesta por Sebastián Montaner Enríquez, Vivian Jannette Enríquez Flores t/c/c Vivian Janet Enríquez Flores t/c/c Vivian J. Enríquez Flores en representación de Sebastián
Montaner Enríquez, Conrad Weaver y Spencer Manchesi, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de nombres desconocidos. Se les ORDENA a ustedes a que dentro del término legal de TREINTA (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de Johnny Enríquez Aponte a saber: Sebastián Montaner Enríquez, Vivian Jannette Enríquez Flores t/c/c Vivian Janet Enríquez Flores t/c/c Vivian J. Enríquez Flores en representación de Sebastián Montaner Enríquez, Conrad Weaver y Spencer Manchesi, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de nombres desconocidos. Se les APERCIBE que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de TREINTA (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les APERCIBE que luego del transcurso del término de TREINTA (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante Johnny Enríquez Aponte y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 2020, según enmendado. Se ORDENA a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la sucesión de Johnny Enríquez Aponte a saber: Sebastián Montaner Enríquez, Vivian Jannette Enríquez Flores t/c/c Vivian Janet Enríquez Flores t/c/c Vivian J. Enríquez Flores por sí y en representación de Sebastián Montaner Enríquez, Conrad Weaver y Spencer Manchesi, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de nombres desconocidos; proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 1 de agosto de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. NELLY MARTE MARCIANO, SUB - SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS ANDREA VIRGINIA SANTIAGO RIVERA Y OTROS
Demandante V.
SAMUEL DOD Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2021CV00366. (Salón: 701). Sobre: ACCIDENTE DE TRÁNSITO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA
POR EDICTO.
ILEANA M. RIVERA TORRES - LCDA.RIVERATORRES@ OFICINALEGALRIVERATORRES. COM. A: SAMUEL DOD, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA JUNTO A ADA ARVELO FREYTES Y EN REPRESENTACION DEL MENOR SMUEL DOD ARVELO. SAMUEL DOD ARVELO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 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 29 de julio de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 29 de julio de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ZEPPENFELDT Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Peticonarios Vs. EX PARTE Civil Núm.: CG2024CV01591.
Sala: 301. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: CARMEN PROVIDENCIA RODRÍGUEZ RÍOS - 10218 WILD WILLOW LANE, CHARLOTTE, NC 28277; POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LUIS RAMÓN BERRÍOS, INMEDIATO ANTERIOR DUEÑO DE LA PROPIEDAD OBJETO DE ESTE TRÁMITE; JOHN DOE Y JANE ROE, PERSONAS IGNORADAS A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN SOLICITADA.
Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una Petición de Expediente De Dominio. Se les notifica para que comparezcan ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a su derecho convenga, en el presente caso. En la Petición se solicita que para que se declare justificado el dominio a su favor sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el barrio Ceiba Sur del término municipal de Juncos, Puerto Rico, e identificado como Parcela “A” hoy, antes “Old Proposed Access”. Esta parcela tiene una cabida superficial de MIL TRESCIENTOS
DOCE PUNTO DOS MIL
CIENTO NOVENTA Y CINCO METROS CUADRADOS (1,312.2195 M.C.), equivalentes a CERO PUNTO TREINTA Y TRES MIL TRESCIENTOS OCHENTA Y SEIS CUERDAS (0.33386 CDS). En lindes, por el NORTE, con la parcela número cincuenta y tres (53); por el SUR, con la parcela cincuenta y dos (52); por el ESTE, con camino de acceso dedicado a uso público; y por el OESTE, con futuro embalse del Río Valenciano propiedad de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados. Se les apercibe y notifica que, si no contestan la petición radicada, radicando el original de la misma y enviando copia de su contestación al abogado de la parte peticionaria: LCDO. MANUEL E. MALDONADO PÉREZ; DIRECCION: 1019 AVENIDA LUIS VIGOREAUX 17-E GUAYNABO, PUERTO RICO 00966; TELÉFONO: 939-2449188; CORREO ELECTRÓNICO: @gmail.com dentro del
término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra y se podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por los peticionarios, sin más citar, ni oír. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 29 de julio de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ANA H. LUGO MUÑOZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIO A SALA.
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Demandante V. EXPARTE
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV08364. (Salón: 606). Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
ERNESTO M. ROVIRA GÁNDARAEROVIRA@ PARTNERSLEGALSERVICESPR.COM. A: CUALQUIER PERSONA QUE ALEGASE TENER ALGÚN DERECHO REAL SOBRE EL INMUEBLE QUE SE DESCRIBE MÁS ADELANTE; LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCION SOLICITADA.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 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 01 de agosto de 2024. En
San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 01 de agosto de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA DE JESÚS RAMOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. SISTEMA DE RETIRO DE LOS EMPLEADOS DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2023CV03933. (Salón: 802). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. MARITZA DEL CARMEN GUZMÁN MATOS - MGUZMAN@ PARTNERSLEGALSERVICESPR. COM. SAIDETH CRISTÓBAL MARTÍNEZSAIDETHCRISTOBAL@GMAIL.COM. A:JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE, POSIBLES TENEDORES DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO DESCRITO MÁS ADELANTE. (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 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 31 de julio de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 31 de julio de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. ZAIDA AGUAYO ÁLAMO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN DANERIS
FERNANDEZ GERENA
Parte Demandante V. SUCESION DE ANTONIO FERNANDEZ VARGAS COMPUESTA POR ANTONIO EDGARDO
FERNANDEZ GERENA Y OTROS
Parte Demandada
Caso Civil: SJ2024CV03221. Salón: 802. Sobre: PARTICIÓN DE HERENCIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ANTONIO EDGARDO FERNANDEZ GERENA, Parte Demandada.
Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado contra usted una demanda para la partición de la herencia de la Sucesión del causante Don Antonio Fernández Vargas. Representa a la parte demandante la abogada cuyo nombre y demás datos son los siguientes: LCDA. ANA CRISTINA GOMEZ PEREZ ABOGADA PARTE DEMANDANTE RUA: 15092 PO BOX 13762 SAN JUAN, PR 00908 787-459-1035 anacgomezperez@gmail.com
Se les apercibe que deberán presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del plazo de treinta (30) días contados desde la publicación de este edicto, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá́́ presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldı́a en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda sin más citarlo ni oírlo. EXPEDIDO bajo la firma y sello del Tribunal. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 29 de julio de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. NANCY I. GARCÍA FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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Parte Demandante V. OSCAR CIRILO ORTIZ Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2023CV00476. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, hago saber a la parte demandada, OSCAR CIRILO ORTIZ y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 3 de julio de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: Apto 5003 Edif. 49-50, Sección #50 Condominio Veredas del Parque, Barrio San Antón Carolina, Puerto Rico 00983 y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Apartamento número 5003 ubicado en el tercero y cuarto piso del edificio número 49-50 en su sección número 50 y en su lado izquierdo, cual edificio está localizado en el lado Sureste del inmueble sometido al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal, conocido por Condominio Veredas del Parque, ubicado en el Barrio San Antón del municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, cuya entrada y salida dan hacia el área de estacionamiento, está construido de hormigón reforzado y bloques de hormigón con un área de piso de 2 niveles de 1,445.19 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 134.24 metros cuadrados. Su forma es aproximadamente rectangular y consta de 2 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 suroeste del edificio y da acceso directamente al vestíbulo de dicho piso que a su vez da acceso a elementos comunes generales de la propiedad a través de pasillos, escalera, acera para llegar a la vía pública. El primer nivel ubicado en el tercer piso está dividido en los siguientes elementos: una cocina, una 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 653.33 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 60.70 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORESTE, en 21 pies con 8 pulgadas con el exterior del edificio; por el SUROESTE, en 18 pies 4 pulgadas con el pasillo y escalera del edificio que dan acceso al apartamento; por el NOROESTE, en 30 pies 4 pulgadas con el exterior del edificio y por el SURESTE en 30 pies 4 pulgadas con el apartamento 5004. 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 área del cuarto dormitorio principal y una escalera con acceso a la azotea y al tercer piso. A este apartamento le corresponde el uso exclusivo de la azotea, sujeto a las condiciones de Ley y sujeto a las limitaciones contenidas en la escritura de constitución del Régimen de la Propiedad Horizontal. El cuarto piso consta de un área de 791.86 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 73.57 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORESTE, en 23 pies 10 pulgadas con el exterior del edificio; por el SUROESTE, en 21 pies 7 pulgadas con el apartamento 4903; por el NOROESTE, en 34 pies con el exterior del edificio y por el SURESTE en 34 pies con el apartamento 5004. Le corresponden en forma permanente e inseparable 2 espacios de estacionamientos los cuales están debidamente identificados en el plano de estacionamiento que se unió a la primera copia certificada de la escritura de Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal y que forma parte de los planos generales del condominio. Los espacios de estacionamiento que le corresponden a este apartamento serán adjudicados en la escritura de individualización y compraventa y llevarán el mismo número del apartamento. Finca 55681 inscrita al Folio 213 del tomo 1367 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Segunda. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Oriental Bank & Trust, o a su orden, por $198,000.00 al 6%, vencedero el 1 de enero de 2037, según Esc. #82 en Carolina, a 28 de junio de 2007, ante Esther Marie Reyes Alva-
rez, inscrita al folio 98 del tomo 1376 de Carolina, finca #55681, Inscripción 5ta. (ii) SENTENCIA seguido en el Tribunal Superior de PR, Sala de Carolina, en el caso civil FCM2011-1343, sobre Cobro de Dinero, por Parque de Escorial Residential Owners Assn. Inc., versus Oscar Cirilo Ortíz por la suma de $2,134.07, según Sentencia del 11 de junio de 2012, Mandamiento del 19 de febrero de 2013, anotado al folio 98 del tomo 1376 de Carolina, finca #55681, anotación A y ultima, el 4 de junio de 2013. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 24 de mayo de 2024, mediante la cual se determinó que la cantidad adeudada y vencida, ascendiente a $183,516.34 de principal, más $33,002.97 de intereses acumulados, que continuarán acumulándose al 6% hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más $2,510.32 por cargos por demora, más $3,871.62 de escrow, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 11 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de CAROLINA, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $198,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 18 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $132,000.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el 25 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $99,000.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado esta-
rán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 18 de julio de 2024. HÉC-
TOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAROLINA.
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Demandante V. SUCESION DE RAMON CASIANO FIGUEROA, COMPUESTA POR
ROBERTO CASIANO PÉREZ, RAMÓN ANTONIO CASIANO PÉREZ, RAY
ALBERTO CASIANO TRABAS Y “JOHN DOE Y HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE RAMÓN CASIANO FIGUEROA”, MEILING TRABAL
ALICEA, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.) - PARTE CON INTERÉS
Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2024CV00796. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: SUCESION DE RAMON CASIANO FIGUEROA, COMPUESTA POR ROBERTO CASIANO PÉREZ, RAMÓN ANTONIO CASIANO PÉREZ, RAY ALBERTO CASIANO TRABAL Y “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE RAMON CASIANO FIGUEROA, MEILING TRABAL ALICEA.
La parte demandante ha declarado la totalidad de la deuda que origina la presente causa de acción vencida; y al día 1ro diciembre de 2023, la parte demandada le adeuda a la parte demandante las siguientes cantidades: $15,883.93 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 7.00% desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2023; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $4,483.60 para costas, gas-
tos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La parte demandada constituyó la hipoteca sobre el siguiente bien inmueble: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Ana Maria, situado en el Barrio Pueblo del término Municipal de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: número del solar dos del Bloque J, área del solar: doscientos cincuenta y seis metros cuadrados con cincuenta centímetros cuadrados. En lindes: por el NORTE, en nueve metros, con la calle número dos; por el SUR, en nueve metros, con el Centro Gubernamental; por el ESTE, en veintiocho metros cincuenta centímetros, con el solar número tres; y por el OESTE, en veintiocho metros cincuenta centímetros, con el solar número uno. Enclava en dicho solar una casa de concreto reforzado para fines residenciales. Inscrita en la finca 10,143, inscrita al folio 6 del tomo 313 de Cabo Rojo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Germán. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al abogado de la parte demandante. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 2005 TSPR 50, Op. De 22 de abril de 2005; tienen la opción de aceptar o repudiar la herencia del causante, dentro del término de 30 días a partir de su emplazamiento. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar dicha herencia dentro del término que se le fijó para contestar a la demanda incoada en su contra, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada, así como el presente emplazamiento.
ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández
BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP
Attorneys at Law
Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 24 de julio de 2024. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. EVELYN GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. GILBERTO YAMIR CRUZ ZAVALA, ZULMA SUHJEIL GONZÁLEZ RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado Civil Núm.: AR2023CV02336. Sala: 102. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Arecibo, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 16 de julio de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Urbanización Ext. Estancias De Imbery de Barceloneta. Solar: 139. Cabida: 331.5 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: NORTE, en una distancia de 25.500 metros lineales con el Solar 140 y el Solar 141. SUR, en una distancia de 25.500 metros lineales con el Solar 138. ESTE, en una distancia de 13.00 metros lineales con el Solar 143. OESTE, en una distancia de 13.00 metros lineales con la calle Cinco. Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa en concreto para fines residenciales. Inscrita en la finca número 16,224 del tomo Karibe de Barceloneta, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada y notificada en este caso el 28 de mayo de 2024, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $95,913.43 por concepto de principal; generando
intereses a razón de 3.75% desde el 1ro de febrero de 2023; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $11,314.40 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Arecibo, Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $113,144.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $75,429.33, 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 24 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $56,572.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Artículo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al
comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de julio de 2024. SUHEIL M. SALVA SOTO, ALGUACIL #413, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
E.M.I EQUITY MORTGAGE INC. Demandantes Vs. CITIBANK, NA.; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV04810. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A la parte co-demandada: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, DEMANDADOS
523-2670
CUYA DIRECCIÓN SE DESCONOCE.
Se les notifica por este medio que en el caso del epígrafe se solicita la CANCELACIÓN de un pagaré extraviado a favor de Citibank, N.A. por la $108,000.00 con intereses al (5 3/4%) anual constituida mediante escritura número 520 otorgada el 22 de junio de 2005 ante el Notario Mario A. Quiles Rosado, inscrita al folio 217 del tomo 720 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 30,346, inscripción cuarta. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. 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://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. David Cardona Dingui, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante, 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, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 29 de julio de 2024 en San Juan, Puerto Rico. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. ARTURO CARABALLO VEGA
Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2024CV01813. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO, COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ARTURO CARABALLO VEGA - URB. MIRAFLORES E11 CALLE AMAPOLA, DORADO PR 00616; PO BOX 391, VEGA BAJA PR 00692-0391.
De: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO.
Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cobro de Dinero en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar la cantidad de $23,885.19 de principal; más intereses acumulados hasta el pago total de la deuda; más los cargos por mora que se acumulen hasta el pago total de la deuda; más la suma de $2,500.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos, Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882 Po Box 0194089, San Juan PR 00919
Teléfono: (787) 296-9500, Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 22 de julio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GEISA L. ROBLES ORTIZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. GREAT ATLANTIC MORTGAGE
CORPORATION, CITIBANK, N.A. T/C/C
CITIBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, CITIMORTGAGE
INC. T/C/C CITIBANK
MORTGAGE T/C/C CMI NY, AAA CONCORDIA MORTGAGE
CORPORATION, PEDRO SAMUEL MULERO
FÉLIX, SANDRA IVETTE
SÁNCHEZ RODRÍGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2024CV02114. (702). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: GREAT ATLANTIC MORTGAGE
CORPORATION a las siguientes direcciones:
VILLA CAPARRA, J-18, GUAYNABO, PR 00939 (00969), VILLA CAPARRA, 25 CALLE 1, GUAYNABO, PR 00939 (00969), 1677 AVE PONCE DE LEON, PISO 2, PARADA 25, SAN JUAN, PR 00909-1831, PO BOX 9, BAYAMÓN, PR 00960-0009; AAA CONCORDIA MORTGAGE
CORPORATION a las siguientes direcciones: CARR 176 KM 1.1 CUPEY, SAN JUAN, PR 00926, RR 37 BOX 1837, SAN JUAN, PR 00926-9714 Y RR 9 BOX 1838, SAN JUAN, PR 00926-9714; PEDRO SAMUEL MULERO FÉLIX, SANDRA IVETTE SÁNCHEZ RODRÍGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS a sus ultimas direcciones conocidas: URB VILLAS DEL RIO VERDE, Z9 CALLE 25, CAGUAS, PR 007256472, HC 2 BOX 28049, CAGUAS, PR 00727-9401.
FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.
Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El 28 de febrero de 1997, Pedro Samuel Mulero Félix y su esposa Sandra Ivette Sánchez Rodríguez constituyeron una hipoteca en Caguas, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm. 29, autorizada por el notario Luis A. Ríos Rodríguez en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo el testimonio núm. 284 por la suma de $56,950.00 a favor de Great Atlantic Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, con intereses 8% anual y vencedero el 1ro de marzo de 2027, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el #9 del bloque Z de la Urbanización Villa de Rio Verde en Caguas, con una cabida de 150.01 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle 25 de la urbanización, en distancia de 6.25 metros, por el SUR, con los solares 87 88 del bloque Z, en distancia de 6.25 metros, por el ESTE, con el solar 10 del bloque 2, en distancia de 24.01 metros y por el OESTE, con el solar 8 del bloque Z, en distancia de 24.00 metros. Enclava una casa de hormigón de una sola planta para fines residenciales la cual tiene una pared medianera en su lado Este con la casa enclavada en el solar 10 del bloque Z y otra pared medianera en su lado Oeste, con la casa enclavada en el solar 8 del bloque 2. Inscrita al folio 108 del tomo 830 de Caguas, Finca 27456, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 111 del tomo 830 de Caguas, Finca 27456, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. Inscripción sexta. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la pu-
blicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 19 de julio de 2024, en Caguas, Puerto Rico. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC. Demandante Vs. CHRISTIAN MARTÍNEZ RAMOS Demandado
Civil Núm.: PO2024CV00856. Salón: 504. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: CHRISTIAN MARTÍNEZ RAMOS –523 BO PALMAREJO, PONCE PR 00780-2211 / 532 N 5TH ST APT 2 ALLENTOWN, PA 18102-2907. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Gabriel Antonio Ramos Colón cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@orf-law.com y
a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de junio de 2024. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 6 de junio de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. GISELLE GUTIÉRREZ LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. MIGDALIA
CASTILLO SANFELIZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CZ2023CV00174. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MIGDALIA CASTILLO SANFELIZ - 1 ALTS DE CIBUCO APT 4, COROZAL PR 00783-3032 / RES ALTURAS DE CIBUCO 4, COROZAL, PR 00783. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del
Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de junio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. NOELIA MATÍAS SALAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC. Demandante Vs. JOSEPH L REYES DIAZ Demandado Civil Núm.: CA2024CV01115. Salón: 406. 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: JOSEPH L REYES DIAZ - URB. METROPOLIS K8 CALLE 13, CAROLINA, PR, 00987. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de junio de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 7 de junio de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC. Demandante Vs. ALEJANDRO VILLALOBOS SOTO Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV11393. Salón: 908. 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: ALEJANDRO
VILLALOBOS SOTO - COND SIERRA DEL MONTE, 120 AVE LA SIERRA EDIF. I APT 9203, SAN JUAN, PR 00926.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. 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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de junio de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 11 de junio de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA SERRANO SOTO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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August 7, 2024
By THE STAR STAFF
Sprinter Gabriella “Gabby” Scott Puig made it to the semifinals of the women’s 400 meters on Tuesday at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and set a national record for the second time at the Stade de France.
“I am very excited. I don’t want to cry,” Scott Puig said in a written statement. “I was much better at the start than yesterday [Monday] and at the end. … I finished very hard today.”
The first-time Olympian crossed the finish line with a time of 50.52 seconds, the second best time in the new repe -
chage round implemented for the Paris Games, to qualify for today’s semifinals. At the start Scott Puig, 27, looked explosive, with improved technique. Her finish was likewise powerful, as if she forgot that 80,000 spectators were watching her.
“I want it to be tomorrow to qualify for the final!” she added.
The German-born athlete improved on the national record she set on Monday of 50.74 seconds in the preliminary round, with which she was able to qualify for the repechage but not directly to the semifinals. Scott Puig had already set a Puerto Rican national mark of 50.97
seconds in 2022.
The Orlando, Florida resident had the second best mark in the repechage, surpassed only by Kendall Ellis of the U.S. with a time of 50.44 seconds. The third best time was recorded by Ella Onojuvwevwo of Nigeria, who finished in 50.59 (.584) seconds.
The top finishers in each repechage series and the two fastest in all the series completed will form the fields in today’s semifinal rounds to be held at 2:45 p.m. Puerto Rico time (8:45 p.m. in Paris). The initial qualifiers were the best three times in the first round, for a total of 16 semifinalists.
Yankees’ Judge is somehow having a better 2024 season than 2022: 4 takeaways
By CHRIS KIRSCHNER / THE ATHLETIC
Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider was so sick of seeing Aaron Judge swing the bat that when Judge came up in the second inning of Saturday’s game, with two outs and no one on base, Schneider did something that no other manager had done in that situation in 52 years: He called for an intentional walk.
“I honestly didn’t feel like seeing him swing. That was kind of it,” Schneider said, chuckling. “He’s in a different category, I think, than anyone else in the league to where he can just flip the script of a game with one swing.”
Not even Barry Bonds, who finished his career with 688 intentional walks, including 120 in 2004, was intentionally walked with two outs and no one on base within the first two innings of a game.
“That’s beyond the Bonds treatment,” New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “Now we’ll call it the Judge treatment.”
It’s hard to believe that Judge is compiling a better season in 2024 than his historic 2022 campaign, but he is. Judge has a higher batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, on-base plus slugging percentage and walk rate and a lower strikeout rate than in 2022, the year he was named the American League’s MVP after hitting 62 home runs.
Judge woke up April 27 with a .674 OPS and just four home runs. He had a .178 batting average and faced constant questions about whether something was wrong. He was facing some poor batted-ball luck; Judge’s advanced metrics were encouraging, and it seemed just a matter of time before he would break out. Judge hit a home run in Milwaukee on April 27, and he hit another one the fol-
ter hitting a home run in the first inning of an Opening Day baseball game between the Yankees and San Francisco Giants at Yankee Stadium in New York, March 30, 2023. It’s hard to believe that Judge is compiling a better season in 2024 than his historic 2022 campaign, but he is. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
lowing day.
Since April 27, Judge has 37 home runs in 84 games. Even with his poor April, Judge is on pace for 59 home runs for the season.
Judge’s MLB-leading 41 home runs are eight more than the 33 from the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani, through Sunday, and nine more than the 32 of the Baltimore Orioles’ Anthony Santander.
Despite his impressive stats, Judge is seeing more pitches in the strike zone than ever. His zone percentage is 49.1%, which is 2.3 percentage points higher than it
was in 2022.
One reason pitchers are having to face Judge more often than they would like is because Juan Soto is hitting in front of him. Through Sunday’s games, Soto had the second-highest on-base percentage in MLB (behind Judge, of course), so many of Judge’s at-bats have come with a runner already on base.
“I think it doesn’t hurt to have greatness in front of you,” Boone said. “The fact that Juan is on base as much as he is, now all of a sudden the pitcher is in the stretch with a runner on base — he’s threatened more often than not.”
The Blue Jays did not care Sunday that Soto was already on base in the fifth inning. They intentionally walked Judge to face Austin Wells, who also walked. Giancarlo Stanton then struck out with the bases loaded to end the inning. More teams may take the Blue Jays’ strategy and decide it’s not worth pitching to Judge no matter the situation.
Judge isn’t waiting, though, to see how teams will play him. He has 16 first-inning home runs this season. He has already tied Babe Ruth with the most first-inning home runs in a single season in franchise history.
“It’s surreal,” Judge said. “Anytime you hear those greats that are all around this building, all around the stadium, it’s almost kind of make-believe, some of the stuff they did. To be mentioned in any type of category in anything with those guys, it’s quite an honor.”
If Judge hits three more first-inning home runs this season, it would be the most in a single season in MLB history, surpassing Alex Rodriguez’s 18 from 2001.
“We’re watching greatness,” Boone said. “You try not to take that for granted, what you’re seeing 99 do.”
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