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Upon learning that the parent company of HMS Ferries has filed for bankruptcy, Carolina District Rep. Ángel Matos García asked the central government on Monday to take over the operation of the ferry system from Ceiba to Vieques and Culebra and from San Juan to Cataño. Hornblower Holdings, the parent company of HMS Ferries, which operates ferry transportation services in Puerto Rico through a public-private partnership agreement, filed for bankruptcy on Feb. 21 and included a plan for reorganization. The parent company has some 105 affiliated firms, including HMS Ferries.
“For the residents of the municipal islands, the ferry service is vital, so the continuity of operations must be guaranteed,” said Matos García, who is the majority leader in the island House of Representatives. “The government should not rest on what a spokesperson for the HMS company says, but should act according to the facts. The parent company has already declared bankruptcy, so operations could end at any time.”
The lawmaker added that the contract awarded to HMS by the Public-Private Partnership Authority (P3A) should be voided.
“My request to Fermín Fontanés, the executive director of the P3 Authority, is that he annul this contract, which must undoubtedly be based on false information,” Matos García said. “It is not acceptable that three years after granting this contract, the company goes bankrupt.”
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia on Monday encouraged Hornblower to give written guarantees to the mayors of the affected towns that their services will not be compromised after filing for a bankruptcy process for restructuring.
Kevin Rabbit, has given assurances to the residents of the city of San Francisco in the state of California that service to the island where the Alcatraz prison was located will not be affected by this restructuring,” Corcino said. “He did the same with the maritime transportation service to and from the island where the Statue of Liberty is located in New York; however, he has said nothing about Vieques. That guarantee is deserved by the residents of this island municipality.”
“The communication with the people of Vieques on the part of HMS Ferries has not been the best and today is another example,” the mayor added. “The bankruptcy process was filed on Wednesday and such a big bankruptcy doesn’t happen out of nowhere. We’re talking about a $1.2 billion bankruptcy. No one informed us of this. Vieques deserves more. We want a guarantee for our people that services will not be affected in any way, because if they can’t [guarantee that], it’s time to evaluate alternatives. What cannot happen is that they leave us in limbo.”
House Minority Leader Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez said meanwhile in a radio report that the bankruptcy of Hornblower, the parent company, is due to a reorganization of its debts and that ferry services will not be affected. He noted that the service has improved under HMS.
P3A Director Fermín Fontanés Gómez also said the bankruptcy filing by Hornblower will not impact the ferry service.
HMS Ferries signed a 23-year contract in September 2021 to operate ferry routes in Puerto Rico. The government agreed to pay $750 million.
“The determination from Hornblower Group does not affect the operation of HMS Ferries Puerto Rico,” Fontanés said. “HMS Ferries will continue operating in Puerto Rico and fulfilling its responsibilities and contractual obligations as agreed upon.”
“The executive director of the Public-Private Partnerships (AAPP) Authority was aware of this request for reorganization of the parent company of HMS Ferries, which is in charge of transportation to Vieques, Culebra and between Cataño and San Juan,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “That reorganization process, that bankruptcy process, has nothing to do with the operations of the parent company of HMS Ferries in terms of maritime transportation. It only has to do with their cruise business, which is a minority share, or is a small portion of their operations. The matrix’s profitable operations are in the area of ocean transportation; it serves the Statue of Liberty, it serves Niagara Falls, it serves Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. In other words, they are very busy facilities, critical in the United States.”
Meanwhile, Vieques Mayor José “Junito” Corcino demanded guarantees that the bankruptcy proceedings would not affect services to and from the offshore island municipality.
“We see how the president of the Hornblower Group,
Hornblower said in the petition that it has $500,000 to $1 billion in assets, but also $1 billion to $10 billion in liabilities.
The island Senate approved by voice vote on Monday the appointment of Nino Correa Filomeno as commissioner of the Bureau for Emergency Management and Disaster Administration (NMEAD).
“Before the consideration of the body, the appointment of Mr. Nino Correa Filomeno as commissioner of the Bureau for Emergency Management and Disaster Administration,” Senate Vice President Marially González Huertas announced in the upper chamber before the vote. “Those senators who are in favor, say yes.”
“Yes,” the senators shouted in unison. “Those who are against say no,” González
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Insurance companies that deny coverage to individuals without any legal justification could face criminal liability under legislation proposed by
Huertas said, followed by silence. “Approved.”
On Feb. 7, the Appointments Committee chaired by Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiago reviewed the appointment of Correa Filomeno, on which it noted that it had a positive report.
Correa Filomeno, despite receiving Honoris Causa doctoral degrees, completed his master’s degree as a requirement for holding the position.
Correa Filomeno has 23 years of experience in the agency and has served for the past three of those years as interim commissioner.
Rep. Jorge Navarro Suárez on Monday.
House Bill 2031 would classify as a felony the practice of insurers of denying coverage to patients without legal or contractual justification.
According to the lawmaker, the purpose of the bill is to penalize fraud through trickery, simulation, plot or any form of deception to deny services to policyholders who are eligible for medical coverage.
“Currently, laws seek to protect citizens against insurance practices and abuses. However, there is a practice that undermines confidence in the health insurance industry,” Navarro Suárez said. “Insurers deny medical or drug coverage to avoid the expense of offering that service. That’s what I call fraud.”
The legislative measure prohibits an insurer from denying or refusing payment for medical coverage without legal justification or without basis in the policy through ruse, simulation, plot, trick or by any
form of deception.
Such an act would be considered fraud against the insured and would be sanctioned with a sentence of imprisonment for a fixed term of two years, or a fine that would not exceed $10,000, according to the bill. Additionally, any person who holds a management, administrative position or decision-making position within the structure of an insurance company that authorizes, consents to, participates in or in any way gets involved in the commission of the crime of fraud against the insured would be held accountable for the crime and subject to the same sanctions established for the insurer.
The legislator added that “there are laws that criminalize fraud of providers or patients against insurers.”
“Likewise, there must be statutes that criminally penalize the criminal conduct of the insurers,” he said.
Airbnb announced on Monday the collection of the room occupancy taxes in Puerto Rico amounting to more than $85 million since the signing of the voluntary collection agreement in 2017.
“We are pleased to be collaborators in Puerto Rico with the voluntary collection of the room tax and also to help Puerto Ricans obtain extra income,” said Carlos Muñoz, director of Public Policy for Airbnb Central America and the Caribbean, in a written
statement. “A year after Airbnb’s participation in the public hearings of the House of Representatives on Bill 1557, Airbnb reiterates its support for an islandwide regulation that allows the orderly growth of short-term accommodations so that more people can earn extra income and thus contribute to the redistribution of tourism in Puerto Rico. Municipalities are also a key player in this orderly growth and in the redistribution of tourism, so Airbnb understands the need for a collection item of the Occupancy Canon that is proposed in Senate Bill 936.”
Muñoz noted that the room tax has been collected in Puerto Rico since 2017, due to a voluntary collection agreement (VCA) reached between the Tourism Company and Airbnb.
In 2014, the first VCAs were signed with San Francisco and Portland, and since then Airbnb has worked with thousands of jurisdictions globally – through agreements or laws – to lighten the administrative burden on local governments and simplify the process of collecting and submitting a number of taxes on behalf of hosts on Airbnb, such as the room tax collection.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia and Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) Executive President
Doriel Pagán Crespo announced on Monday the completion of improvements to the Río Grande sanitary system.
The work involved an approximate investment of $13.8 million from United States Clean Water Revolving Funds and PRASA’s own funds.
“We are back here in the eastern zone to reaffirm my administration’s commitment to our residents of the municipality of Río Grande and surrounding towns. We are here to inaugurate the new Palmer Pumping Station, a comprehensive sanitary infrastructure project for which we broke ground together in 2022,” the governor said. “Communities have been waiting for a long time for this work since the renewal of this sewer system is key to adequately providing that essential service. This project will benefit more than 10,800 people in the municipality of Río Grande and includes a total investment of $13.8 million that has been financed by
Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority Executive President Doriel Pagán Crespo and Gov. Pedro Pierluisi inaugurated the new Palmer Pumping Station in Río Grande on Monday. (Gov. Pedro Pierluisi/Facebook)
the State Revolving Fund and with funds from the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority.”
The project entailed, first, the demolition and removal of the Río Grande Estates Sanitary Sewer Plant, and the construction of a new sanitary sewer pumping station at those facilities. An over 4,600-meter-long pipeline was also installed from that pumping station to the new facilities, in which the old pumping station was eliminated and the New Palmer Pumping Station was built.
The PRASA chief thanked the governor for supporting more than 200 currently active PRASA projects.
Río Grande Mayor Ángel “Bori” González Damudt noted meanwhile that “after years of waiting, we finally inaugurated the treatment plant at Río Grande Estates, which for a long time was not complying with regulations.”
“This initiative marks a crucial milestone in improving the quality of life of our […] citizens,” the mayor said. “The project will not only benefit our residents, but will also have a positive impact on neighboring communities connected to the system through a line that runs from Palmer to Fajardo.”
The General Workers’ Union (UGT by its Spanish initials) announced Monday that despite not having all the required documentation, they are still evaluating the proposals issued by the Financial Oversight and Management Board in order to rule out a declared strike at the Río Piedras Medical Center by employees of the Puerto Rico Medical Services Administration (ASEM by its Spanish acronym).
“The General Workers’ Union wishes to inform our enrollment and the country that we are evaluating the pro-
posal that the Fiscal Control Board [sic] presented to us last Thursday afternoon,” the UGT said in a written statement.
“We have not yet been able to complete the analysis of the proposal submitted, because so far we have not received all the documentation required to be able to finalize it responsibly. The ASEM delegation is still meeting and if we do not receive the documentation we need to conclude our analysis, we will also be letting the enrollment and the country know. As soon as we complete the analysis we will be open to questions from the press about the proposal and our position on it.”
In early February, UGT-affiliated employees at the Puerto
Rico Medical Services Administration (ASEM) approved the collective bargaining agreement and a stipulation on salary increases formulated in meetings held at the Department of Labor & Human Resources.
The result of the vote, held in different assemblies over the course of a week, and in which a total of 695 union members participated, was 679 votes in favor of the agreement reached and 16 votes against.
The agreement, which has to be approved by the oversight board, proposes a salary increase of up to $800, among other benefits.
The Monagas Parents’ Association has made a donation to the Carousel Foundation to expand its equine therapy and hydrotherapy services to patients with autism and other conditions, according to a Monday press release.
“Since the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) appointed us to manage this public facility, we have been committed to improving its condition,” the association said in a written statement. “With private funds from the parents themselves, we invested more than $200,000 in three months to make the corresponding improvements. The contract with the DNER allows us to make quarterly donation contributions by the users of the facility to non-profit entities and we selected the Carousel Foundation for its wonderful work, which helps in the quality of life of so many people.”
The first check to be given to the Carousel Foundation will be in the amount of $6,500.
Currently, the foundation provides weekly services to about 100 people and will soon offer a certification in horse- and nature-assisted therapy, in collaboration with the University of Puerto Rico in Bayamón.
Carousel founder and director Marta Jaraiz expressed her gratitude for the donation.
“This assignment means a lot to us because it will solidify the services we offer at the Monagas equestrian facilities and will help us have the best equine therapy program in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean,” she said.
Among the improvements that have been made to the park are: the paving of the entire park and the police area with private funds; repairs to the horse baths, repairs to the roofs of the horse sheds, remodeling of the cafeteria, creation
of a paddock area, gates for the new competition tracks and the restoration of the Las Palmas track.
Last year, the island’s Economic Activity Index grew 3.3%, the largest increase in five years, said Gov. Pedro Pierluisi, at center, adding that federal and state funds have been strategically invested to effectively promote economic development in important areas such as manufacturing, tourism and the technology sector.
By THE STAR STAFFGov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia participated on Monday in an event hosted by the Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC by its Spanish acronym) at the Pedro Rosselló González Convention Center called “ELEVATE Summit: Business Growth Opportunities/Local and Federal Contracting.”
“The past three years have brought us
recovery, revitalization and economic growth like we haven’t seen in decades,” the governor said in a written statement. “That is Puerto Rico’s new identity. Our economy has grown consistently during this four-year period and we have a positive projection for the next 10 years.”
Pierluisi met with United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce, Don Graves, who has shown his support for the PRopósito strategic framework and the economic dialogue between the federal and commonwealth governments.
Pierluisi said that in 2011, when he was resident commissioner, the DDEC created the Federal Contracting Center, and since then it engages in collaboration so that federal agencies, particularly the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), promote opportunities for local companies to do business with the federal government.
“It is an important market for Puerto Rico, especially because we are an American jurisdiction that can serve the federal government with great cost-effectiveness and expertise,” the governor said. “That represents a huge impact on our economy and continues to be a focus of opportunity for our people. Puerto Rico is now a destination for growth and progress and we are going to encourage our taking advantage of all the opportunities available.”
Last year, the island’s Economic Activity Index grew 3.3%, the largest increase in five years. The governor noted that federal and state funds have been strategically invested to promote economic development, registering records in important areas such as manufacturing, tourism and the technology sector. In fact, he said, manufacturing’s matching indexes are reflecting the highest numbers since 2009, and for 33 consecutive months the sector has seen record growth.
“Without a doubt, the greatest attraction we have is the capacity of our human capital. That is why today we have 124,000 additional jobs and the largest workforce in 16 years, when
[in 2008] there were 500,000 more people in Puerto Rico,” Pierluisi said. “In addition, unemployment is at 5.75, the lowest rate in our history. These are indisputable figures and we know that these successes promote more successes. To that end, the government, and in collaboration with the federal government, is promoting important initiatives that support our companies and entrepreneurs, particularly small and midsize businesses [SMEs] in Puerto Rico, which are the backbone of our economy. Our SMEs have been able to benefit from aid, loans at low interest rates and disaster incentives.”
The SBA, through a $109 million investment from the federal Treasury Department’s State Small Business Credit Initiative Program, supported the capitalization of the Economic Development Bank to promote the development of new small businesses and the expansion of existing businesses, impacting more than 3,000 SMEs in Puerto Rico. Another major program is the Small Business Financing Program, which is part of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s federal disaster grant program, Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery, or CDBG-DR.
“These funds were allocated to assist our SMEs in the purchase of equipment, for operating and hiring expenses, and employee retention,” Pierluisi said. “So far, $125 million in grants has been awarded, impacting nearly 2,800 small businesses in Puerto Rico.”
Municipal Integrated Services Alliance Inc. (AMSI by its Spanish acronym) and the United Retailers Center (CUD) announced on Monday a collaborative agreement for the benefit of small and midsize businesses, as well as CUD partners in the East Central region of the island.
CUD President Lourdes Aponte Rodríguez said in a written statement that “it is very important to be a facilitator and support all the efforts that our entrepreneurs need to grow and continue the development of their companies and services offered.”
AMSI is a nonprofit organization that provides recruitment, employment, and training services for youth, adults, the unemployed, veterans, and Social Security disability beneficiaries.
Through the new alliance, the CUD
will offer its services from AMSI’s location in Caguas, which will allow greater access for its membership to its support programs for SMEs. The services will be offered on an itinerant basis every first and third Friday of the month, from the AMSI facilities in Caguas, which are located on the sixth floor of the Consolidated Medical Plaza on José Gautier Benítez Avenue.
Likewise, CUD members will have access to the diversity of recruitment solutions offered by AMSI, including temporary employment services, salary incentives and direct recruitment and short training through its Training Lyceum.
The official announcement made by the two entities in Caguas included the signing of the collaborative agreement by Aponte Rodríguez; Vicky Cintrón de Azize, AMSI board chairwoman; and AMSI Executive Administrator Dr. Joaquín Santiago Santos. The event also included the participation and support of CUD
partners from the Caguas region, as well as AMSI collaborators.
“With the signing of this innovative alliance, we reaffirm AMSI’s commitment to companies in need of human talent in Puerto Rico, as well as our support for SMEs as generators of economic development in the region,” Santiago Santos said. “With the start of CUD operations at AMSI in Caguas, we also began expanding access to recruitment opportunities and services for companies. We are proud that, through this alliance, AMSI will become the second home of CUD members, after its headquarters in Hato Rey.”
As part of the agreement, various joint coordination events will be held in other regions of Puerto Rico in order to expand access to the offers and programs of the CUD and AMSI. In the same way, calendars and notices will be established on the social networks of the enti-
ties to keep CUD members and AMSI trustees informed about the development of the events and available services.
Congressional leaders have failed to reach a deal on legislation to keep federal funding going past Friday, with Republicans insisting on adding rightwing policy dictates to the spending bills, pushing the government to the brink of a partial shutdown within days.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader, said Sunday that despite “intense discussions” that were continuing among top lawmakers to break the impasse, Republican recalcitrance was raising the prospect of a “disruptive shutdown” at midnight Friday.
“While we had hoped to have legislation ready this weekend that would give ample time for members to review the text, it is clear now that House Republicans need more time to sort themselves out,” Schumer said in a letter to Democratic senators. “With the uncertainty of how the House will pass the appropriations bills and avoid a shutdown this week, I ask all senators to keep their schedules flexible, so we can work to ensure a pointless and harmful lapse in funding doesn’t occur.”
With no sign of a breakthrough, President Joe Biden summoned congressional leaders to the White House on Tuesday to discuss the spending legislation, as well as the $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine and Israel that the Senate passed this month, which Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to take up.
But the more immediate task was to keep government spending from lapsing this week.
Three consecutive times over the past six months, Congress has relied on short-term, stopgap spending bills passed by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers to keep government spending flowing, essentially punting on a longer-term agreement for several weeks at a time. Each time, the Republican speaker — first Kevin McCarthy, then Johnson — has promised hard-right lawmakers that they would try to win more spending cuts and conservative policy conditions on how federal money could be spent during the next round of negotiations.
Now, with patience wearing thin
policy concessions. Johnson told Republicans on Friday during a conference call that they should not expect the inclusion of many of their major policy priorities, although he said he expected to secure a number of more minor victories, according to people familiar with the private discussion who described it on the condition of anonymity. Part of the reason they would have to settle for less, he explained, was that hard-right lawmakers had routinely blocked consideration of spending legislation, sapping the House’s leverage in talks with the Senate.
Instead, members of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus have begun lobbying Johnson to instead pass a spending bill that would impose across-the-board cuts.
among ultraconservatives, pressure is mounting on Johnson, whose members want him to secure major cuts and policy changes that have no chance of enactment with Democrats in control of the Senate and White House. Lawmakers in the House, which has been out of session for the past week, are set to return to Washington on Wednesday, just two days before a Friday deadline to fund military construction, agriculture, transportation and housing programs.
Funding for all other agencies, including the Pentagon, is set to lapse at midnight March 8.
In a statement Sunday, Johnson said he had been laboring to reach a compromise.
“Despite the counterproductive rhetoric in Leader Schumer’s letter, the House has worked nonstop, and is continuing to work in good faith, to reach agreement with the Senate on compromise government funding bills in advance of deadlines,” Johnson said, adding: “This is not a time for petty politics.”
Negotiators have continued to haggle over a series of partisan policy mandates that House Republicans had loaded into their spending bills, such as measures to
restrict abortion access, that mainstream Republicans from competitive districts have refused to support.
Johnson in his statement Sunday accused Senate Democrats of “attempting at this late stage to spend on priorities that are farther left than what their chamber agreed upon.”
Several House Republicans conceded weeks ago that they expected Johnson to have little success winning significant
“If we are not going to secure significant policy changes or even keep spending below the caps adopted by bipartisan majorities less than one year ago, why would we proceed when we could instead pass a yearlong funding resolution that would save Americans $100 billion in year one?” they wrote in a letter to Johnson last week.
They were referring to a provision of the fiscal agreement made by McCarthy and Biden in May that would cut federal spending 1% across the board on April 30 if Congress could not reach a governmentwide spending deal before then.
But senators in both parties are determined to avoid that scenario because the cuts would particularly affect Pentagon spending.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) calls for a permanent ceasefire of the IsraelHamas war, at a news conference held outside of the Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. (Al Drago/The New York Times)
By ANJALI HUYNHTwo days before today’s Michigan Democratic primary, speakers at a rally Sunday in Dearborn, Michigan, urged voters to withhold their support from President Joe Biden over his policy on the war in the Gaza Strip — and said that only Biden and Democrats who support his Israel policies would be to blame if the protest vote helped former President Donald Trump win in November.
“You all know Trump is an existential threat to our democracy,” said one of the speakers, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., “and
President Biden is risking another Trump term over his support for the most right-wing government, most extremist government in the history of Israel.”
Tlaib is the only member of Michigan’s congressional delegation backing an effort encouraging Democrats to protest Biden’s stance on the war in Gaza by voting “uncommitted” in the state’s primary Tuesday. That movement, led by a group called Listen to Michigan, has energized a primary that Biden is expected to win handily, but it has raised concerns that the president could be losing support he needs to win the swing state in the general election in November.
It is unclear how much support the push to vote “uncommitted” has garnered, even as Listen to Michigan has held rallies and visited mosques across the state since it began its efforts this month.
But the event Sunday, which was organized by a group known as the Michigan Task Force for Palestine and drew more than 200 people to an indoor event space in Dearborn, was intended, in part, to show that support for the effort extends beyond Michigan’s large Arab American community. Other speakers at the rally included the Black pastor of a Baptist church in Detroit; a lawyer affiliated with Jewish Voice for Peace, a group of progressive activists; and leaders of a local chapter of the United Automobile Workers, which has endorsed Biden but also backed a cease-fire.
“This is not an Arab issue for President Biden,” said Mayor Abdullah Hammoud of Dearborn, a Democrat who spoke at the rally and is backing the “uncommitted” effort. “It’s not a Muslim issue. He’s got a humanitarian issue on his hands.”
Biden’s allies — including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, who is a co-chair of his reelection campaign — have argued that any vote not cast in support of the president aids Trump, the dominant frontrunner for the Republican nomination. They have highlighted Trump’s past anti-Muslim remarks, in particular his calls to reimpose a travel ban.
Speaking on CNN on Sunday, Whitmer said that she “understood “the pain” that many Arab Americans were feeling, but added that “any vote that’s not cast for Joe Biden supports a second Trump term.” She pointed to Trump’s banning people from
some countries with predominantly Muslim populations from entering the United States when he was president.
Several of the speakers Sunday dismissed such arguments, saying that while they did not want to see Trump reelected, they were determined to push Biden to address their concerns about the Mideast conflict.
“No, I don’t want Trump to win, but I don’t see any other way unless Biden acts,” said Councilwoman Gabriela SantiagoRomero, a Democrat who added that she was “tired of being asked to vote out of fear.”
“We must put fear into the hearts of Democrats,” she said.
Ammar Moussa, a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, said in a statement that Biden “knows the importance of earning the trust of every community” and that the president was “working closely and proudly with leaders in the Muslim, Arab American and Palestinian communities.” He added that Biden had “urged Israel to do everything possible to avoid civilian casualties” and to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.
In addition to Listen to Michigan, Biden is facing opposition from a campaign called Abandon Biden, whose supporters across several states, including Michigan, have pledged not to vote for the president in November no matter what, citing the high death toll in Gaza.
On Sunday, Tlaib criticized her congressional colleagues who have voted to send military aid to Israel. “I have a message for many of them now: Michigan is courageously saying no more,” she said.
And when she called on those in the room to “show up” Tuesday, someone shouted back: “We’re there!”
Aman set himself on fire Sunday afternoon outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. A U.S. Air Force spokesperson, Ann Stefanek, confirmed Sunday night that the man was an active-duty airman.
Officers with the U.S. Secret Service extinguished the fire outside the embassy, in northwestern Washington, around 1 p.m., said Vito Maggiolo, a spokesperson with the city’s fire department. The man was taken to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries and remains in critical condition.
No embassy staff members were injured, and all were accounted for, according to Tal Naim, a spokesperson for the embassy.
The man appeared to have filmed the
protest and livestreamed it on the social media platform Twitch at the time police said they responded to the incident. The New York Times could not confirm who was behind the account that posted the video, but the video featured a man walking toward the Israeli Embassy in Washington.
“I will no longer be complicit in genocide,” a man said in the video, echoing language that opponents of Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip have used to describe the campaign. “I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest.”
Standing in front of the embassy gates, he set his phone down to film dousing himself in a clear liquid from a metal bottle. He then lit himself on fire while yelling “Free Palestine!” until he fell to the ground.
The video showed law enforcement officers approaching him shortly before the fire
caught. One could be heard off-camera saying: “Can I help you, sir?” The officers then scrambled for more than a minute to put out the flames.
The video was removed Sunday afternoon and replaced with a message stating that the channel violated Twitch’s guidelines. It was the only video posted to the account, which had a Palestinian flag as its header image.
In the video, the man was dressed in fatigues, and the name he used matched a LinkedIn profile for an active-duty Air Force officer based in Texas. Authorities have not confirmed the identity of the man.
Police also investigated a suspicious vehicle nearby for explosives, but Sean Hickman, a police spokesperson, said the scene had been cleared by 4 p.m. Officers with the Secret Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had worked with Washington’s
Nikki Haley, fresh off another defeat by former President Donald Trump, brought her sputtering campaign Sunday to Michigan, warning that even if Trump clinches the 2024 Republican nomination he has too much baggage to win in November.
In a rally north of Detroit, just a day after a 20-point loss in South Carolina, her home state, Haley continued to spin her defeat as a troubling sign not for herself but for her opponent, saying that she represented a significant 40% of Republican voters that the incumbent president could not tear away. (The latest results from South Carolina’s primary show her finishing at 39.5% to Trump’s 59.8%.)
“You can’t have a candidate who’s going to win a primary who can’t win a general,” she insisted to nods of approval and applause from hundreds of people packed into a hotel ballroom in Troy, Michigan.
The general election pitch is one that Haley has been making for months — and one that could prove potent in Michigan, a battleground state. But Haley is facing an uphill climb in Michigan, just as she is in the other swing states that she is expected to visit this week ahead of upcoming primary contests.
Trump narrowly lost Michigan to Joe Biden in 2020 after a presidential term alienating independents and suburban women, the segments of the electorate that make up a strong part of Haley’s small but not insignificant base. And
her campaign has counted the state as one of more than a dozen that are crucial to her path to the nomination because they have primaries not limited to registered Republicans.
But the difficulty for Haley in Michigan, which holds its primary today, is similar to that in the early-voting states: She’s running for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, and the base is sticking with him. The strength she has shown with more moderate voters, even Democrats, has not been enough to overcome his significant advantage.
Richard Czuba, an independent pollster in Lansing, Michigan, said the state had a long history of Republican and Democratic voters crossing over in presidential primaries to upend contests and send a message. But he predicted little chance of that for Haley. The results of the state’s Republican primary this year are seemingly such a foregone conclusion, mostly thanks to Trump’s dominance, that his polling firm had even stopped bothering to survey voters, he added.
“There is no race,” he said.
Haley’s campaign only began running its first television advertisements in the state last week, targeting the Detroit area with part of what her staff said was a half-million-dollar buy in the state. Her allied super political action committee reported spending another $500,000 for ads in the Michigan market as of Saturday, according to federal filings.
Haley arrived in the state with little to no momentum. While she has continued to amass
donations — she collected $1 million from grassroots supporters in less than 24 hours after her loss in the South Carolina primary, according to her campaign — Americans for Prosperity Action, the political network created by the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers, announced Sunday that it would no longer be spending in support of her run. Haley is expected to hold more fundraisers while on her cross-country campaign swing this week.
In interviews Sunday, many of Haley’s supporters said they were grateful that she was keeping up the fight. Some were fed up with Trump’s grip on the party and on Michigan Republicans, and they worried that his mercurial nature and slew of legal troubles did not bode well for the future of the nation. None of them wanted a Trump-Biden rematch in November.
“Trump’s in a huge amount of problems just in the courts,” said Denise McDonald, 65, a retired pensions plan manager, “and both he and Biden walk a fine line just by their age.”
Onstage, Haley echoed Biden’s promises during the 2020 presidential election to return normalcy to U.S. politics if elected, saying that she was “talking about the heart and soul of our country.” As she has since the field winnowed to two candidates, from more than a dozen, she continued her sharp attacks on Trump, criticizing him over increasing the national debt, warming up to dictators, promoting an isolationist foreign policy and seeking to influence the Republican National Committee.
“He’s not going to get the 40% by trying
explosive ordnance disposal unit to investigate the incident.
Protests against Israel have become a near-daily occurrence across the country since Israel began its campaign in Gaza after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks that killed at least 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials. International calls for a humanitarian cease-fire have grown in the past months as the humanitarian crisis has deepened. The embassy has been the site of sustained protests against the war in Gaza as the civilian death toll in the devastated enclave continues to climb, with more than 29,000 dead, according to Gaza Health Ministry officials.
Protests have sometimes resulted in arrests but seldom in violence. In December, a protester self-immolated in front of the Israeli consulate in Atlanta in what police said was “likely an extreme act of political protest.”
Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and a Republican presidential candidate, speaks during a campaign event in Troy, Mich., on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
to take over the RNC so that it pays all legal fees,” she said. “He’s not going to get the 40% if he is not willing to change and do something that acknowledges the 40%. And why should the 40% have to take to him?”
Her loss in South Carolina on Saturday was her first ever in the state, where she rose to become its first female governor. Though she outperformed the polls there, drawing just below 40% of the vote, she still did not meet her own benchmark: She did not do better than the 43% support she received in New Hampshire in January. In her election night speech and in a video released Sunday, pledging to keep up the fight, Haley argued the percentages were about the same, casting herself as the voice for the people seeking an alternative to a TrumpBiden rematch.
Polls in the states she is expected to visit this week, including Colorado, Minnesota, North Carolina, Utah and Virginia, show her lagging far behind Trump.
Running a child care business has long been a very challenging math problem: Many providers can barely afford to operate, yet many parents cannot afford to pay more.
During the pandemic, there was temporary relief. The federal government spent $24 billion to keep the industry afloat. Many providers were given thousands of dollars a month, depending on their size, which they used to pay for expenses, the biggest of which was wages.
But that funding, which started in April 2021, expired in September. Five months later, the business is more precarious than ever.
In addition to the end of the monthly checks, providers’ costs have increased along with inflation — for food, supplies and liability and property insurance. Rising wages at food service and retail jobs have made it harder to recruit child care workers, one of the lowest-paying jobs in the country.
A child care center in New York, Feb. 12, 2021. Five months after the expiration of federal funds, running a child care business is more precarious than ever and many parents are struggling to pay tuition, two surveys show. (Naima Green/The New York Times)
And families’ use of child care has changed, making it difficult for providers to maintain the requisite number of workers and collect a stable income. Some parents now use care less consistently because they work from home more often or found alternative arrangements, like having family members or nannies care for children, during the pandemic.
The result is an industry on the brink, new data shows.
In a survey released Sunday by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, more than half of 3,815 child care owners or directors said they were enrolling fewer children than they were licensed for. Mostly it was because of staffing shortages — they said they could not afford to pay workers more because parents could not afford to pay more.
Half the providers said they had increased tuition. Of a broader group of more than 10,000 child care workers
surveyed, 55% said they knew of at least one program in their community that had shut down since the expiration of federal funds.
Many parents are feeling the stress of rising costs and shrinking availability. On average, a recent survey by Care. com found, they spend one-quarter of their income on child care (the Department of Health and Human Services says for child care to be affordable, it should cost no more than 7% of a family’s income). A majority said tuition had increased and wait lists had grown since the funding’s expiration.
Some have tapped their savings or taken more jobs to pay for care. Others have asked family or friends to care for their children, or cut back their work hours to do so.
“As these funds disappear, it’s just pushing programs that were just barely staying together over the edge of unsustainability,” said Elizabeth Ananat, an economist at Barnard College.
a year for large expansions in eligibility for subsidies for low-income families, and Kentucky spent $50 million on grants after federal funds expired.
That is not enough, said Sondra Goldschein, executive director of the political action committee for the Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy, which is spending $40 million to back President Joe Biden and Democratic candidates who support child care. “We want child care to be thought of as permanent infrastructure and have sustained substantial investment in the sector at the federal level,” she said.
Subsidizing child care for most providers, as the government did during the pandemic, or for most families, as the Biden administration was unable to do in its social spending bill, is politically unlikely. Republicans did not support the bill’s family policies, including broadly subsidized child care and universal pre-K.
But there has been support from both parties for other ideas. One is increasing financing for the block grant that helps lowincome families pay for child care. It received an additional $15 billion during the pandemic, but that expires this fall, and before that expansion, it served only 14% of eligible families. Another is giving employers tax breaks or other incentives for helping employees pay for child care.
Policies targeted at low-income families and focused on how child care benefits employers are more likely to get bipartisan agreement, said Patrick Murray, vice president for government affairs at KinderCare, a chain of 2,300 child care centers, who worked on the block grant as a policy adviser for former Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.
This year has been the most challenging in three decades for Rebecca Davis, who runs a child care center in Arkansas from her home in the Little Rock area.
She used to care for children from 6 weeks old until they entered kindergarten, but since the pandemic, turnover has been higher. Taxes are coming due on the pandemic grant money.
The Biden administration has asked Congress for $16 billion for one year of additional funding for child care, and a group of Democratic senators has supported it, though it is unlikely that it would get the Republican approval needed to pass.
In the meantime, some states, including a few led by Republicans, have invested state funds to make up for the loss of federal funds. For example, Vermont will spend $125 million
Yet she can’t raise tuition: “It’s a Catch-22: I would love to be able to give my employees a stipend or an increase on their hourly wages, but I can’t because the cost of everything has went up, and parents just can’t pay.”
After expenses — payroll, utilities, mortgage payments, food and supplies — Davis’ take-home pay is often around $2 an hour.
“You do not make a living doing child care,” she said. “Why do I do it? Because I love making a difference in a child’s life.”
Wall Street’s main indexes were mixed in choppy trade on Monday after a scorching AI-led rally, as investors braced for key inflation data this week which could impact Federal Reserve’s rate cut path.
The release of January’s personal consumption expenditures price index (PCE)- the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge - on Thursday could hinder the recent stocks rally if the data points to persistent price pressures.
“After hotter-than-expected CPI and PPI readings earlier this month, more people may be looking to the PCE to for insight into the reinflation threat, and how it may influence the Fed’s timing of rate cuts,” said Chris Larkin, managing director of trading at E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley.
Traders pushed back bets of the first rate cut to June from May earlier this month after readings on consumer (CPI) and producer (PPI) prices pointed to sticky inflation.
Investors will also watch out for data on durable goods, consumer confidence and manufacturing activity.
A bumper forecast from heavyweight chip designer Nvidia in the previous week added to this year’s artificial intelligence (AI) frenzy, propelling Wall Street to new peaks and overshadowing the gloom due to a likely delayed start to the Fed’s easing cycle.
The S&P 500 has gained for 15 of the past 17 weeks- something which has only happened only once in the last 50 years, in 1989, according to Deutsche Bank.
The S&P 500 (.SPX), opens new tab and the Dow Jones industrials (.DJI), opens new tab both notched all-time highs last week, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq (.IXIC), opens new tab came within a close range of its record intraday peak hit in November 2021.
At 11:26 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI), opens new tab was up 5.11 points, or 0.01%, at 39,136.64, the S&P 500 (.SPX), opens new tab was down 6.40 points, or 0.13%, at 5,082.40, and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC), opens new tab was up 5.21 points, or 0.03%, at 16,002.03.
Megacap growth stocks were mixed in early trading on Monday. Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab rose 1.2% after hitting $2 trillion in market value for the first time on Friday. Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab outperformed peers, rising 4.0%.
Also propping up the Nasdaq was a 5.8% gain in Micron Technology (MU.O), opens new tab as it started mass production of its high-bandwidth memory semiconductors for use in Nvidia’s latest AI chip.
The Philadelphia semiconductor index (.SOX), opens new tab gained 1.1%.
Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new
tab dropped 3.7% after announcing plans to relaunch its AI tool in the next few weeks. It was paused last week after inaccuracies in some historical depictions.
Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway shed 1.2%, erasing early gains on investor worries after the U.S. government warned of a lawsuit against its power company, PacifiCorp.
Domino’s Pizza (DPZ.N), opens new tab jumped
6.1% on surpassing Wall Street expectations for quarterly same-store sales.
Intuitive Machines (LUNR.O), opens new tab slumped 32.0% after the company said its spacecraft had tipped over shortly after touching down on the lunar surface.
Declining issues outnumbered advancers for a 1.40-to-1 ratio on the NYSE. Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 1.37-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded 57 new 52-week highs and one new low, while the Nasdaq recorded 97 new highs and 58 new lows.
Hungary’s parliament voted Monday to accept Sweden as a new member of NATO, sealing a major shift in the balance of power between the West and Russia set off by war in Ukraine.
The vote allowed Sweden, which has long been nonaligned, to clear the final hurdle that had blocked its membership in NATO and held up the expansion of the military alliance.
Hungary’s authoritarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, whose Fidesz party has a large majority in parliament, has maintained cordial relations with President Vladimir Putin of Russia despite the war in Ukraine and had stalled for 19 months on putting Sweden’s NATO membership to a vote in the 199-member legislature.
His decision to finally allow a vote followed a visit to Budapest, the Hungarian capital, on Friday by Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. During the visit, it was announced that Sweden would provide Hungary with four Swedish-made Gripen jets in addition to the 14 its air force already uses, and that the maker of the jets, Saab, would open an artificial intelligence research center in Hungary.
The formal admission of Sweden to NATO still requires some procedural paperwork. Once finalized, it will, along with Finland’s entry last year, give a significant boost to NATO’s military strength in the Baltic Sea and reduce Russia’s ability to dominate the waterway, which controls access to ports in St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad and Ust-Luga, an important transit point for Russian energy exports.
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, NATO SecretaryGeneral Jens Stoltenberg welcomed Hungary’s decision, saying that “Sweden’s membership will make us all stronger and safer.”
Sweden has been providing weapons and other support to Ukraine, so its membership in NATO won’t immediately change Ukraine’s fortunes on the battlefield, but it delivers a grave blow to what Putin declared as one of his principal reasons for his full-scale invasion — keeping NATO away from
rewards. That pattern was on display during not only his footdragging over Sweden’s NATO membership but also his opposition to a European Union financial package for Ukraine worth $54 billion.
Orban relented this month on approving EU aid for Ukraine, a retreat that raised hopes he would quickly order his party to hold a vote in parliament on Sweden. Orban had assured Stoltenberg on Jan. 24 that Hungary would ratify Sweden’s entry “at the first possible opportunity.”
But when opposition legislators called a session of parliament on Feb. 5 to vote on Sweden’s membership, Fidesz members boycotted the session.
Even with Hungary’s acceptance of Sweden into the alliance, the long, drawn-out process to get to this point is likely to leave a bitter aftertaste. And the belated assent to the expansion of NATO, to which Hungary makes only a modest contribution, will not quickly change Orban’s reputation as a troublemaker more interested in cozying up to Putin, with whom he held an amicable meeting in October during a visit to China, than in supporting the alliance.
Russia’s borders.
The Hungarian parliament endorsed Sweden’s admission to the alliance by a large majority, with only six members from a far-right party, Our Homeland Movement, voting against. The Fidesz party and mainstream opposition groups all voted in favor.
The unusual display of consensus faltered when the opposition called for a minute of silence in memory of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who Russian authorities say died on Feb. 16 in an Arctic prison camp. Legislators opposed to Orban all stood to honor Navalny, but the prime minister and his Fidesz allies remained seated.
Orban thanked his party members for “keeping their cool in the Navalny affair” and, explaining Fidesz’s decision to stay seated, said, “Chauvinists do not deserve respect.” Claiming that Navalny had derided Georgians during Russia’s invasion of their country in 2008, Orban said he should not be honored.
“Otherwise, may he rest in peace,” Orban told parliament.
The overwhelming vote in favor of NATO’s expansion followed the visit to Budapest by Kristersson that Orban said had repaired strained relations between the countries and made it possible for Hungary to accept Sweden as a member of NATO.
Hungary’s long delay in accepting Sweden puzzled and exasperated the United States and other NATO members, raising questions about Hungary’s reliability as a member of an alliance committed to the principle of collective defense.
Hungary, which had repeatedly promised not to be the last holdout, became the final obstacle to Swedish entry into NATO after the Turkish parliament voted Jan. 23 to approve membership. All other NATO members approved Sweden’s bid in 2022, just months after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Orban has a long record of using his country’s veto power over key decisions in Europe to try to extract money or other
Hungary, whose air force depends heavily on Gripen jets from Sweden, has offered multiple and often shifting explanations for the long delay in voting on Swedish membership. It has cited scheduling hiccups, criticism in Sweden of democratic backsliding by Orban’s increasingly authoritarian government, teaching materials used in Swedish schools and comments made by Kristersson years before he took office.
Orban’s tough stance on Sweden, as well as his initial blocking of the Ukraine aid package, reflected his penchant for trying to establish his small country — Hungary has only 10 million people and accounts for just 1% of economic output in the EU — as a force to be reckoned with on the European political stage.
That approach has infuriated fellow European leaders, but rocking the boat and defying mainstream opinion on both NATO and the EU has increased Orban’s standing with Europe’s far right and in segments of the far left, both of which are often partial to Putin. They see Orban as a courageous scourge of conventional wisdom.
Orban has long been positioning himself as the contrarian leader of a Pan-European movement that defends national sovereignty and traditional values against what he disparages as out-of-touch “woke globalists” in Brussels, in the headquarters of both NATO and the EU, and in Washington under the Biden administration.
Sweden, like most members of the EU, has long accused Hungary of undermining democracy and violating minority rights. But after a right-leaning government came to power in Stockholm last year, it retreated from criticism of Hungarian domestic policy.
Admission to NATO requires the unanimous support of the alliance’s members. Finland was admitted to the alliance last April, but the strategic defeat that move dealt to Putin had been undermined by the delays in approving Sweden.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson of Sweden at a bilateral meeting with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 5, 2023. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)Some 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia’s full-scale invasion began two years ago, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday, acknowledging for the first time in the war a concrete figure for Ukraine’s toll.
“This is a big loss for us,” Zelenskyy said at a news conference in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. But he declined to disclose the number of wounded or missing, saying that Russia could use the information to gauge the number of Ukraine’s active forces.
Zelenskyy’s tally could not be independently verified. It differs sharply from estimates by U.S. officials, who last summer put the losses much higher, saying that close to 70,000 Ukrainians had been killed and 100,000 to 120,000 had been wounded. Russia’s military casualties, the officials said, were about twice as high.
By revealing Ukraine’s losses, Zelenskyy said he wanted to counter Russian propaganda and other estimates that have placed Ukrainian casualties at a much higher level. He said Russia had wrongly claimed that Ukraine had lost 60,000 soldiers.
Zelenskyy’s unusual acknowledgment came as his country’s armed forces have been on the defensive, running low on manpower and ammunition along most of the 600mile front line, with Russian troops pressing attacks in the east and south. A week ago, Moscow captured the city of Avdiivka, a Ukrainian stronghold in the east, and its troops have been slowly pushing westward in recent days, trying to build on their momentum in the area.
Ukraine’s top general, Oleksandr Syrsky, said he had ordered his troops to withdraw from Avdiivka to “preserve the lives and health of the soldiers,” which he described as the army’s “highest value.”
But soldiers on the ground said the retreat should have been ordered earlier because Ukrainian forces were outgunned by Russian artillery and Russian air superiority in the region.
Zelenskyy’s announcement came at the end of a weekend marking the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion. On Saturday, he hosted the leaders of Canada, Belgium and Italy, as well as the head of the European Union, Ursula von der Leyen, among others who traveled to Kyiv in a show of solidarity.
On Sunday, his ministers and other senior officials attended a daylong conference to present their plans for the future as Ukraine moves into a third year of full-scale war with Russia.
Zelenskyy said he was optimistic about continued U.S. support despite Congress’ delay in passing a package that includes $61 billion in military assistance for Ukraine.
He also said he had noticed a shift in attitudes in Europe in recent months as U.S. assistance has been held up and as Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown no sign in slowing his attacks.
“I think they understood Putin will continue this war,” he said of the European leaders. “And that’s why a lot of
them began to increase supplies of artillery.”
Overall, Zelenskyy said, Ukraine is in a much better position strategically than when Russia invaded the country on Feb. 24, 2022.
“The first year was about survival,” he said. “The second year, after the winter, it was about resilience,” he went on. “Our soldiers have demonstrated that. The West became united, and the introduction of military equipment, that was very important for us.
“It was a shocking moment on Feb. 24,” he said. “Now it is a very strong moment of unity.”
Yet Ukraine’s shortage of weaponry in the face of nearly five months of Russia’s offensive hung over the whole day like the elephant in the room. The increase in European deliveries of artillery shells will not be enough to replace U.S. supplies if they fail to materialize because of Congress’ inaction, Zelenskyy said.
“We will be weaker on the battlefield,” he said. “We have the weapons that we have. We will search for others.”
He said at another point that Ukraine had only ever received one-third of the promised materiel. And four brigades that had been assigned to take part in last summer’s counteroffensive were still sitting on their heels because they had not been provided with promised equipment, he said.
In the face of wavering Western support, the Ukrainians emphasized their self-reliance and innovation.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov opened a day of presentations by government ministers on Ukraine’s military production of drones and hybrid weapons systems. Ukraine is now in a singular position to test and modify
weapons systems rapidly during the war, in close collaboration with Western partners, he said.
The head of the office of the president, Andriy Yermak, described Ukraine’s aim to build international support for a peace plan that Zelenskyy has proposed and to gradually erode support for Russia around the world. A planned conference in Switzerland in coming months could pave the way for a follow-up meeting to which Russia could be invited, he said.
The president, a comedian and television presenter by profession, appeared relaxed and positive, turning serious when talking of civilian suffering and military casualties. But he was more lighthearted and would break into English at times while speaking directly to journalists.
When asked by one reporter whether he would answer a call from Putin to his cellphone, Zelenskyy quipped back, “I don’t have a cellphone,” drawing laughs in the conference room.
The president was also asked about a poll showing that an increasing share of Canadians — now 25% — thought Ottawa was giving too much money to Ukraine. “So 70% said you have to give more,” he answered.
The only time Zelenskyy appeared uncomfortable was when he was asked about his removal this month of the popular army commander, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, and the appointment of Syrsky as his replacement. The president declined to talk about an “internal matter” and added that further decisions would wait until the new command had fully reviewed the situation on the battlefield and in the armed forces.
Refugees that fled fighting in Sudan queue to board a barge in Renk, South Sudan, on Aug. 27, 2023. Rape, killing, torture: A stark report offers new evidence of horrific abuses carried out by Sudan’s military and its enemy, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. (Joao Silva/The New York Times)
By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE and DECLAN WALSHBombs that struck houses, markets and bus stations across Sudan, often killing dozens of civilians at once. Ethnic rampages, accompanied by rape and looting, that killed thousands in the western region of Darfur.
And a video clip, verified by U.N. officials, that shows Sudanese soldiers parading through the streets of a major city, triumphantly brandishing the decapitated heads of students who were killed on the basis of their ethnicity.
The horrors of Sudan’s spiraling civil war are laid out in graphic detail in a new U.N. report that draws on photos, videos and interviews with over 300 victims and witnesses, to present the stark human toll from 10 months of fighting.
Many probable war crimes have occurred as part of the grinding battle for control of Sudan, one of the largest countries in Africa, which started with clashes between the country’s military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in April 2023, the report by the U.N.’s human rights body found.
The fight started as a power struggle between the leaders of the military, which dominated Sudan for decades, and the RSF, which comes mainly from Darfur. But it quickly escalated into a nationwide conflict with cata-
strophic consequences for Sudan’s 46 million people.
Both sides have committed indiscriminate attacks on civilians. Women and children have been raped or gang raped. Recruitment of child soldiers is common.
Foreign powers, including the United Arab Emirates and Iran, have stepped in to back one side or the other, sending sophisticated weapons including armed drones, to the battlefield, which accelerated the tempo of fighting and increased the already high risks to civilians. U.S.- and Saudi-led diplomatic efforts to broker even a modest cease-fire have come to nothing.
And the brutality has become more open. The students who were decapitated in the city of El Obeid, in central Sudan, were apparently butchered on the assumption that they backed the Rapid Support Forces, a Nairobi, Kenya-based spokesperson for the U. N. human rights office, Seif Manango, told reporters.
Sudan’s military said that it was investigating the video, denouncing its content as “shocking” and promising to bring any perpetrators to account.
Despite the growing evidence of atrocities — and warnings from aid groups that parts of Sudan are heading toward famine — international attention to the conflict has been limited at a time when much of the focus is on the wars in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip.
A U.N. appeal for $2.7 billion in humanitarian funding for Sudan has yielded less than 4% of those funds — $97 million — forcing the United Nations to dig into its emergency reserve to meet the most urgent food and shelter needs.
Sudan’s war has forced 8 million people from their homes, creating one of the world’s largest displacement crises. Nearly 1.5 million refugees have fled into neighboring countries, especially South Sudan, Chad and Egypt. About 80% of hospitals in conflict-affected areas have closed, the World Health Organization said.
Yet even as the weak die of starvation, attacks on aid convoys have obstructed aid deliveries, and impunity reigns. Despite accounts of “death, suffering and despair” since the war in Sudan began, there is “no end in sight” to the abuses of civilians, the U.N. human rights chief, Volker Turk, said in a statement.
The U.N. report found that both sides have detained civilians, including women and children, many of whom were later tortured. But it said the great majority of sexual assaults appeared to have been carried out by the RSF and affiliated militias, and cited one incident in which a victim was detained and gang raped over 35 days by RSF forces.
The report said that other victims were killed trying to prevent the fighters from assaulting their family members, and that members of ethnic African groups were especially targeted by RSF-linked fighters from ethnic Arab backgrounds.
At least 14,600 people have been killed in the conflict, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, a nonprofit that collects data about conflicts, although the actual toll is almost certainly much higher because of the difficulty of collecting data in a war zone. In a report submitted to the U.N. Security Council last month, obtained by The New York Times, U.N. investigators estimated that as many as 15,000 people were killed during just one assault by the RSF and allied forces on the Darfuri city of Geneina in November.
In response to the RSF advance, the Sudanese military has dropped crude barrel bombs on homes and camps in the Darfur and Kordofan regions, frequently killing dozens of civilians at once.
The evidence of widespread atrocities comes as the course of the war has taken several dramatic turns in recent months, amid growing evidence of foreign interference.
The UAE has been covertly supplying the RSF with armed drones, surface-to-air missiles and other sophisticated weapons since last summer, according to U.N. investigators and
diplomats, helping the Sudanese group capture a string of major cities in Darfur, as well as the key city of Wad Madani, south of Khartoum, in December.
Shock at the fall of Wad Madani prompted the Sudanese military to go back on the offensive, launching a major drive to recapture from the RSF parts of Omdurman, a city across the Nile from Khartoum.
In that battle, the army has reclaimed some territory, its first major victories since the war started, although it has had to turn to Iran to obtain armed drones to boost its campaign — a potential source of tension with the military’s other backer, Egypt, whose military support appears to have waned in recent months.
The army effort in Omdurman was also boosted by the arrival of Darfuri rebel groups that once fought Sudan’s army but now are allied with the force in fighting against the RSF, their mutual enemy.
Space for peace talks appears to be shrinking. U.S.- and Saudi-led efforts to broker even a modest cease-fire through talks in the Saudi city of Jeddah proved futile.
The U.S. ambassador to Sudan, John Godfrey, who helped lead those talks, said Friday that he was stepping down. No replacement has been announced amid reports that the State Department will soon name a special envoy for Sudan.
On Friday, a State Department spokesperson condemned a decision by the Sudanese military to prohibit relief aid from crossing into RSF-controlled territory from Chad, as well as the RSF looting of aid deliveries and harassment of humanitarian workers.
The leader of the RSF, Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, appeared to be taking a victory lap in late December and early January, when he toured six African nations aboard an Emirati jet, shaking hands with powerful leaders, including South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Kenyan President William Ruto.
In recent weeks, representatives from the warring parties have held back-channel talks in the Persian Gulf state of Bahrain, with support from the UAE and Egypt, according to diplomats and news reports. But those talks have, so far, yielded little.
A senior Sudanese general, Shams al-Din Kabbashi, suggested this month that peace efforts had reached an impasse.
While Sudan’s military “carries an olive branch next to the gun,” it would not engage in political talks until “the military file is closed,” he said in a speech. “We will fight, we will fight, we will fight.”
If you’re alarmed by the rise of Christian nationalism, the single worst thing you can do is define it too broadly. If you define it too broadly, then you’re telling millions of ordinary churchgoing citizens that the importation of their religious values into the public square somehow places them in the same camp or on the same side as actual Christian supremacists, the illiberal authoritarians who want to remake America in their own fundamentalist image.
Enter the new feature-length documentary “God and Country,” which examines the role of Christian nationalism in American politics. Even before I knew that Rob Reiner (the director of “A Few Good Men”) was involved in the project, I agreed to be interviewed by the filmmakers for two key reasons: First, I wanted to make sure that I could offer a sensible definition of Christian nationalism, one that didn’t cast aspersions on Christians simply for bringing their values into the public square. And second, I wanted to outline exactly why actual Christian nationalism presents a real danger to our Constitution.
To understand what Christian nationalism is, it’s important to understand what it is not. It is not Christian nationalism if a person’s political values are shaped by the individual’s Christian faith. In fact, many of America’s most important social movements have been infused with Christian theology and Christian activism. Many of our nation’s abolitionists thundered their condemnations of slavery from Northern pulpits. The Civil
Rights Movement wasn’t exclusively Christian by any means, but it was pervasively Christian — Martin Luther King Jr. was, of course, a Baptist minister.
Anyone may disagree with Christian arguments around civil rights, immigration, abortion, religious liberty or any other point of political conflict. Christians disagree with one another on these topics all the time, but it is no more illegitimate or dangerous for a believer to bring her worldview into a public debate than it is for a secular person to bring his own secular moral reasoning into politics. In fact, I have learned from faiths other than my own, and our public square would be impoverished without access to the thoughts and ideas of Americans of faith.
The problem with Christian nationalism isn’t with Christian participation in politics but rather the belief that there should be Christian primacy in politics and law. It can manifest itself through ideology, identity and emotion. And if it were to take hold, it would both upend our Constitution and fracture our society.
Sociologists Samuel Perry and Andrew Whitehead define Christian nationalism as a “cultural framework that blurs distinctions between Christian identity and American identity, viewing the two as closely related and seeking to enhance and preserve their union.” Author and pastor Matthew McCullough defines Christian nationalism as “an understanding of American identity and significance held by Christians wherein the nation is a central actor in the world-historical purposes of the Christian God.” Both definitions are excellent, but what does ideological Christian nationalism look like in practice?
In 2022, a coalition of right-wing writers and leaders published a document called “National Conservatism: A Statement of Principles.” Its section on God and public religion states: “Where a Christian majority exists, public life should be rooted in Christianity and its moral vision, which should be honored by the state and other institutions both public and private.” That’s an extraordinary — and ominous — ideological statement, one that would immediately relegate non-Christians to second-class status. It’s utterly contrary to the First Amendment and would impose a form of compelled deference to Christianity on both religious minorities and the nonreligious.
But Christian nationalism isn’t just rooted in ideology; it’s also deeply rooted in identity, the belief that Christians should rule. This is the heart of the Seven Mountain Mandate, a dominionist movement emerging from American Pentecostalism that is, put bluntly, Christian identity politics on steroids. Paula White, Donald Trump’s closest spiritual adviser, is an adherent, and so is the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Tom Parker, who wrote a concurring opinion in the court’s recent IVF decision. The movement holds that Christians are called to rule seven key societal institutions: the family, the church, education, the media, the arts, business and the government.
One doesn’t have to go all the way into Seven Mountain theology, though, to find examples of Christian identity politics. The use of Christianity as an unofficial but necessary qualifi-
cation for office is a routine part of politics in the most churchgoing parts of America. Moreover, one of the common redAmerica arguments for Trump is that he might not be devout himself, but he’ll place lots of Christians in government.
But what is Christian identity politics but another form of Christian supremacy? How does Christian identity alone make any person a better candidate for office? After all, many of the worst actors in American politics are professed believers. Scandal and corruption are so pervasive in the church that when a person says, “I’m a Christian,” it tells me almost nothing about their wisdom or virtue.
Finally, we can’t forget the intense emotion of Christian nationalism. Most believers don’t follow ideological and theological arguments particularly closely. In the words of historian Thomas Kidd, “Actual Christian nationalism is more a visceral reaction than a rationally chosen stance.” It is tied, in other words, to a visceral sense that the fate of the church is closely tied to the outcome of any given political race.
That fervor can make believers gullible and potentially even dangerous. Its good-versus-evil dynamic can make Christians believe that their political opponents are capable of anything, including stealing an election. It artificially raises the stakes of elections to the point where a loss becomes an unthinkable catastrophe, with the fates of both church and state hanging in the balance. As we saw on Jan. 6, 2021, this belief invites violent action.
Committed Christian nationalists represent only 10% of the population, according to a 2023 PRRI/Brookings Christian Nationalism Survey. But even members of a minority that small can gain outsize power when they fold themselves into the larger Christian electorate, casting themselves as “just like you.” That’s why we cannot conflate Christian activism with Christian nationalism. One can welcome Christian participation in the public square while resisting domination, from any faith or creed.
President Donald Trump and pastor Paula White during an event with evangelical leaders at the White House in Washington, Aug. 27, 2018. Trump has known White, a Florida televangelist, since 2002. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
POR CYBERNEWS
JUAN – En las pasadas semanas, trascendió la urgencia para que el Gobierno federal incluyera a Puerto Rico en los proyectos presentados en el Congreso federal para asignarle fondos al Programa de Descuento para Internet (ACP, por sus siglas en inglés). Ante esto, el secretario auxiliar de la Gobernación
para la Innovación, Información, Datos y Tecnología, Enrique Völckers-Nin, acompañó al gobernador Pedro Pierluisi a la Capital federal, para, entre otros asuntos, presentar datos y estadísticas importantes, dado que Puerto Rico se convirtió en la jurisdicción con mejor y mayor uso del programa, trascendió el lunes.
“Hemos visitado ya a diferentes representantes y senadores para hablar del progreso que Puerto Rico ha tenido con los diferentes esfuerzos del programa de banda ancha. A su vez, les presentamos la necesidad de que Puerto Rico sea incluido en la extensión del ACP, para así evitar que las 663,000 familias que se benefician del programa, se queden sin su ayuda”, explicó Völckers-Nin en declaraciones escritas.
Las reuniones que se realizaron incluyen a la chairwoman de la Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones (FCC, por sus siglas en inglés), Jessica Rossenwor-
cel, personal de las oficinas de los senadores Chuck Schumer, Ben Ray Luján y Ted Cruz Aide, miembros de las oficinas de los representantes Brett Guthrie y Andy Barr, así como con miembros del Consejo Económico Nacional de la Casa Blanca y la Oficina de Asuntos Intergubernamentales.
Según se informó, actualmente en Puerto Rico hay 663,000 familias beneficiándose del programa, de unas 995,000 que son elegibles. El promedio de los demás estados está en 45 por ciento, mientras que en Puerto Rico sobrepasa el 68 por ciento. Esto significa que 2 de cada 3 familias se benefician de este subsidio.
“Además de presentar nuestra urgencia, nos hicimos disponibles para colaborar en el análisis de datos y proveer detalles para mejorar los proyectos y los beneficios de conectividad para todos los ciudadanos americanos”, añadió el secretario auxiliar.
SANJUAN – El secretario del Departamento de Justicia, Domingo Emanuelli Hernández, informó el lunes, que la Fiscalía de San Juan presentó cargos contra Belmari Ramos Rivera, maestra de profesión, imputada de abusar sexualmente de un estudiante, menor de edad. La fiscal Jaslene Marie López, adscrita a la Unidad Especializada de Violencia Doméstica y Delitos Sexuales,
presentó dos cargos contra el imputada que incluyen agresión sexual en virtud del artículo 130 (a) del Código Penal de Puerto Rico.
Conforme a la investigación de la agente Johara Robinson Calvo, adscrita a la División de Delitos Sexuales y Maltrato a Menores del Negociado de la Policía de Puerto Rico, entre los meses de junio a noviembre de 2022, la maestra de inglés, de 29 años, supuestamente comenzó a realizar acercamientos al menor para soste-
ner relaciones sexuales con este. Al advenir en conocimiento, el personal de la institución educativa alertó a las autoridades.
El juez Juan León González, del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan, encontró causa para arresto por los cargos imputados por la Fiscalía y le fijó una fianza global de 100,000 dólares.
La vista preliminar fue señalada para el próximo lunes, 11 de marzo.
Presidente de la Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico fue exaltado al Salón de la Fama de CROEM ALUMNIPOR EL STAR STAFF
MAYAGÜEZ – El presidente de la Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Dr. Rafael Ramírez Rivera resultó ser la figura principal en la ceremonia de los Premios CROEM ALUMNI al ser exaltado al Salón de la Fama de esa organización que agrupa a más de 12 mil egresados del Centro Residencial de Oportunidades Educativas de Mayagüez, conocida por sus siglas CROEM. El Centro está clasificado como una escuela especializada ubicada en Mayagüez, fundada por el Dr. Ramon Claudio Tirado en 1968, ha logrado importantes reconocimientos por la calidad de enseñanza con énfasis en ciencias, matemáticas y tecnología.
“Estas facilidades están diseñadas para atender a los estudiantes de alto rendimiento académico, los cuáles participan
de una experiencia residencial las 24 horas del día. Los egresados de CROEM que recibieron reconocimiento en la ceremonia de entrega de los Premios CROEM ALUMNI son: el científico y catedrático de la Universidad de Puerto Rico Dr. Samuel P. Hernández, graduado de CROEM en el 1969; el medico radiólogo Dr. Germán López Belén graduado de CROEM en el 1972; al catedrático y servidor
público Jorge Luis Liquet Lugo, graduado de CROEM en el 1977; la directora de Finanzas de la Empresa Campofresco Puerto Rico, dueños de la marca Jugos Lotus, Lydia Burgos Pagán graduado de CROEM en el 1979; la catedrática de la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Puerto Rico y experta en audiología Dra. Soami Santiago de Snyder, graduada de CROEM en 1979; la jefa del área de patología de cáncer de seno del Puerto Rico Pathology la Dra. Elba Torres Matundan graduada de CROEM en el 1985; la técnica en los equipos de tráfico aéreo para la Administración Federal de Aviación ingeniera Magdamaris Díaz Esteves graduada de CROEM en el 1985 y el expresidente del Carnaval Mayagüezano, Legislador Municipal, el líder cívico de Mayagüez Orlando Muniz Bonet quien ha sido voluntario en la organización por más de 25 años”, señaló Wilson Nazario, director ejecutivo de CROEM ALUMNI y egresado de la institución en 1971.
Felicia “Snoop” Pearson is running a few minutes late to a joint interview alongside her writing partner Ed Burns, so Burns fills the time with a helpful story about one of the few other instances of her truancy.
More than two decades ago, actor Michael K. Williams had asked Pearson to accompany him onto the set of “The Wire” after she brazenly introduced herself to him at a Baltimore nightclub.
Burns, who with David Simon cocreated the landmark show that explored institutional failures, admired her distinct tattoos and gravelly Baltimore drawl. Williams and some of the actors vouched for Pearson as an authentic resource who would give the show additional credibility.
Burns had a spot on the show for her, he promised, if she limited any illicit activity and showed up the next week.
The day Pearson was to appear on camera, Burns said, he received a frantic phone call. “I didn’t know the car was stolen,” Pearson hurriedly began.
Through some deciphering, Burns discovered that Pearson had visited New York with friends for Pride Week. During the journey, they noticed a cop car’s flashing lights and pulled over. The driver of the car had no idea the vehicle he had purchased was stolen. Police searched Pearson, discovered a pocketknife and took her into custody. She did not make call time.
Burns reassured her that he would cast her again.
“Two weeks later, she was there,” he said. “And she was there on time, if not before, every time after.”
The investment kick-started Pearson’s reign as one of television’s most harrowing characters, a dedicated female street soldier in a drug dealing crew also called Snoop who was equal parts detached and calculating.
To form this character, Pearson reflected on the harsh realities of her east Baltimore upbringing, conjuring a fictionalized version of herself who horror writer Stephen King described as “perhaps the most terrifying female villain to ever appear in a television series.”
Burns, whom she affectionately
a bully over the head with a bottle.
The altercations continued, culminating when Pearson was 14. Then, she killed 15-year-old Okia Toomer, who Pearson said had come after her with a baseball bat in a crowd. Pearson was convicted of second-degree murder and served nearly seven years at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup, Maryland.
After her release, Pearson tried straightening out her life. She earned her GED and landed a job crafting car bumpers only to be fired, she says, when her employer learned of her felony conviction.
Soon after, Pearson found herself on the set of the “The Wire,” more out of curiosity — some of her homeboys had been talking about a show filmed around the corner from her grandmother’s house — than any fanciful hopes of becoming the next Cicely Tyson.
tingly approached Burns about working with her to adapt the book; Burns told her he had been waiting for her to ask. “I was like, ‘This could have been my first stop,’” Pearson said.
Working together would take time and be exhausting, Burns cautioned. He knew of Pearson’s affinity for gangster films, but knew he would need to prod her for stories on her childhood.
“Sometimes it was emotional,” Pearson said. “Sometimes, it just flowed out because I’m used to telling people how I feel.”
The pair exchanged ideas and scripts throughout much of the pandemic. Burns purchased Pearson a laptop and taught her how to use the popular screenwriting software Final Draft. Pearson bought Burns an iPhone and tutored him on communicating more quickly.
calls “Pops,” became her confidante. The relationship outlasted the show, which aired its final episode in 2008.
Recently, the pair wrote a limitedseries television show, “A.K.A. Snoop,” based on Pearson’s life that explores the environment Pearson endured growing up in Baltimore. It explores the brutality of growing up in a poor, racist society, “in a way that you only glimpse in other shows,” Burns said. “It’s all focused on this one child and her journey, and what evolves around her and what it takes for her to become what she became in order to survive.”
They plan to shop the show in spring amid a challenging environment, as the era of Peak TV draws to a close and studios greenlight fewer scripted projects.
The series would showcase some pivotal moments in Pearson’s early life, starting with her being born three months premature to a crack-addicted mother. Later there’s Pearson at 4 years old, decked out in a new dress and waiting to meet the absentee mother who quickly locks her in a closet and strips off her clothes to sell in order to score drugs. By third grade, the impish Pearson smashes
Yet Pearson ended up at the center of some of the show’s most indelible moments. Burns wrote one such scene specifically for Pearson: the season-four episode that opens with her character visiting a hardware store to purchase a nail gun. As a store employee goes over the technical details of the store’s best offering, it slowly dawns on him that the savvy customer with a haunting mix of curiosity and humor about firepower might not be in the construction business.
When Snoop pays him in cash, with a healthy tip, the employee protests. “You earned that bump like a [expletive], man,” she replies before toting the nail gun out of the store.
Pearson has been trying to tell her own story since those appearances, publishing in 2007 a memoir, “Grace After Midnight,” written with David Ritz, and later paying a screenwriting service for what she deemed to be a subpar retelling. Reviewing the script, Burns bluntly told her she had been ripped off.
She and Burns never lost touch after “The Wire” ended, but though Pearson sometimes sought out Burns’ advice, she didn’t always follow his earliest warning to stay out of trouble. In 2011, Pearson was arrested on drug charges and she received a suspended seven-year prison term.
During the pandemic, she hesita-
Since “The Wire,” Pearson has appeared in Spike Lee’s films “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus” and “Chi-Raq,” the longrunning reality show “Love & Hip Hop: New York,” and the recent Mark Wahlberg vehicle “The Family Plan.” She lives in New York now and while she admits the search for new roles can run cold, her acting career is more than she could have dreamed of as a 20-something with no experience. Pearson never achieved the levels of fame of some former castmates like Idris Elba and Michael B. Jordan, who became box office stars, or the late Williams, who worked steadily across film and television.
Pearson describes Williams, who died in 2021 of a drug overdose, as her protector. His death still affects her. She said she recently became emotional watching him on TV in the 2016 “Ghostbusters” reboot.
“Sometimes, you go crazy, but you not crazy,” Pearson said. “You hurting.”
Burns, who has collaborated with Simon on various shows since “The Wire,” said he wanted to offer Pearson the same break that Williams did all those years ago. But this time, she’s not an ensemble player. She’s the center.
“I come from Baltimore, so it ain’t no pressure at all because it’s my life story,” Pearson said. “Lord have mercy, it’s going to have you crying, laughing. All the emotions that you ever felt in your body or in this world.”
Peter Anthony Morgan, the lead singer of the reggae band Morgan Heritage, a Grammy-winning group that was formed by children of singer Denroy Morgan and came to be known for its varied influences and tight vocal harmonies, died Sunday.
He was 46, The Associated Press reported.
Morgan’s family confirmed his death in a statement on the band’s social media platforms. The statement did not mention his age or provide a cause of death.
Morgan, known as “Peetah,” started Morgan Heritage with seven of his siblings in 1994. The band later became a quintet.
For some early albums, including “Protect Us Jah” (1997) and “Don’t Haffi Dread” (1999), Morgan Heritage worked with Bobby Digital, one of Jamaica’s most influential producers. Before a show at New York City’s Irving Plaza in 1999, a New York Times music critic wrote that the band “holds on to the 1970s reggae traditions of harmony singing and thoughtful messages.”
But Morgan Heritage was more than a throwback to an older era of reggae. AllMu-
sic.com described its sound as a blend of “elements of roots reggae, lovers rock, soul, R&B, calypso, gospel, dub, and on occasion, funk and dancehall.”
Several Morgan Heritage albums had deep runs on the Billboard reggae charts. One of them, “Strictly Roots” won for best reggae album of the year at the 2015 Grammy Awards. The band’s album “Avrakedabra” was up for the same award two years later, but lost out to “Stony Hill” by Damian
Marley, a son of Bob Marley. Information about Morgan’s survivors was not immediately available. His family’s statement described him as a husband, father, son and brother.
Peter Anthony Morgan was one of more than two dozen children of Denroy Morgan, a reggae star who was born in Jamaica and died in 2022. Peter Morgan and some of his siblings were educated in Springfield, Massachusetts, where their
grandmother lived, the Hartford Courant newspaper reported in 1999. Their father was living in New York at the time.
“We’d go to school during the week, then on Friday night come to New York and rehearse with my father all weekend, come back up on Monday in time for school,” Peter Morgan’s brother Mojo told the Courant.
Morgan Heritage began touring in the early 1990s and released its first album, “Miracle,” on MCA Records in 1994, according to VP Records, a reggae label that released several of the band’s other albums.
Their latest album, “The Homeland,” released in 2023, highlighted reggae’s African roots and featured collaborations with musicians from Jamaica and Africa. The project happened after the band did a show in Kenya in 2015 and began spending time there and in Ghana, and realized how connected Jamaica remained to Africa, Peter Morgan told Kaboom Magazine. He said he hoped the album, delayed by the pandemic, would burnish the band’s legacy.
“The body of work, the catalog — you want to be remembered as some of the best music that ever was created throughout the years,” he said, adding he hoped the music would “inspire generations to come.”
There’s simply no stopping “Oppenheimer.”
On Sunday night, the Producers Guild of America gave its top film award to Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic about the father of the atomic bomb, completing a clean sweep of major industry prizes that suggests “Oppenheimer” will cruise to a best-picture victory at the Oscars next month.
“We’ve never won this before,” Nolan noted in his acceptance speech, though the PGA had previously nominated his films “Dunkirk,” “Inception” and “The Dark Knight.” Nolan, who produced the film with Emma Thomas, his wife, and Charles Roven, continued, “Every time we found ourselves invited into this room, we felt such support for whatever leaps we’ve taken or whatever risks we’ve taken from a group of people
who understand how difficult it is to get anything made.”
The PGA Awards are often considered a dry run for the Oscars’ best picture race since the guild shares significant member overlap with the academy and uses the same preferential ballot to pick its winner. (This year the PGA nominees matched exactly the Oscar best-picture list.) Since 2009, when both groups expanded the number of best-film nominees from five, the PGA winner has repeated at the Oscars all but three times.
Can “Oppenheimer” be beat? Only one film has ever taken top prizes from the producers, directors and actors guilds, as “Oppenheimer” has done, and still lost the best-picture Oscar, “Apollo 13” (1995). Nolan’s film is far better situated than that one was with two acting wins possible for stars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. So the question now isn’t whether “Oppen-
heimer” will triumph at the Oscars, it’s how many statuettes it will earn before taking the top prize.
Elsewhere at the PGA Awards, which were held at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood, the documentary prize went to “American Symphony,” while “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” was named the best animated film. The top TV prizes went to season-long sweepers “Succession” (best episodic drama), “The Bear” (best episodic comedy) and “Beef” (best limited series).
Here is the complete list of winners: FILM
Feature Film
“Oppenheimer”
Animated Feature
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Documentary
“American Symphony” TELEVISION
Episodic Drama
“Succession”
Episodic Comedy
“The Bear”
Limited or Anthology Series
“Beef”
Television Movie or Streamed Movie
“Black Mirror: Beyond the Sea”
Nonfiction Television
“Welcome to Wrexham”
Live, Variety, Sketch, Stand-up or Talk Show
“Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” Game or Competition Show
“RuPaul’s Drag Race”
Sports Program
“Beckham”
Children’s Program
“Sesame Street”
Short-Form Program
“Succession: Controlling the Narrative”
NEW MEDIA
Innovation Award
“Body of Mine”
Maya Vadiveloo spends most weekdays studying food. As a dietitian and associate professor of nutrition at the University of Rhode Island, she pores over large data sets to help people make healthier decisions at the grocery store.
But at night, when she gets home from work, perfect nutrition is not top of mind.
“I obviously spend quite a bit of time thinking about food,” she said, but as a single parent of an 8-year-old daughter, she tries to model balance and pleasure rather than perfection and rigidity.
Here are seven tips she shared for maintaining that balance, and for eating well when you don’t have a lot of time.
Make veggies your ‘lazy’ snack.
Vadiveloo always keeps carrots, cucumber slices or celery sticks on hand for a quick snack. That helps her meet her goal of eating at least five servings of fruits and vegetables per day, and it means the easiest choice is a healthy one.
“It’s amazing how satisfied I can be by just having a bag of baby carrots at my desk,” she said.
Focus on the perimeter of the grocery store.
Most supermarkets place fresh, whole foods such as fruits and vegetables, dairy products, meat and fish on the outside edges, with processed and packaged foods in the center aisles.
Vadiveloo spends the most time in the produce section, comparing prices and selecting in-season fruits and vegetables to have on hand for smoothies, lunches, snacks and dinner sides. She rounds that out with a stop at the freezer case, where she picks up a few versatile and budget-friendly favorites such as frozen broccoli, green beans, edamame, corn and berries.
Read the nutrition labels on packaged foods.
Vadiveloo tends to buy the same kinds of yogurt, tofu and whole-wheat bread each week. But when she’s picking up an unfamiliar brand, she scans the nutrition labels.
With breads and breakfast cereals, for example, she looks for those that list a whole grain as the first ingredient and have at least 3 grams of fiber and less than 5 grams of sugar per serving. She tries to stay below the same sugar level when buying flavored yogurt for her daughter — and she often chooses unsweetened yogurt and adds her own honey and vanilla at home.
For canned soups and jarred sauces, which can be quite high in salt, she chooses those that are lower in sodium.
Get creative with smoothies.
Smoothies aren’t just for breakfast, and they’re not just about fruit. They can be a satisfying meal with protein, healthy fats, vitamins and minerals. And unlike juices, they include all the fiber found in the fruits and vegetables that you toss into the blender.
One of Vadiveloo’s favorite lunches is a smoothie made with frozen banana and mango, fresh spinach or kale, kefir, almond or peanut butter, chia seeds, rolled oats, and milk or almond milk. It’s quick, delicious and incorporates all of the food groups.
Explore your food cravings.
“I obviously spend quite a bit of time thinking about food,” said Maya Vadiveloo, a dietitian and associate professor of nutrition at the University of Rhode Island. But as a single parent of an 8-year-old daughter, she tries to model balance and pleasure rather than perfection and rigidity. (Sarah Mafféïs/The New York Times)
When she finds herself wanting a treat, Vadiveloo takes a moment to ask herself what exactly she’s hankering for in that moment. Is she genuinely hungry? If the answer is yes, she starts with a nourishing snack such as trail mix, yogurt, a piece of fruit or baby carrots.
If she’s still craving something more, she asks herself: Do I want something sweet, salty or cold? She has found that identifying the specific craving and fulfilling it is more effective than trying to stave it off or substituting something else that isn’t quite what she wanted.
Meal prep on the weekend.
The weekend is when she has time to slowly simmer large batches of her favorite comfort foods: chicken stock from leftover bones, tomato sauce, chili, vegetable soup.
Cooking stock from scratch means it’ll have less sodium and more flavor than packaged broth or bouillon cubes. And Vadiveloo freezes her stock, sauces and soups into smaller portions that can be used in the weeks or months ahead.
A big pot of beans, seasoned just the way she likes them, can also be a quick and nutritious foundation for meals in the coming week: tacos one day, a burrito bowl the next.
Don’t deprive yourself of foods you love.
Vadiveloo is a self-described “connoisseur” of soft pretzels — studded with salt and dipped in gooey melted cheese — which she’ll sometimes order as a main dish when she’s out. “It’s not a balanced meal,” she said, but it’s something she enjoys occasionally without a smidgen of guilt.
Depriving yourself of favorite foods can backfire, re-
search suggests, because it can make you crave them more, leading to overeating.
“Sometimes by merely allowing something, it makes it easier to adhere to a healthier pattern,” she said.
On a recent Thursday morning in Queens, travelers streamed through the exterior doors of La Guardia Airport’s Terminal C. Some were bleary-eyed — most hefted briefcases — as they checked bags and made their way to the security screening lines.
It was business as usual, until some approached a line that was almost empty. One by one, they walked to a kiosk with an iPad affixed to it and had their photos taken, as a security officer stood by. Within seconds, each passenger’s image was matched to a photo from a government database, and the traveler was ushered past security into the deeper maze of the airport. No physical ID or boarding pass required.
Some travelers, despite previously opting into the program, still proffered identification, only for the officer to wave it away.
This passenger screening using facial recognition software and made available to select travelers at La Guardia by Delta Air Lines and the Transportation Security Administration, is just one example of how biometric technology, which uses an individual’s unique physical identifiers, like their face or their fingerprints, promises to transform the way we fly.
This year could be the “tipping point” for widespread biometrics use in air travel, said Henry Harteveldt, a travel industry analyst for Atmosphere Research. Time-consuming airport rituals like security screening, leaving your luggage at bag drop and even boarding a plane may soon only require your face, “helping to reduce waiting times and stress for travelers,” Harteveldt said.
In the United States, major airlines have increasingly invested in facial recognition technology as have government agencies in charge of aviation security. Overseas, a growing number of international airports are installing biometrics-enabled electronic gates and self-service kiosks at immigration and customs.
The technology’s adoption could mean enhanced security and faster processing for passengers, experts say. But it also raises concerns over privacy and ethics.
Dr. Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado who studies the ethics of artificial intelligence and digital identity, said many questions have emerged about the use of biometrics at airports: How are the systems being trained and evaluated? Would opting out be considered a red flag? What if your documents don’t match your current appearance?
“I’m sure many people feel powerless to stop the trajectory,” Scheuerman said.
In the US, bullish about the technology
The TSA, with more than 50,000 officers at nearly 430 airports in the United States, is the main federal agency ensuring the safety of the hundreds of millions of passengers who fly each year. Travelers who are determined to be “low-risk” can apply for TSA’s PreCheck program, which offers expedited security screening at more than 200 domestic airports. PreCheck, which requires an in-person appointment to show documents and give fingerprints, and biometric verification by Clear, a pri-
les and Anchorage, Alaska. A machine will scan the traveler’s ID, match it to a photo, and then scan the printed bag tags. The new system, designed to move guests through the bag tagging and dropping process in less than five minutes (compared to around eight minutes now), will be in Portland in May.
Charu Jain, the airline’s senior vice president of innovation and merchandising, said that it felt like the right moment for Alaska because of improved technology and increasing passenger familiarity with facial recognition.
At the borders
The fastest growing use of facial recognition software at U.S. airports so far has been in security measures for entering and exiting the United States.
The growth stems from a 2001 congressional mandate, in the wake of 9/11, requiring the implementation of a system that would allow all travelers arriving and departing the United States to be identified using biometric technology.
vate screening company, have helped to reduce the wait time for screening, but air travelers still must occasionally stand in long queues to get to their gates.
The TSA has experimented with facial recognition technology since 2019. Screening verification currently offered at Denver and Los Angeles International Airports and some 30 other airports starts when a photo is taken of the traveler. Then facial recognition software is used to match the image to a physical scan of a license or passport. The photo is deleted shortly afterward, according to the agency. This process, which passengers can opt out of, will be available at some 400 more airports in the coming years, the agency said.Melissa Conley, a TSA executive director overseeing checkpoint technologies, said biometric technology is better than human agents at matching faces rapidly and accurately.
“People are not good at matching faces. It’s just known,” Conley said. “Machines don’t get tired.”
The process still requires passengers to show their IDs. But the program being tried by Delta, called Delta Digital ID, changes that.
With Delta Digital ID, PreCheck travelers can use their faces in lieu of boarding passes and ID at both bag drop and security at La Guardia and four other airports, including John F. Kennedy International Airport, also in New York City’s Queens borough, and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Other airlines have begun similar experiments for PreCheck travelers: Those flying on American Airlines can use their faces to get through PreCheck screening at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and also to enter the airline’s lounge at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. United Airlines allows PreCheck travelers to use their faces at bag drop counters at Chicago O’Hare International Airport; the airline is scheduled to bring this program to Los Angeles International Airport in March.
And Alaska Airlines plans to spend $2.5 billion over the next three years in upgrades, including new bag drop machines, in Seattle, Portland, Oregon, San Francisco, Los Ange-
Overseen by the Customs and Border Protection agency, the biometric system for those entering the United States is in place, and scanned 113 million entries at airports last year. For those leaving the country, the system is available at 49 airports, with the CBP aiming to cover all airports with international departures by 2026.
Biometric entry is mandatory for foreign nationals. But biometric exit is currently optional for these travelers, while CBP is making the system fully operational. At any border, the biometric process is optional for U.S. citizens, who can instead request a manual ID check.
Diane Sabatino, acting executive assistant commissioner for field operations at CBP, said that the system aims to improve security, but she acknowledged rising privacy concerns. Images of U.S. citizens taken during the process are deleted within 12 hours, she said, but photos of foreign nationals are stored for up to 75 years.
“We are not scanning the crowd looking for people,” she said. “It’s certainly a privacy issue. We are never going to ask them to sacrifice privacy for convenience.”
Concerns over government surveillance
Biometrics use has already seeped into daily life. People unlock their phones with their faces. Shoppers can pay for groceries with their palms at Whole Foods.
But critics believe that the technology’s convenience fails to outweigh a high potential for abuse — from unfettered surveillance to unintended effects like perpetuating racial and gender discrimination.
Cody Venzke, senior policy counsel on privacy and technology at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the government had not yet shown a demonstrated need for facial recognition technology at airports and worried about a “nuclear scenario.”
The ACLU supports a congressional bill, introduced last November, called the Traveler Privacy Protection Act. Listing concerns over security and racial discrimination, the bill would halt the TSA’s ongoing facial recognition program, and require congressional authorization for the agency to resume it.
Conley, of the TSA, said a stop in the agency’s biometrics efforts would “take us back years.”
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ESTASEN, AND THE LEGAL CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THEM
Defendants
Civil No. 16-02772 (ADC) COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGES AND OTHER COLLATERAL. NOTICE OF SALES.
TO: DEFENDANTS AND GENERAL PUBLIC
On October 14, 2020, the Court entered Judgment by Consent in favor of plaintiff, Lab Products Realty and Management, LLC (“Lab Products”) and against defendants, Jaguar Limited Partnership, S.E.; Jaime Iván del Valle Cruz, Aida Virginia Torres Estasen and the conjugal partnership composed between them (hereinafter, collectively, the “Defendants”). As of July
31, 2020, Defendants owe the amount of $1,624,146.87, in
with
As
in connection with the Loan II (as defined in the Judgment by Consent) itemized as follows: Principal $906,473.11. Interest $341,653.09. Late Fees $18,094.20. Default Interest $71,963.89. Legal Expenses $100,000.00. Total: $1,438,184.29 Pursuant to the Judgment, the Order of Execution of Judgment, and the Writ of Execution of Judgment, the undersigned appointed Special Master was ordered to sell, at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check, without appraisement or right to redemption, to the highest bidder, at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue,
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Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at any other place designated by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the Plaintiff, the following properties: A. PROPERTY 20,685: URBAN: Lot with an area of one thousand six hundred forty-four (1.644.00) square meters, located in the Santurce South Ward of the Municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. A one-story concrete warehouse building with concrete roof is located on the lot measuring 47.45 meters on its North side bordering the south edge of the official alignment of the Las Palmas Avenue. Boundaries: NORTH, with the southern edge of the official alignment of the Las Palmas Avenue, State Road #35 (formerly Rossy Avenue) measurements up to the intersection with the East edge of the official alignment of Roberto H. Todd Avenue (State Road #2). Following said line the building describes in its Northeastern corner an arch that extends in a Southern direction, following the Eastern edge of Roberto H. Todd Avenue (currently State Road #2) with which it adjoins the building described, on its West side which [is] its front at 25.45 meters, measures from the intersection to the South edge of the official alignment of the Las Palmas Avenue, on the South with Progreso Street, on the East with the new parcel “F” of Misceláneas Wholesale. Inc. Property number twenty thousand six hundred eighty-five (20,685), recorded at page two hundred eighty-three (283) of tome three hundred twentyeight (328) of Santurce South, Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section First of San Juan. URBANA: Con una cabida de MIL SEISCIENTOS CUARENTA Y CUATRO METROS CUADRADOS (1,644.00 m/c). Edificio almacén de hormigón con techo del mismo material de una sola planta ubicado en el Barrio de Santurce Sur, del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, el edificio mide cuarenta y siete punto cuarenta y cinco metros cuadrados (47.45 m/c) por su lado NORTE, en lindes con la orilla Sur de la alineación oficial de la Avenida Las Palmas (Carretera Estatal número treinta y cinco (35) antes Avenida Rossy) medidas hasta la intersección con la orilla ESTE, de la alineación oficial de la Avenida Roberto H. Todd (Carretera Estatal número dos (2). Siguiendo dicha línea el edificio describe en su esquina NOROESTE, un arco que se prolonga en dirección SUR, siguiendo la orilla ESTE, de la Ave da Roberto H. Todd (Actualmente carretera número dos) con la cual colinda el edificio descrito, por su lado OESTE, que es su frente en veinti-
cinco punto cuarenta y cinco metros (25.45m) medidos desde la intersección con la orilla Sur de la alineación oficial de la Avenida Las Palmas; por el SUR, con la Calle Progreso; por el ESTE, con la nueva parcela
“F” de misceláneas Wholesales, Inc. Finca número 20,685, inscrita al folio 283 del tomo 328 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de San Juan.
Physical Address: #961 Roberto H. Todd Ave., Santurce, San Juan, PR Property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Free of Charges. By itself:
MORTGAGE: in guarantee of note in favor of Westernbank Puerto Rico, or to its order, in the principal amount of $1,900,000.00 responding for $1,400,000.00, with a yearly interest rate of 10.99%, due on presentation, as per deed no. 233, executed in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, on March 8, 2004, before Notary Public Adrián J. Hilera Torres, recorded at page 93 of volume 377 of Santurce Sur, property #20,685, 3rd inscription. MORTGAGE MODIFI-
CATION: The object of this modification is the Mortgage for $1,900,000.00, which arises from the 3rd inscription, as per deed #14, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 11, 2005, before Notary Public Francisco Biaggi Landrón, recorded at page 93 of volume 377 of Santurce Sur, Property #20,685, 4th inscription. COM-
PLAINT ANNOTATION: The subject of this entry is the Mortgage in favor of Westernbank de Puerto Rico, for the sum of $1,900,000.00, modified to $1,400,000.00, which arises from registration #3. Plaintiff: Triangle Cayman Assets Company 2, LLC; Defendant: Jaguar Limited Partnership, Amount Owed $1,400,000.00, by way of principal plus interest, as claimed by the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, in Civil Case #3:16-CV02772-ADC, on October 5, 2016, and recorded in volume Karibe, annotation A, dated June 15, 2018. B. PROPERTY
20,681: URBAN: Lot at the South Section of Santurce of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with an area of seven hundred seventy-six point zero, nine, five, nine (776.0959) square meters. Bordering on the NORTH, with lot of Luis de la Cruz y Santiago, that is, the principal property from which it was segregated, today Palma Street; on the SOUTH, with Progreso Street; on the EAST, with Figueroa Street; and on the WEST, with lands of parcel “F” of the Puerto Rico Ports Authority and Misceláneas Wholesales. A one-story warehouse building with mezzanine is located thereon for commercial use,
built of steel beams and concrete blocks with the following boundaries: on the NORTH, fifty-eight inches (58”), or its equivalent, seventeen point six hundred seventy-eight (17.678) meters; on the SOUTH, sixtythree feet eight (63’8”), or its equivalent nineteen point four hundred six (19.406) meters; on the EAST, at fifty-eight feet (58’), or its equivalent, seventeen point six hundred seventyeight (17.678) meters; and on the WEST, at sixty feet one inch (60’1”), or its equivalent, eighteen point three hundred thirteen (18.313) meters. For an area, construction area of three thousand five hundred eightyeight point nine (3,588.9) square feet, or its equivalent, three hundred thirty-three point seven hundred fifty-three (333.753) square meters. Property number twenty thousand six hundred eighty-one (20,681), recorded at page two hundred sixty-three (263) of tome three hundred twenty-eight (328) of Santurce South, Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section First of San Juan. Physical Address: #851 Roberto H. Todd Ave., Santurce, San Juan, PR. Property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Free of Charges. By itself: MORTGAGE: in guarantee of note in favor of Westernbank Puerto Rico, or to its order, in the principal amount of $1,000,000.00 responding this property for $600,000.00, with a yearly interest rate of 5.99% or the result of adding 1% prime rate, according to the established by the time to time by Citibank, N.A. in the City of New York, whichever is the greatest, until presentation or paid in full, if there is a delay interest will be added at a two percent (2%), due on presentation, as per deed no. 363, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 12, 2005, before Notary Public Juan Carlos Ortega Torres, recorded at page 202 of volume 391, of Santurce Sur property #20,681, 3rd inscription. COMPLAINT ANNOTA-
TION: The Mortgage in favor of Westernbank Puerto Rico is the object of this annotation, in the amount of $1,000,000.00, that arises from 3rd inscription.
Plaintiff: Triangle Cayman Asset Company 2 LLC; Defendant: Jaguar Limited Partnership, Amount Due $600,000.00, recorded on volume Karibe of Santurce Sur, Property #20,681, annotation A, dated June 15, 2018. URBANA: Solar en la Sección Sur de Santurce de la Ciudad de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área de setecientos setenta y seis punto cero, nueve, cinco, nueve (776.0959) metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, con el solar de Luis de la Cruz y Santiago, o sea, la finca principal de
la cual fue segregada, hoy Calle Palma; por el SUR, con la Calle Progreso; por el ESTE, con la Calle Figueroa; y por el OESTE, con terrenos de la Parcela “F” de la Autoridad de los Puertos de Puerto Rico y Misceláneas Wholesales. Enclava en dicho solar un edificio almacén de una sola planta con mezzannine para uso comercial, construido de vigas de acero y bloques de hormigón con las siguientes colindancias: por el NORTE cincuenta y ocho pulgadas (58”), o su equivalente, diecisiete punto seiscientos setenta y ocho (17.678) metros; por el SUR, sesenta y tres pies ocho pulgadas (63’8”), o su equivalente diecinueve punto cuatrocientos seis (19.406) metros; por el ESTE, en cincuenta y ocho pies (58’), o su equivalente, diecisiete punto seiscientos setenta y ocho (17.678) metros; y por el OESTE, en sesenta pies una pulgada (60’ 1”), o su equivalente, dieciocho punto trescientos trece (18.313) metros. Para una cabida, área de construcción de tres mil quinientos ochenta y ocho punto nueve (3,588.9) pies cuadrados, o su equivalente, trescientos treinta y tres punto setecientos cincuenta y tres (333.753) metros cuadrados. Finca número 20,681, inscrita al folio 63 del tomo 328 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de San Juan. C. PROPERTY
20,679 URBAN: Lot in the South Section of Santurce of the City of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with an area of five hundred fifty-five point zero, six, five, five (555.0655) square meters. It borders on the NORTH, bordering the South edge of the official alignment of Insular Road Number Thirty-five (35) called Rossy Avenue, today Palma Street; on the SOUTH, with Progreso Street; on the EAST, with the new property grouped in deed number Three (3) belonging to Enrique Pujals Ramírez; and on the WEST, with lands belonging to Bavaria Motors Services, Inc. and lot “E” of the Ports Authority. A onestory concrete warehouse building with a concrete roof is located thereon, measuring fifteen point seventy-five (15.75) meters of front on the North; at thirteen (13.00) meters on the South at twenty-one point ninety (21.90) meters on the West, and at twenty-two point thirty-five (22.35) meters on the East. With a surface area of three hundred thirty-seven point twenty-eight (337.28) square meters. Property number twenty thousand six hundred seventy-nine (20,679), recorded at page two hundred fifty-two (252) of tome three hundred twenty-eight (328) of Santurce South, Registry of
Property of Puerto Rico, Section First of San Juan. URBANA: Solar en la Sección Sur de Santurce de la Ciudad de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área de quinientos cincuenta y cinco punto cero, seis, cinco, cinco (555.0655) metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en lindes por la orilla Sur de la alineación oficial de la Carretera Insular Número Treinta y Cinco (35) denominada Avenida Rossy, hoy Calle Palma; por el SUR con la Calle Progreso; por el ESTE con la nueva finca agrupada en la escritura número Tres (3) perteneciente a Enrique Pujals Ramírez; y por el OESTE con terrenos pertenecientes a Bavaria Motors Services, Inc. y el lote “E” de la Autoridad de los Puertos. Enclava un edificio almacén de concreto de techo del mismo material de una sola planta que mide quince punto setenta y cinco (15.75) metros de frente por el Norte; en trece (13.00) metros por el SUR, en veintiuno punto noventa (21.90) metros por el Oeste y en veintidós punto treinta y cinco (22.35) metros por el Este. Con una cabida superficial de trescientos treinta y siete punto veintiocho (337.28) metros cuadrados. Finca número 20,679, inscrita al folio 252 del tomo 328 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de San Juan. Physical Address: #851 Roberto H. Todd Ave., Santurce, San Juan, PR. Property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Free of Charges. By itself: MORTGAGE: in guarantee of note in favor of Westernbank Puerto Rico, or to its order, in the principal amount of $1,000,000.00 this property responds for $400,000.00, with a yearly interest rate of 5.99% or the result of adding 1% prime rate, according to the established by the time to time by Citibank, N.A. in the City of New York, whichever is the greatest, until presentation or paid in full, if there is a delay interest will be added at a two percent (2%), due on presentation, as per deed No. 363, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 12, 2005, before Notary Public Juan Carlos Ortega Torres, recorded at page 65 of volume 391, of Santurce Sur, property #20,679, 3rd inscription. COMPLAINT ANNOTATION: The Mortgage in favor of Westernbank Puerto Rico is the object of this annotation, in the amount of $1,000,000.00 that arises from 3rd inscription. Plaintiff: Triangle Cayman Asset Company 2 LLC; Defendant: Jaguar Limited Partnership, Amount Due $400,000.00, recorded at volume Karibe, annotation A, dated June 15, 2018. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with
the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect. It being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The liens executed are over the properties, and for the purpose of the first judicial sales the minimum bid amount is as follows: Property Number 20,685 The amount of $1,400,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $933,333.33 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $700,000.00.
Property Number 20,681The amount of $600,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $400,000.00 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $300,000.00. Property Number 20,679 The amount of $400,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $266,666.67 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $200,000.00. Said sales to be conducted by the appointed Special Master are subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the properties may be executed and delivered after the judicial sales. Upon confirmation of the sales, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. THEREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special
Master pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment, the Order of Execution of Judgment, and the Writ of Execution of Judgment, on the 3rd day of April, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. for Property Number 20,685; at 10:45 a.m. for Property Number 20,681; at 11:00 a.m. for Property Number 20,679, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder the properties described herein, the proceeds of said sales to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sales set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the second judicial sales of the properties described in this Notice will be held on the 10th day of April, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. for Property Number 20,685; at 10:45 a.m. for Property Number 20,681; at 11:00 a.m. for Property Number 20,679, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Should the second judicial sales set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the third judicial sales of the properties described in this Notice will be held on the 17th day of April, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. for Property Number 20,685; at 10:45 a.m. for Property Number 20,681; at 11:00 a.m. for Property Number 20,679, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. The records of the captioned case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Clerk’s Office of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150, Federal Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 29th day of January, 2024. Aguedo De La Torres, Appointed Special Master.
DOMINIO. EDICTO. El Estado
Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, a todo el que tenga derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito en la Petición de Expediente de Dominio, a las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción solicitada, así como los colindantes, causahabientes o herederos y en general a toda persona que desee oponerse. Por la presente se le notifica que comparezca, si creyera que le conviene, a este Honorable Tribunal, dentro de veinte (20) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, el cual se publicará por tres (3) veces y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por el peticionario para adquirir el dominio de la siguiente propiedad: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno sita en el Barrio Santo Domingo del término municipal de Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, dedicado a pasto, con un área superficial de Mil Trescientos Noventa y Seis punto Tres Mil Quinientos
Sesenta Metros Cuadrados
(1,396.3560 m.c.). Colinda por el Norte, con Sucesión Milagros
Toucet; por el Sur, con terrenos de la Sucesión Eduardo Castellar y terrenos de Ivonne Hernández Castellar; por el Este, con terrenos de la Sucesión Ramiro Cruz, terrenos de la Sucesión Guiche Ruiz y Calle Muñoz Rivera; y por el Oeste, con terrenos de Noel Castellar. Enclava una edificación dedicada a vivienda. Debe notificar con copia de sus alegaciones a la representación legal de los promoventes, Lcdo. Joseph Braceo Santiago, P.O. Box 608, Peñuelas, Puerto Rico 006240608, Teléfono 787-836-3020.
Dado en Yauco en Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico a 6 de febrero de 2024. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria Regional.
Delia Aponte Velázquez, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL INC.
Demandante Vs.
SUCESION JAIME BOU
CRESPO T/C/C JAIME BOU COMPUESTA
POR EDITH BOU
HERNANDEZ, MILWIDA BOU HERNANDEZ, JUAN BOU; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION HILDA HERNANDEZ
HERNANDEZ T/C/C HILDA HERNANDEZ
T/C/C HILDA HDEZ HDEZ
COMPUESTA POR EDITH
BOU HERNANDEZ, MILWIDA BOU HERNANDEZ, MARISEL MALDONADO SAMORA, ALEXIS MALDONADO SAMORA; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION ALEXIS MALDONADO
HERNANDEZ COMPUESTA POR MARISEL MALDONADO SAMORA, ALEXIS MALDONADO
SAMORA; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2023CV02183.
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
DEMANDADA, AL (A
LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
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 Bayamón, 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 Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 12 DE MARZO 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: Parcela de terreno en la Urbanización Residencial Cerromonte, situada en el Barrio Pueblo del término Municipal de Corozal Puerto Rico, marcado con el numero veinte (20) del Bloque B, con un área de trescientos metros cuadrados con quince centímetros (300.15 m.c.) en lindes por el NORTE, en trece punto cero cinco (13.05) metros, con Calle número once (11) del Bloque B; por el ESTE, en veintitrés (23) metros, con el solar numero diecinueve (19) del Bloque B;
y por el OESTE, en veintitrés (23) metros, con el solar numero veintiuno (21) del Bloque B. Enclava una casa de cemento diseñada para una familia.” Inscrita al folio 109 del tomo 140 de Corozal, finca 7,231BIS, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe, finca 7,231BIS de Corozal, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas, inscripción 6ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. CERRO MONTE, B-20 CALLE 2, COROZAL, PUERTO RICO 00783. 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: $168,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 7 de octubre de 2080. 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 $168,000.00, 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 Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 19 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $112,000.00, 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 $84,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 26 DE MARZO 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 $74,552.80 por concepto
de principal, más la suma de $30,447.04 en intereses acumulados al 10 de julio de 2023 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.331% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $9,067.19 en seguro hipotecario; $2,713.41 de seguro; $1,100.00 de tasaciones; $520.00 de inspecciones; $3,545.00 en adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $16,800.00, 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de enero de 2024. Frances Torres Contreras, Alguacil Regional. Maribel Lanzar Velázquez, Alguacil Placa #735.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC.
Demandante V. HILDEGARDIS MUÑIZ
MEJIAS; MILENA RAMOS RODRÍGUEZ
Demandadas
CIVIL NUM.: ABCI2014-01220
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Esteban Atiles Feliciano, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de
Aguadilla, notifico a los demandados, público en general y personas con algún interés, que cumpliré con un Mandamiento librado por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe, el 17 de enero de 2024, para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada el 16 de abril de 2015, la cual fue notificada y archivada en autos el 27 de abril de 2015. En dicha Sentencia se condena a la parte demandada a satisfacer la suma de $122,671.31 adeudada al 1 de mayo de 2014, más las costas, gastos, honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. Conforme a lo anterior, venderé en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto al bien inmueble que ubica en 414 Road, Km 2.5 Interior, Cruces WD, Aguada, Puerto Rico que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno sito en el Barrio Cruces del término municipal de Aguada, con una cabida superficial de 537.753 metros cuadrados, identificado como predio número 6. En lindes por el NORTE, con Juan Cardona; por el SUR, con Carretera Municipal; por el ESTE, con predio número 5 y por el OESTE, con predio número 7. Inscrito al folio 104 del tomo 250 de Aguadilla, finca número #13,606 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Aguadilla. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de $113,380.76. De declararse la subasta desierta, y de celebrarse una segunda subasta, el tipo mínimo será dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, el cual asciende a $75,587.17. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subasta el cual asciende a $56,690.38. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el bien subastado a opción del demandante. Art. 221 de la Ley Hipotecaria, 30 L.P.R.A. sec. 2721. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 3 DE ABRIL DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, en el área del sótano al final del pasillo, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $113,380.76. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE ABRIL DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo
para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $75,587.17, 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 17 DE ABRIL DE 2024 A LAS
10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $56,690.38, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. 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. 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 Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la 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. Librado en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 7 de febrero de 2024. Esteban Atiles Feliciano, ALGUACIL Confidencial #984, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADILLA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs.
SUCESION DE JOSE
EDWIN AVILES RIVERA, compuesta por su viuda
NILDA MEDINA LEGRAND y sus hijos EDWIN AVILES MEDINA, EDUARDO AVILES MEDINA y MONICA AVILES MEDINA; FULANO DE TAL y
ZUTANO DE TAL, como herederos desconocidos con posible interés; NILDA MEDINA
LEGRAND; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM. MZ2022CV00946
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: Público en General
A: SUCESION DE JOSE
EDWIN AVILES RIVERA, compuesta por su viuda
NILDA MEDINA LEGRAND y sus hijos EDWIN AVILES MEDINA, EDUARDO AVILES MEDINA y MONICA AVILES MEDINA; FULANO DE TAL y ZUTANO DE TAL, como herederos desconocidos con posible interés; NILDA MEDINA LEGRAND; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Yo, CALIXTO RIVERA GHIGLIOTTY, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 13 de marzo de 2024, a la 1:30 de la tarde en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se
describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Mayagüez durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 20 de marzo de 2024, a la 1:30 de la tarde y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el 27 de marzo de 2024, a la 1:30 de la tarde en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial número DIEZ CERO UNO (1001) de dos plantas y forma irregular, localizado en la primera y segunda planta del Edificio diez (10) del CONDOMINIO VILLA CAMPOMAR, situado en el Sector Combate del Barrio Boquerón del término municipal de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, teniendo un área total aproximada de CIENTO OCHENTA PUNTO DOCE CERO SEIS (180.1206) METROS CUADRADOS, equivalentes a MIL NOVECIENTOS TREINTA Y OCHO PUNTO OCHO CERO DOS (1,938.802) PIES CUADRADOS. La marquesina en la primera planta, colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de doce (12) pies lineales, equivalentes a tres punto sesenta y cinco (3.65) metros lineales, con espacio exterior; SUR en una distancia de doce (12) pies lineales, equivalentes a tres punto sesenta y cinco (3.65) metros lineales, espacio exterior; ESTE, en una distancia de treinta y cuatro (34) pies lineales, equivalentes a diez punto treinta y seis (10.36) metros lineales, con la marquesina del apartamento Diez Cero Tres (1003) y OESTE, en una distancia de treinta y cuatro (34) pies lineales, equivalentes a diez punto treinta y seis (10.36) metros lineales, con espacio exterior. El apartamento en la segunda planta, colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de cuarenta y ocho punto seis (48.6) pies lineales, equivalentes a catorce punto setenta y ocho (14.78) metros lineales, con espacio exterior; SUR, en una distancia de cuarenta y ocho punto seis (48.6) pies lineales, equivalentes a catorce punto setenta y ocho (14.78) metros lineales, con espacio exterior; ESTE, en una distancia de cuarenta y tres (43) pies lineales, equivalentes a trece punto diez (13.10) metros
en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda Enmendada en su contra. Se les ordena a que dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la Notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de David Medina Paris. Los co-demandados miembros de la Sucesión de David Medina Paris se Incluyen en la demanda enmendada ya que como herederos responden por las cargas de la herencia Según lo dispuesto en nuestro Ordenamiento Jurídico. Se les apercibe y notifica que, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de 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 termino de 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 y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 2785. Se ordena a la parte demandante a que, se incluye a los herederos conocidos y herederos desconocidos de David Medina Paris denominados Fulano y Fulana de Tal, como posibles herederos desconocidos de la Sucesión de David Medina París, 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. Se le(s) emplaza y requiere que dentro de los sesenta (60) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el período de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más
citarle(s) ni oirle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 22 de febrero de 2024, en Carolina, Puerto Rico. Lcda. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria Regional. Lourdes Díaz Medina, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE FAJARDO.
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE EDUARDO
LUGO CARRASQUILLO, compuesta por LUIS
RAUL DIAZ LUGO; ANGEL YAMIL LUGO DE JESUS, ANGEL LUIS
LUGO DE JESUS, y JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE como posibles herederos desconocidos, Administración para sustento de menores y Centro Recaudación ingresos Municipales
Parte Demandada CIVIL NUM. FA2021CV00166.
SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO.
ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA/ El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Fajardo, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $46,708.29 de balance de principal, la cual se compone de un primer principal por la suma de $45,815.43 y un balance diferido de $892.86, más los intereses sobre la suma de $45,815.43 a razón de 5.75% anual, desde el primero de julio de 2019, hasta su completo pago, más recargos por mensualidades vencidas, más la suma de $5,100.00 estipulada para honorarios de abogado pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD
HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial identificado con el número trece (13) en el primer nivel del bloque uno guion A (1-A) del complejo residencial
Portal la Ceiba, localizado en del barrio Chupacallos del término municipal de Ceiba, Puerto Rico, con la descripción y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Construido en concreto y bloques de hormigón, con un área superficial de setecientos sesenta y siete punto quinientos (767.500) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a setenta y un punto treinta (71.30) metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, con elementos común que consiste de área verde y con la calle Carlos Carlo Figueroa; por el Sur, con elemento común que consiste de un área verde y con la calle uno (1); por el OESTE, con elemento común que consiste de área verde y con la parcela A; por el ESTE, con elemento común que consiste de pasillo o vestíbulo de acceso principal al edificio y el apartamento doce (12) del bloque uno guion A (1A). Consta de sala-comedor, cocina equipada con gabinetes de cocina y facilidades para equipo de cocina y lavado de ropa, closet, un baño diseñado para discapacitados, una habitación con su closet y balcón en su lado Norte. Cuenta también con un área de patio en su lado SUR, para uso particular y exclusivo de es apartamento. La puerta principal de entrada de este apartamento ubica en su lado Este y lo comunica al pasillo o vestíbulo del edificio que da acceso a la vía pública. Lee corresponde a esta unidad de vivienda una participación en los elementos comunes del complejo residencial Portal la Ceiba de uno punto cinco cero ocho nueve por ciento (1.5089%). Le pertenece el uso y disfrute de un (1) espacio de estacionamiento marcado con el mismo número de la unidad de vivienda. Inscrita al sistema Karibe, finca numero once mil doscientos ochenta y siete (11287) de Ceiba, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Fajardo. Direccion Física: Condominio Portal de Ceiba, Apt. B-2 Unit 13, Ceiba, Puerto Rico 00735. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 10 de abril de 2024, a las 11:00 de la mañana, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $51,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 17 de abril de 2024, a las 11:00 de la mañana, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $34,000.00. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 24 de abril de 2024, a las 11:00 de la mañana, y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad
del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $25,500.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento
indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 8 de febrero de 2024 Jorge A Ortiz Estrada, Alguacil Regional Interino #622. Mildred I Toro Colon, Alguacil Auxiliar #197. TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN BENITO GARCÍA AROCHO Y SUCESIÓN DE EMILIA VALE BABILONIA compuesta por EFIGENIO GARCIA VALE; JOSÉ A. GARCÍA VALE; BENJAMÍN GARCÍA VALE; BENITO GARCÍA VALE; JOSELIN GARCÍA VALE; WILFREDO GARCÍA VALE; MYRIAM GARCÍA VALE; MARYSOL GARCÍA VALE; IRAIDA GARCÍA VALE; MERCEDES GARCÍA VALE; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL como posibles herederos desconocidos en ambas sucesiones; CRIM Demandados CIVIL NÚM. SS2023CV00754 SALÓN NÚM. 00002 SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACION. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: EFIGENIO GARCÍA VALE; MERCEDES GARCÍA VALE, MYRIAM GARCÍA VALE; WILFREDO GARCÍA VALE; BENITO GARCÍA VALE; JOSELIN GARCÍA VALE; IRAIDA GARCÍA VALE COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE BENITO GARCÍA AROCHO Y DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EMILIA VALE BABILONIA. POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección
electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de mayo de 2023, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma principal global de $38,283.42, la cual se desglosa a continuación: una suma principal de $37,767.17, más intereses a razón del 7.875% anual, desde el 1 de abril de 2023, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma principal diferida (piggyback) por la cantidad de $516.25, la cual no genera intereses, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribuciones, entre otros; más una suma equivalente al 10% de la obligación original del pagaré ($7,120.00) por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Barrio Naranjo de Moca, Puerto Rico. Solar: Cabida: 11,964.44 Cuerdas. LINDEROS: por el NORTE: con camino municipal; por el SUR: con terrenos de la finca Hernández; por el ESTE, con terrenos de Antonia Vargas; y por el OESTE, con terrenos de Benjamín Arocho. Es el Remanente luego de varias segregaciones según consta de la escritura número 32, otorgada en Moca, Puerto Rico, el día 6 de abril de 2018, ante el notario Agustín F. Soto Hernández, e inscrito al tomo Karibe de Moca, finca número 11,167, inscripción 8va. Consta inscrita al folio 80 del tomo 205 de Moca, Finca Número #11,167. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Sebastián. SE LES ORDENA a ustedes
a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de las Sucesiones de Benito García Arocho y Emilia Vale Babilonia. De no hacerlo dentro de dicho término, se dará la herencia por aceptada. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictara sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. A 15 de Febrero de 2024.
Sarahí Reyes Pérez, Secretaria Regional. Maritza Lebrón Rosado, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.
Demandante V.
ADA PARES OTERO
Demandado(a)
ADRIAN BRITO RODRIGUEZ
ADRIAN@BRITO.LEGAL
CASO NÚM.: SJ2023CV02750
(SALÓN 504 CIVIL) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: ADA PARES OTERO
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 DE ENERO 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 10 de ENERO de 2024. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 10 de ENERO de 2024. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretaria. f/ELSA CANDELARIO CABRERA, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMON.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; POPULAR MORTGAGE INC.
Demandante, v. BENEFICIAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION; John Doe y Richard Doe, como posibles tenedores desconocidos
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM. TA2023CV01176.
SALA 503. SOBRE: CANCELACIóN DE PAGARé EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE, posibles tenedores de pagaré extraviado descrito más adelante Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado una Demanda donde se solicita se cancele el siguiente pagaré, el cual está extraviado, así como la hipoteca que garantiza su pago: a. pagaré a favor de Beneficial Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $84,900.00 más intereses desde esa fecha hasta el pago total del principal a razón de 8 1/2% de interés anual, vencederos el 1ro de abril de 2030 suscrito en San Juan, Puerto Rico ante el Notario Manuel Rivera Meléndez. Por la presente se les emplaza y requiere para que notifique a la Lcda. Maritza Guzmán Matos, PMB 767, Avenida Luis Vigoreaux, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00966, teléfono (787) 7583276, abogada de la parte demandante, con copia de vuestra contestación a la demanda radicada en este caso contra ustedes, dentro de un término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este Edicto. Por la presente se les apercibe de que de no comparecer a formular alegaciones dentro de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia de acuerdo con lo solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oirle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 22 de febrero de 2024. Lcda. Laura I Santa Sanchez, Secretaria. Ivette M Marrero Bracero, Sub-Secretaria.
The San Juan Daily Star
Demandante V. ALEX MALPICA SANTI
Demandado(a) ADRIÁN BRITO RODRÍGUEZ ADRIAN@BRITO.LEGAL
CASO NÚM.: SJ2023CV03027
(SALÓN 802 CIVIL) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA
60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: ALEX MALPICA SANTI
38 RES VILLA ESPAÑA
APT 400, SAN JUAN, PR 00921-1069
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el
11 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, 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 13 de diciembre de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 13 de diciembre de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. F/Elsie Pratts Meléndez, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA MUNICIPAL DE CABO ROJO
ANDENO CO
Demandante v. NARIELIZ
LOPEZ IRIZARRY
Demandado
CIVIL NÚM.: CB2023CV00104
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO.
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC-
TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: NARIELIZ
LOPEZ IRIZARRY•
15 BOQUERON COUNTRY CLUB, BOQUERÓN PR 00622.
Se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Cobro de Dinero. Representa a la parte
demandante, el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:
Brito.Legal 1607 Ave. Ponce de León St. GM6 #232
San Juan, PR 00969
Tel. 787-705-1011
E-mail: adrian@brito.legal POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento. 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 presente 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, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. En CABO ROJO, Puerto Rico a 9 de FEBRERO de 2024. LCDA NORMA G SANTANA IRIZARRY, Secretaria. MARIA M AVILES BONILLA, Sub Secretaria.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
Parte Demandante Vs. JORGE ALEJANDRO
Parte Demandada
CIVIL NÚM.: PO2019CV00008
SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: La parte demandada, al (a la) Secretario (a) de Hacienda de Puerto Rico y al público en general: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario (a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe, vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado, en cheque certificado, giro postal o moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en mi oficina ubicada en el Centro Judicial de Ponce Avenida Santiago de los Caballe-
ros, Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 12 de MARZO de 2024, a las 1:45 de la tarde, todo derecho, título, participación interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: (A) RUSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Guayabal del término municipal de Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 325,2646 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: con la carretera número 149 que conduce de Juana Díaz a Villalba, y con una faja de terreno a dedicarse a uso público; por el SUR: con un remanente de la finca principal original, que a su vez colinda con José Joaquín Rodríguez; por el ESTE: con el remanente de la finca principal que a su vez colinda con Antonio Martínez, antes hoy José Antonio Martínez García; y por el OESTE: con el remanente de la finca original que a su vez colinda con Miguel Torres, antes, hoy Irene Torres Alicea. Finca Número 19,060 de Juana Díaz, Inscripción primera, al folio 67 del tomo 513.Finca #19,060 En esta finca se construyó una estructura de concreto que se dedica a centro comercial. Esta propiedad está ubicada en la Carretera 149 que conduce de Juana Díaz a Villalba Barrio Guayabal, Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico. El 12 de MARZO de 2024, a las 2:15 de la tarde, todo derecho, título, participación interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación (B) RUSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el barrio Guayabal del término municipal de Juana Díaz, con una cabida de 2.6751 cuerdas. En lindes, por el NORTE: con la carretera número 149 que conduce de Juana Díaz a Villalba, y con un predio de terreno segregado anteriormente a favor de Secundino Valles Valles y Lidia Rivera Ruíz; por el SUR: con José Joaquín Rodríguez; por el ESTE: con Antonio Martínez, antes, hoy José Antonio Martínez García; y por el OESTE, con Miguel Torres, antes, hoy Irene Torres Alicea, y con una faja de terreno segregada y cedida al Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Finca (B) número 9,760 de Juana Díaz, Inscripción octava, al folio 16 tomo 435. Este es el remanente de esta finca luego de segregados los solares de 1011.1906 metros cuadrados, 3,253.2646 metros cuadrados. Localizada en la Carretera de Juana Díaz a Villalba. Esta propiedad está ubicada en la Carretera 149 que conduce de Juana Díaz a Villalba Barrio Guayabal, Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico. Según figura en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto
de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: Jorge Alejandro Colón Solís Suma de carga Finca A y B cada uno: $140,077.96 de principal, intereses al 7% anual desde el día 20 de octubre de 2015, $24,000.00 estipulada para costas y honorarios de abogado. Fecha de Vencimiento: 20 de octubre de 2015. Nombre del Titular: Small Business Administration Suma de carga: $88, 800.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: Se establece como mínimo de subasta de la Finca A Número 19,060 la suma de $212,238.96, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de compraventa. 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 Superior de Ponce, el 19 de MARZO de 2024, a las 1 :45 de la tarde. y se establece como mínimo para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $141,492.64 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, establece como mínimo para la tercera subasta, la suma de $106,119.48 la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, el 27 de MARZO de 2023, a las 1:45 de la tarde. Se establece como mínimo de subasta de la Finca B Número 9,760 la suma de $212,238.96, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de compraventa. 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 Superior de Ponce, el 19 de MARZO de 2024, a las 2:15 de la tarde. y se establece como mínimo para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $141,492.64 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, establece como mínimo para la tercera subasta, la suma de $106,119.48, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, el 27 de MARZO de 2024, a las 2:15 de la tarde. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe total de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $241,332.00 de principal del referido pagaré, más los intereses que al tipo convenido del 7% se han devengado sobre dicha cantidad hasta el día 31 diciembre de 2023 ascenden-
tes a $118,252.68, más los devengados hasta esta fecha y los que se devenguen hasta el total y completo pago por la deuda y la suma de $24,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado del demandante pactados en el epígrafe y en el contrato de hipoteca y cualesquiera otros adelantos para contribuciones y pólizas de seguro será satisfecho mediante cheque certificado o giro postal Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaria del tribunal durante las horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Ambas propiedades a ser ejecutadas se adquirirán libre de gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de los licitadores y público en general se publicará este EDICTO de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas entre tres (3) sitios públicos en el municipio que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como Alcaldía, el Tribunal, y la Colecturía y mediante Edicto en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Ponce, Puerto Rico, Hoy 15 de febrero de 2024. Javier Segarra Maldonado, Alguacil Regional. Cruz Román Juan R. #965, Alguacil.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. EXPARTE
Demandado(a) MARITZA DEL CARMEN GUZMÁN MATOS
MGUZMAN@ PARTNERSLEGALSERVICESPR. COM Caso Núm. : BY2023CV06290 (Salón 501) Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE RICHARD ROE POSIBLES
TENEDORES DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 DE FEBRERO 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 repre-
sentando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de febrero de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 21 de febrero de 2024. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. F/Nereida Quiles Santana, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO CENTRO
JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR
LAS SUCESIONES DE DON JUAN RIVERA FUENTES Y DOÑA
JUANA CRUZ VAZQUEZ, compuestas por: MARÍA
LUISA RIVERA CRUZ, por sí y en representación de, MIGUEL ANGEL RIVERA LÓPEZ, MELVIN
RIVERA LÓPEZ, DEWELL
ISRAEL RIVERA CRUZ y FRANCISCA RIVERA CRUZ; ALEJANDRO RIVERA CRUZ; ANA
DELIA RIVERA CRUZ; LILLIAN RIVERA CRUZ; PABLO RIVERA CRUZ; ILIANA RIVERA ROSADO, por si y en representación de EDWIN RIVERA ROSADO e IVETTE RIVERA ROSADO; WINDA RIVERA ROSA, representada por NAYDA ASUNCIÓN ORTIZ MANDÉS; ESTEBAN SANCHEZ RIVERA; EDWARD SANCHEZ RIVERA Y LUIS ARIEL SANCHEZ RIVERA; CARMELO RIVERA RODRIGUEZ, por sí y en representación de, LILLIAN RIVERA JIMÉNEZ, DEWELL RIVERA JIMÉNEZ, DAVID RIVERA, JR. y SHAWN MICHAEL RIVERA; PRISCILLA MARIE RIVERA LLERAS, por sí y en representación de ENRIQUE RIVERA LLERAS; AMALYN PÉREZ RIVERA y JOSELYN PÉREZ RIVERA. Demandantes Vs. SUCESIÓN DE ROBERTO RIVERA CRUZ, compuesta por,
MICHAEL ÁNGEL, MARTHA, JOSEPH y DANIEL,
SALA DE GUAYNABO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
CIVIL NÚM. : BY2023RF01981
SOBRE: AUTORIZACION
JUDICIAL PARA VENTA DE INMUEBLE EN COMÚN PROINDIVISO Y CONSIGNACIÓN. EDICTO. Mediante la presente se le notifica a la SUCESIÓN
DE ROBERTO RIVERA CRUZ, compuesta por, MICHAEL ÁNGEL, MARTHA, JOSEPH y DANIEL, todos de apellido RIVERA; que la Parte Demandante ha presentado en su contra una Demanda sobre: AUTORIZACION JUDICIAL PARA VENTA DE INMUEBLE EN COMÚN
PROINDIVISO Y CONSIGNACIÓN, en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Bayamón, cuyo número de caso es BY2023RF01981. En dicha demanda se reclama, que se permita la venta del único inmueble perteneciente a las Sucesiones de Don Juan Rivera Fuentes y Doña Juana Cruz Vázquez de quienes los Demandantes son parte; y que se consigne la participación de dichos demandados. Se le apercibe que este caso fue presentado a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC) y de igual forma usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través de SUMAC, al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica:https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-eletronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Bayamón y enviar copia a las abogadas de los Demandantes, Lic. Gladys I. Izquierdo García, RUA Número 13720, PO BOX 194119, SAN JUAN, PR 00919-4119 Teléfono: (787) 771-9610, Email: izqlaw@ yahoo.com y Lic. Esther M. Yovobich De Jesús, RUA 13978, Colinas de Plata, 14 Paseos del Plata, Toa Alta, PR 00953, Email: emydlaw@yahoo.com. De no contestar la demanda, dentro de los treinta (30) días contados desde la publicación del edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y el Tribunal dictará la sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. La publicación de este edicto se hará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Expedido bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de febrero de 2024. Lcda. Laura I.
Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Del Tribunal. Noelia Matias Salas, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
Parte Demandante Vs. EDGARDO GARCIA RIVERA
Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM. GB2023CV00659
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: EDGARDO GARCIA
RIVERA • BO GUAYNABO
PIEDRAS BLANCAS
CALLE ACEROLA #7, GUAYNABO PR 00971 • BO CAMARONES BARR 20 K 6 H 3, GUAYNABO PR 00970 • PO BOX 288, GUAYNABO PR 0097000288.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia 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@orflaw. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de noviembre de 2023. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Militza Mercado Rivera, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
Demandado
CIVIL NÚM.: JD2023CV00397
SALÓN: 1 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: PRIMITIVA COLÓN
RIVERA – HC 1 Box
43681, Juana Díaz, PR 00795 / Bo. Río Canas
Carr 14 R 586 Puente hierro Km 32.7 INT, Juana Díaz, PR 00795 / HC 1 Box 4368, Coamo, PR 00769.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia 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@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO
BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de noviembre de 2023. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 28 de noviembre de 2023. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria Auxiliar. Waleska E. Rivera Torres, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE BAYAMON ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. LINDA Y NEDER REY
Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM. GB2023CV00525
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO.
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC-
TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS EE.UU. EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: LINDA Y NEDER
REY • URB TERRS DE GUAYNABO E17 CALLE AMAPOLA, GUAYNABO
PR 00969-5415 • URB
COSTA NORTE H-9
CALLE AGUA AZUL, HATILLO PR 00659 • PO BOX 1078, GUAYNABO
PR 00970.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia 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@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO
BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de noviembre de 2023. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Luisa I. Andino Ayala, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE TRUJILLO ALTO EN CAROLINA.
SAN CARLOS MORTGAGE LLC., Parte Demandante v. PEDRO MANUEL ALVAREZ BERRIOS, DORCAS ALVAREZ POMALES Y LOIDA ALVAREZ POMALES, por si y como miembros de la SUCESIÓN DE MERARI POMALES SERRANO; Parte Demandada. CIVIL NÚM. FECI201501100. 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 TRUJILLO ALTO en CAROLINA, hago saber a la parte demandada, PEDRO MANUEL ALVAREZ BERRIOS, DORCAS ALVAREZ POMALES Y LOIDA ALVAREZ POMALES, por si y como miembros de la SUCESIÓN DE MERARI POMALES SERRANO; y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 2 de octubre de 2023, 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: Urb. El Conquistador, G-16 Calle 6, Trujillo Alto, PR 00976 y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización el Conquistador, situado en el Barrio Carraízo del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización, con el número 16 de la manzana “G”, con un área de 327.25 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número 17, distancia de 24.00 metros; por el SUR, con el solar número 15, distancia de 24.00 metros; por el ESTE, con los solares número 20 y 21, distancia de un arco de 12.236 metros; y por el OESTE, con la calle número 6, distancia de un arco de 15.00 metros. El inmueble antes descrito, contiene una casa de concreto, diseñada para una familia construida de acuerdo con los planos y especificaciones, aprobados por la Administración Federal de Hogares y otras agencias gubernamentales. Finca Número 10611, inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 834 de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Pedro Manuel Alvarez Berrios y su esposa Merari Pomales Serrano, en garantía de un pagare, a favor de Scotiabank de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por $147,162.00, al 5% vencedero el 30 de mayo de 2041, según Escritura #151 en San Juan, a 30 de abril de 2011, ante notario Ruth Castro Algarín, inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 834 de Trujillo Alto, finca #10611, inscripción 6ta. (ii) DEMANDA del 8 de septiembre de 2015, radicada en el Tribunal de primera Instancia, Sala de Trujillo Alto, en el caso civil #FECI2015-01100, sobre Cobro de Dinero y ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Scotiabank de Puerto Rico v. Pedro Manuel Alvarez Berrios, Loida Eunice y Dorcas Berenice de apellidos Alvarez Pomales y
Jane Doe y John Doe como posibles herederos desconocidos, por $135,961.38, anotada al Sistema Karibe de Trujillo Alto, finca #10611, el 3 de junio de 2019, anotación A. 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 enmendada dictada el 27 de febrero de 2019, mediante la cual se determinó que la deuda esta vencida desde el 1 de enero de 2015 de una cantidad ascendiente a $135,961.38 por concepto de principal, más los intereses acumulados; más los cargos por mora; más una cantidad equivalente al 10% del principal del pagare para el pago de las costas, gastos y honoraries de abogados; más cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud del pagare y la escritura de hipoteca.
La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 1 de abril de 2024, a las 10:00 de la mañana en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Trujillo Alto en Carolina, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $147,162.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 8 de abril de 2024, a las 10:00 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, $98,108.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 de abril de 2024, a las 10:00 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, $73,581.00. 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 CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy 31 de ENERO de 2024. HECTOR PEÑA RODRIGUEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAROLINA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. RUTH BATISTA SANTANA
PARTE DEMANDADA
CIVIL NÚM. SJ2023CV11777 (508) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A LA PARTE
DEMANDADA: RUTH
BATISTA SANTANA a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: BO. OBRERO, 501 CALLE 11 (13 DE LA AVENIDA D), SAN JUAN, PR 00915-3726 y 444 CALLE DE DIEGO APT 1802, SAN JUAN PR 00923-3057.
Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que se adeuda las siguientes cantidades $100,407.80 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.00% anual desde el 1 de junio de 2023 hasta su completo pago, más $413.53 de recargos acumulados los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $16,045.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar radicado en el sitio conocido con el nombre de Barrio Obrero de San Juan, marcado con el número 13 de la Avenida D del plano de urbanización de dicho Barrio, Sección Norte del barrio de Santurce de San Juan, midiendo una superficie de 162.40 metros cuadrados. Colindando por el frente, con la avenida D; por la derecha, entrando con la calle número 11, por la izquierda con la avenida D casa número 15; y por el fondo con el solar número 66 de la calle 11. Enclava una casa de concreto techada del mismo material, la cual contiene un apartamento interior independiente. Inscrita al folio 221 del tomo 328 de Santurce Norte, Finca 11957. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 165 del tomo 1137 de Santurce Norte, Finca 11957. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección I. Inscripción decimotercera. La demandante es la tenedora por endoso en blanco, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. 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 Puerto Rico 009703922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, (787) 708-0566 correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, 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 6 de febrero de 2024, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. F/ BRENDA BAEZ ACABA, SUBSECRETARIA(O) SERVICIOS A SALA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADILLA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante, V.
HÉCTOR LUIS LÓPEZ
ROLDAN, NEREIDA
GONZÁLEZ SOTO Y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS, H.F. INC., JOHN DOE
Demandadas CIVIL NÚM.: AG2023CV02071
SOBRE: CANCELACION DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR
LA VIA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS.ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S.
A: HÉCTOR LUIS LÓPEZ
ROLDAN, NEREIDA GONZÁLEZ SOTO Y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS, H.F. INC., JOHN DOE • Font Martelo & A Lopez; Humacao, PR; 00791.
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente 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/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar 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. Los abogados de la parte demandante son:
ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE:
Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández
RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ LLP
500 Calle De La Tanca Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 7 de febrero de 2024. Sarahi Reyes Pérez, Secretaria General. Zuheily González Aviles, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE LA INDUSTRIA
BIOFARMACÉUTICA
Demandante V. JOSÉ DE LEÓN
NAVARRO
Demandado(a)
ERIKA F. MORALES MARENGO
EMARENGO16@YAHOO.COM
CASO NÚM. : CN2023CV00250
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: JOSÉ DE LEÓN
NAVARRO
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de febrero de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 20 de febrero de 2024. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria. F/Keila García Solis, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
In many parts of Latin America, baseball is a popular and well-established sport with men’s professional leagues in Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, among others. But women wanting to play baseball’s cousin — softball — professionally had only one option: to leave. They had to go to the United States or Japan.
Until now.
In what is believed to be a first in Latin America — a region where men often have more opportunities than women, particularly in sports — a professional women’s softball league has started in Mexico. On Jan. 25, when the inaugural season began, 120 women on six teams got to call themselves professional softball players, many for the first time.
“Before, there wasn’t even a question of, ‘Should there be a professional sport for women?’ It was a given that it didn’t exist. Period,” said Stefania Aradillas, an outfielder for the Diablos Rojos Femenil of Mexico City. “But we’re finding our place in society, not just in sports, but in all areas.”
The new league comes at a moment when women’s sports have become more popular around the world.
The women’s softball venture was created by the Liga Mexicana de Béisbol, the country’s nearly 100-year-old professional men’s baseball league. The regular season lasts until March 3, followed by playoffs ending in midMarch.
Although it is a short season, officials and players have said it has already shown some promise: 13,408 people filled the Monterrey stadium on opening night, a record for a softball game in the Americas, and the half-dozen teams drew a total of 109,000 fans through the first four weeks, according to the league.
“This project is about breaking barriers,” said Adriana Pérez, a Mexican American who put aside the softball training facility in Lubbock, Texas, she owns to serve as the manager of the Bravas de León, one of the new women’s teams.
Yuruby Alicart, a Venezuelan shortstop for another team, the Charras de Jalisco Femenil, added, “This is something extraordinary for our gender.”
Horacio de la Vega, the president of the Mexican men’s professional baseball league, seeking to grow the sport, first raised the idea for a women’s baseball or softball division
Venezuela, and Aradillas, 29, of Mexico, both of whom were on their national teams in the Olympics, earn a living solely off softball. Alicart plays in a semiprofessional league in Italy, while Aradillas has commercial sponsorships. But many of their teammates work full time at jobs unrelated to softball.
Dafne Bravo, 22, a catcher for the Mexico City team, was working at a Star Wars ride at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, when she heard about the new league.
Bravo had all but given up hope about her own career, after two up-and-down years playing at California State University, Dominguez Hills. But her mother bought flights for both of them to Mexico City in November after hearing about league tryouts there. After Bravo was drafted, she was granted two months’ unpaid leave from Disneyland to play in Mexico, where she earns roughly $3,000 a month.
“I’m representing my family, just making them proud,” said Bravo, whose parents were born in Mexico and emigrated to the United States.
during a league meeting three years ago.
Officials settled on softball because of its growing popularity, particularly in the United States, where players often go to play in college, and an encouraging future in Mexico (the national team finished fourth in its first Olympics appearance at the 2021 Tokyo Games). And with baseball stadiums largely unused during its off-season, a softball league could bring in extra money.
But de la Vega said club owners raised concerns about the financial viability of a league and about protecting players from sexual harassment, which has been a major issue in women’s sports such as soccer and gymnastics.
So over the next two years, league officials refined the project, creating sexual harassment protocols, including a mandatory online course for executives and coaches. De la Vega said he got the needed ownership approval and secured key business deals, such as television rights, last year.
“This is something that we should’ve done some time ago,” de la Vega said, “but things happen for a reason and at the right moment.”
The strategy for establishing a softball league took a leaf from the launch of women’s pro soccer in Mexico in 2017, which involved the men’s franchises starting a women’s team
of the same name. But in that case, nearly all of the 18 soccer franchises created a team. The softball league began smaller.
At first, de la Vega said, nearly half of the men’s baseball franchises (there were 18 then, and 20 as of this year) showed interest in starting a women’s softball team. But after requiring an initial three-year commitment from interested owners, the league whittled it down to six clubs: one each in three of the country’s biggest cities — Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey — plus in León, Tabasco and Veracruz.
While the majority of the league’s players are from Mexico, there are also some Mexican Americans, Cubans, Venezuelans and one Colombian.
And most of the teams have female leadership: Five of the six managers are women, as are three of the general managers.
Andrea Valdéz had worked in the front office of El Águila de Veracruz’s baseball club, where her father is the general manager. But when the softball league formed, Valdéz, 25, became Veracruz’s softball general manager.
“People always talk about professional sports for men, but this is a big opportunity for women to be on display,” she said. “I love working in sports, and I love that my first responsibility of this kind is with women.”
Some of the players like Alicart, 38, of
When Lolis de la Fuente, a catcher for León, took the field before the season opener, she wiped away tears, overwhelmed with emotion while wearing a professional softball uniform in front of her sons, ages 3 and 7.
“I never thought this moment would come,” she said.
De la Fuente, 31, grew up playing softball in the state of Coahuila, which borders Texas, and representing her state in regional and national tournaments, and Mexico at international ones.
After the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games, she said she had to choose between attending college or dedicating herself to softball, where the dream is usually to land an athletic scholarship to a university in the United States. She chose college in Mexico, graduated and started a family. She teaches English at a school in Coahuila.
For the past seven years, de la Fuente stayed active in softball, playing in a local recreational league. After being drafted, she said she got two months of unpaid leave from her school to play in the league, where she will earn $1,000 monthly and live in an apartment provided by the team.
“A dream come true,” she said. “I never thought they could do something like this in Mexico because there wasn’t much support.”
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Batting practice for the Diablos Rojos Femenil (Women’s Red Devils) at a field in Mexico City, Jan. 23, 2024. In what is believed to be a first in Latin America, women professional softball players have a league of their own. (Marian Carrasquero/The New York Times)Henry Rono, a Kenyan distance runner who was unable to walk until he was 6 after a gruesome injury to his right leg when he was a toddler but went on to break four world records in just 81 days in 1978, died Thursday in Nairobi. He was 72.
His death was announced by Athletics Kenya, an amateur athletic association. He died in a hospital, where he had spent 10 days with an unspecified illness.
Rono was twice denied shots at Olympic glory in his 20s, when Kenya joined boycotts of the Games in 1976 and 1980. Even so, he was celebrated as one of the country’s great athletes.
He made his mark on track-and-field history in 1978, as a 26-year-old sophomore at Washington State University, when he galloped into the record books for the 3,000, 5,000 and 10,000 meters and the 3,000-meter steeplechase, with its 28 barriers and seven water jumps.
“He was such a powerful guy — big barrel chest — and incredibly efficient,” Phil English, a former teammate at Washington State, said in an interview after Rono’s death with the Spokane, Washington, newspaper The Spokesman-Review. “The incredible thing about those world records is the versatility it takes — the speed for the 3,000 and the skill of the steeple, and then the far reaches of the 10,000. You just don’t see that kind of range.”
Rono’s remarkable success over such a short period made him an object of global fascination in the track world.
“People wanted me to go everywhere to run. When I was running in Finland, there would be a meet promoter from Italy,” he said in a 1982 interview with Track & Field News. “When I was running in Italy, there would be one from
Japan, and Australia and New Zealand.”
With his low-key personality and his apparent immunity to braggadocio, Rono found the spotlight disorienting. “People wanted me to go there and there and there and there,” he said. “It was like they didn’t even think I was a human being like them; I was an extraordinary person to them, a machine they thought could do anything.”
Henry Rono was born Kipwambok Rono on Feb. 12, 1952, in Kiptaragon, a village in Nandi County, Kenya. The Star, a newspaper in Nairobi, recently described the region as having “the highest concentration of local and international runners, more than any other region, probably in the world.” Kipchoge Keino, an early inspiration to Rono who took gold in the 1,500-meter run at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, grew up in a neighboring village.
As a small child, Rono fell off a bicycle that his uncle was riding to ferry him from his grandmother’s house, snapping his right ankle in the spinning spokes. “For many years, as other children my age grew stronger and faster, I was only able to crawl,” he wrote in a memoir, “Olympic Dream” (2010).
Around the time he could finally walk, his father died after being startled by a snake while driving a tractor and falling into the path of the plow. His mother was left to support the family, in part by selling home brews of two potent alcoholic beverages, chang’aa and busaa.
Rono took up running around the time he completed seventh grade, at 19. At the primary school in the village, he also met his future wife, Jennifer, with whom he had two children, Calvin and Maureen.
He trained extensively during a stint in the Kenyan army, and eventually found enough success running to be named to the national team for the 1976 Olympics
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De la Vega said he hoped the Mexican version would endure, unlike past professional softball leagues in the United States that folded. Starting small, he believed, was an advantage. And, he said, most of the teams are at least breaking even financially, and the league is profitable because of a “real appe-
tite” from sponsors and television networks.
“For sure we’re going to make mistakes,” he said, “like any big project, and we have to make corrections, but it’s part of the growth.”
De la Vega, who represented Mexico in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics in modern pentathlon, said the league could also provide a platform for Mexican players to de-
in Montreal.
He would never make it there, though, because Kenya joined a boycott with other African nations in protest over the participation of New Zealand, whose national rugby team was touring apartheid South Africa.
It was a crushing blow. “I thought this man would come home with two golds,” Keino, Rono’s idol, who was coaching the Kenyan team at the time, was quoted as saying in a 2022 profile of Rono in The New York Times.
Instead, Rono headed off to Pullman, Washington, to compete for Washington State, even though he had never attended high school.
Far from home and locked in conflict with Kenyan athletic officials, Rono began drinking heavily even as he scaled athlet-
ic heights. He suffered further heartbreak when Kenya joined an U.S.-led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Still, at a meet near Oslo, Norway, in 1981, he overcame a hangover to set a new world record in the 5,000-meter race.
But when Kenya finally returned to the Olympics, in Los Angeles in 1984, Rono was in no shape to represent his country. He was spiraling: His money from a contract with Nike, as well as his aura as a champion, drained away as he drifted around the United States, sleeping at friends’ houses and working menial jobs, including ringing a bell for the Salvation Army.
“I’ve been to the top of the highest mountain and then down to the bottom of the world,” he said in an interview for the 2008 yearbook of the governing body for track, the International Association of Athletics Federations, now World Athletics. “Looking back now, I can remember what happened in 1978, but then the next eight years are more or less a blank.”
He finally became sober in the late 1990s and returned to school, studying poetry and creative writing before writing his memoir. In 2019, he returned to Kenya for the first time since the 1980s, moving in with his brother on the same plot of land where they had grown up.
Information on survivors was not immediately available.
Although he detailed his decades of turmoil in the 2008 interview, Rono refused to let the memories linger. At that point, he said he had been fulfilled in his work as a special-education teacher and coach in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“What I am doing in my life right now,” he said, “is like a gold medal to me.”
velop before softball’s return to the Summer Games, in 2028 in Los Angeles. At the opening game in León, the stands were filled with men and women of all ages. The team unveiled a new lioness mascot, and the public address announcer thanked the crowd for coming to support the women on the field.
Montserrat Zuñiga, 36, said she and
her 5-year-old daughter, Emilia, had attended the León men’s baseball games for two years. But when the softball league started, Zuñiga said her daughter asked to watch the women play. She bought Emilia a pink Bravas hat for the occasion.
“It means something in these times,” she said, “to be inclusive of women, not just men.”
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Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
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Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
A family member or other loved one may not be telling you the truth. In this person’s defense, he or she likely thinks they’re protecting you by shielding you from the truth. This is a time for you to trust your instincts, Aries. If you’re told something that simply doesn’t ring true, check the information yourself rather than accept it at face value.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
You have an active mind and an even more active imagination, Taurus. Today you risk short-circuiting your brain as you struggle to keep up with all the ideas and information swirling inside your head. Take a few minutes to do a mental inventory. Write down everything you’re thinking right now so you can free some space in your brain for other issues. A long walk or jog would help soothe your mind.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
If a family member is in a bad mood but not confessing why, it’s up to you to step in and help. He or she is carrying that big black cloud around, casting shadows everywhere they go. Do what you can to snap your relative out of it, although take care not to force the issue too harshly. Counseling might be in order, and this may not be your area of expertise!
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
If a friend or colleague seems to be in trouble, you may not want to interfere for fear of being too intimate. But this isn’t a time to hold back, Cancer. It’s likely that this person really does need your help. Your intervention will be much appreciated and possibly even rewarded. Be sure to get some rest tonight. You’re emotionally and physically drained.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
Your career may be sidetracked by petty gossip, rumor, and office politics. It’s likely that someone is pushing forward his or her agenda without any thought or concern for its impact on others. Do what you can to put a stop to such shenanigans, Leo. There are times when it’s appropriate to be the whistleblower, and this is one of them.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
In an unpleasant situation, your inclination is to protect your loved ones from the truth. This would be a mistake, Libra. Even though you’re acting out of love, your family members deserve to know the truth even if it hurts. You can’t shield them from the realities of the outside world. Most people, even the young, prefer to know the facts.
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
In an unpleasant situation, your inclination is to protect your loved ones from the truth. This would be a mistake, Libra. Even though you’re acting out of love, your family members deserve to know the truth even if it hurts. You can’t shield them from the realities of the outside world. Most people, even the young, prefer to know the facts.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
There could be a missing person very much on your mind these days. Is it possible that the relationship is over and you’re the last one to know? Don’t let your insecurities get the better of you, Sagittarius. It’s likely that your friend merely needs some time alone to sort out some big life issues. He or she will seek out your warmth and friendship again soon.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
Misinformation is likely to spread like wildfire today, causing a lot of unnecessary upset either among your neighbors at home or your colleagues at work. Don’t accept at face value any gossip or rumor you hear, Capricorn. Check the accuracy of the information yourself. If it does turn out to be false, as is likely, you’ll feel sorry if you’ve had any part in perpetuating it.
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
You’re finally setting in motion some longstanding goals of yours, Aquarius. Good for you! But even though everything is in place and you’re ready to go, it’s possible that you’ll receive notice today of some delay in your plans. The frustration feels unbearable. But when you step back and look at the bigger picture, you’ll see that ultimately this delay is in your best interests.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
Some bad news about your financial situation may not really be as bad as it first appears. Even so, it throws you for a loop. Double-check the information before spiraling into a panic, Virgo. It may be that a computer made an error or a bank clerk messed up. You may have to unravel some paperwork, but it will be a relief to have it resolved.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
Beware lawyers, bankers, and stockbrokers today, Pisces. One of them is likely to try and mislead you with some inaccurate information. While it might be in his or her best interests for you to take this information at face value, it certainly isn’t in yours! Do your own research and get all the facts before making the financial investments recommended to you.
