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Status hearing today on PREPA bankruptcy case
By THE STAR STAFF
The federal Title III court overseeing the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) bankruptcy will hold a status hearing today to listen to arguments on the fate of the utility’s debt adjustment plan following the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit decision that bondholders have an $8.5 billion secured claim, rather than a $2.4 billion claim, as the lower court had ruled.
Several groups, such as PREPA pension retirees, are expected to hold protests against the plan due to the impact over pensions.
The oversight board has asked U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain to reopen the proceedings only to value the bondholders’ secured claim, which, the First Circuit ruled, can be paid from the system’s net revenue. The board argued that no new vote on the plan is necessary because bondholders’ claims that it has misappropriated money during bankruptcy are moot and that the supplemental confirmation hearing could be heard in September, which could mean an end to PREPA’s seven-year-long bankruptcy.
The bondholders want to dismiss the Title III case. They also are litigating what they say might be as much as $6 billion in net revenue that PREPA has misappropriated since the beginning of the bankruptcy proceedings. Bondholders also want to challenge the law governing the Title III cases as an unconstitutional non-uniform bankruptcy law.
Both parties are disputing whether their claim needs to be estimated. The oversight board argues that it does and that the confirmation proceeding should be opened to determine what that amount is. Once that’s done, the board argues that as long as bondholders receive the full amount of their secured claim, they can’t object to how other money is spent in the bankruptcy.
Bondholders said they planned to argue that no such estimation is necessary – the amount they will be paid is the amount of net revenue the utility ultimately generates. They also say they can challenge other deals the oversight board has made -- with fuel line lenders, unsecured creditors, or settling bondholders -- if those creditors are being paid with net revenues.
monoliner Assured’s counsel Mark C. Ellenberg, Golden Tree’s counsels Glenn M. Kurtz and Thomas E. Lauria, the PREPA bond trustee’s counsel Clark T. Whitmore, Robert S. Berezin on behalf of National, and the Ad Hoc Bondholder Group.
Separately, PREPA’s governing board approved a settlement between the power utility and contractor Cobra Acquisitions at a special meeting on Monday.
PREPA Executive Director Josué Colón Ortiz said the agreement, reached by the Financial Oversight and Management Board and AAFAF on behalf of PREPA with Cobra, will be submitted to the Title III court for review and approval by Judge Swain before it can be executed.
Details of the settlement, including the amount to be paid, were not disclosed during the meeting. The debt is the result of two contracts for work Cobra performed on the power grid in the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and Maria, Colón Ortiz said.
Cobra alleged in May that it was still owed $406 million for the work.
PREPA has argued that it does not owe most of that money, and that delays to Cobra’s payments have been squarely the fault of its management, after its president was indicted and later pled guilty to bribing a government official to get the contract.
Colón Ortiz said PREPA customers won’t see any additional charges as a result of the agreement.
The court will hear arguments from the following plan proponents: the oversight board’s lawyer Martin J. Bienenstock, Fuel Line Lenders’ lawyer Emil A. Kleinhaus; the majority member PREPA Ad Hoc Group’s lawyer Andrew N. Rosenberg, and the Unsecured Creditors Committee’s counsel Luc A. Despins.
Speaking on behalf of the Puerto Rico government will be the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority’s (AAFAF by its initials in Spanish) counsel Elizabeth L. McKeen.
Speaking against the debt adjustment plan are
Metropolitan Bus Authority workers to go on strike
The decision to strike was made due to the delay in the implementation of the classification and remuneration plan for Metropolitan Bus Authority employees, the president of the union that represents the workers said.
By THE STAR STAFF
Metropolitan Bus Authority workers, grouped under the TUAMA union, announced Tuesday that they will soon take to the streets on an indefinite strike.
The decision was made due to the delay in the implementation of the classification and remuneration plan for the agency’s employees, TUAMA President Ángel Torres Escribano said.
On Sept. 23, 2023, the union convened a special assembly, which was held three days later, in which, among other things, the union unanimously approved a vote to go on strike.
Torres Escribano said employees have been earning salaries that are not in keeping with the island’s economic
reality, marked as it is by excessive inflation.
“In fact, the vast majority of our workers are earning the minimum wage as professional employees, and they have not received a salary increase for more than 14 years,” he said.
After the approval of the strike vote last September, TUAMA and AMA management entered into conversations and understandings to expedite the process of implementing the Classification and Remuneration Plan.
The plan is still in the hands of the Financial Oversight and Management Board awaiting approval.
“Given the severe delay that the implementation of the Classification and Remuneration Plan has taken, we are calling on our enrollment to prepare to exercise the strike vote indefinitely,” Torres Escribano said.
LUMA stresses vegetation was cause of June 12 blackout
By THE STAR STAFF
LUMA Energy, the private operator of the island’s electric power transmission and distribution system, said Tuesday that the cause of the massive outage on June 12, which left more than 350,000 customers without power, was due to vegetation-related problems.
According to LUMA’s communications team, the ongoing investigation into the incident has already identified vegetation as the immediate cause and steps have been taken to improve the condition of the power grid.
“During the recent outage that impacted 340,000 customers on June 12, we restored service to most affected customers within six hours,” stated LUMA’s communications team. ‘We are conducting a full investigation of the June 12 event, and as part of this formal process, on June 20 we submitted a preliminary report of the incident to the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB). This report indicates that the immediate cause of the outage is related to vegetation.”
LUMA stressed that it has already taken key steps, such
as repairs and other actions, to improve the power grid.
“At LUMA, we are committed to investigating the root cause of the outage to better understand why they occur and reduce the risk of similar events happening in the future,” the company said.
San Juan District 4 Rep. Víctor Parés Otero on Monday asked Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) Executive Director Josué Colón Ortiz to present the reports that LUMA Energy and Genera PR, the operator of PREPA’S legacy generation plants, were due to deliver on the June 12 blackout. Parés expressed frustration at the lack of information available nearly a month after the incident.
Colón Ortiz said that since June 14, information requests have been sent to LUMA and Genera through the Public-Private Partnerships Authority.
“As of July 5, we have not received a response to the request for information from LUMA Energy, while Genera PR responded to the request on June 24,” the PREPA chief said. “Once we receive the response from … LUMA Energy, we will be in a position to continue the evaluation of the events that
LUMA Energy’s communications team said an ongoing investigation into last month’s mass blackout has already identified vegetation as the immediate cause and steps have been taken to improve the condition of the power grid. (Facebook via LUMA Energy)
occurred on June 12.”
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia had ordered both LUMA and Genera to deliver reports on the events associated with the blackout.
Rep. Méndez Nuñez urges stepped-up federal drug patrols off Vieques & Culebra
By THE STAR STAFF
The New Progressive Party minority leader in the island House of Representatives, Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, called on federal authorities, particularly U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to increase preventive maritime patrols near the offshore island municipality of Vieques and Culebra in the face of the increase in drug trafficking in the area.
“Today’s news, where agents of the Police Bureau assigned to the District of Culebra seized 250 bales of cocaine near Mosquito beach of the island municipality, is another of several reports that point to an increase in the transfer of drugs in that area,” said the representative for District 36 (Río Grande, Luquillo, Fajardo, Ceiba, Vieques and Culebra). “Our law
enforcement agents have done an excellent job intervening with these shipments, but also the federal authorities must increase their presence in the region to assist with offshore interventions.”
“Customs and Border Protection, as well as other federal
agencies, including the Coast Guard, should implement an aggressive preventive patrol program in the waters surrounding Vieques and Culebra as a measure to assist the men and women of the [Puerto Rico] Police Bureau,” Méndez Nuñez said. “The increase in the trafficking of illegal drugs through the waters of these two island municipalities is on the rise. Criminal elements use Vieques and Culebra as a point for sending drugs to the big island.”
“This is an important issue for the security of the people of Vieques and Culebra, so I call on the directors of the Office of Customs and Border Protection and the Coast Guard to take a more relevant role in patrolling, such as more reconnaissance missions in helicopters and preventive patrols in boats, among other actions,” stressed the former House speaker.
Rep. Carlos Méndez Núñez
Bill establishing minimum age for social media use goes to governor’s desk
By THE STAR STAFF
House Bill 262, which establishes 18 as the minimum age for a person to activate an account on any social media platform in Puerto Rico, is on its way to the Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia’s desk for evaluation.
The measure, authored by at-large Rep. José Enrique “Quiquito” Meléndez Ortiz, was unanimously approved in the Senate (26-0) on June 25.
The legislation also seeks, among other things, that parents approve that minors, up to 18 years of age, can open accounts on social media platforms with all the available security filters, something that rarely happens now.
“I thank the Senate, as well as the House of Representatives, for validating this initiative,” Meléndez said. “There is no doubt that the use of social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat, among others, are a matter of responsibility for parents and their chil-
Rep. José Enrique Meléndez Ortiz
dren. There must be a minimum age for these young people to enter the networks and that age is 18 years old with parental supervision. This is one that Congress is working on. Last May, a group of senators, both Republicans and Democrats, filed a bill to establish the minimum age that
a minor can enter social networks at 13 years old. This happens as a direct consequence of the adult content that minors expose themselves to and the notorious ‘challenges,’ as well as the rawness of much graphic material, which has made Congress act, as they have determined
that it is a matter of the mental health of our children. Here in Puerto Rico we have the tool to face this with the approval of Bill 262.”
In 2023, Meléndez held several meetings with U.S. congressmen to, among other issues, discuss greater controls on minors for access to social networks, including guidance to parents and/or guardians on the risks posed by social media platforms.
“This bill in no way intends for the government to intervene in the personal affairs of any person,” the lawmaker said. “[Rather] it seeks to create a framework for parents and/or guardians to act to prevent minors from being targeted by materials aimed at adults.”
The state of Montana, which in early 2023 passed legislation to ban the use of TikTok on all devices, the first jurisdiction in the nation to do so, is now considering raising the minimum age for young people to have accounts on social networks from 13 to 18.
LUMA Energy discusses microgrids in Vieques & Culebra
By THE STAR STAFF
LUMA Energy, the private operator of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority transmission and distribution system, stated Tuesday that its officials recently met with representatives of Vieques and Culebra to discuss installing microgrid systems in the offshore island municipalities.
“The United States Department of Energy coordinated these meetings with the participation of the Sandia National Laboratory, and their purpose is to involve the residents of both communities in the plans for the development of these projects,” the private grid operator emphasized in a letter.
“These microgrids aim to provide more resilience to the island municipalities and facilitate the introduction of renewable energy sources and energy storage with batteries,” LUMA said. “In this way, Vieques and Culebra could produce enough energy to serve all their customers in the event of an emergency or reduce the impact on the grid during normal operations.”
In February, officials announced that the construction of the microgrids had advanced under the consideration of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after receiving approval from the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau. The initiative is being promoted by the U.S. Department of Energy.
The estimated cost is $122.2 million -- $81.4 million for the Vieques microgrid and $40.8 million for the
system in Culebra.
Both systems would operate primarily on solar energy. In Vieques, the microgrid would have the capacity to generate up to 12 megawatts (MW), while in Culebra, the photovoltaic system would produce about 3 MW.
Separately, LUMA announced that service interruptions on the main island could occur due to planned improvements.
For example, there will be replacement and repair of power lines and equipment in Utuado (Lomas Colón neighborhood, mayor’s office, Fernando L. García residential complex, La Mula sector, Matadero, Jardines de Bubao urbanization, Lomas de Bubao residential area, Cercadillo sector, Alturas de Urb. Utuado, Paso Palma I school, Parcelas Riera, Candito Silta sector, Las Cuevas sector, Reparto Lucber sector), and Arroyo (Urb. Jardines de Arroyo).
In addition, work will be performed to reinforce utility poles in Guánica (Oasis neighborhood), San Juan (Urb. Santa María), and new construction work will be performed in Puerto Nuevo Norte (Diego Avenue), San Juan.
Substations in Corozal (Cuba Libre neighborhood, Abraham Lincoln School, Manuel Boi Galí school, Enrique Landrón residential complex, Casco Urbano sector, Los Ramos sector, Urb. El Centro, Urb. Monterrey, Mavilla sector, Urb. María del Carmen Extension, Arturo Morales sector, Cuchillas sector, Los Guayanos sector, Los Quiles sector, Sico Martínez sector, Plaza
Aquarium, Chárriez sector, Lomas García sector and Los Sánchez sector, among other sectors) are also being restored and modernized.
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In Vieques, a proposed microgrid energy system would have the capacity to generate up to 12 megawatts, while in Culebra, the photovoltaic system would produce about three megawatts.
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Beryl leaves millions without power in Houston: What to know
Homes damaged by Tropical Storm Beryl on the coast in Surfside Beach, Texas, on Monday, July 8, 2024. Tropical Storm Beryl brought thunderstorms and tornado warnings to East Texas and parts of Arkansas and Louisiana on Monday evening, after lashing Houston and its suburbs with strong winds and torrential rains. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)
By J. DAVID GOODMAN
Aday after Tropical Storm Beryl struck Houston with deadly force, flooding roads and highways and killing at least seven people in Texas and an eighth in Louisiana, officials were struggling Tuesday to restore power for millions of residents as hot weather returned to the region.
The storm, which made landfall in Texas as a Category 1 hurricane around 4 a.m. Monday, weakened as it passed through the sprawling city and its suburbs. But the force of its winds still left Houston residents reeling for the second time in two months after a deadly system of thunderstorms crashed through the city in May.
Several deaths were caused by falling trees.
The storm had sustained winds of 65 mph as it passed through Houston but also produced damaging, hurricane-force wind gusts above 80 mph in and around the city. That was enough to rip branches and topple trees across the city.
Two of the confirmed deaths from the storm in the Houston area Monday involved trees that fell into homes, crushing people inside.
In the Atascocita area northeast of the city, a tree killed a man who was inside his house with his family. He was 53, the Harris County sheriff said on social media. Another person was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the local fire department.
A falling tree also killed a 74-year-old woman who had been in her home to the north of downtown Houston, near Interstate 45, authorities said.
In Montgomery County, north of the city, a man in his 40s was killed when he was struck by a falling tree while operating a tractor, officials said, and they attributed the deaths of two other people found dead in a tent in a wooded part of the county to the storm.
In Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana, a 31-year-old woman was killed when a tree fell on her home Monday as Beryl brought high winds and tornadoes to the area, officials said.
The storm moved quickly, without stalling out like Hurricane Harvey.
Beryl brought heavy rains to Houston. Floodwaters filled many of the city’s drainage bayous to the top of their banks and,
Abandoned cars sit in floodwaters caused by Tropical Storm Beryl on a road in Sugar Land, Texas, on Monday, July 8, 2024. (Jordan Vonderhaar/The New York Times)
in some cases, overtopped them. Elsewhere, sections of highways and underpasses filled with water. Officials said at least 47 people had to be rescued from high water.
A civilian employee of the Houston Police Department died when he drove into a flooded underpass near downtown where his car became submerged. (Another person died in a house fire in southeast Houston that Mayor John Whitmire of Houston said was “storm-related.”)
But the city was spared widespread flooding in neighborhoods. Unlike Hurricane Harvey, the 2017 storm that devastated the city, Beryl moved relatively quickly through Houston, arriving in the early hours of the morning and departing the city by the afternoon.
While the water was high in many places, some of it was already beginning to recede on Monday and that was expected to continue Tuesday.
Millions were without power, with no word on when they would get it back
Once the storm moved on, the biggest issue for Houston residents became the widespread lack of power. The main provider, CenterPoint Energy, said Monday that more than 2 million customers were without electricity and officials did not immediately provide a timeline for when people could expect to get power back.
About 1 in 5 electricity customers in Texas had lost power by midday Monday, with most of the outages in the Houston area.
“The vast majority of us are without power,” Lina Hidalgo, the Harris County judge and the county’s top elected official, said at a Monday afternoon news conference. She said that around 10,000 electrical workers were ready to begin repairs as soon as they could safely do so, including 7,000 workers who had come to assist from outside of the Houston area.
CenterPoint said in a statement that customers in the hardest-hit areas should prepare for an extended period without electricity.
“This will be a multiday restoration effort,” said Thomas Gleeson, the chair of the state’s Public Utility Commission.
The damage in the United States paled next to what happened in the Caribbean.
The force of the storm was considerably diminished from its peak in the Caribbean. Beryl formed in June and grew into a Category 5 hurricane, the earliest such hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean.
The storm killed at least 11 people across several islands of the Caribbean, including Jamaica, and in Venezuela.
In Carriacou and Petite Martinique, Grenada, Beryl destroyed about 98% of the buildings, which are home to around 10,000 people, officials said, when it struck as a Category 4 hurricane on July 1.
The storm is weakening, but tornadoes remain possible. Beryl was moving out of Texas on a path that was forecast to continue into Louisiana and Arkansas, and then farther north.
As the storm has moved inland, it has continued to weaken. But tornadoes remained a possibility. Forecasters issued tornado warnings for parts of eastern Texas and Louisiana on Monday.
Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor of Texas, said at a news conference that there had been “a number of tornadoes” reported in northeast Texas on Monday.
How Biden is leveraging his defiance to try to stem Democratic defections
By SHANE GOLDMACHER
President Joe Biden’s increasingly emphatic declarations that he will not exit the presidential race are delivering an unmistakable message to potential wayward Democrats: Any criticisms going forward damage the party’s chances against Donald Trump.
For days, Biden has said he will remain his party’s nominee after his poor debate short of an intervention from “the Lord Almighty.” On Monday, he put that assertion into action.
It began with an open letter to congressional Democrats saying he was definitely running. It continued with a defiant call into one of his favorite cable news shows decrying the “elites” trying to shove him out. It included a midday appearance on a private video call with some of his campaign’s top financiers as well as a call into a virtual meeting Monday evening with a bulwark of his past support: the Congressional Black Caucus.
“I am not going anywhere,” Biden told the donors.
A television is tuned to the debate between former President Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden at Shaw’s Tavern in Washington on June 27, 2024. President Biden’s increasingly emphatic declarations that he will not exit the presidential race are delivering an unmistakable message to potential wayward Democrats: Any criticisms going forward damage the party’s chances against Donald Trump. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)
The moves amounted to a show of defiance that the Biden operation hoped would earn him some deference, as uneasy Democratic lawmakers trickled back to Capitol Hill after a holiday break. At the same time, the Biden team was trying to reframe the pressure campaign to get him to step aside as one hatched by the elite party establishment rather than a genuine reflection of grassroots voter fears about the 81-year-old commander in chief’s age and acuity.
“I love this fighting Joe Biden,” said Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., an outspoken Biden supporter. “When he takes a punch, he’s going to come back and punch harder.”
As lawmakers returned to Washington, Biden received some key words of support, including from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York (“He is in this race; the matter is closed”), but also some concerns among influential lawmakers, including Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, who is in the Democratic leadership (“We need to see a much more forceful and energetic candidate”).
Both in his private and public remarks Monday, Biden made clear he holds all the cards when determining his political future. He has won every state in the Democratic primaries and 14 million votes, netting him practically every delegate headed to Chicago next month for the party’s convention.
“I’m more than the presumptive,” Biden said to Mika Brzezinski, one of the co-hosts of “Morning Joe,” during his MSNBC phone interview. “I’m going to be the Democratic nominee.”
Biden is trying to turn attention back on Trump, saying on the call with the campaign’s top financiers: “We’re done talking about the debate. It’s time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye.”
Even some of the president’s allies, however, were asking why the public-relations blitz was coming more than 10 days after the debate rather than its immediate aftermath. Biden had waited eight days after the debate to sit for his first unscripted interview, with ABC News on Friday, and did not call congressional leaders until days after the debate.
David Doak, a longtime Democratic strategist, said the effort to impose party discipline was understandable for Biden even if it risks “dividing the party at the worst time.” By insisting so unequivocally he is not stepping aside, Biden is making it harder for Democrats to call for him to do so lest they weaken him for the fall.
“Strategically, it is what I would be advising him to do if he wanted to hold on to the nomination at all costs,” Doak said. “It is the ‘at all costs’ which is the question at hand.”
On MSNBC, Biden goaded those who want a different nominee to try running against him. “Go ahead, announce for president,” Biden dared them. “Challenge me at the convention.”
In 2020, Biden spoke of serving as a “bridge” to the next generation of Democratic talent. Now he sees himself as the party’s best chance to defeat Trump again, regardless of widespread concerns about his age.
“I wouldn’t be running if I didn’t absolutely believe that I am the best candidate to beat Donald Trump in 2024,” Biden said.
Despite his standing as the head of the party and the most powerful elected official in the nation, Biden tried Monday to take on the mantle of an outsider fending off the establishment of his own party.
“I’m getting so frustrated by the elites,” Biden said on the MSNBC show that has long been a favorite of the Democratic political establishment. “I’m not talking about you guys,” he said of the “Morning Joe” co-hosts, “but by the elites in the party who,
they know so much more.” He uttered those last words with a singsong tone of disdain.
He added that his weekend of campaigning in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin had reaffirmed his belief that voters were standing by him. “I don’t care what the millionaires think,” Biden said.
Less than three hours later, Biden was participating in a Zoom call with members of his national finance committee — the top donors, millionaires and financiers who bundle contributions from others — to thank them for their support.
Biden’s attempt to reframe the race as a battle against the elites — in an echo of how Trump has often bashed his own party’s leadership — did not sit well in some quarters of the party.
“This desire to wedge the ‘Dem elite’ against ‘regular folk’ is bad,” Hilary Rosen, a veteran Democratic strategist, wrote on the social platform X. “The elite are actually late to concerns about Biden. A majority of voters have been concerned about this for the last two years.”
A New York Times/Siena College poll last week showed that 74% of voters said Biden was too old to be effective, including 59% of Democrats.
A day after some influential House Democrats had met virtually in a private call and aired their concerns about standing behind Biden, the president’s operation began lining up and receiving more statements of support, including from some key Black lawmakers.
“I am 100% with the president,” Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio, a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, said on MSNBC. The current chair, Rep. Steven Horsford of Nevada, issued a statement Monday standing by Biden, too: “President Joe Biden is the nominee and has been selected by millions of voters across this country.”
Rep. Grace Meng of New York, a former vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, also issued a supportive statement. Some of those who had criticized Biden in private were largely silent publicly, including Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, who declined to answer questions about the president at an appearance in Manhattan.
Still, Biden continued to suffer some fresh Democratic doubt Monday.
Sen. Jon Tester of Montana, who is up for reelection this fall in a state Trump is expected to carry in a landslide, said the president “has got to prove to the American people — including me — that he’s up to the job for another four years.”
And Rep. Greg Landsman of Ohio said “time is running out” for Biden, whom he said needed to be able to make his case “again and again and again.”
Biden’s next steps are expected to be the central topic of discussion Tuesday when House Democrats are scheduled to hold a members-only briefing at party headquarters.
The central concern among many Biden allies has been the president’s ability — or inability — to handle unscripted appearances.
On Monday, a White House spokesperson, John Kirby, announced that the president would also participate in what he called a “big boy press conference” Thursday after a NATO summit.
Paramount agrees to merge with Skydance
By BENJAMIN MULLIN and LAUREN HIRSCH
Paramount and Skydance said Sunday they had reached an agreement to merge, a deal that would usher in a new era for CBS, Nickelodeon and the film studio behind the “Top Gun” and “Mission: Impossible” franchises.
The deal is a turning point for the Redstone family, whose fortunes have been intertwined with the rise and fall of the traditional entertainment industry during the decades of its tumultuous ownership of Paramount and its predecessors. Shari Redstone, Paramount’s board chair, is cashing in much of her ownership in the company she fought to preserve and control.
The merger has a “go shop” period that will give Paramount’s board a 45-day window to see if it can find a superior deal.
But if the Skydance deal closes, it will anoint a new mogul in Hollywood. David Ellison, the tech scion behind Skydance, will become the top power broker at Paramount. The deal is in some ways the story of media writ large, with a family that made its fortune in traditional entertainment largely replaced by one enriched by technology — Ellison is the son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison. The Ellisons’ considerable resources were a major selling point for the Redstones, who were seeking to shore up Paramount for the long-term.
“Given the changes in the industry, we want to fortify Paramount for the future while ensuring that content remains king,” Redstone said in a statement.
The merger closes a chapter for Redstone, 70, who took over from her father, Sumner, and fought to keep the family media empire intact.
Ellison, who will become chair and CEO of Paramount, thanked Redstone in a statement, saying he was “incredibly grateful” that she had “agreed to entrust us with the opportunity to lead Paramount.”
In recent years, Paramount has become the poster child of a traditional media industry that has been limping along in the shadows of streaming giant Netflix and tech companies such as Amazon, which have plenty of cash to spend on their media bets. Paramount has tried to replace its fading cable TV enterprise with streaming businesses such as Paramount+, but those efforts are still nowhere near as profitable as traditional TV operations.
The full value of the merger was not immediately clear because the deal is complex. Skydance and its financial backers will acquire National Amusements, a company that holds the Redstone family’s voting stock in Paramount, for roughly $1.75 billion. Paramount is also merging with Skydance, leaving the studio and its backers in charge of a media empire that includes film, TV and news properties.
Paramount’s market capitalization — the value the stock market places on the company — is about $8.2 billion. The deal values Skydance at $4.75 billion.
The offer from Skydance will allow many holders of Paramount’s nonvoting stock to cash out at roughly $15 per share. Investors who own voting stock will be able to sell at $23 per share. This will allow investors who feel shortchanged by the Skydance deal — there are many — to get rid of the company’s stock at a premium to its current price of $11.81.
The merger agreement comes at a precarious time for Paramount. Its flagship streaming service, Paramount+, is hemorrhaging hundreds of millions of dollars in cash annually. After clashing with Redstone, its CEO, Bob Bakish, was replaced by three executives, who run an “office of the CEO” — an awkward, temporary fix. And its cable business is in long-term decline, causing its stock to slide more than 70% over the past five years.
In the past month, Paramount’s three CEOs have proposed a plan they say will help get Paramount back on track that includes cutting $500 million in costs and selling off parts of the company that aren’t central to its strategy. Losses are beginning to slow at Paramount+, and the company is exploring a potential joint venture with other firms that could reduce costs further.
Now taking control of the flagging company will be Ellison, a Hollywood producer and executive who has helped fund some of Paramount’s biggest franchises. After dropping out of the University of Southern California to try his hand at acting, Ellison began to finance films, founding Skydance in 2010. The company has produced some of its most successful movies with Paramount, including “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.”
Ellison, 41, is planning to bring his own cast into Paramount. Jeff Shell, a former CEO of NBCUniversal, will be president of the new company. He was fired from NBCUniversal last year after an anchor at CNBC lodged a sexual harassment complaint against him. Late last year, he joined RedBird Capital Partners, a Skydance backer, as its chair of sports and media.
Bakish, 60, remains an adviser to Paramount. His exit agreement, filed in May, says he will continue to work for the company through October with a monthly salary of $258,333 and benefits. His exit package also includes a two-year nondisparagement agreement.
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An exterior view of The Melrose Gate of the Paramount Pictures studio in Los Angeles on April 26, 2023. A special committee of Paramount’s board on Sunday signed off on a deal to merge with Skydance, according to two people familiar with the negotiations, setting the stage for a new era for CBS, Nickelodeon, and the film studio behind the “Top Gun” and “Mission: Impossible” franchises. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
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Stanley’s Wilson says a 10% fall in S&P 500 by US election is ‘highly likely’
Adecline of 10% in the benchmark S&P 500 stock index before the U.S. presidential election in November is “highly likely,” Morgan Stanley Chief Investment Officer Mike Wilson said in an interview on Monday with Bloomberg TV.
Among the reasons for a decline are uncertainty over how swiftly the Federal Reserve will bring interest rates down from nearly two-decade highs and falling pricing power on the part of companies, increasing the likelihood of disappointing earnings results, he said.
“The average company has not had good earnings results,” he said, adding that a nearly 17% gain in the S&P 500 for the year to date has been powered by a small number of companies.
At the same time, price to earnings multiples have been rising. “Valuations to me look very unexciting,” he said.
Wilson maintained a bearish outlook for the majority of this year, one of few prominent forecasters to do so. In late May, he lifted his base-case 12-month forecast for the S&P500, an estimate of what the fair value of the index will be in a year, to 5,400 points. At the time, that was only 2% above its level but 20% higher than his previous forecast of 4,500.
The S&P 500 closed Monday at 5,572, some 3% above Wilson’s 12-month target price.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) executives expect the U.S. economy to grow at a slower clip of about 2% in the second half of 2024, they said on Tuesday, with equity indexes seen largely flat due to declining earnings growth and political anxieties.
That makes the investment landscape more complex, but one that still presents opportunities, including a broader array of AI stocks, GSAM said in its mid-year outlook.
“It’s absolutely a soft landing,” said Lindsay Rosner, head of multi-sector investing at the asset management arm of Goldman Sachs. “As the data comes through, that’s what we’re seeing.”
The BlackRock Investment Institute (BII), an arm of BlackRock, also released its mid-year outlook on Tuesday morning.
“There is a real probability” that investors will see interest rate cuts in the United States in the second half of 2024, Rosner added. She does not expect the Federal Reserve to begin cutting until September, but added that rate cuts could continue at a pace of 25 basis points per quarter.
As interest rates fall, Rosner said she expected the fixed income market to benefit. She said she saw particularly interesting opportunities in the high-yield bond market and in structured credit.
By far the biggest trend in the U.S. stock market this year has been the dominance of a small handful of companies linked to the artificial intelligence (AI) theme, notably semiconductor giant Nvidia. Only five stocks and that single trend generated half of all stock market returns in the
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first six months of 2024, said Alexis Deladerriere, global equity portfolio manager and head of developed markets at GSAM.
The gap in returns between the S&P 500 and the index’s equal-weighted counterpart is at its widest in 15 years, underscoring the need to diversify beyond AI heavyweights such as Nvidia.
The S&P 500 is at record levels mostly due to a handful of megacap stocks such as Microsoft and Nvidia, fueling concerns that 2024’s rally could dissipate if the sentiment changes around those select AI-linked shares.
The spread in total returns between the S&P 500 and the benchmark index’s equal-weighted peer widened to 10.21% in the first half of the year, according to data from S&P Dow Jones Indices.
“We think you need to move away from the early winners” in AI and diversify exposure to this trend, he said.
As earnings growth decelerates overall and political anxieties mount both domestically and globally, Deladerriere said he anticipates U.S. stocks will remain largely flat in the second half of the year.
“We are seeing decelerating earnings growth” and the potential for domestic and global political events to unsettle U.S. stocks, said Deladerriere.
Deladerriere added GSAM views Indian and Japanese equities as particularly attractive at this point, as plays on trends ranging from AI to addressing climate change. He also noted the appeal of Japanese reforms to corporate governance.
“High valuations and lofty expectations lead to more market risks. If they fail to meet their lofty growth expectations, there will be a pullback in major indexes,” Cetera Investment Management’s chief market strategist Brian Klimke said.
Israeli general denounces Jewish settler violence in West Bank
By EPHRAT LIVNI
Amid rising tensions between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and new moves by the Israeli government to expand its hold on the territory, an Israeli general on Monday issued a harsh rebuke of the government’s policies there and condemned rising “nationalist crime” by Jewish settlers.
Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuks, the outgoing chief of Israel’s Central Command, which is responsible for the country’s military forces in the West Bank, said at a departure ceremony that a “strong and functioning” Palestinian Authority was in Israel’s security interest.
The general’s statement appeared to be a swipe at Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who is himself a settler and who has been crippling the authority by withholding tax funds that Israel collects on its behalf in the roughly 40% of the West Bank that the authority administers.
Fuks also expressed dismay over an increase in settler violence in the West Bank, which is home to about 2.7 million Palestinians and a Jewish settler population that has grown to well over 500,000. An extremist minority of violent settlers, he said, had been undermining Israel’s reputation internationally and sowing fear among Palestinians. “That, to me, is not Judaism,” he said. “At least not what I was raised on in my father’s and mother’s home. That is not the way of the Torah.”
Israel seized control of the West Bank from Jordan in 1967 during a war with three Arab states, and Israeli civilians have
An aerial view of the Evyatar settler outpost in the northern West Bank, July 7, 2024. The settlement is one of five settler outposts that Israel recently decided to give legal status. Settlements in the territory are widely considered to be illegal under international law. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
since settled there with both the tacit and explicit approval of the government, living under Israeli civil law while their Palestinian neighbors are subject to Israeli military law.
The international community largely views Israeli settlements in the West Bank as illegal, and many of them are illegal under Israeli law but are tolerated by the government. Many outposts that began as illegal under Israeli law have subsequently been legitimized by the government, and Palestinians have long argued that they are a creeping annexation that turns land
needed for any independent Palestinian state into an unmanageable patchwork.
Last year, the United Nations reported that attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank had surged in the weeks following the Oct. 7 attacks that set off the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas, with at least 115 killed, more than 2,000 injured and nearly 1,000 others forcibly displaced from their homes, citing violence and intimidation by Israeli forces and settlers.
Fuks argued that terrifying the Palestinians living alongside Jews was “a danger-
ous mistake” and that the actions of violent Jewish settlers threatened Israel’s security.
But Smotrich has been vocal about wanting Israel to claim all of the West Bank. Last month, he struck a deal with ministers to release some money withheld from the Palestinian Authority in exchange for the legalization of five more Jewish outposts, and last week, the finance ministry released about $136 million.
Smotrich said in a post on social media that day that he was working with planning authorities on approving more than 5,000 additional housing units in the West Bank. “We’re building the good country and thwarting the creation of a Palestinian state,” he said.
Last month an Israeli ministry approved the largest seizure of West Bank land since the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians, claiming about 5 square miles in the Jordan Valley, according to Peace Now, an Israeli group that monitors settler activity. Israel has seized roughly 9 square miles of the territory this year, making 2024 by far the peak year for appropriations, Peace Now said.
While settlers and ministers are defiant, their activities are a source of tension for Israel with other nations, including its ally the United States, at a time when it is increasingly isolated in the world over its conduct of the war in Gaza.
“Settlements continue to be counterproductive to a two-state solution,” John Kirby, the national security spokesperson for the White House, said in a briefing with reporters on Monday. “We don’t support that.”
Russian court orders arrest of Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny’s widow
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
ARussian court on Tuesday ordered the arrest in absentia of Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, who was a key figure in the country’s political opposition, accusing her of “participating in an extremist community.”
The court order against Navalnaya, who left Russia in 2021, comes five months after her husband died under murky circumstances in a harsh Russian penal colony. He was imprisoned after being convicted of various trumped-up charges when he
returned to Russia after a near-fatal attempt to poison him in August 2020.
Navalnaya has repeatedly accused President Vladimir Putin of Russia of killing her husband and has vowed to continue his opposition work. She has become an outspoken critic of Russia’s war in Ukraine, using episodes like a Russian missile hitting a children’s hospital in Kyiv on Monday to blame Putin and the Kremlin for the bloodshed.
The statement from the Basmanny District Court’s press office announcing the arrest order did not spell out the reason for
the charges, but it appeared to be linked to her role in helping to run the Navalny opposition organization. Although she avoided any overt political role while her husband was alive, Navalnaya has long led the advisory board of his Anti-Corruption Foundation.
The foundation, which itself was slapped with the “extremist” label and now operates as an international organization from exile in Lithuania, has repeatedly embarrassed Putin and other senior Kremlin officials by chronicling the estates, yachts and other financial assets that they
have acquired while in office.
The order to arrest Navalnaya came from the Investigative Committee, and the court statement said her name would be placed on an international wanted list. Navalnaya left Russia in 2021. She would be subject to arrest if she ever returns to Russia, the statement said.
Navalnaya reacted to the court decision with a slightly mocking tone, noting in a post on the social platform X that the court had jumped right to the “extremist” label without the usual interim steps like “foreign agent.”
Why foreign officers are policing Haiti
By FRANCES ROBLES and ABDI LATIF DAHIR
Foreign law enforcement officers started arriving in Haiti late last month, more than 1 1/2 years after the prime minister there issued a plea to other countries for help to stop the rampant gang violence that has upended the Caribbean nation.
The 400 officers from Kenya are the first contingent of a deployment of officers from eight nations. Their job is to try to wrest control of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, from dozens of armed groups that have attacked police stations, freed prisoners and killed with impunity.
So far, the officers have gone out on a few patrols around Port-au-Prince and authorities have not reported any clashes with armed groups.
Some security experts say the Kenyan officers face a significant challenge supporting Haiti’s police and facing off with well-armed and highly organized gangs that have vowed to fight the foreign officers.
And Kenyan police have a checkered history back home, accused by human rights groups of killing and abusing civilians, raising concerns about their actions in Haiti.
Here’s what to know about the multinational mission.
Why foreign officers?
Since Haiti’s appeal for international help went out in October 2022, more than 8,000 people have died in the violence there — over 3,000 people so far this year alone, the United Nations says.
With a weakened national government and the presidency vacant, dozens of gangs have put up roadblocks, kidnapped and killed civilians, and attacked entire neighborhoods. About 200,000 people were forced from their homes from March to May, according to the U.N.
The Kenyans in Haiti are the first to de-
Officially called the Multinational Security Support Mission, the deployment is expected to last at least a year, according to the U.S. government.
Sanctioned by the U.N. and mostly financed by the United States, its goal is to support Haitian police and establish enough stability so the transitional government can set up elections to choose a new president, as well as members of parliament.
What other countries are involved?
Beside Kenya, the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Chad and Jamaica have officially offered personnel for the mission.
But it has not received much financial commitment.
While Kenyan officials estimate the mission’s cost will run up to $600 million, a U.N. fund to pay for it has only raised $21 million. The United States has pledged more than $300 million, but the U.S., Canada and France — Haiti’s biggest benefactors and allies — were unwilling to send troops of their own.
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ploy of an expected 2,500-member force, an effort largely organized by the Biden administration.
There is long history of international forces being sent to Haiti for the stated purpose of restoring law and order that have left behind grim legacies of civilian casualties, sexual exploitation and disease.
What will the officers do?
The newly arrived officers are expected to tackle a long list of challenges, including retaking control of the country’s main port and freeing major highways from criminal groups that demand money from drivers. Checkpoints along roads have become a major sou-
rce of income for gangs, experts say.
Two weeks into the deployment, the Kenyan officers, who are based at the international airport in Port-au-Prince, have gone out on limited patrols, working jointly with Haitian police. They have patrolled the downtown streets of the capital, and the areas near the National Palace, the Haitian police academy and the U.S. Embassy.
Beyond protecting key infrastructure, the officers at some point will be expected to secure the presidential palace, which remains in shambles after a 2010 earthquake but continues to be a symbolic place of power in Haiti.
Kenya was the first nation to publicly offer to do so. Many experts believed the mission would be more welcomed if it was led by an African nation.
Experts say that Kenya’s president, William Ruto, who won a closely contested election in 2022, is using the deployment to broaden his profile on the global stage.
What is the US role?
The United States has provided many of the mission’s supplies, rushing to find armored vehicles and other equipment.
The U.S. military flew more than 100 flights into Haiti to support the mission, carrying more than 2,696 tons of supplies. Civilian contractors have built sleeping quarters for the Kenyan officers at the Port-au-Prince airport.
Haitian government officials have cleared the airport perimeter of hundreds of houses, which made it easier for gangs to hide and fire at aircraft, forcing the airfield to close. The airport is now reopened to commercial flights.
U.S. officials say they are hopeful that a new prime minister and police chief will be able to stem the violence.
Garry Conille, a former U.N. official who was appointed prime minister by a presidential transitional council, met recently with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss the challenges facing his homeland.
Prime Minister Garry Conille of Haiti, fourth from left, poses for a photo with members of the Haitian delegation while visiting the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, July 2, 2024. The United States has provided many of the supplies for an international mission to restore civic order in Haiti, rushing to find armored vehicles and other equipment.
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Beyond resilience: Puerto Rico’s urgent need for energy stability
By MARIELA TORRES CINTRÓN Special to The STAR
With hurricane season underway, Puerto Rico finds itself in an intensifying pressure cooker of threats: fragile electrical infrastructure, LUMA Energy’s inefficient management, and escalating climate change impacts. This volatile mix erodes quality of life and poses direct public health dangers, with each blackout potentially becoming a medical crisis.
Amid this urgency, conflicting energy solutions have surfaced. Federal officials are advocating for solar panels, while local leaders are pushing for a broader focus on energy generation. This clash is unfolding as Puerto Rico residents prepare for what could be an active hurricane season, underscoring the potential of comprehensive energy solutions that can provide not just resilience, but true stability.
Puerto Rico’s electricity sector exemplifies the island’s infrastructure crisis. PREPA’s power generation capacity of 5,948 megawatts (MW) — equivalent to the electricity needed to power nearly 4 million average American homes — is heavily reliant on oil (63%) and natural gas (23%), and is illequipped for present and future challenges. This fossil fuel dependence drives up costs and leaves the system vulnerable to global market fluctuations and supply disruptions.
LUMA Energy’s privatized management has exacerbated these issues, failing to provide reliable service to 1.5 million customers. Frequent outages endanger lives, particularly for those relying on medical equipment. While the new climate change mitigation plan and renewable energy goals offer hope, potential delays until 2025-2050 leave Puerto Rico facing countless more blackouts.
The debate between solar panels and broader energy generation highlights the intricate balance between immediate needs and long-term sustainability. Puerto Rico urgently requires a comprehensive, resilient energy strategy that can withstand both chronic inefficiencies and acute shocks like hurricanes, emphasizing the importance of long-term planning.
Last month’s heatwave exposed Puerto Rico’s critical infrastructure vulnerabilities. Soaring temperatures pushed the fragile power grid to its limits, causing cascading blackouts as demand for cooling skyrocketed. This created a dangerous feedback loop, with each failure increasing strain on the system.
For vulnerable populations — the elderly, chronically ill,
and young children — the loss of reliable cooling became life-threatening. Heat-related illnesses surged as indoor temperatures rose unchecked. Ironically, those most in need of climate control often lack resources for backup power or relocation.
This crisis starkly demonstrated Puerto Rico’s illpreparedness for extreme weather events that climate change will make increasingly common. Each power failure during extreme heat isn’t just an inconvenience; it’s a dangerous reminder of the urgent need for climate-resilient infrastructure that provides stability, not just resilience.
Puerto Rico’s energy and infrastructure failures disproportionately impact vulnerable populations. With 21.3% aged 65 or older and 21.7% living with disabilities, a significant portion of residents are highly susceptible to power outages and extreme weather. The island’s 44,311 Medicare beneficiaries relying on electric medical devices face life-threatening risks during blackouts.
Economic realities exacerbate this vulnerability. With 42.7% living below the poverty level, nearly half of Puerto Ricans lack resources to prepare for or respond to emergencies. Backup power systems and quick relocation are often financially out of reach, forcing many to weather crises in dangerous conditions.
This inequity transforms inconveniences into lifethreatening situations. Every outage that leaves a dialysis patient scrambling for treatment, every heatwave trapping low-income elderly in sweltering apartments, and every storm forcing disabled individuals to navigate emergencies without support represents a failure to protect the most vulnerable citizens.
Puerto Rico stands at a critical juncture where climate change, infrastructure vulnerability, and energy insecurity converge, demanding immediate and comprehensive action. The island needs more than resilience; it needs stability. The debates between solar panels and broader generation, between privatization and public control, must give way to a unified push for a resilient, equitable and sustainable energy future.
This transformation must prioritize:
1. Rapid transition to a diverse, decentralized renewable energy mix.
2. Significant investment in grid modernization and climateresilient infrastructure.
3. Targeted support for vulnerable populations, including subsidized backup power for critical medical needs.
4. Integration of energy planning with economic development and poverty reduction strategies.
5. Enhanced emergency response capabilities and community-based preparedness.
The time for half-measures has passed. Every day without progress is another day Puerto Rico residents live under threat. The island’s leaders must recognize that energy security, climate resilience and social equity are inextricably linked challenges requiring bold, comprehensive solutions.
The people of Puerto Rico have demonstrated incredible resilience in the face of repeated crises. We deserve an energy system and infrastructure
LUMA Energy crews worked through the night to repair high-voltage lines at a transmission tower after a failure the operator said was caused by vegetation triggered a major blackout in June. (Facebook via LUMA Energy)
that matches that resilience — one that doesn’t just survive the next disaster but provides a stable foundation for prosperity and well-being.
The path forward is clear; what’s needed now is the political will and unified action to transform Puerto Rico’s energy landscape for all its residents, especially the most vulnerable. Moving beyond resilience to true stability is not just an aspiration; it’s an imperative for Puerto Rico’s future.
Mariela Torres Cintrón is an assistant professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Puerto Rico’s Medical Sciences Campus, and a Public Voices fellow of The OpEd Project and AcademyHealth.
Alcaldes exigen a LUMA Energy designación de contactos de emergencia y mejoras en el servicio eléctrico
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SAN JUAN – El presidente de la Asociación de Alcaldes de Puerto Rico, Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz, informó el martes los resultados del encuentro mensual de la organización, destacando los constantes problemas relacionados con LUMA Energy, como apagones, fluctuaciones de voltaje, falta de poda y desganche, así como la sustitución de luminarias públicas.
Además, enfatizó la necesidad de conocer quién será el contacto de LUMA en la eventual activación del plan de emergencias.
“Estamos en plena temporada de huracanes y al día de hoy, los alcaldes no tenemos la persona contacto con los municipios asociados. La información que estamos requiriendo no está disponible. Este es un reclamo que estamos haciendo los alcaldes asociados y los federados, porque es un problema de país”, señaló el alcalde de Comerío, Josian Santiago en declaraciones escritas.
Hernández Ortiz expuso que el lunes hubo una reunión en la sede de LUMA Energy, donde varios alcaldes fueron citados por región, y el consenso de los que asistieron es que nuevamente falta información clara y nombres de las personas encargadas de las regiones. “Los citaron para mostrarle unas facilidades nuevas que ellos tienen, que a algunos les recordó aquel lujoso Centro de Operaciones de Emergencia (COE) de Ricardo Rosselló, mientras el pueblo sufre la crisis todos los días”, dijo Hernández Ortiz.
El reclamo de los alcaldes fue formalizado mediante una resolución en la que la Asociación de Alcaldes no asistirá a la reunión con LUMA Energy hasta que la compañía proporcione el nombre específico de las personas encargadas de ejecutar los planes de emergencia a nivel central y la comunicación con las regiones a nivel municipal.
“Estamos cansados de las reuniones estériles y sin personal especializado en temas de la red energética y con poder para tomar decisiones en caso de tener que enfren-
tar una emergencia en la temporada de huracanes”, añadió Hernández Ortiz.
En la resolución se exige a LUMA Energy que establezca un punto de contacto específico para la gestión de emergencias, disponible las 24 horas del día, los 7 días de la semana, con el objetivo de atender de manera inmediata y efectiva cualquier incidente que afecte la provisión de servicios eléctricos. Además, demandan que en cada región haya un punto de contacto designado para facilitar la comunicación y coordinación con las autoridades locales y municipales, asegurando así una respuesta más rápida y coordinada ante cualquier eventualidad. Rechazan enérgicamente cualquier aumento en las facturas eléctricas según el plan de ajuste de la deuda, por considerarlo insostenible para la economía y el bienestar del pueblo. También se oponen al aumento en las facturas por daños a enseres eléctricos debido a fallas en el servicio, aunque respaldan la compensación por los enseres dañados sin que esto resulte en un aumento en la factura.
La resolución establece que LUMA Energy deberá presentar, en un plazo no mayor a 30 días, un plan detallado de mejoras a la infraestructura y servicios eléctricos que garantice una mayor estabilidad y calidad en la provisión de energía. Además, solicitan que en un plazo máximo de 15 días, LUMA Energy establezca los puntos de contacto regionales y de emergencia mencionados anteriormente, proporcionando información clara y accesible para todos los ciudadanos.
Hernández Ortiz, instruyó a la directora ejecutiva de la Asociación, Verónica Rodríguez Irizarry, a transmitir esta resolución a LUMA Energy de manera inmediata, solicitando una pronta respuesta y acción conforme a lo acordado. “Si en el término de treinta días no tenemos respuesta adecuada, vamos a elevar esta situación a nivel de la Junta de Control Fiscal, de la Agencia Federal para Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA) y de la secretaria Granholm del Departamento de Energía Federal”, finalizó Hernández.
AEE firma contrato para el dragado de embalses afectados por sedimento tras huracanes
SAN JUAN – La Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (AEE) firmó un contrato con AECOM Caribbean, PSC para realizar servicios de diseño, investigaciones de campo y consultoría para el dragado de los embalses Lucchetti, Guayo, Loco, Guayabal, Matrullas y Guineo.
“Los huracanes Irma y María depositaron una gran cantidad de sedimento en los embalses de almacenamiento de agua principales de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica, acortando la capacidad operativa de cada uno. Con la ejecución de este proyecto nos proponemos retornar la capacidad de almacenaje que tenían esos embalses antes del paso de ambos huracanes por Puerto Rico”, dijo Colón Ortiz en declaraciones escritas.
El proyecto, aprobado por la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA) en la fase I, contempla el
diseño y estudios para la remoción de cerca de 4.2 millones de yardas cúbicas de sedimento en 11 embalses que se acumuló tras el paso del huracán María en septiembre de 2017. El costo total estimado de este proyecto es de 350 millones de dólares para los embalses Dos Bocas, Caonillas, Guayo, Lucchetti, Guajataca, Guayabal, Matrullas, Loco, Guineo, Garzas y Guerrero.
El funcionario destacó que estos embalses proveen agua para la generación de energía, el sistema de riego de la corporación pública y suministran agua cruda para las plantas de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados en las regiones sur y suroeste de la isla.
Colón Ortiz recordó que a finales de junio la AEE firmó otro contrato de servicios
de diseño, investigaciones de campo y consultoría para el dragado de los embalses Dos Bocas, Caonillas, Guajataca, Guerrero y Garzas.
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‘The Promised Land,’ ‘Biosphere’ and more streaming gems
By JASON BAILEY
Speculative science fiction, period drama and sly thrillers are among this month’s off-the-beaten-path recommendations from your subscription streamers.
‘The Promised Land’ (2023) Stream it on Hulu.
Mads Mikkelsen stars in this epic period drama as Capt. Ludvig Kahlen, described as “a presumptuous soldier in a flearidden uniform” — and that’s what they say to his face. The sneers and humiliation he is subjected to by the ruling class of mid-18th-century Denmark give the picture its juice; the potent narrative is as much a pointed class commentary as a historical drama, as the poor but dedicated Kahlen tries to build a workable manor out of a barren slab of heath, and discovers that his idealistic notions of honor and hard work won’t get him much of anywhere with these aristocrats. Chief among them is Simon Bennebjerg’s De Schinkel, the most loathsome movie villain in many a moon. And director Nikolaj Arcel builds up a furious head of steam on the way to an utterly satisfying conclusion.
‘A Simple Favor’ (2018) Stream it on Netflix.
Paul Feig made his name directing such movies as “Bridesmaids” and “Spy,” uproarious comic gems that provided careerbest showcases for their female stars. He shines a similarly flattering spotlight on Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively here, though with a surprising genre shift, eschewing the broad comedy of his earlier work for this stylish, semi-Sapphic neo-noir thriller. Kendrick is a typical suburban mom who finds herself dazzled by (and quietly attracted to) Lively’s sophisticated outlier; their children are schoolmates, but they may as well be from different planets. The twists and turns of Jessica Sharzer’s screenplay (from the Darcey Bell novel) are compelling, but Kendrick and
Lively’s swoony relationship, and its spiky playfulness, are what make “A Simple Favor” sing.
‘Dean’ (2017)
Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.
Absurdist stand-up comedian Demetri Martin tried his hand at feature filmmaking (and went all-in, writing, directing and starring) with this modest but amusing tale of grief, family and arrested development. As an actor, Martin is occasionally hampered by his deadpan delivery (one of his greatest weapons onstage); luckily, Martin the director is wise enough to fill out the cast with such heavy-hitters as Kevin Kline, Mary Steenburgen and Gillian Jacobs. Kline provides the best material in the picture as Martin’s father, a recent widower whose attempt at new beginnings cause his son to reevaluate his own life.
‘Austenland’ (2013)
Stream it on Max.
Jerusha Hess, who wrote the hits “Napoleon Dynamite” and “Nacho Libre” with her husband, Jared, made her directing debut with this charmingly eccentric adaptation of the novel by Shannon Hale. The always charismatic Keri Russell is delightful as a Jane Austen obsessive who heads to an Austen-themed English resort hotel, hoping to find a “Pride and Prejudice”-style romance, only to bump up against the limits of romantic fantasy. Bret McKenzie, Jane Seymour and an exuberantly unhinged Jennifer Coolidge are among the supporting cast.
‘The Duke of Burgundy’ (2015)
Stream it on Mubi.
Writer and director Peter Strickland constructs lavish, peculiar pictures that seem set less in our own world than that of 1960s and ’70s exploitation movies. This tartly kinky effort is firmly in the subset of Eurosex cinema, a period in which foreign sensibilities allowed far greater liberties than the puritanical Hollywood of the day. In exploring the complex dynamics of a
female BDSM dynamic, Strickland seeks out universal truths of need, envy and power — while still reveling in the eroticism and intensity of the relationship.
‘Biosphere’ (2023)
Stream it on Hulu.
Mark Duplass and Sterling K. Brown star as the last two people on Earth, the former president and his scientist pal, weighing the particulars and logistics of sustaining the human race in this delicately crafted comedy-drama (with the barest necessary scaffolding of science fiction) from director Mel Eslyn. The screenplay, which Eslyn wrote with Duplass, finds them living in the titular structure, and after the expected (and amusing) comic explorations of their shared space, the real subject of the picture comes into play. It’s a beautifully unspooled surprise, which will remain so here; suffice it to say it’s a film with much to say about boundaries, tolerance and masculinity, and it does so with wit and grace.
‘For Love & Life: No Ordinary Campaign’ (2024)
Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.
Brian Wallach and Sandra Abrevaya are political organizers who met on the 2008 Obama campaign, fell in love, got married and started a family. Their storybook romance hit a speed bump in 2017, when Brian — all of 36 years old — was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (aka Lou Gehrig’s disease), a terminal neurodegenerative disorder. Unwilling to accept his near certain death sentence, Wallach and Abrevaya started a nonprofit advocacy organization, I Am ALS, using their experience in political advocacy to raise awareness and funds. It’s an inspiring, heartbreaking and occasionally infuriating story, brought to vivid and moving life by director Christopher Burke, who uses his extensive access to the couple to paint a portrait of uncommon dedication with real intimacy.
‘All That Breathes’ (2022) Stream it on Max.
Brothers Nadeem Shehzad and Mohammad Saud have dedicated their lives to caring for the wounded black kite birds of New Delhi, a species regarded with such sneering dislike by the citizens of their city that it would be something like taking up the cause of pigeon care in New York City. But Shaunak Sen’s quietly moving documentary (an Academy Award nominee in the documentary category) honors the nobility of that work — all animals are living creatures, deserving of respect and health — and prevents it from becoming too niche by highlighting the universal aspect of the brothers’ lives. They work too much, at the expense of time spent with friends and family, and while work/life balance is far too bland a subject for such an expressive film, it conveys the surprising relatability of these men and their mission.
Mads Mikkelsen, home from war, seeks to make his fortune by developing a wild heath in “The Promised Land.”(Henrik Ohsten/Magnolia Pictures)
This veterinarian makes house — and penthouse — calls
The veterinarian Amy Attas holds a patient, Rosie, in New York on June 7, 2024. “I treat every client the same, because each of them loves their pets wholeheartedly,” writes Attas in her new memoir, “Pets and the City.” (Dina Litovsky/The New York Times)
By ELISABETH EGAN
If you’ve ever tried to wrangle a hissing, scratching, flailing, selectively incontinent beast into a cat carrier, you’ll appreciate the way Amy Attas practices veterinary medicine: She makes house calls.
Attas has seen it all, from opulent penthouses to homes she describes in her new memoir, “Pets and the City,” as “so squalid I feared for my life just breathing in the air.” She X-rayed a sapphire ring-swallowing terrier. She treated a pornographer’s potbellied pig. Billy Joel was grateful for her
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attention to his three-legged black pug; Cher, less so, after her rescue dog was diagnosed with sarcoptic mange, contagious between species. Attas writes, “Cher flung her bathrobe open to reveal her iconic body in its naked entirety,” asking, “Does the rash on humans look like this?”
The majority of Attas’ patients — “my patients are dogs and cats; my clients are humans” — belong to ordinary people.
“Whether I’m trimming a billionaire’s cat’s nails or chatting with the building’s doorman about his dog’s limp, I treat every client the same, because each of them loves their pets wholeheartedly,” she writes. “Love knows neither rank nor bank account.”
Last month, Attas talked with The New York Times about her work, her memoir and what she wishes more humans knew about living with (mostly) four-legged friends. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
Q: First things first: Why don’t more vets make house calls?
A: House calls are more difficult than working in a hospital. I often spend 10 hours a day in the back seat of a car. I eat my breakfast and lunch there. You have to plan where your bathroom stops are going to be. However, my patients are less stressed in their homes.
Q: With such a busy schedule — up to 12 calls a day
— what made you decide to write a book?
A: I realized when I came home every day and said to my husband, “You will never believe what happened today,” that my experiences were different from other veterinarians’.
Q: When you look back on your career, what’s the first memory that pops into your mind?
A: A new client who had an older dog wanted to set up a series of regular exams so she could be on top of his care. When I rang the doorbell, I didn’t hear a dog bark, and that’s unusual. Then the door opened and there was nobody there. It was kind of eerie. I saw my patient had opened the door by using a pulley in his mouth. From the other room, I heard someone call out, “I’m in here! Butter will bring you in.”
My client had a debilitating disease. When I met her she was a paraplegic; eventually she became a quadriplegic. Butter was her service dog. I finished my exam, and she commanded Butter to bring her pocketbook. The dog had a vocabulary of over 100 words, and was able to be her sole caregiver for several hours during the day so she could maintain her independence.
Q: How did Joan Rivers help build your practice?
A: I was working in an animal hospital, and Joan was a VIP client. One day she came in to get her dog vaccinated and my boss said, “Ms. Rivers, please don’t wait. I can see you right now.” And she said, “That’s OK, I’d rather wait for Amy.” The receptionist saw smoke coming out of my boss’s ears.
When he eventually fired me, Joan called and said, “What is going on?” I asked if she wanted me to tell her quickly or give her the longer story and she said, “I want every detail and I’m going to make sure that everybody else on the Upper East Side of Manhattan knows every detail.”
Q: What should a client look for in a rescue animal?
A: First, I advise patience. When people say, “I think I’d like to have a baby,” they don’t get a baby the next day. Second, what do you want in a pet? Is it a running partner or a couch companion? Third, how much time and money do you want to spend? Do you want a longhaired breed you’re going to have to groom every day? These are things people don’t think about when they see a cute puppy. Finally, you need to connect with this pet. If that doesn’t happen, it’s OK to move on.
Q: You see some of the biggest heartbreaks up close. How do you navigate that personally?
A: As a young veterinarian, I was called upon to put to sleep a pet I’d never met before. The family told him how much they loved him, how important he’d been, how much they were going to miss him. They moved me to tears because they said exactly what I would say to my own pet. When I finished, a senior clinician said, “I promise you’re going to get over this.” I vowed to myself, “The day I get over this, I should no longer be in this profession.”
Q: Why are our relationships with animals so important?
A: Pets have this amazing ability to calm us. Coming home at the end of a stressful day and being greeted by a little creature who loves you no matter what — it makes you feel better. Animals accept us for who we are.
Benefits of fish oil for the heart are murky
By ALICE CALLAHAN
In 1970, two Danish researchers traveled to Greenland to investigate a nutritional paradox: The Inuit people living in the region consumed foods very high in fat, yet reportedly had very low rates of heart attacks.
That observation flew in the face of nutrition dogma at the time, which held that eating fatty foods — such as whale and seal meat and oily fish — would clog your arteries and cause heart disease.
The Inuit on Greenland, a Danish territory, had lower levels of blood cholesterol and triglycerides than people back in Denmark, the researchers reported. The reason, they hypothesized, was that the Inuit diet was rich in omega-3 fatty acids — particularly EPA and DHA, which are concentrated in fish and the animals that eat them.
These findings set off decades of scientific and commercial interest in the role omega-3 fatty acids play in heart health, even after later studies suggested that the Inuit had rates of heart disease similar to those found in Europe, the United States and Canada. Today, omega-3 supplements are among the most popular in the United States, surpassed only by multivitamins and vitamin D. Among U.S. adults 60 and older, about 22% reported taking omega-3s in a 2017-18 survey.
Unlike most other supplements, fish oil has been rigorously studied, said Dr. JoAnn Manson, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. But the results of those studies have been mixed, leaving researchers and doctors still debating whether fish oil is beneficial for heart health. They have also revealed that taking fish oil is linked to a slightly greater risk of developing atrial fibrillation, a type of irregular heartbeat.
Here’s where the evidence for both the benefits and risks of fish oil stands today.
Studies do not clear things up
After reading the dispatches from Greenland, researchers began looking at people elsewhere in the world and finding, in study after study, that those who consumed fish at least once per week were less likely to die from coronary heart disease than those who rarely ate fish. In animal experiments, they found that fish oil helped keep electrical signaling in heart cells functioning properly, said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and the director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University.
“There was a lot of enthusiasm” about those findings, said Dr. Christine Albert, the chair of the department of cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. And it was natural to hope that people might be able to reap the same benefits from taking fish oil in supplement form, she added.
But most clinical trials of fish oil capsules have reported no reduction in death from heart disease or in total cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke. That was the finding of a 2018 meta-analysis combining the results of 10 omega-3 trials that included nearly 78,000 people. Similarly, researchers reported no overall heart
health benefits of omega-3s in a 2018 trial of more than 15,000 adults with Type 2 diabetes followed for an average of seven years; in a 2019 trial of more than 25,000 adults 50 and older followed for an average of five years; and in a 2020 trial of a high dose of omega-3s tested in more than 13,000 people at risk of cardiovascular disease.
“One after another of these studies showed absolutely no benefits,” said Dr. Steven Nissen, a cardiologist at Cleveland Clinic, who led the 2020 trial. (One trial, published in 2018, did show a striking benefit of a high dose of the omega-3 EPA. But it has been widely criticized for using mineral oil, which may increase the risk of heart disease, as the placebo, Nissen said.)
“It would be hard for anybody who’s looking at that data to think that there’s anything there for fish oil supplements,” said Dr. Ann Marie Navar, a preventive cardiologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Other experts, including Manson, are not so ready to give up on omega-3 supplementation. Though most clinical trials have shown no benefit of omega-3s on overall cardiovascular risk, she said, some have suggested they can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, including heart attacks. A 2020 analysis of 32 trials, for example, found that those taking omega-3s were 9% less likely to have a coronary event, though the evidence was judged to be “low certainty.”
A consistent risk of a-fib
For all of the debate about the potential health benefits of fish oil, there is general agreement that the supplements appear to increase the risk of atrial fibrillation, or A-fib. While the condition is not immediately life-threatening, it can increase the risk of stroke and heart failure over time, Albert said.
In a 2021 study, Albert and her colleagues combined the results from seven trials and concluded that taking omega-3s was associated with a 25% greater risk of A-fib on average. The risk was even higher when people took larger doses, they found.
It’s not clear why fish oil might increase the risk of Afib, Albert said. But she recommends stopping the supplement if the condition develops.
Should you take it?
Some cardiologists, such as Navar and Nissen, say the evidence is stacked against fish oil. When they see patients who are taking the supplements, they usually recommend that they stop.
Others experts, such as Manson and Mozaffarian, think taking a fish oil supplement may be helpful for people who don’t eat much seafood. In the 2019 trial led by Manson, omega-3s appeared to benefit people who consumed less than 1-1/2 servings of fish per week, but not those who ate more than that.
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Despite decades of research, the evidence for omega-3 supplements is murky. (Alex Merto/The New York Times)
But it’s better to get omega-3s from fish than from fish oil, Manson said. Eating fish provides protein, vitamins and minerals — and it’s a healthier choice than red and processed meats. Guidelines from the American Heart Association suggest consuming at least two, 3-ounce servings per week. Best is fatty fish such as salmon, mackerel, anchovies and sardines.
Know that there is little regulation of the supplement industry. Some fish oil supplements have been found to contain degraded, or rancid, fatty acids, which could be less effective or even harmful, Navar said. Look for certification from an organization like the U.S. Pharmacopeia or NSF, Manson suggested.
High doses of omega-3 fatty acids may be recommended for people with very high blood triglycerides, which can increase the risk of inflammation of the pancreas, Navar said. Omega-3s are an effective approach, though not the only one, for lowering triglycerides.
But if you’re looking to protect your heart, there are other changes to your diet and lifestyle that are proven to help. In contrast to the mixed evidence on fish oil supplements, there are clear benefits to the Mediterranean diet, Nissen said, which includes fish several times per week and emphasizes whole grains, fruits and vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds and olive oil.
“People that expect heart health to come from some magical dietary supplement are really going down the wrong pathway,” he said. “Heart health comes from good, healthy habits.”
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Yo, PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 31 DE JULIO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el
caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 24 de enero de 2024. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría 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 7 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 1 de marzo de 2024, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar de forma rectangular que mide doce metros de frente por veintiún metros de fondo, marcado con el número ocho de la manzana “DL” de la Urbanización Puerto Nuevo propiedad de la Everlasting Development Corporation, que ubica en el barrio Monacillos de Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de doscientos cincuenta y dos metros cuadrados en lindes por el NORTE, SUR, ESTE y OESTE, con terrenos propiedad de la Everlasting Development Corporation y dando frente al Sur con la Calle mencionada Calle número veintitrés de la urbanización. Enclava casa de bloques de cemento y hormigón reforzado, que consta principalmente de dos dormitorios, sala-comedor, cocina y cuarto de baño, según inscripción 2da. Finca Número 5,506, (antes 4,359) inscrita al folio 32 del tomo 152 de Monacillos. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de San Juan. Dirección de la Propiedad: 1325 20 NO St., Puerto Nuevo Dev., San Juan, Puerto Rico 00920. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $72,063.51 en concepto de principal con interés al 5.060% anual, los cuales acumulan a un total de $93,751.32 a la fecha de 25 de abril de 2023 los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como
la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 43 otorgada el día 21 de marzo de 2015, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Alfredo A. Infante Gutiérrez y consta inscrita al folio 74 del tomo 1,098 de Monacillos, finca número 5,506, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III de San Juan. 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 cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $138,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $92,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para
la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $69,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación
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DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES.
Yo, MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 1 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en el cuarto piso oficina del Alguacil de Subastas, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 13 de noviembre de 2023. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría 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 8 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 24 de enero de 2024, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número tres Bloque “B” de la Urbanización Campo Alegre, situado en el Barrio Cerro Gordo de la municipalidad de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área de trescientos doce metros cuadrados colindando por el NORTE, con el solar número dos en una distancia de veinticuatro metros; por el SUR, con el solar número cuatro en una distancia de veinticuatro metros; por el ESTE, con Magnolia Gardens en una distancia de trece metros; y por el OESTE, con la calle Laurel, en una distancia de trece metros. En este solar enclava una
casa de concreto de una sola planta dedicada a vivienda. Finca número 11,833, inscrita al folio 158 del tomo 270 de Bayamón Sur. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón. Dirección de la Propiedad: B-3 Laurel St. Campo Alegre Dev., Bayamón, PR 00959. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $136,911.51 en concepto de principal con interés al 3.89% anual hasta su total y completo pago, y que continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $19,800.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 95 otorgada el día 26 de marzo de 2009, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, ante la Notario Público Jennifer Córdova Córdova y consta inscrita al folio 882 del tomo 1965 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 11,833, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I de Bayamón. 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 cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca
The San Juan Daily Star
Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de Estados Unidos, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $198,000.00, con intereses al 3.89% anual, vencedero el día 11 de agosto de 2079, constituida mediante la escritura número 96, otorgada en (no expresa), Puerto Rico, el día 26 de marzo de 2009, ante la notario Jennifer Córdova Córdova, e inscrita al folio 883 del tomo 1965 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 11,833, inscripción 6ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $198,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $132,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $99,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales-
quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 29 de mayo de 2024. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN. ***
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
ISRAEL VIRELLA SANTA
Demandante V. DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CA2024CV01069. (Civil: 403). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
JESUS A LEDESMA AMADORJALAMADOR@YAHOO.COM. A: JOHN DOE Y/O
RICHARD ROE.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 01 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada
en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 01 de julio de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 01 de julio de 2024. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
VAPR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Demandante V. GIOVANNI
OLIVERAS SIRAGUSA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: PO2024CV00011. (Salón: 605 CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ADELA SURILLO GUTIÉRREZADELA.SURILLO@GMAIL.COM.
A: GIOVANNI
OLIVERAS SIRAGUSA.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de junio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este
caso, con fecha 01 de julio de 2024. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 01 de julio de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. JESSICA BONILLA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR. DANIELA
CARMONA SOSA Demandantes V. REYNALDO RIVERA CARMONA, JOSÉ LUIS
RIVERA CARMONA, LYDIA ESTHER RIVERA CARMONA, ELIZABETH RIVERA CARMONA, RUTH JUDITH RIVERA
CARMONA, RICARDO
RIVERA CARMONA, JACOBED RIVERA CARMONA, ODALIS
RIVERA CARMONA, ARTURO RIVERA
CARMONA, CARLOS ANDRES RIVERA
CARMONAY JOHN DOE. Demandados CASO NUM: CA2024CV01797.
SOBRE: PARTICION DE HERENCIA, EDICTO. ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE AMERICA PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. A: ARTURO
RIVERA CARMONA
El Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina dictó Ia siguiente providencia: “Vista Ia solicitud para Ia orden de emplazamiento por edicto, y cónsono con las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el Tribunal ordena que se cite por edicto a los Codemandados John Doe. El edicto se publicará conforme a Ia Regla 4.6 de las de Procedimiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6 (a)(c), mediante Ia publicación de un solo edicto en un periódico de circulación general diana en Puerto Rico, a los efectos de que presenten cualquier oposición a Ia demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a contarse de Ia publicación del edicto, apercibiéndoseles que de no hacerlo se les anotará Ia rebeldía sin más citarles ni oIrlos. Se exime a Ia Demandante del requisito impuesto por Ia Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento Civil de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de Ia Demanda y del edicto a Ia última dirección conocida de aquellos Codemandados de quienes se desconoce su paradero. Se ordena a Ia Secretaria expida el correspondiente Edicto. Dada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 10 de junio de 2024. Lizardo W Mattei Roman, (Firmado)JUEZ SUPERIOR. Sc le
advierte que, si no comparece al Tribunal en ci presente caso, enviando copia de su posición a Ia abogada de los Demandantes, Ia Lcda. Lizannette Morales Crespo, P0 Box 5272, Carolina, PR 00984-5272, tel. (787)945-5233, dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de Ia publicación, se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin mas citarle ni oIrle. EXPIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 13 de junio de 2024. Lcda. Kaneliy Zayas Robles, Sec Regional. Ida Ferandnez Rodriguez, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR. DANIELA
CARMONA SOSA
Demandantes V. REYNALDO RIVERA CARMONA, JOSÉ LUIS
RIVERA CARMONA, LYDIA ESTHER RIVERA
CARMONA, ELIZABETH RIVERA CARMONA, RUTH JUDITH RIVERA
CARMONA, RICARDO
RIVERA CARMONA, JACOBED RIVERA
CARMONA, ODALIS
RIVERA CARMONA, ARTURO RIVERA
CARMONA, CARLOS ANDRES RIVERA
CARMONAY JOHN DOE. Demandados
CASO NUM: CA2024CV01797.
SOBRE: PARTICION DE HERENCIA, EDICTO. ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE AMERICA PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR.
A: CARLOS ANDRÉS RIVERA CARMONA
El Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina dictó Ia siguiente providencia: “Vista Ia solicitud para Ia orden de emplazamiento por edicto, y cónsono con las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el Tribunal ordena que se cite por edicto a los Codemandados John Doe. El edicto se publicará conforme a Ia Regla 4.6 de las de Procedimiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6 (a)(c), mediante Ia publicación de un solo edicto en un periódico de circulación general diana en Puerto Rico, a los efectos de que presenten cualquier oposición a Ia demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a contarse de Ia publicación del edicto, apercibiéndoseles que de no hacerlo se les anotará Ia rebeldía sin más citarles ni oIrlos. Se exime a Ia Demandante del requisito impuesto por Ia Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento
Civil de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de Ia Demanda y del edicto a Ia última dirección conocida de aquellos Codemandados de quienes se desconoce su paradero. Se ordena a Ia Secretaria expida el correspondiente Edicto. Dada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 10 de junio de 2024. Lizardo W Mattei Roman, (Firmado)JUEZ SUPERIOR. Sc le advierte que, si no comparece al Tribunal en ci presente caso, enviando copia de su posición a Ia abogada de los Demandantes, Ia Lcda. Lizannette Morales Crespo, P0 Box 5272, Carolina, PR 00984-5272, tel. (787)945-5233, dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de Ia publicación, se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin mas citarle ni oIrle. EXPIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 13 de junio de 2024. Lcda. Kaneliy Zayas Robles, Sec Regional. Ida Ferandnez Rodriguez, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR. DANIELA CARMONA SOSA Demandantes V. REYNALDO RIVERA CARMONA, JOSÉ LUIS
RIVERA CARMONA, LYDIA ESTHER RIVERA CARMONA, ELIZABETH
RIVERA CARMONA, RUTH JUDITH RIVERA CARMONA, RICARDO RIVERA CARMONA, JACOBED RIVERA
CARMONA, ODALIS
RIVERA CARMONA, ARTURO RIVERA CARMONA, CARLOS ANDRES RIVERA CARMONAY JOHN DOE. Demandados
CASO NUM: CA2024CV01797. SOBRE: PARTICION DE HERENCIA, EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR.
A: JOHN DOE
El Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina dictó Ia siguiente providencia: “Vista Ia solicitud para Ia orden de emplazamiento por edicto, y cónsono con las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el Tribunal ordena que se cite por edicto a los Codemandados John Doe. El edicto se publicará conforme a Ia Regla 4.6 de las de Procedimiento Civil, 32
L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6 (a)(c), mediante Ia publicación de un solo edicto en un periódico de circulación general diana en
Puerto Rico, a los efectos de que presenten cualquier oposición a Ia demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a contarse de Ia publicación del edicto, apercibiéndoseles que de no hacerlo se les anotará Ia rebeldía sin más citarles ni oIrlos. Se exime a Ia Demandante del requisito impuesto por Ia Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento Civil de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de Ia Demanda y del edicto a Ia última dirección conocida de aquellos Codemandados de quienes se desconoce su paradero. Se ordena a Ia Secretaria expida el correspondiente Edicto. Dada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 10 de junio de 2024. Lizardo W Mattei Roman, (Firmado)JUEZ SUPERIOR. Sc le advierte que, si no comparece al Tribunal en ci presente caso, enviando copia de su posición a Ia abogada de los Demandantes, Ia Lcda. Lizannette Morales Crespo, P0 Box 5272, Carolina, PR 00984-5272, tel. (787)945-5233, dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de Ia publicación, se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin mas citarle ni oIrle. EXPIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 13 de junio de 2024. Lcda. Kaneliy Zayas Robles, Sec Regional. Ida Ferandnez Rodriguez, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE HÉCTOR MANUEL PABÓN ORTIZ
T/C/C HÉCTOR M. PABÓN ORTIZ COMPUESTA POR ALONDRA PABÓN
RIVERA P/C/D SU MADRE CON PATRIA
POTESTAD KAREN ENID
RIVERA COUVERTIER
T/C/C KAREN E. RIVERA, MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO; KAREN ENID RIVERA
COUVERTIER T/C/C
KAREN E. RIVERA POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA REPRESENTADOS POR EL SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO (HUD); DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA
DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2022CV01529. (402). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 5 de marzo de 2024, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 24 de mayo de 2024 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 30 de mayo de 2024 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 1 DE AGOSTO DE 2024 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, Carretera Número Tres (3) Km. 11.7, Avenida 65 de Infantería, Intersección Carr. Núm. 853, Entrada Urb. Lomas de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar identificado con el lote #6 del bloque E en el plano de segregación de la Urbanización Palmarenas, localizada en el Barrio Mediana Baja del Municipio de Loíza, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de 283.850 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 25.000 metros lineales, con el lote #E-7 según el plano de inscripción; por el SUR, en 25.000 metros lineales con el lote #E-5 según el plano de inscripción; por el ESTE, en 11.354 metros lineales con la calle #2 según el plano de inscripción; y por el OESTE, en 11.354 metros lineales con el lote #E-3, según el plano de inscripción. Enclava en dicho solar una casa de cemento propia para vivienda para uso residencial de una sola planta. Inscrita al folio 136 del tomo 229 de Loíza, Finca 11455. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. Inscripción segunda. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: PALMARENAS E6, LOÍZA, PR 00772. Número de catastro: 21-066-031-296-060-00. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $93,003.90. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el 8 DE AGOSTO DE 2024 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $62,006.60.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. ARTURO PÉREZ DE JESÚS, CARMEN
GLORIA HERNÁNDEZ
GONZÁLEZ T/C/C
CARMEN HERNÁNDEZ
GONZÁLEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; VÍCTOR ANDINO FIGUEROA, BRENDA
OTERO ROBLES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS (COMO DUEÑOS REGISTRALES)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2024CV02890. Sala: 503. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ARTURO PÉREZ DE JESÚS, CARMEN
GLORIA HERNÁNDEZ
GONZÁLEZ T/C/C
CARMEN HERNÁNDEZ
GONZÁLEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS, BRENDA OTERO ROBLES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS - 40 F ST. VILLAS DE LAS COLINAS, TOA BAJA, PR 00949; 5380 RAGUSA LOOP, ST. CLOUD FL 34771. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al abogado de la parte demandante. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 2005 TSPR 50, Op. De 22 de abril de 2005; tienen la opción de aceptar o repudiar la herencia del causante, dentro del tér-
mino de 30 días a partir de su emplazamiento. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar dicha herencia dentro del término que se le fijó para contestar a la demanda incoada en su contra, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada, así como el presente emplazamiento.
ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA NÚM.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP
Attorneys at Law Suite 209 500 Calle de la Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIR-
MA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 20 de junio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. IVETTE M. MARRERO BRACERO, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. EUROBANK POR CONDUCTO DE SU SUCESOR EN DERECHO ORIENTAL BANK, DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION, FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC) COMO SÍNDICO DE DORAL BANK, DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION T/C/C DORAL MORTGAGE, LLC, RICARDO RAMÍREZ ACOSTA, ZAIDA PIÑEIRO CASTRO T/C/C ZAIDA PIÑERO CASTRO, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2024CV01206. (601). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: ZAIDA PIÑEIRO CASTRO T/C/C
ZAIDA PIÑERO CASTRO
A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: URB. VILLA DEL CARMEN, 3249 CALLE TOSCANIA, PONCE, PR 00716-2255 Y 1670 MAIN ST APT 1A, HARTFORD, CT 06120-
2730. FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.
Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El 20 de marzo de 2003, Ricardo Ramírez Acosta y su entonces esposa Zaida Piñeiro Castro t/c/c Zaida Piñero Castro constituyeron una hipoteca en Ponce, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm. 49, autorizada por el notario Delfín Sosa Suárez en garantía de un pagaré (no expresa número de testimonio) por la suma de $76,000.00 a favor de Eurobank, o a su orden, con intereses al 5.75% anual y vencedero el 1ro de abril de 2023, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 6 del Bloque AB de la Urbanización Villa del Carmen de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos sesenta metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, por donde mide veinticinco metros, con el solar numero 7 del mismo bloque; por el SUR, en veinticinco metros, con el solar numero 5 del mismo bloque; por el ESTE, en catorce punto cuatrocientos metros, con el solar numero 13 del mismo bloque; y por el OESTE, en catorce punto cuatrocientos metros, con la calle 7 de la Urbanización. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 160 del tomo 1377 de Ponce, Finca 39766, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo móvil 1997 de Ponce, Finca 39766. Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I. Inscripción octava. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el reme-
dio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 20 de junio de 2024, en Ponce, Puerto Rico. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. JESSICA BONILLA RODRÍGUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
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Demandante V. ARELIS
PERAZA PIZARRO
Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2024CV01592. Sala: 404. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ARELIS PERAZA PIZARRO - G-2 1707, SENDEROS DEL RIO, TRUJILLO ALTO, PR 00976; 4176 53RD AVE., APT 1603, BRADENTON FI. 34210.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al abogado de la parte demandante. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 2005 TSPR 50, Op. De 22 de abril de 2005; tienen la opción de aceptar o repudiar la herencia del causante, dentro del término de 30 días a partir de su emplazamiento. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar dicha herencia dentro del término que se le fijó para contestar a la demanda incoada en su contra, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada, así como el presente emplazamiento.
ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE:
Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA NÚM.: 16,393
BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP
Attorneys at Law Suite 209
Tel.: (787) 523-2670
Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN TRIANGLE REO PR, CORP. Demandante V. ANTARTICA ICE PLANT CORP.; CARLOS E. PERDOMO CHEYNE, SU ESPOSA EREIDA FRANCO ECHEVARRIA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: DCD2014-2531. (702). Sobre: REGLA 35.4 DE PROCEDIMIENTO CIVIL; COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; A LA PARTE DEMANDADA Y A LOS TENEDORES DE GRAVÁMENES
POSTERIORES. YO, EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL
AUXILIAR PLACA #193, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, al público en general, POR LA PRESENTE HAGO SABER: CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Cumpliendo con un Mandamiento de Subasta de Bienes Muebles Embargados del Secretario de este Tribunal, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos, en la dirección abajo indicada, el día 9 de agosto de 2024, a las 9:30 de la mañana, los bienes muebles que se describen en Inventario de Bienes Embargados, y que se describen a continuación: 1. Planta eléctrica Kane Caribbean Inc. (John Deere Series 400 6076AF030 RG6076A571375); 2. Henry VogtMacherer Co. No.38485 Serial 38485, año 1992; 3. Pick up GMC color oro, tablilla 709-033, Marbete 036612785; 4. Finger Yale Lifttruck Serie #AS1011963116 Modelo GLC070VXNGSF092; 5. Tanque donde se almacena el hielo; 6. Máquina para preparar las bolsas de hielo; 7. Máquina para transportar el hielo (correa de mover bolsas); 8. Camión International Modelo 4700 año 1996 (4X2), t 9. tablilla H41470 VIN 1NTSCAAM8VH441930; 10. Camión International tablilla H50478 VIN 1HTSCA-
AM5YH217923 11. Hielera de 1 puerta; 12. Hielera de 2 puertas. Los bienes muebles antes identificados fueron embargados el pasado 16 de abril de 2023, mediante Orden y Mandamiento de Embargo de este Tribunal, y entregados al Sr. Miguel Matías, representante de la parte demandante. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde sea posible, el importe de la sentencia dictada el pasado 29 de septiembre de 2014, la cual los balances han sido actualizada al 21 de septiembre de 2023, por las siguientes cantidades: $38,002.94 de principal, más $63,243.62 de intereses acumulados hasta el 21 de septiembre de 2023, más los que continúen acumulándose hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda, más la cantidad de $4,540.56 por recargos. Conforme lo ordenado por el Tribunal, la subasta antes indicada se llevará a cabo en la siguiente dirección física: 140 calle 3A, Hermanos Dávila, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Los bienes muebles antes relacionados se encuentran libres de cargas y gravámenes. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna, continuarán subsistentes; entiéndase que el rematante los acepta y quedan subrogados en la responsabilidad de este sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad para ejecutar se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Para la publicación de este edicto en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez, y para la colocación del mismo en tres sitios públicos visibles del municipio en que se celebre la subasta, libro el presente en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de junio del 2024. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN.
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CELIA IVETTE ORTIZ MARTINEZ; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2023CV02544. Sala: 702. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 1RO DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS. SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en COND. ARMONIA EDIFICO 28 APT. 302 LOS PADROS, CAGUAS, PR 00725 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: (PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL): Apartamento residencial identificado con el número302 del edificio 28, localizado en la tercera y cuarta planta del edificio veintiocho del Condominio Armonia, sito en el Barrio Cañabón del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, el cual tiene una cabida superficial de área de construcción de 2092.44 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 194.40 metros cuadrados. El primer nivel tiene un área superficial de construcción de 1601.36 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 148.78 metros cuadrados y el segundo nivel tiene un área de construcción superficial de 491.08 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 45.62 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con un espacio abierto, en una distancia de 41’1”, equivalentes a 12.52 metros, y con el área de acceso y escalera del edificio, en una distancia de 3’8”, equivalentes a 1.12 metros; por el SUR, con un espacio abierto, en una distancia de 44’9”, equivalentes a 13.64 metros; por el ESTE, con el apartamento número 301 del edificio veintiocho, en una distancia de 32’8”, equivalentes a 9.96 metros y con el área de acceso y escalera del edificio, en una distancia de 6’4”, equi-
valentes a 1.93 metros; y por el OESTE, con espacio abierto, en una distancia de 36’2”, equivalentes a 11.02 metros. La puerta principal de entrada y salida de este apartamento se encuentra localizada en la colindancia Norte y da acceso a elementos comunes a saber, pasillos, escalera y a su vez a través de las calles interiores tiene acceso a la vía pública Gran Boulevard de Los Prados. Este apartamento consta de dos niveles. En el primer nivel (tercera planta del edificio), ubican los elementos de vestíbulo, sala-comedor, sala familiar, cocina, 3 cuartos dormitorios, varios roperos (closets), 2 cuartos de servicios sanitarios, área con facilidades para destinar a lavandería y la escalera interior que conduce al segundo nivel (cuarto piso del edificio) y cuyos elementos consisten en un área de estar o estudio, un cuarto de servicios sanitarios, un área de almacén y de usos múltiples, tales como cocina pequeña, con facilidades de agua potable, sanitaria y de energía eléctrica y una terraza techada. Además, en este nivel tiene y le corresponde el uso y disfrute de la terraza abierta (sin techar), con un área superficial de 1085.76 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 100.87 metros cuadrados, como elemento común limitado destinado de forma manera y exclusiva, permanente e inseparable del apartamento. Tiene y le corresponde como elemento común limitado destinado de forma y manera exclusiva, permanente e inseparable, 2 espacios para estacionamientos que se identifican con los números 449 y número 446. Este apartamento tiene una participación en los elementos generales del condominio de 0.5136%. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 168 del Tomo 1,728 de Caguas, finca número 59,791, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $181,649.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 8 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $121,099.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 15 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la
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How Argentina is learning to win without Messi
By FELIPE CARDENAS / THE ATHLETIC
Lionel Messi, the magical player for Argentina’s national men’s soccer team, has not scored at this Copa América.
He has been slowed by a right adductor injury and has looked human in front of goal in his four appearances. A missed Panenka-style penalty kick against Ecuador in last week’s quarterfinal shootout victory exemplified his current form.
Argentina, though, continues to win. The defending Copa América and reigning World Cup champion, Argentina had a semifinal date with Canada on Tuesday night in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in part because it is learning to win without Messi — when he is on the field but less effective or when he is actually absent.
This stage in his career was always going to come eventually.
Messi is 37 and has been hampered by hamstring injuries since last fall. Even if he would like to, he can no longer carry Argentina’s national team on his back the way he once did.
That, however, has not diminished Messi’s influence on the team. He is the team captain and still Argentina’s emblem, and his play tends to elicit a feeling that his scoring drought could end at any moment.
Still, this Copa América has challenged Messi in different ways.
The playing surfaces in the United States, the tournament’s host country — in several cases, natural grass temporarily laid on top of artificial turf — are choppy and unpredictable.
The fields are also small, the smallest allowed for an official international match. In that shootout win against Ecuador, the dimensions of the field, 109 yards by 70 yards at the Houston Texans’ NFL stadium, boxed Messi into tight spaces. (NFL fields need to be 120 yards long but only 53 yards across.) Ecuador pounced when Messi gained possession.
“The truth is it was a difficult match, which was very hard to play,” Messi said afterward.
If this summer has proved anything, it is that Messi does not have to score to inspire Argentina to victory.
As he nears the end of a glorious playing career, Messi
has become a selfless leader whose command of the international game is still crucial to the success of his team. No player on Argentina, for example, has been involved in more sequences leading to shots than Messi’s 22 this tournament, despite his sitting out the final group stage game against Peru.
Compare this to his rival Cristiano Ronaldo’s performances for Portugal at the European Championship in Germany. The world watched as Ronaldo’s obsession with trying to score came at the expense of Portugal’s mission to win the competition. Ronaldo failed to score at the Euros before Portugal was eliminated by France in the quarterfinals.
One tournament at age 39 will not diminish Ronaldo’s legacy — his 130 goals in international soccer, a record, is a staggering statistic — but the differences between his contributions to Portugal and Messi’s to Argentina over the past three weeks are striking. One has to wonder whether Messi has been watching events in Europe and doing everything possible to avoid becoming a similar burden for his country.
“I’ve seen how late he stays after training to recover in order to be with us,” Argentina midfielder Rodrigo De Paul said of Messi last week. “Leo is like an older brother to us. He gives us so many assurances. Perhaps we’ve spoiled our fans, but we have faith in the quality of our players.”
Under coach Lionel Scaloni, Argentina has found a core group of players who complement this version of Messi.
Alexis Mac Allister and Enzo Fernández are ball-playing central midfielders who allow No. 10 Messi to find positions farther upfield. Julián Álvarez does the pressing (the running, to put it another way), and Lautaro Martínez is among the best finishers in the world. If games get cagey, central defender Cristian Romero and goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez have done well to shut down the opposing team’s best attacks.
Scaloni has incorporated tactics and players that allow Messi to go with the flow of a match, rather than overload him with the responsibility to own it. He has the freedom to drift wide, drop deep and occupy that right-half space where he can be creative and dictate the attacking play.
He was at his best in the group stage opener against Canada on June 20. Canada let him roam freely, and Messi took advantage. His vision and passing led to Argentina’s two goals in a 2-0 victory. Álvarez and Lautaro Martínez scored from plays that came off Messi’s left foot. Jesse Marsch, Canada’s coach, was likely to try something different in Tuesday’s rematch.
Chances to score himself have been few in his three games at the tournament, but it is as a creator where Messi has excelled.
Against Chile, every dead ball that came off his foot was dangerous. Messi tried to beat Chilean goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, a former teammate of his at Barcelona, with an Olímpico corner kick. Messi has never scored directly from a corner. But when the goal closes for him in the run of play, the Olímpico has become one of his go-to alternatives in trying to score.
Bravo tipped that one over the crossbar, but Messi’s next whipped-in cross at the near post pinged in the box before Lautaro Martínez finished from close range. A Messi corner against Ecuador also led to a goal for Argentina.
“So much of what we do as football players depends on how we receive the ball or if the opponent anticipates what you’re going to do,” De Paul said on Telemundo before the tournament began.
He added: “If he wants to do something, he’ll do it. He’s the only player in the world like that. It’s all up to him. But it’s not easy to be Messi.”
This Copa América will be Messi’s last (it will not be played again until 2028). As it is two years until the next World Cup, it could yet be his final international tournament, period. On Sunday, Messi’s brother Matías, 42, told an Argentine radio station that “my brother’s beautiful film is coming to an end.”
Yet Messi still left the stadium that night regretting his missed chances in front of goal.
In the next match, against Chile, five days later, Messi’s first-half shot from outside the penalty area smacked the post and veered out of bounds, before the game became physical and he was slowed by tightness in his right adductor, which ruled him out against Peru.
De Paul let slip in that interview with Telemundo in May that he was preparing himself mentally to play that 2026 World Cup, hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada, without his close friend.
“Eventually the national team will no longer be about one person, because no one is like Leo,” De Paul said. “Because he won’t be at the next World Cup. I tell him that it’s going to be very difficult because he makes everything so much easier for us. We have all benefited from following him so closely. Leo has to be taken care of.”
Going into Tuesday night, Argentina was two wins away from back-to-back Copa América titles.
Depending on the outcome of the rematch with Canada, as difficult as it is for his team and the millions of fans who idolize Messi, it might now also be 90 minutes away -- or closer -- from having to move on without him.
Lionel Messi playing for Argentina at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar (Wikipedia via Tasnim News Agency)
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