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Officials call for immediate action after transformer snafu
By THE STAR STAFF
Public-Private Partnerships Authority (P3A) Executive Director Fermín Fontanés Gómez on Thursday requested immediate action from LUMA Energy to address the reported situation regarding the failure of the newly installed Santa Isabel transformer and ensure the continuity of electrical service in Santa Isabel, Coamo and Aibonito.
Likewise, Fontanés announced that the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau will include the incident in the investigation into the incidents that occurred with the system in mid-June, when a blackout left some 340,000 LUMA customers without power for several hours.
“It is imperative that LUMA execute the action plan quickly to handle the transformer failure situation and to seek effective and quick solutions to what happened,” Fontanés said. “These municipalities have already been severely affected, and need a permanent solution for the stability of electric energy service in this area.”
Edison Avilés, chairman of the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, said “the situation reported by LUMA will be investigated to ensure the specific reasons why the transformer failed.”
“Although LUMA has already announced that it will relocate an alternate transformer to address the situation immediately, it is important to know the details of what caused this situation,” the chief energy regulator said.
The P3A remains in direct and constant communication with LUMA Energy for updates on the implementation of the contingency plan put into effect, which includes the relocation of an alternate transformer, and measures to optimize service to customers in the towns in the affected area.
Fontanés said “both the Authority for Public-Private Partnerships and the Energy Bureau are focused on being able to continue the ongoing investigations to have clarity about what happened and thus be able to determine the corresponding actions.”
“In the case of the investigation by the Energy Bureau, it will now also include this incident,” he said.
with the same crisis and without a clear solution in sight.”
Ortiz González stressed the need for explanations and accountability on the part of LUMA given the critical nature of the situation.
“Here they have to provide explanations and the relevant authorities must impose responsibilities,” he said. “The citizens of Coamo, Aibonito and Santa Isabel deserve answers and an immediate solution to this energy crisis that affects their daily lives and well-being.”
Ortiz González also demanded from LUMA and the corresponding authorities a review of the actions taken and an evaluation of the measures to follow to guarantee that the errors that seriously affect the community are not repeated. At the same time, he questioned the silence of his New Progressive Party (NPP) opponent, Jenniffer González Colón, and the NPP leadership on the issue of LUMA, which he said confirms that they continue “being complicit in the LUMA disaster and the mismanagement of the recovery of the electrical system.”
“These actions cannot continue to happen,” the gubernatorial candidate said. “It is imperative to resolve this issue and assign responsibilities. The quality of life of our people and the development of a country cannot be in the hands of an irresponsible and incapable company.”
Popular Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate Jesús Manuel Ortiz González expressed indignation on Thursday at the recent announcement by LUMA about the failure of the transformer. At a cost of some $6 million, the installation of the transformer represented the resolution of the problem of the energy crisis impacting the municipalities of Coamo, Aibonito and Santa Isabel, he said.
“Keeping people for more than a month and a half in these circumstances is completely unacceptable,” the candidate and lawmaker said. “Three weeks ago, at a public hearing, we questioned LUMA and they assured us that the transformer would solve the problem. Today, we find ourselves
Residents in 3 beleaguered towns must wait 6 more weeks for power after transformer fails
By THE STAR STAFF
LUMA Energy announced Thursday that the transformer taken to Santa Isabel that would have helped bring power back to several southern towns failed during testing, a revelation that stirred public outrage.
Since June 9, LUMA Energy, the private operator of the island’s electric power transmission and distribution system, said it has taken a series of specific measures to ensure that customers in Santa Isabel, Coamo and Aibonito have reliable electrical service.
“We implemented our plan to replace the Santa Isabel transformer, which included a contingency plan in case the initial replacement transformer failed key safety and reliability tests,” the operator said. “The company’s specialized substation personnel tested the replacement transformer before and after transportation, following industry-standard processes and protocols.”
“After successfully energizing the
transformer and during subsequent testing required on-site before connecting it to the grid, the equipment failed due to an internal problem,” LUMA added.
Although service to customers in Santa Isabel, Coamo and Aibonito will not be affected, “we cannot put into service a transformer that failed such important tests,” the operator said.
“As we have said over the past month, we will continue with our contingency plan, which includes the relocation of an alternate transformer from Maunabo,” LUMA said.
Service to area customers will not be affected for the next four to six weeks while the replacement transformer is installed and tested for safety and reliability, the company reiterated.
“In addition, we will continue working on the reconstruction of lines 100 and 200, which will increase the reliability of service for customers in the area,” LUMA said.
Coamo Mayor Juan Carlos García Padilla has urgently demanded that federal
and state authorities, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, LUMA, and PREPA work together to resolve the situation as soon as possible.
“The president of LUMA [announced] that the transformer did not pass the required tests and that it will be necessary to bring another transformer from Maunabo. This will take six more weeks of agony for our residents and we are not willing to accept it,” the mayor insisted. “We can’t take it anymore, Coamo is the town most affected by the voltage variations that have impacted everyone. I am demanding that you come together and act responsibly so that this situation is resolved. We are not going to wait six more weeks. This is unacceptable.”
García Padilla reiterated that time has proven him right and that the construction of lines 100 and 200 that he proposed from the beginning in this emergency is totally necessary.
The situation impacts thousands of residents in the three towns.
Santa Isabel Mayor Rafael Burgos San-
“After successfully energizing the transformer and during subsequent testing required on-site before connecting it to the grid, the equipment failed due to an internal problem,” LUMA Energy said.
tiago also rejected waiting an additional six weeks for a new transformer after the one installed at the Useras substation proved defective.
CVI could be used to break PREPA impasse
By THE STAR STAFF
The incorporation in the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) debt adjustment plan of a contingent value instrument (CVI) that could provide additional recoveries to PREPA creditors may help break the impasse in the public utility’s bankruptcy case.
The suggestion was made earlier this week during a court hearing by Martin Bienenstock, the lawyer representing the Financial Oversight and Management Board in PREPA’s bankruptcy case. A CVI is an instrument that gives the holder the right to receive additional debt service payments from the debtor if certain growth-linked triggers, such as increases in gross domestic product or government revenues, are met.
“This type of instrument would be especially apt in Puerto Rico’s situation,
where sizable haircuts are inevitable given the limited ability of the commonwealth to pay its contracted debt going forward,” lawyers Richard Cooper and Luke Barefoot said when they suggested the CVI a few years ago. “For creditors, it offers an instrument that gives them the opportunity to recoup losses due to a haircut on their original principal and allows them to participate in the upside of economic growth and recovery. For Puerto Rico, it allows the island to make significant debt relief more palatable to creditors and create incentives for creditors to be partners in growing the island’s economy.”
Nonetheless, lead mediator Judge Shelley Chapman said that none of the stakeholders has proposed a solution to help draft a consensual debt adjustment plan. For that reason, the judge overseeing PREPA’s Title III bankruptcy, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain, ordered all parties
to mediation and imposed a 60-day moratorium on all litigation and plan proposals.
PREPA holds over $9 billion in debt and other claims but efforts to restructure it have failed. The latest effort to get a debt adjustment plan approved was thwarted by a U.S. First Circuit Court decision that bondholders have an $8.5 billion secured claim, rather than a $2.4 billion claim as Swain had ruled. As a result of the June ruling, Swain is tasked with determining how much bondholders would be able to collect.
“Movement is necessary to resolve this,” Swain said during the two-hour hearing held Wednesday in New York. “I need response with alacrity.”
She ordered all sides to work in good faith starting immediately to reach a compromise.
“Please keep Puerto Rico’s people in mind as you go into this,” she said.
DNA test concludes young Boston man is not missing child ‘Rolandito’
By THE STAR STAFF
ADNA test has concluded that a young man who an informant said could be Rolando Salas Jusino is not the child who went missing 25 years ago after being last seen alone in a Toa Alta park.
The information was confirmed Thursday by Department of Public Safety Secretary Alexis Torres Ríos and Puerto Rico Interpol Director Laura Peña after a DNA test performed by the Institute of Forensic Sciences (ICF by its initials in Spanish) analyzed a DNA sample from the young man.
In June of this year, confidences received by Interpol Puerto Rico identified a young man in Boston with physical characteristics and a birthmark similar to those of Salas Jusino, known as “Rolandito.” On Friday, a group of state, federal and Interpol agents traveled to Boston and managed to find the individual, who agreed to have a DNA sample taken, which Interpol delivered to the ICF earlier this week for proper analysis.
“After analyzing the evidence, the ICF excluded the
A DNA test concluded that a young man in Boston who an informant said could be Rolando Salas Jusino is not the child who went missing 25 years ago. (social media)
Pilot dies in small plane accident in Aguadilla
By THE STAR STAFF
ACessna small plane crashed on Thursday morning along highway PR-110 in the Maleza Alta neighborhood of Aguadilla, causing the death of the pilot, Wilfredo Juarbe Saldaña, a 47-year-old resident of Luquillo.
The accident occurred at 9:35 a.m. when the plane, which had taken off from Rafael Hernández International Airport in Aguadilla after repairs, tried to return after five minutes in the air. The aircraft hit a structure in the San
Antonio community at kilometer 31.8 of the aforementioned roadway.
Lt. Orlando Camacho, director of the Homicide Division of the Aguadilla Criminal Investigation Corps (CIC), confirmed that Juarbe Saldaña was the only person aboard and died instantly. His body was found partially burned.
A cyclist suffered lacerations after falling to the pavement during the accident. Agent Juan Acevedo Rosado and prosecutor Belinda Brignoni were in charge of the scene investigation, while the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the plane crash.
young man from being the biological son of Rolando Salas Cardona and Iris Jusino Seguinot,” Torres Ríos said. “The result was not what we expected, but I am convinced that the handling of this case at this stage was correct. I appreciate the commitment of the team made up of Interpol agents, and Homeland Security Investigations [HSI] in Puerto Rico and Boston. HSI allocated its resources and gave us the necessary support to carry out this investigation.”
The Interpol director added that “We will attend to each of the tips received in this case and all the cases we have before our consideration.”
“I admit that I had high expectations that it was Rolandito because of the evidence I had before me, examined and validated,” Peña said. “We must remember that we constantly ask citizens to collaborate with the authorities, so any new information received will be evaluated responsibly.”
Torres Ríos said he will request that the ICF send the evidence to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children so that it can be included in its records.
The small plane crashed Thursday morning in Aguadilla’s San Antonio community after the pilot, who had taken off from Rafael Hernández International Airport following repairs, tried to return after five minutes in the air. (Facebook via Puerto Rico Firefighters Corps)
Alarm sounded on lack of legislative action on Bucarabones Valley Agricultural Reserve bill
By THE STAR STAFF
The Bucarabones Agricultural Reserve, intended to reserve a thousand acres of land for agricultural use and to promote local agricultural production, is at risk of not materializing due to the lack of legislative action, Ian Carlo Pagán Roig, an agronomist and spokesperson for the Proactive Community in Defense of the Bucarabones Valley, said Thursday.
Pagán Roig emphasized the importance of the project, and the legislation behind it, for the food security of Puerto Rico. “Climate change has put at risk the ability of countries to supply themselves with food,” the agronomist said in a written statement. “Efforts like this prepare us to ensure the food supply for Puerto Ricans in the face of the various crises we face.”
He said House Bill 1731, introduced by Rep. Er Yazzer Morales Díaz and supported by farmers, residents and merchants, was unanimously approved in both legislative bodies.
The House of Representatives approved the bill on June 24, 2023, and the Senate approved it with amendments on June
24, 2024, after receiving positive reports from the Senate Human Rights and Agriculture committees.
Despite the unanimous support, the amendments made by the Senate had to be ratified by the House in its last session on
A Bucarabones Valley scene. The creation of the Bucarabones Valley Agricultural Reserve in Toa Alta would allow local farmers to harvest enough food and vegetables to feed 250,000 people, in addition to managing livestock and other grazing animals, proponents say. (Zillow photo)
June 30. However, the House failed to act on the amendments, jeopardizing the effective implementation of the reserve project that would benefit the community by enhancing food security and promoting sustainable agricultural practices.
The creation of the Bucarabones Valley Agricultural Reserve in Toa Alta would allow local farmers to harvest enough food and vegetables to feed 250,000 people, in addition to managing livestock and other grazing animals. The project would not only promote local agricultural production, proponents say, but would also contribute to the protection of the environment and the promotion of sustainable practices.
“The only hope to save the project is for Governor Pedro Pierluisi to call an extraordinary session so that the House can ratify the amendments proposed by the Senate,” Pagán Roig said.
The Proactive Community in Defense of the Bucarabones Valley is calling on citizens and organizations committed to agriculture and sustainability in Puerto Rico to contact La Fortaleza and request the extraordinary session for House Bill 1731.
Hospitals in Houston ‘backed up’ after hurricane, as millions in US swelter
By ISABELLE TAFT, JUDSON JONES and ALAN BLINDER
Asearing heat wave that has engulfed much of the western United States for over a week will continue to bring dangerously high temperatures through Saturday before sliding east to the central and eastern U.S. by Sunday.
The situation is especially pressing in Texas, where, two days after Hurricane Beryl left millions without power, officials began moving patients into a temporary field hospital in Houston’s massive sports complex Wednesday.
The lack of electricity has strained the health care system in the nation’s fourth-largest city. Doctors determined that it was not safe to discharge some patients to homes without air conditioning, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said at a news conference, leading to “backed up” hospitals and three-hour wait times for ambulances to drop off patients.
Across the West, large parts of California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah were under excessive heat warnings, indicating “extremely dangerous heat conditions.” Officials suspect heat to be the cause of more than 90 deaths reported in the West this month, though each death requires a full investigation and could take months to sort out.
More than a dozen high temperature records were expected to be broken Thursday, from the West coast to the High Plains, where temperatures will soar from the upper 90s to the triple digits. Some locations in the typically hot deserts and interior valley location of California, Arizona and Nevada will once again hit the 110s and 120s.
Nevada did not have a single location Wednesday that was not under a heat advisory or warning. It was the fifth straight day in which Las Vegas reached maximum temperatures of at least 115 degrees, a record. And more trouble loomed, with an excessive heat warning scheduled to last until Friday night.
“Right now, it’s just a matter of getting inside, being smart as far as hydrating yourself and just living your life as well as you can,” said Oscar Goodman, who moved to Las Vegas in 1964 and was mayor for 12 years before he relinquished the job to his wife. “Thank God we have enough air conditioning here that people are comfortable once they get inside, of course. And they’re smart enough, because they’re in Las Vegas, not to go outside.”
Pedestrians sometimes felt scarcer than jackpots. Playgrounds
Damaged power lines over a darkened street in Galveston, Texas, after Hurricane Beryl hit the Texas coast on Monday, July 8, 2024. Lack of electricity has strained the health care system in Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city. (Meridith
Kohut/The
New York Times)
stood empty and silent. Merely walking through a parking lot meant squinting — not at the sunlight blanketing the region, but at a heat so punishing that eyes hurt without ever actually watering.
And the mercury’s surges have come so fast that awestruck forecasters could hardly keep up.
“Remember 20 minutes ago when hitting 117°F was a big deal?” the local National Weather Service office wrote on social media Wednesday. “Well, the airport hit 118°F.”
Back in Texas, more than 1 million utility customers remained without power early Thursday, down from a high of 2.7 million in eastern Texas on Monday, at Hurricane Beryl’s peak. Patrick said the prolonged outage, which could extend for days, would be the largest ever seen by the city’s utility, CenterPoint Energy.
One person died of heatstroke in Matagorda County, 90 miles southwest of Houston, on Tuesday afternoon, officials said Wednesday.
State officials said they would set up 250 beds in an arena at NRG Park, the sports complex that includes an NFL stadium and houses the famous Houston rodeo, to receive and treat hospital patients who are stable and can be discharged but do not have a cool home to go to.
The facility opened with 100 beds Wednesday morning, and half of those were full by the afternoon, said Lori Upton, CEO of the SouthEast Texas Regional Advisory Council. Upton said the temporary hospital is expected to remain in operation for five to seven days.
The heat and humidity in Houston on Wednesday and expected Thursday is not unusual for this time of year, but because of the widespread power outages, National Weather Service forecasters in the area lowered their threshold for issuing heat alerts.
Typically, a heat advisory would be issued in Houston when the heat index — a measure of how hot the air feels, considering both temperature and humidity — is expected to reach 108 or higher. But the forecasters issued one for Wednesday when the index was expected to top out at 101.
Carrington Gilbert, 33, who lives in the Medical Center area of Houston, was waiting Wednesday morning for the power to come back on, more than 48 hours after it went out in her home. She and her 4-year-old daughter were cooling down with handheld fans that they charged in her car, and were planning to head to a friend’s house if the power stayed out.
Gilbert said she was worried about her grandparents in nearby Pearland, who were also without power. Her cellphone service was down as well.
“If it gets too hot in your house, you can’t call anyone for help,” she said.
Temperatures in southeast Texas will be a couple of degrees lower than average for the next several days but humidity will make it feel like it is hotter than 100 degrees.
The East Coast, especially the mid-Atlantic, will get a reprieve to end the week, after hitting a heat index of up to 110 degrees Wednesday afternoon.
The heat wave in California and the Northwest is expected to ease in the next few days, but it will not end completely. Temperatures are likely to remain 10 degrees above average or more through the weekend.
The worst heat will shift east. From coast to coast Sunday, almost the entire contiguous U.S. is forecast to be above average. A heat wave will settle in and is expected to persist the longest across the Southeast and the eastern coast, lasting into at least the middle of next week.
Pelosi and others try a new tack with Biden: Is that your final answer?
By KATIE ROGERS
Anger has not worked. Fear has not worked. Panic has not worked. Bluntness has not worked. Sadness has not worked. Concern has not worked.
Elected Democrats and donors have been all over the emotional map this week as they scrutinize the state of President Joe Biden’s viability as a candidate against former President Donald Trump, trying everything from directly pleading with him to drop out of the race to freaking out
in silence. All of it has only gotten Biden’s Irish up, as he would say, igniting a stubbornness that is as key to his political brand as resilience.
But on Wednesday, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker — and one of the few elected Democrats whose opinion the president actually cares about — tried another tack: She telegraphed not panic but respect, in hopes of appealing to the Joe Biden who has taken a breath and stepped aside in the past — not the Joe Biden who is staring down his party, daring Democrats to try to force him away from an office he spent
decades pursuing.
“He’s beloved, he is respected, and people want him to make that decision, not me,” Pelosi said on “Morning Joe,” the president’s favorite news show. “I want him to do whatever he decides to do, and that’s the way it is.”
Pelosi’s comments, as delicately as they were delivered, were still striking — and indeed stunned several White House officials who were watching her on live television.
Biden had, after all, already said in a letter on Monday that he was in his final presidential
race to win it. Pelosi’s comments, stressing that “time is running short” for him to make a final decision, made it clear that the discussion was not over.
She signaled to the president, who watches “Morning Joe” religiously and called into the program on Monday, that Democrats would have more to say after he held a high-stakes news conference at the NATO summit on Thursday. After her appearance, Pelosi tried to shut down any suggestion that her interview was meant
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to push Biden aside. But her initial comments showed she understands how Biden thinks.
Calls by congressional Democrats for him to step aside have continued in recent days despite Biden’s attempted clampdown, including from Peter Welch of Vermont on Wednesday, the first U.S. senator to make the move.
“For the good of the country,” he wrote in an opinion essay for The Washington Post, “I’m calling on President Biden to withdraw from the race.”
The unrest in Congress, coupled with panic from Hollywood donors who fear a Biden candidacy is a losing one, has made Biden angrier over what he feels is disloyalty, according to people who have spoken recently with him. (They, like several others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations about the president.)
Those calls have fueled a sense of defiance and a feeling that he is yet again being counted out, that he is the only person who can beat Trump, and that he understands the true pulse of the Democratic Party over the urging of wellheeled elites.
Biden’s most vocal supporters in the party, including Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, have reflected Biden’s view, stressing that the president is the only person who has ever beaten Trump and should therefore stay in the race. Biden also has the support of lawmakers who are members of the influential Congressional Black Caucus. Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., has called Biden “fit to serve.”
In fact, Biden’s advisers have shrugged off many of the loudest voices against him. Julián Castro? Dropped out of the presidential race in January 2020. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado? He ended his presidential campaign a month later. David Axelrod? The “Pod Save America” bros? They were President Barack Obama’s aides, operatives who worked for a cerebral, cool-guy president and never understood the world according to the scrappy kid from Scranton.
“Joe Biden has been an extraordinary president,” Jon Lovett, one of Obama’s former speechwriters — and a host of “Pod Save America” — wrote on the social platform X on Wednesday. “Statesman. Hero.”
“But it’s hard to deny that in the two weeks since the debate,” Lovett added, “it’s the arrogant and small Joe Biden we’ve seen most — hanging on, bragging, defensive, angry, weak.”
Amid all that heat, Pelosi’s words seemed designed to give Biden some air, and, perhaps, time to consult with the side of himself that has struggled with when to fight and when to fold. She has seen him do this before. She was first elected to Congress in 1987, the same year that Biden decided to end his first run for the presidency
after a plagiarism scandal.
“There’s only one way to stop the sharks,” one of Biden’s closest advisers, Ted Kaufman, told him at the time, “and that’s pull out.” Biden did. Now, Pelosi is seen by people in regular contact with the president as one of the few who could persuade him to step aside. So far, she and all of those crucial lawmakers — a small group that includes Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York and Rep. James E. Clyburn of South Carolina — have so far held the line, buying him breathing room and offering public support as the tide of Democratic panic rises.
“As I have made clear repeatedly publicly and privately, I support President Biden and remain committed to ensuring Donald Trump is defeated in November,” Schumer said Wednesday.
Clyburn, too, punted Biden’s decision back to him Wednesday: “I have no idea,” Clyburn told reporters when asked whether he thought Biden’s decision to remain in the race was final. “You’ll have to ask him.”
In a story that has seemed to shift hour by hour, some other Democratic lawmakers have appeared to follow Pelosi’s lead, focusing not on the widespread anger or fear within their party but on Biden’s past decisions to put his country first.
One appeal, from Sen. Tim Kaine ofVirginia, seemed to be speaking directly to the version of Biden who has been a realist about his political fortunes before.
“I have complete confidence that Joe Biden will do the patriotic thing for the country,” Kaine said. “And he’s going to make that decision. He’s never disappointed me. He’s always put patriotism and the country ahead of himself, and I’m going to respect the decision he makes.”
The question now, some concerned allies of the president said Wednesday, is not which version of Biden hears the message, but whether there are two versions of him still listening at all.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans on Friday, July 5, 2024. Harris has the name recognition, financing and institutional support to step in for President Joe Biden more easily than any other potential successor. (Erin Schaff/The
Amazon says it reached a climate goal seven years early
By IVAN PENN and ELI TAN
Amazon announced earlier this week that effectively all of the electricity its operations used last year came from sources that did not produce greenhouse gas emissions. But some experts have criticized the method the company uses to make that determination as being too lenient.
In its announcement, Amazon said it had reached its goal of 100% clean energy seven years ahead of schedule. The company said it invested billions of dollars in more than 500 solar and wind projects to achieve its target. The energy generated by those projects is equivalent to the electricity consumed by the company’s data centers, corporate buildings, grocery stores and fulfillment centers in 27 countries.
But because the solar and wind farms do not all directly power Amazon’s operations — most of that energy is sent to electricity grids that serve many businesses and homes — some critics say that the company’s calculations can create a misleading impression of its effect on the climate.
The clean energy projects Amazon has invested in can produce enough electricity to power the equivalent of 7.6 million U.S. homes, the company said. Amazon aims to reach net-zero carbon emissions from all of its operations, including its delivery vans, planes and other means of transportation, by 2040.
“We’re really excited about, obviously, the goal that we set five years ago and reaching it seven years early,” said Kara Hurst, vice president of worldwide sustainability at Amazon. “That’s quite an achievement for us.”
Amazon and other tech companies have said for years that they aim to eliminate the planet-warming effect of their operations. But those promises have been called into question recently by the industry’s decisions to invest heavily in artificial intelligence, which consumes vast amounts of electricity through its use of data centers.
Environmentalists worry that a surge in electricity demand from data centers, electric cars and heat pumps could lead electric utilities to rely more heavily on natural gas power plants because they won’t be able to build clean energy sources, transmission lines and other infrastructure fast enough.
An Amazon fulfillment center in Seattle on Oct. 18, 2023. Amazon says it invested billions of dollars in more than 500 solar and wind projects to support operations like its data centers, corporate buildings, grocery stores and fulfillment centers in 27 countries.
(Meron Tekie Menghistab/The New York Times)
A large data center can use as much energy as the amount produced by a small power plant serving roughly 100,000 homes.
Tech companies say they are working to increase their use of renewable energy to account for the energy demands of artificial intelligence. Google said last month that it had entered into an agreement with Berkshire Hathaway’s utility in Nevada to power its data centers there with geothermal power. The tech giant said in its latest environmental report that its greenhouse gas emissions grew 13% in 2023 over the previous year with the increased demands of AI.
Google’s agreement with Berkshire Hathaway and investments by Microsoft, Amazon and other companies in new renewable energy projects will be needed to reduce the world’s reliance on natural gas and other fossil fuels, experts said.
“That is real steel in the ground,” said Leah Stokes, an associate professor of environmental politics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “If you actually want to be a part of the clean energy transition, put your money where your mouth is.”
Other energy experts say that despite making big investments in renewables, some companies like Amazon have not
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been transparent enough about how they are calculating and reporting their use of clean energy.
Amazon received a “B” grade from the CDP, a nonprofit group that operates a global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impact. Google and Microsoft received “A” grades and were commended for their commitment to clean energy and for being transparent about how they were working to achieve their climate goals.
“A company needs to actually outline, what are the sources that you are accounting for in that calculation?” said Simon Fischweicher, director of supply chain and reporter services at CDP.
Responding to the CDP rating, Hurst said Amazon has been focused on being accurate in its reporting and has increasingly worked to make more information public.
“I think every single year we are growing and learning and providing more data and being more transparent,” Hurst said. “At a company our size and scale, collecting more data is challenging at times.”
=The company said it achieved its 100% clean electricity goal by building new solar and wind farms, installing solar panels on the roofs of some of its buildings, operating facilities on electric grids that already use a lot of renewable energy and utilizing credits produced from the use of carbon-free energy.
A group calling itself Amazon Employees for Climate Justice criticized the company for what its members see as the use of accounting and marketing to make itself look good. The group, made up of thousands of Amazon employees, has previously raised concerns to the company about its climate policies, including on social media, in a 2019 letter to Jeff Bezos, the company’s executive chair, and during a protest last year outside Amazon’s headquarters.
“As Amazon employees, we are frustrated that Amazon leadership is misleading the public by distorting the truth about its renewable energy claims,” the group said in a statement about the company’s announcement on Wednesday. “Amazon wants us to think of its data centers as surrounded by wind and solar farms, but the reality is the company is heavily investing in data center expansions fueled by West Virginian coal, Saudi Arabian oil and Canadian fracked gas.”
Nasdaq ends sharply lower as investors rotate out of big tech
The Nasdaq ended sharply lower on Thursday, hit by losses in Nvidia, Apple and Tesla as investors rotated into smaller companies after softer-than-expected inflation data fed bets the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in September.
The S&P 500 also lost ground after a Labor Department report showed U.S. consumer prices fell unexpectedly in June and the annual increase was the smallest in a year, drawing the Fed closer a September rate cut. The Dow finished with modest gains.
Interest rates futures suggest traders see an over 90% chance the Fed will cut rates by its September meeting, up from about 74% on Wednesday, according to CME Group’s Fedwatch.
Despite signs of receding inflation, Wall Street’s most valuable companies lost ground, with Microsoft and Amazon each losing more than 2% and Meta Platforms dropping about 4%.
Tesla tumbled 8.4%, its biggest one-day percentage drop since January, after Bloomberg News reported the company is delaying the launch of robotaxi by about two months to October.
Apple fell 2.3% after hitting a record high on Wednesday. BofA Global Markets raised its price target for Apple, saying it expects strong iPhone sales driven in part by new AI features.
As sky-high tech-related stocks fell on Thursday, shares of smaller companies rallied.
The small cap Russell 2000, which has significantly lagged the benchmark index in 2024, jumped 3.6% to close at its highest since March 2022, with investors betting rate cuts would improve conditions for smaller companies.
“What I think investors now believe is that the Fed is ready to start to cut interest rates. And so they are saying, ‘That’s good enough for me. I don’t have to wait for them to actually do it’,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research.
Volume on U.S. exchanges was heavy, with 12.6 billion shares traded, compared to an average of 11.5 billion shares over the previous 20 sessions.
The S&P 500 declined 0.88% to end the session
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at 5,584.54 points.
The Nasdaq declined 1.95% to 18,283.41 points, while Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.08% to 39,753.75 points.
Thursday’s declines ended a seven-day streak of record high closes for the Nasdaq and a six-day streak for the S&P 500. It was the Nasdaq’s biggest one-day percentage drop since April 30.
The S&P 500 real Estate index surged 2.7%, trimming year-to-date losses to 1%. The communication services and information technology indexes each fell more than 2%.
Delta Air Lines slumped 4% after forecasting lower-than-expected profits in the current quarter.
Other major airline stocks also fell, with an index of S&P 500 passenger airline companies down 2.7%.
“This might be a place where consumers are getting pinched by inflation. That’s showing up in discretionary funding on things like air tickets,” said Scott Helfstein, head of investment strategy at Global X.
Investors are awaiting Producer Price Index data on Friday for insights into the inflation trajectory, along with second-quarter earnings from big banks.
Citigroup slipped 1.9% after U.S. bank regulators fined the lender $136 million.
Conagra Brands fell 1.5% after the packaged foods maker forecast annual revenue and profit below estimates.
Advancing issues outnumbered falling ones within the S&P 500 by a 3.7-to-one ratio.
The S&P 500 posted 51 new highs and 2 new lows; the Nasdaq recorded 141 new highs and 50 new lows.
Russia vows ‘military response’ to US missile deployments in Germany
By IVAN NECHEPURENKO and PAUL SONNE
Russia is preparing military countermeasures in response to the planned U.S. deployment of longer-range, ground-based missiles in Germany, the Russian deputy foreign minister said Thursday, adding that the U.S. move was “destructive to regional safety and strategic stability.”
“Without nerves, without emotions, we will develop a military response, first of all, to this new game,” the deputy minister, Sergei A. Ryabkov, told Interfax, a Russian news agency.
In a statement published by the Russian Foreign Ministry, Ryabkov said that Moscow had anticipated the decision and had started preparing “compensating countermeasures” in advance.
In a joint statement, the United States and Germany said Washington would begin “episodic deployments” of the missiles in Germany in 2026, including those that are “significantly longer range” than the ones currently deployed throughout Europe.
The statement said that the periodic deployments would be preparation for “an enduring stationing of these capabilities in the future.” Ultimately, the weapons will include SM-6 missiles, Tomahawk cruise missiles and developmental hypersonic weapons, the statement said.
“What we are deploying to Germany is a defensive capability like many other defensive capabilities we have deployed across the alliance, across the decades,” Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, told reporters Thursday, referring to the 32 nations of NATO. “So more Russian saber rattling obviously is not going to deter us from doing what we think is necessary to keep the alliance as strong as possible.”
“And beyond that, we’ll have our opportunities to understand better what the Russian position is on this, and we will respond,” he added.
The party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany said the move was needed to deter and contain Russia. “In view of the modernization of the Russian nuclear arsenal and Russia’s aggressive policy, which threatens Germany’s and Europe’s security,
In a photo from the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea launches a Tomahawk cruise missile in the Persian Gulf, Sept. 23, 2014. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Eric Garst/U.S. Navy via The New York Times)
this is the right thing to do,” Nils Schmid, a party spokesperson, said in an email.
According to a U.S. military official, the weapons will include a new launcher called Typhon, which is a modified 40-foot shipping container that can conceal up to four missiles that rotate upward to fire. The official, who was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the planned deployment, spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The U.S. Army began working on Typhon soon after the United States withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2019.
In April, the Army sent a battery of Typhon launchers to the Philippines.
The hypersonic missiles that the Pentagon is testing are fired from a different kind of mobile launcher. They are designed to fly much farther than Tomahawk and at speeds in excess of five times the speed of sound.
The U.S. military move had echoes of the Cold War, when Moscow and Washington undertook competing missile deployments, with U.S. allies in Europe caught in between.
In the late 1970s, the Soviet Union deployed mobile, intermediate-range, nuclear-armed ballistic missiles, known as SS20s or Pioneers, within striking distance of Western European capitals and military installations, setting off a missile crisis in the
heart of Europe.
In response, the United States agreed to deploy nuclear-capable Pershing II ballistic missiles in Western Europe, as well as a mobile truck-based launcher called the Ground-Launch Cruise Missile, which carried early versions of the Tomahawk armed with a nuclear warhead, starting in 1983, if a disarmament agreement could not be secured by then with the Soviet Union.
With no agreement forthcoming, the deployments went forward, prompting significant protests and discontent in West Germany, which at the time was on the front lines of the Cold War.
The crisis did not abate until the 1987 signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty by President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The agreement removed the weapons from Europe, prohibiting nuclear and conventional missiles with ranges from 500 to 5,500 kilometers.
The treaty remained in force until the Trump administration pulled out of it in 2019, citing violations by Russia. The administration argued that Russia’s violation of the treaty was leaving the United States and its allies at a disadvantage, because they were still abiding by its rules.
The United States accused Moscow of violating the agreement with the development of a new cruise missile, the 9M729, also known as the SSC-8. Washington said that the missile could fly at ranges in violation of the agreement. Moscow said that the missile’s range was shorter and denied violating the pact.
The dissolution of the Cold War-era agreement came amid deteriorating
relations between Moscow and Washington and signaled the possibility of a renewed arms race, including competing missile deployments in Europe.
Christoph Heusgen, chair of the Munich Security Conference, commended the missile decision.
“This is the only language that Russia understands,” Heusgen, who was foreign and security policy adviser under Chancellor Angela Merkel, said in an interview. “And this is a position of strength. I think to send this message that yes, we are ready to continue our policy of deterrence that proved to be very successful during the Cold War — I think that this is the right message at the right time.”
The news about the coming missile deployments in Germany was made during a NATO summit in Washington, where the alliance also announced that a U.S. missile defense base in Poland capable of intercepting ballistic missiles was “mission ready” after years of development.
For years, President Vladimir Putin of Russia has cited the U.S. deployment of missile infrastructure in Europe as an aggressive move aimed at containing Moscow’s capabilities. At the end of June, Putin said at a meeting with security officials that Russia should relaunch production of ground-based nuclear-capable missiles of shorter and intermediate range.
Speaking about the NATO summit, the Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitry S. Peskov, said Thursday that tensions were “escalating on the European continent” and that Moscow saw the deployment of NATO infrastructure closer to its border as “a very serious threat.”
“All of this will require us to take thoughtful, coordinated, effective responses to deter NATO, to counteract NATO,” Peskov told journalists, according to Interfax.
For first time, NATO accuses China of supplying Russia’s attacks on Ukraine
By DAVID E. SANGER
Afterdecades of viewing China as a distant threat, NATO on Wednesday accused Beijing of becoming “a decisive enabler of Russia’s war against Ukraine,” and demanded that it halt shipments of “weapons components” and other technology critical to the rebuilding of the Russian military.
The statement is contained in a declaration approved by the 32 leaders of the alliance, shortly before they headed to a dinner at the White House on Wednesday night. It is a major departure for NATO, which until 2019 never officially mentioned China as a concern, and then only in the blandest of language.
Now, for the first time, the alliance has joined in Washington’s denunciations of China’s military support for Russia.
But the declaration contains an implicit threat that China’s growing support for Russia will come at a cost. China “cannot enable the largest war in Europe in recent history without this negatively impacting its interests and reputation,” the declaration said, particularly calling out “its large-scale support for Russia’s defense industrial base.”
The NATO declaration did not specify what those costs would be, although the natural first step would be economic sanctions that barred China from parts of global markets.
Even a year ago, European leaders were hesitant to challenge Beijing, especially nations like
Germany that view China as a critical market for high-end cars and luxury goods.
Many European leaders initially dismissed the agreement reached in early 2022, just before the Beijing Olympics, for a “partnership without limits” signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Even President Joe Biden said he had his doubts that the two countries, with a long history of enmity, could work together. In March 2023, during a trip to Canada, he said, “I think we vastly exaggerate” the partnership.
“I’ve been hearing now for the past three months about ‘China is going to provide significant weapons to Russia and they’re gonna’ — a lot of talk about that,” Biden added. “They haven’t yet. Doesn’t mean they won’t, but they haven’t yet.”
But 29 months after the invasion of Ukraine, that view has changed drastically. While China has heeded warnings not to supply Russia with full weapons systems, it has done everything short of that, providing computer chips, advanced software and the components needed for Russia to rebuild a defense industrial base that churned out faulty and outdated equipment.
The intelligence evidence was provided to NATO countries by the Biden administration, in an effort to win over skeptics who argued that China was not a central player in the war. That succeeded, but only after the United States published the names, in a Treasury Department
economic sanctions order, of Chinese front companies and manufacturers that were funneling the technology to Russia.
“The declaration demonstrates that NATO allies now collectively understand this challenge and are calling on the PRC to cease this activity,” Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, said Wednesday afternoon, referring to the People’s Republic of China. “If this PRC support continues, it will degrade its relations across Europe, and the United States will continue to impose sanctions on PRC entities involved in this activity, in coordination with our European allies.”
The declaration also blames China for “malicious cyber and hybrid activities, including disinformation” aimed at the United States and Europe. This week, the United States and several of its allies warned of a hacking group linked to China’s Ministry of State Security that appears to be focused on stealing well-protected government and commercial secrets. White House officials have spent much of the past few years focused on a different group that it has charged with planting malware in critical U.S. infrastructure, which could be activated to cut off pipelines and electric grids in a confrontation over Taiwan.
China has denied that it is preparing for cyberattacks or that it is a major factor in the war in Ukraine. Chinese officials have, publicly and privately, accused Washington of deep hypocrisy, noting the tens of billions of dollars in ammunition, missile systems, tanks and soon F-16 jets that
the United States is giving to Ukrainian fighters.
In May, when American sanctions were imposed, Wang Wenbin, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, called the U.S. accusations “hypocritical and highly irresponsible.” But he did not deny the specifics.
The standoff over China’s role in Ukraine is threatening to unwind whatever goodwill Biden developed with Xi when they met in November in California. At the time, Biden warned him privately about interfering in the 2024 presidential election, but the evidence was not yet available that China was becoming a major force, alongside Iran and North Korea, in supplying the Russian war effort.
For China, the move to aid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is relatively new. The weekend before the full-scale invasion began in February 2022, China’s top foreign policy official, Wang Yi, told the Munich Security Conference that Beijing respected the sovereignty of independent nations, including Ukraine. But now it is making little secret of its support for Russia’s effort to wipe the country off the map and integrate its territory.
Since then, China’s number of joint projects with Russia, including military exercises, has been striking. Xi and Putin have met about 50 times as presidents. And their joint effort with Europe to contain the growth of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal and prevent Iran from taking a similar path has been abandoned.
NATO has to change. Here’s how.
By FARAH STOCKMAN
Whatwould Ike say now?
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, NATO’s first supreme allied commander Europe, felt strongly that his mission was to get Europeans “back on their military feet” — not for American troops to become the permanent bodyguard for Brussels and Berlin.
“If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned to the United States,” he wrote of NATO in 1951, “then this whole project will have failed.”
But as leaders of NATO allies gather in Washington this week for the alliance’s 75th anniversary, some 90,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Germany, Italy, Britain and elsewhere, making up a significant portion of the 500,000 NATO troops on high readiness.
America’s outsize presence comes not just in the form of troops. Of the $206 billion in military and nonmilitary aid allocated to Ukraine by countries around the world, $79 billion has come from the United States, according to the Ukraine Support Tracker database. Since about 1960, the United States’ share of allied GDP has averaged roughly 36%, while its share of allied military spending has been more than 61%, according to a Cato Institute report. The supreme allied commander Europe has never been a European.
It is now becoming increasingly clear that Europeans need to shoulder more responsibility for their own defense. That’s not just because Donald Trump and an isolationist wing of the Republican Party complain bitterly about having to defend wealthy countries that, by the way, can afford social safety nets that America can only dream of because they don’t spend as much on their militaries. It’s also because U.S. officials are becoming more focused on the challenges posed by China, which will require an increasing amount of attention and resources in the years ahead, especially given the growing cooperation among China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.
The United States simply can’t do everything everywhere all at once, by itself. The future requires well-armed, capable allies. The indispensable nation has to be a bit less indispensable.
Regardless of who wins the U.S. election, European leaders understand that they need to contribute more, Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide of Norway told me. During his recent trip to Washington, he said Republicans relayed that Europeans have to take much more responsibility for the war in Ukraine because the United States has “bigger fish to fry.” It’s starting to happen, but not nearly as quickly as it should. The NATO summit will no doubt celebrate the fact that 23 NATO members are expected to spend at least 2% of their GDP on defense, up from just three members that met that threshold a decade ago. But it’s stunning that nearly one-third of NATO’s 32 members still fell short of that spending goal, which was agreed upon in 2014. If Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Trump’s not-so-subtle threats to abandon freeloaders haven’t convinced them to pony up more for their own defense, it’s hard to imagine what will.
After all, European reliance on U.S. troops runs counter to what many Europeans and Americans say they want. Majorities in the United States, Britain, France and Germany believe Europe should be “primarily responsible for its own defense while aiming to preserve the NATO alliance,” according to a
recent survey by the Institute for Global Affairs. Only 7% of German and 13% of French respondents felt that the United States should be primarily responsible for Europe’s defense. Europe’s dependence on the United States is engendering growing unease on the continent. Finland’s former President Sauli Niinisto has called for a “more European NATO,” and President Emmanuel Macron of France has warned that “however strong our alliance with America is, we are not a priority for it.”
So why does this dependence persist?
Part of the reason is human nature. Why would allies invest in defense if Uncle Sam always picks up the tab? But another reason is structural. When NATO was created, European allies were just emerging from devastating wars that left them suspicious of — and even hostile to — one another. Somebody had to herd the cats.
That’s how the U.S. role in NATO changed from that of temporary helper to permanent protector. At first, NATO was like a police officer watching over a construction site; the alliance went hand in hand with the Marshall Plan. If Americans were going to help rebuild Europe, they had to make sure that Moscow didn’t steal their investment.
But by the 1960s, it had become obvious that U.S. troops wouldn’t be leaving anytime soon. The Soviet Union had swallowed up much of Eastern Europe, including the eastern part of Germany. That made West Germany key to stopping the Soviets, but few in Europe could stomach the idea of a strong German military after what had happened under the Nazis. So the Americans stayed put and protected Germany with their own troops and nuclear umbrella.
“The present system did not take shape because America had set out to become a kind of empire,” Marc Trachtenberg, a political scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has written extensively about the Cold War, told me. “The system came into being because U.S. leaders realized by 1961 that there could be no purely European solution to the European security problem.” The Americans, he said, were stuck in Europe.
Once Washington realized it couldn’t leave, it started calling the shots. “We are bound to pay the price of leadership,” McGeorge Bundy, President John F. Kennedy’s national security adviser, said in 1962. “We may as well have some of its advantages.”
That meant juicy defense contracts for American firms, which became a powerful financial incentive to keep a big footprint in Europe. It’s one reason Poland buys American tanks that are too heavy to cross Polish bridges and Romania buys fighter jets that are extremely expensive to operate and maintain. The U.S. military industrial complex profits from dependency. About 63% of the military equipment that European Union countries purchased in 2022-23 came from the United States.
Luckily, some European leaders are treating this with the urgency it deserves. At the summit, NATO allies are expected to endorse a new defense industrial pledge to scale up the production of weapons and ammunition. But NATO’s procurement plan relies heavily on American arms makers. That clashes with the new European Defense Industrial Strategy, rolled out by the European Commission in March, which envisions spending half of its military procurement budget on items produced in Europe by 2030. Once again, cats need to be herded. There’s a dire need for both institutions
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden host an arrival ceremony for NATO allies and partners at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, July 10, 2024.
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to get on the same page.
If they do, it will be a great step forward for Europe’s ability to assist in its own defense. In the past, Americans might have sensed a threat to their authority and sabotaged this effort to build up a European defense industry. But today, Americans, who are also struggling to ramp up their own industrial defense production, need all the help they can get.
“A stronger Europe means a stronger NATO and ultimately a more equal partnership between the U.S. and Europe,” said Rachel Rizzo, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center. “You want a peer relationship. You don’t want a client.”
Europeans are finally stepping up, as Eisenhower dreamed they would. Let’s not stand in their way.
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Hospital Universitario de Adultos recibe a 97 nuevos médicos residentes en 24 especialidades
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RÍOPIEDRAS – El director ejecutivo del Hospital Universitario de Adultos (UDH), Jorge Matta González, anunció el jueves la incorporación de 97 nuevos médicos residentes en 24 diferentes especialidades, reafirmando el compromiso del hospital con la excelencia en servicios médicos.
“Nos sentimos orgullosos de haber cubierto todas las plazas en los programas de residencia. Agradezco a cada uno de ellos por elegir al único hospital público supra terciario de adultos en Puerto Rico para su especialidad, contribuyendo así a la salud de nuestra Isla”, expresó Matta González en declaraciones escritas.
Los nuevos residentes comenzaron su formación en diversas unidades del Hospital Universitario de Adultos y de la Administración de Servicios Médicos Centro Médico (ASEM). Del total de 38 programas de formación adscritos a la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 24 residencias están establecidas en el Hospital Universitario de Adultos, con programas únicos en la Isla como anestesiología, neurología, radiología diagnóstica, medicina
nuclear y reumatología.
Matta González detalló la distribución de los nuevos residentes: “Cinco en obstetricia y ginecología, 18 en medicina interna general, cinco en ortopedia, dos en otorrinolaringología, 15 en cirugía, cuatro en medicina física, cinco en oftalmología y cuatro en anestesia. En patología y medicina de laboratorio hay cuatro residentes, al igual que en radiología. Dermatología, neurología, urología y cirugía oral y maxilofacial cuentan con tres residentes cada uno”.
Además, hay siete residentes en ortodoncia general y dos en el programa combinado de medicina interna y pediatría. En las subespecialidades de medicina interna como alergia e inmunología, cardiología, endocrinología, gastroenterología, hematología, oncología, enfermedades infecciosas, nefrología y reumatología, ingresaron 13 nuevos residentes.
Por su parte, el director médico del hospital, Dr. Ricardo Moscoso Moscoso, expresó su confianza en que “todos podrán cubrir y superar sus expectativas durante este período de formación”, exhortando a los nuevos residentes a aprovechar al máximo esta oportunidad para adquirir madurez profesional y personal. POR CYBERNEWS
UPR Ponce y NMEAD firman acuerdo para profesionalizar a respondedores de emergencias
SAN JUAN – La Universidad de Puerto Rico en Ponce (UPRP), el Departamento de Seguridad Pública y el Negociado para el Manejo de Emergencias y Administración de Desastres (NMEAD) firmaron el jueves un acuerdo para profesionalizar y certificar al personal y voluntarios que responden a emergencias en Puerto Rico a través de una nueva Certificación en Manejo de Emergencias y Rescate.
“Estamos emocionados de poder colaborar con el NMEAD en esta iniciativa. Esta certificación es una oportunidad invaluable para mejorar las capacidades y competencias de aquellos que están en la primera línea de respuesta en situaciones de emergencia”, dijo Tessie Cruz Rivera, rectora de UPR Ponce, en declaraciones escritas.
Luis Antonio Ferrao, presidente de la UPR, señaló la re-
levancia de esta certificación en el contexto de las vulnerabilidades geográficas y climáticas de Puerto Rico. “Por su posición geográfica, Puerto Rico es un lugar susceptible a emergencias causadas por huracanes y otros fenómenos atmosféricos. Esta certificación es una herramienta innovadora y necesaria que la UPR pone a disposición de Puerto Rico para mejorar nuestra resiliencia”, dijo Ferrao en declaraciones escritas.
La certificación será ofrecida por la División de Educación Continua y Estudios Profesionales (DECEP) de UPR Ponce, bajo la dirección de Eva Cabán. Consistirá en 260 horas contacto, cubriendo áreas como comunicación efectiva, procesos estadísticos básicos, reglamentos, manejo emocional, manejo del entorno social y manejo de mascotas. Las últimas 100 horas se enfocarán en la preparación para emergencias antes, durante y después de un evento.
Nino Correa Filomeno, Comisionado del NMEAD, resaltó la importancia de este esfuerzo para profesionalizar a los trabajadores de emergencia y rescate. “Damos la bienvenida a este esfuerzo entre el NMEAD y UPR de Ponce para profesionalizar a nuestro personal de manejo de emergencias y rescate”, indicó Correa Filomeno en declaraciones escritas.
Alexis Torres, secretario del Departamento de Seguridad Pública, reafirmó el compromiso de su departamento con esta iniciativa. “Reafirmamos nuestro compromiso de trabajar en coordinación con estas agencias gubernamentales para atender de forma efectiva a la comunidad ante cualquier emergencia”, mencionó Torres en declaraciones escritas.
La certificación estará abierta al público en general y otorgará un “digital badge” a quienes la completen.
Estudiante de la UPR recibe premio en química medicinal
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SAN JUAN – Kaitlyn Nieves Serra, estudiante investigadora del Centro Molecular de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, ganó el premio “Best Poster Presentation” en el trigésimo octavo Simposio Nacional de Química Medicinal de la Sociedad Americana de Química (ACS) celebrado en Washington. “Fue mi primera experiencia presentando y exponiendo mi investigación fuera de Puerto Rico. Una experiencia muy gratificante y única”, dijo Nieves Serra en declaraciones escritas.
El trabajo de Nieves Serra, titulado “Diseño y síntesis de
nuevos inhibidores de TRIP13 para cánceres impulsados por el virus del papiloma humano”, se desarrolla bajo la mentoría del doctor Cornelis Vlaar y cuenta con la colaboración de la estudiante Jaelismarie García Rivera y las doctoras Soma Ghosh y Faye Johnson del MD Anderson Cancer Center. “La importancia de participar en estos eventos es que ayuda a conectar con otras personas para futuras colaboraciones y aprender sobre los nuevos avances en sus áreas de investigación”, afirmó Nieves Serra.
Nieves Serra expresó su agradecimiento al ACS, al programa de G-RISE, y al Programa Graduado de la Escuela de Farmacia por el apoyo recibido.
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After playing an outlaw, Alec Baldwin winds up on trial
By JULIA JACOBS and GRAHAM BOWLEY
Prosecutors painted Alec Baldwin as a headstrong actor who repeatedly shirked his duty to maintain gun safety on the set of his film, leading to the shooting death of its cinematographer.
The defense argued that it was a “tragic accident,” and that Baldwin had no reason to believe that there was live ammunition in his gun, or anywhere on the set of the western “Rust.”
More than two years and eight months after the gun he was rehearsing with fired a fatal bullet, Baldwin found himself in a New Mexico courthouse Wednesday standing trial on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. If convicted, he faces up to 18 months in prison.
The case is being closely watched by Hollywood, and not just because of the star at the center of it, famous for many movie and TV roles, including “30 Rock” and “Saturday Night Live.” The question of an actor’s liability has weighed over the case since the beginning; SAG-AFTRA, the union representing film and television workers, has argued that gun safety on sets is the responsibility of qualified professionals, not performers.
Erlinda O. Johnson, one of the prosecutors, told the jury in her opening statements that Baldwin should be held crimi-
Gloria Allred, a lawyer for Halyna Hutchins’ mother, father and sister, speaks to reporters outside Alec Baldwin’s trial at the Santa Fe County Courthouse in Santa Fe, N.M., July 10, 2024. (Sonia Goydenko/The New York Times)
nally responsible for the death of Halyna Hutchins, the “Rust” cinematographer, because he had failed to take part in safety checks that day to see whether his gun contained a live round
and because he used the weapon in a reckless fashion.
“He pointed the gun at another human being, cocked the hammer and pulled that trigger, in reckless disregard for Ms. Hutchins’ safety,” she said in the Santa Fe County District Courthouse.
One of Baldwin’s defense lawyers, Alex Spiro, argued that the actor could not be found guilty of involuntary manslaughter because it was unthinkable for live ammunition to be loaded into a gun that was being used as a prop on the set of a movie. He said Baldwin had been told that day that the gun was “cold,” which he said communicated to the whole production that “there’s nothing in the gun that can hurt anybody.”
“Cold guns can’t hurt people,” Spiro said. “It’s impossible. Literally impossible.”
Spiro faulted the crew members who were supposed to oversee gun safety on the set: the film’s armorer and its first assistant director. The armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, was convicted this year of involuntary manslaughter for loading a live round into the gun and sentenced to 18 months in prison. The first assistant director, Dave Halls, has admitted to failing to thoroughly check the revolver and agreed to a plea deal on a charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon, avoiding prison time.
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Alec Baldwin arrives at the Santa Fe County Courthouse in Santa Fe, N.M., July 10, 2024. The involuntary manslaughter trial of Alec Baldwin began on Wednesday with prosecutors painting him as a headstrong actor who repeatedly shirked his duty to maintain gun safety on the set of the movie “Rust,” while the defense argued that the death of the movie’s cinematographer was the result of other crew members’ failures. (Sonia Goydenko/The New York Times)
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The prosecution has blamed Gutierrez-Reed for bringing live rounds onto the set, which her lawyer has disputed.
In opening statements, the prosecution and the defense sparred over questions of workplace safety, the responsibility of actors and Baldwin’s behavior on the set.
Johnson told jurors that the “evidence you will see will paint a real-life picture of a real-life workplace where this defendant mishandled this gun,” and maintained that Baldwin had a history on the set of being reckless with firearms.
“You will see him using this gun as a pointer to point at people, to point at things,” she said. “You will see him cock the hammer when he’s not supposed to cock the hammer. You will see him put his finger on the trigger when his finger is not supposed to be on the trigger. You will hear about numerous breaches of firearm safety with this defendant and this use of this firearm.”
Baldwin has vehemently denied pulling the trigger before the gun fired on Oct. 21, 2021, killing Hutchins, a 42-yearold cinematographer from Ukraine. He has said that he pulled the hammer of the gun all the way back and let it go in an action that might have set it off. Prosecutors have sought to discredit that account, arguing that several rounds of forensic testing had found that the gun could not have gone off without pulling the trigger.
At trial, the actor’s lawyers appeared to temper Baldwin’s claim a bit, saying that no witnesses had seen him “intentionally” pull the trigger that day. But even if he did, the defense argued, it would not be against the law to do so while filming
a scene for a movie after he had been told the gun was “cold,” meaning it could not fire.
“On a movie set, you’re allowed to pull the trigger,” Spiro said in court. “So even if — even if — he intentionally pulled the trigger like the prosecutor just demonstrated, that doesn’t make him guilty of homicide.”
Outlining the defense, Spiro sought to counter the prosecution’s contention that the shooting occurred in a typical workplace, telling the jurors that actors shooting blanks out of real guns is what happens on the set of a western. “You’ve all seen gunfights in movies,” he said. In the film, which was later completed in Montana but has not yet been released, Baldwin plays an outlaw named Harland Rust.
The defense team played the emergency call that the production’s script supervisor made immediately after Hutchins was shot. Spiro underscored for the jury that the supervisor said Hutchins was “accidentally shot on a movie set with a prop gun” and suggested that the movie’s first assistant director, Halls, held some responsibility. “Not a word about Alec Baldwin,” Spiro said.
Baldwin was first charged in the shooting in January 2023. But months later, prosecutors dropped that charge after receiving new evidence that the gun might have been modified without his knowledge, potentially making an unintentional discharge easier. After forensic analysis found that the trigger must have been pulled for the gun to go off, the case was revived and a grand jury indicted him on a charge of involuntary manslaughter.
Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer, of the First Judicial District of New Mexico, told jurors the trial was expected to take eight days, not including their deliberations.
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What’s better than s’mores? A giant s’mores tart
By RONI CARYN RABIN
Inever was a Girl Scout, so I came late to s’mores. I was already a teenager when I squished my first blackened marshmallow between graham crackers and chocolate after awkwardly thrusting a skewer amid the glowing embers.
Since no one had schooled me in the finer points of smelting a s’more, like rotating the marshmallow to an even shade of toasty brown or letting the molten blob rest on the chocolate for a moment, my first s’more was incinerated and gloppy, hard bits of Hershey bar lacquered with gummy ash. I couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about.
I eventually gave s’mores another chance for the sake of my grade-schooler, after friends invited us for a weekend in the country. We stood around a proper bonfire, carefully turning marshmallows above, not in, the flames, hungrily watching the exteriors turn from golden, to brown, to lightly stippled with black but not at all burned.
Flattened between graham crackers and thin slabs of milk chocolate, the marshmallows oozed lushly onto their fudgy beds. I finally understood why the Girl Scouts named this treat “Some More” when they published the already popular recipe in their 1927 book, “Tramping and Trailing With the Girl Scouts” — though not without a warning. “Though it tastes like ‘some more,’” the guide admonishes, “one is really enough.”
The highly addictive combination of gooey marshmallows, chocolate and crackers has endured for a century. For those of us without access to a bonfire, s’mores are ridiculously easy to make under the broiler in five minutes flat.
All you do is lay the graham crackers on a baking sheet, top with squares of a broken-up chocolate bar and some marshmallows, and broil until the tops are as browned as you like, with or without that speckling of black. Then cover each one with another graham cracker, smashing the marshmallows until their white lava glues everything together. They’re a perfect “there’s nothing in the house for dessert” dessert. If you don’t have graham crackers, Saltines or Ritz crackers work just as well, if not even better, since their crisp, airy saltiness contrasts with, rather than bolsters, the sweetness of the goo.
The s’more has continued to evolve, of course, with its classic elements reconfigured into cookies, cakes and the inevitable martini. But, to me, its most thrilling permutation has been a fluffy bittersweet tart. So, I created my own version to pit against simple oven s’mores for my YouTube series, “Shortcut vs. Showstopper.”
At its foundation, this tart has a deeply buttery, homemade graham cracker crust, far richer and more tender than the store-bought cookies. After baking, I fill it with a puddinglike ganache that’s firm enough to slice but still supple, barely holding its shape. Then on top, I singe a swirl of frothy meringue ever so delicately with a blow torch.
While both s’more variations are sweetly satisfying, the tart lived up to the showstopping concept; it’s a knockout. It does take several hours to make, but you
can spread the work over a couple of days, and none of the steps are hard.
S’mores tart
This stunning dessert takes the elements of s’mores — marshmallows, graham crackers and melty chocolate — and recombines them in an elegant way. A billowing meringue singed with a blowtorch replaces the toasted marshmallows, a homemade graham cracker crust replaces the cookies and a soft, bittersweet ganache stands in for the usual melted chocolate bar. It does take time and effort, but you can do it over the course of a couple of days. The spectacular results are well worth it.
Yield: 1 (9-inch) tart (8 servings)
Total time: 4 hours, 40 minutes
Ingredients:
For the Graham Cracker Crust:
1 cup/125 grams all-purpose flour, more for surfaces
1/4 cup/30 grams whole-wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup/113 grams unsalted butter, cut into cubes
2 tablespoons light brown sugar
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
2 tablespoons honey
For the Ganache:
1 cup/237 milliliters heavy cream
12 ounces/340 grams bittersweet chocolate (preferably 68% to 74%), chopped
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
Pinch of fine sea salt
For the Marshmallow Filling:
6 egg whites
1 1/4 cups/250 grams granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 vanilla bean, halved lengthwise and seeds scraped out with a small knife
Preparation:
1. Prepare the tart crust: In a medium bowl, whisk together both flours, salt and cinnamon.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer using the paddle (or using electric beaters), cream the butter, both sugars and honey on medium speed until combined, about 2 minutes. Add the flour mixture and combine on medium-low, scraping bowl as needed, 1 to 3 minutes.
3. Form the dough into a disk and wrap in parchment or plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours and up to 3 days.
4. When ready to bake the crust, heat oven to 325 degrees.
5. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough into a 12-inch circle. (It’s OK if the dough breaks a bit, you can easily squish it back together.) Use the rolling pin to transfer dough to a 9-inch tart pan, pressing dough up against the sides. Use any leftover dough to patch holes and to build up the sides for extra stability. Cover with foil or parchment paper and pie weights (or rice or dried beans). Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until the crust’s edges are golden brown and the crust is firm. Remove weights and foil or parchment paper, and let cool completely.
6. While crust cools, make the ganache: Pour the heavy cream into a small pot and bring to a simmer over medium heat, being careful not to let the cream boil. Place the chocolate, butter and salt in a heatproof medium bowl. Pour the hot cream over the chocolate and let sit for 1 minute. Whisk together the cream and chocolate until glossy and smooth. (If the chocolate doesn’t fully melt, microwave the bowl for 15 to 20 seconds and whisk again until it does.)
7. Pour the chocolate mixture into the cooled crust and spread into an even layer. Place tart in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour and up to 24 hours to firm up the ganache.
8. Prepare the marshmallow filling: Fill a medium pot with an inch or two of water and bring to a simmer. Place the bowl of a standing mixer (or a large metal bowl) firmly and snugly on top of the simmering water (you want the bottom of the bowl to be suspended over the water).
9. Add the egg whites, sugar and cream of tartar to the bowl, and whisk continuously until the mixture becomes white (no longer opaque) and registers 175 degrees on a thermometer. (Use a potholder to steady the bowl, which can get quite hot.) This may take up to 10 minutes. If the temperature isn’t rising, increase the heat under the pot.
10. When the whites are opaque, place the bowl in the mixer fitted with the whisk attachment (or use electric beaters). Add vanilla seeds to the egg white mixture. Beat for 4 to 5 minutes, or until the whites have reached stiff peaks (the whites will be shiny and glossy, and will remain on the whisk or beaters when turned upside down).
11. Pile the marshmallow fluff on top of the tart. Use a knife or spoon to decoratively swirl the meringue. Using a blowtorch, singe the top until golden brown.
A s’mores tart. This tart and a second, simple recipe from Melissa Clark’s YouTube series, “Shortcut vs. Showstopper” can easily be made in the oven. Food styled by Samantha Seneviratne. (Johnny Miller/The New York Times)
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ
MONSERRATE
LLANTÍN VELEZ
Peticionario
EX-PARTE
Civil Núm.: MZ2024CV00295.
Salón Núm.: 307. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO.
EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: TODA PERSONA INTERESADA, A TODA PERSONA QUE TENGA O PUEDA TENER ALGÚN
DERECHO REAL SOBRE LA PROPIEDAD OBJETO DE LA PRESENTE ACCIÓN, A LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS O DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN Y EN GENERAL A TODA PERSONA QUE DESEE OPONERSE.
POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica que comparezcan, si creyeren que les conviene, ante este TRIBUNAL en un plazo improrrogable de VEINTE (20) DÍAS a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del Edicto (el cual debe ser publicado en un periódico de circulación general en 3 ocasiones dentro del término de 20 días) los interesados y/o las partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados, podrán comparecer ante el Tribunal, a fin de alegar lo que en derecho proceda y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte promovente para adquirir su dominio sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Solar identificado con la letra “D” en el plano de segregación, localizado en el Barrio Sabana Eneas de San Germán, Puerto Rico; con una cabida superficial de MIL NOVECIENTOS UNO PUNTO MIL NOVECIENTOS CINCUENTA Y CUATRO METROS CUADRADOS (1,901.1954 m/c).
En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar “B” de Luz Belinda Quiñones y área de Uso Público; por el SUR; con una calle; por el ESTE; con un desagüe pluvial; y por el OESTE; con una calle. Sobre el terreno enclava una estructura residencial. Por su tracto de escrituras y documentos no tiene entrada para
su inscripción registral. CATASTRO NÚMERO: 333-035-32703-001. Esta propiedad está libre de cargas y gravámenes. El peticionario adquirió el inmueble descrito por Escritura de Compraventa número 71, otorgada el 12 de mayo de 2021, en San Germán, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público LCDO. RAMÓN GUILLERMO VÉLEZ RIVERA, de parte de DOÑA MARGARITA QUIÑONES RAMÍREZ, quien era su titular. Ésta la había adquirido mediante segregación y adjudicación hereditaria en los bienes hereditarios de su padre, JOSÉ ANTONIO QUIÑONES SANTIAGO, según expresa la Escritura número 43, sobre Partición de Herencia, en San Germán, Puerto Rico, el 21 de junio de 1995, ante el Notario Público, LCDO. ALFREDO CARDONA ÁLVAREZ. Por tanto, el solar descrito con la letra “D” en el hecho Primero precedente objeto del expediente de dominio nace por segregación de la finca que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Porción de terreno localizado en el Barrio Sabana Eneas de San Germán, con una cabida de DOS PUNTO NOVENTA Y DOS (2.92) CUERDAS; en lindes por el NORTE, SUR y OESTE, con terrenos de la Sucesión de Eurípides Quiñones; y por el ESTE, con un desagüe pluvial y terrenos de Luis Bartolomei. De la finca madre descrita la Administración de Reglamentos y Permisos, Oficina Regional de Mayagüez, autorizó mediante Resolución expedida el 18 de abril de 1995, con el número de Caso 93-56-E-124-MPL, la segregación de varios solares, incluyendo el solar bajo esta Petición de Expediente de Dominio. Se acompañó a la Petición copia del Plano y la Resolución identificada. El 31 de julio de 1976, DON JOSÉ ANTONIO QUIÑONES, padre de DOÑA MARGARITA RAMÍREZ QUIÑONES, otorgó en San Germán, Puerto Rico, la Escritura número 84, ante el Notario Público LCDO. ALFREDO CARDONA ÁLVAREZ, titulada Declaración de Propiedad. En la referida escritura manifiesta DON JOSÉ ANTONIO QUIÑONES SANTIAGO que adquirió la propiedad por herencia de su padre, EURÍPIDES INOCENCIO QUIÑONES, quien falleció el 26 de febrero de 1944. En la misma escritura en el hecho Tercero declara ante el Notario Público que ha estado poseyendo a título de dueño en forma tranquila, públicamente y sin oposición alguna la finca desde febrero de 1944. La referida propiedad no aparece inmatriculada en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sec-
ción de San Germán. Deberán notificar con copia de sus alegaciones a la representación legal del promovente: LCDO. RAMÓN GUILLERMO VÉLEZ RIVERA, con dirección postal Apartado 604, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico 00623, Teléfono número: (787) 851-7777. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 26 de junio de 2024. LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II.
ARACELIS W. CAMACHO ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO ALIPIO AQUINO
Plaintiff V. ANA MERCEDES RAVELO CASTILLO
Defendant Civil No.: 16-1520. (PAD). COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: DEFENDANT AND GENERAL PUBLIC.
On November 30, 2016, this Court entered Default Judgment in favor of Bautista Cayman Asset Company, now Alipio Aquino (“Aquino”). To date, Defendant has not satisfied the Judgment. The Defendant owes Aquino the principal balance of $96,325.89, plus interest at a rate of 6.95% per annum due as of August 23, 2016. The interest continues to accrue until the debt is paid in full. In addition, Defendant is further ordered to pay Aquino accrued late charges and any other advance, charge, fee, or disbursements made by Plaintiff on behalf of Defendant, in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs, charges and disbursements, expenses and attorneys’ fees. Pursuant to said judgment and the Order of Execution of Judgment, the undersigned appointed Special Master was ordered to sell, at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check, without appraisement or right to redemption, to the highest bidder, at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at any other place designated by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA: Solar sito en la sección Norte del Barrio de Santurce de esta ciudad, marcado con el número ciento cincuenta (150) en el plano de la urbanización de la finca principal y mide doscientos
(200) metros cuadrados. En colindancias por el frente Oeste, en diez metros (10.00) con la calle Rambla Monte Flores, por el fondo Este, en diez metros (10.00) con el solar número cuarenta y nueve (49) de la Avenida del Río de Miguel Tellado, por la derecha entrando Sur, en veinte metros (20.00) con la calle Monroy, y por la izquierda, Norte en veinte metros (20.00) con el solar número ciento cincuenta y dos (152) de la expresada señora King Daoly. Recorded at Page 220 of Volume 265 of Santurce Norte, Property Number 10,206, Registry of the Property of San Juan, First Section. Physical Address: 2011 Gilberto Monroig Ave., Villa Palmeras, San Juan, PR 00915. The property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Free of Liens. By itself: MORTGAGE: in guarantee of note in favor of Doral Mortgage Corp., or to its order, in the principal amount of $104,000.00, with a yearly interest rate of 6.95%, due on December 1, 2019 as per deed no. 605, executed on November 23, 2004, before Notary Public Waleska C. Colón Villanueva, recorded at page 224 of volume 265 property #10206 of Santurce Norte, 13th abbreviated inscription. LIS PENDENS: The Mortgage in favor of Doral Mortgage Corp. is the object of this annotation, for the amount of $104,000.00 that arises from registration #13th, Plaintiff: Bautista Cayman Asset Company; Defendant: Owner, Amount Due $96,325.89, for principal plus interest, according to Demand issued by the US District Court for the District of PR, Civil case #16-1520PAD on day March 22, 2016, registered on Karibe volume, Annotation A, dated June 8, 2016. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect. It being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The lien executed is over the property, and for the purposes of the first judicial sale the minimum bid amount is as follows: a. The amount of $104,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to pro-
duce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $69,333.33 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $52,000.00. Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property may be executed and delivered after the judicial sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. THEREFORE, PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will, on the 2ND DAY OF AUGUST, 2024, AT 9:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 9TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2024, AT 9:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 16TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2024, AT 9:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 23rd day of May, 2024. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, APPOINTED SPECIAL MASTER.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE RÍO
GRANDE EN FAJARDO
FINANCE OF AMERICA
REVERSE LLC
Demandante Vs. SUCESION JOSE ANTONIO MARTINEZ VEGA T/C/C JOSE A. MARTINEZ VEGA T/C/C JOSE MARTINEZ VEGA T/C/C JOSE ANTONIO MARTINEZ T/C/C JOSE A. MARTINEZ T/C/C JOSE MARTINEZ
COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION JOVITA ROSA ROSARIO T/C/C
JOVITA ROSA T/C/C JOVITA MARTINEZ COMPUESTA POR JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados Civil Núm.: RG2023CV00478. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA ENMENDADO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: La Parte Demandada, al (a la) Secretario(a) de Hacienda de Puerto Rico y al Público General: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, el 06 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Pueblo del término municipal de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, en la Urbanización Jardines de Río Grande, marcado con el número 127 del bloque “AZ”, con un área de 410.86
metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 23.00 metros con el solar número 26 del bloque “AZ”; por el SUR, en 20.71 metros con la Calle 35; por el ESTE, en 20.42 metros con los solares 103 y 104 del bloque “AZ”; por el OESTE, en 12.62 metros hasta un arco con un radio de 3.50 metros y un largo de 4.75 metros en la intersección de las Calles 46 y 35 con la Calle 46. Enclava una casa de una sola planta, de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto para fines residenciales.” Finca número 6167, inscrita al folio 35 del tomo 123 de Rio Grande, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 78 del tomo 551 de Rio Grande, finca número 6167, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III, inscripción 7ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. JARDINES DE RIO GRANDE, 127-AZ CALLE 46, RIO GRANDE, P.R. 00745. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $150,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 7 de julio de 2089. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $150,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, el 13 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $100,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la
suma de $75,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, el 20 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $79,525.50 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $15,537.23 en intereses acumulados al 15 de enero de 2024 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.066% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $5,288.28 en seguro hipotecario; $485.00 de tasaciones; $160.00 de inspecciones; $2,770.00 en adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $15,000.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 08 de mayo de 2024. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #266.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE REVERSE MORTGAGE
FUNDING LLC
Demandante Vs. SUCESION SANTIA MERCADO GARCIA COMPUESTA POR CARMEN RODRIGUEZ MERCADO, JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ MERCADO; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV02680. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 6 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Los Almendros, situada en el Barrio Sabanetas de Ponce, Puerto Rico. El mismo se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el número seis (6) con un área de trescientos ochenta y ocho punto quince metros cuadrados (388.15 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE con el solar número 7 en 26.76 metros; por el SUR con el solar número 5 con 24.93 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número 30 con 15.00 metros; y por el OESTE con la Valle “A” de dicha Urbanización con 15.088 metros. Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado y bloques diseñada para uso de una familia.” Finca número 36858, inscrita al folio 178 del tomo 1299 de Ponce Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta ins-
crita al folio 18 del tomo 2023 de Ponce Norte, finca 36858, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I, inscripción 10a. Propiedad localizada en: URB. LOS ALMENDROS, 742 CALLE RIACHUELO, PONCE, PR 00716. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $272,250.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 27 de marzo de 2079. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $272,250.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 13 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $181,500.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $136,125.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 20 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $174,640.45 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $24,801.09 en intereses acumulados al 7 de noviembre de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.41% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $7,788.48 en seguro hipotecario; $5,915.00 de cargos por servicio; $690.00 de seguro; $575.00 de tasaciones; $120.00 de inspecciones;
$685.79 en contribuciones; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $27,225.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de mayo de 2024. JAVIER
SEGARRA MALDONADO, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. MIGUEL
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Demandante Vs. SUCESION ANA RAQUEL
CORTES RODRIGUEZ
T/C/C ANA R. CORTES RODRIGUEZ T/C/CANA
CORTES RODRIGUEZ
T/C/C ANA RAQUEL DE OLSON T/C/C ANA
RAQUEL CORTES T/C/C
RAQUEL CORTES COMPUESTA POR ROBERTO OLSON
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OLSON CORTES, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados
Civil Núm.: GB2024CV00432.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LISA MARIE OLSON CORTES; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION ANA RAQUEL CORTES RODRIGUEZ T/C/C ANA R. CORTES RODRIGUEZ T/C/C ANA CORTES RODRIGUEZ T/C/C ANA RAQUEL DE OLSON T/C/C ANA RAQUEL CORTES T/C/C RAQUEL CORTES. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
Se ordena a los codemandados informar si aceptan o repudian la herencia de la causante ANA RAQUEL CORTES RO-
DRIGUEZ T/C/C ANA R. CORTES RODRIGUEZ T/C/C ANA CORTES RODRIGUEZ T/C/C ANA RAQUEL DE OLSON
T/C/C ANA RAQUEL CORTES
T/C/C RAQUEL CORTES, dentro del término de 30 días, contados a partir de la publicación de este edicto, a tenor con el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil (31 LPRA § 11021). Se apercibe a los codemandados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de la referida herencia, se tendrá por aceptada. Greenspoon Marder, LLP
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Parte Demandante Vs. EDWIN R. LOPEZ COLON Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV01369. Sala: 603. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: EDWIN R LOPEZ
COLON - URB DOS PINOS TOWNHOUSE G2 CALLE 4, SAN JUAN PR 00923.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 08 de mayo de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DIANA C. PÉREZ SIERRA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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D/B/A CELINK Demandante Vs. SUCESION SANTOS ALVAREZ CRIADO COMPUESTA POR ANNABELLE ALVAREZ MOLINA, NORMAND ALVAREZ MOLINA; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2023CV00934. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, el 6 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “URBAN: Residential apartment number 12-A of building number two of Altavista Condominium. Residential apartment of irregular shape located on building number two, twelfth floor, of Altavista Condominium at state number 833 and Street Number 1 of Alturas de Torrimar in Frailes Ward, municipality of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. This apartment has a total private area of one thousand five hundred and twelve square feet, equivalent to one hundred and forty square meters and fifty two hundredths of a square meter, being its lineal measurement 33’5” the largest length and 64’0” the largest width. The boundaries and dimensions are clockwise as follows: NORTHEAST, on a broken line, in a distance of 4’10” with exterior space separated by exterior wall, in a distance of 13’2” with Apartment 12-B, separated
by interior wall, in a distance of 5’8” with common lobby, separated by interior wall and entrance door, in a distance of 8’7” with common stair, separated by bearing wall, in a distance of 8’1” with storage closets, separated by bearing wall, in a distance of 5’8” with incinerator flue and ventilator shaft, separated by interior wall on a distance of 13’2” with Apartment 12-B, separated by interior wall, in a distance of 4’10” with exterior space separated by balcony railing; SOUTHEAST, on a distance of 14’8” with common stairs, separated by bearing wall on a distance of 33’5”, on a broken line, with the exterior space separated by exterior wall, windows and balcony railing; SOUTHWEST, on a broken line, a distance of 64’0” with exterior space separated by exterior wall, windows and balcony railing; NORTHWEST, on a broken line, in a distance of 30’7: with exterior space separated by exterior wall and windows, a distance of 2’1” with apartment 12-B, separated by bearing wall, a distance of 6’2” with storage closet and in a distance of 8’6” with ventilators shaft and janitor closet, separated by bearing wall and in a distance of 9” with apartment 12-B, separated by bearing wall. This apartment unit consists of the following rooms: foyer, living-dining with balcony, kitchen, master bedroom with bathroom and dressing room, corridor with two linen closets; bathroom(second), bedroom with closet and balcony and third bedroom with closet. The kitchen is equipped with base and wall cabinet, double bowl sink with disposal, water heater, range with oven and space for refrigerators and clothes washer-dryer. The master bathroom has bathtub, water closet, bidet and two lavatories on a separate vanity area. The second bathroom has a bathtub, water closet and lavatory. A storage closet located in the central core and with an area of 33 square feet, equivalent to three square meters and seven hundredths of square meters form part pf this apartment; this area is in addition to the area mentioned above. The entrance door of this apartment is located on the Northeast boundary facing the common lobby which gives access to the stairs and elevator leading to the exterior. Percentage in the common general elements is 1.3394%. Percentage in the common limited elements is 2.7524%. Parking area number 6 of building number 2, Tower Parking, floor “A” Parking area number 3 of building number 2 upper Parking floor “A”. Inscrita al folio 280 del tomo 654 de Guaynabo, finca número 26255, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 2209 del tomo 1543
de Guaynabo, finca número 26255, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo, inscripción 7a. Propiedad localizada en: COND. ALTAVISTA II APTO 12-A, 28 CALLE 1, GUAYNABO, PR 00969. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $412,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 3 de diciembre de 2086. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $412,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, el 13 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $275,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $206,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, el 20 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $351,192.83 por concepto de principal que incluye intereses y gastos acumulados al 31 de octubre de 2023, más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $41,250.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses a razón del nueve punto cincuenta por ciento (9.50%) aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia, desde esta fecha y
en la escritura de hipoteca; contribuciones de la propiedad, de aplicar y contra riesgos; más recargos por demora; los intereses devengados y $11,000.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $107,325.33 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $71,550.22 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $53,662.67. De declararse desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad para vender en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 11 de junio de 2024. Alg. Hugo Basco Medina, Placa #807, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De Guaynabo.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSE LUIS MOURA RODRIGUEZ COMPUESTA POR SU ESPOSA MARTA ELENA PIÑEIRO GONZALEZ, SUS HIJOS JOSE LUIS
MOURA PIÑEIRO, LUIS JOSE MOURA PIÑEIRO, JOHANNA
MOURA PIÑEIRO, CLAUTED MOURA PIÑEIRO, JOAN MOURA PINEIRO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ LUIS
MOURA RODRIGUEZ; ADMINISTRACIÓN PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES Y EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: PO2023CV03400. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO Y NOTIFICACIÓN DE INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: JOHANNA MOURA PIÑEIRO COMO HEREDERA DE JOSE LUIS MOURA RODRIGUEZ Y JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE JOSÉ LUIS MOURA PIÑEIRO.
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-8434168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se ale-
ga en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de mayo de 2023, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $82,512.51 de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 5% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo la suma estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Condominio Estancias del Madrigal, radicado en el término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, Barrio Magueyes. Apartamento número doscientos treinta y siete (237), colinda por el Norte, en una distancia de treinta y siete con seis (37’6”) lineales, con pared; por el Sur, en una distancia de treinta y siete con seis (37’6”) lineales, con pared; por el Este, en una distancia de veintiocho con cero (28’0”) lineales, con pared; y por el Oeste, en una distancia de treinta y dos con cero (32’0”) lineales, con las Escaleras y el apartamento doscientos treinta y seis (236). Con un área de construcción del apartamento, incluyendo ancho de paredes de mil ciento cuarenta y cinco punto veinticinco (1145.25) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ciento seis punto seis mil setecientos veinticuatro (106.6724) metros cuadrados. Este apartamento cuenta con las siguientes piezas; salacomedor conjunto, cocina, tres cuartos dormitorios, área de lavandería, balcón y dos baños. El mismo tiene puerta principal e independiente que da a la escalera comunal central del edificio. Le corresponde dos estacionamientos identificados con el número doscientos treinta y siete (237). Inscrita al folio ochenta y ocho (88) del tomo mil doscientos catorce (1214) de Ponce Sur, finca número veintinueve mil ochocientos setenta y tres (29,873), Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará
la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Además, como miembro de la Sucesión de José Luis Moura Rodriguez se ha presentado una solicitud de interpelación judicial para que sirva en el término de treinta (30) días aceptar o repudiar la herencia. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de la herencia, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante José Luis Moura Rodriguez y por consiguiente, responderán por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11021. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 28 de febrero de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ
QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN GERMÁN ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. BETZAIDA
RODRIGUEZ ADORNO
Demandada Civil Núm.: SG2024CV00254. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: BETZAIDA
RODRIGUEZ ADORNO. POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda. POR EL PRESENTE EDICIO 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. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index/php/tribunal-
electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr.com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Bo. Minillas, Carr. 2 KM 177.7, San German, PR 00683; PO Box 2653, San German, PR 00683-2653. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en SAN GERMAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de junio de 2024. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. CAROLINE HERNÁNDEZ VALENTÍN, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE YOLANDA REYES MARTÍNEZ COMPUESTA POR: YARA LEE MORALES REYES, OSCAR HIRAM MORALES REYES Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO, LA SUCESIÓN DE OSCAR OMAR MORALES REYES COMPUESTA POR OBIWAN MORALES PÉREZ Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2023CV01068. (503). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: PERENCEJO DE TAL,
POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE OSCAR OMAR MORALES REYES.
Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega se adeuda las siguientes cantidades: $89,704.32 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.25% anual desde el 1 de agosto de 2021 hasta su completo pago, más $423.87 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $10,093.20 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Higuillar del Municipal de Dorado, Puerto Rico, marcado con el #7 del bloque H de la Urbanización Residencial Dorado, con área superficial de 260.00 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, con el solar #8 del bloque H, en distancia de 20.00 metros; por el SUR, con el solar #6 del bloque H, en distancia de 20.00 metros; por el ESTE, con los solares #25 y #26 del bloque H, en distancias respectivas de 4.58 metros y 8.42 metros que suman 13.00 metros; y por el OESTE, con la Calle #5 en distancia de 13.00 metros. Enclava una estructura dedicada a vivienda construida de hormigón armado, bloques de hormigón y madera. Inscrita al folio 156 del tomo 98 de Dorado, Finca 4546. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón IV. La hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Dorado, Finca 4546. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón IV. Inscripción decimocuarta. La demandante es tenedora por endoso, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. Se interpela a los demandados para que acepten o renuncien a la herencia de la causante dentro de los 30 días subsiguientes a la fecha que fuesen emplazados o requeridos que contesten, para darle cumplimiento el Artículo 1578 del nuevo Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. § 11021, entendiéndose que, si no se expresan dentro de dicho término, aceptan el caudal relicto; la renuncia se hará por instrumento público o por escrito judicial. 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.ramajudi-
cial.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, Teléfonos: (787) 789-1826 y (787) 708-0566, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy, 21 de junio de 2024 en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. IVETTE M. MARRERO BRACERO, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. GENOVEVA CAMPOS VIUDA DE TORRES, THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK N.A., JOHN DOE Demandadas Civil Núm.: GB2024CV00176. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: GENOVEVA CAMPOS VIUDA DE TORRES, THE CHASE MANHATTAN
BANK N.A., JOHN DOE, COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ a favor de The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $32,300.00, con intereses al 5 1/2% anual durante el primer año; con intereses al 7% anual durante el segundo año y con intereses al 8% durante el tercer año hasta su vencimiento, vencedero el día 1 de marzo de 2007, constituida mediante la escritura número 106, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 8 de febrero de 1977, ante el
notario Manuel Hernández Penzol, e inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 516 de Guaynabo, finca número 21,639, inscripción 1ra.
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE:
Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393
BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ LLP
500 Calle De La Tanca Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 25 de junio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DIAMAR T. GONZÁLEZ BARRETO, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL II.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Demandante V. JULIO ÁNGEL ROSADO GONZALEZ; LYDIA EISLEN ORTÍZ DÁVILA Demandados Civil Núm.: MV2023CV00102. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido diri-
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By THE STAR STAFF
The postseason of the Double A Superior Baseball League enters its penultimate stage on Friday at 8 p.m. with the start of the semifinals at Pedro Román Meléndez and Pedro Montañez stadiums in Manatí and Cayey, respectively.
Of the 45 teams that began the 2024 season in February, only four remain in contention for the Puerto Rico championship.
In series A, the Mulos of Juncos will face the Titanes of Florida, while in series B, the Azucareros of Yabucoa will face
the last season’s runners-up, the Toritos of Cayey.
Both series will be played in a best-of-seven-games format. The first weekend will feature two games, the second weekend three and the third two, if necessary.
Pedro Román Meléndez Stadium in Manatí will be the home field of the Florida team throughout the series. On Friday, the Mulos will visit the Titanes and the Azucareros will visit the Toritos in Cayey.
The Toritos are in the national semifinals for the third consecutive year. Florida had not reached this stage since 2017, Juncos since 2021 and Yabucoa since 2022.
Double A semifinals begin Friday night Lions stay alive in BSN, look to do it again vs Santurce
By THE STAR STAFF
The Ponce Lions defeated the visiting Mayagüez Indians 86-81 earlier this week at Juan “Pachín” Vicéns Auditorium.
Wednesday night’s meeting decided who would secure fourth place in Section A of the National Superior Basketball (BSN by its initials in Spanish), and who would see their season come to an end.
Despite the home team’s 13-2 start with the starting five sharing the scoring, a similar 13-2 run by the visitors tied the score at 27 in the second quarter. Ponce led by five at halftime, but “Georgie” Pacheco (21 points, five rebounds and four assists) was responsible for the Indians’ first 11 points (eight points, one assist) to lead a 9-2 run early in the third quarter that put the hosts down by
two, as Mayagüez took its first lead of the game with two baskets by Michael Young Jr. (16 points) to make it 57-56. The lead shifted again, however, and a buzzer beater by Rawle Atkins late in the quarter put the Lions up, 67-63. Seven more points from Atkins in the fourth quarter extended the lead by 10. Mayagüez sank a pair of 3-pointers in the last two minutes and a basket from Pacheco pulled the visitors to within two points, 80-78, with 34.9 seconds left. But Jordan Bell scored on Ponce’s next possession to secure the win and fourth place in the Section A standings.
To officially qualify for the postseason, the Lions will have to win another sudden death game, on Friday at the “Pachín” against the Santurce Crabbers (18-16, fourth place in Section B) in the challenge game, with the winner going to a seven-game series against the Guaynabo Mets.
Carolina Giants head coach explains his absence from the Olympics
By THE STAR STAFF
Carolina Giants head coach Carlos González, a member of the coaching staff of Puerto Rico’s national basketball team, announced earlier this week that he will not accompany the team to the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
González said his decision is due to previously established personal and family reasons that were communicated to island basketball federation officials and others well ahead of the FIBA Qualifying Tournament, which was held last weekend.
“Months before the FIBA Qualifying Tournament I indicated to Yum Ramos and Carlos Arroyo that it would be difficult for me to go if the boys qualified for the Olympics,” González said Wednesday in a written statement.
The coach added that at the beginning of August his daughter will celebrate her 15th birthday, a commitment that he said cannot be missed.
“Every coach’s dream is to go to the Olympics and represent his country, but my daughter’s dream is for her fa-
ther to be home on the most important date of her youth,” González said. “For me, that dream is worth more than any other. I have already missed many family commitments to represent my country and this is very important for me and my daughter.”
González recognized the great effort and commitment of the Puerto Rico Basketball Federation to bring the best available talent to Paris.
“I have nothing negative against the national team; on the contrary, I am grateful for each of the opportunities they have given me and I will always be available for my country,” he said. “I want to emphasize that neither the executives of the Federation nor the management of the Carolina Giants have anything to do with this decision; it is a personal and family decision.”
“My greatest wishes to the group that will represent us in France,” the coach added. “I know it will be a great experience for these boys and for Puerto Rico, which had been waiting for 20 years to see the basketball team in the Olympics.”
Héctor Santiago and the Titanes of Florida will host the Mulos of Juncos in a Double A semifinal opener in Manatí on Friday.
The Lions defeated Mayagüez in Ponce on Wednesday and will try to do the same against Santurce on Friday night at Juan “Pachín” Vicéns Auditorium.
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