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Puerto Rico sues energy multinationals, seeking $1 billion for environmental damage
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Department of Justice announced Monday that it is suing Exxon Mobil Corp., BP PLC, Chevron Corp., Chevron Phillips Chemical Puerto Rico Core LLC, ConocoPhillips, Shell PLC, Station Managers of Puerto Rico Inc., TotalEnergies and TotalEnergies Marketing PR Corp., seeking $1 billion for environmental damages.
The suit was filed in the San Juan Court of First Instance.
The Justice Department argues that, despite the above-listed companies’ knowledge that their products have caused and will continue to cause severe damage to and pollution in Puerto Rico and its natural resources, the defendants have distributed, marketed and promoted their products on the island through unfair and deceptive practices.
The lawsuit alleges that the defendants failed to provide appropriate warnings about the risks associated with the intended use of their products but instead improperly promoted them, concealing from the public the dangers of which they were aware. They also implemented sophisticated communications and public relations campaigns to mislead the public about the effects of using fossil fuels, according to the lawsuit.
As a result, the people of Puerto Rico have incurred and will continue to incur billions of dollars in costs to clean up disasters caused by climate change, the suit alleges. The costs include those associated with coastal erosion due to rising sea levels, increasingly frequent and severe storms, extreme flooding, destruction of coral reefs and mangrove forests, degradation of air and water quality, and loss of habitats and species, among other devastating impacts. The urgency of the situation cannot be overstated, the commonwealth agency said.
to Puerto Rico and for Puerto Ricans not to be the ones to pay the bill.”
The lawsuit alleges that to this day, the defendants continue to deceive the public. They falsely and misleadingly promote their products as beneficial for the climate and themselves as advocates of change toward a lowcarbon future, without warning that the consumption of their products is the main driver of climate change. The ongoing deception must be brought to light, the suit says.
In addition to environmental damages, the lawsuit includes causes of action for unfair and deceptive acts or practices in commerce, product liability, public nuisance, and punitive damages because the defendant’s negligent acts or omissions were carried out maliciously or with serious disregard for life, safety, and property.
The action also seeks to compel the defendants to contribute to an equitable fund to mitigate the current damages that the defendants’ illegal conduct has caused to Puerto Rico. Likewise, it seeks to strengthen public infrastructure against sea level rise and storm damage, restore natural resources, finance local climate resilience measures and rebuild natural barriers to protect communities from rising sea levels and atmospheric phenomena influenced by the climate.
The lawsuit, which originated after a study conducted by the Puerto Rico Climate Change Council in 2022, is based on the Law on Environmental Public Policy, the Antitrust Law of Puerto Rico, the Civil Code of 2020 and the Civil Prosecution Code.
“These companies have known internally for decades that greenhouse gas pollution from fossil fuel products would adversely impact global climate and sea levels,” Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández said. “Armed with that knowledge, they took steps to protect their assets from climate damage and risks through immense domestic investment in research, infrastructure improvements, and plans to exploit new business opportunities in a warming world. However, they did not truthfully warn Puerto Rican consumers about the consequences of using and burning fossil fuels on the island, as well as their impact on the environment. It is time for them to mitigate the damage they have caused
UPR seeks accreditation for Neurosurgery Residency Program
By THE STAR STAFF
More than two years after its revocation, University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Medical Sciences Campus (RCM by its initials in Spanish) Provost Myrna L. Quiñones Feliciano announced Monday that the institution has submitted an application to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for a new Neurosurgery Residency Program.
The program seeks to train future generations of neurosurgeons and strengthen patient service.
“We are confident this request will result in a new quality academic offer,” Quiñones said in written remarks. “The preparation of the document was a countrywide project that involved the RCM, the UPR, the Department of Health, the Puerto Rico Medical Center in Río Piedras, and the medical community. We thank the interagency and medical teams for their efforts in this solid proposal.”
UPR President Luis Ferrao Delgado congratulated the RCM and reaffirmed the university’s commitment to close collaboration with the ACGME to ensure a complete review and successful approval of the new program.
“We are confident that our application will be received with the same enthusiasm by the Accreditation Council,” he added.
Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López said the department he leads has contributed to ensuring a top-quality patient care system with highly qualified professionals.
“The filing of the application for Neurosurgery accreditation
has been done in collaboration, recognizing the importance of having specialized medical teams,” he noted.
Jorge Matta González, executive director of the Medical Services Administration, highlighted the more than $10 million invested over the past three years in personnel recruitment, facility remodeling and the purchase of specialized equipment.
“We trust that, soon, the accreditation of the new program will be a fact,” he said.
School of Medicine Dean Debora Silva emphasized that the new program united the community of neurosurgeons in Puerto Rico in the same objective. Dr. Arelis Febles, interim associate dean for graduate medical education, said the new
Gov’t funding to help pay power bills is depleted
By THE STAR STAFF
Funding from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) was depleted after the government received 55,000 applications for assistance with paying the power utility bill, officials announced Monday.
Family Secretary Ciení Rodríguez Troche and Family Socioeconomic Development (ADSEF by its Spanish acronym) Administrator Alberto Fradera said their agencies reached the end of “Energy Crisis” assistance from LIHEAP after receiving a flood of applications.
“With this million-dollar assistance we support more than
55,000 families to maintain their energy service,” Rodríguez Troche said. “Although we received additional funds to expand this program, the high demand for energy payment applications and their approval in record time has made us determined to complete the program before its closing date on September 30, 2024. We have already reached the limit of the resources allocated for this incentive.”
As of last Thursday, some 55,297 applications had been received for approximate payments totaling $14 million in assistance for LIHEAP.
“A month ago, we submitted a request for additional funds to the federal government due to the high volume of
Governor highlights development of entrepreneurship ecosystem
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia offered a message Monday at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in San Juan in which he highlighted the progress of entrepreneurship ecosystems on the island and the public policy implemented by his administration to promote a culture of entrepreneurship, which he said is key to sustainable economic growth.
“As governor, I have made sure to lead an administration committed to creating an environment that promotes the entrepreneurial spirit of our people and that also encourages innovation at all levels of our economy,” Pierluisi said in a
written statement. “Establishing public policy that seeks to position Puerto Rico as an ‘Entrepreneurial Island’ is a clear manifestation of our commitment. It is essential to promote entrepreneurship as not only being about creating companies, but also about creating a mindset of innovation and creativity that transcends all aspects of our society, as it is a powerful tool to promote job creation and competitiveness to generate economic development,”
The governor added that “by promoting [entrepreneurship] through our ‘Entrepreneurial Island’ public policy we are laying the foundations to create a robust business culture, promote the adequate training of our human capital and
program will feature educational experiences and affiliations with hospitals outside the Medical Center, expanding its reach.
RCM Neurosurgery Residency Program Director Samuel Estronza-Ojeda described the filing of the application as “a historic and very proud moment for the UPR and all of Puerto Rico.” He said the petition was the result of persistence and dedication, overcoming numerous obstacles and establishing essential agreements with various agencies and hospitals.
The seven-year training in neurosurgery is one of the longest and most demanding medical subspecialties. It requires surgeons to have a high level of skill and talent, as well as special infrastructure and intensive care units.
The proposal submitted by the RCM, which was filed within the mandatory period of two years after the withdrawal of the accreditation of the previous program in June 2022, involved numerous adjustments in clinical services, hiring of specialists and medical support staff, and collaborative agreements with private hospitals.
The ad hoc group began in October 2023 to compile documents tempered by ACGME guidelines, including certifications of medical personnel, robust medical infrastructure, and guaranteed equipment for neurosurgical care and services.
Nearly 30 primary care physicians were recruited, and the number of specialists at the medical center increased from eight to 16. Two operating rooms were remodeled and a third was added with new specialized equipment. In addition, collaborative alliances were formalized with Manatí Medical Center and the Mennonite System in Caguas and Cayey.
requests to assist the number of families who had submitted their information,” Fradera said. “We obtained approval and Puerto Rico received an additional $1.6 million for the Energy Crisis program.”
The ADSEF chief noted that after receiving the application, it is reviewed to determine eligibility and the amount of payment to be submitted. Payment is made directly to the energy service provider.
“We recognize that some families face challenges in complying with utility payments, and this benefit to comply with energy payments offers them respite,” the Family secretary said. Under the energy subsidy program, an amount is set aside from the total funds received to assist older adults. This year, that assistance amounts to $4.6 million. Since 2021, more than $128 million in LIHEAP financial assistance has been awarded to low-income families through ADSEF.
establish the necessary support for our economy to achieve a more prosperous and innovative future.”
“Together, we can become a global benchmark for entrepreneurship and creativity,” he told the congress.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi (Gov. Pierluisi Facebook)
Dr. Samuel Estronza-Ojeda, director of the Neurosurgery Residency Program at the UPR Medical Sciences Campus
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Governor: LUMA will not be paid for Santa Isabel transformer if negligence proven
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Monday that if it is proven that there was negligence on the part of LUMA Energy in the process of transporting and installing a defective transformer at the Useras substation in Santa Isabel, the private consortium will not be paid the $4 million cost of the operation.
“Well, that is precisely one of the issues that must be the subject of the ongoing investigation,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “In other words, if the ongoing investigation determines that there was negligence on the part of LUMA before making the decision to transport the transformer that ended up not working, if it is confirmed that there was negligence, then again, that cost will come from LUMA’s own funds. But I do not want to get ahead of myself, because that has to be investigated; they have to determine what tests were performed on that transformer before transporting it, what information LUMA had regarding the condition of the transformer before transporting it. And I repeat, if it is confirmed that there was negligence, then I hope that the [Puerto Rico Energy] Bureau takes action on this matter.
And likewise the Public-Private Partnerships Authority.”
“It is incredible that this happened,” the governor continued. “The [Energy] Bureau and the Public-Private Partnerships Authority are already taking action on the matter. Now, the important thing is that LUMA provides that region with a high-capacity transformer that would be located at the substation in Santa
Isabel. I know that the transformer that had been transported from Caguas failed, which is extremely regrettable. And they are investigating why this happened and whether it could have been avoided.”
Pierluisi also commented on the controversy between LUMA and Maunabo Mayor Ángel Omar Lafuente Amaro, who blocked LUMA employees’ access to a transformer that
is situated in his town in order to relocate it for use in Santa Isabel.
“As for Maunabo, the important thing is that LUMA has to provide the adequate electricity service that the people expect in all of Puerto Rico. [... I]t has to [...] confirm to the mayor that the transformer that is there and that they want to transport to Santa Isabel is not currently being used in Maunabo and that it can be removed from there without affecting the service of the people of Maunabo. That is what LUMA is responsible for doing with the mayor,” the governor said. “I am sure that what the mayor is doing is expressing a concern that the service in his town will be affected […] But LUMA has to step in and make the necessary representations to the mayor so that there is no controversy.”
LUMA Energy announced late last week that the transformer they moved at a cost of $4 million from Caguas to Santa Isabel to serve the towns of Aibonito, Santa Isabel and Coamo had problems during the installation process and, as a result, they would have to use another piece of equipment located in the Talante neighborhood of Maunabo to complete the work. The Maunabo mayor opposes the move.
Coamo mayor: 30-35 municipalities could cease operations due to budget cuts
By THE STAR STAFF
Coamo Mayor Juan Carlos García Padilla demanded on Monday that Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia and the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico explain the economic plan for the island’s municipalities in light of the elimination of the Equalization Fund and funds from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021. García Padilla warned that between 30 and 35 municipalities could close operations due to economic insolvency with the approval of the new government budget.
“There are Associated [Popular Democratic Party-led] and Federated [New Progressive Party-led] municipalities that will be forced to cease operations,” García Padilla said in a written statement. “The governor and the [oversight] Board have to inform us of the final decision. They cannot continue talking about economic band-aids that do not resolve the critical situation and the effect on essential services to the communities.”
municipal property and school maintenance do not solve the lack of operational funds, which also puts millions of dollars in reconstruction projects at risk.
erational funds in the middle of a recovery process where millions of dollars could be lost in projects that depend on the financial solvency of the municipalities that [in turn] allows the continuity of management work,” he said.
The mayor noted that the Equalization Fund was created along with the law establishing the Municipal Revenue Collections Center -- commonly known as CRIM, its acronym in Spanish -- to ensure that all municipalities received the necessary funds for basic services such as garbage collection, safe streets, sports, care for the elderly, and cultural and economic development. However, the oversight board eliminated the fund to balance the central government budget.
“We, the municipalities, are the ones who solve everything in the country,” García Padilla said. “While the central government collapses and makes all basic services more expensive, we continue to solve them with leftover crumbs, to the detriment of the people who need them the most. The elimination of this fund goes directly to the essential services of the population. We demand that they speak out, that they meet with the mayors and tell us the real plans, the truth.”
The mayor said the economic impact will begin to be felt this fiscal year and will intensify starting in January 2025. He added that the Essential Services Fund and other allocations for
García Padilla pointed out that although many towns are making the structural changes requested by the oversight board and maximizing municipal revenue collections, they will not be able to survive budgetarily.
“It is contradictory to leave municipalities without op-
The Equalization Fund has accounted for more than 30% of the budget in at least 17 of 78 municipalities. In 2022, 52% of Adjuntas’ budget came from the equalization fund, followed by Maunabo (51.3%), Florida (50.6%), Loíza (48.2%), and Comerío (47.1%). In 2023, Comerío topped the list with 39.7% of its budget coming from the fund.
Coamo Mayor Juan Carlos García Padilla
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi
An assassination attempt that seems likely to tear America further apart
By PETER BAKER
When President Ronald Reagan was shot by an attention-seeking drifter in 1981, the country united behind its injured leader. The teary-eyed Democratic speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill, went to the hospital room of the Republican president, held his hands, kissed his head and got on his knees to pray for him.
But the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump seems more likely to tear America further apart than to bring it together. Within minutes of the shooting, the air was filled with anger, bitterness, suspicion and recrimination. Fingers were pointed, conspiracy theories advanced and a country bristling with animosity fractured even more.
The fact that the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night was two days before Republicans were set to gather in Milwaukee for their nominating convention invariably put the event in a partisan context. While Democrats bemoaned political violence, which they have long faulted Trump for encouraging, Republicans instantly blamed President Joe Biden and his allies for the attack, which they argued stemmed from incendiary language labeling the former president a proto-fascist who would destroy democracy.
Trump’s eldest son, his campaign strategist and a running mate finalist all attacked the political left within hours of the shooting even before the gunman was identified or his motive determined. “Well of course they tried to keep him off the ballot, they tried to put him in jail and now you see this,” wrote Chris LaCivita, a senior adviser to the former president.
But the Trump campaign seemed to think better of it, and the post was deleted. A memo sent out Sunday by LaCivita and Susie Wiles, another senior adviser, instructed Trump team members not to comment on the shooting.
Either way, the episode could fuel Trump’s narrative about being the victim of persecution by Democrats. Impeached, indicted, sued and convicted, Trump even before Saturday had accused Democrats of seeking to have him shot by FBI agents or even executed for crimes that do not carry the death penalty.
After being wounded at the rally, Trump, with blood staining his face, pumped his fist at the crowd and shouted, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
What exactly drove the gunman, who was quickly killed by Secret Service counter
snipers, remained a matter of speculation. Identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, he was a registered Republican but had also given $15 to a progressive group on Biden’s Inauguration Day, more than three years ago. Authorities said they were still investigating his motive.
The shooting came at a time when the United States was deeply polarized along ideological, cultural and partisan lines — split, it often seems, into two countries, even two realities. More than at any time in generations, Americans do not see themselves in a collective enterprise but perceive themselves on opposite sides of modern ramparts.
The divisions have grown so stark that a Marist poll in May found that 47% of Americans considered a second civil war likely or very likely in their lifetime, a notion that prompted Hollywood to release a movie imagining what that could look like.
In recent years, political violence in America at levels below the presidency has become increasingly partisan. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was critically wounded in a mass shooting in 2011, prompting angry criticism of Republicans for fomenting hate. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., now House majority leader, was shot and injured during a congressional baseball game practice in 2017 by a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
An armed man who was arrested outside the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 told authorities that he wanted to kill
the conservative Supreme Court justice because of his positions against abortion and gun control. Later that year, a man wielding a hammer broke into the San Francisco house of then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and beat her husband, Paul Pelosi.
The most famous recent case of political violence before this weekend was the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, by supporters of Trump trying to block the certification of Biden’s election victory. Capitol Police investigated 8,008 cases of threats involving members of Congress last year. While most of them were not serious, it was the second-highest total in the department’s history and has prompted the hiring of more prosecutors.
House Democrats impeached Trump for instigating the Capitol attack with his inflammatory language at a rally beforehand. The former president has a long history of encouraging violence. He urged supporters to beat up protesters at rallies, cheered a Republican member of Congress for body-slamming a reporter, called for looters and shoplifters to be shot, made light of the attack on Paul Pelosi and promised pardons to Jan. 6 rioters. When some of his supporters chanted “Hang Mike Pence!” on Jan. 6, Trump told aides that maybe the vice president deserved it because he had defied efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Republicans turned the tables on Democrats this weekend, arguing that if Trump was responsible for provocative rhetoric, then Biden should be as well. Speaking with donors
Monday, Biden said he wanted to stop talking about his poor debate performance and instead “put Trump in a bull’s-eye.” He described his strategy as “attack, attack, attack.”
“The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs,” Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, a front-runner to be named Trump’s running mate, wrote on social media two hours after the attack Saturday. “That rhetoric directly led to President Trump’s attempted assassination.”
Some Republican leaders took a more measured approach. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaking on “Today” on NBC, said Sunday that Trump had “been so vilified and really persecuted by media, Hollywood elites, political figures, even the legal system” and cited Biden’s “bull’s-eye” comment.
“I know he didn’t mean what is being implied there, but that kind of language on either side should be called out,” Johnson said. But he emphasized that “both sides” have “got to turn the temperature down in this country.”
Biden did not directly respond to criticism of his language during three televised appearances since the shooting, but he flatly condemned the attack and called Trump to wish him well. Like Johnson, he said that Americans must “lower the temperature” and that “it’s time to cool it down.” During a rare Oval Office address, he added: “Politics must never be a literal battlefield, and God forbid a killing field.”
The danger is if political violence becomes normalized, just another form of the endless partisan wars. A study published in May found that 11% of Americans said violence was sometimes or always justified to return Trump to the presidency, and 21% said it was justified to advance an important political objective.
But Garen J. Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Program at the University of California, Davis, and the lead author of the study, said it was important to remember that most Americans still rejected political violence.
“It’s the job of that majority to make their views known, over and over again, and as publicly as possible,” Wintemute said. “A climate of intolerance for violence reduces the chance that violence will occur. The question before us as a nation is, ‘Will violence become part of American politics?’ Each of us as an individual needs to answer that question, ‘Not if I can help it.’”
Secret Service snipers stand watch before a former President Donald Trump campaign event in Butler, Pa., on Saturday, July 13, 2024. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)
Cannon’s Trump case dismissal rejects court precedents
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
In declaring that the appointment of Jack Smith as a special counsel was illegitimate and throwing out his indictment against former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case, Judge Aileen Cannon cut against decades of rulings by higher courts.
But Cannon, a Trump appointee who has previously made unusual rulings in his favor only to be reversed, argued that the original Supreme Court precedent those cases trace back to was unpersuasive, especially in light of subsequent developments in the law. Others had simply relied on that case without performing new analysis, she added.
Under the Constitution, Congress can give the heads of departments in the executive branch the authority to appoint “inferior” officers. Even as she expressed doubt about whether a special counsel, who wields the same powers as a United States attorney, a presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed position, should have that status, Cannon accepted that it does for the purpose of her analysis.
She then turned to the question of whether Congress had authorized Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint someone from outside the government as a special counsel. While Smith is a former Justice Department prosecutor, he worked for an international court in Europe at the time Garland asked him to handle the criminal inquiries into Trump.
The Justice Department argued that it had, citing a
laws were not good enough.
Her decision rejected what the Supreme Court said in its landmark ruling in 1974. The decision upheld a subpoena by the special prosecutor assigned to take over the Watergate inquiry, Leon Jaworski, who sought President Richard Nixon’s secret Oval Office recordings. While a former Justice Department official, Jaworski had been in private practice at the time of his appointment.
In a unanimous ruling, Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote that the Supreme Court noted that Congress had vested in the attorney general the “power to conduct the criminal litigation of the United States government” and “the power to appoint subordinate officers to assist him in the discharge of his duties.” The attorney general had delegated prosecutorial authority to Jaworski, the chief justice added.
The Justice Department argued that this was crucial to the outcome of the case, so it counts as binding law. But Cannon wrote that it was so-called dicta — passing remarks in a judicial opinion that are tangential to the case and so are not considered to be binding law. The question of Jaworski’s appointment had not been extensively briefed and argued, unlike other matters in the ruling, she noted.
series of statutes in which lawmakers empowered attorneys general to appoint officials “to detect and prosecute crimes against the United States,” and may assign any attorney he has “specially appointed” under law to “conduct any kind of legal proceeding, civil or criminal.” But Cannon said those
JD Vance is Trump’s choice for vice president
By MICHAEL GOLD
Former President Donald Trump has chosen Sen. JD Vance of Ohio to be his running mate, wagering that the young senator will bring fresh energy to the Republican ticket and ensure that the movement Trump began nearly a decade ago can live on after him.
Vance, 39, is a political newcomer who entered the Senate only last year, but he has spent that time methodically ascending the conservative firmament. Once an acerbic Trump critic — attacking Trump as “reprehensible” and calling him “cultural heroin” — he won Trump’s backing in his 2022 Senate race by wholly embracing his politics and his lies about a stolen election. The endorsement lifted him above a crowded field, and ultimately to the Senate.
Vance, a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley who became best known for writing the memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” did not forget it. He quickly emerged as a top defender of the former president in the halls of Congress and on television, taking his cues from Trump while frequently bucking the priorities of longtime Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
Trump, in a post on his social media platform Truth Social on Monday, said Vance was “the person best suited” to be his potential vice president. He highlighted Vance’s
time in the Marine Corps and his memoir, saying he believed Vance was a champion for hardworking people, particularly the workers and farmers in a number of key swing states.
Trump’s announcement came just days after he survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania, an episode that underlined the significance of his selecting a running mate who might be in line as Trump’s successor, and as the Republican National Convention was getting underway.
Vance, an ardent and vocal defender of Trump, went further than many of his allies, directly attributing the shooting to the rhetoric of President Joe Biden and his campaign, even as Trump and his campaign called for unity.
“The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination,” Vance wrote on the social platform X.
In Vance, Trump has tapped an ambitious ideologue who relishes the spotlight and has shown he can energize donors on behalf of the presumptive nominee. His youth — there are nearly 40 years separating them, and Vance is the first millennial nominated to a major-party ticket — could prove a boon to the ticket, as voters have expressed concern over both Trump’s and Biden’s ages. And the choice posi-
“Following a comprehensive review of the Supreme Court record, the court concludes that the disputed statement from Nixon is dictum,” she wrote. “The issue of the attorney general’s appointment authority was not raised, briefed, argued, or disputed before the Nixon Court.”
tions Vance, intentionally or not, as the likeliest Republican yet to carry Trump’s ideological legacy beyond a potential second term in the White House.
Jack Smith, the special counsel, delivers remarks about the indictment of former President Donald Trump in Washington, June 9, 2023. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) in the spin room after the debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in Atlanta on June 27, 2024. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
AI’s insatiable energy use drives electricity demands
By DAVID GELLES
Afew weeks ago, I joined a small group of reporters for a wide-ranging conversation with Bill Gates about climate change, its causes and potential solutions. When the topic turned to the issue of just how much energy artificial intelligence was using, Gates was surprisingly sanguine.
“Let’s not go overboard on this,” he said during a media briefing on the sidelines of an event he was hosting in London.
AI data centers represent a relatively small additional load on the grid, Gates said. What’s more, he predicted that insights gleaned from AI would deliver gains in efficiency that would more than make up for that additional demand.
In short, Gates said, the stunning rise of AI will not stand in the way of combating climate change. “It’s not like, ‘Oh, no, we can’t do it because we’re addicted to doing chat sessions,’” he said.
That’s an upbeat assessment from a billionaire with a vested interest in the matter. Gates is a big-time climate investor, and is the former head of Microsoft and remains a major stockholder in the company, which is at the center of the AI revolution.
And while it’s too early to draw a definitive conclusion on the issue, a few things are already clear: AI is having a profound impact on energy demand around the world, it’s often leading to an uptick in planet-warming emissions, and there’s no end in sight.
AI data centers have a big appetite for electricity. The so-called graphic processing units, or GPUs, used to train large language models and respond to ChatGPT queries, require more energy than your average microchip and give off more heat.
With more data centers coming online almost every week, projections about how much energy will be required to power the AI boom are soaring.
One peer-reviewed study suggested AI could make up 0.5% of worldwide electricity use by 2027, or roughly what Argentina uses in a year. Analysts at Wells Fargo suggested that U.S. electricity demand could jump 20% by 2030, driven in part to AI.
And Goldman Sachs predicted that data centers would account for 8% of U.S. energy usage in 2030, up from just 3% today.
“It’s truly astronomical potential load
growth,” said Ben Inskeep, the program director at Citizens Action Coalition, a consumer watchdog group based in Indiana that is tracking the energy impact of data centers.
Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta have all recently announced plans to build new data centers in Indiana, developments that Inskeep said would strain the grid.
“We don’t have enough power to meet the projected needs of data centers over the next five to 10 years,” he said. “We would need a massive build-out of additional resources.”
Tech giants are scrambling to get a grip on their energy usage. For a decade now, those same four companies have been at the forefront of corporate efforts to embrace sustainability.
But in a matter of months, the energy demands from AI have complicated that narrative. Google’s emissions last year were 50% higher than in 2019, largely because of data centers and the rise of AI. Microsoft’s emissions also jumped for the same reasons, up 29% last year from 2020. And Meta’s emissions jumped 66% from 2021 to 2023.
In statements, Google and Microsoft both said that AI would ultimately prove crucial to addressing the climate crisis, and that they were working to reduce their carbon footprints and bring more clean energy online. Amazon pointed to a statement de-
tailing its sustainability efforts.
There are two ways for tech companies to meet the demand: tap the existing grid, or build new power plants. Each poses its own challenges.
In West Virginia, coal-fired power plants that had been scheduled to retire are being kept online to meet the energy needs of new data centers across the border in Virginia.
And across the country, utilities are building new natural-gas infrastructure to support data centers. Goldman Sachs anticipates that “incremental data center power consumption in the U.S. will drive around 3.3 billion cubic feet per day of new natural gas demand by 2030, which will require new pipeline capacity to be built.”
At the same time, the tech giants are working to secure a lot more power to fuel the growth of AI.
Microsoft is working on a $10 billion plan to develop renewable energy to power data centers. Amazon has said it used 100% clean energy last year, though experts have questioned whether the company’s accounting was too lenient.
All that new low carbon power is great. But when the tech companies themselves are consuming all that electricity to power new AI data centers, pushing up energy demand, it isn’t making the grid overall
any cleaner.
The energy demands from AI are only getting more intense. Microsoft and OpenAI are planning on building a $100 billion data center, according to reports. Initial reporting suggests it may require 5 gigawatts of power, or roughly the equivalent of five nuclear reactors.
And at the same time that companies are building more data centers, many of the chips at the heart of the AI revolution are getting more and more power hungry. Nvidia, the leader in AI chips, recently unveiled new products that would draw exponentially more energy from the grid.
The AI boom is generating big profits for some companies. And it may yet deliver breakthroughs that help reduce emissions. But, at least for now, data centers are doing more harm than good for the climate.
“It’s definitely very concerning as we’re trying to transition our current grid to renewable energy,” Inskeep said. “Adding a massive amount of new load on top of that poses a grave threat to that transition.”
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Wall St ends higher as investors firm bets on Trump win, rate cuts
Wall Street closed higher on Monday, building on Friday’s rally as increasing expectations of a second Donald Trump presidency in the wake of a failed assassination attempt raised hopes of a looser regulatory environment.
The growing probability that the U.S. Federal Reserve will begin cutting its key interest rate as soon as September also helped feed risk appetite.
While all three major U.S. stock indexes ended well below session highs, the Dow Jones Industrial Average notched an all-time closing high.
Economically sensitive small caps and transportation stocks handily outperformed the broader market.
An assassination attempt in Pennsylvania on Saturday of Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, appeared to improve his chances for election. A Trump presidency would presumably result in a more hawkish trade policy, an extension of tax cuts and deregulation in a host of areas ranging from climate change to cryptocurrencies.
Online betting site PredictIt showed bets of an election win at 67 cents for Trump, up from Friday’s 60 cents, with a victory for Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden at 26 cents.
“The headline event - the attempted assassination of Donald Trump - did not result in a bottom line event,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist of CFRA Research in New York. “There’s no change to GDP forecasts, no change to expectations that the Fed will start to cut rates in September, corporate profits are coming in ahead of expectations.”
“So the momentum in the market remains based on investor optimism,” Stovall added.
Sentiment was also buoyed by optimism that the U.S. Federal Reserve will enter its expected interest rate cutting phase as early as September, with as many as three total cuts by the end of the year.
“A September (rate) cut has been all but cemented,” said Ross Mayfield, investment strategy analyst at Baird in Louisville, Kentucky. “We’re sitting almost exactly where we were seven months ago, which is the promise of Fed rate cuts without a recession. It’s still very much predicated to the Fed coming to the party.”
Speaking before the Economic Club of Washington, Fed Chair Jerome Powell reiterated on Monday his belief that the
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U.S. economy can avoid recession, and recent data readings show progress in bringing inflation down to the central bank’s 2% goal.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 210.82 points, or 0.53%, to 40,211.72, the S&P 500 gained 15.87 points, or 0.28%, to 5,631.22 and the Nasdaq Composite added 74.12 points, or 0.40%, to 18,472.57.
Among the 11 major sectors of the S&P 500, energy shares enjoyed the biggest percentage gain, while utilities were laggards.
Goldman Sachs’ second-quarter profit more than doubled, beating analyst estimates on solid debt underwriting and fixed-income trading. The broker’s shares advanced 2.6%.
Shares of Macy’s Inc dropped 11.7% after the department store scrapped buyout talks with Arkhouse Management and Brigade Capital.
The prospect of a second Trump presidency sent shares of Trump Media & Technology Group soaring 31.4%.
Crypto stocks also fared well, with Coinbase Global, Marathon Digital Holdings and Riot Platforms up between 11.4% and 18.3%.
Other stocks that are expected to benefit from Trump’s possible second term climbed, with gunmaker Smith & Wesson and prison operator GEO Group gaining 11.4% and 9.3%, respectively.
On the downside, solar energy firms slid as the prospect of Trump’s election dimmed expectations for renewable energy U.S. subsidies.
Shares of Sunrun and SolarEdge Technologies tumbled 9.0% and 15.4%, respectively.
U.S.-listed shares of Chinese companies also declined on fears of tightened trade restrictions under another Trump administration.
Ukraine battles to contain Russian advances across the front
By CONSTANT MÉHEUT
Russian forces over the weekend pushed into Urozhaine, a southern village won back by Ukraine last summer, the latest in a series of slow but steady advances that are reversing hard-won Ukrainian victories.
The Russian advances are a sobering development for Kyiv as its troops battle to contain attacks along a more than 600-mile front line.
In the east, Moscow’s troops are also pressing forward. They have entered the outskirts of Chasiv Yar, a Ukrainian stronghold in the region, and are closing in on a key Ukrainian supply route.
Ukraine hopes that weapons and ammunition recently supplied by Western allies will help it hold back Russian forces. That has already happened in the northeast, where beefed up Ukrainian defenses have managed to halt a Russian offensive that threatened Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. U.S. officials said last week that Russia was unlikely to make significant territorial gains in the coming months.
As the war reaches the 2 1/2-year mark, Ukraine is pursuing a plan for a negotiated end to the fighting. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that he wanted to hold a second international peace summit later this year and that Russian officials should attend. Moscow was not invited to the previous summit, held in Switzerland last month.
Here’s a closer look at the situation on the battlefield.
Russia appears to have retaken Urozhaine
Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed on Sunday that its soldiers had seized Urozhaine, a small village in southeastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian military made no comment but maps of the battlefield compiled by analysts from combat footage also showed Urozhaine under Russian control, including a map by DeepState, a group with close ties to the Ukrainian army.
Russian forces “occupied Urozhaine,” DeepState said Sunday, describing the loss as a “defense collapse.” Pasi Paroinen, from the Black Bird Group, a Finland-based organization that analyzes imagery from the Ukrainian battlefield, also confirmed the loss.
Urozhaine was one of the few southern villages that Ukraine liberated last summer, rare successes in an otherwise disappointing counteroffensive. But those gains are now slowly being reversed by advancing Russian troops. In May, Russia recaptured most of Robotyne, a village west of Urozhaine that was retaken by Ukrainian forces in August.
“Of course it’s unfortunate to see all of last summer’s gains slowly returning to Russian control,” Paroinen said. “As long as Russia holds the initiative, these slow roll backs will continue.”
Kyiv held on to Urozhaine for nearly a year after its liberation, despite an intense Russian bombardment campaign in recent months that involved glide bombs, heavy artillery and powerful rockets, Paroinen said. Ukraine has long argued that defending small places of little strategic value is worth the cost in lives and weapons because the attacking Russians pay an even higher price.
Until two days ago, maps of the battlefield showed that most of Urozhaine remained under Ukrainian control. That it fell to Russian forces in such a short space of time suggests that Kyiv’s troops may have suddenly withdrawn from the village, which now lies in ruins.
Russia’s push in the east Ukraine’s army general staff said Sunday that the “hottest situation” along the front line was near Pokrovsk, an eastern city turned military garrison that sits on a key road linking several Ukrainian-held cities in the area.
Since Russia captured Avdiivka, a Ukrainian stronghold in the east, this year, its troops have been slowly advancing toward the crucial road, called Highway T0504. They are now less than 4 miles south of the road, putting it well within ran-
ge of Russian artillery and drone strikes.
Should Russian forces reach the road, Ukrainian military operations in the eastern Donetsk region would be seriously hampered. Towns linked by the road and key to the defense of the region would have to be supplied by alternative, less practical routes.
In particular, cutting off the road would further isolate the hilltop town of Chasiv Yar, one of Moscow’s main targets.
Ukrainian troops recently retreated from the eastern edge of Chasiv Yar. Russian forces have also recently pushed into the nearby towns of Toretsk and New York, a settlement that took its name in the 19th century, increasing the pressure on Ukrainian lines.
Ukraine has stopped Russia’s offensive in the northeast
The situation is not all gloomy for Ukraine. Its troops have now managed to halt Russian assaults near the city of Kharkiv, where Moscow opened a new front in late April and made its biggest territorial gains in more than a year.
Russian troops swooped across the border north and east of the city and quickly seized settlements in areas that were poorly defended. The Ukrainian army rushed in elite brigades and slowly fell back to more heavily fortified positions, a strategy that eventually helped stop the Russian advance, experts say.
Newly delivered U.S. weapons and ammunition also helped the Ukrainian army in countering Russian assaults, as did U.S. authorization for Ukraine to strike Russian military targets across the border.
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Paramedics with Ukraine’s 59th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade evacuating a wounded soldier from the front line in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, May 4, 2024. Moscow’s troops have in mid-July entered the outskirts of Chasiv Yar, a Ukrainian stronghold in the region, and are closing in on a key Ukrainian supply route. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
France is busing homeless immigrants out of Paris before the Olympics
By SARAH HURTES and SÉGOLÈNE LE STRADIC
The French government has put thousands of homeless immigrants on buses and sent them out of Paris before the Olympics. The immigrants said they were promised housing elsewhere, only to end up living on unfamiliar streets far from home or flagged for deportation.
President Emmanuel Macron of France has promised that the Olympic Games will showcase the country’s grandeur. But the Olympic Village was built in one of Paris’ poorest suburbs, where thousands of people live in street encampments, shelters or abandoned buildings.
Around the city over the past year, the police and courts have evicted roughly 5,000 people, most of them single men, according to Christophe Noël du Payrat, a senior federal official in Paris. City officials encourage them to board buses to cities like Lyon or Marseille.
“We were expelled because of the Olympic Games,” said Mohamed Ibrahim, from Chad, who was evicted from an abandoned cement factory near the Olympic Village. He moved to a vacant building south of Paris, from which the police evicted residents in April. A bus drove them two hours southwest to a town outside Orléans.
“They give you a random ticket,” said Oumar Alamine, from the Central African Republic, who was on that bus. “If it’s a ticket to Orléans, you go to Orléans.”
Officials with Macron’s government declined to comment. But they have said that this is a voluntary program intended to alle-
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viate Paris’ emergency housing shortage.
We followed the trail from Paris, to see how the program works.
Why is Macron busing people?
There is not enough shelter space for the 100,000 homeless people who live in and around Paris — half the total in France — so the government set up 10 temporary shelters across the country last year.
The government denies that the busing
is connected to the Olympics. But we obtained an email, which was first reported by the newspaper L’Équipe, in which a government housing official said the goal was to “identify people on the street in sites near Olympic venues” and move them before the Games.
The heart of the Olympics is SeineSaint-Denis, where roughly 1 in 3 people is an immigrant — the highest percentage in the country. The government has spent billions redeveloping the area.
How does the program work?
Ahmed, for instance, has refugee status and could not benefit from the program. But several people told us they thought they had no choice but to get on the bus.
“Police officers came,” Alamine said. “They surrounded us.”
Where do people end up?
After arriving in their new cities, homeless people live in shelters for up to three weeks and are screened for asylum eligibility.
Those who are eligible can receive longterm housing while they apply for asylum. But about 60% of people in the temporary shelters do not get long-term housing.
Several have been given deportation orders, which is why some lawyers urge people not to get on the buses and take their chances on the streets. “It’s an antechamber to deportation,” said Emmanuel Pereira, a lawyer working near Paris.
The remaining immigrants are typically evicted once more. Emergency housing is in short supply, so most people soon end up homeless again in a new city.
City officials outside Paris told us that they had not been consulted about the program.
“There’s no money to find places for the homeless in Marseille, but there is money to bring homeless people from Paris?” said Audrey Garino, deputy mayor of Marseille. What happens next?
We headed a few hours southwest of Paris to find out.
The Orléans shelter is outside that city in a gray three-story hotel. When we arrived, we found no staff members or social workers. Rooms are small, with two single beds side by side.
The men we met had left their jobs in Paris and boarded a bus hoping for longterm housing and social services.
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The police increased raids on homeless camps and abandoned buildings last year. Working with city officials, they evicted people and said they would help relocate them.
“They promised us housing and social help,” said Yussuf Ahmed, from Sudan, who works cleaning airplanes at Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Many did not know that they were entering a government program to screen them for potential asylum — and potentially deport them. The program has existed for years, but the evictions have brought in thousands of new people, many of whom are ineligible for asylum.
“We arrived and there was nothing,” Ahmed said. “They lied to get us on the bus.”
After a few weeks, they were told to leave: No local shelter could house them.
Ahmed, desperate to keep his airport job, returned to Paris. The building where he had once lived was now off limits, protected by security guards. He has found another abandoned building, for now.
Alamine and Ibrahim decided to stay. Most days, they make the hourlong walk to Orléans in search of work.
The keys to their room in the shelter no longer work, so they broke in through the windows.
They are squatters once again.
A homeless shelter outside Orléans, France, about a two-hour bus ride southwest of Paris, June 16, 2024. The French government has put thousands of homeless immigrants on buses and sent them out of Paris ahead of the Olympics. (Dmitry
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Trump survived the violence, and may benefit from it
By CHARLES M. BLOW
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally Saturday will probably fundamentally change the messaging and direction of the presidential campaign and enhance Trump’s standing, at least in the near term. As we prepare for the Republican National Convention, which opens in Milwaukee on Monday, here are several
possible effects of the shooting:
The image: Trump’s instinct to raise his clenched fist, with blood streaking across his face, and to repeatedly shout the word “fight” from the stage, just seconds after he was injured, was gold for his campaign. It created an indelible image and captured the essence of Trump’s MAGA movement: under attack but defiant, bloody but unbowed.
As a person who spent the first part of my career as a graphic designer and art director, I immediately saw the visual power and nearly infinite graphic possibilities of this image. The raised, clinched fist has a long history in propagandistic imagery as a symbol of resistance and revolution in Western popular culture, dating back at least to the French Revolution of 1848 as depicted in Honoré Daumier’s circa 1860 painting, The Uprising.
Victimization: Trump has spent much of his time in presidential politics concocting a narrative of victimization, insisting that he and his movement were under attack and needed to fight back to save “our country.” He, and his supporters who were killed and injured, can now portray themselves as legitimate victims.
Neutralizing criticism: Becoming victims makes it easier for members of the right to neutralize discussion about the violence of Jan. 6 for the remainder of the campaign. Even the issue of gun control will likely not resonate. Rather than seeing this as evidence that we should restrict gun access, Republicans will try to justify owning more guns to defend themselves from political violence.
The response to violence should not be a media blame game
By LYDIA POLGREEN
In the aftermath of what appears to have been an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Republicans are accusing the news media of creating an atmosphere that made violence all but inevitable. One widely circulating proof point in this argument is the June cover of The New Republic, which depicts Trump with a Hitler mustache above the headline that declares “American fascism” in red type redolent of the Third Reich.
I’m always hesitant to engage in the game of who started it — that is a question for squabbling children. And yet we would do well to remember that the language of apocalyptic violence has been Trump’s signature throughout his career, long before he descended that golden escalator to declare that rapists from Mexico were invading our country.
From the earliest days of his presidential candidacy, the news media tried in a variety of ways to navigate his normbusting political rhetoric. I’ve spent some time thinking about Arianna Huffington’s decision in 2015 to consign candidate Trump to the entertainment section of her news site, The Huffington Post.
“Trump’s campaign is a sideshow,” wrote Ryan Grim, who
was then the site’s Washington bureau chief. “We won’t take the bait. If you are interested in what The Donald has to say, you’ll find it next to our stories on the Kardashians and The Bachelorette.”
At the time, and after I took over as Huffington’s successor in the aftermath of Trump’s victory, I had a sense of smug certainty that I would never have made such a decision. But given all that has happened since, I have come to think of it differently.
Perhaps it was a prescient if imperfect choice: a failed attempt to cordon off an ugly strain of political rhetoric, safely in the world of paranoid, conspiracy-laden entertainment. Trump was a reality television star. And this was, after all, the time of the Shonda Rhimes TV melodrama “Scandal,” about dastardly Republicans, and “House of Cards,” David Fincher’s soapy saga about diabolical Democrats. Over time I have come to understand the decision as a warning, and a cry for help.
It is worth remembering that the conspiratorial and diabolical cast of mind knows no party, even if it has surfaced more frequently and violently in history on the right. We will spend many years trying to figure out how we got here, and who is to blame. But the urgent business of this moment is finding a path out of this madness.
The legend: Years ago, Trump had already become a folk hero among his supporters for fighting the establishment. Another common feature among many folk heroes is that they evade or survive capture, punishment or death. By surviving this attempt on his life, Trump’s legend only grows among his faithful.
Outreach to Black voters: It will be interesting to see how this incident fits into the campaign’s attempts to reach out to Black voters. Trump has already suggested that his indictments created a sort of kinship with Black people who have been unfairly treated by the criminal justice system. Black people have also been subjected to unimaginable violence in this country and many Black leaders have been assassinated.
The rapper 50 Cent, who said last month that Black men identify with Trump, rose to fame on the fact that he had been shot nine times and survived. Soon after the attempt on Trump’s life, the rapper was trending on social media.
Empathy: Many voters have never found Trump a particularly sympathetic figure, but it is natural to empathize with a person who endures such an event, even if you disagree with the person’s politics. That may allow some voters to set aside legitimate worries about the destructive potential of a second Trump term.
The last few weeks have completely changed the race. Liberals have weakened Biden by painting him as feeble and impaired, while this shooting has likely lifted Trump by making him seem resilient and defiant.
A bloodied Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service agents before being spirited away after shots were fired at a campaign rally on Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa.
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Gobernador firma aumento de sueldo a jueces y fiscales
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LA FORTALEZA – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia firmó el lunes el Proyecto del Senado 1400, que otorga un aumento salarial a jueces, fiscales, procuradores de menores y de familia, así como a los registradores de la propiedad.
“Los aumentos salariales que contempla este proyecto son una muestra de nuestro compromiso con la justicia y un reconocimiento al profesionalismo y dedicación de quienes protegen los principios democráticos de nuestra sociedad. Así lo hemos estado haciendo en todo el gobierno, pues sabemos que una remuneración justa es un factor
clave para atraer y retener al mejor talento, garantizando así que nuestros ciudadanos reciban el mejor servicio. En nuestro sistema de justicia, los jueces, fiscales y procuradores desempeñan un rol fundamental para promover la ley y el orden, la justicia y la equidad en toda nuestra sociedad. Por eso, reconocer y valorar su trabajo es justo y también esencial para asegurar la excelencia y la integridad de nuestro sistema judicial”, expresó el gobernador en declaraciones escritas.
Además, el gobernador firmó el Proyecto del Senado 658 para enmendar la “Ley de la Junta Examinadora de Peritos Electricistas”, aumentando el periodo de gracia de 30 a 120 días para presentar una solicitud de renovación
Supremo rechaza haber eximido de la reválida a abogada
SAN JUAN – Tras la publicación del reportaje que devela una resolución del Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico (TSPR) eximiendo a una abogada de la aprobación del examen de reválida, un portavoz del Tribunal envió a la redacción de CyberNews copia de la Resolución MC-20240005 para justificar que “Tribunal Supremo no ha admitido al ejercicio de la abogacía a la peticionaria… Stephanie M. Vilella Alonso y sólo se limitó a referir el asunto a la Comisión de Aspirantes al Ejercicio de la Abogacía para que emita un informe”.
Pero, tras un breve examen de la moción original presentada al TSPR, resulta evidente que la explicación ofrecida no refleja lo solicitado por Vilella Alonso, ni el alcance de la resolución misma.
En la súplica en el caso Ex Parte Stephanie Michelle Vilella Alonso, su representación legal señala que “… muy respetuosamente se solicita de este Honorable Tribunal que declare HA LUGAR la presente solicitud, y en su consecuencia autorice y admita a la parte peticionaria, Stephanie Michelle Vilella Alonso, al ejercicio de la abogacía en Puerto Rico, junto a cualquier otro pronunciamiento que en derecho proceda”.
Luego de declarar “No Ha Lugar” la moción en su consideración original y en una primera solicitud de reconsideración, una mayoría del TSPR atendió la moción en una segunda reconsideración y entonces declara “Con Lugar” la petición de Vilella Alonso, dando paso a que se “autorice y admita a la parte peticionaria, Stephanie Michelle Vilella Alonso, al ejercicio de la abogacía en Puerto Rico”.
Para el Presidente del Colegio de Abogados (CAPR) Ma-
de la licencia de ayudante de perito electricista ya vencida. Como medida transitoria, se establece que cualquier solicitante cuya licencia venció a partir de marzo de 2020 podrá solicitar su renovación durante un término de 60 días desde la vigencia de esta ley.
nuel Quilichini la resolución es clara.
“Cuando se concede el ‘CON LUGAR’ se refiere a la admisión[a la práctica de la abogacía] porque en ningún lado la peticionaria pide que se le evalúe por el Comité de Reputación”, concluyó Quilichini.
Sobre el referido a la Comisión, el letrado señaló que el alcance de dicho referido, de acuerdo al propio reglamento de la Comisión, “es una certificación de carácter y reputación que ‘(1) Completada la evaluación correspondiente sobre los aspirantes o las aspirantes que aprobaron su reválida y no más tarde de cuarenta y cinco (45) días después de la Junta Examinadora haber anunciado los resultados del correspondiente examen de reválida, la Comisión emitirá una certificación general, bajo la firma de su Presidente o Presidenta y su Secretario o Secretaria…’”.
“El reglamento de la Comisión, no habla de evaluar la competencia profesional, eso lo hace la reválida”, dijo Quilichini.
Investigación federal recupera $238,000 en salarios atrasados por horas extras de más de 1000 instaladores empleados por una empresa de equipos solares de Puerto Rico
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GUAYNABO – Una investigación del Departamento de Trabajo de los EE. UU. ha recuperado $238,746 en salarios por horas extras adeudados a 1024 instaladores de paneles solares y sistemas que trabajaban para una empresa de energía renovable en Puerto Rico que no incluyó varios bonos en sus salarios y calculó incorrectamente los salarios por horas extras.
La División de Horas y Salarios del departamento determinó que las acciones de Windmar Home/Windmar P.V. Energy Inc., de San Juan, causaron un déficit significativo en los salarios de los empleados y violaron los requisitos de horas extraordinarias de la Ley de Normas Jus-
tas de Trabajo (Fair Labor Standards Act, FLSA). En un acuerdo que llegó con la división, el empleador aceptó pagar los salarios atrasados por horas extras y cumplir con la FLSA en el futuro. “Nuestros investigadores identificaron que a más de 1000 trabajadores de la industria solar los estaban perjudicando porque su empleador no incluyó los bonos por rendimiento en el cálculo de los salarios por horas extras”, dijo el Director de Distrito de la División de Horas y Salarios, José Vázquez, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. “Los empleadores de la industria solar, que está creciendo rápidamente en Puerto Rico, deben familiarizarse con la normativa que regula sus prácticas salariales para evitar las consecuencias financieras, a menudo signi-
ficativas, que se producen cuando se infringen estas leyes”.
Actualmente, la división está distribuyendo el dinero adeudado a los trabajadores de Windmar cubiertos por esta investigación y está intentando ubicar a empleados actuales o antiguos que crean que se les adeudan salarios atrasados de esta investigación. Los trabajadores que crean tener salarios adeudados deberían usar la herramienta de búsqueda en línea Workers Owed Wages (Salarios Adeudados a los Trabajadores) de la división para hacer un reclamo de sus salarios atrasados o comunicarse con la Oficina de Distrito del Caribe de la división en Guaynabo llamando al 787-7751947 si tienen preguntas.
July 16, 2024
50 years ago, ‘Jaws’ hit bookstores, capturing the angst of a generation
By BRIAN RAFTERY
In 1973, the first chapter of an unpublished novel was photocopied and passed around the Manhattan offices of Doubleday & Co. with a note. “Read this,” it dared, “without reading the rest of the book.”
Those who accepted the challenge were treated to a swift-moving tale of terror, one that begins with a young woman taking a postcoital dip in the waters off Long Island. As her lover dozes on the beach, she’s ravaged by a great white shark.
“The great conical head struck her like a locomotive, knocking her up out of the water,” the passage read. “The jaws snapped shut around her torso, crushing bones and flesh and organs into a jelly.”
Tom Congdon, an editor at Doubleday, had circulated the bloody, soapy excerpt to drum up excitement for his latest project: a thriller about a massive fish stalking a small island town, written by a young author named Peter Benchley.
Congdon’s gambit worked. No one who read the opening could put the novel down. All it needed was a grabby title. Benchley had spent months kicking around potential names (“Dark White”? “The Edge of Gloom”?). Finally, just hours before deadline, he found it.
“Jaws,” he wrote on the manuscript’s cover page.
When it was released in early 1974, Benchley’s novel kicked off a feeding frenzy in the publishing industry — and in Hollywood. “Jaws” spent months on the bestseller lists, turned Benchley from an unknown to a literary celebrity and, of course, became the basis for Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster 1975 film adaptation.
While most readers were drawn to the book’s shark-centric storyline, “Jaws” rode multiple mid-1970s cultural waves: It was also a novel about a frayed marriage, a financially iffy town and a corrupt local government — released at a time of skyrocketing divorce rates, mass unemployment and a presidential scandal.
At a time of change and uncertainty, “Jaws” functioned as an allegory for whatever scared or angered the reader. Even Fidel Castro was a fan, describing “Jaws” as a “splendid Marxist lesson,” one that proved that “capitalism will risk even human life in order to keep the markets going.”
The success of “Jaws” — at bookstores and in theaters — had unforeseen consequen-
A copy of the novel “Jaws,” published in 1974, is arranged with props for a photograph in New York on July 9, 2024. Publishing savvy, Hollywood hype and a killer cover helped the book become a hit. (Elizabeth Renstrom/The New York Times)
ces for Benchley. Throughout the late ’70s, he watched in frustration as sharks were branded public enemies. Benchley, a longtime sea lover, spent decades transforming himself into an amicable shark defender, reminding readers that the man-eater in “Jaws” was a work of fiction.
“Many people took ‘Jaws’ as a license to go out and kill sharks,” said Wendy Benchley, who was married to Benchley from 1964 until his death in 2006. “We tried to use ‘Jaws’ in every way we could to sound the alarm about sharks, and about how important they were to the ecosystem.”
It was an unlikely legacy for Benchley’s gruesome, toothsome book — one the author never expected to be a hit in the first place. He didn’t think readers would seize on a beastversus-beach tale from a first-time novelist. And the idea of “Jaws,” with its monster shark, making it to the big screen seemed unworkable to him.
“Everything about it was an accident,” Benchley would say decades after the summer of “Jaws” — the book, the phenomenon, the whole thing.
The younger Benchley was just starting his writing career when, in 1964, he spotted a newspaper story about a fisherman named Frank Mundus, who’d used harpoons to capture a giant great white shark off Montauk
Point. There’d been a recent uptick in great whites in the area, but none as large as Mundus’ catch, which was more than 17 feet long and estimated to weigh nearly 4,500 pounds.
Benchley clipped the article from The New York Daily News and put it in his wallet, where it would stay for the next several years. During that time, Benchley worked as an editor at Newsweek, and later as a speechwriter for Lyndon B. Johnson. When his White House gig ended in 1969, Benchley began freelancing for numerous publications, writing book reviews, film reviews and occasional travel pieces.
But Benchley hadn’t forgotten about that oversized shark on Long Island. He’d occasionally pull the yellowing story from his wallet and show it to others. “I would brandish it at the first hint of disbelief that such an animal could exist, let alone that it might attack boats and eat people,” he later wrote in his memoir “Shark Trouble.”
Benchley’s first stab at “Jaws” was rejected by Congdon, who thought the book was trying too hard to be humorous. But by the second draft, parts of the novel were coming together — especially that first chapter, in which the shark glides through the night water, “propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail.”
Kate Medina was an editorial assistant at Doubleday in the early ’70s when she was recruited to help guide Benchley through the revision process. “I don’t think the beginning of ‘Jaws’ was ever changed,” she recalled.
“Peter had from the start a strong and intuitive sense of pace and of storytelling, and a deep love for writing and for the sea,” Medina, now an executive editorial director at Random House, wrote in an email. “Every time that fish swam into the book, it was great.”
With Medina’s assistance, Benchley developed the novel’s many nonaquatic characters, including its three unlikely heroes: Martin Brody, the harried police chief of the fictitious town of Amity, Long Island; Matt Hooper, an oceanographer brought in to track the shark; and Quint, a rugged fisherman tasked with killing the fish.
Those who are only familiar with the big-screen version of “Jaws” may be surprised by the many juicy subplots in Benchley’s novel. Amity itself is on the brink of ruin, having barely survived the early ’70s recession. Also in decline: Brody’s marriage to his class-conscious wife, Ellen, who has a sexually charged encounter with Hooper at a surf-and-turf spot. Then there’s the town’s mayor, Larry Vaughn,
who’s so deeply indebted to the mob, he’ll do whatever it takes to keep the beaches open — even if it means people die.
For all the intrigue, though, the book’s main attraction is the shark lurking in the background, its actions and desires described with clinical rigor.
“Part of the book was from the shark’s point of view,” said Daniel Kraus, the author of last year’s acclaimed ocean-set thriller “Whalefall,” who first encountered “Jaws” as a young reader. “The book is from the perspective of a monster, and it’s not even behaving monstrously — it’s a creature just being itself.”
In April 1973, not long after turning in his manuscript for “Jaws,” Benchley was sitting in his kitchen, eating breakfast, when he got a phone call. It was Congdon, telling him that Doubleday had received a bid from another publishing house, Bantam, for the paperback rights to “Jaws.” The offer? More than $500,000.
It was life-changing money. On hearing the news, Wendy Benchley began to cry. “I thought it was just too much,” she said, “that it was going to be bad for our little family.”
The hefty payday made it clear that “Jaws” was certain to be a smash. The demand for mass market paperbacks had recently exploded, with publishers doing brisk business at drugstores and supermarkets. A paperback deal in the high six figures — as had been the case with Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather” and Piers Paul Read’s “Alive”— was a solid predictor of future sales.
Then came word that Universal Pictures was planning a film adaptation of Benchley’s book, after winning the rights in a bidding war in the summer of 1973. The film would be directed by Spielberg, then an amateur auteur whose second film, “The Sugarland Express,” had yet to be released.
Finally, in February 1974, “Jaws” hit bookstores. The cover image was striking: a minimalist illustration of an open-mouthed shark — which one Doubleday employee compared to “a penis with teeth” — racing toward a hapless female swimmer.
As the summer drew near, “Jaws” became an essential beach read — albeit one best experienced far from the shoreline. And its popularity ballooned even more after the film adaptation, which was co-written by Benchley and Carl Gottlieb and featured a famously temperamental mechanical shark, came out in 1975.
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This service cat has a big job: The apocalypse
By ESTHER ZUCKERMAN
How did a cat named Schnitzel win the starring role of Frodo in “A Quiet Place: Day One”? He impressed director Michael Sarnoski with his nonchalant confidence, rugged looks and intelligent face.
“He had a lot going on behind his eyes,” Sarnoski said in an interview last week, when the film made its theatrical debut. “A lot of the other cats were really adorable but almost too cutesy, like they would be in a cat food commercial. And Schnitzel had a little bit of an edge, like you could kind of believe he was a bit of a world-weary street cat.”
Frodo has a lot to be weary about in this cinematic universe. The film, a prequel to the 2018 horror movie “A Quiet Place” and its 2021 sequel, chronicles aliens invading Earth and attacking everything that makes a sound.
Lupita Nyong’o plays Sam, a cancer patient caught in the apocalypse with her service cat while visiting New York. Although most people want to escape Manhattan, Sam knows she is dying regardless and just wants to go to Harlem, where she grew up, and grab a slice of pizza. She meets a British law student named Eric (Joseph Quinn), who agrees to join her, and the cat becomes a comfort to them both. (Sam is a poet, hence Frodo’s literary name.) And spoiler warning: Audiences will be happy to know Frodo makes it out alive.
Sarnoski, who also wrote the screenplay, grew up with cats and knew he wanted Sam to have an animal companion. But the creature would need to be able to navigate an urban apocalypse in silence. A dog would bark at a threat, and something like a bun-
ny, say, wouldn’t fit in the grit of Manhattan. But it’s common to see cats around the city, wandering the streets or guarding delis. Frodo even meets a bodega cat, played by a ginger-and-white shorthair named Stanlee, a runner-up for the lead role.
“A lot of people are like, ‘Why doesn’t the cat make more noise?’ But cats are very smart, predatory creatures,” Sarnoski said, adding that he believed a cat would recognize the danger and figure out how to survive.
“I figured a cat would have a shot.”
The film’s budget included a computergenerated cat, but Sarnoski was dedicated to using the real thing. “I think it makes you feel more connected,” he said. “And you feel like they are a real character more.”
Schnitzel, who was previously in “The Marvels,” was one of several cats from the
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As Wendy Benchley had feared, the success of “Jaws” also proved disruptive. Over the years, Benchley received death threats from readers who resented how much “Jaws” had scared them. And because Benchley was easily recognizable — he’d made the promotional rounds on TV, and even had a cameo in the film — it felt like the author couldn’t make a
bookstores...
supermarket run without being accosted.
Even worse: After “Jaws,” Benchley noticed a marked increase in shark hunting and tournaments. He decried the “spasm of macho lunacy” his book had inadvertently inspired — and bemoaned the fact that, thanks to “Jaws,” millions saw sharks as ruthless killers that targeted humans.
Benchley began raising awareness of sharks’ importance to the ecosystem, even vi-
training company Birds & Animals U.K. who auditioned, which consisted of roaming around and just doing cat stuff. After Sarnoski settled on Schnitzel, another cat, Nico, whom Schnitzel has known since kittenhood, was also booked. His all-white fur was colored with a semi-permanent, animalfriendly dye to match Schnitzel’s distinctive black-and-white markings.
“Schnitzel knew he was the hero cat,” Sarnoski said, adding that he was the “diva” used for many of the close-ups. “Nico was a little more like, ‘Yeah, I’ll do what I gotta do.’ He was sort of like a stunt double.” A stuffed version (deemed Frida) was used for scenes with more action.
The trainer, Jo Vaughan, had about 12 weeks to prep the cats. A significant portion was spent familiarizing them with being ca-
rried and walking on leashes. “If there’s two things cats don’t like,” Vaughan said, “one is being on a harness and lead, and two is being carried.”
The cats weren’t the only ones who had to adapt to something they didn’t like: When filming began, Nyong’o, who won an Oscar in 2014 for her role in “12 Years a Slave,” was afraid of the creatures. Sarnoski said she spent about an hour before shooting each day doing “cat time” to get to know Schnitzel and Nico.
Still, no matter their training, which also consisted of practicing water scenes in a pool designed for dogs, the cats decided what they were, and were not, willing to do. While shooting a scene set in a flooded subway station in a water tank, Sarnoski said, one of the cats bailed from its makeshift raft. “Joe Quinn, I think, was the one that swam to the cat and was like, ‘We’ll get you out,’” he said. Another challenge was capturing a cat when the camera was in motion. “If you’re on a Steadicam following the cat,” Sarnoski said, “the cat’s always going to be like, ‘What is that thing behind me?’”
Frodo remains catlike throughout the film, occasionally becoming distracted and wandering off. But he comes to represent the human characters’ desire to protect one another. As a service cat, he offers Sam solace — and provides it for the audience as well. It’s easy to see why Nyong’o ultimately became a cat person, cuddling her furry costars.
Once filming wrapped, and Nyong’o had to part with Schnitzel and Nico, she adopted a cat, who is orange and named Yoyo. “Everyone should have a cat,” Sarnoski said. He ended up getting one, too.
siting Hong Kong to speak out against the mass production of shark fin soup. He also embarked on several dives with his wife — including expeditions in which they encountered sharks up close.
Not long before his death in 2006, Benchley looked back on “Jaws” with what sounded like a tinge of regret. “Knowing what I know now,” he said, “I could never write that book today. Sharks don’t target human beings,
and they certainly don’t hold grudges.”
But Wendy Benchley said the author remained proud of “Jaws,” and of its impact — not just on readers and moviegoers, but also ultimately on the awareness of sharks. “He was at peace with it,” she said.
And over the years, whenever someone brought up how much “Jaws” had scared them, he had a quick and punchy response: “It was just a novel.”
Joseph Quinn and Lupita Nyong’o in “A Quiet Place: Day One.” (Paramount Pictures)
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Heat-related emergencies are soaring in the US. Can hospitals keep up?
By NOAH WEILAND
On a recent Friday in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as triple-digit temperatures stretched into the evening, a 69-year-old man collapsed in his home. His body temperature hit 107.7 degrees by the time emergency responders whisked him to the University of New Mexico Hospital.
Nurses and emergency physicians began a process that has become familiar, preparing a device the size of a minifridge that rapidly cools and regulates body temperature by funneling cold fluids to pads that cover a patient’s abdomen and thighs. Workers dumped ice on his body as part of a last-ditch effort to curtail his heatstroke.
It was too late. The man’s blood pressure had plummeted, and he suffered a heart attack. Less than 24 hours later, he was dead.
Extreme heat, intensified by climate change, has blanketed much of the United States this summer, killing more than a dozen people in Oregon in recent days. Large parts of California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah have been under excessive heat warnings, which local officials believe contributed to more than 90 deaths in the West this month.
The consequences are increasingly playing out in the nation’s emergency rooms, where medical workers are confronted with heat-stricken patients whose soaring body temperatures can be fatal if not addressed quickly.
Around 2,300 people died from heatrelated illnesses in the United States in 2023, triple the annual average between 2004 and 2018. Nearly 120,000 heat-related emergency room visits were recorded across the United States last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In part, those figures are because heat waves last longer now than they did decades ago, as an Environmental Protection Agency report released last week made clear.
On Friday, nearly 60 million Americans were under heat alerts from the National Weather Service. Temperatures have at times this summer run 10-30 degrees above average in Western states. Some places like Las Vegas, which hit 120 degrees Sunday, have broken records.
The heat has been particularly problematic in New Mexico. In July 2023, the state had nearly 450 heat-related emergency room visits and more than 900 between April and September. That is more than double the number recorded during the same time in 2019, said Srikanth Paladugu, a public health researcher at
A staff member uses a blood gas analyzer at the University of New Mexico Hospital’s emergency department in Albuquerque on Tuesday, June 9, 2024. The machine delivers potassium, carbon dioxide and glucose readings within minutes, indicating the damage from heat exposure. (Ramsay de Give/The New York Times)
the New Mexico Department of Health.
Heat-related emergency admissions at University of New Mexico Hospital also doubled in 2023 compared with the previous year, and the state has recorded over 500 heat-related emergency department visits since April 1 of this year. Those are likely undercounts because of the ways that health problems are recorded in hospital software.
“It’s difficult for us to know how many people are impacted by extreme heat when we look at emergency room data,” said Kelly Turner, a heat expert at UCLA. “Many hospitals don’t have a code for heat or extreme heat. If, for instance, what actually happened is someone came in with headaches and pulmonary issues, that’s what’s going to be coded.”
The dire health ramifications of heat have become a subject of intense interest in the Biden administration. At a visit to the District of Columbia’s emergency operations center last week, President Joe Biden unveiled a draft of first-of-their-kind Labor Department regulations that would protect roughly 35 million workers exposed to extreme heat on the job.
“Extreme heat is the No. 1 weather-related killer in the United States,” Biden said at the event. “More people die from extreme heat than floods, hurricanes and tornadoes combined. Say that again: combined.”
Yet heat experts said there is still no consistent application of heat guidance among health providers, particularly in primary care set-
tings. Dr. Jeremy Hess, an emergency physician and environmental health expert at the University of Washington, said that routine checkups that cover medication or weight management rarely devote time to someone’s risk in severe heat. Common medications can complicate a patient’s heat tolerance.
“It’s a conversation that generally doesn’t happen,” he said. “It’s a complicated problem to solve: You need screening tools. You need to carve out time for it. In some cases, you need to bill for it. All of those changes take time and effort. So far the health system is not there.”
In April, federal officials published clinical guidance for treating heat illness, an acknowl-
edgment that the medical field was still catching up to some of the dangers of extreme weather. The primary objective of unwinding heat sickness involves lowering the body’s temperature. Many of the procedures are rudimentary: Cold fluids are administered with IVs, replenishing severely dehydrated bodies. Emergency responders and hospitals across the country have also become accustomed to putting heat-sick patients in large bags filled with ice, a technique that can rapidly cool the body and restore its functioning, similar to the results from the cooling machine used by the University of New Mexico team.
At the University of New Mexico Hospital, an established facility in a hot climate, staff members are still continually trained in recognizing and treating heat-related sickness. Faculty organized a so-called grand rounds session this year for medical residents and other employees of the hospital system to learn how to treat heat illness.
Dr. Jon Femling, a heat expert who oversees emergency care at the hospital, said health workers sometimes differ on the fundamentals of treatment. He and others at the hospital prefer to cool the quads and abdomen. “That’s where all the blood volume is going through,” he said. Other physicians, and many emergency responders, he noted, put ice in the groins and armpits.
Femling said there is no clear temperature threshold that suggests someone might be suffering from heatstroke. Someone who is severely dehydrated with a 102-degree temperature might not pump blood to the brain, leaving them more vulnerable than a person who might have a higher temperature but better circulation.
“There’s no magic number,” he said.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE MERCEDES CALCAÑO GUZMÁN COMPUESTA POR FRANCISCO
JAVIER DÍAZ CALCAÑO T/C/C FRANCISCO
J. DÍAZ, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2023CV00220. (701). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 12 de junio de 2023 y notificada el 20 de junio de 2023, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 23 de agosto de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 31 de agosto de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 30 DE JULIO DE 2024, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Sala Superior, en la Carretera Número Uno (PR 1), Intersección PR 189, Kilómetro 0.4, Barrio Bairoa, (Entrada norte Pueblo Caguas), Caguas, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América todo título, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad:
RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el Número trescientos cuarenta y seis (346) en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Celada de los Barrios Celada y Hato Nuevo del término municipal de Gurabo, con una cabida superficial de 358.79 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: con la Parcela Número trescientos cuarenta y siete (347) de la comunidad; por el SUR: con Parcela Número trescientos cuarenta y cinto (345) de la comunidad; por el ESTE: con la Calle Número treinta (30) de la comunidad; por el OESTE: con las Parcelas
Números trescientos veintinueve (329) y trescientos treinta (330) de la comunidad. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 89 del tomo 206 de Gurabo, Finca 7944. Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 53 del tomo 374 de Gurabo, Finca 7944. Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. Inscripción sexta (6ta). Dirección Física: Urb. Parcelas Nuevas, 346 Calle 30, Gurabo, PR 00778-2924. Número de Catastro: 47-200-036-277-16-000. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $74,400.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el 6 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $49,600.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 13 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $37,200.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $12,968.95 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.50% anual desde el 1 de junio de 2022 hasta su completo pago, más $76.77 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $7,440.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Sucesión de Mercedes Calcaño Guzmán compuesta por Francisco Javier Díaz Calcaño también conocido como Francisco J. Díaz, Fulano y Menga-
no de Tal, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el Caso Civil Número CG2023CV00220, sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria “IN REM”, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $12,968.95 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 24 de enero de 2023. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Gurabo. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo deseaba. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 27 de junio de 2024.
ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C
FANNIE MAE
Demandante Vs. ARACELIS
RAMOS COLÓN
Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2023CV02115. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Carolina, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 6 de marzo de 2024, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 13 de mayo de 2024 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Rincón Español, situado en el Barrio las Cuevas del Municipio de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Solar número 4 A-C, con un área de 162.86 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 8.50 metros, con la Calle número 3; por el SUR, en 8.65 metros, con Gonzalo Sánchez; por el ESTE, en 18.35 metros, con el solar número 5; y por el OESTE, en 19.97 metros, con el solar número 4. Finca Número 15,453, inscrita al folio 145 del tomo 304 de Trujillo Alto. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de San Juan. Dirección Física: URB. RINCON ESPAÑOL, A-AC CALLE 3, TRUJILLO ALTO PR 00976. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 1RO DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Carolina. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $93,910.73. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 8 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado
en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $62,607.15. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 15 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $46,955.36. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. El Honorable Tribunal dictó Sentencia In Rem, declarando Con Lugar la demanda al incumplir la parte demandada con los términos del contrato hipotecario y ordenando la venta en pública subasta del inmueble antes descrito. A tenor con la Regla 51.3 (b) de Procedimiento Civil y el Artículo 99 de la Ley 210-2015, conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”, el tribunal ordenó que el Alguacil de este Tribunal luego de haberse efectuado la correspondiente publicación de edictos en un periódico de circulación general, proceda a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor la propiedad descrita en las Determinaciones de Hechos de la Sentencia y que del producto de dicha venta, proceda a pagar en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas y honorarios de abogados según concedidos en esta sentencia, en tercer término los intereses acumulados por esta sentencia, en cuarto término los recargos acumulados, en quinto cualquier suma antes indicada como sobregiro en la cuenta de reserva y en sexto término hasta la suma de $86,718.56, para cubrir el principal pendiente de pago más los intereses acumulados hasta el día de la Venta Judicial, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si
transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y 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 eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta
y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 4 de junio de 2024. ENRIQUE VERGÉ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #960, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE FEDERAL NATIONAL
MORTGAGE
ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA MARTELINA RODRÍGUEZ
LUCCA T/C/C MARIA
M. RODRIGUEZ LUCCA T/C/C MARIA RODRIGUEZ LUCAS COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDERAS CONOCIDAS CARMEN
MILAGROS MEDINA RODRIGUEZ Y MIRIAM MEDINA RODRIGUEZ; SUCESION DE ALICIA MEDINA RODRIGUEZ COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS BRENDA CORCHADO T/C/C BRENDA CORCHADO
MEDINA T/C/C BRYAN CORCHADO MEDINA, JOSE CESPEDES T/C/C JOSE CESPEDES MEDINA T/C/C JOE CESPEDES TC/C/ JOE CESPEDES MEDINA Y NILSA CESPEDES MEDINA T/C/C NILSA CESPEDES; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2023CV01093. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Ponce, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 22 de diciembre de 2023, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 13 de mayo de 2024 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al
mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número doce del Bloque ‘G’ en el Plano de la Urbanización Reparto San Augusto del Barrio Jaguas del término municipal de Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, con un área de doscientos ochenta y seis punto mil quinientos veintiún metros cuadrados, y colinda por el NORTE, en trece metros, con la Calle ‘A’; por el SUR, en trece metros, con camino que separa la Urbanización Santa María del Reparto San Augusto; por el ESTE, en veintidós punto cinco metros, con el solar G-trece; y por el OESTE, en veintiún punto noventa y siete metros, con el solar G-once. Sobre el descrito solar se ha construido una casa de concreto de hormigón y bloques. De la escritura de hipoteca se dice que la casa es de una sola planta con marquesina y que mide veinticuatro pies por treintitrés pies una pulgada. Finca Número 3,187, inscrita al folio 183 del tomo 98 de Guayanilla. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Ponce. Dirección Física: URB. REPARTO SAN AUGUSTO, 12-G, GUAYANILLA, PR 00656. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 7 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Ponce. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $62,400.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 14 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $41,600.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 21 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo
el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Camuy, Puerto Rico, 8 de julio de 2024. WILFREDO OLMO SALAZAR, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, ALGUACIL DE LA DIVISIÓN DE EJECUCIÓN DE SENTENCIAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAMUY.
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Demandante Vs. JEFREY VÁZQUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, JANE DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2024CV01526. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: JEFREY VÁZQUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, JANE DOE
Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda en su contra sobre Cobro de Dinero. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.poderjudicial. pr., salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación
responsiva en la Secretaría del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Andrea Carolina Chaves Figueroa; PO Box 193813, San Juan, PR 00919; achaves@esqlegalpr.com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la demanda, sin más citársele ni oírsele. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal a 2 de julio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA MUNICIPAL CARIBE FEDERAL
CREDIT UNION
Demandante Vs. VÍCTOR MANUEL GONZÁLEZ
CARRASQUILLO, JANE DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2024CV00825. (406). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: VÍCTOR MANUEL GONZÁLEZ
CARRASQUILLO, JANE DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda en su contra sobre Cobro de Dinero. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https.//unired.poderjudicial. pr., salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del
Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda.
Andrea Carolina Chaves Figueroa; PO Box 193813, San Juan, PR 00919; achaves@esqlegalpr.com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la demanda, sin más citársele ni oírsele. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal a 1 de julio de 2024. LCDA.
KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES,
SECRETARIA GENERAL. MA-
RICRUZ APONTE ALICEA,
SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE GUAYAMA
SALA SUPERIOR DE PATILLAS
EDWIN ORLANDO
FIGUEROA DELGADO Y MARIBEL RÍOS RIVERA
Demandantes Vs. FIRST BANK PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE
Demandados Civil Núm.: PA2024CV00129. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM-
PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica a usted, que se ha radicado en esta secretaría la Demanda de epígrafe. En dicha Demanda se reclama que usted es el último tenedor del pagaré hipotecario a favor de Santander Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $76,800.00, con intereses al 7.50% anual, vencedero el 1ro de diciembre de 2025, suscrito bajo el número de testimonio 1,597 ante la notario Mari Nilda Aparicio Laspina y garantizado por hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 201 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 9 de noviembre de 1995, ante el notario Mari Nilda Aparicio Laspina gravando dicha hipoteca la siguiente propiedad inmueble: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Villa número 59. Villa residencial de forma rectangular, de dos niveles, individual, localizada en el Condominio Villas de Puerta Guilarte, situado en los Barrios Palma y Cuatro Calles, del municipio de Arroyo, Puerto Rico. Esta villa tiene un área superficial de aproximadamente 1,156.00 pies cuadrados,
equivalentes a 107.53 metros cuadrados. Son sus linderos los siguientes: por el NORTE, en distancia de 42.00 pies lineales, con área exterior de elemento común; por el SUR, en distancia de 42.00 pies lineales, con área exterior de elemento común; por el ESTE, en distancia de 14.00 pies lineales con área exterior de elemento común; y por el OESTE, en distancia de 14.00 pies lineales con área exterior de elemento común. Consta el primer nivel de cocina, sala-comedor, área de lavandería, un medio baño, terraza y escalera que conduce el segundo nivel; el segundo nivel consiste de dos dormitorios un baño y balcón. La puerta principal de entrada y salida está localizada en su lado Oeste; en su lado Este tiene otra puerta que conduce a una terraza, que a su vez conduce al patio exterior asignado a esta villa y a los elementos comunes del Condominio. A esta villa le corresponden dos espacios de estacionamiento asignados que se identifican con los números 59 y 59A, también goza de uso exclusivo de un área de patio en su lado Este que es elemento común limitado, con un ancho de 14.00 pies lineales y un largo de 9.00 pies lineales cuya área está mantenida por el propietario y la misma no puede ser ampliada, cercada, ni habilitada para otro uso que no sea un espacio abierto. A esta villa le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio de 1.75 por ciento. Inscrita al folio 133 del tomo 157 de Arroyo, finca número 5,908, inscripción 2da. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico sección de Guayama. Se le emplaza y requiere que dentro del término de treinta (30) días conteste la Demanda y se le apercibe que de no contestar la misma dentro del término antes dicho, radicando el original en la Secretaría del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Tribunal Superior, Sala de Patillas, con copia al Lcdo. Armando J. Martinez Vilella, PMB 458, 100 Grand Paseos Blvd. Suite 112, SAN JUAN, P.R. 00926-5955, E-mail: amartinez@amvlawpr. com, TEL. 787-763-9777 se le anotará la Rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Se expidió bajo mi firma y sello de este Honorable Tribunal, en Puerto Rico, a 8 de julio de 2024. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. GLORIVEE GARCÍA GONZÁLEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE AGUA-
DILLA SALA DE SAN SEBASTIÁN NÉSTOR ORTIZ ALTIERY; DAISY BARRETO, SLG ORTIZ-BARRETO
Demandantes V. DOMINGO MONTALVO CRESPO; ÁNGEL MONTALVO ACEVEDO; WANDALIZ MONTALVO ACEVEDO; JUDITH MONTALVO ACEVEDO TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO JUDY MONTALVO ACEVEDO; ANNIE MONTALVO ACEVEDO TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO ANA MARÍA MONTALVO ACEVEDO; SANTA MONTALVO ACEVEDO; MARCOS ANTONIO MONTALVO ACEVEDO; AMELIA MONTALVO ACEVEDO Y GILBERTO MONTALVO ACEVEDO
Demandados Civil Núm.: SS2024CV00047. SUMAC. Sobre: INJUNCTION PERMANENTE; SENTENCIA DECLARATORIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: JEANNETTE ACEVEDO ROMÁN; ABIGAIL
ACEVEDO ROMÁN.
Por la presente se notifica que la parte DEMANDANTE ha presentado una Demanda cuya naturaleza es en la materia de Injunction Permanente; Sentencia Declaratoria en el caso SS2024CV00047. El abogado de la parte peticionarias es: Lcdo. Nelson Esteban Vera Santiago, P.O. Box 810, Moca, Puerto Rico 00676. 787-8773516 / 787-806-6652 / verasantiagolaw@gmail.com. De ser un demandado señalado, se le apercibe que deberá contestar la demanda dentro del periodo de 30 días de haberse publicado este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le advierte de los efectos de no contestar la demanda, lo cual redundará en que se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia para conceder el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Este edicto será publicado en una (1) ocasión en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Se identifi-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
cará en letra negrillas tamaño 10 puntos toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se menciona en el mismo, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, a 1 de julio de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
MARITZA LEBRÓN ROSADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. YOLANDA GARAYUA CANDELARIO
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SB2022CV00118. (Salón: 0200). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM. A: YOLANDA GARAYUA CANDELARIO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 08 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 08 de julio de 2024. En San Germán, Puerto Rico, el 08 de julio de 2024. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. CAROLINE HERNÁNDEZ VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO FINANCE OF AMERICA
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Demandante Vs. SUCESION MANUELA BONOME RODRIGUEZ T/C/C MANUELA BONOME COMPUESTA POR JUAN RAMIREZ BONOME; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2024CV00431. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION MANUELA BONOME RODRIGUEZ T/C/C MANUELA BONOME. 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. Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622
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Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de julio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DIAMAR T. GONZÁLEZ BARRETO, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ SANDRA PIZZINI CUADRADO, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE IRAIDA CUADRADO VELÁZQUEZ, MAGNA PIZZINI CUADRADO, Y MILAGROS PIZZINI CUADRADO
Demandantes Vs. CARLOS ISMAEL RODRÍGUEZ JOURNET, ALEIDA EUSTAQUIA LAMBOY CORIANO, SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES RODRÍGUEZ-LAMBOY, AVENTUS LLC, ÁNGEL MIGUEL LÓPEZ IRIZARRY, XIOMARA CRUZ BRACERO, SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES LÓPEZCRUZ, XYZ CUALQUIER PERSONA CON INTERÉS Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2024CV01023. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; DESLINDE Y AMOJONAMIENTO CONSTRUCCION EXTRALIMITADA DE MALA FE; DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: XYZ CUALQUIER PERSONA CON INTERÉS DE NOMBRE, CIRCUNSTANCIAS Y DIRECCIONES DESCONOCIDAS, PERO CON PARTICIPACIÓN PROPIETARIA O INTERÉS EN LA PROPIEDAD OBJETO DEL CASO DE AUTOS. De: SANDRA PIZZINI CUADRADO, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE IRAIDA CUADRADO VELÁZQUEZ, MAGNA PIZZINI CUADRADO, Y MILAGROS PIZZINI CUADRADO. Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado una demanda sobre incumplimiento de contrato, acción de deslinde, amojonamiento y construcción extralimitada. Por lo que se hace un llamado a personas desconocidas, pero con participación propietaria o interés en la propiedad localizada en la Calle Comercio 121 Interior Avenida González Clemente Bo. Guanajibo, Mayagüez,
Puerto Rico 00680; para que comparezcan a reclamar dentro de un plazo de treinta (30) días a contar de la publicación del edicto. El presente edicto se publicará UNA VEZ, en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la Isla de Puerto Rico. Se le concede un plazo improrrogable de treinta (30) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del presente edicto para contestar la demanda. 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. Representa a la parte demandante la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: LCDA. MARGGIE RODRIGUEZ PEREZ
RUA NUM. 20,363 #182 CALLE RAMON EMETERIO BETANCES SUR MAYAGUEZ, PUERTO RICO 00680 TEL. (787)265-1111 e-mail: mrplawoffices@gmail.com
Se ordena a la parte demandante a cumplir con la notificación en el término de diez (10) días contados a partir de la publicación del edicto para enviarle copia de la demanda, orden, emplazamiento y publicación de edicto a las personas sobre quienes se le conoce su última dirección. Por haber la parte demandante acreditado las gestiones para conocer la identidad y circunstancias personales de algunos de los demandados, y no conociendo las mismas; se le ha relevado del cumplimiento de notificación de la copia de la demanda y del emplazamiento a dicha parte. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal de Mayagüez, hoy 2 de julio de 2024.
LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA
IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. YAHAIRA TORRES
MATÍAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
ANGEL A.
RIVERA PABON
Demandante V.
MARGARITA N. RIVERA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: MZ2023CV01113.
(Salón: 301). Sobre: EXEQUÁTUR. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
LOURDES M. ORTÍZ PAGÁNLOURDESM_ORTIZPAGAN@ HOTMAIL.COM.
A: MARGARITA N. RIVERA
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 09 de julio de 2024. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 09 de julio de 2024. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. NILDA L. IRIZARRY
RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN MYRIAM MERCEDES SOSA PEREZ
Demandante V. ORIENTAL BANK Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2024CV02411. (Salón: 403). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
LAURA R. DOMÍNGUEZ LLERANDILDOMINGUEZLAW@GMAIL.COM.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de junio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los
términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 08 de julio de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 08 de julio de 2024.
LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN M. PINTADO NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO MARIA ASUNCION CARPENA VEGA
Demandante V. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
CORPORATION Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: AI2024CV00182. (Salón: 002). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JORGE GARCIA RONDONJAFGRONDON@GMAIL.COM.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE (PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS).
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi-
cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 08 de julio de 2024. En Aibonito, Puerto Rico, el 08 de julio de 2024. ELIZABETH
GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. JACKELINE VEGA COLÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
MONSERRATE SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, LLC
Demandante V. OSCAR PAGAN RIOS Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV03407. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA 60).
EMPLAZAMIENTO Y MANDAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: OSCAR PAGAN RIOSDIRECCIÓN: URB. SANTA
JUANITA C-18 LOCAL 1 AVE. SANTA JUANITA BAYAMÓN, PR 00956.
Por la presente se les notifica que se ha presentado en este Tribunal la Demanda de epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Miguel J. Simonet García; MONSERRATE, SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San Patricio, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel. (787) 620-5300, abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior dentro del término antes indicado, y notificando con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 2 de julio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. MER DISTRIBUTORS, INC.; LARRY JOSEPH RIVERA NARVÁEZ
T/C/C LARRY RIVERA NARVÁEZ; FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; JOHN DOE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES ACREEDORES O TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO
Demandados
Civil Núm.: GM2024CV00260. Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: MER DISTRIBUTORS, INC.; LARRY JOSEPH RIVERA NARVÁEZ
T/C/C LARRY RIVERA NARVÁEZ; FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
Queden emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Sustitución de Pagaré Extraviado de un Pagaré Hipotecario suscrito a favor de por $225,000.00, con intereses al 6.50% anual, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, o a su orden, que vence el 1ro de mayo de 2036. Según escritura #283, otorgada en San Juan, el 24 de abril de 2006, ante Juan Carlos Ortega Torres, inscrita al folio 211 del tomo 493 de Guayama, inscripción 2da. La hipoteca fue constituida sobre la siguiente propiedad (en adelante “Propiedad”): URBANA: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY:
EL LEGAL CONDOMINIUM: REGIME 1: APARTMENT 1822: Square shaped one bedroom unit in the El Legado Condominium, Regime I, located at Jobos Ward of the municipality of Guayama, with a total area of 690.5434 square feet, equivalent to 64.1536 square meters, distributed in 621.5434 square feet, equivalent to 57.7433 square meters of enclosed area, and 69 square feet, equivalent to 6.41031 square meters of balcony. The
main entrance located on the Northeast side of the apartment leading to the common exterior hallway. This apartment is located in building 18 of the Regime, occupies part of the second floor of the building and has been assigned a share of .32% in the common elements of the Regime. The maximum length of this unit is 14.02 meters, and the maximum width is 8.13 meters. Its boundaries are: By the NORTH, in a total distance of 14.02 meters with the common wall that separates it from apartment 1821; by the SOUTH, in a distance of 8.92 meters with the common wall that separates it from apartment 1823; by the EAST, in a distance of 2.18 meters with the lobby common area; by the WEST, in a distance of 8.13 meters with the common green areas. This unit contains a foyer, a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a bathroom, a bedroom with closet, laundry closet and a covered balcony. ESTACIONAMIENTO: Le corresponde un espacio de estacionamiento identificado con el #1822. FINCA: 19758 inscrita al folio 211 del tomo 493 Guayama, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. Se advierte que si no contesta(n) la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. Deberá radicar el original de la contestación a la demanda a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal y sala que se menciona en el epígrafe de este edicto con copia a la parte aquí demandante a través de la Lcda. Yaira Droz, Bellver Espinosa Law Firm, Cond. El Centro I, Suite 801, 500 Muñoz Rivera Ave., San Juan, PR 00918. Tel. 787-9465268 | 787-946-0062. Email: yaira@bellverlaw.com. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 8 de julio de 2024. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. STEPHANIE ESCALANTE ORTIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ARIEL FIGUEROA GONZALEZ Y OTROS
Demandante V. MORTGAGE STORE OF PUERTO RICO INC Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV03794. (Salón: 906 CIVIL). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BENJAMÍN ANTONIO CASTRO RIVERACASTRORIVERABENJAMIN@ GMAIL.COM.
A: BANCO DEL PUEBLO, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE, MORTGAGE STORE OF PUERTO RICO, INC., R & G MORTGAGE CORP., R-G PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO Y A: SCOTIABANK DE PUERTO RICO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en-
LEGAL NOTICE
Liberty Mobile Puerto Rico Inc. is proposing to modify telecommunications equipment at an approximate overall height of 140 feet above ground level on an existing 110-foot tall building located at El San Juan Hotel & Casino Avenue, Isla Verde 6063, Carolina, Puerto Rico (N18° 26’ 37.3”, W66° 01’ 4.7”). Liberty Mobile Puerto Rico Inc. invites comments from any interested party on the impact the proposed undertaking may have on any districts, sites, buildings, structures, or objects significant in American history, archaeology, engineering, or culture that are listed or determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Comments may be sent to Environmental Corporation of America, ATTN: Annamarie Howell, 1375 Union Hill Industrial Court, Suite A, Alpharetta, GA 30004 or via email to publicnotice@eca-usa. com. Ms. Howell can be reached at (770) 667-2040 x 108 during normal business hours. Comments must be received within 30 days of the date of this notice. 24-001800 HJF
terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de julio de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 10 de julio de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MYRNA D. VILLEGAS TRINIDAD, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
Liberty Mobile Puerto Rico Inc. propone modificar el equipo de telecomunicaciones a una altura total aproximada de 140 pies sobre el nivel del suelo en un edificio existente de 110 pies de altura ubicado en El San Juan Hotel & Casino Avenue, Isla Verde 6063, Carolina, Puerto Rico (N18° 26’ 37.3”, W66° 01’ 4.7”). Liberty Mobile Puerto Rico Inc. invita a cualquier parte interesada a hacer comentarios sobre el impacto que la empresa propuesta puede tener en cualquier distrito, sitio, edificio, estructura u objeto significativo en la historia, arqueología, ingeniería o cultura de los Estados Unidos que se enumeran o se determina que son elegibles para Inscripción en el Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos. Los comentarios pueden enviarse a Environmental Corporation of America, ATTN: Annamarie Howell, 1375 Union Hill Industrial Court, Suite A, Alpharetta, GA 30004 o por correo electrónico a publicnotice@eca-usa. com. Puede comunicarse con la Sra. Howell al (770) 6672040 x 108 durante el horario comercial normal. Los comentarios deben recibirse dentro de los 30 días posteriores a la fecha de este aviso. 24-001800 HJF
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A new prince leads Spain as it rules European soccer again
By RORY SMITH
First, Spain’s players had to perform the rituals of celebration. They communed with their fans. They draped themselves with a selection of flags, national and regional. They commiserated with their bereft English opponents. Once those were completed, they gathered by the podium hastily constructed on the field at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium.
Most of the players took that moment to compose themselves, to share an embrace, to try to absorb the scale of their achievement over the past month: At the start of Euro 2024, Spain stood in the second rank of continental powers. Now, after a flawless tournament and a 2-1 triumph over England in the final Sunday, the country sits at the pinnacle once more.
Lamine Yamal could not contain himself, however. He danced and bounced, unable to stop moving. He knew, though not from firsthand experience, that each and every player would get a chance to lift the trophy, so he made sure to practice his technique, heaving an imaginary cup three times.
When Spain’s players were eventually summoned to receive their prize, Yamal went a little too early. The assembled dignitaries were not yet in place when he scampered onstage. He had to be called back by his teammates — greeted not with censure but an affectionate, somewhat paternal ruffle of the hair.
It has been easy over the past few weeks to forget quite how young Yamal is. Only 16 years old for most of the tournament, he is so young that German law requires that he have special dispensation to work late in the evening. He is so young that he has had a designated guardian with him at all times. He is so young that, standing by the podium, he could probably taste the cake he was given to celebrate his 17th birthday Saturday.
Despite his youth, Lamine Yamal, who turned 17 on Saturday, can claim a large portion of the credit for taking a relatively unheralded Spanish side to a largely unanticipated glory. (UEFA.com)
And yet, despite his youth, Yamal can claim a large portion of the credit for taking a relatively unheralded Spanish side to a largely unanticipated glory. It was his goal that turned the semifinal with France last Tuesday. It was his pass that created Spain’s opening strike in Sunday’s final, turned home by Nico Williams.
Mikel Oyarzabal might have scored the goal that sealed Spain’s victory, and the imperious Rodri might have been selected as the tournament’s outstanding player, but it was Yamal — his youth, his verve, that thrilling unpredictability that is the exclusive preserve of the prodigy — who provided the
energy that has come to define this side. That energy has proved infectious. A survey, conducted by 40bD and published Sunday in the Spanish newspaper El País, found that as many as 87% of Spaniards planned to watch the final. The national airline, Iberia, had promised anxious customers that planes flying at high altitude during the match would broadcast the game.
That can be attributed, in part, to the fact that this team is more representative of Spain than has sometimes been the case. Yamal is of Moroccan descent; he grew up in a neighborhood in the Catalan town of Mataro that has been demonized by Vox, the country’s surging far-right populist party.
Williams’ parents, meanwhile, immigrated from Ghana. Oyarzabal, like a substantial portion of the rest of the squad, is proudly Basque, something that was no doubt a factor in helping the patriotic fervor engendered by the team’s success spread to those parts of Spain where separatist sentiment remains high. Big screens had been erected in both the Basque Country and Catalunya, hardly the Spanish national team’s heartlands, allowing fans to watch the final.
But perhaps more immediately, Yamal has served to reinvigorate how Spanish soccer sees itself. It is more than a decade now since the country’s greatest side — possibly the finest international team the sport has ever known — lifted the last of its major trophies, a second European championship in 2012.
Since then, Spain has known little but disappointment. Its men’s team has not won a knockout game at the World Cup since its victory in the final in 2010. It had won only two at the European Championship in that period. Its soccer authorities have been embroiled in a scandal that threatened to overshadow the sole glory in that period, Spain’s lifting of the Women’s World Cup last year.
Now, though, its men’s team have an honor to add to the country’s women’s triumph.
“Today is a great day for Spanish sport,” said Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who was in Berlin, watching beside Spanish King Felipe VI and his youngest daughter, Princess Sofía. A few hours earlier, Carlos Alcaraz had
claimed his second Wimbledon trophy. Spain’s soccer glory, of course, was England’s suffering. Gareth Southgate’s team had reached Berlin in a strange mood, unsure how to parse a month in which it had not lost a game, developed a useful habit of rescuing itself from crises of its own making and qualified for a first final on foreign soil — but also played well for a grand total of about 45 minutes.
Still, England seemed to have settled on the idea that perhaps the stars had aligned, that while Southgate’s unapologetic pragmatism might not be aesthetically pleasing, it delivered. The prospect of no longer having to calculate the increasingly complicated math of how many years of hurt the country was enduring hovered, closer than ever. Football was perhaps about to come home. And, in a way, it did. It had just changed address. Spain’s men’s national team might have endured a fallow period in the last decade or so, but the country’s teams have not. Since 2001, Spanish men’s teams — either the international version or its clubs — have faced foreign opponents 23 times in major finals. They have won all of them.
Spanish influence, meanwhile, is visible almost everywhere. Real Madrid has essentially made the Champions League its private property. The best manager in the Premier League is Spanish. So is the second best. Spanish managers won league titles in France and Germany this year, too. Many of the ideas that fire the style of play that has become dominant across Europe’s elite teams have at least some of its roots in Spain.
More than a new dawn, then, Sunday’s title felt like a reassertion of something older, something more entrenched, something more akin to Spain’s returning to its rightful place at soccer’s summit. In Yamal, it has the perfect standard-bearer for its reconquista, an avatar for a new generation, one that can expand the achievements of the old.
As Spain’s players celebrated, golden confetti littering the field at their feet, they were suddenly face to face with their monarch, immaculately dressed as ever. They handed the king the trophy. Rather self-consciously, Felipe hoisted it into the air. Looking faintly embarrassed, he sought out a player to take it from him. His eyes settled on Yamal. Tenderly, his hand brushed the 17-year-old’s shoulder as he handed it over. It looked like an act of succession — an old king passing the glory to his country’s new prince.
The San Juan Daily Star
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