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U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain has granted the Financial Oversight and Management Board a two-week extension to present the new debt adjustment plan for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA).
Swain’s ruling late last week came after the oversight board filed an emergency motion asking for more time as they were in negotiations with bondholders. The debt adjustment plan was due Friday.
“While the Oversight Board cannot guarantee a new settlement will be attained with creditors holding a substantial percentage of the outstanding debt, it believes the prospects of such a settlement are sufficient to try to avoid filing an amended, proposed plan this week that might have to be amended again shortly thereafter, especially because the filing will trigger other filings of positions and schedules that might also change if a new settlement is attained,” the board said.
pay from their yearly household income in electricity.
It also includes an additional $150 million of value the oversight board believes can be provided at a tolerable risk level through additional potential revenue sources and savings.
Based on the debt sustainability analysis, the Title III Debt Plan will reduce the number of new bonds to be issued to $2.38 billion from the $5.68 billion proposed initially as repayment. The total bonded debt is about $8.4 billion. Bondholders are expected to reject the new offer.
About $1.35 billion of new bonds or cash will be used to maintain the settlements with the fuel line lenders, monoline National, the settling bondholders, and Vitol.
The treatment of the pension claims will not be amended. PREPA’s pensions will be paid under a pay-asyou-go mechanism.
Swain, who is overseeing Puerto Rico’s Title III bankruptcy cases, extended to July 28 the deadline to submit to the court the amended third debt adjustment plan. She gave the parties until Aug. 2 to file a joint status report with a proposed litigation schedule for confirmation proceedings and a proposed order implementing that proposed schedule and addressing any additional notice requirements or other procedural issues.
The current debt adjustment plan proposes to cut PREPA’s bonded debt to $2.5 billion from the estimated $8 billion. Bondholders would receive an interest rate of 6% and the possibility of additional income through a new contingent value instrument (CVI) if PREPA meets its electricity sales targets.
The oversight board will include a “fixed legacy charge” in the electricity rate to pay bondholders, instead of the previously proposed “hybrid” charge. Additional protections for bondholders, such as a new trust deed and a specific lien against the “legacy charge,” will also be included in the new plan. The new trust deed will require PREPA to adjust its rates and charges to ensure revenues cover operational costs.
As reported by the STAR in June, a debt sustainability analysis found that the maximum amount PREPA can reasonably pay to creditors is about $2.5 billion, including some $2.38 billion in new bonds serviceable by rates at or about the 6% share of wallet threshold for the first expected year of implementation, or fiscal year (FY) 2025. The 6% share of the wallet is the number provided by experts as the maximum amount PREPA customers can
Non-settling bondholder claims and general unsecured claims will be guaranteed a minimum distribution of 12.5% of their allowed claim in the form of new bonds. In addition, they will receive the CVI currently in the second amended plan and another CVI adjusted to the amount of their final allowed claim. The proposed second CVI will be distributed to the non-settling bondholders to compensate if PREPA’s revenue requirements equivalent per kilowatthour (kWh) for a specific year are lower than the revenue requirements per kWh projected in the 2023 fiscal plan.
Mediations between the bondholders and the oversight board fell apart in December 2022 after the board filed a plan that bondholders felt short-sheeted them and unfairly favored other creditors. The talks were revived briefly in May under orders from Swain, but mediators spent only a few hours in June on negotiations. Recently, bondholders had a major setback when Swain found bondholders have only $2.4 billion in unsecured claims against the utility and not $8.3 billion in outstanding debt.
Two civil groups presented five candidates Sunday to the nine-member Pension Benefits Council, which is charged with monitoring compliance with the law concerning deposits and withdrawals from the Pension Reserve Fund established as part of the commonwealth debt adjustment plan.
The Front for the Defense of Pensions and Construyamos Otro Acuerdo (Let’s Build Another Plan) presented the five members, one of which is an active public worker, and the rest are government retirees. The council, which will have nine members, will monitor the board managing the Pension Reserve Fund, which was created to ensure that the government pays pensions in the future regardless of who is in political power.
“The government made bad investment decisions with our retirement fund. They wanted to cut our pensions,” Pedro Pastrana, a spokesman for the groups, told
the STAR. “We supported the Dignified Retirement Law and managed to stop cuts to our pensions in the debt adjustment plan. Now, our goal is to avoid a second bankruptcy. We will ensure it does not
happen again and do it from the inside.”
Pastrana said Ana Serrano and Armando Montero, both retired teachers, are the candidates representing the Teachers Retirement System.
Representing retirees from the central government are Sonia Palacio Miranda and Ramón Santiago Hernández, who are retired public workers. The groups also are pushing the candidacy of Carlos Román Espada to represent active workers. Román Espada works at the Public Service Commission. According to the law, government retirees elect six of the nine members of the council. The groups did not submit the name of a sixth candidate, who will represent the judicial retirement system because, Pastrana said, that person has already been appointed. The governor and the Financial Oversight and Management Board select the two other council members.
The candidates presented by the groups on Sunday have already been certified by Kroll, the company hired to monitor the votes. Retirees will be receiving ballots between August and September, and they must then be able to vote for the candidates, Pastrana said.
While it is subject to change, the revised request for proposals (RFP) and bids for the third tranche of renewable energy and battery storage projects the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) intends to procure will be made available starting Tuesday.
The documents will be available through Sept. 1. Accion Group, the company hired by the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) to oversee the tenders, made the announcement late last week.
The draft RFP for Tranche 3, issued in February, sought to procure 500 megawatts (MW) of renewable generation projects and 250 MW of energy storage capacity.
The latest revisions to the documents, which were issued in June and may be subject to change, increase
the amount of renewable energy and battery storage to be purchased.
“For this RFP, PREPA intends to procure 1,000 MW of Renewable Energy Resource capacity and at least 500 MW (2,000 MWh) of Energy Storage Resource capacity with an effective duration of two (2) to six (6) hours, as well as all their associated environmental credits under the terms and conditions set forth in the Contract,” the revised version says. “Contract terms will be between twenty (20) and twenty-five (25) years, except for VPPs [virtual power plants], whose term will be between three (3) and five (5) years,”.
The RFP would be the third of six tranches of RFPs intended to procure some 3,750 MW of renewable energy resources and 1,500 MW of energy storage during a three-year period.
PREPA is overseeing the first tranche of energy procurement, which went out to bid in February 2021, and
will continue to manage such RFPs. However, PREB is managing the rest of the tranches through an independent
contractor, Accion Group. By 2050, Puerto Rico must draw all of its energy from renewable sources.
Community health center HealthProMed late last week held its first symposium with community leaders, “State of Emergency: Creating Strategic Connections.” Some 50 community leaders from different regions -- Península de Cantera, Villa Palmeras, Guaynabo, Cataño, Carolina and the offshore island municipalities Vieques and Culebra -- were in attendance.
“This event comes from a study executed by Dr. Saria Hassan and her assistant, Dr. Rosa Rosario from the public health grad school at the University of Puerto Rico, where they were trying to figure out which factors were important to understand within a community during a disaster when considering residents with chronic conditions and how to keep these particular residents as healthy as possible,” HealthProMed Executive Director Ivonne Rivera Hernández said.
As a community health center under the federal Public Health Law, HealthProMed primarily focuses on keeping the health of various communities under control, providing primary medical treatments and preventive health treatments.
“The event’s main purpose is to have the community leaders become our allies, so when situations happen where we have to intervene with the community’s health, community leaders are already more prepared for these events, Rivera Hernández said.
The event also aimed to provide tools and information to the community leaders, creating a strategic connection between the community health center and the leaders, thereby making it easier for community health centers to address any specific situation. Keeping
in mind that when community leaders are prepared, things become much more streamlined in general.
“Once the community leaders are prepared, this helps people with chronic conditions to be prepared earlier for any catastrophic event; community leaders can inform and prepare people with chronic conditions,” Rivera Hernández told the STAR. “Without the community leaders, it’s difficult for health centers such as ourselves to reach the community. If we all work together, it is much more efficient for us and for the community.”
Even though such bridge-building events are important whenever they happen, considering that nature’s fury could strike at any time, hurricane season is in full swing in Puerto Rico, and the most aggressive month, September, is less than seven weeks away.
“This is the first year we have had this event, and we are holding it right at the beginning of hurricane season, because we have already been through tough experiences regarding hurricanes,” Rivera Hernández said. “We need to strengthen our relationship with community leaders so that during this hurricane season we can be a lot more agile, effective and fast regarding the community’s health.”
The latest hurricane report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast that between 12 and 17 storms could form, of which five to nine could become hurricanes. NOAA considers this forecast to be a “near-normal” hurricane season.
The symposium included the participation of many notable lecturers and officials, including island emergency management chief Nino Correa Filomeno, as well as public health experts. Notably, in her presentation, Hassan noted many ways to keep the community’s health in good shape. One very important detail she mentioned in her presentation had to do with managing the medication supply of a person with chronic health issues. The doctor said maintaining a stock of medication was very important because it isn’t certain that the drug store will be open after certain hours the night before a hurricane or even after a hurricane has passed. “We are living in a time in Puerto Rico where many people are leaving the island and leaving their aging parents behind,” Rivera Hernández said. “This creates a situation where many communities need help and don’t have it directly or as quickly because their children are not on the island. It means we need to be more prepared for the possible upcoming atmospheric events.”
Rivera Hernández also expressed deep gratitude for the presence of mayors from Vieques, Culebra, San Juan, Carolina and Guaynabo at the event.
One of the community leaders, Jesús M. Larracuente Nieves, who is the president of a community board known as Las Monjas Renacidas, shared with the STAR his experience working with HealthProMed.
“I’ve had many private meetings with HealthProMed
in the past, and I must say that the service they have provided our community has been very good; during the pandemic, especially, they were very helpful,” he said. “Our community is a community filled with elderly people; we have two elderly sisters in our community that are over the age of 65 and live by themselves. The help they have provided our community has been exceptional.”
“This is the first time they have gathered all of us together at an event like this, and I personally believe this should happen more often throughout the year,” Larracuente Nieves added. “Interaction is very important, and our people need to be united now more than ever, communities and public health centers alike. On top of that, this creates the opportunity for us to learn and become much more informed on the subject of health. I didn’t know much about health in general, and thanks to this [symposium], there is a lot I’ve been able to learn.”
Anews photograph of a confrontation between protesters in Vieques and the U.S. Navy taken in 1979 by former San Juan Star photographer Roso Sabalones was chosen for display in the new U.S. Marshals Museum (USMM), which opened its brand new $50 million facility in Ft. Smith, Arkansas with much fanfare on July 1.
The photo, titled “David vs. Goliath,” is included in a display that focuses on the marshals’ peacekeeping efforts during anti-military protests.
The photo, which depicts a fisherman firing a slingshot at a Navy troller, is representative of many clashes in response to the U.S. Navy’s 50-year occupation of the offshore island municipalities of Vieques and Culebra.
Taken in 1979 by Sabalones, a freelance photojournalist at the time for United Press International (UPI), the image was widely published by news outlets in the United States and Latin America.
In subsequent years the photo also appeared in exhibitions and other publications.
During a trip to Cuba, Sabalones even saw the photo on display at the Cuban Communist Party offices.
Although fishermen on Vieques initiated the 1979 protest, the group’s dissent drew in many others from throughout Puerto Rico who had grown intolerant of the Navy’s presence, blaming the Navy, among other things, for the high level of cancer rates on the islands.
The demonstrations ended in 1983 when an accord was signed between the U.S. and Puerto Rico. But confrontations materialized again after a Vieques native, security guard David Sanes, was killed by a stray bomb in 1999. After an extended period of popular protests, the Navy finally withdrew from Vieques in 2003.
Negotiations over the use of the photo between Sabalones and the public relations firm the Thinkwell Group that handled the talks for the U.S. Marshals took almost a year, said Sabalones’ spokesman, Gabriel Szoke.
Szoke was a middleman for the talks given that Sabalones, 76, has Parkinson’s syndrome and has difficulty communicating.
The negotiations took so long because initially, “they wanted the absolute right to use the photo however they wanted for as long as they wanted,” Szoke said.
Sabalones was adamant that the photo be used in a context and a narrative that reflected the struggle of the people of Vieques to remove the Navy from the island municipality in a way that might “run counter to the narrative the U.S. Marshals want to tell,” said Szoke, noting that the issue still percolates on the “baby island,” where the Navy has yet to complete its cleanup of munitions and hazardous substances.
“The real story should be empathy for the people of Puerto Rico and Vieques, no offense to the Marshals,” he said. “To their credit, they didn’t object to any of the [conditions advanced by Sabalones].”
Szoke said the Marshals needed “David vs. Goliath” because it was one of the only photos they had that depicted action.
Despite the difficulties presented by his Parkinson’s syndrome, Sabalones was able to describe the day he took the photo.
He said he was on the shore where protesters were confronting the marshals when a fleet of five boats disembarked from the shore.
Sabalones climbed aboard one of the small open fishing boats equipped with 15-horsepower outboard engines. The boat went back to shore briefly, allowing the fishermen to collect stones and pebbles before going back out to confront about five Navy trawlers.
When the confrontation between “David and Goliath” began, Sabalones captured the exact moment a fisherman drew back his homemade slingshot, made of surgical tubing and wood, before letting a stone fly in the direction of a Navy trawler’s stern.
The photographer was able to capture the determined expression on the face of the fisherman as he prepared to let fly the stone.
The Navy craft responded by firing shots over the heads of the fishermen and aiming water cannons at them, to no avail.
“The fishing boats were a lot more agile than the Navy boats,” Sabalones said. “We just ran circles around them.”
During his career, Sabalones garnered seven Puerto Rico Overseas Press Club Awards throughout his work with UPI, where he worked for 17 years. He later worked in various supervisory roles for The San Juan Star, El Nuevo Herald, Hoy, El Nacional, and Noticel until his retirement in 2013.
The U.S. Marshal’s Museum is a 53,000-square-foot, world-class structure that is situated on the banks of the Arkansas River.
The $50 million facility was financed almost entirely by foundations, businesses, individuals, and various government entities.
According to the USMM, the grand opening “culminates more than 16 years of fundraising, design, construction, and installation.”
Though Sabalones was invited to the opening, he declined, instead choosing to make the trip on Columbus Day, Oct. 12.
Szoke said the negotiations that preceded the use of the photo by the Marshals would not have been possible without his intercession due to Sabalones’ Parkinson’s syndrome. Szoke, who now lives in Indiana, said Sabalones introduced him to Buddhism and became his teacher.
“This is my way of giving back to Roso,” Szoke said. “The karmic swing came back in his direction.”
On a stretch of Detroit’s West Side with mostly empty storefronts, the building with “Fried Fish” painted on its window had not served a meal in years. A small forest had sprouted in the alley. Plywood patched holes in the back.
Detroit has long been overwhelmed by properties like this, decaying structures that have become time capsules from more prosperous days. For years, such buildings were largely allowed to rot in place, slipping to the bottom of the priority list in an era when garbage went uncollected, parks unmown and budgets unbalanced.
That is changing. Detroit, which 10 years ago became the largest American city to file for bankruptcy, now has money for basic government functions such as park maintenance and commercial code enforcement that long festered out of reach in the municipal hierarchy of needs.
Derelict buildings such as the old fish restaurant, which has racked up thousands of dollars’ worth of citations, are being newly scrutinized with hopes that they will be either spruced up or torn down. On a steamy day last month, city crews cleared out brush from the alley and slapped a fresh coat of brown paint on the building’s front — small steps that workers saw as evidence that Detroit had turned a corner.
Still, in a vast city with a long list of challenges, there is no consensus about what to tackle first. There are no quick fixes. And there is no choice but to move one troubled parcel at a time.
“We’re eating an elephant here,” said Alvin Nunn, a supervising building inspector, who spent a recent afternoon examining another faded business corridor whose vacant buildings had busted windows, peeling paint and trees growing atop saggy roofs. “The corridor is the first few bites of the elephant.”
Back in July 2013, when Detroit sought bankruptcy protection, it was failing at the fundamentals of governance after decades of disinvestment and population loss. Retired city workers saw their pension benefits reduced. Some questioned whether the city, which had boomed along with the American auto industry, had much of a future.
A decade later, the city has defied the most dire predictions. Budgets have stabilized, basic services have been restored, home values have increased and pockets of development have taken root.
For those who lived through the bankruptcy, the change is stark. Brad Dick, a longtime city worker who is now Detroit’s chief operating
officer, recalled meetings that took place just before the bankruptcy filing to make sure there was enough fuel for police cars in case vendors cut off the city’s accounts.
These days, he is helping oversee construction on a nearly 28-mile stretch of trails and green space, the first portion of which opened last year, and pitching a plan to build a space for weddings and other events in a city park.
“Did I ever think I ever could go to a mayor eight years ago and present to him a wedding party venue? No,” Dick said. “I was just trying to get the grass cut. I was trying to get trash trucks.”
Detroit remains a place with abundant problems. Abandoned houses, though fewer in number than before, continue to atrophy. Violent crime remains pervasive. And, according to census data that the mayor disputes, Detroit’s decadeslong population decline has persisted, with about 620,000 residents today. In 1950, the city’s population peaked at more than 1.8 million.
The simultaneous realities of Detroit add urgency to this moment, when the national economy is healthy and the city’s coffers are flush with federal pandemic relief funds. For the first time in a long time, there is money to go beyond the basics, offering a chance to think about aesthetics.
“Nobody in Chicago ever called their sister to say, ‘My streetlights went on!’You don’t celebrate that in a vibrant city,” said Mayor Mike Duggan, who was first elected during the bankruptcy and is now in his third term. “And we don’t want to celebrate those things. Here, we want to celebrate the new park, the new riverfront.”
Indeed, parks in the city have flourished since the bankruptcy, when about half of them were shut down. The waterfront on the Detroit
River, once an unwelcoming mass of concrete, now features scenic walkways and fishing spots shared by residents and tourists.
At a butcher shop on a worn-down stretch of Seven Mile Road, though, owner Joe Kawa said he had watched the neighborhood decline since the 1990s. There were few customers left, he said, and he had considered closing.
His brother and co-worker, Steve Kawa, who lives near the store, said the city needed to focus on increasing the population and reducing crime. Then, he said, businesses would be more likely to invest.
Gabriela Santiago-Romero, a newly elected member of the City Council from southwest Detroit, said she would prefer to see a greater effort to improve the city’s infrastructure. She said she was “less focused on beautiful things and more focused on functional assets.”
Santiago-Romero said that while she understood the city’s strategy on addressing blight, she worried that the code enforcement blitz was penalizing property owners who had stuck it out through Detroit’s worst days but now had little ability to pay for improvements.
“To go from a place,” she said, “where you could essentially do what you wanted or not be held accountable to the city, to now be told, ‘Here are all the codes, here are all the things you have to do and maintain,’ I think it’s a little unfair.”
In the first years after bankruptcy, development was largely concentrated in the city’s downtown and midtown areas, around corporate offices and colleges and museums.
But over the past several years, the city has tried to spur investment in struggling commercial strips in other parts of Detroit. The city, which has an area of 139 square miles, has used public money to widen walkways, install bike lanes and help businesses get started.
Edward Carrington, a developer who lives in the city, decided to take a chance on one of those strips, along East Warren Avenue, where the parking lot of a former Pizza Hut has been converted into a farmers market, and ginkgo trees have been planted beside new bike lanes. But foot traffic is limited and buildings are still boarded up.
Looking back, Carrington said the bankruptcy was a reset button for the city — one that caused real pain for many people but that also gave Detroit a chance to refine its identity.
Carrington said he was hopeful for his city’s future, and for the future of the shuttered bank that he bought on East Warren. Over the past couple of years, he worked with area residents to devise a plan for a new building on the site that will house a dumpling restaurant on the ground floor and apartments above. Construction is underway.
raised $19.7 million for his campaign, $16.9 million of which came from contributions over $200, a sign of his dependence on big-dollar contributions.
He is also spending that money — quickly.
His filings Saturday showed that his campaign spent nearly $7.9 million in those six weeks. Top expenditures included $1.3 million earmarked for travel (several vendors appear to be private jet rental services); more than $1 million for payroll; and more than $800,000 apiece for digital fundraising consulting, media placement and postage.
It is a “burn rate” of about 40%, which is on the high end compared with the other Republican candidates. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina reported raising nearly $5.9 million in the second quarter, and spent $6.7 million. But he had more of a cushion: He carried $22 million from his Senate campaign into his presidential run.
While these long-shot candidates were not expected to raise tons of money, observers might have expected more from Pence, who reported just $1.2 million in contributions.
Pence has also spent very little — just $74,000, his filing shows. His campaign has not said whether he has reached the threshold of 40,000 unique donors, one of the requirements to appear on the Republican debate stage on Aug. 23.
Self-funding candidates are also burning through cash.
On Friday, the campaign of Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota, a wealthy former software engineer, filed its quarterly report, showing that he had raised $1.5 million in contributions and that he had lent $10 million to his campaign.
By REBECCA DAVIS O’BRIEN AND REID J. EPSTEINAs a fuller financial picture of the 2024 presidential race emerged with Saturday’s campaign filing deadline, trouble appeared to lurk below the surface for Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida.
Despite a strong overall fundraising total of $20 million, DeSantis is spending hand over fist, and his dependence on large donors suggests a lack of grassroots support. Former President Donald Trump’s campaign recorded $17.7 million in fundraising, nearly all of which was transferred from another committee that will not report its donors until
later this month.
In the meantime, President Joe Biden, his joint fundraising committee and the Democratic National Committee raised almost as much money as all of the Republican candidates for president combined.
Some of the more modest Republican earners — such as Nikki Haley, a former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador — appear to have solid support and lean campaign operations built for the long haul. About one-third of the $1.6 million haul by former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey came from smaller donors, which is high for Republicans and could speak to relatively broad appeal.
Warning signs emerged for Republicans beyond DeSantis. Former Vice President Mike Pence brought in a paltry $1.2 million in contributions, raising questions about whether he can draw meaningful backing among Republicans.
Then there are the self-funded candidates, whose campaigns will last as long as they are willing to spend their own fortunes — and for now at least, they are certainly spending a lot.
Here are some takeaways from the filings, which detail fundraising and spending from April 1 to June 30.
DeSantis is reliant on big money ... and he’s spending it fast.
In the six weeks between his entry into the race and the end of the quarter, DeSantis
DeSantis reported $12.2 million in cash on hand at the end of June; Scott had $21 million. By comparison, Haley’s campaign took in $5.3 million, spent $2.6 million and reported about $6.8 million in cash on hand.
A full picture of Trump’s war chest is not yet clear.
Trump is the runaway leader in polls of Republican candidates, and he has ample financial resources and fundraising ability. But his exact cash situation is complicated.
This month, the Trump campaign said the former president had raised more than $35 million in the second quarter through his joint fundraising committee, which then transfers the money to his campaign and to a political action committee.
His campaign’s filing Saturday reported a total of $17.7 million in receipts — which includes contributions, transfers and refunds — almost all of which came in transfers from the joint fundraising committee.
Where is the rest of the reported $35 million? The joint fundraising committee is not required to file its report until the end of the month. The New York Times reported last month that Trump has in recent months steered more of the money from the joint committee into the PAC, which he has used to pay his legal bills.
Pence joins the stragglers.
Bringing up the rear of the Republican pack are former Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, who raised about $500,000 in the second quarter, and Will Hurd, a former Texas congressman, who raised just $270,000.
Burgum’s campaign spent more than $8.1 million last quarter, including an eyepopping $6 million in advertising, the filings show. He had $3.6 million in cash on hand at the end of the month.
Another Republican candidate, wealthy entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, reported $2.3 million in contributions last quarter, as well as $5 million in loans from himself. Ramaswamy has lent his campaign $15.25 million since he entered the race in February; he has said he will spend $100 million of his own money on his bid.
He may need to if he keeps up the spending. He spent more than $8 million from April through June, including $1.5 million on media placement and hundreds of thousands of dollars on travel.
Biden’s campaign remains very small.
It was already obvious that the Biden campaign was running a small operation, but exactly how lean became clear Saturday. As of the end of June, the president’s reelection effort had a total of four employees.
Two other people were listed on Biden’s campaign expenditures as consultants, one for communications and another as an accountant, but so far much of the still-nascent Biden campaign is being run by officials at the White House and in the Democratic National Committee.
Biden’s campaign, the Democratic National Committee and its affiliated fundraising committees reported a combined $77 million in cash on hand at the end of June after raising $72 million during the three-month reporting period. While the campaign has added a few employees since July 1, it plans to continue outsourcing large portions of its activity to the national committee.
Republicans late last week rammed through the House a deeply partisan defense bill that would limit abortion access, transgender care and diversity training for military personnel, setting up a showdown with the Senate. The coming fight could imperil the crucial annual measure to provide a pay raise for troops, set defense policy to counter U.S. adversaries and sustain Pentagon programs at a time of rising threats.
The House passed the measure on a vote of 219-210 with nearly unanimous Republican support, a significant victory for the far-right faction that forced a reluctant Speaker Kevin McCarthy to open the bill to an array of social policy prescriptions by threatening to block it if they did not get their way. But the move left the fate of the measure deeply in doubt, advancing a bill that has little chance of passing the Democraticcontrolled Senate and raising questions about whether a compromise can be reached that could be enacted into law this fall.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) discusses the defense budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Friday, July 14, 2023. House Republicans on Friday narrowly passed a deeply partisan defense bill that would limit abortion access, transgender care and diversity training for military personnel.
And the outcome suggested even more intense battles ahead on Capitol Hill to avert a government shutdown. McCarthy’s capitulation to the right, despite knowing it could cost him critical Democratic support for the must-pass bill, was a gamble that could become a playbook for the coming fight over federal spending, where hard-liners are pressing to impose similar socially conservative policies governmentwide.
Some Republicans, particularly those in competitive districts, could also pay a political price for embracing legislation that would restrict the rights of women and transgender people and downplay problems of racism in the military. Democrats were already attacking them for having done so, highlighting the measure as a prime example of their argument that the Republican Party is extreme and out of step with the values of mainstream voters.
Yet McCarthy defended the legislation, saying Republicans did “exactly what we had said we would do” by using the defense bill to try to force the administration to “stop using taxpayer money to do their own wokeism.”
“A military cannot defend themselves if you train them in woke,” he added.
Democrats denounced the bill, accusing Republican leaders of having turned what began as a bipartisan measure into a hyper-politicized salvo in a wider culture war to please a small, right-wing faction of their party.
“Extreme MAGA Republicans have hijacked a bipartisan bill that is essential to our national security and taken it over and weaponized it in order to jam their extreme right-wing ideology down the throats of the American people,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., the minority leader, told reporters on Friday.
They also warned that the changes would discourage women, transgender people and minorities from enlisting, worsening recruiting challenges with policies that Rep. Adam Smith of Washington, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said would “undermine our ability to meet the
national security objectives of this country.”
The addition of partisan policy requirements is expected to drastically complicate the usually bipartisan process of negotiating a final defense bill in Congress. Senators are expected to vote this month on a competing version of the defense bill, setting up what promises to be a difficult set of talks as the two chambers hash out their differences. Congress has not failed to agree on and produce an annual defense bill in six decades.
On Friday, ultraconservative House Republicans warned they were in no mood to accept a compromise with the Senate.
“We are not going to relent, we are not going to back down, we’re not going to give up on the cause that is righteous,” Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, told reporters. He said his members were “going to use every single tool at our disposal” to defend the socially conservative changes to the bill, calling them “a huge victory.”
And in a signal that the far right would hold a loud voice in the negotiations, McCarthy said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia would be a member of his negotiating team with the Senate.
At stake is an $886 billion bill that would grant a 5.2% raise to military personnel, include programs to counter aggressive moves by China and Russia, and establish a special inspector general to oversee U.S. aid to Ukraine.
But nearly the entire House debate focused instead on dozens of conservative social policy dictates that Republicans insisted on including. Over near-unanimous Democratic opposition, Republicans attached a provision to undo a Pentagon policy that was put in place after the Supreme Court struck down abortion rights to provide time off and travel reimbursement to service members who must travel out of state to obtain an abortion. Republicans argue the policy runs afoul of federal laws barring taxpayer dollars from being spent on abortions, even though the policy does not include paying for the procedure.
Republicans also added measures prohibiting the military from offering health coverage for gender transition surgeries — which currently require a waiver — and related hormone therapies. They included language that would eliminate all diversity, equity and inclusion offices at the Pentagon, as well as the positions attached to them, and preventing the Defense Department from using affirmative action policies in admissions decisions at the military service academies.
The House added language barring the Pentagon’s educational arm from buying any book that contains pornographic material or “espouses radical gender ideology.” And with the help of nine Democrats, Republicans won approval of a policy prohibiting Defense Department schools from teaching that the United States or its founding documents are racist.
Republicans also added language blocking the Pentagon and the military from carrying out President Joe Biden’s executive orders on climate change.
In the end, only four Republicans voted against the bill — all right-wing lawmakers who apparently believed it was still not conservative enough: Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Ken Buck of Colorado, Eli Crane of Arizona and Thomas Massie of Kentucky. Four center-leaning Democrats also broke with their party to vote in favor: Reps. Don Davis of North Carolina, Jared Golden of Maine, Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez of Washington and Gabe Vasquez of New Mexico.
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It’s happening: America’s $134 billion movie and TV industry has ground to a halt after the Hollywood actors union voted to strike, joining screenwriters and shutting down virtually all productions.
The move reflects the growing aggressiveness of the American labor movement, which has been battling against Starbucks, Amazon, UPS and others. Only in this case, the dispute involves one of the most visible industries around — and there’s no sign of a compromise in sight.
The actors union blasted studios for refusing to bend on key issues, including higher payouts from streaming titles and clear limits on the use of artificial intelligence. “How they plead poverty, that they’re losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs,” Fran Drescher, the TV actor who now leads the SAG-AFTRA union, said Thursday. “It is disgusting. Shame on them!”
The studios argue that the unions’ demands are unrealistic, given the challenges the entertainment industry faces, from streaming to fallout from the pandemic. “This is the worst time in the
world to add to that disruption,” Disney CEO Bob Iger said on CNBC on Thursday.
Expect more such comments this coming week on media company earnings calls.
Tinseltown’s glitz quickly went dim. Because actors are now forbidden from promoting their films, the cast of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” walked out in the middle of the movie’s London premiere. And campaigning for
shows nominated for Emmy awards, which were just announced Wednesday, was suspended.
That will have consequences for other Hollywood industries, including advertising and talent agencies, celebrity and trade publications and film festivals. “The celebrity factory has shut down,” Janice Min, the head of entertainment publication The Ankler, told Vanity Fair. “If this goes on for a long time, you will feel it across the whole internet.”
In some ways, the strike could actually benefit studios and streaming platforms. The lack of new shows and movies may allow them to back out of expensive production deals they signed during the content boom.
But the longer the strikes go on, the more audiences may grow restless with a lack of fresh scripted content. (Fall TV schedules are packed with reality and game shows.) Streaming giants with vast libraries might be OK, but lesser-stocked services may face a deluge of cancellations, and studios that sell to other platforms could be in increasingly dire straits.
A new era of dealmaking at Disney?
A day after Iger extended his tenure as Disney’s CEO by two years, the entertainment mogul suggested that he was weighing a bigger shake-up of the media giant, including potential deals for ESPN and other channels like ABC.
The remarks indicate that Iger, who oversaw some of Disney’s biggest acquisitions, may yet do more deals — albeit as a seller. The big question is: Whom will he do them with?
Iger is under pressure to turn Disney’s fortunes around, after laying off thousands and slashing costs. Although he has headed off a challenge by activist investor Nelson Peltz, shareholders can’t be happy with Disney’s stagnating stock price.
Here’s what an Iger shake-up might look like:
— Disney may sell a stake in ESPN, which has suffered from a steep drop-off in cable subscriptions, to a partner that could help the sports network improve its online reach and pay for increasingly expensive broadcast rights. Likely candidates are tech titans with online video platforms, including Apple (an often-rumored buyer for Disney, antitrust concerns aside), Google and Amazon.
— Buyers for ABC and cable channels like FX are less obvious, since a deal with another media giant could draw opposition from antitrust regulators. Wells Fargo analyst Steven Cahall speculated that private equity or hedge funds may jump in, tempted by the businesses’ steady cash flow and the opportunity to cut margins (as they’ve done with newspapers).
How serious is Iger about selling? His comments may have been meant to test investor reaction. (He previously hinted that Disney might sell its majority stake in Hulu, before saying he would more likely buy out Comcast’s stake in the platform.) Disney shares barely budged Thursday after his remarks.
But Iger has been pessimistic about traditional TV for some time. “Linear TV is marching towards a great precipice and it will be pushed off,” he said at the Code Conference last year. “I can’t tell you when, but it goes away.”
The S&P 500 ended down slightly on Friday, with bank and financial shares mostly lower on the day following quarterly reports that kicked off earnings season, but all three major U.S. stock indexes posted solid weekly gains. Offsetting some of the declines, UnitedHealth Group’s stock rallied following its stronger-than-expected results.
Shares of JPMorgan Chase rose 0.6% and Wells Fargo eased 0.3%, while the S&P 500 banks index fell 0.9%. Both major banks reported higher quarterly profits, but said they have set aside more money for expected losses from commercial real estate loans.
The biggest drags on the benchmark index were the energy sector, down 2.8%, and financials, down 0.7%.
UnitedHealth shares jumped 7.2% and helped the Dow to end higher. Shares of other health insurers also advanced, with Humana ending up 2.5% and Cigna up 4.7%.
“We’ve rallied significantly year to date, and that was in anticipation of better-than-expected earnings,” said Oliver Pursche, senior vice president and advisor for Wealthspire Advisors in Westport, Connecticut.
“What we’re seeing now and are likely to continue to see through the end of the summer is a little bit of fatigue and lack of conviction that stocks can go materially higher.”
The day’s quarterly reports unofficially started off second-quarter U.S. earnings season. Analysts expect S&P 500 earnings to have declined 8.1% in the quarter from a year ago, according to Refintiiv data, but the majority of companies tend to beat expectations.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 113.89 points, or 0.33%, to 34,509.03, the S&P 500 lost 4.62 points, or 0.10%, to 4,505.42 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 24.87 points, or 0.18%, to 14,113.70.
For the week, the Dow was up 2.3%, the S&P 500 rose 2.4% and the Nasdaq advanced 3.3%. The S&P 500 remains up 17% for the year to date.
Among other financial company reports, Citigroup shares fell 4% after the lender’s quarterly profit tumbled, while BlackRock was down 1.5% after it posted a decline in quarterly revenue.
Some strategists said bank stocks may have sold off following recent strong gains.
The S&P banks index snapped a five-session winning streak along with the KBW regional bank index, which was down 1.9% on the day.
An index of high profile tech-related shares edged lower a day after registering a record high close.
Tesla, whose shares rose 1.3%, is the first of the growth giants to report, with earnings expected on Wednesday.
Volume on U.S. exchanges was 10.72 billion shares, compared with the 11.04 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.
Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the
NYSE by a 2.73-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.33-to-1 ratio favored decliners.
The S&P 500 posted 40 new 52-week highs and 4 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 97 new highs and 60 new lows.
Offsetting some of the day’s upbeat tone, a separate report showed weekly jobless claims unexpectedly fell last week, indicating that the labor market remains tight.
Focus also is shifting to the second-quarter U.S. earnings
season kicking off this week. Shares of JPMorgan Chase ended up 0.5% ahead of its quarterly results due before the opening bell Friday.
“We might have another quarter here where the positive sentiment will continue,” said Alan Lancz, president of Alan B. Lancz & Associates Inc. in Toledo, Ohio.
“As long as expectations and guidance are in line, that’s what a lot of institutional investors will be looking at.”
Delta Air Lines ended near flat after rising on news it lifted its full-year profit outlook, citing a relentless post-pandemic travel boom.
PepsiCo shares jumped 2.4% after the company raised its annual revenue and profit forecasts for the second time.
It was a grisly scene of bloody limbs and crumpled vehicles as a series of Russian mines exploded across a field in southern Ukraine.
One Ukrainian soldier stepped on a mine and tumbled onto the grass in the buffer zone between the two armies. Nearby lay other Ukrainian troops, their legs in tourniquets, waiting for medical evacuation, according to videos posted online and the accounts of several soldiers involved.
Soon, an armored vehicle arrived to rescue them. A medic jumped out to treat the wounded and knelt on ground he deemed safe — only to trigger another mine with his knee.
Five weeks into a counteroffensive that even Ukrainian officials say is off to a halting start, interviews with commanders and soldiers fighting along the front indicate the slow progress comes down to one major problem: land mines.
The fields Ukrainian forces must cross are littered with dozens of types of mines — made of plastic and metal, shaped like tins of chewing tobacco or soda cans, and with colorful names like “the witch” and “the leaf.”
Ukraine’s army is also hindered by a lack of air support and the deep network of defensive structures the Russians have built. But it is the vast array of mines, trip wires, booby traps and improvised explosive devices that has Ukrainian forces bogged down only a few miles from where they started.
“I couldn’t imagine something like this,” said a Ukrainian private named Serhiy, part of a unit that rescued the soldiers wounded by the explosions. “I thought mines would be lain in lines. But whole fields are filled with them, everywhere.”
Mines have long been a staple of Russian warfare, used extensively in Afghanistan and Chechnya and earlier phases of the fighting in Ukraine, stretching back to 2014. But the minefields in southern Ukraine are vast and complex, beyond what had been previously known, soldiers who have entered them say. . Ukraine also plants expansive fields of antitank mines, to stop Russian advances.
“To clear mines, you should have a lot of motivation and
a cool head,” said Maj. Maksym Prysyazhnyuk, a Ukrainian demining expert who slips into the fields at night before infantry advances. “It’s such delicate work, like of a surgeon, but at the same time, explosions are going off all around you” from artillery in the battle.
Demining specialists venture out with metal detectors and long, slender probes attached to poles to gingerly poke at the ground to try to find buried mines without setting them off. “These are our tools — and an icon in the pocket,” said Prysyazhnyuk, referring to Orthodox religious images. He was at a medical stabilization point where soldiers wounded by mines turned up in a steady stream.
The minefields are routinely set with booby traps and so-called anti-handling devices that cause mines to detonate if they are lifted, to thwart demining teams. A common tactic is what Prysyazhnyuk called a “trick for idiots” — burying anti-personnel mines in front of a trip wire, to target a soldier who might try to disable the trip wire.
More sophisticated explosives include the so-called jumping mines, which, when stepped on, pop up and spray shrapnel, hitting other soldiers nearby. Russia also uses mines triggered by slender, yellow-colored trip wires that stretch out a dozen or so yards — any of which, when disturbed, can set off an explosion and a spray of shrapnel.
The demining teams work by clearing a path about 2 feet wide, allowing the infantry to walk forward. Then, the deminers work back along the path to expand it by an additional foot or more, to allow two soldiers to walk shoulder to shoulder while carrying a stretcher for soldiers wounded in the fight. Last month, a stretcher bearer carrying a wounded colleague triggered a mine because the path could not be widened quickly enough.
Danger exists even after the paths are cleared. Russian forces often fire rockets that scatter small, hard-to-spot green plastic “leaf” mines, also called butterfly mines, over the cleared area, Prysyazhnyuk said.
Volodymyr, who serves as a military medic at the stabilization point, performs amputations on soldiers whose feet or lower legs have been shorn off by mine explosions.
Mines, he said, have surpassed artillery as a leading
cause of wounds. Because some mines are plastic, to avoid detection by demining teams, the shrapnel they spray into soldiers can be invisible to doctors in first-aid stations near the front, where medical teams use metal detectors to find and remove fragments, he said.
Like other soldiers interviewed, he spoke on the condition that he be identified by only his first name, for security reasons.
The soldiers are treated and sent to hospitals farther away. Last week, Volodymyr said, he amputated both hands of a demining expert who was wounded while trying to defuse a booby-trapped mine.
The past month has been a harrowing, difficult phase of the war for the Ukrainian army, which is under pressure to advance quickly and demonstrate to Western allies that the policy of arming Ukraine can turn the tide.
In his nightly address Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy again defended the pace of the counteroffensive, saying that Russia was throwing “everything they can” at Ukraine’s troops and that “every thousand meters of advance” deserves gratitude.
In the south, Ukrainian troops are attacking in at least three locations but have not broken through the Russians’ main lines of defense. Mines are not the only difficulty they face. As they advance, Ukrainian soldiers move out of range of some of their air defense systems and become vulnerable to Russian attack helicopters.
By this past week, at its farthest point of advance, south of the village of Velyka Novosilka, the Ukrainian army had pushed a bulge about 5 miles deep into Russian lines. At the point where the soldiers became stranded in a minefield, south of the town of Orikhiv, Ukraine has advanced about 1 mile. To reach the Sea of Azov and cut supply lines to Russian-occupied Crimea, an objective in the counteroffensive, Ukraine must advance about 60 miles.
One bright spot as they fight through the minefields, Ukrainian soldiers say, is the protection provided by Western armored vehicles.
Where they have been used, these vehicles have not enabled the Ukrainian military to cross minefields, but they have saved lives with superior armor that protects against the blasts.
The U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, with layered aluminum and steel armor, roll over anti-personnel mines with impunity. They are immobilized by Russian antitank mines, hefty circular devices that are laden with about 15 pounds of TNT, often without causing serious injury to the soldiers inside.
Denys, a military surgeon at another stabilization point near the front, said troops injured by mine explosions while riding in Bradleys fared much better than those in Soviet-legacy armored vehicles and that the main consequence was a concussion rather than the loss of a limb.
“The Americans made this machine to save the lives of the crew,” said Serhiy, the private on the rescue team, who is now operating in his third Bradley after two earlier vehicles hit antitank mines. The second occurred when he and others were sent to evacuate wounded infantry stranded in a minefield.
At least 180 senior fighter pilots, elite commandos and cyberintelligence specialists in the Israeli military reserve have informed their commanders that they will no longer report for volunteer duty if the government proceeds with a plan to limit judicial influence by the end of the month.
About a dozen have already resigned, but hundreds more have discussed the possibility of doing so during in-person gatherings and online forums this week and are preparing to formally suspend their service in the coming days, according to interviews with 12 of those reservists and group resignation letters and messages seen by The New York Times.
Military leaders fear that this would significantly impact the capacity of the Israeli armed forces, particularly its air force, as well as tempt full-time soldiers to consider standing down, two senior defense officials said, speaking anonymously because of the volatility of the situation.
Israeli fighter squadrons are strongly reliant on reserve pilots who have regular civilian jobs but who volunteer for several days each month to train or participate in combat and reconnaissance missions. Israel’s regular strikes in Gaza and Syria, patrol missions over Israel, and surveillance missions over Lebanon and the occupied West Bank are frequently led by reserve pilots and drone operators, who often have more experience than those in the fulltime forces.
Any future Israeli strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran would also be heavily dependent on reservists.
Their threats of resignation reflect the deep social rifts that have been widened by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to undermine the power of the judiciary. Netanyahu’s coalition — the most right-wing in Israeli history — seeks to enact a bill by the end of July that would reduce the ways in which the government can be overruled by the Supreme Court.
The bill is part of a wider raft of proposals that has set off the longest wave of protests in Israeli history, led business leaders to divest from Israel, created a standoff with the Biden administration and prompted widespread fears of civil war, according to several national polls.
To the government and its supporters, the measures would improve democracy by reducing the influence of unelected judges over elected lawmakers. The plan is “not the end of democracy but rather the strengthening of democracy,” Netanyahu said this past week.
The Israeli right has long seen the Supreme Court as an unaccountable bastion of the liberal elite that has restricted some of Israel’s efforts to establish settlements in the occupied West Bank and blocked certain privileges for ultra-Orthodox Jews.
But to the government’s critics, the Supreme Court is a crucial protector of a pluralist society. They fear that the government’s plan to limit the court would harm democracy by removing one of the few checks on government overreach, and potentially later allow Netanyahu to interfere in his ongoing trial for corruption — both claims that Netanyahu denies.
Many reservists are also concerned that the degrading of Israel’s judiciary might leave them more vulnerable to prosecution in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, since it might strengthen an argument, often made by critics of Israel, that the Israeli judiciary is not independent enough to hold its army to account.
The ongoing judicial overhaul is “a first and significant step on the way to a judicial coup that will lead the State of Israel toward becoming a dictatorship,” a high-ranking reservist in Unit 8200, an elite cyberintelligence unit that monitors and defends against online threats, wrote this week in a resignation message to the unit’s top commander.
“I love the State of Israel and I believe that now is the time to fight for it and for its image as a liberal democracy,” the reservist added. “Therefore, I am forced to take a step that I never thought I would have to take and to suspend my volunteering for reserve service.”
Those who have already announced their intention to resign, or who have already resigned, include fighter pilots, flying instructors,
drone operators, senior hackers in Unit 8200 and senior reserve officers in Sayeret Matkal, the elite commando unit that operates behind enemy lines and that Netanyahu once served in.
At least 220 reservists in Sayeret Matkal are preparing to release a letter in the coming days announcing that they will resign from volunteer duty if the bill is passed by the end of July, according to a draft of the letter obtained by the Times.
“Unless the current legislative processes that harm the independence of the judicial system are shelved, we will not be able to continue volunteering for reserve service in the unit,” the draft said. “We are aware of the damage that may occur due to us not volunteering for the reserves in the unit, but in the current moment we have no other course of action.”
While all the reservists are still expected to serve if war were to break out, the pilots’ decision to avoid training and missions outside of wartime is still expected to dilute Israel’s military capacity. Pilots need to train regularly in order to maintain their battle readiness. If they stop training even for short periods, officials say, they will be disqualified from flying military missions until they have regained their sharpness.
Similar warnings and resignations in March played a decisive role in the government’s decision to suspend an earlier round of judicial changes. Disquiet among the reservists prompted the defense minister, Yoav Gallant, to speak out against the overhaul, a move that in turn led Netanyahu to fire him.
His dismissal set off an intense burst of street unrest and labor strikes that briefly stopped flights departing from Israel’s main air-
port, and ultimately led Netanyahu to freeze the legislation and later reinstate Gallant.
It is unclear whether Gallant would publicly protest the overhaul again. Asked to comment for this article, he said in a statement, “Threats of, or direct refusal to serve, harm the IDF and Israel’s security. I call upon everyone, left and right: We must leave all political discourse outside of our armed forces. We must remain united in this respect.”
In an official statement, the Israel Defense Forces played down the resignation threat, saying that the number of people who had refused to serve when called up was “very limited.” But it did not release the number of reservists who had not yet been called up but who had nevertheless formally requested their commanders to preemptively suspend their service.
And the military acknowledged that the reserves “constitute an inseparable part of the IDF’s operational capacity and the IDF’s ability to fulfill its purpose as a protector of the security of the citizens of the state of Israel.”
In private, senior defense officials are preparing for a bigger wave of public resignations in the coming days.
Around 40 reserve pilots held a private meeting last Monday with the head of the air force, Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar, in which they discussed the possibility of more pilots resigning, an outcome Bar strongly opposed, according to two people present.
A larger group of 350 reserve pilots met privately the following day to discuss their options and to hear from legal experts about the judicial proposals.
A constitutional law expert, Suzie Navot, briefed them on the planned bill; and a former attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, outlined how the soldiers might face greater risk of prosecution by foreign prosecutors for purported war crimes if Israel’s own judicial system was deemed to have been undermined by the government’s proposals.
Five bodies were discovered in a bus trapped by floodwaters in an underpass in a city south of the South Korean capital, Seoul, on Sunday. The country has been reeling from intense rainfall from the monsoon, which has swept across the nation in recent days, burying homes, knocking down trees, canceling flights and trains, and cutting power to tens of thousands of residents.
At least 15 vehicles were in the underpass in Cheongju, about 70 miles from Seoul, when it flooded about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, according to the local fire department. One body had previously been found in the tunnel, and 10 people thought to have been in there remain missing. It was not clear how many people might have gotten out; nine people were reported injured in the episode. Nearly 400 rescue workers had been sent to the site.
Over 30 inches of rain fell nationwide Saturday, according to the national weather agency.
As of Sunday morning, the flooding and landslides had left at least 33 people dead, according to a statement released by the Interior Ministry, adding that there were 22 people known to have been injured.
Heavy monsoon rains are typical in South Korea in the summer, and its mountainous topography makes it susceptible to landslides. But the number of casualties reported so far this season is higher than usual.
“The death toll is surprisingly high,” Cheong Tae Sung, an expert in flooding with South Korea’s National Disaster Management Research Institute, said in an interview, adding that there were a couple of possible reasons for this.
One is that in recent years rainfall has tended to be concentrated in urban areas, near the large cities of Busan and Seoul. This time, much of the recent rains fell in rural parts of Chungcheong and Jeolla provinces, which can be more vulnerable in part because they are more difficult to monitor and reach.
Cheong added that, as climate change warms South Korea, rain also appears to be coming in more intense bursts rather than slowly over a longer period. That shift has made preparing for floods harder.
At least five of the people killed Friday and Saturday died inside homes and buildings that had collapsed in landslides, and one person
was buried in earth and sand, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Another victim died after a road collapsed underneath.
Several dams in the central part of the country began the controlled release of water Saturday, and one overflowed, prompting the evacuation of thousands of residents living downstream. A passenger train derailed Friday night when soil entered a railroad track, although no casualties were reported.
More than 5,500 residents have evacuated their homes since Thursday, according to the ministry statement, which urged emergency workers to help evacuate residents and conduct rescues.
The Korea Meteorological Administration said Saturday that the rain would get stronger over the next two days, mainly in the central and southwestern parts of the country.
The South Korean government has been on alert this month, with top officials stressing the importance of safety during the monsoon season. That sense of urgency grew stronger over the weekend, as reports of deaths and injuries began to come in.
“If there is even a small possibility of danger, overreaction is the principle of this heavyrain response,” Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Saturday, mobilizing the military to join rescue efforts. President Yoon Suk Yeol repeated his calls for an “all-out response” by the government.
Parts of central South Korea were under a heavy rain advisory Saturday morning, with up to 1.6 inches expected in a single hour in some places later in the day, the ministry said. Some regions should expect up to nearly 10 inches of precipitation to accumulate, it added.
South Korea’s monsoon season typically begins in June and ends in early August. The rest of the year is mostly dry and sunny, and spring brings the risk of wildfires.
The country used to experience heavy casualties and in 1984 accepted humanitarian aid from North Korea. More recently, annual flood-related deaths have been in the single digits, except in 2011, 2020 and 2022.
In August, some of the heaviest rains in decades led to the deaths of at least 14 people nationwide. In 2020, weeks of intermittent rain caused flooding and landslides across the country, killing 48 people. In 2011, more than 70 people died, including 17 who were killed when mudslides crashed into residential buildings in southern Seoul.
Vladimir Putin has compared himself to the czar Peter the Great. But to travel through Eastern Europe is to see how much he has instead caused Russian influence to shrink.
I’ve been on a road trip through Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — and it’s clear that Putin has managed to unite nearly everyone against Russia. Even Russian speakers who often used to feel loyalty to Moscow are now fundraising for Ukraine.
One of my first memories is of a trip to Poland in the 1960s to visit my grandparents (Kristof is short for Krzysztofowicz). What I remember is that communist Poland seemed endlessly bleak and depressing. Later, when I began to travel around Eastern Europe as a law student and aspiring journalist, my main impression was that in the communist bloc, you didn’t need color film.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who was in Vilnius, Lithuania, for the NATO summit, told me that when he first visited the country in 1979, he had the same impression: “It looked like everything had been whitewashed with gray paint. It was drab and lifeless.” Flash-forward,
and today these countries are almost unrecognizable: vibrant, colorful and far wealthier than Russia. Poland has become a sophisticated manufacturing base for Europe, and Intel just announced that it would build a $4.6 billion chip plant near Wroclaw.
“Poland has been able to serve as a model for countries to the east,” Mark Brzezinski, the U.S. ambassador to Poland, told me. And Russia has been a model of a different kind.
“Putin’s actions since February 2022 have proven the thesis that Russia under Putin is interested in leadership by terror and authoritarianism,” Brzezinski added. “For other countries of the former Soviet bloc, if they ever were wobbly about joining the West, they certainly have had a clarifying experience.”
The improvements in the Baltics have been as pronounced as those in Poland. Estonia is now a jewel of Europe, the global model of a high-tech and prosperous “e-state.” It has nurtured countless hightech startups, including Skype, and as I walked through Tallinn, the capital, I shared a sidewalk with a robot delivering a takeout dinner to a nearby home.
In contrast, Russia and the places that have remained in its orbit like Belarus and Transnistria remain dismal and oppressive. A glimpse of that side of the chasm: One of the world’s bravest journalists, Elena Milashina, who has reported on human rights in Russia, was attacked recently in Chechnya; thugs beat her, shaved her head, poured dye on her and left her with a brain injury.
Putin claims to be a champion of the rights of Russian speakers, whose families often moved to neighboring nations when they were all under Soviet rule. And historically many were allied with Moscow and had grievances against the post-communist proWestern governments. Now Putin has upended that. His invasion and behavior embarrasses many Russian speakers and makes them rethink their allegiance.
In Lviv, Ukraine, Oleksandra Kabanova told me that she and her husband are native Russian speakers who always spoke to each other in Russian. But after her husband joined the Ukrainian army last year to fight the Russian invaders, they switched to Ukrainian, even if she sometimes struggles to find the right word.
“It was way too toxic to continue speaking Russian,” she said.
Putin’s invasion paradoxically strengthened the Baltic countries, which until last year faced fundamental challenges. Each had a seemingly indigestible Russian minority, plus NATO’s real-life commitment to protect these countries was uncertain — especially during the presidency of Donald Trump. (A nightmare for leaders
in the region is that Trump is reelected in 2024, possibly wrecking NATO, cutting off aid to Ukraine and rescuing Putin from himself.)
Putin also revived NATO. It has added Finland and is moving to include Sweden, and there is renewed commitment to Article 5, which would lead all NATO countries to rush in to fight off any Russian incursion. As for the Russian speakers, they are finally being digested.
“The majority of our Russian-speaking people are with us,” Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas told me. “They clearly see that life here is so much better than life in Russia.”
The mood in the Baltics is reflected by a huge poster in Riga, Latvia, showing Putin’s face as that of a skulllike monster.
The fundamental truth is that Putin has weakened Russia. It appears to be in a long-term economic and demographic decline that Putin has accelerated. Russia’s only claim to relevance is its nuclear arsenal; as a saying goes, it is “Burkina Faso with nukes.”
Driving through the countries that Moscow once ruled, through societies now united against him, I’m ready to bet that Putin will not be remembered as a modern Peter the Great. Rather, he will go down in history as the leader who broke his country: Vladimir the Lilliputian.
AGUADA – El alcalde de Aguada, Christian Cortés Feliciano, informó que en la tarde de hoy se registró un tornado en la zona costanera contigua al Balneario Municipal Pico de Piedra, causando daños en algunas residencias de madera así como un deslizamiento de terreno contiguo al Balneario, que causó el cierre de la PR441, a la entrada del Paseo Las Flores.
En estos momentos brigadas municipales de Obras Públicas despejan la misma y verifican la seguridad en la zona. “Tan pronto se registró el evento, activamos el protocolo de emergencia y las brigadas municipales están en la zona”, detalló el Alcalde. “El evento ocurrió a eso de las 3:10 de esta tarde en el Barrio Jagüey y el tornado pasó por Pico de Piedra en el Barrio Guaniquilla y ahí se movió mar adentro”
Personal del Negociado de Bomberos del Departamento de de Seguridad Pública está en la zona, pues hay tendido eléctrico en el suelo. Personal de la Policía Municipal de Aguada acudieron a atender la emergencia, así como de la Oficina Municipal de Manejo de Emergencias (OMME). En
estos momentos el personal del Municipio está trabajando en el reporte de daños, y se le informa a
los aguadeños afectados por el tornado que llamen al 786-868-7000 OMME para informar detalles.
S AN JUAN – A raíz de la determinación del Tribunal Superior de Aguadilla, el conocido asesor de las entidades religiosas y sin fines de lucro en Puerto Rico que mantienen reclamaciones ante la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA), solicitó públicamente al ingeniero Manuel Laboy Rivera director ejecutivo de la Oficina Central de Recuperación, Reconstrucción y Resiliencia (COR3) que emita un comunicado a sus subalternos y a las agencias del Gobierno de Puerto Rico advirtiendo que queda sin efecto su directriz personal de obstaculizar las gestiones y trabajos de asesoría que desarrolla el experto en recuperación y desastres y portavoz del grupo Coalición Civil María 2017, Iván A. Casals Rivera. “Desde el 14 de febrero de este año, se difundió información errónea, se ofrecieron instrucciones en foros públicos requiriendo que nadie usara mis servicios profesionales basándose en un problema legal del cual este servidor entiende que se le había fabricado y que fueron publicados por muchos medios noticiosos del país. A tales efectos, luego de haber comparecido al Tribunal, el honorable juez Miguel Ramírez Vargas después de haber escuchado la prueba en mi contra, emitió una resolución exonerándome de cualquier
delito o responsabilidad que se me imputó en un caso donde envuelve el uso e instalación de placas solares. Siempre dije que este caso fue para tratar de hacerme daño ya que, en mi larga carrera profesional, jamás se me había señalado por ningún tipo de negligencia o falta en mi ejecución como profesional. No obstante, hubo personas que utilizaron esta situación para desprestigiar y alimentar la conciencia de mis clientes, colegas, amigos, periodista y medios noticiosos exigiendo que no realizaran gestiones o negocios con este servidor, asunto que prácticamente me sacó de carrera en mis servicios profesionales por el tiempo que duró la espera y la atención del Tribunal, incluyendo la publicación de múltiples comunicados de prensa que me afectaron como profesional en el área de la mitigación y reclamación ante las Agencias Federales”, señaló el experto en mitigación para desastres Iván A. Casals Rivera. Como es de conocimiento
público un Tribunal de Puerto Rico emitió una Sentencia Exonerando o Declarando No Culpable al asesor experto en mitigación para desastres, por hechos que no fueron probados, tampoco relacionados con su rol de asesor en casos de reclamaciones o mitigación de daños, los cuales no progresaron, lo que reubica a Iván A. Casals Rivera para poder atender y representar a los reclamantes o clientes que le han contratado, que le reclaman a las agencias federales por sanos sufrido por los últimos huracanes.
Tornado en Aguada causa daños en casas, carros y tendido eléctrico, Municipio atiende la emergencia
Us.” It’s an amazing video game, which I played when it came out in 2013. Even then, I could see it was also just an incredible story with remarkable characters and, most importantly, remarkable relationships. It was a story that was a game, not a game that also had a story.
The other big part is this wasn’t something where a company bought the rights to a thing and then went around going, “Hey, we want to exploit this IP.” This was me and Neil Druckmann, the creator of the game, coming to HBO and saying, “We want to do this out of love.” So we came at it from a place of purity.
Q: What was the most challenging part of bringing the series to life?
evolution of people, and I like the way we get to continue this show but do a season that is not the same. The thing about “The Last of Us” is that the story is constantly moving — we don’t live in the same neighborhood; we don’t go back to the same shop or store or house. Even episode to episode within a season feels like we’re in different places, different kinds of movies. So, more of that.
Q: There are a number of other popular video game franchises with film and TV adaptations in the works, including “Twisted Metal,” “Ghost of Tsushima” and “Assassin’s Creed.” Can the model for “The Last of Us” be replicated?
By SARAH BAHRThe amount of pressure that came with trying to turn the dystopian video game “The Last of Us” into an HBO drama was intense: There were the expectations of tens of millions of fans of the bestselling game. The astronomical costs required — a reported production budget of more than $100 million — to pull it off. The legacy of dozens of subpar video game adaptations that had come before it.
“You need to tune it out because it will destroy you,” Craig Mazin, 52, a creator, showrunner and writer on the zombie thriller series, said in a call Wednesday afternoon from his office in Hollywood.
So it was rewarding Wednesday when the nine-episode series with a nolonger-so-fantastic premise about a viral outbreak that leaves society in shambles — though, granted, this one turned people into fungal zombies — picked up 24 Emmy nominations. They included nods for best drama, writing and directing, and acting nominations for the series’s stars, Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal.
“We were all really blown away by the reception — the enthusiasm and the love for the show is astonishing,” Mazin
said of the series, which is the first video game adaptation to be a serious contender for top awards in Hollywood.
In an interview, Mazin, who won Emmy Awards for best writing for a limited series and best limited series for HBO’s “Chernobyl,” discussed what distinguished “The Last of Us” from the many video game adaptation flops that preceded it, whether that model can be replicated and his hopes for the second season. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.
Q: Given the various pressures and challenges involved in adapting something like “The Last of Us,” how did it feel to rack up 24 Emmy nominations?
A: It’s stunning, particularly for a show in its first season, and a genre show. We were overwhelmed, though it’s a mixed-emotions day because our business is in trouble, and it is the fault of the people for whom we work. Even though it’s a day where you want to freely celebrate, there are so many people — working crews and actors and artists — who are suffering because the companies simply won’t do what’s required.
Q: What made “The Last of Us” so different from the many subpar film and TV adaptations of video games that came before?
A: For starters, we have “The Last of
A: The size. There are more words to write, more days to plan, more actors to cast, more stunts to approve. It becomes an endurance test. We shot for 200 days, living away from home during COVID — my wife couldn’t even come to the set because it was a violation of the COVID rules. It was a very arduous thing to do day in and day out in the heat, in the freezing cold, in the rain and the snow. And yet, we did it, a bit like women who go through labor and are like, “Oh, my God, I’m never doing that again,” and then a few years later are like, “Maybe I would do that again.” I’m that mom who’s like, “I think I want to do it again.”
Q: What are you most excited about for Season Two?
A: I like tracking the growth and
A: If they are starting from a place of purity, a place of creative passion, then anything is possible. If the source material has great stuff to adapt — and ideally, if its creator has the kind of generosity and intellectual flexibility that Neil Druckmann has — then you have a real chance of doing something that makes the fans happy but also makes new people happy. What’s the point of making the show if you’re only making it for the people who read the book or who played the game?
That’s why Neil wanted to do an adaptation in the first place: There are millions of people who will never pick up a controller and never play the game. They will never know this story, and he wanted them to know it. And if people are coming at it like that, they have a real shot.
‘ThePedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in “The Last of Us,” which received 24 Emmy nominations last week. The San Juan Daily Star Monday, July 17, 2023
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO.
ELIEZER ORTIZ
SANTIAGO Y AIDA
VIOLETA BURGOS
PERELES POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. PETICIONARIOS EX PARTE
CIVIL NUM: LP2020CV00228.
SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. CITACIÓN POR EDICTO.ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR.
A: Cristino Pi ñero Hernández, Jesús Hernández, Juan De Jesús Velázquez, Santos Velázquez Lebrón y Rufino Medina, sus herederos, causahabientes o cesionarios, con paraderos y/o direcciones desconocidas; Santiago Velázquez Báez, con última dirección conocida en 298 Lane School Road, West Virginia, 25976-000; Wilmington Savings, con última dirección conocida en 8023 East 63 Rd Plane. Suite 700, OK 74133 y Alineyris E. Sepúlveda Ramos, con paradero y dirección desconocidos y, asimismo, a todo el que tenga algún interés o derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito en la Petición de Dominio del caso de epígrafe, a las personas ignoradas, a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción, a los anteriores dueños, o sus herederos y, en general, a toda persona que desee oponerse.
POR LA PRESENTE: se les notifica que los Peticionarios de epígrafe han presentado una Petición para que se declare a favor de ellos, el dominio que tienen sobre la siguiente propiedad: “RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Montones del término Municipal de Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, compuesta de DIEZ
PUNTO VEINTISIETE CUERDAS (10.27 cdas.). En lindes por el NORTE, con Cristino Pi ñero Hernández y Santos Velézquez Lebrón; por el SUR, con Don Rufino Medina; por el ESTE, con Juan De Jesús Velázquez; y por el OESTE, con Jesús Hernández.”Enclava una estructura dedicada a vivienda.” Este Tribunal ordenó que se publique la pretensión por tres (3) veces durante el término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que todas las personas arriba mencionadas y todas aquellas desconocidas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción o deseen oponerse, puedan así hacerlo dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la última publicación del presente edicto. Por tanto firmo expido la presente en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 29 de junio de 2023. Ivelisse C Fonseca Rodriguez, Sec Regional. Dalias Reyes de Leon, SubSecretaria.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
MIGUEL ANIBAL GARCIA ALGARIN; ROSA MARIA
CABRERA SANCHEZ
Peticionarios
EX-PARTE
Civil Núm.: BY2023CV02767. (605). Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO CONTRADICTORIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: TODOS LOS QUE TENGAN CUALQUIER
DERECHO REAL EN LA FINCA QUE
MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBE, PERSONAS IGNORADAS, NATURALES O
JURÍDICAS, A QUIENES
PUEDA PERJUDICAR
LA INSCRIPCIÓN DE DICHA FINCA A FAVOR
DE LOS PETICIONARIOS
Y A LAS PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS, NATURALES O JURÍDICAS QUE
TUVIEREN DERECHO
A OPONERSE O SE CREYERON CON
DERECHO A OPONERSE
A LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL INMUEBLE QUE
SE DESCRIBE MÁS ADELANTE.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal el expediente arriba mencionado con el fin de justificar el dominio a favor de los Peticionarios sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno identificado como solar 9 en el Plano de Inscripción Sustituto, radicado en el Barrio Guaraguao Arriba del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 3,575.3620 mc., equivalentes a 0.9097 cuerdas, en lindes: por el NORTE, en 10.65 metros lineales, 26.34 metros lineales y 31.94 metros lineales, con la Carretera Estatal P.R. 812 que le sirve de acceso, el remanente de la finca de la cual se segrega y el solar 8, respectivamente; por el SUR, en 18.91 metros lineales con terrenos del Dr. Jesús F. Soto; por el ESTE, en 61.18 metros lineales con terrenos de la sucesión Federico Sufront; y por el OESTE, en cuatro alineaciones que totalizan 158.96 metros lineales, con terrenos de Jesús Soto y Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados. Los Peticionarios adquirieron la propiedad por Compraventa de Rafael Algarín Erazo y Elisa De Jesús Alvelo mediante escritura 11 otorgada el 22 de mayo de 1993 ante el Notario Público Elliot Merced Montañez. La propiedad antes descrita surge de la finca matriz que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Compuesta de 6.1377 cdas., equivalentes a 24,123.4080, ubicado en el Barrio SANTA OLAYA del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, colindando por el NORTE, con el Dr. Alberto Sánchez, por el SUR, con el Dr. Jesús E. Soto, Por el ESTE, con el Sr. Baltazar Nieves Rodríguez, y el Sr Federico Sufront y Roberto Mercado, y por el OESTE, con el Dr. Alberto E. Sánchez. Enclava una estructura de hormigón para fines residenciales. La finca fue adquirida en dominio por declaración judicial. Consta inscrita al folio 6 del tomo 1551 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 67,914, inscripción primera y única, del Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón Sección
I. SE LE NOTIFICA que este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le cite como persona que está en posesión de parte o todos los predios colindantes de la finca descrita, o tenga interés para que haga oposición a este expediente si se viere perjudicado con la inscripción solicitada; advirtiéndole que de no hacer oposición dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar desde la publicación de este edicto, los Peticionarios podrán
obtener que se apruebe este expediente y se mande a inscribir a su nombre la finca antes descrita en el Registro de la Propiedad. 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:// tribunalelectronico.ramajudicial.pr/sumac2018 salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, notificando a la representación legal en la dirección de récord:
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ RAMÓN ORTIZ VELÁZQUEZ T/C/C JOSÉ
R. ORTIZ VELÁZQUEZ COMPUESTA POR: JOSÉ LUIS ORTIZ PIZARRO T/C/C JOSÉ
L. ORTIZ, YOLANDA ORTIZ PIZARRO, MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV00894. Sala: 207. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 3 de noviembre de 2022, enmendada el 31 de enero de 2023 y notificada el 17 de febrero de 2023, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 25 de abril de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 6 de junio de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 4 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Mayagüez, Sala Superior, en 91 Avenida Hiram David Cabassa, Esquina Carretera Dos (2), Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro
postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad:
URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento Residencial Número Doscientos treinta y seis (236) que ubica en la segunda planta de Maranelo Boutique Condominium (East Wing), localizada en el Barrio Algarrobo del Municipio de Mayagüez., Puerto Rico. Esta unidad está construida de hormigón armado y bloques de cemento. Consta de una (1) planta y tiene su entrada y salida por su lindero Norte, el cual sale a pasillo común de entrada. En linderos: por el NORTE: en 12’ 4” con pasillo común de entrada; por el SUR: en 12’ 4” con elementos comunes (patio lateral); por el ESTE: en 18’ 2” con el Apartamento Número Doscientos treinta y ocho (238); y por el OESTE: en 18’ 2” con el Apartamento Número Doscientos treinta y cuatro (234). Esta unidad tiene un área superficial total de 224.06 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 20.83 metros cuadrados y consta de un dormitorio con su respectivo closet, un (1) baño, sala-comedor y cocina. A esta unidad le ha sido asignado y le pertenece un (1) espacio de estacionamiento para un (1) vehículo de motor marcado con el número doscientos treinta y seis (236) en el plano del condominio. Le ha sido asignado además una participación en los gastos e ingresos del condominio y en la titularidad de sus elementos comunes equivalentes a 0.68%. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 103 del tomo 1522 de Mayagüez, Finca 44302. Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 103 vuelto del tomo 1522 de Mayagüez, Finca 44302. Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez. Inscripción segunda (2da). Dirección Física: Cond. Maranelo Boutique Apt. 236 Mayagüez PR 00680. Número de Catastro: 29-207096-691-83-060. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $112,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 11 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $74,666.66. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea,
$56,000.00. 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 esta 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 $90,081.04 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.625% anual desde el 1 de diciembre de 2021 hasta su completo pago, más $143.44 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $11,200.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. La Sucesión de José Ramón Ortiz Velázquez t/c/c José R. Ortiz Velázquez compuesta por: José Luis Ortiz Pizarro t/c/c José L. Ortiz, Fulano y Mengano de Tal, posible heredero desconocido, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, a. Sala Superior de Mayagüez, en el Caso Civil Número MZ2022CV00894, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $90,081.04 y otras cantidades, según demanda de fecha de 17 de junio de 2022. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Mayagüez. Anotación A. 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 Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de junio de 2023.
JOSÉ M. CRESPO NAZARIO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO
REVERSE MORTGAGE
FUNDING LLC
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN JOSE
ALBERTO VAZQUEZ
PEREZ COMPUESTA
POR JOSE ALBERTO
VÁZQUEZ ALVARADO, LOURDES MELISSA
VÁZQUEZ ALVARADO, NANCY IVONNE
VÁZQUEZ ALVARADO, LINNETTE MARIE HERNÁNDEZ
VÁZQUEZ, NELSON
DAMIÁN HERNÁNDEZ
VÁZQUEZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS; NORMA ALVARADO
COLLADO POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: AI2022CV00166.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LA PARTE
DEMANDADA, AL (A
LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Manda-
miento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Comerío, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Comerío, el 11 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Helechal del término municipal de Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 999.98 metros cuadrados, equivalente a 0.2543 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, con área de uso público y lote número 7; por el SUR, con área de uso público; por el ESTE, con lote número 5; y por el OESTE, con lote número 7. Enclava una casa dedicada a vivienda. Finca número 8977BIS, inscrita al folio 35 del tomo 146 de Barranquitas, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 146 del tomo 256 de Barranquitas, Finca 8977BIS, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas, inscripción 3ª. Propiedad localizada en: CARR. #719 KM 1.6, BO. HELECHAL, BARRANQUITAS, PR 00794. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $262,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: A la presentación. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $175,000.00, según
ROSA PIEVE TORRES
T/C/C ROSA PIEVE
MORALES T/C/C ROSA
ELBA PIEVE T/C/C ROSE
E. PIEVE T/C/C ROSA PIEVE COMPUESTA
POR DAMIAN ANTONIO
MORALES PIEVE, ROSANA DEL CARMEN
MORALES PIEVE, LOIDA LIZZETTE MORALES
PIEVE, CARLOS ARTURO
MORALES PIEVE; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
CIVIL NUM. UT2023CV00167
SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIEN-
TO E INTERPELACION 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 SUCESION ROSA ELBA
PIEVE TORRES T/C/C
ROSE E. PIEVE TORRES
T/C/C ROSA E. PIEVE-
MORALES T/C/C ROSE E.
PIEVE MORALES T/C/C
ROSA PIEVE TORRES
T/C/C ROSA PIEVE
MORALES T/C/C ROSA
ELBA PIEVE T/C/C ROSE
E. PIEVE T/C/C ROSA PIEVE
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: https: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 solicitato en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de 2020, dispone: “Transcurridos treinta (30) días desde que se haya producido la delación, cualquier persona interesada puede so-
licitar al tribunal que le señale al llamado un plazo, para que manifieste si acepta la herencia o si la repudia. Este plazo no excederá de treinta (30) días. El tribunal apercibirá al llamado de que, si transcurrido el plazo señalado no ha manifestado su voluntad de aceptar la herencia o de repudiarla, se dará por aceptada.” Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al Art. 1578, supra, y el caso Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), les ordena que el término de treinta (30) días, hagan declaración aceptado o repudiando la herencia de la causante ROSA ELBA PIEVE
Torres T/C/C ROSE E. PIEVE
TORRES T/C/C ROSA E. PIE-
VE-MORALES T/C/C ROSE E.
PIEVE MORALES T/C/C ROSA
PIEVE TORRES T/C/C ROSA
PIEVE MORALES T/C/C ROSA
ELBA PIEVE T/C/C ROSÉ E.
PIEVE T/C/C ROSA PIEVE Se les apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Greenspoon Marder, LLP
Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido
R.U.A. 15,622
TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309
Telephone: (954) 343 6273
Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com
Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Utuado, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de junio de 2023. Diane Álvarez Villanueva, Secretaria. Yamaris Estronza Maldonado, Sub-Secretaria.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante Vs. JOSE ELIAS URBINA
OLIVEROS Y SU ESPOSA
GRACE ANNETTE
BURGOS NIEVES Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2023CV01327. (401). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN
GENERAL.
A: JOSE ELIAS URBINA
OLIVEROS Y SU ESPOSA
GRACE ANNETTE
BURGOS NIEVES Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS.
Yo, MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, Alguacil de este
Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 22 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en la oficina del Alguacil de Subastas en el Cuarto Piso, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Bayamón durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 29 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A
LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 5 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A
LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en la URBANIZACIÓN LOMAS VERDES, situado en el Barrio Minillas de Bayamón Sur. Número del solar: Sesenta y Seis (66) de la Manzana Cuatro X (4X). Área del solar: TRESCIENTOS DIECINUEVE PUNTO VEINTE (319.20) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes: por el NORTE, con la Calle número Cuarenta y Cuatro (44), distancia de trece punto treinta (13.30) metros; por el SUR, con el solar número Cincuenta y Cuatro (54), distancia de trece punto treinta (13.30) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número Sesenta y Siete (67), distancia de veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número Sesenta y Cinco (65), distancia de veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) metros. Enclava una casa de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto para una familia consistente principalmente de sala, comedor, dos cuartos dormitorios, baño, cocina y balcón. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 84 del tomo 1869 de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera, finca número 14,020, inscripción décimo sexta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Lomas Verdes, 4X-66, Calle Quinas, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. La subasta se lle-
vará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $173,682.59 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.50% anual, desde el día 1ro. de agosto de 2022, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $21,960.00, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, asؙ como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $219,600.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $146,400.00 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $109,800.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 6 de julio de 2023. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
MASSACHUSETTS
MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE ROSA FANTAUZI RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR ÁNGEL LUIS TORRES
FANTAUZZI, TOMAS ENRIQUE TORRES
FANTAUZZI, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: TJ2023CV00042. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: LA SUCESIÓN DE ROSA FANTAUZZI RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR ÁNGEL LUIS TORRES
FANTAUZZI, TOMAS ENRIQUE TORRES
FANTAUZZI, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN.
El Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de 2020, dispone: “Transcurridos treinta (30) días desde que se haya producido la delación, cualquier persona interesada puede solicitar al tribunal que le señale al llamado un plazo, para que manifieste si acepta la herencia o si la repudia. Este plazo no excederá de treinta (30) días. El tribunal apercibirá al llamado de que, si transcurrido el plazo señalado no ha manifestado su voluntad de aceptar la herencia o de repudiarla, se dará por aceptada.” Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera lnstancia, conforme al Art. 1578, supra, y el caso Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), les ordena que el término de treinta (30) días, hagan declaración aceptado o repudiando la herencia de la causante, ROSA FANTAUZZI RODRÍGUEZ. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la misma se tendrá por aceptada.
Los abogados de la parte demandante son:
Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero
T.S.P.R. Núm. 18074 TROMBERG, MORRIS & POULIN, LLC 1515 South Federal Highway, Suite 100
Boca Raton, FL 33432
Tel. 877-338-4101 / Fax: 561-338-4077 prservice@tmppllc.com / asaez@tmppllc.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 30 de junio de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN MASSACHUSETTS
MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Demandante V. WILFREDO RODRIGUEZ SEDA, LUZ MARIBEL RUIZ PÉREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2023CV02889.
402. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UN IDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: WILFREDO RODRIGUEZ SEDA, LUZ MARIBEL RUIZ PÉREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
Queden emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto y deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual podrá 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. 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 discreción, lo entiende procedente.
Los abogados de la parte demandante son:
Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero
T.S.P.R. Núm. 18074
TROMBERG, MORRIS & POULIN, LLC
1515 South Federal Highway, Suite 100
Boca Raton, FL 33432
Tel. 877-338-4101 /
Fax: 561-338-4077 prservice@tmppllc.com / asaez@tmppllc.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 30 de junio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. AMALYN FIGUEROA NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. JOHN DOE COMO MIEMBRO
DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN
EMILIA EVANS SANIEL; RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBRO
DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE DAMARIS
GARCIA CRUZ
Demandados
Civil Núm.: FA2022CV00182.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, hago saber a la parte demandada JOHN DOE como miembro desconocido de la Sucesión de Julio Emilia Evans Saniel, RICHARD ROE como miembro desconocido de la Sucesión de Damaris Garcia Cruz y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 19 de agosto de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $90,142.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: E-18 (antes C-18) CALLE 3, VALLE PUERTO REAL, FAJARDO, PR 00738, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: URBANA: Solar Número 18 del bloque “E” de la Urbanización Valle Puerto Real, Primera Extensión, ubicada en el barrio Sardinera, Municipio de Fajardo, con un área superficial de 244.16 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle 3 en una distancia de 10.39 metros; por el SUR, con la Corporación Nuevo Centro de Fajardo en igual distancia; por el ESTE, con el solar E-19 en una distancia 23.50 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar E-17 en igual distancia. Enclava una casa de concreto y bloques. Finca 10843 inscrita al folio 260 del tomo 265 de Fajardo, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Metro Island Mortgage Inc. o a su orden por la suma principal de $90,143.00 con intereses a razón del 5.00% anual y vencimiento el 1 de marzo del
2041. Constituida por la Escritura #20 otorgada en San Juan el 1 de febrero del 2011 ante el notario David García Medina. Inscrita el 4 de mayo del 2011 al folio 31 vuelto del Tomo 443 de Fajardo, finca 10843, inscripción 7, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 11 de julio de 2022, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $73,678.20 de principal, más $3,932.53 de interés al 5.00% anual, al 1 de febrero de 2022, que continuarán acumulándose $9.9054 diario hasta el saldo total, $256.32 de otros cargos, $9,014.20 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 9 DE AGOSTO DEL 2023 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $90,142.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 16 DE AGOSTO DEL 2023 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $60,094.67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 23 DE AGOSTO DEL 2023 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $45,071.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente,
entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de febrero de 2023. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #737, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE FAJARDO. JORGE A. ORTIZ
ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL LUIS CRUZ CRUZ
T/C/C ÁNGEL CRUZ CRUZ COMPUESTA
POR FULANO DE TAL
T/C/C PAPO CRUZ y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA REPRESENTADO
POR EL SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO (HUD)
Parte Demandada Civil Núm. PO2023CV01535. (406). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: FULANO DE TAL
T/C/C PAPO CRUZ COMO
PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL LUIS CRUZ CRUZ T/C/C ÁNGEL CRUZ CRUZ A LA ÚLTIMA
DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA:
PARCELAS JAUCA, 172
CALLE 1, SANTA ISABEL, PR 00757.
MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE ÁNGEL LUIS CRUZ CRUZ
T/C/C ÁNGEL CRUZ CRUZ.
Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega se adeuda las siguientes cantidades:
$56,792.25 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.75% anual desde el 1 de noviembre de 2022 hasta su completo pago, más $63.00 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $6,532.40 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances” La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 172 en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Jauca del Barrio Jauca del término municipal de Santa Isabel, con una cabida superficial de 0.2132 cuerdas, equivalentes a 837.93 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: la calle de la comunidad; por el SUR: con la parcela número 61 de la comunidad; por el ESTE: con la
parcela número 173 de la comunidad; y por el OESTE: con la parcela número 171 de la comunidad. Inscrita al folio 282 del tomo 98 de Santa Isabel, Finca 3524. Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Santa Isabel, Finca 3524. Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. Inscripción séptima. La demandante es la tenedora por endoso, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. Se interpela a los demandados para que acepten o renuncien a la herencia de la causante dentro de los 30 días subsiguientes a la fecha que fuesen emplazados o requeridos que contesten, para darle cumplimiento el Artículo 1578 del nuevo Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. § 11021, entendiéndose que, si no se expresan dentro de dicho término, aceptan el caudal relicto; la renuncia se hará por instrumento público o por escrito judicial. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo PR 00970-3922, Teléfonos: (787) 789-1826 y (787) 708-0566, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 5 de julio de 2023 en Ponce, Puerto Rico. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. MARIELY FELIX RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE BAYAMÓN
LEGACY MORTGAGE
ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1
Parte Demandante Vs. JESÚS RODRÍGUEZ RODRÍGUEZ Y SU
ESPOSA VIRGEN P.
ALICEA CALIXTO T/C/C
VIRGEN PRISCILA ALICEA CALIXTO LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA POR CONDUCTO DEL FISCAL FEDERAL DE LA CORTE DE DISTRITO DE ESTADOS UNIDOS PARA EL DISTRITO DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandada
Caso Civil Núm.: BY2023CV00938. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESJDENTE DE LOS EE.
UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JESÚS RODRÍGUEZ RODRÍGUEZ Y SU ESPOSA VIRGEN P. ALICEA CALIXTO T/C/C VIRGEN PRISCILA ALICEA CALIXTO LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda.
Marjaliisa Colon Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732-7970; Teléfono: 787843-41668. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de febrero de 2020, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes.
Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $138,672.68 de balance de principal el cual se compone de un primer principal por la suma de $125,794.87 y un
principal diferido por la suma de $12,877.81, más intereses sobre la suma de $125,794.87 a razón del 5.875% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo la suma pactada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Reparto Valencia, situada en el Barrio Tejas de Bayamón, 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 dieciséis (16) del bloque letra E, con un área de trescientos cuarenta y tres punto setenta y cinco (343.75) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en una distancia de doce punto cincuenta (12.50) metros, con la Calle Lirio; por el Sur, en doce punto cincuenta (12.50) metros, con los solares número treinta y cuatro y treinta y cinco; por el Este, en veintisiete punto cincuenta (27.50) metros, con el solar número diecisiete; y por el oeste en veintisiete punto cincuenta (27.50), con el solar número quince. Contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para fines residenciales. Inscrita al folio treinta y uno (31) del tomo ochocientos trece (813) de Bayamón, finca número treinta y seis mil setecientos treinta y uno (36,731), Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a a demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. A día 27 de marzo de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVETTE M. MARRERO
BRACERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCLA
SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE JAIME
MÁRQUEZ ZAPATA, T/C/C JAIME MÁRQUEZ
COMPUESTA POR ELLIE
JAIME MÁRQUEZ TORO Y CARLOS MÁRQUEZ TORO; SUCESIÓN
DE LYDIA MILAGROS TORO SANTIAGO T/C/C MILAGROS TORO
SANTIAGO T/C/C LIDIA MILAGROS TORO
SANTIAGO COMPUESTA
POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CB2021CV00522.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. MANDAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. Por Cuanto: Se ha dictado en el presente caso la siguiente Orden: “ORDEN: Examinada la demanda radicada por la parte demandante, la solicitud de interpelación contenida en la misma y examinados los autos del caso, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación y en su virtud acepta la Demanda en el caso de epígrafe, así como la interpelación judicial de la parte demandante a los herederos del codemandado conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R. A. sec. 2787 y su equivalente el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, edición 2020. Se Ordena a los herederos de los causantes a saber, Fulano de tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de nombres desconocidos a que, dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de los causantes Lydia Milagros Toro Santiago t/c/c Milagros Toro Santiago t/c/c Lidia Milagros Toro Santiago. Se le Apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados: (a) Que de no expresarse dentro del término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia la misma se tendrá por aceptada; (b) Que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante, y por ende, la parte demandante podrá continuar la causa acción, dado por entendido que las partes interpeladas han aceptado la herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2785 y su equivalente el Artículo 1587 del Código Civil, edición 2020. Se Ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que
la sucesión de los causantes
Lydia Milagros Toro Santiago
t/c/c Milagros Toro Santiago
t/c/c Lidia Milagros Toro Santiago, incluyen como herederos a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, como posibles herederos desconocidos, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. DADA en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de junio de 2023. FDO. MAURA
SANTIAGO DUROS, JUEZA”. Por Cuanto: Se le advierte a que dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de los causantes Lydia Milagros Toro Santiago t/c/c Milagros Toro Santiago t/c/c Lidia Milagros Toro Santiago. Por Orden del Honorable Juez de Primera Instancia de este Tribunal, expido el presente Mandamiento, bajo mi firma y sello oficial, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de julio de 2023. LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ALEXANDRA MARIE LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE JAIME MÁRQUEZ ZAPATA, T/C/C JAIME MÁRQUEZ
COMPUESTA POR ELLIE JAIME MÁRQUEZ TORO Y CARLOS MÁRQUEZ TORO; SUCESIÓN DE LYDIA MILAGROS
TORO SANTIAGO T/C/C
MILAGROS TORO
SANTIAGO T/C/C LIDIA
MILAGROS TORO
SANTIAGO COMPUESTA
POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES
DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS
MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CB2021CV00522.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígrafe solicitando la ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado al pagaré suscrito a favor de Popular Mortgage, Inc. o a su orden, por la suma principal de $130,000.00, con intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de la tasa de interés de 7.00% anual, la cual será ajustada mensualmente, obligándose además al pago de costas, gastos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados en una suma de $13,000.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original. Este pagaré fue suscrito bajo el affidávit número 3249 ante el notario Melvin E. Rodríguez Torres. Lo anterior surge de la hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 353 otorgada el 4 de diciembre de 2007, ante la misma notario público, inscrita bajo la ley 216-2010, al folio 34 del torno 958 de Cabo Rojo, finca número 5,324, inscripción 3ra. URBANA: Solar señalado con el número Trece del bloque C de la Urbanización Margarita, sita en el Barrio Monte Grande de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico con una cabida de trescientos treinta y tres metros cuadrados con ochenta y ocho centímetros de metros cuadrados; en lindes por el NORTE, en doce metros sesenta centímetros, con remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el SUR, en catorce metros, con la Carretera número Trescientos Trece; por el ESTE, en veinticinco metros con diez centímetros, con el solar número Catorce; y por el OESTE, en veinticinco metros diez centímetros con el solar número Doce. Contiene una casa de bloques de hormigón y hormigón armado, de una sola planta, con techo del mismo material, que consta principalmente de balcón, sala, comedor, dos baños, tres cuatros dormitorios, cocina y marquesina. Finca número 5,324 inscrita al folio 89 del tomo 180 de Cabo Rojo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Germán. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Siste-
ma Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.ramajuducial.pr, salvo que se represente por Derechos Propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal De no contestar la demanda radicando el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Yadira López González Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 009367308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos 30 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 10 de julio de 2023. LIC. NOR-
MA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
ALEXANDRA MARIE LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. LUIS A. LEVANTE MEDINA
Demandado
Civil Núm.: PO2023CV01293. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LUIS A. LEVANTE MEDINA. Inmate Number 0093.
a. Legal Mail Open
Only in the presence of Inmate. Howard R. Young Correctional Institution.
P.O. Box 9561 Wilmington, DE 19809.
b. 3129 Calle Espada.
Vistas Del Mar, Ponce, Puerto Rico 00716.
De: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO.
Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del
Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato, Cobro de Dinero y Reposesión en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar las cantidades adeudadas desde al 19 de abril de 2023 de $14,497.02 de principal, más $2,855.45 de intereses acumulados a razón del 20.25% los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más $248.72 de cargos por mora los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más una suma equivalente al 30% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogados según pactado. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.
Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 15693
PO Box 194089 San Juan, PR 00917
Teléfono: (787) 296-9500
Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 10 de julio de 2023. CARMEN G.
TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LOYDA TORRES IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
CANDEL COOP, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA
POR COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO
NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA CANDELARIA
Parte Demandante V.
JOSUÉ SÁNCHEZ
BÁEZ; SYLKA RIVERA
ENCARNACIÓN Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: BY2023CV01849.
Sala: 401. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO
POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE
ASOCIAD DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JOSUÉ SÁNCHEZ
BÁEZ; SYLKA RIVERA
ENCARNACIÓN Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL
AMBOS.
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que notifiquen a:
AGS LEGAL COLLECTIONS, LLC
Abogados de la parte demandante
Lcdo. Ricardo A. Acevedo Bianchi
- RUA 20637
Lcdo. José R. González RiveraRUA 13105
Lcdo. Juan A. Santos BerríosRUA 9774
P.O. Box 10242
Humacao, Puerto Rico 00792
Teléfono: (939) 545-4300
Email: rab@agsleqalpr.com o jrg@agslegalpr.com
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza para que presenten al tribunal su alegación responsiva, con copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante, dentro de los 30 días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día su publicación. Ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema
Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. 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. Extendido bajo mi firma y Sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de junio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUISA I. ANDINO
AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI-
BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN-
CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE LARRY RODRÍGUEZ
VÁZQUEZ, COMPUESTA
POR “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESIÓN; ELAINE DÍAZ VIDAL, POR SÍ Y POR CONCEPTO DE USUFRUCTO VIUDAL; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.); ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2023CV01955. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO DIRIGIDO A: ELAINE DÍAZ VIDAL, POR SÍ Y POR CONCEPTO DE USUFRUCTO VIUDAL DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LARRY RODRÍGUEZ VÁZQUEZ; EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN
DIRIGIDO A : “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LARRY RODRÍGUEZ VÁZQUEZ.
E-123 14 ST. LOS DOMINICOS, TOA ALTA, PUERTO RICO 00957, Y PO BOX 8240, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO 00960. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Además, en cuanto a la interpelación de los herederos del causante, a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2787, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada. También se les APERCIBE a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2785. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia
en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE:
Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ, LLP Edificio Ochoa, 500 Calle De La Tanca Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com
Expido este edicto bajo mí firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 11 de julio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE TOA BAJA FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL LUIS LOZADA RAMÍREZ
T/C/C ÁNGEL L. LOZADA
RAMÍREZ T/C/C ÁNGEL
LOZADA RAMÍREZ T/C/C
ANGEL LUIS LOZADA
T/C/C ÁNGEL L. LOZADA
T/C/C ÁNGEL LOZADA
COMPUESTA POR
ÁNGEL LUIS LOZADA
PINGUES, JUAN CARLOS LOZADA PINGUES, MARÍA LOZADA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO; SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES PLUGUES
PIÑEIRO T/C/C MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES PLUGUEZ
PIÑEIRO T/C/C MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES PLUGUEZ
PINERO T/C/C MARÍA
PLUGUEZ DELOZADA
T/C/C MARÍA PLUGUEZ
DE LOZADA T/C/C MARÍA
PLUGUEZ T/C/C MARÍA
A. PLUGUEZ PINEIRO
T/C/C MARÍA A. PLUGUEZ COMPUESTA POR
ÁNGEL LUIS LOZADA
PINGUES, JUAN CARLOS LOZADA PINGUES, MARÍA LOZADA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: TB2023CV00045.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM (HIPOTECA REVERTIDA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: ÁNGEL LUIS
LOZADA PLUGUES
COMO MIEMBRO DE LA
SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL
LUIS LOZADA RAMÍREZ
T/C/C ÁNGEL L. LOZADA
RAMÍREZ T/C/C ÁNGEL
LOZADA RAMÍREZ T/C/C
ANGEL LUIS LOZADA
TIC/E ÁNGEL L. LOZADA
T/C/C ÁNGEL LOZADA
Y DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES
PLUGUES PIÑEIRO T/C/C
MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES
PLUGUEZ PIÑEIRO T/C/C
MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES
PLUGUEZ PINERO
T/C/C MARÍA PLUGUEZ
DELOZADA T/C/C MARÍA
PLUGUEZ DE LOZADA
T/C/C MARÍA PLUGUEZ
T/C/C MARÍA A. PLUGUEZ
PINEIRO T/C/C MARÍA A. PLUGUEZ.
POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígrafe solicitando la ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado al pagaré suscrito a favor de The Money House, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $225,000.00, con intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de la tasa de interés de 5.560% anual, la cual será ajustada mensualmente, obligándose además al pago de costas, gastos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados en una suma de $22,500.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original. Este pagaré fue suscrito bajo el affidávit número 5512 ante el notario Rosa E. Permuy Calderón. Lo anterior surge de la hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 54 otorgada el 14 de marzo de 2014, ante la misma notario público, inscrita bajo la ley 216-2010, inscrita al folio 158 del tomo 730 de Toa Baja, finca número 8,414, inscripción 10ma. URBANA: Solar número siete del Bloque “CM” en el Barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con un área de trescientos diez metros cuadrados con cincuenta centímetros cuadrados, en lindes
por el NORTE, en trece metros cincuenta centímetros, con el solar número diez; por el SUR, en trece metros cincuenta centímetros, con la Calle Doctor Salvador Carbonell (según Plano Calle quinientos veinticinco); por el ESTE, en veintitrés metros, con el solar número seis; por el OESTE, en veintitrés metros, con el solar número ocho.
Finca número 8,414, inscrita al folio 227 del tomo 137 de Toa Baja. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Bayamón. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede accesar utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.ramajuducial.pr, salvo que se represente por Derechos Propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal De no contestar la demanda radicando el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención:
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Demandante V. SUCESION DE ALVARO LUIS AGOSTO PEREZ ET ALS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2023CV01396.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S.
A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. 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/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. 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. La información de los abogados de la parte demandante es la siguiente:
Atención: Lcdo. Francisco
Fernández Chiqués FERNANDEZ CHIQUES, LLC
PO Box 9749
San Juan, PR 00908 Tel. (787) 722-3040 / Fax (787) 722-3317 ffc@ffclaw.com
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LAGUERRE COLON
After years of false starts, men’s tennis finally has a proper war between the generations.
In a startling comeback that rocked the All England Club’s venerable Centre Court in London, Carlos Alcaraz, the 20-year-old Spanish star who has blitzed the sport in his brief career, pulled off the nearly impossible, beating Novak Djokovic in a Wimbledon final on the grass that the man widely recognized as the greatest ever to play the sport has long treated as his back lawn.
Down a set and struggling simply to avoid embarrassment, Alcaraz rediscovered his unique combination of speed, power and touch and figured out the subtleties of grass-court tennis in the nick of time.
He clawed his way back into the match in an epic 90-minute second set in which he was a point away from what figured to be an insurmountable two-set deficit.
He seized control of the match midway through the third set, gaining a crucial second break of Djokovic’s often unbreakable serve during a game that included 13 deuces.
He teetered in the fourth set as Djokovic, Wimbledon’s four-time defending champion and seven-time winner of the most important of tennis championships and as dangerous a player as there has ever been when facing defeat, steadied himself and rediscovered the magical footwork that has long served as the foundation of his success.
But then Alcaraz rose once more to claim victory, 1-6, 7-6 (6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4, not only overcoming Djokovic’s seemingly endless skills and talents but breaking his spirit, too.
When the momentum swung one last time, as Alcaraz cranked a backhand down the line to break Djokovic’s serve early in the fifth set, the Serb with the steeliest of minds smashed his racket on the net post. A few points before, he had frittered away his chance to seize control, swinging at a floating forehand in the middle of the court and sending it into the net. Now, just a few minutes
later, the thing that has so rarely happened to him in recent years — a loss to a relative newcomer on a grand stage, especially this grand stage and with tennis history within his grasp — was happening.
For Djokovic, the 23-time Grand Slam men’s singles champion who last month finally vanquished his longtime rivals, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, the loss cost him a shot at one of the few
prizes he has not achieved — becoming the first man since 1969 to achieve the Grand Slam, winning all four Grand Slam tournaments in a single year. He was within one match of pulling off the feat two years ago. This time, at 36 years old, an age when most champions have retired to the broadcast booth, he was eight matches away, which seemed so much closer than it would for anyone else.
In the final game, Alcaraz showcased just why everyone has been making such a fuss about him for so long, finishing off Djokovic with all the sexiest weapons in his arsenal — the silky drop shot, the, the artful topspin lob, a blasting serve and one last ripping forehand that Djokovic reached for but could not lift over the net.
Alcaraz dropped to the ground and rolled over on the grass, holding his hands on his face in disbelief.
“A dream come true for me,” he said moments after taking the champion’s trophy from Catherine, the Princess of Wales. On a day that brought out A-list celebrities including actors Brad Pitt, Daniel Craig, Emma Watson and Hugh Jackman and singer Ariana Grande, King Felipe VI of Spain also watched the young Spanish player’s triumph.
“Now that I won I hope you are coming to more of my matches,” Alcaraz said to the king.
Nadal, the greatest Spanish player and the man who had dethroned another Wimbledon icon, Federer, in 2008, and one of Alcaraz’s many mentors, wrote on social media that Alcaraz had brought “immense joy” to Spanish tennis.
“A very strong hug, and enjoy the moment Champion!!!” wrote Nadal, who missed the tournament because of recent hip and abdominal surgery.
The loss forced a rare moment for Djokovic, acknowledging that on this day at least he had lost to a better player.
He had entered the match knowing how strong Alcaraz was on clay and hard courts, but thinking he still held the advantage on grass, as Alcaraz was playing just his fourth tournament on the surface and only his 13th match at Wimbledon. Djokovic was playing in his ninth final at the All England Club. Alcaraz had only played a handful of matches on Centre Court.
“A tough one to swallow,” Djokovic said of the loss, then choked back tears as he looked at his son, who was smiling at him from a courtside seat. “Thank you for supporting me,” he told his family. “I will give you a big hug and we can all love each other.”
The greatest soccer player of his era, and maybe the greatest of all time, is coming to the United States for the twilight of his career. Lionel Messi, 36, officially joined Inter Miami of Major League Soccer, the club announced in a release Saturday.
His contract commits him to the team through the 2025 MLS season. Messi will reportedly earn $50 million to $60 million per year in a compensation package that includes a signing bonus and equity in the team.
“I’m very excited to start this next step in my career with Inter Miami and in the United States,” he said in a statement. “This is a fantastic opportunity and together we will continue to build this beautiful project.”
Messi had revealed his plans to play for Miami last month and was spotted shopping with his family at a Miami-area grocery this week.
He is expected to join the team in the next week, which would put him on track to make his debut for Inter Miami in a CONCACAF Leagues Cup game against Cruz Azul of Mexico on Friday.
A soccer prodigy as a child in Argentina, Messi moved to Spain to sign with
Barcelona at age 13 and soon became a talked-about young player. He made his debut with the first team at 16 and went on to a spectacular career with the club, winning every major trophy and six Ballons d’Or as the world’s best player. He moved on to Paris-St. Germain in 2021, where he won another Ballon d’Or, and his team dominated the French league, although it failed to win the Champions League.
He has been the leader of the Argentine national team almost since his 2005
debut, and added the final trophy missing from his collection when he won the World Cup with it last winter.
The consensus of fans and historians has been that his greatness as a player is rivaled perhaps only by Cristiano Ronaldo in his own era and by Pelé and Diego Maradona from any era.
Messi’s signing completes what could be described as the quiet Barcelona-fication of Inter Miami that preceded his formal arrival. The team’s chief business officer
With the hopes of a country, a continent and a world of tennis lovers who felt she was long overdue urging her toward history, Ons Jabeur fell agonizingly short. For the second time at Wimbledon, and the third time in a year at a Grand Slam, Jabeur had hoped to become the first woman from Tunisia, the first from Africa and the first Arabic speaker to win a major women’s singles tournament. The pressure of playing for so much and so many may have caught up to her, again.
“Honestly, I felt a lot of pressure, feeling a lot of stress,” Jabeur said Saturday after losing the women’s singles final, 6-4, 6-4 to Marketa Vondrousova.
“But like every final, like every match I played, I was telling myself, ‘It’s OK, it’s normal.’ I honestly did nothing wrong.”
For years on tour, Jabeur has done everything right, except win a title that she and her fans so desperately desire. Tears flowed again on Centre Court as Jabeur joined the likes of Andy Murray and Jana Novotna, two former Wimbledon finalists who each cried after losing finals they had hoped would be their breakthrough championships.
Jabeur, who lost last year’s Wimbledon final — and the final of the last U.S. Open — struggled against Vondrousova, who became the first unseeded Wimbledon women’s champion.
Shortly after, during the on-court ceremony, Jabeur broke down, wiping tears from her pink eyes as she spoke
to spectators and holding the runnerup trophy like a dirty dish. She called it “the most painful loss” of her career. Then, when she receded into the elegant hallways of Wimbledon’s main stadium, Catherine, Princess of Wales, offered a consoling hug.
“I told her hugs are always welcome from me,” said Jabeur, who required the same sympathetic shoulder last year after losing to Elena Rybakina in the final.
Another famous royal hug was given in 1993 by the Duchess of Kent to Novotna, after Novotna had lost to Steffi Graf in the final and began to weep during the trophy ceremony. Five years later, Novotna won it all.
In 2012, Murray was in pieces after losing to Roger Federer in the final, barely able to speak to the fans — and to
and its top operations and facilities executive are both former Barcelona employees. Last month, Inter Miami announced that Messi’s former midfield teammate at Barcelona, Sergio Busquets, would be its second marquee signing of the summer.
Then, two weeks ago, Gerardo Martino, the Argentine known as Tata who had coached Messi at Barcelona, was hired as Inter Miami’s coach. At his introductory news conference, he spoke openly of working with Messi and Busquets, and left little doubt that he saw his new challenge as more than a reunion.
“Sometimes we associate the United States, Miami, are linked with the idea of a vacation,” Martino said. “This isn’t that. We want to compete.
“They are not players who are going to come here to not compete.”
The signing is reminiscent of 2007, when Los Angeles Galaxy of MLS signed the world’s most famous player, if not the best, David Beckham, at age 32. Beckham played in LA for six years, winning two championships, and brought the league unprecedented exposure.
MLS has long spoken of eventually matching the quality and visibility of the world’s top leagues. It will hope that Messi’s golden years help push it in that direction.
a nation — during his on-court speech. Carrying the hopes of British sports fans yearning for their first men’s champion in 77 years at their home grand slam, Murray’s voice cracked, and he dabbed his eyes with his thumb and forefinger. A few weeks later, he won the U.S. Open, and the following year, he won Wimbledon by beating Novak Djokovic.
There is precedent, and perhaps some luck, for popular players who demonstrate their vulnerability and shed a tear after a gutting loss. Jabeur also received a hug from Kim Clijsters, who lost four finals in major tournaments before finally winning the U.S. Open in 2005. She eventually finished her career with four Grand Slam singles titles, one for every loss.
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Answers on page 30
Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
Although you’re normally a sociable person who feels most comfortable in the company of others, Aries, today you may prefer to be alone. You could feel a little under the weather, or you could be stressed from job-related worries. You probably need rest, but you might also benefit from taking a walk to work off some tension, get the endorphins going, and help you feel like yourself again.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
You tend to enjoy solitude, Taurus, but today you might feel more reclusive than usual. Friends could invite you out, but you aren’t likely to accept the offer. You might even feel a little irritated. This is a great day to work out or throw yourself into your own projects. Your concentration is good and the physical activity will get relieve the stress.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
You tend to enjoy solitude, Taurus, but today you might feel more reclusive than usual. Friends could invite you out, but you aren’t likely to accept the offer. You might even feel a little irritated. This is a great day to work out or throw yourself into your own projects. Your concentration is good and the physical activity will get relieve the stress.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
Some mysterious telephone calls might come your way - wrong numbers or hang-ups. Other people might seem less communicative than usual, Cancer, and you may be preoccupied. You might feel a bit more nervous than usual, but that should go away if you take a walk or get some other exercise. If you’ve been thinking about doing some writing, this is the day to start.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
Confusion over money matters might arise, Leo. You may need to check your records to shed light on past transactions. Don’t worry. All should be well once you ascertain the facts. You might have some intense dreams tonight. Write them down. You will want to remember them later, because they might reveal a lot about your current situation. They may also inspire future projects.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
Someone close to you might seem more preoccupied than usual, Virgo, and perhaps a bit difficult to deal with. Don’t take this personally. It has little, if anything, to do with you. This person has troubles of their own that they don’t want to share. You might be feeling a bit tense and jumpy, but again, this is nothing to worry about. Take a walk or work out at the gym.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
Someone close to you might seem more preoccupied than usual, Virgo, and perhaps a bit difficult to deal with. Don’t take this personally. It has little, if anything, to do with you. This person has troubles of their own that they don’t want to share. You might be feeling a bit tense and jumpy, but again, this is nothing to worry about. Take a walk or work out at the gym.
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
You probably aren’t going to feel like socializing even though friends want you to go out with them. Your patience could be worn a bit thin, Scorpio, and you may get annoyed at incidents that normally wouldn’t bother you. This isn’t a good day for group activities or parties. It might be best to get a good workout and then rest. You will feel much better afterward.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
You probably aren’t going to feel like socializing even though friends want you to go out with them. Your patience could be worn a bit thin, Scorpio, and you may get annoyed at incidents that normally wouldn’t bother you. This isn’t a good day for group activities or parties. It might be best to get a good workout and then rest. You will feel much better afterward.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
Today you may want to be left alone with your thoughts. Relaxing with a good book could be at the top of your agenda, Capricorn, and you aren’t likely to want to be interrupted. Noise and requests that don’t usually bother you might irritate you, so it’s best to spend some time alone and make the effort to be your usual considerate self when with others. Take a brisk walk to relieve the tension.
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
Money worries might have you more on edge than usual, Aquarius. While you may be doing well, you could still be insecure enough to think that your funds might not stretch far enough. Consider the situation objectively. You will probably be relieved by what you find. Others’ demands on your time might irritate you more than usual. The best way to relieve the tension is to work out or take a walk.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
More than usual, you’re probably craving solitude today, Pisces. Although you may have committed to attending a party or get-together, now the idea may seem irritating. You may rather work on some tasks or projects, or you might want to go for a workout and release some of the tension you feel. The latter idea is good. If you exercise early, you might feel like going out later.