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Pro-statehood leader chides local Republicans for letting GOP drop PR statehood from platform
By THE STAR STAFF
Apro-statehood advocate says local Republicans failed to stop the national GOP from excluding statehood for Puerto Rico in its draft platform for the fall elections.
Gregorio Igartúa’s remarks come after Puerto Rico Republican Party Chairman Ángel Cintrón García denied that the GOP excluded statehood from its platform.
“In the case of the status of Puerto Rico, it clearly establishes that Puerto Rico and the territories, because Puerto Rico is the only territory that aspires to statehood, [...] that we can aspire to the maximum of our political capacity, which is statehood,” Cintrón García said. “In addition to that, in the regulations of the Republican Party that were approved last Thursday, the regulations in article 5 mention twice that when Puerto Rico becomes a state, it will have such treatment, [which means the party] continues to recognize statehood as an alternative for Puerto Rico.”
Cintrón García noted that the Puerto Rican delegation at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee will explore establishing a better relationship with former President Donald Trump, the GOP candidate for president, and in promoting the archipelago as a “strategic element for the development of the United States [policy] toward Latin America.”
Igartúa, a pro-statehood lawyer, said even though the GOP cut down its platform, it could have expressed in a single sentence its support for statehood.
“They failed in allowing that to happen …” he said of local GOP leaders. “They did not present substantive or credible arguments. We should not have been lumped with the
other territories because we are different and they can’t ignore us. We are the only territory with the required population to become a state [640,000 for each elector].”
Igartúa noted that Puerto Rico is not a simple minority in the mainland U.S. and its size can decide elections in Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania and New York.
He also said they could have included territorial incorporation.
“By marginalizing us, they are discriminating against us,” he said. “I would have done more due diligence in something so serious.”
Igartúa advised the island Republican Party to try to “woo Trump” to rebuild trust, because he will be the president, he said.
In April, the STAR published a letter from Trump thanking a group of island Republicans for supporting him, and promising to stand by Puerto Rico.
The letter appeared to be a change from Trump’s past views about Puerto Rico. In 2020, Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief of staff under Trump, said the former president asked him and other officials in 2018 whether the U.S. could swap Puerto Rico for Greenland. The exchange, Taylor said, happened in August 2018 before DHS officials went on a disaster recovery trip to the island after it had been devastated by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017.
In September 2020, three years after Hurricane Maria’s devastation, Trump approved nearly $13 billion in federal disaster funding for Puerto Rico to repair the island’s electrical and educational infrastructure.
DTRH to mediate new meeting between Suiza Dairy, union
By THE STAR STAFF
The island Department of Labor and Human Resources (DTRH by its initials in Spanish) will meet at 10 a.m. today with representatives of Suiza Dairy and the General Confederation of Workers (CGT) in a new attempt to resolve the labor conflict that has led to a partial closure of the company for more than a month.
“Both parties have agreed to meet tomorrow at the offices of the Conciliation and Arbitration Bureau of the DTRH,” DTRH Secretary Gabriel Maldonado-González said Tuesday in a written statement.
The meeting will be attended by Suiza Dairy directors, CGT leaders, and DTRH mediators, including MaldonadoGonzález and Madeline Meliá. The objective is to reach a reasonable agreement that ends the strike and allows the company to resume normal operations.
“We trust that both parties are in a position to reach a
middle ground that will allow us to move forward,” MaldonadoGonzález added.
In recent days, the DTRH has supported laid-off workers with job searches, legal assistance and guidance on the unemployment insurance program.
The objective of today’s meeting is to reach a reasonable agreement that ends the strike and allows Suiza Dairy to resume normal operations.
By THE STAR STAFF
Citizen Victory Movement (MVC by its initials in Spanish)
Sen Ana Irma Rivera Lassén announced on Tuesday that the State Elections Commission (SEC) has certified her candidacy for resident commissioner.
“This certification comes after a battle in the courts in defense of democracy, of our candidacy and of the right of voters to be the ones who decide at the polls the position of Resident Commissioner in Washington,” Rivera Lassén said in a written statement.
“This included filing a case in federal court in Puerto Rico against the State Elections Commission to certify my candidacy,” added the MVC minority leader in the Senate. “That objective was achieved and the certification was issued yesterday.”
SEC Alternate Chairwoman Jessika Padilla Rivera said in the certification:
“A settlement was reached by the SEC and Ms. Ana Irma Rivera Lassén in Civil Case No. Rivera-Lassén et al. v. Padilla-Rivera et al. 24-1278 (ADC).
“I, Jessika Padilla Rivera, Alternate Chairwoman of the SEC, based on the authority conferred upon me by the 2020 Puerto Rico Electoral Code and the Regulations for the Filing of Candidates of Political Parties and Independent Candidates, and by virtue of the agreement reached in the aforementioned
case, CERTIFY that ANA IRMA RIVERA LASSÉN is the official candidate of the VICTORIA CIUDADANA MOVEMENT to appear on the November 5, 2024, electoral ballot for the position of RESIDENT COMMISSIONER.”
Rivera Lassén stressed the importance of the certification and her commitment to her campaign:
“We already have the certification as a candidate for Resident Commissioner of the Citizen Victory Movement on the ballots for the November elections,” she said. “Once this stage is over, we will continue our campaign in all the Islands of Puerto Rico and the diaspora around the issues that affect us and that should be the issues that we take to Congress. My cause is Puerto Rico and that is my main motivation.”
Rivera Lassén’s certification solidifies the islandwide ballot of the MVC and the “Alianza de País” in which it has joined with the Puerto Rican Independence Party, MVC officials said. The party will now focus on promoting its islandwide candidacies, by direct nomination, and at the district and municipal level, undertaking an aggressive campaign to educate the electorate on how to vote for its candidates and for the Alianza de País, they said.
Rivera Lassén certified as MVC candidate for resident commissioner Education Dept. files new salary plan for cafeteria workers
By THE STAR STAFF
Education (DEPR) Secretary Yanira Raíces Vega announced Tuesday that the agency submitted a new Classification and Remuneration Plan for school cafeteria workers to the Financial Oversight and Management Board and the Office of Management and Budget.
The agency seeks an allocation of $20.4 million to raise the salaries of 3,926 employees, days after the oversight board rejected a law raising salaries for cafeteria workers to $12 per hour.
“The new Plan seeks to make our School Cafeteria program competitive in terms of compensation. They are essential employees, not only in feeding our students but also in emergencies,” Raíces Vega said. “Furthermore, this new plan aims to attract, motivate, and retain the best resources in our dining rooms.”
School Food Authority Director Franchesca Reyes noted meanwhile that the review of pay scales was conducted with the utmost thoroughness. The firm Target Team was hired to work on the classification of DEPR teaching positions, starting with the School Cafeterias division.
“Job descriptions and all duties were reviewed and updated to ensure that each employee was correctly classified based on the duties they currently perform,” Reyes said. “Critical positions were also identified, a description of duties for the
DNER announces 2nd round of aid for commercial fishermen
By THE STAR STAFF
Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) Secretary Anaís Rodríguez Vega announced on Tuesday a second round of direct aid of over $7.2 million to commercial fishermen impacted by hurricanes Irma and María.
“This second round of direct payments will allocate a total of $7,273,735.82 to commercial fishermen who meet the established eligibility criteria,” the official said in a written statement.
The aid, coming from the Puerto Rico Hurricane Fishery Disaster Recovery program under the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), aims to mitigate the economic losses suffered by fishermen due to natural disasters. Applicants must be listed in the DNER as valid commercial fishermen during Hurricanes Irma or MarIa and meet other administrative requirements.
“A base payment amount identical to that disbursed in the first round will be established, complemented with additional income for loss for those who qualify,” Rodríguez Vega said.
In the first round, the DNER disbursed $358,263 in direct payments and allocated funds to essential projects for the fishing industry. Instructions for the application will be published soon on the DNER website and in other media.
new positions created was established, and a comprehensive comparison and analysis regarding the market was carried out.”
The plan for the Dining Unit evaluates 65 classes, and salaries are allocated using a 21-scale structure.
The implementation of the Classification and Remuneration Plan will have a direct and positive impact on a total of 3,926 employees of the School Cafeteria division, effective Jan. 11 of this year.
“This represents an allocation of recurring funds amounting to $20.4 million, a significant investment in our workforce,” Reyes said.
Likewise, the School Food Authority has begun replacing the vehicle fleet in all its regions to guarantee more agility in services to school cafeterias for the start of classes in August, for which it has invested close to $5 million in federal funds.
The oversight board on July 7 declined to approve the government raising the salaries of cafeteria workers to $12 per hour because the move would go against Civil Service Reform, the board said.
Natural and Environmental Resources Secretary Anaís Rodríguez Vega
Sen. Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, the Citizen Victory movement candidate for resident commissioner
Education Secretary Yanira Raíces Vega
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PDP leaders call for dismissal of P3A chief, who responds
By THE STAR STAFF
Popular Democratic Party (PDP) Secretary Gen-
eral Juan Luis Camacho Semidei, along with a group of fellow party leaders, called on Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón to request the dismissal of Fermín Fontanés Gómez as director of the Public-Private Partnerships Authority (P3A) due to a lack of effective oversight regarding the contract with LUMA Energy, the embattled private operator of the island’s electric power transmission and distribution system.
“Since the implementation of the contract, Fontanés has dedicated himself to defending LUMA and has deprived the Puerto Rican people of quality service,” Camacho Semidei said in a written statement. “The people cannot stand another empty and insensitive explanation from LUMA. Action must be taken against this company and that is the responsibility of the P3A and its director, Fermín Fontanés. The resident commissioner is part of this government and, as president of the NPP, she can demand the removal of this official.”
The recently installed PDP secretary general also criticized González Colón, the NPP candidate for governor, for “not having done anything to improve the situation” of the residents of three southern towns struggling with power supply woes that LUMA Energy has been slow to resolve.
“The NPP candidate for governor used the LUMA issue as a political football in the primary, but beyond that she has done nothing to improve the situation of the residents of Coamo, Aibonito and Santa Isabel,” he said. “She can start by requesting the dismissal of Fermín Fontanés, but she will not do so because her goal is not the people, but power.”
The PDP officials noted that over the past year the island has seen a significant increase in power outages, a lack of proper maintenance of the electrical infrastructure and an insufficient
response to emergencies, which has negatively affected the daily lives of citizens and has had a negative impact on the local economy and confidence in government institutions.
“This gentleman [Fontanés Gómez] has not been responsible with his obligations and has only been looking for those to blame for the lack of oversight, when he is the one in charge of supervising LUMA [and making sure that it] complies with its contract,” Camacho Semidei said. “He has shown a worrying inaction and an inability to ensure that the agreed upon terms are met. His lack of action demonstrates a serious negligence in his responsibilities, putting the stability and well-being of our communities at risk.”
PDP officials demanded concrete actions from the central government to address the problem.
“For the past few years, LUMA and the NPP government
have held Puerto Rico hostage on the electricity issue,” they said. “The island deserves transparent, efficient and responsible management of its electrical system. Citizens cannot continue to bear the consequences of poor administration and a contract that is not being fulfilled as it should be. It is time for the government to act in defense of the interests of all Puerto Ricans and guarantee reliable and safe electrical service.”
Fontanés Gómez responded later on Tuesday: “As we have previously stated, the Public-Private Partnerships Authority is responsible for ensuring compliance by LUMA Energy and Genera with their contractual obligations.”
“It is important to remember that the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau is the entity responsible for supervising everything related to the technical and operational compliance of both operators,” the P3A chief said. “The statements made by Juan Luis Camacho Semidei this morning are not true and do not reflect the integrity of my reputation. In addition, they demonstrate a lack of knowledge of the alliance contracts and the roles, responsibilities and obligations established therein for each of the parties. He also seems to be unaware of the internal administrative processes carried out by the P3A on a daily basis with respect to the operators, and of the requests for information that are made on a daily basis in order to ensure adequate monitoring of the work of both operators.”
“As executive director of the P3A, I have been clear in stating that LUMA must work quickly to address the incidents of recent weeks, in order to ensure the continuity of electrical service in areas that have been severely affected and that need permanent solutions that result in stability of the entire system,” Fontanés Gómez said. “At this time, our focus is to continue the ongoing investigations to gain clarity on what happened and thus determine the appropriate actions by both the Public-Private Partnership Authority and the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau.”
By THE STAR STAFF
Juan “Tito” Gómez, the Popular Democratic Party candidate for the District 36 seat in the island House of Representatives, on Tuesday criticized the proposed designation of New Progressive Party (NPP) Rep. Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez as House speaker.
NPP gubernatorial candidate Jenniffer González Colón’s “scandalous remarks” that Méndez Nuñez, the incumbent District 36 representative in the lower chamber, be considered speaker of the House is inconceivable following what Gómez characterized as a disastrous legacy.
“District 36 has received with indignation and shame the news of Jenniffer González’s support for Johnny Méndez for the House speakership,” the candidate said. “Has Jenniffer González forgotten the accumulation of corruption and mismanagement that characterized
Méndez’s speakership? This support is not only a slap in the face to our district, but also to all of Puerto Rico.”
Gómez noted that during his tenure as House speaker, Méndez Nuñez was surrounded by multiple scandals and accusations, such as the one around former Rep. María Milagros “Tata” Charbonier, who was convicted of corruption, bribery and theft of federal funds; Néstor Alonso Vega, who was involved in fraud and illegal appropriation of funds; Nelson del Valle, who was arrested in a bribery scheme; and Samuel “Sammy” Pagán, who was involved in the infamous “Crepas Gate” and the hiring of ghost employees.
“Yes, ghost employees! And yet, it seems that Jenniffer González believes that he [Méndez Nuñez] deserves a second chance,” Gómez said. “Is this the kind of leadership that Jenniffer believes he can give to the House?”
Popular Democratic Party House District 36 candidate Juan “Tito” Gómez (Facebook via Juan Tito Gómez)
Popular Democratic Party Secretary General Juan Luis Camacho Semide called on Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón to request the dismissal of Fermín Fontanés Gómez as director of the Public-Private Partnerships Authority due to what he said has been a lack of effective oversight regarding the contract with LUMA Energy.
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Sen. Menéndez convicted of corruption in broad international conspiracy
By BENJAMIN WEISER, TRACEY TULLY and NICHOLAS FANDOS
Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, a powerful Democrat who once led the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was convicted Tuesday of participating in a vast international bribery scheme in which prosecutors said he had accepted gold, cash and other payoffs worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for political favors abroad and at home.
A Manhattan jury returned the verdict after deliberating for less than three days in U.S. District Court. Menendez was found guilty on all 16 counts he faced, including bribery, honest services wire fraud, extortion, obstruction of justice, acting as an agent for Egypt and conspiracy.
The verdict made Menendez the first U.S. senator to be found guilty of acting as an agent of a foreign power and the seventh to be convicted of a federal crime while in office.
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), center, leaves federal court in Manhattan after the jury’s verdict in his corruption trial on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Menendez was convicted on all counts in a sweeping scheme to sell his office to foreign powers and crooked businessmen in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, a luxury car and bars of solid gold. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times)
Menendez, 70, now faces the possibility of many years in prison when he is sentenced by the judge, Sidney Stein. Eight of the counts on which he was convicted carry potential 20-year sentences. Sentencing is set to take place Oct. 29.
The conviction will almost certainly deliver a final blow to Menendez’s storied four-decade political career and create intense pressure for him to resign before his term expires at year’s end. He had resisted calls to do so before his trial but could now face a rare expulsion vote by his Senate colleagues if he does not leave voluntarily.
The verdict comes seven years after Menendez was tried in an unrelated federal bribery case, held in New Jersey, in which a jury said it could not reach a verdict and a mistrial was declared. When Menendez was indicted in Manhattan last September, he became the first U.S. senator ever to face federal bribery charges twice.
Two businesspeople — Wael Hana and Fred Daibes — were charged alongside Menendez. They were also found guilty of all counts they faced.
Although there were several defendants in the bribery trial, there was little doubt that Menendez was always the prosecutors’ primary focus. He frequently attracted federal scrutiny as he rose through New Jersey’s notoriously corrupt political circles and became one of the most powerful Latino politicians in Washington.
Soon after he was indicted, Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, said he had been singled out by prosecutors who “simply cannot accept that a first-generation Latino American from humble beginnings could rise to be a U.S. senator.”
Throughout the trial, prosecutors presented testimony and other evidence that placed Menendez at the center of a web of corruption that intermingled sensitive matters of security in the Middle East and the bare-knuckle, backroom dealings of his home state.
Menendez was charged with steering aid and weapons to Egypt, using his clout to help the government of Qatar and propping up Hana’s lucrative halal certification business monopoly for meat sold in Egypt. Hana, in a text to an Egyptian general, referred to Menendez, who held sway over U.S. military sales, financing and other aid, as “our man.”
Prosecutors also cited evidence showing that Menendez tried to disrupt criminal investigations in New Jersey on behalf of two allies — Daibes, a real estate developer, and Jose Uribe, a former insurance broker — who helped funnel bribes to the senator and his wife, Nadine Menendez.
Nadine Menendez, 57, was indicted with her husband but was not tried with him. In April, Stein postponed her trial after her lawyers said she would be undergoing treatment for breast cancer. She has pleaded not guilty.
In the scheme, Nadine Menendez was the senator’s “go-between, demanding payment, receiving payment and passing messages, but always — always — keeping him informed,” a prosecutor, Paul Monteleoni, said in a closing argument.
“It wasn’t enough for him to be one of the most powerful people in Washington,” Monteleoni told the jury. “No, Robert Menendez wanted all that power, but he also wanted to use it to pile up riches for himself and his wife.
“So Menendez sold the power of his office,” Monteleoni added.
When the FBI raided the Menendezes’ home in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, in June 2022, agents found bars of gold bullion worth more than $100,000 and about $480,000 in cash, the evidence showed. They also found, parked in the driveway, a 2019 Mercedes-Benz convertible Uribe had given to Nadine Menendez.
In the trial’s first week, a prosecutor handed the jurors
bags containing gold bars to hold and feel — the jury’s first tangible exposure to items prosecutors said were part of the bribes paid to the couple.
Menendez has proclaimed his innocence ever since he was charged. In January, he delivered a defiant speech on the floor of the Senate, calling the case against him “baseless” and saying it had set a dangerous precedent that could be used against other senators. He suggested prosecutors could make it a crime to advocate for a foreign government to buy U.S. aircraft or agricultural goods.
The senator’s lawyers signaled their trial strategy during opening statements when one of them, Avi Weitzman, sought to shift blame for the senator’s troubles to his wife. He cast her as an opportunist in dire financial straits who had kept her husband “in the dark” about what she was asking others to give her and who “tried to get cash and assets any which way she could.”
The tactic proved fruitful when the government’s first witness, an FBI agent, testified that during the search of the couple’s home, a blue blazer belonging to the senator had been found hanging in Nadine Menendez’s closet, which she had kept locked and where the gold had also been seized.
But the agent retracted his testimony the next day under a vigorous cross-examination by Adam Fee, another of the senator’s lawyers, and agreed that the jacket had been found outside the closet, thus distancing the senator from the place where the gold had been stored.
Fee, in a closing argument, told jurors that the government’s case had been based on half-truths, factual leaps, unsupported inference and guesses.
“The gaps you are being asked to fill are not based on evidence,” Fee said.
At his last bribery trial, in 2017, two of Menendez’s colleagues — Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. — testified as character witnesses on his behalf. “He’s a very honest, trustworthy man,” Graham told the jury in that trial.
This time, none of Menendez’s colleagues were called to testify. Booker, a longtime ally, has called for Menendez to resign.
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What we know about the Trump rally shooting victims
By ISABELLE TAFT and CHRISTINA MORALES
The assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at his rally Saturday evening, besides wounding him, also killed a father of two and critically wounded two other men Saturday evening.
Those attendees, all adult men, include a longtime volunteer firefighter and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. All were from the Pittsburgh area, according to the Pennsylvania State Police. One died at the scene, while two others were transported to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and were in critical but stable condition, officials said.
As more details began to emerge Sunday, tributes and prayers for the victims and their families were pouring in, including from officials such as Mayor Ed Gainey of Pittsburgh, and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.
Steve Bicehouse, director of emergency services for Butler County, said he had set up a “portable hospital” with four of his staff members and about 30 medical professionals. Bicehouse said that he was not aware of any other shooting-related victims at the rally besides Trump and the three attendees.
Here’s what we know so far about the victims.
Corey Comperatore
Corey Comperatore, 50, was fatally shot in the head after he dove to shield family members who had accompanied him to the rally, according to the governor.
Shapiro said Sunday that Comperatore “died a hero,” adding: “Corey was the very best of us.”
Comperatore was a father of two from Sarver, Pennsylvania, who worked at a plastic manufacturing company and loved fishing. He spent several years as a volunteer firefighter, at one point serving as the chief of the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Company. He attended nearby Cabot Church, where he was selected as a future trustee in 2021, helping oversee issues such as church property and insurance.
In interviews, friends and neighbors described him as a “good man,” dedicated to his wife and two daughters and to his service as a firefighter.
The gear of Corey Comperatore, who was a firefighter with the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Company, hangs outside a fire station in Server, Pa., on Sunday, July 14, 2024. Comperatore, 50, was at the Trump rally on Saturday with his family, according to a longtime friend. When shots rang out, he threw himself over his family members — and was fatally shot. (Kristian Thacker/The New York Times)
Kip Johnston, the current chief of the fire company, said Comperatore was his chief for about three years. “He was a great leader,” he said. “You couldn’t meet a more humble guy.”
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A neighbor, Matt Achilles, recalled when Comperatore asked if there was anyone in need to whom he could donate a Christmas ham. Comperatore gave one to a single mother with five children.
David Dutch
David Dutch, 57, of New Kensington, Pennsylvania,
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has been working at Siemens for decades, according to Jennifer Veri-Grazier, his sister. He served in the Marine Corps and was a leader in his local chapter of the Marine Corps League, a service and advocacy organization, according to a news release.
“Our immediate support continues for David and his family as he continues his recovery from this attack,” said Warren Griffin, national commandant and CEO of the Marine Corps League, in the statement. “We offer solace for David and his family along with eternal thoughts and prayers for all the victims of this tragedy.”
Dutch has been a longtime Trump supporter, along with other members of his family, Veri-Grazier said. She saw a picture of her brother before he headed out Saturday, wearing a flag dress shirt and sunglasses. He seemed “ecstatic,” she said.
Now, he is hospitalized with damage to his liver and broken ribs, awaiting another surgery, she said.
“He was exercising his rights and went to the rally, and he didn’t deserve any of this,” Veri-Grazier said.
James Copenhaver
Copenhaver, 74, is from Moon Township, Pennsylvania. Records showed that he was registered as a Democrat. He is married with at least one son and plays in a band, according to his friends.
Larry Wheeler, who went to high school with Copenhaver, said that just last week they talked about Trump — though Wheeler said he didn’t know that Copenhaver would be going to the rally.
Trump was talking about immigration when gunshots first rang out. Alicia Rath, a rally attendee, said she had crawled over to help Copenhaver, who was lying high up on the bleachers to Trump’s left.
Rath, 45, from Valencia, Pennsylvania, noticed that he had been shot in the abdomen and was breathing abnormally.
“Hi, what’s your name?” Rath recalled asking.
“Jim,” Copenhaver replied.
“Jim, I’m going to pray for you,” Rath said. She said she did so until two officers came to get him.
Albert Quaye, a supervisor in Moon Township, said he first met Copenhaver a few years ago at a local board of supervisors meeting, which Copenhaver attended to share concerns about a development project near his home. He seemed to catch the local politics bug then, and kept returning to meetings, Quaye said. “He would be there sometimes with us through late-night meetings,” he said.
Copenhaver was retired, according to Quaye. Copenhaver worked at the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board from 1988, when he started as a clerk, until 2009, according to Shawn Kelly, a spokesperson for the board. Copenhaver retired as general manager of the state-operated liquor store in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, about 10 miles north of Moon Township.
Joseph Palombo, now the general manager at the store where Copenhaver had held the same position, said they occasionally worked together years ago. He said that Copenhaver loved music and was in a band. “He used to always tell me to come check them out,” Palombo said. “I never did.”
Quaye said he was optimistic about his friend’s prognosis. “Jim’s a healthy 74,” he said.
Fed’s Powell welcomes cooler inflation but steers clear of rate cut timing
By JEANNA SMIALEK
Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, avoided sending a clear signal about when the central bank would begin to cut interest rates even as he welcomed a recent cool-down in inflation.
“Today I’m not going to be sending any signals one way or the other on any particular meeting,” Powell said while speaking at the Economic Club of Washington on Monday. “Just to ruin the fun right at the beginning.”
The Fed’s chair was speaking after several inflation reports in a row suggested that price increases were moderating in earnest, a development that had spurred some economists to think that it could make sense for officials to cut interest rates sooner rather than later. The Fed meets at the end of July and then again in September, and investors have been largely expecting that officials will begin to lower borrowing costs at the September meeting.
Economists at Goldman Sachs wrote in a research note Monday that cutting rates this month could be appropriate, given how much inflation had come down.
“If the case for a cut is clear, why wait another seven weeks before delivering it?” Jan Hatzius, Goldman’s chief economist, wrote in the note, explaining that while his team still thinks that a rate cut in September is more likely, there is a “solid rationale” for an earlier move.
But Powell did little to open the door to an earlier move during his Monday remarks. While he said recent inflation reports had added to central bankers’ confidence that price increases were coming down, he avoided giving a clear signal about when officials would have enough confidence to lower borrowing costs.
Other members of the Fed’s policy-setting committee have also avoided signaling exactly when a rate cut might happen.
“Being specific about ‘Is it July, is it September, or is it some other time at a later date?’ is less relevant than saying: ‘Here’s how the data will affect the decision-making,’” Mary C. Daly, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, said in an interview with reporters last week.
Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said in an interview Friday that he never took the possibility of a rate move at a given meeting “off the table,” but he also said there was little practical distinction between cutting interest rates in July and cutting them in September.
“The actual economic difference between those is hard to detect,” Goolsbee said.
Still, Daly and Goolsbee have signaled that they are watching the job market carefully, wary of overdoing their inflation-fighting efforts by keeping interest rates too high for too long.
The Fed has two big jobs — to bring and keep inflation under control, and to foster a strong job market. It tries to achieve those by adjusting interest rates. Officials have been keeping rates high, at 5.3% since last July, to make it expensive to borrow money, slowing demand and helping to wrestle down price increases.
But as inflation has come under control, officials are
increasingly focused on bringing it the rest of the way down without causing a recession that sends the unemployment rate shooting higher in the process.
“I would say that it’s a fairly big communications signal that you hear so many of us now, and Chair Powell importantly, talking about how important the labor market is,” Daly said last week.
Goolsbee said he had been watching carefully as unemployment had moved up in recent months, because of a rule in economics — called the Sahm Rule for economist Claudia Sahm — that suggests that a quick jump in joblessness is a clear signal of recession. While the jump in joblessness has not yet been big enough to fit the rule, it has been close.
“As we always say in economics, unemployment goes up like a rocket and down like a feather,” Goolsbee said. But he also noted that those old rules may not necessarily apply in this environment, because “this is a super weird business cycle.”
For his part, Powell suggested that he believed that the economy was headed for a gentle economic comedown, one in which inflation would fade without a big weakening in the job market. He said Monday that a “hard landing” did not seem likely at this point.
The Fed’s chair also addressed two big issues hanging over Washington on Monday. He acknowledged the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump over the weekend, calling the attempt “a very sad day for our country” and saying that “political violence has really no place in our society.”
Powell was also asked if he would stay on to the end of his term in 2026. Trump was not a fan of Powell, whom he initially elevated to the role of Fed chair, a position to which President Joe Biden has since reappointed him. Given that, there have been some questions about whether Powell will stay on should the former president win reelection.
Powell answered with one word: “Yes,” he will serve to the end of his term, he said.
When asked if he would accept a possible reappointment, he said: “I have nothing for you on that today.”
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Gobierno de Puerto Rico DEPARTAMENTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AMBIENTALES
AVISO AMBIENTAL
SOBRE INTENCIÓN DE EMITIR PERMISO DE INYECCIÓN SUBTERRÁNEA
El peticionario, Sra. Cecille Blondet, cuya dirección postal es 206 Calle Pajuil Ext. Milaville, San Juan PR 00926-5122, ha solicitado a la Oficina Regional de Arecibo del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) la renovación del Permiso de Operación UIC08-74-0017-RA para una facilidad de inyección subterránea (FIS) Clase VC-1 bajo las provisiones del Reglamento para el Control de la Inyección Subterránea (RCIS) del Programa para el Control de la Inyección Subterránea (PCIS) y la Ley Federal de Agua Potable Segura, según enmendada, 42 USC 300f, et seq. (LFAPS). La FIS consiste de dos trampas de grasa pre-fabricadas Modelo AQ8-850 de 8.33 pies de largo por 4.33 pies de ancho por 6 pies de profundidad líquida cada una, las cuales descargan a dos tanques sépticos prefabricados de 10 pies de largo por 7 pies de ancho por 7.38 pies de profundidad líquida con capacidad de 4,200 galones cada uno y dos sistemas de percolación en paralelo con cinco “infiltrators” (Modelo H-20), los cuales miden 100 pies de largo por 20 pies de ancho y tienen un área de percolación de 2,000 pies cuadrados cada uno. En la FIS se dispondrán aguas sanitarias y de cocina de Salida 35 Inc. ubicado en la PR-22 Salida 35 Carr. 160 Bo. Almirante Norte en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico.
Luego de realizada la evaluación correspondiente de los documentos sometidos, el DRNA tiene la intención de otorgar la renovación del permiso de operación para la instalación en conformidad con el RCIS y de la LFAPS. Esta notificación se hace para informar que el DRNA ha preparado el borrador del permiso de operación de forma tal que el público interesado puede someter sus comentarios con relación al mismo. El borrador de permiso contiene las condiciones y prohibiciones necesarias para cumplir con los requisitos reglamentarios aplicables. El público puede evaluar copia de la solicitud de permiso que sometió el peticionario ante el DRNA, el borrador de permiso y otros documentos relevantes en la Oficina Regional de Arecibo del DRNA situada en la Avenida San Patricio 444 Marginal Carr. 42 Km. 80.6 en Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Copia de dichos documentos pueden adquirirse ($0.50 por pliego) en el antes mencionado lugar entre las 8:00 am y las 4:30 pm de lunes a viernes o escribiendo a la siguiente dirección: Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, San José Industrial Park, 1375 Ave. Ponce De León, San Juan PR 00926. Las partes interesadas pueden enviar sus comentarios al Sr. Moisés Soto Pérez, Director de la Región de Arecibo, o solicitar una vista administrativa a la Secretaria del DRNA a la dirección postal indicada anteriormente. Los comentarios por escrito o la solicitud de vista pública deberán ser sometidos no más tarde de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este aviso. La fecha límite para someter comentarios puede ser extendida si se estima necesario o apropiado para el interés público. La solicitud para una vista pública debe señalar la razón o razones que en la opinión del solicitante ameritan la celebración de la misma. De realizarse una vista pública, los interesados o afectados tendrán una oportunidad razonable para presentar evidencia o testimonio sobre si se emite o deniega el permiso, si la Secretaria determina que dicha vista es necesaria o apropiada.
MAY 15 2024
Lcda. Anaís Rodríguez Vega Secretaria
Este anuncio se publicó conforme a lo requerido por la Ley Sobre Política PúbIica Ambiental, Ley Núm. 416 del 22 de septiembre de 2004, según enmendada. El costo del Aviso Público es sufragado por la entidad peticionaria.
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Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, testifies be
fore the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 9, 2024. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, delivered optimistic remarks to Senators as inflation and the job market slow gently. (Cheriss May/The New York Times)
Equity traders fuel US bank profits as stock markets rally
Equity traders rode high in the second quarter, propelling earnings across Wall Street giants.
A buoyant U.S. economy, interest rate bets and rising geopolitical uncertainty have helped to fuel activity across trading desks, executives said as the banks reported second quarter earnings this week.
“There’s a significant amount of geopolitical and election uncertainty around the world, but that tends to be an environment where clients reposition, and that tends to be a reasonably good environment for our sales and trading business,” Bank of America’s Chief Financial Officer Alastair Borthwick told reporters on a conference call on Tuesday.
BofA’s revenue from equities trading jumped 20% in the second quarter from a year ago to $1.9 billion. It rose because of “strong client activity” and a better performance in cash and derivatives, the bank said in a statement.
At Morgan Stanley, equity revenue surged 18% to $3 billion.
The gains came from across businesses and regions, particularly Asia, helped by stronger client engagement and a “constructive” market environment, the bank said.
“You could see continued uncertainty based on how the next administration handles the significant macro challenges facing the U.S... That, of course, offers all kinds of opportunities,” Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick told analysts on a conference call.
For example, existing client demand in cash derivatives and prime brokerage could lead to potential deal opportunities in investment banking, Pick said. Bond and currency trading could also benefit, he added.
At rival Goldman Sachs, equities revenue rose 7% to $3.17 billion during the same period, driven by derivatives, it said on Monday.
The business has surged alongside markets this year, Goldman’s CFO Denis Coleman told analysts on Monday.
“Clients look to us on a holistic basis really across both FICC and equities to ensure that across all of the activities they’re doing with us that we’re finding some balance between helping them through financing activities, helping them with intermediation,” he said, referring to fixed income, currencies and commodities.
MOST ASSERTIVE STOCKS
By AARON BOXERMAN
TwoIsraeli strikes killed more than 20 people in separate parts of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, one of which targeted a United Nations school turned shelter, according to Palestinian health officials in the enclave.
Palestinian paramedics evacuated at least five killed and eight wounded at the school, in Nuseirat in central Gaza, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society emergency service.
The Israeli military said it had targeted militants who had operated inside the school, which during the war has become a shelter for displaced people seeking safety. Hamas “systematically violates international law, exploiting civilian structures and the population as human shields,” the military said.
It was the sixth U.N.-run educational institution in Gaza to be hit in just 10 days, according to UNRWA, the agency for assisting Palestinian refugees. Last Tuesday, at least 27 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike near the entrance to a U.N. school used as a shelter
People inspect buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes at the Nuseirat Market in the Gaza Strip on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (Samar Abu Elouf/The New York Times)
on the outskirts of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
Roughly 17 people were killed Tuesday in a separate Israeli strike in Muwasi, a coastal
area that Israel has designated a safer zone, the Gaza Health Ministry said in a statement. Those figures do not distinguish between civilians and combatants and could not be independently verified.
In a statement, the Israeli military said its aircraft had struck an Islamic Jihad commander in Khan Younis. It added that it was looking into reports that civilians had been wounded in the strike.
Since Oct. 7, Israeli aircraft have struck 37,000 targets in Gaza, laying waste to wide swaths of the enclave’s cities and towns, the military said Tuesday. More than 38,000 people have been killed in the enclave during the Israeli military campaign against Hamas, now in its 10th month, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
In a separate statement Tuesday, the Israeli military said that since the war began, roughly half of the leadership of the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, has been “eliminated,” and about “14,000 terrorists eliminated or apprehended.” Hamas was estimated to have about 30,000 fighters before the war, but crit-
ics have accused Israel of labeling any adolescent or adult male killed in Gaza as a Hamas member.
Over the weekend, Israeli forces bombarded an area of Muwasi with heavy munitions in an attempt to kill Mohammed Deif, the Qassam leader. Scores of Palestinians were killed in the attack, but Deif’s fate remained unclear.
Last week, Israeli negotiators led by the country’s Mossad intelligence chief traveled to Qatar for meetings with mediators on a possible cease-fire. But hopes for a deal — which would also see the release of the remaining 120 living and dead Israeli hostages held in Gaza — have since dimmed.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel emphasized that he would adhere to Israel’s demands, despite growing international calls for an immediate truce. He said the Israeli offensive was continuing to push Hamas to make more concessions.
“Hamas is feeling the pressure,” Netanyahu said. “They are feeling it because we are striking them, eliminating their senior commanders and thousands of terrorists.”
Israeli strikes, including one on a school turned shelter, kill more than 20 Russia sentences US journalist in absentia for Ukraine war comments
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
AMoscowcourt on Monday sentenced in absentia Masha A. Gessen, a Russianborn American journalist, author and New York Times staff member, to eight years in prison over comments they made about atrocities that the Russian military has been accused of committing in Ukraine.
Russian law enforcement officials charged Gessen, who lives in the United States and uses the pronoun they, in August over a 2022 interview they gave to Yuri Dud, a popular online Russian journalist. They were put on a wanted list in December.
In the interview — which was broadcast on YouTube and has been viewed more than 6.6 million times — they discussed the apparent massacre by Russian forces of hundreds of people in the eastern Ukrainian city
of Bucha and others. The corpses of at least 400 civilians were found in Bucha after Russian forces retreated from the city.
Russia’s Basmanny District Court found Gessen guilty of spreading “false information” about the Russian military, an all-toocommon tactic against critics as the Kremlin uses the courts to suppress any information about the war that diverges from the official version. Russia has accused Ukraine and its Western allies of staging the Bucha massacre.
It took the court only minutes to issue a conviction, Gessen said in an interview Monday. They join other writers wanted by Russia, including Boris Akunin and Dmitry Glukhovsky, a popular science-fiction writer.
Two American journalists have been detained in Russia.
Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for The Wall
Street Journal, has been imprisoned since March 2023 and is on trial on espionage charges, which the U.S. government, his employer and he all vehemently deny. And Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian American editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, has been detained since December on charges of spreading “false information,” as well as failing to register as a foreign agent. She and her employer have called the accusations baseless.
Gessen wrote in a statement that the criminal prosecution was meant “to intimidate me and to prevent me from practicing my profession.” They also said, “To oblige a journalist to use only official sources, and even more so to use only sources on one side of a military conflict, means, in effect, to ban journalism.”
Born in Russia, Gessen, 57, immigrated
to the United States as a teenager. They returned to Russia in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, to work as a correspondent for various news organizations, but came back to the United States in 2013 in the face of increasing repression against members of the LGBTQ community.
Their 2017 book, “The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia,” won the National Book Award. Their other books include “The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin,” published in 2012.
After working for years as a staff writer for The New Yorker, Gessen joined the Times as an opinion columnist in May 2024. “This conviction obviously violates even the most basic principles of freedom of expression,” Charlie Stadtlander, a spokesperson for the Times, said in a statement.
In Brazil, early wildfires break records — and raise alarm
By ANA IONOVA
Brazil is still weeks away from its traditional fire season, but hundreds of blazes, fanned by searing temperatures, are already laying waste to the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands, and to parts of the Amazon rainforest.
Scientists say the burning of such vast swaths of land may represent a new normal under rising global temperatures and uneven rain, making efforts to save some of the world’s most important ecosystems much harder.
There were more wildfires in Brazil’s share of the Pantanal, an enormous trove of biodiversity stretching across three countries, between January and June than during the same period in any other year, according to the National Institute for Space Research, which has been tracking fires in Brazil since 1998.
The highest number of fires in at least two decades was also recorded in the Amazon and in the Cerrado savanna, a patchwork of shrubs, grasslands and gnarled trees encompassing 1.2 million square miles in Brazil’s central and northeastern regions.
“It’s really worrying this early on,” said Ane Alencar, science director at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute in Brazil. Fires at this scale, she said, do not usually occur until August or September, the peak fire months.
But extreme weather has caused fires recklessly ignited by people to quickly spread out of control, Alencar said, “creating the ideal conditions for any spark to become a wildfire.”
The Pantanal — parts of which are on UNESCO’s list of World Heritage sites — is more than 20 times the size of the Everglades. It sprawls across the borders dividing Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, with about 80% of it contained in Brazil.
we have circulating around these huge areas,” she said. “It’s really a war battle.”
The flames have consumed grasslands, forest, cattle ranches and eco-farms that host tourists. The region is home to the world’s biggest parrot, the planet’s highest concentration of jaguars and endangered species such as the giant otter.
“There are certainly a lot of animals dying in these fires,” said Gustavo Figueiroa, a biologist and spokesperson for SOS Pantanal, a conservation nonprofit.
And the impacts on wildlife are piling up, as large-scale blazes become more frequent in the Pantanal. “We are losing one of the biggest sanctuaries of biodiversity in the world,” he said.
In the Amazon, deforestation, a common driver of fires, has sharply declined under Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has pledged to curb environmental destruction.
But farmers, ranchers and others illegally encroaching on the rainforest still routinely set fires. And although the blazes have decreased in number, they are spreading across larger areas, propelled by intense heat and the lingering effects of a punishing drought, according to Alencar.
This year’s fires have scorched about 5% of the Brazilian Pantanal, an area roughly the size of Phoenix. And experts say the wetlands may be on course for a fire season worse than the one in 2020, when enormous blazes burned a third of the Pantanal and killed 17 million animals.
Hundreds of fires are also engulfing parts of the Amazon rainforest, a crucial buffer against climate change because it captures and stores huge amounts of heat-trapping gases. In May alone, flames engulfed nearly 500,000 acres of the Amazon, data shows.
Scientists say the extreme conditions fueling the fires are the result of climate change. In Brazil, like elsewhere in the world, average temperatures are rising, paving the way for more drought. In parts of the Amazon, the dry season is now a month longer than in the 1970s, research shows.
“The climate has already changed,” said Lincoln Muniz Alves, a climatologist at the National Institute for Space Research. “So when we talk about the future, about climate change, we are no longer talking about 20 to 30 years from now.”
“There are fewer sources of ignition,” she said. “But they end up burning out of control and generating very large wildfires that cause more damage.”
As the Amazon loses trees, thinning out the canopy, it is less able to shade vegetation from scorching sunlight and hold on to moisture. This has made the rainforest drier and more flammable, according to Erika Berenguer, a senior research associate at the University of Oxford and at Lancaster University.
Researchers say most of the wildfires in the Pantanal started as small blazes set by farmers to allow new grass to grow on pastures that had become less productive. Some Indigenous and forest-dwelling communities also use fire to chase wild game out of the bush or scatter bees to collect their honey.
The heat and dry conditions in the Pantanal and the Amazon fed the fires, which have spread for miles and combined into megablazes.
“The forest is dry enough so that the fire, initially set by humans, is able to spread within the forest,” she said. “This is not something we saw in the past.”
In recent days, some blazes in the Pantanal have been brought under control, with the help of cooler temperatures and shifting winds. But another heat wave is expected soon, and new fires are starting in other areas of the Pantanal.
“Everything can change from one day to the next,” said Danielly Escher, press secretary for the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
In the Pantanal, fire brigades can spend days traveling by boat to reach distant fires, said Lt. Col. Tatiane Dias de Oliveira Inoue, head of operations for the military firefighter corps in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, which includes two-thirds of the Pantanal.
“Every fire in the Pantanal ends up turning into a huge wildfire because of this difficulty
Experts expect that the Pantanal’s dry season, which has already begun, will last longer than usual and cause fires to rage for months.
Inoue said her team was bracing for a difficult fire season.
“The scenario we face is already critical,” she said. “And we’re preparing for worse.”
An aerial photo of a fire burning in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, Aug. 29, 2020. There were more wildfires in Brazil’s share of the Pantanal, an enormous trove of biodiversity stretching across three South American countries, between January and June of this year than during the same period in any other year. (Maria Magdalena Arrellaga/ The New York Times)
Donald Trump, man of destiny
By ROSS DOUTHAT
Every act of political violence yields instant reactions that can’t be supported by the available facts.
A single assassination attempt by a loner with a rifle doesn’t necessarily tell us anything about whether America is poised to plunge into a political abyss. Nor do the motives of would-be assassins necessarily map onto a given era’s partisan divisions. Nor can we say definitively that this assassination attempt has sealed up the 2024 election for Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance — surely the wild twists and turns of the Trump era should disabuse us of that kind of confidence.
Having lived through eight years of that era, though, I feel comfortable making one sweeping statement about the moments when Trump shifted his head fractionally and literally dodged a bullet, fell bleeding and then rose with his fist raised in an iconic image of defiance. The scene Saturday night in Pennsylvania was the ultimate confirmation of his status as a man of destiny, a character out of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel or Thomas Carlyle or some other verbose 19th-century philosopher of history, a figure touched by the gods of fortune in a way that transcends the normal rules of politics.
In Hegel’s work, the great man of history is understood as a figure “whose own particular aims involve those large issues which are the will of the World Spirit.” Hegel’s paradigm was Napoleon, the Corsican adventurer whose quest for personal power and military glory spread the ideas of the French Revolution, shattered the old regimes of Europe and ushered in the modern age.
For Hegel the great man’s role is a fundamentally progressive one. He is developing or revealing some heretofore hidden truth, pushing civilization toward its next stage of development, sometimes committing crimes or trampling sacred things but always in service to a higher aim, the unfolding intentions of a divine process.
In different ways in my own lifetime, American conservatism and liberalism placed Hegelian hopes in Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, both figures who seemed to embody a grand optimistic vision of how the global future would unfold.
But what if progress isn’t linear, and the World Spirit’s purposes are a bit more complicated than an optimistic form of liberal Protestantism expects? What if an era is decadent rather than vital? What if there is no obvious next political stage for a civilization’s development? What if stagnation and repetition rule the day? What does a man of destiny look like then?
I think we have to say it looks like Donald Trump: a man of notable charisma, limited ideological conviction and naked appetite, motivated as much by wounded vanity as by Napoleonic ambition, who has become the avatar of the rebellious populism that has remade his era’s politics and overthrown or undermined its establishments.
And not just an avatar but a perfect one, more perfect than all the other leading populists — because from Viktor Orban to Javier Milei to his own newly chosen running mate, they tend to have specific ideologies and relatively worked-out worldviews, whereas actual populist sentiment is more protean, more
flexible and opportunistic, more certain of its enemies than its policy commitments. More Trumpian, in other words: He’s the archetype of a global phenomenon precisely because he offers something less coherent and predictable, more inchoate and vibes-based, than other figures in the right-wing International.
But that archetypal status extends beyond the substance of the populist age. Trump is a “chaos candidate,” as the extremely non-Hegelian Jeb Bush once said, for whom chaos is a ladder, and conventional political opposition a relatively easy obstacle to overcome. He is a man of negligible intellectual curiosity who dominates all of his epoch’s popular media forms: gossip columns, cable news, reality television, social media. He’s a man who represents the shadow side of the American character — not the Lincolnian statesman but the hustler, the mountebank, the self-promoter, the tabloid celebrity — at a time when American power and American corruption are intermingled. And he’s a man graced, this past weekend especially but always, with incredible, preternatural good luck.
That last quality is understood by some of Trump’s religious supporters as proof of divine favor and a reason to support him absolutely. But this is a presumptuous interpretation. (Some notably sinister historical figures have enjoyed miraculousseeming escapes from assassination.) The man of destiny might represent a test for his society, a form of chastisement, an exposure of weakness and decay — in which case your obligation is not to support him without question, but to try to recognize the historical role he’s playing and match your response to what’s being unsettled or unveiled.
But that recognition is essential. Why talk about Trump in these sweeping terms, the anti-Trump reader might say, bringing
in God and history and building him up to be something more than just a charlatan and demagogue? Because otherwise you’re just not dealing in reality. The man has survived selfdisgrace and countless political near-death experiences, he’s poised for the greatest comeback in American political history, he just turned an attempted assassination into a Renaissance painting of bloodied defiance … you either see him as the defining figure of the age or you don’t see him at all.
I’m as guilty of this as anyone, not for underestimating Trump at the start (almost everyone did that) but for constantly trying to look beyond him, imagining a world where his political appeal somehow diminished organically and politics regained a more normal-seeming shape — in a Joe Biden versus Ron DeSantis presidential tilt, let’s say. Even my essay on his potential second term, appearing the morning of the assassination attempt, ended with a wistful vision of Trump the lame duck, fading from the spotlight through his second term.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Philadelphia, on June 22, 2024. (Mark Peterson/The New York Times)
AHPR y SBA firman alianza para fortalecer exportaciones puertorriqueñas
POR CYBERNEWS
SAN JUAN – La Asociación Hecho en Puerto Rico (AHPR) y la Administración de Pequeñas Empresas de los Estados Unidos (SBA) firmaron el martes, un memorando de alianza estratégica (SAM) para apoyar a los pequeños y medianos empresarios puertorriqueños.
“Esta alianza con SBA marca un hito significativo en nuestros esfuerzos por apoyar a los pequeños y medianos empresarios puertorriqueños”, afirmó Mateo Cidre, presidente de Hecho en Puerto Rico, en declaraciones escritas. El acuerdo permitirá a AHPR y SBA proporcionar
Municipio
a los empresarios puertorriqueños acceso a recursos vitales y programas para facilitar su crecimiento y expansión hacia mercados internacionales.
“SBA proporciona fondos de subvención a Puerto Rico para ayudar a las pequeñas empresas a exportar al extranjero, y este memorando mejorará nuestro compromiso compartido de aumentar las exportaciones y crear empleos”, indicó Isabel Casillas Guzmán, administradora de la SBA.
Para más información sobre esta alianza y las actividades de AHPR, visite www.hechoen.pr o escriba a info@hechoen.pr.
Yauco limpia y da mantenimiento, agresivamente, a todas las alcantarillas de la ciudad
YAUCO – Teniendo muy presente esta temporada de fenómenos atmosféricos y huracanes, que, según expertos en la materia, pinta “sumamente agresiva”, el alcalde del Gobierno Municipal de Yauco, Ángel Luis ‘Luigi’ Torres Ortiz, anunció -hoy- que “actualmente, nos encontramos limpiando y dando mantenimiento, de forma muy agresiva, a todas las alcantarillas de nuestra amada ciudad, entre otros proyectos de gran envergadura”.
“Nuestros respetados compañeros de Manejo de Emergencias continúan con el arduo trabajo… A medida que avanzamos con estas labores, es importante recordar, a nuestros residentes y visitantes, la importancia de la protección ambiental para evitar la acumulación de desechos que puedan impedir el flujo adecuado del agua”, manifestó mientras inspeccionaba los trabajos en la Urbanización Lucchetti, Reparto Esperanza I y Reparto Esperanza II, entre otros sectores.
“Nuestro orgullo es ver un Yauco limpio para el disfrute de nuestros residentes y distinguidos visitantes”, hizo hincapié.
De otra parte, Torres Ortiz informó, además, que la municipalidad “continúa avanzando con el proyecto de construcción en los sectores de Isleta, Naiboa y Cruzadas”.
“Este proyecto, de gran importancia, tiene como objetivo principal mejorar la infraestructura en estas comunidades yaucanas… Éste incluye muros de contención, ‘cunetones’, drenaje para el recogido de agua, vallas de seguridad y repavimentación”, explicó.
“Estos trabajos, ciertamente, representan un escalón muy trascendental para la seguridad ciudadana, especialmente, para la que vive en esta zona rural”, indicó.
Callejón de Naranjito se pinta de violeta en honor a Mrs. Lily Rivera
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NARANJITO – El casco urbano de Naranjito cuenta ahora con un callejón dedicado a los niños y a la profesora Lilia María “Mrs. Lily” Rivera, de 93 años, reconocida por su contribución en la enseñanza de lectura y escritura a través del “Método Ecléctico Lily”.
El callejón, pintado de violeta con motivos infantiles y la figura de Mrs. Lily, fue inaugurado en un evento donde se compartió la lectura de un cuento basado en valores. La actividad contó con la participación de niños y jóvenes del Programa de Bellas Artes del
Municipio de Naranjito, dirigidos por la profesora Jacqueline Rojas, y los artistas Miguel Vélez, Xavier Fuentes y Wilma Rodríguez.
“La profesora Lilia María Rivera ha colaborado con el sistema público de enseñanza en Puerto Rico y en programas educativos internacionales para mejorar la calidad de la enseñanza de la lectura y escritura”, destacó un portavoz en declaraciones escritas.
Mrs. Lily es la creadora de “Pasito a pasito leo y escribo” y “Pasito a pasito escribo bonito”, materiales que forman parte de su método probado y sencillo para facilitar el aprendizaje. Para obtener estos recursos, pueden comunicarse al 787-368-1989.
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‘Hillbilly Elegy’ gets a blockbuster sequel
By A.O. SCOTT
“Iam not a senator, a governor or a former cabinet secretary,” JD Vance wrote on the first page of “Hillbilly Elegy,” by way of establishing his regularguy bona fides. That was all true in 2016, when Vance was a former Marine and Yale Law School graduate with “a nice job, a happy marriage, a comfortable home and two lively dogs.” His memoir reads a little differently now.
This is partly because Vance is, in fact, a senator, and also, as of Monday, the Republican vice-presidential candidate. Much has been made of his political evolution over the past eight years, from never-Trump conservative to MAGA loyalist, from analyzing right-wing populism to embodying it. While Vance’s critics view this as brazen opportunism, he has explained his ideological shifts (including in a recent interview with Ross Douthat of The New York Times) as a result of a twofold intellectual awakening: It turned out that Donald Trump wasn’t as bad as Vance had thought, and that American liberals were much worse.
This turnabout is notable because part of the legend of “Hillbilly Elegy” is that liberals were its intended audience and biggest fans. Published by a major trade house, respectfully (if at times skeptically) reviewed and widely discussed, it was both a message to the establishment and an application for membership.
The book tells the story of two migrations. One is the large-scale movement of poor whites, among them the author’s maternal grandparents, from rural Appalachia to the cities and towns of the Rust Belt. The other is Vance’s path from one of those places — Middletown, Ohio — to the geographic and demographic precincts of the ruling class: New Haven, Connecticut; Silicon Valley; Washington, D.C.
To the extent that “Hillbilly Elegy” is a bootstrap narrative — the chronicle of a young person’s rise in the face of adversity — it can be read as a vindication of the status quo. An imaginary reader, comfortably ensconced in the seat of relative privilege, will be gratified to learn that this ambitious Ohioan has pulled up a neighboring chair, and fascinated by the story of how he got there. The tale is painful but also inspiring. Vance’s childhood was shadowed by his mother’s struggle with opioid addiction, but he was saved by his loving grandparents, in particular by his salty, tenacious grandmother, Mamaw, whose portrait is the book’s most memorable literary achievement. Mamaw, the Marine Corps and Ohio State lifted young JD out of Middletown and helped give him the confidence and the skills to write “Hillbilly Elegy.” (Yale did its part to supply him with connections, most consequentially his mentor and contracts professor Amy Chua, author of “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” among other books.)
Part of the message of this kind of memoir is humble and aspirational: If I can make it, the writer suggests,
anybody can. But that encouraging moral is accompanied by the somber acknowledgment that many people don’t. The plucky, lucky protagonist is at once representative and exceptional, a paradox that gives personal reflection the weight of social criticism. What’s stopping everyone else? Why do so many of Vance’s peers seem destined for joblessness and underemployment, substance abuse and domestic chaos, poverty and despair?
Often, in the autobiographical genre to which “Hillbilly Elegy” belongs — a genre whose shelves are full of books by Black, Indigenous and immigrant writers — the answers are systemic. What the author has overcome is injustice, prejudice, a fundamental unfairness in the way the world is organized. The implicit political claim is usually more reformist than radical: We need to fix things so that more kids like this can make it, by removing barriers and expanding opportunities.
Vance’s argument is emphatically not that. If the Americans he calls hillbillies — a somewhat elastic category that can be regional (Appalachian), ethnic (ScotsIrish) or sociological (white working class) — are falling or stuck, it’s largely their own fault.
The same cultural traits that make Mamaw and her kin such vivid presences on the page and in Vance’s life — love of fighting, clannishness, hatred of authority — have
trapped them in poverty and dysfunction. “Working class” may be a misnomer: “People talk about hard work all the time in places like Middletown,” Vance writes. “You can walk through a town where 30 percent of the young men work fewer than 20 hours a week and find not a single person aware of his own laziness.”
The harshness of this judgment — and the cultural determinism underpinning it — drew some criticism, including from writers with backgrounds like Vance’s. At the same time, the idea that members of a marginal or disadvantaged group have caused their own misfortune is music to the ears of those in power. If those people are just that way — lazy, uncooperative, sexually promiscuous — then any policy designed to help them is useless.
That kind of argument has long been marshaled by conservatives against social programs aimed at African Americans, Latinos and the urban poor. Vance was not the first writer on the right to wield it against rural and proletarian whites. Charles Murray’s “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010,” published in 2012, anticipates some of the themes of “Hillbilly Elegy.” During the 2016 presidential campaign, Kevin D. Williamson published a series of caustic essays in National Review linking the rise of Trump with the decline of the white working class, concluding that the woebegone citizens of places like Middletown had “failed themselves.” “Nothing happened to them,” Williamson wrote. “There wasn’t some awful disaster. There wasn’t a war or a famine or a plague or a foreign occupation.”
In the years since, it’s safe to say that this perspective hasn’t found much purchase on the intellectual right, which is now less interested in diagnosing Trumpism than in writing its playbook. Vance has been part of both projects, which has involved a change in tone and orientation, and not only with respect to Trump himself.
There is a tension in “Hillbilly Elegy,” a dissonance between the way Vance celebrates his family and the way he sells them out, othering them in the service of a dubious argument. I say dubious because it’s clear now that he doubts the thesis that the American working class is to blame for its own troubles, or at least doubts the political utility of saying as much. He is more apt to blame China, NAFTA, Mexico and certain corporations, and also the political and cultural establishment that he was once determined to join. In other words: He has turned against the most devoted readers of his book.
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Gobierno de Puerto Rico
DEPARTAMENTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AMBIENTALES AVISO AMBIENTAL
INTENCIÓN DE RENOVAR PERMISO DE INYECCIÓN SUBTERRÁNEA
El peticionario, Bar y Restaurante Lugo, cuya dirección postal es Valles de Yabucoa, 329 Calle Uvillo, Yabucoa, Puerto Rico 00767, representado por la Sra. Migdalia Lazu, Propietaria, ha solicitado al Área de Calidad de Agua (ACA) del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) la renovación del permiso de operación, UIC-2177-0007, para un sistema de inyección subterránea (SIS) Clase VC-1, bajo las disposiciones del Reglamento para el Control de la Inyección Subterránea (RCIS} y la Ley Federal de Agua Potable Segura, según enmendada 42 USC 300f et seq. (LFAPS). El SIS consiste en un tanque séptico de 10.417 pies de largo por 4.17 pies de ancho por 8.5 pies de profundidad líquida, con una capacidad de 2,759 galones y dos (2) pozos filtrantes. El primer pozo filtrante es de 10.42 pies de largo por 4.5 pies de ancho por 8 pies de profundidad líquida con un área de percolación de 155.33 pies cuadrados y el segundo pozo filtrante es de 10.125 pies de ancho por 10.125 pies de largo por 4.417 pies de profundidad líquida con un área de percolación de 178.88 pies cuadrados, en el cual, se inyectarán 315 galones diarios de aguas usadas, provenientes de los baños y cocina de la instalación. El referido SIS está localizado en la Carretera PR-901, Km 6.0, Comunidad Rural El Negro, Parcela #4, Barrio Camino Nuevo, Yabucoa, Puerto Rico.
Luego de realizada la evaluación correspondiente de los documentos sometidos, el DRNA tiene la intención de renovar el permiso de operación para la instalación antes mencionada en conformidad con los requisitos del RCIS y de la LFAPS.
Esta notificación se hace para informar que el DRNA, ha preparado el borrador del permiso de operación de forma tal que el público interesado pueda someter sus comentarios con relación al mismo. El permiso contiene las condiciones y prohibiciones necesarias para cumplir con los requisitos reglamentarios aplicables.
Copia de la solicitud del permiso que sometió el peticionario ante el DRNA, el borrador del permiso y otros documentos relevantes estarán a la disposición del público para ser examinados, a petición del interesado mediante el envío de un correo electrónico a la siguiente dirección: inyeccionsubterranea@drna.pr.gov o visitando el ACA, cuya oficina está localizada en el Piso 3 Ala A del Edificio de Agencias Ambientales Cruz A. Matos, Carretera PR-8838, Km 6.3, Sector El Cinco, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Copia de dichos documentos pueden adquirirse en el ACA, entre las 8:00 a.m. y las 4:00 p.m. de lunes a viernes o escribiendo a la siguiente dirección: Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, San José Industrial Park, 1375 Avenida Ponce de León, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926. Las partes interesadas o afectadas pueden enviar sus comentarios por escrito al Sr. Ángel R. Meléndez Aguilar, Gerente Interino del ACA, o solicitar una vista pública por escrito a la Secretaria del DRNA, a la dirección postal o correo electrónico antes indicado. Los comentarios por escrito o la solicitud de vista pública deberán ser sometidos al DRNA no más tarde de treinta (30) días a partir de la fecha de publicación de este aviso. La fecha límite para someter comentarios puede ser extendida si se estima necesario o apropiado para el interés público. La solicitud para una vista pública deberá señalar la razón o las razones que en la opinión del solicitante ameritan la celebración de esta. De realizarse una vista pública los interesados o afectados tendrán una oportunidad razonable para presentar evidencia o testimonio sobre si se emite o deniega el permiso, si la Secretaria determina que dicha vista es necesaria o apropiada. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 3 de junio de 2024.
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Why does humidity make me so miserable?
By CAROLINE HOPKINS
Q: Humidity makes me tired, short-tempered and nauseous. Why don’t I feel this way in drier heat? And how can I stay comfortable and safe?
A: It’s more than a feeling: Humid weather really is harder on your body.
Humidity is a measure of water vapor in the air. And the hotter it gets, the more moisture the air can hold, said Jessica Lee, a public program coordinator at the National Weather Service. That’s why a sweltering summer day can feel so much stickier than a foggy morning in the spring.
High humidity can also keep your body from cooling down effectively, which makes the heat more dangerous, too. But experts say there are ways to stay safe — and sane.
Why humidity feels so terrible
The reason boils down to our go-to cooling mechanism: sweat.
When your body overheats, it sends a mixture of water and salt to your skin’s surface, where it exits your pores as sweat, said Dr. Anthony Mazzeo, a professor of emergency medicine at Penn Medicine. Sweat itself isn’t what cools you down, though. It’s the physics of evaporation.
“When sweat evaporates, it removes heat from the body,” said Dr. Rahul Sharma, the chief of emergency medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Liquid requires energy to vaporize. When sweat evaporates off our skin, it takes that energy from our body heat, cooling us down.
The trouble with high humidity is that the air is already full — or almost full — of moisture, Mazzeo said. This keeps sweat from evaporating efficiently. When sweat can’t evaporate, your body can’t cool down. And when you can’t cool down, your body sweats even more.
“The sweat accumulates on the skin, which makes us feel clammy and uncomfortable,” Sharma said.
What happens to your body
which means your airways narrow, Sharma added. This is riskiest for people with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.
Humid air also traps allergens and pollutants, he said, and mold grows more easily in humid conditions. All of this can make it harder to breathe.
How to stay safe
Hot and humid weather may be miserable, but we can usually see it coming since most weather apps show relative humidity. Here’s how to prepare:
Hydrate. If the forecast looks humid, drink water before you’re thirsty, Agarwal recommended. This helps prevent the dehydration that comes from sweating too much. Sports drinks, juices and foods with high water content can hydrate you, too. But if you can, avoid alcoholic drinks, which dehydrate you even more, Mazzeo said.
Reschedule. Intense activity can make your body more likely to overheat, said Dr. Kyle Enfield, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Virginia. If you’re planning a hike, a long bike ride or another strenuous exercise, it may be worth rescheduling if you have the flexibility. You might also plan outdoor workouts for early mornings or evenings when it’s cooler.
Find shade. Many people don’t realize that the heat index — the “feels like” temperature in your weather app — is calculated for the shade, Lee said. In the sun, it can seem up to 15 degrees hotter, she said, so try to avoid direct sunlight.
Dress appropriately. Lightweight clothing can make you more comfortable when you start to sweat excessively, Agarwal said. Look for breathable fabrics.
Seek circulating air. If you have an air conditioner, a humid day is the time to use it. On top of cooling the air, the machines also remove moisture from it. But if you don’t have air conditioning — 1 in 10 U.S. households doesn’t — then Mazzeo recommended opening windows and placing cold water in front of a fan. This circulates cool air, which helps your sweat evaporate.
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When your sweat can’t evaporate efficiently, your body must work harder to stay cool, said Dr. Gauri Agarwal, an associate professor of clinical medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. This can cause exhaustion and weakness.
And the more you perspire, the more dehydrated you become, which adds to your exhaustion, she said.
Another cooling mechanism your body uses involves diverting warmer blood from internal organs, including those in your digestive system, Agarwal said. This can make you feel queasy.
High humidity can cause bronchial constriction,
When to worry
Heat-related illness is the top weather-related killer in the United States, and humidity makes heat more dangerous. Infants and older people are especially vulnerable during extreme heat and humidity, Sharma said, as are people with health conditions like diabetes or heart disease. If you start feeling dizzy or confused, or if you notice someone vomiting or slurring words, it could be time to call 911, he said.
A man sweating in Los Angeles in June 2024. Humid weather really is harder on your body. (Joyce Lee/The New York Times)
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A mammoth first: 52,000-year-old DNA, in 3D
By SIOBHAN ROBERTS
In 2018 an international team of scientists — from labs in Houston; Copenhagen, Denmark; Barcelona, Spain; and beyond — got their hands on a remarkable biological specimen: a skin sample from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth that had been recovered from the permafrost in Siberia. They probed the sample with an innovative experimental technique that revealed the 3D architecture of the mammoth’s genome. The resulting paper was published last Thursday in the journal Cell.
Hendrik Poinar, an evolutionary geneticist at McMaster University in Canada, was “floored” — the technique had successfully captured the original geometry of long stretches of DNA, a feat never before accomplished with an ancient DNA sample. “It’s absolutely beautiful,” said Poinar, who reviewed the paper for the journal.
The typical method for extracting ancient DNA from fossils, Poinar said, is still “kind of cave man.” It produces short fragments of code composed of a four-letter molecular alphabet: A (adenine), G (guanine), C (cytosine), T (thymine). An organism’s full genome resides in cell nuclei, in long, unfragmented DNA strands called chromosomes. And, vitally, the genome is 3D; as it dynamically folds with fractal complexity, its looping points of contact help dictate gene activity.
“To have the actual architectural structure of the genome, which suggests gene expression patterns, that’s a whole other level,” Poinar said.
“It’s a new kind of fossil, a fossil chromosome,” said Erez Lieberman Aiden, a team member who is an applied mathematician, biophysicist and geneticist and directs the Center for Genome Architecture at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Technically, he noted, it is a nonmineralized fossil, or subfossil, since it has not turned to stone.
The information gleaned from such chromosome fossils will no doubt aid plans to “de-extinct” animals like the woolly mammoth. Three members of the research team are on the scientific advisory board of, and hold stock options in, Colossal Biosciences, a company that hopes to resurrect the mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger and the dodo. Colossal Biosciences did not provide funding or support for the research.
And 3D genomic data will also be useful in efforts to save existing organisms from extinction. “Given the climate crisis that we’re currently in, there are big questions of how rapidly or not animals can adjust to warming or cooling patterns,” Poinar said. “Mammoths are a great thing to study in that sense, because they traveled huge ranges over the course of their lifetime and dealt with varying climates and environments.”
‘Genomic origami’
The mammoth study, a decade in the making, built on pathbreaking research by Aiden and collaborators in 2009 and 2014. In a masterpiece of “genomic origami,” the earlier work provided the first high-resolution, 3D maps of folded genomes. And it prompted the invention of a technique called “Hi-C” (unrelated to the fruit drink, other than as a lab mascot of sorts — Aiden keeps a stash of juice boxes in his office).
The technique probed the 3D architecture of whole genomes and dealt with a vexing problem. A genome is like a book containing all of an organism’s genetic information; DNA sequencing extracts and reads individual pages of the book, but without page numbers. Hi-C puts the pages in order.
Aiden wondered whether this protocol could be applied to ancient specimens: “paleoHi-C.” He set his sights on the woolly mammoth.
Cynthia Pérez Estrada, a neuroscientist and genomicist and a team member at the Houston lab, conducted an initial phase of “crazy experiments” that accelerated at Thanksgiving in 2016. “Erez invited us for dinner, and I collected the turkey bones and started to perform experiments,” Peréz Estrada recalled. “The question was, Can we recover genome architecture from degraded samples?”
She tested everything: roadkill, the leather trim on her knapsack, friends’ leftovers that she had let rot outside in the scorching Houston heat. Once Pérez Estrada felt somewhat optimistic about the prospect, she emailed Love Dalén, a geneticist at Stockholm University. “About mammoths, Love is the guy to talk to,” she said. He soon joined the team.
Dalén introduced the researchers to Thomas Gilbert, director of the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics at the University of Copenhagen. Gilbert has long investigated the paleogenomics of many species. “When I heard how Hi-C worked, it clicked in my head that in theory it should work on ancient DNA,” he said.
Aiming at the same target — the mammoth — the two labs joined forces.
Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, a paleogenomicist who was then a member of the team at the Copenhagen lab, spent hours “cracking protocols,” modifying the experiments in an attempt to make museum samples cooperate. Sandoval-Velasco and Pérez Estrada visited back and forth. They tested bees, ants, wild asses, fish, pieces of polar bear skull, pickled remnants of the last great auk. Almost all failed.
“But despite these failures, and some successes, we learned something very important,” Pérez Estrada said. “For these experiments to work, the sample would have to be preserved in a very specific manner.”
An undated image by Love Dalén/Stockholm University of fur and skin from a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth, nicknamed Yuka, that was excavated from the permafrost in Siberia.
Olga Dudchenko and Erez Lieberman Aiden, both with the Center for Genome Architecture at Baylor College of Medicine, look at the skeletal cast of a wooly mammoth at the Houston Natural Science Museum, July 10, 2024. An international team of scientists probed a skin sample from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth with an innovative experimental technique that successfully captured the original geometry of long stretches of DNA, a feat never before accomplished with an ancient DNA sample. (Brandon Thibodeaux/ The New York Times)
Sandoval-Velasco, now at the University of Mexico, noted that “with ancient DNA, 1% of your sequencing output is going to be data from the organism that you’re interested in. That’s normal. Ninety-nine percent is going to be a pool of environmental, microbial, human contamination.”
In 2019, Dalén shared a specimen from a recently excavated woolly mammoth nicknamed Chris Waddle, after a British soccer player known for his mullet (although the mammoth was female). When Sandoval-Velasco tried this mammoth sample, the experiment worked. But she didn’t know it until the data had been analyzed.
Just as the COVID-19 pandemic hit, she visited Marc Marti-Renom, a structural genomicist and a member of the team who runs the National Center for Genomic Analysis in Barcelona. His lab performed some “computational massaging” on the experimental data, Marti-Renom said.
“No one was believing that the structure could be there,” recalled Juan Antonio Rodríguez, a researcher and a team member in Barcelona, now at the University of Copenhagen. “The first 3D genome map we generated was not good, but it was very promising,” he said. “So we just tweaked the method here and there, and then eureka, we got an awesome 3D map.”
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Tasa mínima, promedio ponderado, y máxima para préstamos personales pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el sábado, 13 de julio de 2024
(Love Dalén/Stockholm University via The New York Times)
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Se le emplaza y notifica que, con el fin público de erradicar el abandono y peligrosidad de propiedades declaradas estorbos públicos, el Municipio de Fajardo ha radicado en esta Secretaría una Petición de Expropiación Forzosa al amparo de la Ley General de Expropia-
ción Forzosa del 12 de marzo de 1903, según enmendada, la Ley Núm. 107 de 14 de agosto de 2020 conocida como el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, en su Artículo 2.018 [21 L.P.R.A. § 7183]; la Ordenanza Número 26, Serie 2014-2015, aprobada por la Legislatura Municipal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico el 4 de septiembre de 2014 y firmada por el su Alcalde el día 30 del mismo mes; y, la Ordenanza Número 13, Serie 2021-2022, aprobada por la Legislatura Municipal el 4 de noviembre de 2021 y por el que suscribe el día 28 del mismo mes; para adquirir la siguiente Finca: “URBANA: Solar frente a la Calle AMPARO esquina calle Sin Nombre del Municipio de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial aproximada de 69.71 metros cuadrados y en lindes por el NORTE, en 9.65 metros, con una calle sin nombre; por el SUR, en 3.00 metros, con solar ocupado por la Sucesión Cruz Cruz, y en 6.85 metros, con otro solar por la Sucesión Agustín Gotay, por el ESTE, en 6.50 metros, con otro solar ocupado por la Sucesión José Escobar y por el OESTE, en 7.80 metros, con la calle Amparo. FINCA NÚM. 6,949, INSCRITA al FOLIO 49 del TOMO 197 de Fajardo. Catastro Número: 150-046043-01-000. Existiendo una Deficiencia de $12,479.09, por concepto de contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble, no se ha consignado cantidad alguna por la adquisición de dicha propiedad, la cual se tasó en $6,000.00. No habiéndose podido emplazar personalmente a las partes con interés antes relacionadas, por desconocer su paradero, este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le emplace por edicto, el cual se publicará una (1) vez por semana, durante tres (3) semanas consecutivas en un periódico de circulación diaria en Puerto Rico. Se le notifica que, si usted desea presentar objeción o defensa a la incautación de las estructuras descritas, debe presentar su contestación en este Tribunal dentro del término de 30 DÍAS, contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto, debiendo notificar con copia de la misma a la parte peticionaria, a través de la LCDA. JOSEPHINE M. RODRÍGUEZ RÍOS - RUA 15,736: PO BOX 889 FAJARDO, PR 00728 Email: josephine.rodriguez@gmail. com. Este Tribunal ha señalado la vista del caso para el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2024 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en la Sala 301, en cuyo día se determinará el justo valor de la propiedad y las partes a ser compensa-
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SANTANDER FINANCIAL, INC., POR TENER AVISO DE DEMANDA ANOTADO A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $29,322.27.
Yo, CALIXTO RIVERA GHIGLIOTTY, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 30 DE JULIO DE 2024, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Mayagüez durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 6 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 13 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Solar número Uno (1) radicado en el BARRIO FURNIAS del término municipal de Las Marías, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de SETECIENTOS SESENTA Y SIETE PUNTO CINCUENTA Y CINCO (767.55) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela dedicada a uso público para ensanche de la Carretera número Ciento Veinte (120) que de Mayagüez conduce a Las Marías; por el SUR, con la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE, con el solar número Dos (2) del plano de inscripción; y por el OESTE, con terrenos de Pablo Pérez. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 4 del tomo 102 de Las Marías, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca número 2,943, inscripción quinta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Barrio Furnias, Carretera 119, Km. 51.8 Interior, Solar Número 1, Las Marías, Puerto Rico. La subas-
ta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $59,048.42 de principal, intereses al 8.25% anual, desde el 1ro. de junio de 2014, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $8,320.00 estipulada para costas, gastos, y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $83,200.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $55,466.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $41,600.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Hipoteca en Garantía de Pagaré a favor de Island Finance Puerto Rico, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $32,116.76, con intereses, al 14.76% anual, vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la Escritura Número 119 otorgada en Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, el día 26 de abril de 2004, ante la Notario Público Susan Báez Dixon; inscrita al folio 184, del tomo 184 de Las Marías, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca número 2,943, inscripción sexta. Condiciones Restrictivas a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, a través del Programa “Protegiendo tu Hogar”, por la suma de $11,768.00, sin intereses y vencedero el día 28 de septiembre de 2016, según consta de la Escritura Número 1086 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de octubre de 2011, ante el Notario Pú-
blico Luis Torres Dávila; inscrita al folio 184 del tomo 184 de Las Marías, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca número 2,943, inscripción séptima. Embargo Federal a favor de Estados Unidos de América, contra Nelson Valentín, Seguro Social Patronal 66-0392458, dirección HC1 Box 2182, Las Marías, Puerto Rico 006709713, por la suma principal de $6,256.28, notificación número 491829508, presentado el día 24 de noviembre de 2008, anotado al folio 109, asiento 4 del libro de Embargos Federales, número 4. Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián. Aviso de Demanda, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, Caso Civil Número I1CI- 2018-00040, seguido por Santander Financial Inc., versus Nelson Valentín Pérez y su esposa Paula Esther Campos de Valentín, por la suma de $29,322.27, más intereses y gastos, anotado el día 8 de febrero de 2018, al tomo Karibe de Las Marías, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, finca número 2,943, Anotación A. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 5 de junio de 2024. CALIXTO RIVERA GHIGLIOTTY, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.
CARLOS JAVIER CRUZ GARCIA
Demandado
Civil Núm.: ECD2017-0633. (802). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: CARLOS JAVIER CRUZ GARCIA.
Yo, 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 29 DE JULIO DE 2024 A LAS11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, 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 Caguas 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 5 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS11:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 12 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 11:00 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 identificado con el número Ochenta y Cuatro (84) del Bloque “E” en el plano de inscripción de la URBANIZACIÓN EXTENSIÓN PRADERAS DE CEIBA NORTE, localizado en la Carretera número Novecientos Treinta y Cinco (935) del Barrio Ceiba Norte de Juncos, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de DOSCIENTOS SETENTA Y SEIS PUNTO CERO CERO (276.00) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de VEINTICUATRO PUNTO CERO CERO (24.00) METROS, con el solar número E guión Ochenta y Tres (E-83); por el SUR, en una distancia de VEINTICUATRO PUNTO CERO CERO (24.00) METROS, con el solar número E
guión Ochenta y Cinco (E-85); por el ESTE, en una distancia de ONCE PUNTO CINCUENTA (11.50) METROS, con la Calle número Tres (3); y por el OESTE, en una distancia de ONCE PUNTO CINCUENTA (11.50) METROS, con el solar número E guión Cincuenta y Tres (E53). En el solar antes descrito se encuentra enclavada una residencia unifamiliar construida de hormigón armado. Esta estructura residencial se compone de tres (3) dormitorios, dos (2) baños, sala, comedor, cocina y marquesina techada. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 105 del tomo 429 de Juncos, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda, finca número 16,420, inscripción segunda. Sujeta a condiciones restrictivas a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, bajo el Programa Bono de Vivienda, la cual concedió la suma de $4,500.00, por el término de 10 años. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urb. Extensión Praderas de Ceiba, Lot E 84, Calle 3, Juncos, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $82,871.67 de principal, intereses al 4.5% anual, desde el día 1ro. de septiembre de 2016, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $9,315.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado y recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $93,150.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $62,100.00 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $46,575.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el
The
A. TORRES AYALA, ALGUACIL
AUXILIAR PLACA #560.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE LARES
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE LEONARDO RAMOS ACEVEDO COMPUESTA POR SU HIJA ANABEL RAMOS Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO; SUCESIÓN DE EUGENIA ARCE MARTÍ COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDO JAIME ANTONIO CORRETER MAISONET Y SUS HIJOS JAIME CORRETJER ARÇE, SANDRO CORRETJER ARCE, IVÁN CORRETJER ARCE, REINALDO CORRETJER ARCE T/C/C REYNALDO CORRETJER ARCE, NELSON CORRETGER Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO, DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES RELICTOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: LR2023CV00358. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 13 de marzo de 2024, la Orden y el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia del 28 de mayo de 2024 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 8 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, en 1 Calle Felipe Arana (al lado del Cuartel de la Policía) Lares, 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: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno en el Barrio Callejones de Lares, Puerto Rico, compuesta de 935.739 metros cuadrados identificada en el plano de inscripción aprobado en la Administración de Reglamentos y Permisos con la letra C. En lindes por el NORTE, con área dedicada a uso público; por el SUR, con el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE, con el remanente de la finca de la cual se segrega; y por el OESTE, con área dedicada a uso público. Inscrita al folio 217 del tomo 253 de Lares, Finca 13322. Registro de la Propiedad de Utuado. La hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 15 vuelto del tomo 365 de Lares, Finca 13322. Registro de la Propiedad de Utuado. Inscripción quinta. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: 129 RD, KM. 20.3 (PARCELA C) BO. CALLEJONES, SECTOR VELEZ, LARES, PR 00669. Número de catastro: No ha sido tazada para efectos del CRIM. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $55,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 15 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 11:00 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, $36,666.66. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 22 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $27,500.00. 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 $35,319.34 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.95% anual desde el 1 de mayo de 2023 hasta su completo pago, más $564.73 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $5,500.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende eje-
cutar: a. Hipoteca: Constituida por Eugenia Arce Martí (soltera) y Leonardo Ramos Acevedo (solteros), en garantía a un pagaré a favor de Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico o a su orden, por la suma de $15,000.00, sin intereses y vencedero el 10 de julio de 2011, según consta de la escritura #736, otorgada en San Juan, el 10 de julio de 2003, ante el notario Pedro Nel Arevalo Martínez, inscrita al folio 15 vuelto del tomo 365 de Lares, finca #13322, inscripción 6. b. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. La Sucesión de Leonardo Ramos Acevedo compuesta por Fulano y Mengano de Tal, posibles herederos desconocidos, La Sucesión de Eugenia Arce Marti, compuesta por Nelson Corretjer Arce también conocido como Nelson Corretjer, Sutano y Perencejo de Tal, posibles herederos desconocidos, Departamento de Hacienda, por conducto de la División de Caudales Relictos y el Centro de Recaudaciones e Ingresos Municipales (CRIM), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Lares, en el caso civil número LR2023CV00358, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $35,319.34 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 21 de noviembre de 2023. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Lares. 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 Lares, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de junio de 2024. JOSÉ RIVERA PÉREZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ISMAEL SERRANO CARDONA, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #795, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE LARES.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERA DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE LA INDUSTRIA BIOFARMACÉUTICA
Parte Demandante V. WILO TORRES GONZÁLEZ, KATIANA QUIÑONES, EN CARÁCTER DE CODEUDORA
Parte Demandada Caso Núm.: CG2024CV02233. Acción Civil De: COBRO DE DINERO (ORDINARIO) - MATERIA O ASUNTO. EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A KATIANA QUIÑONES, EN CARÁCTER DE CODEUDORA (NOMBRE DE LA PARTE DEMANDADA QUE SE EMPLAZA) - URB. SAN PEDRO STATES, A17 CALLE SAN IGNACIO, CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO 00725 (DIRECCIÓN DE LA PARTE DEMANDADA QUE SE EMPLAZA).
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. 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. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda.
Lcda. Erika F. Morales Marengo Nombre del (de la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante, o de la parte, si no tiene representación legal 18,542 Número ante el Tribunal Supremo (RUA), si es abogado(a) Aponte & Cortés, LLC PO Box 195337 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919-5337 Dirección (787) 302-0014 Número de teléfono; número de fax emarengo@apontecortes.com
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LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERA DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE LA INDUSTRIA BIOFARMACÉUTICA
Parte Demandante V. WILO TORRES GONZÁLEZ, KATIANA
QUIÑONES, EN CARÁCTER DE CODEUDORA
Parte Demandada Caso Núm.: CG2024CV02233. Acción Civil De: COBRO DE DINERO (ORDINARIO) - MATERIA O ASUNTO. EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A WILO TORRES GONZÁLEZ (NOMBRE DE LA PARTE DEMANDADA QUE SE EMPLAZA) - URB. SAN PEDRO STATES, A17 CALLE SAN IGNACIO, CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO 00725 (DIRECCIÓN DE
LA PARTE DEMANDADA QUE SE EMPLAZA).
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. 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. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Lcda. Erika F. Morales Marengo Nombre del (de la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante, o de la parte, si no tiene representación legal 18,542
Número ante el Tribunal Supremo (RUA), si es abogado(a) Aponte & Cortés, LLC PO Box 195337 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919-5337 Dirección (787) 302-0014
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. STEFANO AMODIO, MARIA TERESA AMODIO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2024CV00459. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: STEFANO AMODIO, MARIA TERESA AMODIO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES
GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - 7571 178TH ST. FRESH MEADOWS, NEW YORK 11366-1627.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Stefano Amodio, Maria Teresa Amonio y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO, se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787- 705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 9 de julio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I.
SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LILLIAN MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. STEFANO AMODIO, MARIA TERESA AMODIO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: VB2024CV00459. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: STEFANO AMODIO, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES - 7571 178TH ST. FRESH MEADOWS, NEW YORK 11366-1627.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Stefano Amodio, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO, se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@ mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte
demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 9 de julio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LILLIAN MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. STEFANO AMODIO, MARIA TERESA AMODIO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: VB2024CV00459. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MARIA TERESA AMODIO, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES - 7571 178TH ST. FRESH MEADOWS, NEW YORK 11366-1627.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Maria Teresa Amodio, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO, se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@ mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso
deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 9 de julio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LILLIAN MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. IHSAN MAHMOUD ABDUL-RASSOUL, ELIZABETH ABDULRASSOUL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2024CV00458. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ELIZABETH ABDULRASSOUL, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES - 2347 E 63RD ST. BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11234-6303. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Elizabeth Abdul-Rassoul, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal De Bienes Gananciales, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787- 705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (30) días siguien-
tes 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.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 9 de julio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LILLIAN MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. IHSAN MAHMOUD ABDUL-RASSOUL, ELIZABETH ABDULRASSOUL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: VB2024CV00458.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: IHSAN MAHMOUD ABDUL-RASSOUL, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES - 2347 E 63RD ST. BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11234-6303. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Ihsan Mahmoud AbdulRassoul, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal De Bienes Gananciales, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO
se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787- 705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 9 de julio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LILLIAN MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. IHSAN MAHMOUD ABDUL-RASSOUL, ELIZABETH ABDULRASSOUL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: VB2024CV00458. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: IHSAN MAHMOUD ABDUL-RASSOUL, ELIZABETH ABDULRASSOUL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - 2347 E 63RD ST.
DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11234-6303.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Ihsan Mahmoud AbdulRassoul, Elizabeth Abdul-Rassoul y la Sociedad Legal De Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787- 705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 9 de julio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LILLIAN MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.
HACIENDA DEL MAR
OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante v. GABRIEL JAEN JR., AMELIA JAEN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00461. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE
EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: Gabriel Jaen Jr., por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales
793 Patricia Ann Dr. Camano Island, Washington, 98282-6519
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Gabriel Jaen Jr., por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@ mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 9 de julio de 2024. Lcda. Laura I Santa Sanchez, Secretaria Regional. Por: Lillian Mercado Rivra, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.
HACIENDA DEL MAR
OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante v. GABRIEL JAEN JR., AMELIA JAEN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00461. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: Amelia Jaen, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales 793 Patricia Ann Dr. Camano Island, Washington, 98282-6519 POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Gabriel Jaen Jr., por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@ mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 9 de julio de 2024. Lcda. Laura I Santa Sanchez, Secretaria Regional. Por: Lillian Mercado Rivra, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA. HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante v. GABRIEL JAEN JR., AMELIA JAEN Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados
CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00461.
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: Gabriel Jaen Jr., Amelia Jaen y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos 793 Patricia Ann Dr. Camano Island, Washington, 98282-6519
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Gabriel Jaen Jr., por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@ mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 9 de julio de 2024. Lcda. Laura I Santa Sanchez, Secretaria Regional. Por: Lillian Mercado Rivra, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. ARIAN HERNANDEZ CUEVAS Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV10514.
(Salón: 604 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
ROBERTO CARLOS LATIMER VALENTÍNLATIMERRC@LBRGLAW.COM.
A: ARÍAN HERNÁNDEZ CUEVAS; SU ESPOSA SANDRA LÓPEZ GARCÍA T/C/C SANDRA MARÍA
LÓPEZ GARCÍA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 11 de julio de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 11 de julio de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. RAQUEL DÍAZ LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
SUNWEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC
Demandante V. Sucesión de soa figueroa torres t/c/c ZOA
FIGUEROA TORRES
T/C/C ZOA FILOMENA
FIGUEROA TORRES Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV01479. (Salón: 508 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
JUAN C. FORTUÑO FASJCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW.COM. A: SUCESIÓN DE SOA FIGUEROA TORRES T/C/C ZO FIGUEROA TORRES T/C/C ZOA FILOMENA FIGUEROA TORRES; RUTH PANTOJAS FIGUEROA COMO HEREDERA CONOCIDA DE SUCN. DE SOA FIGUEROA TORRES; SUCESIÓN DE ANTONIO PANTOJAS FIGUEROA; SUCESIÓN DE WILFREDO LASTRA SÁEZ COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERA CONOCIDA
MAILY LASTRA ALICEA; FULANO DE TAL COMO HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO Y/O PARTE CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES; SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDERA DESCONOCIDA Y/O PARTE CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 08 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 11 de julio de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 11 de julio de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ELSA CANDELARIO CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MANA-
TI SALA SUPERIOR. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE V. KAREN ROSADO COLÓN
DEMANDADOS
Civil Núm. MT2023CV00114.
Sobre: IN REM Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLI-
CA SUBASTA. Yo, WILFREDO RODRIGUEZ CARRION, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Manatí, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con 12 de febrero de 2024 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $101,822.95 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 24 de octubre e 2023, notificada en autos en la misma fecha, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Manatí, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD
HORIZONTAL: Apartamento
Residencial identificado con el número U-202, localizado en el segundo piso del edificio “U” del Condominio “Villas del Manatí”, ubicado en el barrio Bajura Afuera del término municipal de Manatí, Puerto Rico. Tiene un área superficial de 1,108.41 equivalentes a 103.10 metros cuadrados. En lindes: al Norte, en una distancia de 29 pies 3 pulgadas, equivalentes a 8.92 metros, con áreas exteriores y recibidor del segundo piso; al Sur, en una distancia de 29 pies 5 ½ pulgadas, equivalentes a 8.98 metros, con áreas exteriores y recibidor del segundo piso; al Este, en una distancia de 41 pies 10 pulgadas, equivalentes a 12.75 metros, con el apartamento T-201 y al Oeste, en una distancia de 12 pies 6 pulgadas, equivalentes a 3.81 metros, con el apartamento número U-201, en otra de 4 pies 0 pulgadas, equivalentes a 1.22 metros, con recibidor del segundo piso y en otra distancia de 25 pies 4 pulgadas, equivalentes a 7.72 metros, con áreas exteriores. Su puerta principal de acceso se encuentra localizada en su lado Oeste, la cual se comunica con el recibidos del segundo piso. Contiene tres cuartos dormitorios, dos baños, cuatro closets y un closet de pasillo (linen), sala, comedor, cocina, laundry y balcón. Le
corresponde a este apartamento, en los elementos comunes generales, una participación de 0.6141%. Le pertenece el uso y disfrute de dos espacios para estacionamientos, marcados ambos espacios con el mismo número del apartamento. Inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil 512 de Manatí, Finca número 17035 Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma $101,822.95 de principal, 6% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $583.23 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $125,012.00 para la propiedad antes descrita. De declarase la subasta desierta y tener que celebrarse una segunda subasta el tipo mínimo serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio mínimo antes mencionado: $83,341.34. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado; $62,506.00. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el 1 de agosto de 2024, a las 10:00 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el 8 de agosto de 2024, a las 10:00 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el 15 de agosto de 2024, a las 10:00 de la mañana. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Manatí. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a
la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. 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 para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Sala de Manatí, Puerto Rico, a 16 de JULIO de 2024. WILFREDO
RODRIGUEZ CARRION, Alguacil Confidencial, Placa 135, ALGUACIL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO
MARIA DEL CARMEN
RODRIGUEZ
Demandante V. EDWIN COLON ROMAN
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AR2023RF01052. (Salón: 101 RELACIONES DE FAMILIA Y MENORES - CIVIL). SOBRE: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
CARLO I. RIVERA TURNERRIVERATURNERPRACTICALEGAL@ GMAIL.COM.
A: EDWIN COLON ROMAN. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días
siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 09 de julio de 2024. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 09 de julio de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. MARIBEL RIVERA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE BARCELONETA ISLAND PORTFOLIO
SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. OMAR A. QUINTANA RIVERA
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: FL2022CV00047. (Salón: 105 CIVIL - CRIMINAL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JOSÉ FRANCISCO AGUILAR VÉLEZ - JF@AGUILAR-VELEZ.COM. KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANEROKEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM. A: OMAR A. QUINTANA RIVERA - HC 01 BOX 2092, FLORIDA PR 00650; BIENVENIDO FELICIANO CARR 140 R642 K11 H0, FLORIDA PR 00650. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de marzo de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se
considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 09 de julio de 2024. En Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, el 09 de julio de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA PÉREZ VIDAL, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCN DE ESTHER MARIE ORTIZ MOLINA COMPUESTA POR SUS MIEMBROS Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CG2022CV00887. (Salón: 705). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ALEJANDRO BELLVER ESPINOSAALEJANDRO@BELLVERLAW.COM. JOSÉ A. VELÁZQUEZ GRAUVELAZQUEZGRAULAW@GMAIL. COM. YAIRA DROZ - YAIRA@ BELLVERLAW.COM. A: FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE ESTHER MARIE ORTIZ MOLINA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 11 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 12 de julio de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 12 de julio de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
SONIA NOEMI RIVERA LOPEZ
Demandante Vs. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, COMO SUCESOR EN INTERES DE; RG PREMIER BANK OF PR; JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE
Demandados Civil Núm.: TJ2024CV00354. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADOS DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE.
Por la presente se emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal la demanda del caso de epígrafe solicitando la cancelación del Pagaré suscrito a favor de RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $60,000.00, con vencimiento el 1 de mayo de 2014, y habiéndose constituido por la escritura número 609 otorgada en San Juan, el 21 de abril de 1999, ante el Notario Público Armando J Martinez Vilella, inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 661 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 21440, inscripción 4ta. Representa a la parte demandante la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: ENEL M. PEREZ MONTE RUA 9019 Reina Isabel 175, La Villa de Torrimar Guaynabo PR 00966 Cel.: (787) 646-9168 Lcdaenelperez@gmail.com
Se le apercibe que si no comparecieran ustedes a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. 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, advirtiéndosele que de no hacerlo se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Dado en Carolina, a 27 de junio de 2024. Lic. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria. Denisse Torres Ruiz, Secretaria.
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Finger-pointing follows mayhem at Copa América final in Miami
By PATRICIA MAZZEI, TARIQ PANJA and RACHEL NOSTRANT
Throngs of fans rushed past security at the final match of the Copa América soccer tournament, some of them brazenly climbing tall fences. A few appeared to try to enter the Hard Rock Stadium near Miami through a ceiling vent. Children cried as the crowds pushed into metal barriers. Some adults grew faint under the broiling sun.
The highly anticipated matchup between Argentina and Colombia on Sunday was intended to showcase the best of South American soccer — and serve as a dress rehearsal for the United States to co-host the men’s World Cup in 2026. Instead, it turned into mayhem, delaying kickoff for over an hour as the situation outside the stadium doors grew dangerous.
The next day, tournament organizers, stadium officials and local authorities struggled to explain exactly what had gone wrong, offering few details about evident organizational failures, pointing fingers and mostly blaming fans who did not have tickets for the match for showing up anyway and becoming “unruly.” Law enforcement officials arrested 27 people and evicted 55 others from the stadium, according to the MiamiDade County Police Department.
Among those arrested were Ramón Jesurún, the head of Colombia’s soccer federation, and his son, Ramón Jamil Jesurún. They were charged with battery of a security guard in a stadium tunnel after the match had concluded, with Argentina defeating Colombia, 1-0, in extra time. The younger Jesurún was also charged with grabbing another stadium employee. Father and son spent the night in the Miami-Dade County jail, public records showed.
The chaos caused international embarrassment for organizers of the Copa América, which had already been marred by complaints from players and coaches about the poor quality of the playing surfaces, training facilities and security. After a semifinal match in North Carolina last week, several Uruguayan players jumped into the stands to fight with Colombian fans whom they later said had been threatening the players’ families.
The privately owned NFL stadium in Miami Gardens, north of Miami, has a capacity of 65,326, and the final match was sold out. Stadium workers were forced to lock entrances when fans without tickets
Outside Hard Rock Stadium, in Miami Gardens, Fla., March 25, 2023. The highly anticipated matchup between Argentina and Colombia in the Copa América soccer final turned into mayhem on Sunday, delaying kickoff for over an hour as the situation outside the stadium doors grew dangerous. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times)
tried to force their way in. Stadium gates were “closed and reopened strategically,” a spokesperson said, to try to let ticket-holders in safely.
As the crowds grew, the gates were opened “for a short period of time” to allow in everybody — with or without tickets — “to prevent stampedes and serious injury.”
Shortly after, the stadium was deemed at capacity, gates were kept locked, and many fans were unable to get in. Inside, alcohol sales were stopped.
CONMEBOL, the South American soccer federation that put on the tournament, said in a statement late on Monday that it was “subject to decisions made by the authorities at the Hard Rock Stadium, according to contractual responsibilities established for security operations.”
“In addition to the provisions established in said contract, CONMEBOL recommended to said authorities the proven procedures from these magnitude of events, which were NOT followed,” the statement said in Spanish.
A stadium spokesperson did not respond to a request seeking comment on CONMEBOL’s allegation.
Mayor Daniella Levine Cava of MiamiDade County said earlier Monday that she was “outraged” by what had happened and promised a “deep” review into what had gone wrong. Some 550 police officers had
been detailed to the event — more than the 300 assigned to the Super Bowl in 2020 — and several hundred more arrived after the chaos began.
Several fans who attended or tried to attend the match described in interviews a surprising lack of controls. Organizers had said that only people with tickets would be allowed to park on stadium grounds, but some people found no one enforcing that rule.
There was no checkpoint perimeter set up outside the stadium, as is typical for major soccer matches around the world, including the monthlong European championship that concluded in Germany on Sunday. Event staff members were nowhere to be found.
Carlos Zuluaga, a Colombia fan, held on tightly to his wife but was separated from the other six people in their group as they made their way into the stadium. His wife’s watch was stolen, “and she awoke this morning with bruises in her arm, from the pressure and the shoving.”
Still, he considered himself lucky — their group managed to get inside. Fans without tickets settled into hallways until police officers and guards came to kick them out, Zuluaga said.
Mora Bendesky, an Argentina fan based in Mexico, traveled to the tournament with her husband and two young children. They had been to several matches and hoped to see Lionel Messi lift the Copa América for Argentina in person. “It would have been the cherry on the cake,” she said.
Instead, the family watched the match in a hotel room, miles from the stadium, their tickets unused.
They had dressed in Argentina’s colors and walked toward the stadium about 90 minutes before kickoff — only to find commotion, closed gates and heavily armed police officers. A mass of people started “accumulating,” she said. Occasionally, she turned around and saw hundreds of others heading toward them. “That was scary,” she said.
Fans, both Colombian and Argentine, talked openly about not having tickets and jostled for a prime spot in case a gate opened, she said.
The family hung back, hoping that calm would be restored, but police said the gates would not be opened again.
Inside the stadium, Colombian pop star Shakira, hired at great expense, entertained the crowd in a set that broke soccer protocol
by extending halftime by nearly 15 minutes.
“They can organize 27 minutes of Shakira but they can’t scan my ticket,” Bendesky said.
As the disorder unfolded outside the stadium on Sunday, Alejandro Domínguez, the president of CONMEBOL, strolled onto the pitch in a prematch walkabout with Colombian singers Maluma and Sebastián Yatra.
While Argentina has won two Copa América titles in recent years, Colombia’s success-starved fans last saw their team in a final more than two decades ago. A berth in the final had energized supporters of Los Cafeteros, bringing thousands to the stadium from Florida and beyond.
The last time the Copa América was held in the United States, in 2016, it had been organized on short notice by the U.S. Soccer Federation; CONCACAF, the governing body for soccer in North America; and a marketing agency tied to Major League Soccer. It was largely trouble-free and brought with it a surge in revenue and the type of exposure that South American soccer officials had long craved.
The disastrous staging of Sunday’s match came just two years out from the World Cup that will be played in North America in 16 cities in the United States, Canada and Mexico, with the final taking place at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. It will amount to the biggest and richest soccer event ever staged, with more teams than any previous edition of the near century-old tournament. The tumultuous Copa América final immediately led to questions about whether a similar experience would be in store for World Cup visitors, though it was not a FIFA tournament.
FIFA, which opened offices in a Miami suburb last year, got a close-up view of the chaos: Its secretary-general, Mattias Grafström, the organization’s No. 2 official, was at the match. FIFA has not commented on the incidents on Sunday and declined to comment on the arrest of the elder Jesurún, who sits on the FIFA Council, the equivalent of its top board.
Lázaro Hernández and his husband, Juan Mendoza, stood outside the stadium gate for about five hours, clad in Colombian jerseys, trying to avoid getting crushed. They did not get in.
The couple had paid about $4,000 for their tickets.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen in the World Cup,” Hernández said, “but I can assure you that I’m not going.”
The San Juan Daily Star
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