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The $300 million in fines imposed by the Health Insurance Services Administration (ASES by its Spanish acronym) against health insurers over their failure to pay established rates are on hold.
Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López said Monday that the parties are trying to reconcile the positions of both the government and four insurers in the context of payments for services under Medicare and Medicaid.
On June 22, Mellado announced that MMM, Triple S, Plan de Salud Menonita and First Medical, all contracted under the Plan Vital government health coverage, had been fined for allegedly failing to comply with the minimum rates established for services rendered by providers that went into effect Jan. 1.
Specifically, the contract with Medicare establishes a reimbursement of 75% for specialists and between 80% and 100% for subspecialties, in addition to a payment for 18 patients.
processing their payments to the service providers, which was our main objective from the beginning.”
“The corrective action plans submitted ensure that specialists and subspecialists receive their 80 percent and 100 percent MFS payments, respectively,” she added.
So far, Triple S has identified close to $800,000 in retroactive adjustments. Even so, the figure continues to be reviewed since specialties that pay more than 75 percent of the MFS have been identified.
Meanwhile, the Mennonite Health Plan has shown that it has configured its system and has paid 78.3% of the reprocessed claims, which amounts to some $742,369.18 as of July 7. That leaves 21.7% of the claims still pending retroactive payment.
First Medical has identified some $2.6 million in retroactive adjustments, while MMM is making an approximate retroactive adjustment of $2.6 million, which includes adjustments to the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico.
In the case of Triple S, a deficiency of $800,000 in payments to providers was identified and, in the cases of other companies, the deficiencies were $742,000 (Menonita) and $2.6 million (MMM and First Medical).
ASES is evaluating all the data sent by the insurers.
“Our intention is not to blame the insurers or to demonize them, but to get the money to the provider,” Mellado López said regarding the government’s intention in imposing the fines.
He said there has been good communication with the companies and that if they comply with the payments owed, “there should be no fine.”
“They can be left without effect,” the Health chief added. “They can continue until the administrative process, which has not concluded, is over.”
Mellado López has said that insurers have alleged that there have been programming problems.
ASES director: $5 million identified for payment to Vital providers
ASES Director Edna Marín Ramos announced separately on Monday that the aforementioned Vital Plan insurers have identified a total of $5 million for payment to service providers after being notified of fines for not meeting the minimum rate of the Medicare Fee Schedule (MFS).
“We are advancing in our work and we are seeing results,” Marín Ramos said. “All the insurers are
“The process for imposing fines is under review and the full compliance of the insurers will be verified by July 31, the deadline for them to present final evidence that they have complied with the contract agreements regarding payment to providers,” Marín Ramos said.
The Financial Oversight and Management Board has informed the markets about an amendment to the agreement reached with fuel line lenders of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA).
On Dec. 1, 2022, the oversight board and fuel line lenders reached an agreement that would give them priority over bondholders’ treatment in PREPA’s debt restructuring. The fuel line lenders’ $700 million claim would receive new PREPA bonds.
On Sunday, the oversight board and the fuel line lenders announced amendments to the agreement.
Under the amendments, the fuel line lenders will receive bonds called Series A bonds, which will be paid from a legacy charge or contingent value instruments (CVIs).
“Notwithstanding the foregoing, PREPA may issue one or more contingent value instruments under its Plan payable from a source of funds other than the Legacy Charge Revenues, including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Remaining Legacy Charge Revenues,” the document to the markets reads.
The “Legacy Charge” in the document means a hybrid connectivity charge and volumetric charge to be added to customers’ bills to
pay the new bonds, in structure and amounts that do not change the Series A bonds’ expected repayment date and expected weighted average life as established. The legacy charge will not include any other rate increase or charge added to customers’ bills for payment of a contingent value instrument other than the CVI provided in PREPA’s plan of adjustment.
Series A bonds, which will be issued only to the fuel line lenders, will have first priority of principal repayment following payment of accrued interest on all outstanding
new bonds. If unpaid at their final maturity, the Series A bonds will remain outstanding until paid in full in cash, but will cease accruing interest as of the earlier to occur of either a payment in full of the Series A bonds or the final maturity of any series of other bonds.
No principal will be paid on any other bonds, and no other bonds may be called by PREPA until the Series A bonds have been paid in full in cash. Series A bonds will receive a 6% rate and have a 15-year maturity.
From and after the plan’s effective date, until the new bonds have been paid or satisfied in full, the reorganized PREPA will deposit the legacy charge revenues to the credit of the “Bonds Debt Service Account” held by the new bonds trustee, according to the document. Such monies will go first to the payment of stated interest due and payable on the new bonds, second to the payment of principal on the Series A bonds until repaid, and third to the payment of principal on the other bonds.
Upon the occurrence of an event of default, the new bonds trustee’s remedies will be to: a) seek enforcement of reorganized PREPA’s obligation to take reasonable measures to collect revenues generated by the legacy charge and deposit such monies received into the Legacy Charge Revenue Fund; b) prior to the final maturity, as applicable, at the request of 25% or more of the Series A bonds, seek, by action or suit in law or in equity for specific performance, enforcement of any covenant contained in the new bond indenture; and/or c) seek enforcement of reorganized PREPA’s obligation to take reasonable measures to collect revenues and adjust rates and charges so that reorganized PREPA’s revenues in each fiscal year shall be no less than reorganized PREPA’s operating expenses.
By THE STAR STAFF
UBS Bank has asked that a suit filed against the firm by two local residents alleging that the firm failed to pay Puerto Rico $48.5 million in tax revenue be moved to federal court from the local court.
The information appeared in a notice of removal filed last Friday, July 14. In the litigation, the plaintiffs seek to recover income taxes and licensing fees arising from UBS activities from 2003 to 2013. UBS argued that federal jurisdiction exists because the legal action is, at the very least, related to the Title III cases, especially the Title III case involving the commonwealth. It not only asserts claims that involve the property of the commonwealth and that could affect distributions under the commonwealth debt plan, the multinational banking firm contends, but also it raises substantial issues regarding the proper interpretation and imple-
mentation of that plan.
“This court must determine whether the plan precludes the relators from asserting the claims and, instead, the commonwealth must itself bring the claims if it believes the claims have any merit at all,” UBS’s notice of removal said.
Two Puerto Rico residents brought the action on behalf of the commonwealth in commonwealth court, in what is known as a “qui tam” action, a procedure that
allows private citizens, known as relators, to sue on behalf of a government to recover money that was fraudulently obtained. In return, the relators receive a portion of the amount recovered.
The relators allege that from approximately 2003 to 2013, UBS issued thousands of loans and provided other banking services to residents of Puerto Rico without the necessary licenses, and that UBS failed to pay income taxes it owed on the interest earned from its loans.
The relators assert causes of action for unpaid income tax of at least $48.5 million, plus penalties, surcharges and interest, subject to trebling, and unpaid municipal license fees of at least $1.5 million, plus penalties, surcharges and interest, also subject to trebling. The commonwealth itself has not seen fit to bring any of those claims.
The case was filed by Vicente González and Francisco Pujol Meneses.
By RICHARD GUTIÉRREZ richardsanjuanstar@gmail.com
Even though not every municipality has one, central marketplaces are a classic concept in Puerto Rico. Municipalities such as Río Grande, Caguas, Luquillo and San Juan all have a marketplace where fruits and vegetables reign. Many marketplaces have proven successful over the years, while others have needed extra help to stay relevant in their respective towns.
put into transforming the city of Fajardo.”
The ceremonial speeches began with Méndez Nuñez.
“We don’t only bring back the Fajardo Marketplace stronger than ever with the sale of fruits, vegetables and meats, but we also turn it into a meetingplace, where we have chefs with experience from all around Puerto Rico and even around the world,” the lawmaker said. “That alone puts Fajardo on the map in terms of gastronomic development and, more than ever, this creates economic opportunities for our town, and that’s exactly where our administration wants to take Fajardo. We are grateful to our mayor for thinking, not just about now, but also about the future of Fajardo.”
The first lady of Fajardo, Diana Méndez, also had some words to say about the occasion.
“Today we are making history in Fajardo,” she said. “It fills my heart with happiness to see this project completed. We are not just making history because of all the new concepts the marketplace intends to bring to the table, but because the Fajardo Marketplace has seen three generations of the Padró family. Mr. José Padró was one of the first marketplace vendors when the marketplace was first created, [and] today his grandchildren are here for the inauguration of the remodeled Fajardo Marketplace.”
The mayor also delivered a speech in which, apart from thanking every single vendor in the marketplace for being part of the event, he went into detail about more projects that are in store for the Fajardo.
specialty, fruit and vegetable juices directly from the fruit; we don’t add any sugars, either.”
“Apart from the juices we also have healthy food that is directed at more of a lifestyle for anyone who wants to change something in their diet,” he added. “However, this healthy style doesn’t lose the great taste and seasoning of Puerto Rican food.
That was the case with the Fajardo marketplace, which held its grand reopening inauguration ceremony on Monday.
“I am happy and enthusiastic about this reopening,” Fajardo Mayor José “Joey” A. Meléndez told the STAR. “On my first day of work as mayor, I came to the marketplace for lunch. On that day I promised the vendors I would remodel the marketplace and improve it. We have accomplished that goal today.”
The event began with the inauguration ceremony, where important figures from Fajardo and other parts of the island were invited, such as House District 36 Rep. Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, Fajardo Vice Mayor Glenys Otero Crespo, Traffic Safety Commission Executive Director Luis Rodriguez and even former Río Grande Mayor César Méndez. The grand reopening was hosted by Fajardo community spokesperson Orville Pacheco.
“We must give a big hand to all of the marketplace vendors, who have been working relentlessly in preparation for the grand reopening,” Pacheco said. “We couldn’t have done this without them.”
Pacheco also praised the mayor of Fajardo.
“We needed a mayor who would help us be a better municipality; we needed a mayor who was passionate, ready and with a plan to manage the city’s affairs,” Pacheco said, while also thanking all of the special invitees. “That mayor is Mr. José A. Meléndez, and this is an example of the work he’s
“This is only the beginning of a great series of projects we are planning for the economic development of Fajardo,” Meléndez said. “Some of these include remodeling the city plaza, with an investment of $1 million. The Fajardo Arts School will also be remodeled and expanded to bring in new services for the youth and adults, as well as a new cultural plaza. If everything goes well, we will be inaugurating this in September.”
As the mayor finished his speech, he moved on to perform the ribbon cutting, officially inaugurating the new and improved marketplace, which was filled to the brim with many different options for customers to pick from. Besides the classic fruits and vegetable markets, there were also many food businesses, including a pizzeria and a Mexican food vendor, as well as a balloon and decoration service business -- all local businesses that proudly showcased their uniqueness.
The marketplace’s contracted designer, engineer William Meléndez, told the STAR that the “previous mayor originally gave me the opportunity to work on this project; he sadly passed away, but thanks to his son Joey, we continued this project.”
“This shows the vision our previous mayor had for this town and Joey’s hard work for the municipality,” he said. “When we first designed this, we wanted to bring something new to the table without losing the touch of a classic marketplace, giving it a new and improved look that is contemporary with the current times.”
One of the marketplace vendors, the healthy option Verdemar Gastro Juice Bar, is owned by husband and wife Christian Vazquéz Guzmán and Yovanna N. Santiago Villegas.
“We are so happy to finally open our business,” Santiago told the STAR. “This is your life oasis, as we present our
“We found the opportunity to open our business; my wife could do anything she wanted -- she is brilliant and yet she left many things behind to build this restaurant. Our menu is also contemporary with the times because we want to promote local products as much as possible, but we also don’t want to lose the essence of how good it is to mix our local products with imported ones.”
Right across from Verdemar is another business named Meat and Dip, which sells local and imported meat, along with prepared dishes for people to enjoy.
“I am very grateful for the opportunity provided by the mayor to be here in remodeled facilities,” head chef Rafael Alamo told the STAR. “We are a gourmet butcher shop; we provide a variety of different sliced meat, apart from food to eat right here, including the production of our own dips, which people can also purchase and take home.”
Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández recommended on Monday to the Office of the Special Independent Prosecutor Panel (OPFEI by its Spanish initials) the appointment of a prosecutor to investigate former Rep. Orlando Aponte Rosario.
The Justice Department’s Division of Public Integrity and Comptroller Affairs (DIPAC) concluded that there is sufficient cause to believe that the former legislator, who resigned from the seat he held in the House of Representatives, “incurred in criminal conduct by violating article 6.14b of Law 168 -2019, known as the Puerto Rico Weapons Act of 2020, 25 LPRA sec. 466m
(shooting or aiming firearms); and the following articles of Law 54-1989: article 3.1, in the modality of psychological abuse; article 3.2, in the modality of aggravated abuse; article 3.3, threats; and article 3.5, spousal sexual assault,” reads the DIPAC report.
In addition, the DIPAC determined that the person investigated could have violated article 59 of Law 246-2011 on child abuse, known as the Law for the Safety, Well-Being and Protection of Minors, by having committed domestic violence in the presence of the subject’s minor children, and by having assaulted his minor daughter.
The final decision on the appointment of a special independent prosecutor is now in the hands of the OPFEI.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Monday that what he has heard so far bodes well for the eventual confirmation of designated Secretary of Education Yanira Raíces Vega.
“What I see is that all the information that comes to me is positive,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “She has expertise, undeniable experience and has the right attitude. I see that her portrayal in the media has been very, very effective.”
“So it’s a matter of her continuing to do the job,” he added. “The priority of the secretary, of Dr. Raíces, is the one that I have established, which is the school restart. And at the same time, infrastructure improvements and repairs in the department that are ongoing.”
Pierluisi noted that it will be the Senate that ultimately decides how to handle Raíces Vega’s appointment, but so far, the information he has received is positive.
Earlier on Monday, Puerto Rico Mayors Association
President Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz welcomed a proposal by the speaker of the island House of Representatives, Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez, who sent a letter last week to former Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés inquiring about the concrete reasons why he left office so hastily.
“All of Puerto Rico has witnessed the irregular process with which this case was handled,” Hernández Ortiz, who is also the mayor of Villalba, said in a press release. “Ramos Parés, in the midst of preparations for the return to school, resigns and immediately already has a replacement. I agree with what the House speaker and the chairwoman of the [House] Education Committee, Rep. Deborah Soto said: ‘the country deserves answers.’”
The House speaker granted Ramos Parés 15 days to gather the necessary information in order to clarify the specific circumstances that led to his departure, and that after a dialogue, a public hearing led by the Education Committee be held so that its members can analyze each of the recent events in the Education Department.
Ramos Parés said in a statement last week that he had his reasons for stepping down as secretary of Education and that it is not in his nature to discuss those reasons
publicly. He said he remained in support of the Education Department and its mission going forward.
Regarding amendments to the Electoral Code passed recently by the island Legislature, the governor stated that the matter “is being evaluated in La Fortaleza.”
“So in due course, the decision will be known,” he said. “There is a 30-day term that is running, so if that term arrives and the measure is not signed, then what is called a pocket veto occurs.”
By THE STAR STAFFLoíza Mayor Julia Nazario Fuentes on Monday invited the community to celebrate the traditional festival in honor of Santiago Apóstol, with musical events scheduled from this Friday to Sunday, July 30 under the slogan “Dale Pa’la Calle” (Take It to the Street).
The Santiago festivities tell the story of Loíza in that they represent the unique fusion of Spanish culture and African culture in Puerto Rico.
“In a historical context, as Don Ricardo Alegría, founder of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, studied, part of the integration of Puerto Rican society was created
when Africans, who for centuries were incorporated into society, enriched it with their culture,” the mayor said. “We are very enthusiastic about these celebrations and about receiving all the visitors from Puerto Rico and the United States who set aside these days to come and share with their family.”
To facilitate their organization, the festival’s events have been divided into three themes: the musical program, cultural and sports activities, and events -- masses and processions -- that have been organized by both the Espíritu Santo and San Patricio Parish located in the town’s urban center, and the Santiago Apóstol Parish located in Medianía.
Deirdre’s temperature was 104 degrees when the paramedics arrived on Saturday afternoon and started infusing ice-cold saline into her veins, racing to cool her before she became another victim of Phoenix’s merciless heat wave.
It was a record 118 degrees outside, and Deirdre had been in her wheelchair on a baking stretch of sidewalk in northwest Phoenix. When workers at a dollar store called 911, her arms were seized with heat cramps and her skin was as red as licorice.
“We’ve got to go!” a firefighter-paramedic with the Phoenix Fire Department said, as a cluster of firefighters surrounded Deirdre and lifted her onto a stretcher and into an ambulance.
This is the blistering reality of summer for rescuers in Phoenix as America’s fifthlargest city staggers through one of its longest stretches ever of 110-degree days. A brutal “heat dome” set temperature records across the Southwest over the weekend, and across the country, more than 63 million people were facing dangerous levels of heat.
Extreme heat comes with the territory both for Phoenix and for its firefighters. They train by climbing stairs and swinging sledgehammers wearing up to 80 pounds of bulky, suffocating gear, and make a career of bursting into burning buildings and rushing toward explosive brush fires.
But the past two weeks of unbroken triple-digit days have put heat at the center of their work, turning them into a summertime army battling to rescue homeless people who collapse in their tents, workers who faint in the sun and vulnerable older people struggling to breathe inside sweltering homes. Many are trained paramedics, and they estimated that some 80% of the department’s calls are medical emergencies.
There have been 12 reported heatrelated deaths in the Phoenix area through mid-June, and an additional 40 open cases where heat is being investigated as a factor, according to a tally from the Maricopa County medical examiner.
“It’s amazing how hot things get,” said Buddy DiCosmo, a captain at Fire Station 30, situated in a working-class area of small ranch homes in northwest Phoenix. “All you
want to do is take a shower and cool off. But a lot of these people can’t. They’re just in it.”
After a relatively mild and wet winter and spring, heat calls to the Phoenix Fire Department are higher this summer compared with last year, a department spokeswoman said. The department said it did not yet have precise figures, but a digital readout of all the active fire calls around Phoenix offered a glimpse. At 3 p.m. on Saturday, about one of every 10 calls was from someone overwhelmed by the day’s heat.
There was a dehydrated 69-year-old hiker who had to be wheeled off a trail near the cowboy-inflected town of Cave Creek. A homeless man who arrived at the hospital with a temperature of 106 degrees. People who burn themselves on the pavement, children who collapse at sports practice and, occasionally, apartment complexes that turn into ovens when an air conditioner gives out.
The call to help Deirdre came at 2:30 p.m. Two companions, who identified her for firefighters, had been wheeling her down the street and said she had simply passed out in the heat, but paramedics saw telltale signs of an overdose and revived her with a dose of naloxone and took her to the hospital.
Fentanyl pills are cheap and pervasive on the streets of Phoenix, and some unshel-
tered people say they turn to opioids and meth to cope with the brutal conditions of living outside in the summer. Drug use was a factor in more than half of the 425 heatrelated deaths recorded last year in Maricopa County, which encompasses Phoenix, the county’s health department reported.
The firefighters had not been back at the station for five minutes when another call came in: A 22-year-old man collapsed from heatstroke. They rolled out again.
There, inside a stuffy trailer at the Sun
‘n’ Sand mobile home park, they found Alex Guerrero lying on the floor of his kitchen. Like his father and older brothers, he works repairing air conditioners, and had spent the day outside tending to the units running full-blast at an apartment complex.
He staggered home after work on Saturday and crumpled to the floor, and his family surrounded him, wetting down his neck and giving him tiny sips of a sports drink until the firefighters arrived.
The team checked Guerrero’s vital signs, took his medical history and asked him if he wanted to go to the hospital. He was feeling better, so he decided to stay home and recuperate.
The heat infiltrated other medical emergencies. An older man recuperating from knee surgery fell out of his bed and could not move, but his wife, Nancy Dorris, said she suspected the heat inside their home had made him groggy and affected his balance. Dorris said the family could not afford to set the thermostat lower than 79 degrees. Even then, the summer electricity bills run $400 a month, she said.
“Today is the worst,” she said.
As they drove away from the call, one of the firefighters piped up on the shared engine communications channel: “What do we got, another month of this heat?”
The consensus was that it would be more than that.
By 8:10 p.m., the sun was gone but the heat lingered — 110 degrees and not budging.
Fierce thunderstorms, heavy rainfall and flash flooding wreaked havoc across the Northeast over the weekend, killing five people in Pennsylvania, halting flights at major airports in the New York metropolitan area and downing power lines. In one part of Long Island, 5 inches of rain fell in less than two hours.
“We are in a very, very unstable weather condition,” said New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, as she warned of the dangers of driving under flash-flooding conditions. “Your car can go from a place of safety to a place of death.”
The worst of the toll was in the suburbs north of Philadelphia, in the area of Washington Crossing — famous as the location where George Washington crossed the Delaware River in 1776. A raging stream of floodwater trapped 11 cars Saturday evening, sweeping three of them away.
Authorities said a family visiting from Charleston, South Carolina, encountered the severe flash flooding along Washington Crossing Road, as they headed to a barbecue.
At a news briefing Sunday, Tim Brewer, fire chief of nearby Upper Makefield Township, in Bucks County, said the family had tried to escape the fierce floodwaters, with the father clutching the 4-year-old son, as the mother and grandmother grabbed the two additional children, who were 9 months and 2 years old.
The father and son made it out safely, he said, but the grandmother, mother and the two children were swept away by the floodwaters.
As of Sunday afternoon, Pennsylvania officials were still searching for the two chil-
dren, but officials said the mother was among five people confirmed dead. The grandmother survived and was treated at a local hospital.
“We are treating this as a rescue, but we are fairly certain we are in recovery mode at this time,” Brewer said of the missing children.
He said an estimated 6 to 7 inches of rain fell in less than 45 minutes. “In my 44 years, I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said. “When the water came up, it came up very swiftly.”
Eli Weissman, 65, said he and his 22-year-old daughter were trapped in the same deadly flash flood at Washington Crossing.
They were both on board his BMW motorcycle driving home when it suddenly
started raining, he said.
“We were only 5 miles from my house, so we figured we’d head on home instead of waiting it out,” Weissman said. The rain began to pick up, as cars in front of them started stopping, he said.
“Then this water just came rushing down the road,” Weissman said. “It was like a dam burst or something. It was just nothing I’ve ever seen before.”
He said he and his daughter were thrown off the bike and into the water, which had swiftly risen to around 8 feet deep.
“We were floating down and trying to survive the rapids, you know, feet first, clinging to trees, clinging to vines, anything we could cling to,” Weissman said. “It was so fast and so deep.”
Around them, cars were deserted and some of them were overturned. At one point, Weissman said, he “saw a mother get out of her car with an infant and walk away from the car.” He said that he believed that they were members of the family from Charleston, although he was not certain.
The water began to recede after 15 minutes or so, he said, and he and his daughter were finally able to stand again. They carefully made their way to the road and back up to drier land, where his son came to pick them up.
“I’ve seen flooded roads and I’ve seen rapid water but never like this,” he said.
Collin Mortensen, 17, of Upper Makefield Township, said he was making a food run to Colonial Market on Saturday evening
when the storm started to peak.
Driving a Ford Expedition, he said, he passed a car that had slid off the road and down a hill, its front axle broken and a wheel twisted. Then he encountered the flooded road.
“I wasn’t sure I was going to make it through,” Mortensen said in an interview at the Shell gasoline station where he was working Sunday afternoon. When he left the market, he said, emergency crews were blocking off a main intersection, as a river of water headed down a hill and east through the village, toward the river.
Overall, officials said, eight people were rescued in cars in Bucks County, where Washington Crossing is located, and two were rescued from a creek.
Saturday’s flash flooding in Pennsylvania was followed Sunday by deluges across the Northeast, with flash-flood warnings in effect in parts of Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Maine and neighboring states. An estimated 5 inches of rain fell in less than two hours on the east end of Long Island.
Thunderstorms caused flight disruptions at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and Kennedy International Airport in New York. In Maryland, officials said that “lifethreatening flash flooding” was expected.
In New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency Sunday afternoon. “Throughout the state, we have seen heavy rainfalls resulting in hazardous conditions, and we urge residents to remain vigilant around flooded roadways and downed trees and power lines,” he said in a statement.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said he was “concerned about some additional bad weather coming this evening,” and he urged Bucks County residents to remain alert and to avoid flood-hazard areas.
By late afternoon, emergency workers had reopened most of the roads in Bucks County but continued to block the area where they were searching for the missing children. Although most waterways had receded, their levels remained higher than usual, and some roadside culverts were still swollen with swiftly running water.
Michael Adler, a lawyer who lives in Holland, Pennsylvania, said it was still raining heavily Sunday afternoon.
“We’re getting all these alerts on our phones,” he said. “Where we are right now, we’re not near creeks, but I know that there are lots of creeks and underground creeks in this area, so everybody’s a little concerned.”
According to the timeline released by prosecutors and to Buildings Department and court records, Heuermann kept up his busy work schedule even as victims were vanishing.
In 2009, prosecutors said, after killing Melissa Barthelemy, a 24-year-old who worked as an escort, Heuermann made a series of taunting calls to her family, during lunchtime and after work hours, from locations near his office.
In June 2010, about two weeks after Megan Waterman, a 22-year-old from Maine, was last seen alive, Heuermann filed an application to install a new fire escape at a building in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. In August of that year, he filed an application to repair the terra cotta and repoint the bricks in a building on the Upper West Side, nine days before Amber Lynn Costello, 27, disappeared near her home a few miles from Heuermann’s.
On March 9, 2022, as the investigative dragnet was tightening, Heuermann was writing a typically detailed letter to a lawyer concerning a project on West 71st Street:
“It appears that from my walk through, the drain line is above the interior floor slab and if the trench drain is placed below this level, it would not be able to drain by gravity,” he wrote. “I would strongly recommend an investigation into the use of negative side waterproofing at this site.”
By ANDY NEWMAN and NATE SCHWEIBERAt his office near the Empire State Building, Rex Heuermann was a master of the meticulous: a veteran architectural consultant and a self-styled expert at navigating the intricacies of New York City’s building code. He impressed some clients and drove others crazy with his fine-toothed directives.
At home in Massapequa Park on Long Island, while some neighbors saw Heuermann as just another commuter in a suit, others found him a figure of menace. He glowered at neighbors while swinging an ax in the front yard of a low-slung, dilapidated house that parents cautioned their children to avoid on Halloween. He was kicked out of a Whole Foods for stealing fruit.
“We would cross the street,” said Nicholas Ferchaw, 24, a neighbor. “He was somebody you don’t want to approach.”
On Friday, Suffolk County prosecutors said that residents of Massapequa Park had a serial killer living in their midst. They accused Heuermann, 59, of leaving a quarter-mile trail of young women’s bodies on the South Shore of Long Island in what came to be known as the Gilgo Beach Killings. Yet he was so careful in covering his tracks, they said, that it took them nearly 15 years to arrest him.
Heuermann’s friends and clients in the real estate business were flabbergasted.
His neighbor Ferchaw said, “I wasn’t surprised at all — because of all the creepiness.”
Heuermann, who was arrested in midtown Manhattan on Thursday night, was charged Friday with three counts of first-degree murder and ordered held without bail during a brief appearance at a courthouse in Suffolk County. His lawyer said outside the courthouse that Heuermann denied committing the killings.
According to his resume and the website of his company, RH Consultants & Associates, Heuermann’s customers included American Airlines, Catholic Charities, and the city’s own De-
partment of Environmental Protection. He represented clients before the Landmark Preservation Commission many times and claimed credit for hundreds of successful applications before city agencies.
Steve Kramberg, a property manager in Brooklyn who worked with Heuermann for about 30 years, called him “a gem to deal with, highly knowledgeable.” Heuermann was “a big goofy guy, a little bit on the nerdy side” who worked long hours and was available day and night, Kramberg said. But he was also devoted to his wife, who Kramberg said had health problems, and to his elderly mother.
In Massapequa Park, a tightly gridded village of neat homes with manicured lawns, Heuermann, the son of an aerospace engineer, lived in the house that he grew up in and tinkered with furniture in his father’s old workshop. A man who went to high school with him said he was bullied as a teenager but sometimes fought back. In 1990, he married an executive at an office supply company. He has a daughter who works at his firm.
Ferchaw recounted several run-ins with his neighbor, none pleasant. There was the time he said hello to Heuermann as he was cutting wood and Heuermann responded by silently glaring back between chops of his splitting maul. Other times he would be seated beside his stacked wood on the porch watching an old television.
Mike Schmidt, who has lived in the neighborhood for 10 years, has a friend who lives behind Heuermann. Sometimes Schmidt would visit his buddy, have a few beers in the backyard, look out at the sagging Heuermann house, “and say ‘He probably has bodies there.’”
Last Halloween, Schmidt and his friend resolved to take their kids trick-or-treating at Heuermann’s house, just to get a look inside. They were surprised when Heuermann himself answered the door and gave each child a small plastic pumpkin overflowing with candy.
Five days after that, investigators figured out that Heuermann had owned the same model pickup truck that a witness said Costello’s killer had driven. Two weeks later, prosecutors said, Heuermann Googled “Long Island serial killer” and viewed an article headlined “New Task Force Aims to Solve Long Island Serial Killer Case.’”
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This year’s box office has already been underwhelming and, with striking actors barred from publicity efforts, films scheduled for the second half of 2023 could be affected — especially those with awards aspirations. One of the studio executives Friday predicted it could imperil at least one of the national cinema chains.
Labor Day will arrive in a heartbeat, which would seem to prompt studios to break the standstill with the actors sooner rather than later. But there’s a problem: Studio executives were genuinely surprised by the Screen Actors Guild’s reaction to their proposed terms. They felt they had made significant concessions and were stunned by the union’s rhetoric, especially since they were able to amicably negotiate a lucrative new contract in 2020.
The proposed terms included increased pay, protections around the audition process and more favorable terms for pension and health contributions. They also offered that dancers receive an on-camera rate for rehearsal days.
who said during an interview on CNBC that workers were being “unrealistic.” Pouring gas on the fire was an article on the show business website Deadline that quoted an anonymous studio executive, who threatened to “bleed out” writers until they “start losing their apartments.” The studio alliance said the anonymous executive did not speak for its members.
Though some executives see a brief stoppage as an opportunity to slash costs, a long-term shutdown has the potential to cause havoc in an entertainment industry already buffeted by the rise of streaming and struggles at the box office.
“While media execs try to spin the dual strikes as a positive as production spending stops, investors are far more concerned that this will be a long strike that hurts the performance of already completed movies and TV series,” said Rich Greenfield, an analyst at the research firm LightShed Partners.
By BENJAMIN MULLIN, BROOKS BARNES and NICOLE SPERLINGIn May, when 11,500 movie and television writers went on strike, Hollywood companies such as Netflix, NBCUniversal and Disney reacted with what amounted to a shrug. The walkout wasn’t great, but executives had expected it for months. They could ride it out.
The angry response from Hollywood’s corporate ranks when actors went out Friday was dramatically different. What began as an inconvenience has become a crisis.
For a start, the actors’ union is much more powerful than the writers’ guild, with a membership of about 160,000 that includes world-famous celebrities studied in the art of delivering messages to captivated audiences. The film and TV scripts that studios had banked in case of a writers’ strike have been suddenly rendered inert, deprived of actors to bring them to life. Numerous big-budget movies that had been shooting had to shut down immediately, including “Twisters,” “Venom 3,” “Deadpool 3” and “Gladiator 2.”
In interviews, three studio chairs who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the labor situation, said Hollywood’s content factories could sit idle for little more than a month — roughly until Labor Day — until there would be a serious impact on the release calendar for 2024, particularly for movies. A work stoppage that stretches into September could force studios to delay big projects for next year by six months, making 2024 resemble the ghost town of recent memory set off by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Studios had just gotten the release schedule looking normal again, with one big movie following another. Another significant lull in offerings may be devastating for theaters.
In particular, the studios — acknowledging in private conversations that they had made a mistake by largely ignoring the writers’ demands for guardrails around artificial intelligence — proposed terms for use of AI that their negotiators said would protect actors.
But it wasn’t enough to avert a strike. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the actors’ chief negotiator, said in an interview Saturday that the studio’s proposal was unreasonable. The artificial intelligence terms jeopardize “the entire field of acting,” Crabtree-Ireland said, adding that studios also weren’t offering actors revenue participation in streaming.
“Those are the core issues,” CrabtreeIreland said. “And the fact that the companies won’t move on them reflects a colonial attitude toward the workers who are the entire basis of the existence of their companies.” He said actors want to begin bargaining again.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which negotiates on behalf of the studios, disputed Crabtree-Ireland’s characterization of its members’ attitudes, citing terms of its proposal including a “groundbreaking AI proposal that protects actors’ digital likenesses.”
The frustration on the other side of the bargaining table was evinced by comments made Thursday by Bob Iger, Disney’s CEO,
If the twin strikes drag on for just one or two months, companies will probably seize on the shutdown as an opportunity to save cash that they otherwise would have been spending on preproduction — the work done before shooting starts — and bidding on scripts, said Michael Nathanson, an analyst at SVB MoffettNathanson who focuses on the media and entertainment industries. Some of those costs will be incurred later anyway, he noted.
If actors aren’t back to work by the fall, it will hurt network television, which needs them for new shows coveted by advertisers, Nathanson said. He added that traditional media companies based in the United States are at a disadvantage compared with Netflix, the dominant streaming company, which can take advantage of its production facilities around the world.
“It’s like if the United Auto Workers go on strike, and all of a sudden you see more cars from Japan and Germany on the road,” Nathanson said.
Publicly, studio executives are urging Hollywood to get back to work. Iger said last week in an interview from the annual Sun Valley conference for business titans that the strike would have a “very damaging” effect on the entertainment industry.
There’s little indication, however, that a deal is close.
U.S. stocks ended higher to kick off the trading week on Monday, buoyed by gains in financial and technology shares as investors awaited the next round of quarterly results this week as earnings season gathers speed.
Companies scheduled to report earnings this week include Tesla and Netflix, while more big banks in the form of Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are also on the docket to post results, following reports from peers such as JP Morgan and Citigroup last week.
Investors will be paying attention to company outlooks, with earnings for the quarter expected to decline 8.1%, according to Refinitiv data, a bigger decline than the 5.7% fall expected at the start of the month.
“Obviously, we are about to get all these (earnings) reports but it feels to me earnings are going to be good and at the end of the day, how do you value stocks – based on the earnings and dividends,” said Stephen Massocca, senior vice president at Wedbush Securities in San Francisco.
“By and large, the market in its totality continues to be reasonably priced if not kind of cheap. My bigger concern going forward is the Fed is going to start doing things it doesn’t need to do to win the inflation battle but will ultimately now really start to hurt the economy.”
Equities have rallied recently, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq climbing to 15-month highs as economic data has pointed to a resilient economy, with inflation cooling and a solid labor market.
Markets have largely priced in a 25-basis-point rake hike by the Federal Reserve at its policy meeting next week, with expectations at 97.3%, according to CME’s FedWatch Tool.
According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 gained 16.87 points, or 0.37%, to end at 4,522.29 points, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 131.25 points, or 0.91%, to 14,242.26. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 73.79 points, or 0.21%, to 34,582.82.
The S&P and Nasdaq have advanced in five of the past six sessions.
Tesla gained after the company said on Saturday it had built its first Cybertruck, after two years of delays.
In contrast, Ford Motor tumbled after the automaker cut the price of its F-150 Lightning trucks, the latest salvo in a deepening price war among electric vehicle makers. Peers General Motors and Rivian also slumped.
Apple advanced after Morgan Stanley raised its target price on the iPhone maker to $220 from $190, citing a bullish outlook on India as an emerging growth driver for the company.
Bank shares recovered from Friday’s losses, with the S&P 500 bank index up and the KBW regional bank index also advancing.
Activision Blizzard rose after Microsoft said it has signed an agreement to keep “Call of Duty” on PlayStation follow-
ing its acquisition.
In addition, Microsoft was granted a two-month pause of its appeal over Britain’s block against the deal to give the parties more time to reach an agreement.
AT&T slumped to a 30-year low after Citi downgraded the telecom operator over risks tied to lead cables left buried in the United States. Verizon shares also dropped to their lowest level in nearly 13 years.The S&P 500 posted 40 new 52-week highs and 4 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite re-
corded 97 new highs and 60 new lows.
Offsetting some of the day’s upbeat tone, a separate report showed weekly jobless claims unexpectedly fell last week, indicating that the labor market remains tight.
Focus also is shifting to the second-quarter U.S. earnings season kicking off this week. Shares of JPMorgan Chase ended up 0.5% ahead of its quarterly results due before the opening bell Friday.
“We might have another quarter here where the positive sentiment will continue,” said Alan Lancz, president of Alan B. Lancz & Associates Inc. in Toledo, Ohio.
“As long as expectations and guidance are in line, that’s what a lot of institutional investors will be looking at.”
Russia said Monday that it was ending an agreement that had allowed Ukraine to export its grain by sea despite Moscow’s naval blockade, upending a deal that had helped to keep global food prices stable and alleviate one element of the global fallout from the war.
Ukraine is a major producer of grain and other foodstuffs, and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said he was “deeply disappointed” by the decision. Millions of people who face hunger, or are struggling, as well as consumers around the world facing a cost of living crisis, will “pay a price,” he said.
“Today’s decision by the Russian Federation will strike a blow to people in need everywhere,” he told journalists.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists earlier Monday that the agreement had been “halted” until Russia’s demands were met.
He added that the decision was not connected to the attack hours earlier on the Kerch Strait Bridge linking Russia to occupied Crimea. Russian officials blamed Ukraine for the bridge attack, but Kyiv has not taken responsibility.
Russia has repeatedly complained about the agreement, which it considers one-sided in Ukraine’s favor. Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Monday issued a statement that emphasized its objections, including what it described as continued Ukrainian “provocations and attacks against Russian civilian and military facilities” in the Black Sea area, and said that the United Nations and Ukraine’s Western allies had not addressed Russian demands.
“Only upon receipt of concrete results, and not promises and assurances, will Russia be ready to consider restoring the ‘deal,’” the statement said.
The agreement, known as the Black Sea Grain Initiative and brokered by the U.N. and Turkey, had been set to expire Monday after a series of short-term extensions.
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said he would speak to President Vladimir Putin of Russia about the agreement and signaled hope that it could be revived.
“Despite the statement today, I believe the president of the Russian Federation, my friend Putin, wants the continuation of this humanitarian bridge,” Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said Moscow had broken its agreement with the U.N. and with Erdogan, rather than with his country itself, given that Ukraine had made a separate deal with the two mediators over grain. Ukraine demands a complete withdrawal of Russian forces from its territory and an end to aggression before any talks can take place.
“Even without the Russian Federation, everything must be done so that we can use this Black Sea corridor,” Zelenskyy said in remarks sent by his press office, adding that Ukraine was ready to restart shipments if the U.N. and Turkey agreed.
The deal successfully eased shortages that resulted from blockades in the first months of the war, which caused global wheat prices to soar. It allowed Ukraine to restart the export of millions of tons of grain that had languished for months, and it has been renewed multiple times, most recently in May. Wheat prices fluctuated Monday, exposing vulnerable countries to the prospect of a new round of food insecurity.
But Moscow has complained that Western sanctions continue to restrict the sale of its own agricultural products, and sought guarantees that would facilitate its exports of grain and fertilizers. In an effort to extend the deal, Guterres
sent Putin proposals last week that he said would “remove hurdles affecting financial transactions” through Russia’s agricultural bank.
Ukraine has exported 32.8 million tons of grain and other food since the initiative began, according to U.N. data. Under the agreement, ships are permitted to pass through shipping lanes controlled by Russian naval vessels, which in effect have blockaded Ukraine’s ports since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. The ships are inspected off the coast of Istanbul on their way out and in, in part to ensure they are not carrying weapons.
Last year, Russia halted participation in inspections that were part of the deal, only to rejoin in a matter of days.
Alarge convoy of vehicles carrying Wagner mercenary troops arrived at a military field camp in Belarus on Monday morning, in what is the private company’s biggest — and most public — showing since its failed rebellion in Russia last month.
Videos shared on social media and analyzed by The New
York Times showed a long column of buses, cargo trucks and cars flying Russian and Wagner flags as it traveled from Russia along a highway toward Asipovichy, which is about 55 miles southeast of the Belarus capital, Minsk. Satellite images confirmed that the convoy had arrived at the camp, rapidly assembled during the last week of June, by noon Monday. This weekend, the Times revealed an uptick of activity at the camp that seemed to foreshadow the arrival of more troops. The camp was set up after a short-lived revolt by the Wagner group in June against Russia’s military leadership. What was missing, until Monday, was the arrival of a larger group of people and vehicles.
On Friday, Belarus’ Ministry of Defense claimed that members of the Wagner group were already training some of its security forces, and released a video showing exercises at a military ground about seven miles from the camp.
The satellite image, collected at 11:12 a.m. Monday, corroborates a video filmed earlier Monday showing dozens of vehicles moving toward the camp on the M5 highway in Babruysk, about
40 miles southeast of the camp. The long column of vehicles includes construction vehicles and buses marked with the letter “Z” — a symbol for Russians who support the invasion of Ukraine — in addition to the flags. The Times confirmed the location of the video and that it is the same convoy seen in the satellite image.
The Belarusian monitoring group Hajun Project reported multiple convoys of Wagner troops moving in Belarus over the last days. Based on the number of tents, the Asipovichy camp would be able to house around 7,500 fighters, which is likely less than Wagner’s overall size.
Monday’s convoy included a large number of minivans and buses for personnel, in contrast to the previous days when the vehicles appear to have contained mostly materials.
After the June rebellion, President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus brokered a deal with Russia affording the mercenaries sanctuary in Belarus. However, the group’s whereabouts had remained a mystery until Monday, when many of them arrived in Belarus.
Years before France was inflamed with anger at the police killing of a teenager during a traffic stop, there was the notorious Théo Luhaka case.
Luhaka, 22, a Black soccer player, was cutting through a known drug-dealing zone in his housing project in a Paris suburb in 2017 when police swept in to conduct identity checks.
Luhaka was wrestled to the ground by three police officers, who hit him repeatedly and sprayed tear gas in his face. When it was over, he was bleeding from a 4-inch tear in his rectum, caused by one of the officers’ expandable batons.
Luhaka’s housing project, and others around Paris, erupted in fury. He was held up as a symbol of what activists had been denouncing for years: discriminatory policing that violently targets minority youth, particularly in France’s poor areas.
And there was a sense that, this time, something would change. President François Hollande visited Luhaka at a hospital. Emmanuel Macron, then a presidential candidate in an election he would win months later, pledged to transform the country’s centralized police system into one more tailored to neighborhoods, so that police officers could recognize locals and “rebuild trust.”
That never happened. Instead, the relationship between the country’s minority populations and its heavy-handed police force worsened, many experts say, as evident in the tumultuous aftermath of the killing late last month of Nahel Merzouk, 17, a French citizen of Algerian and Moroccan descent.
After multiple violent, publicized encounters involving police, a pattern emerged: Each episode led to an outburst of rage and demands for change, followed by a pushback from increasingly powerful police unions and dismissals from the government.
“It’s a repeating cycle, unfortunately,” said Lanna Hollo, a human rights lawyer in Paris who has worked on policing issues for 15 years. “What characterizes France is denial. There is a total denial that there is a structural, systemic problem in the police.”
Calls to overhaul the police go back at least four decades to when thousands of young people of color marched for months in 1983 from Marseille to Paris, over 400 miles, after an officer shot a young community leader of Algerian descent.
Chanting slogans like “the hunt is over,” the marchers demanded changes to police practices that never came. The number of fatal
encounters continued to climb.
France is one of the few Western democracies to have a centralized, national police force that answers directly to the interior minister, often referred to as “France’s top cop.” Its 150,000 members are organized in a topdown structure, with a reputation for brutal enforcement methods.
“In France, the police are increasingly at the service of the government, not the citizens,” said Christian Mouhanna, a French sociologist who studies the police.
In the late 1990s, the French government tried to introduce community policing.
The goal was to “regain a foothold in the suburbs by means other than repression” and build a rapport with locals to prevent crime, said Yves Lefebvre, a police union leader who recalled organizing soccer games between residents and officers.
But the new approach was dropped after only a few years. “Organizing a rugby game for the youth in a neighborhood is good, but it’s not the police’s primary mission,” Nicolas Sarkozy, then France’s interior minister, said in 2003. “The primary mission of the police? Investigations, arrests and the fight against crime.”
Sarkozy then introduced a “policy of numbers,” with officers expected to make a certain number of arrests.
Less than three years later, the suburbs erupted again after the deaths of two teenagers fleeing a police check, in what many saw as a direct consequence of the policy shift. The violent protests prompted the authorities to invest billions in revitalizing the country’s poor suburbs.
But they also fueled calls for more and tougher law enforcement.
“The analysis of the police and interior minister was that if the police had been greater in number, more mobile and better armed, there would not have been riots,” said Sebastian Roché, a policing expert at the country’s National Center for Scientific Research.
Since then, France has passed new laws toughening penalties and expanding police powers almost every year. It extended the use of certain weapons that fire rubber bullets the size of golf balls, which have caused dozens of mutilations and are banned in most European countries.
Fabien Jobard, a political scientist specializing in the police, said this “legislative inflation” was partly aimed at further protecting the police and limiting their accountability.
“It seems that one of the most important tasks of the police is to protect the police,” he said.
The new objectives of tough policing fueled an increase in identity checks, which studies have shown are not effective in identifying criminals and disproportionately target minority youth.
A 2017 investigation by the country’s civil liberties ombudsman found that “young men perceived to be Black or Arab” were 20 times more likely to be checked by the police than the rest of the population. French courts have faulted the government twice for discriminatory police checks.
“They are the backward version of community policing,” Hollo said.
Éric Henry, the spokesperson for Alliance, a major French police union, denied that identity checks were carried out in a discriminatory manner and said that officers were sticking to a legal framework that allows checks of people suspected of criminal activity.
Henry said the deterioration of relations between police and suburban residents stemmed from a rise in crime and a justice system that is not tough enough. “We need to reassert the authority of the state,” he said, calling for the introduction of mandatory minimum sentences for those who attack officers. French authorities said that 800 police officers had been injured in the recent riots.
In the case of Luhaka, the aftermath of his violent arrest followed a well-worn French playbook. Youths from the neighborhood in Aulnay-sous-Bois, a suburb 30 minutes northeast of Paris, protested by setting cars on fire. His neighbors wore T-shirts emblazoned with “Justice for Théo” and organized a march.
The suburb’s mayor, Bruno Beschizza, a former police officer and union spokesperson, said he was shocked and called for building trust between the police and residents. A community group held open discussions and
demanded regular sporting events with locals and officers and an end to arrest quotas, among other things.
“Nothing happened,” said Hadama Traoré, a local activist who defined himself as a revolutionary and led the meetings. He was later convicted of threatening the mayor.
Instead, the municipal police force has grown exponentially, becoming the biggest in the area, with 84 officers — four times that of the nearby, more populated Aubervilliers.
The few times the government has tried to address accusations of racist policing, it has faced an even greater obstacle: the police unions.
In recent years, during clashes with the Yellow Vest movement — a working-class revolt — as well as more recent protests opposing changes to France’s pension plan, the French government has increasingly relied on police to control crowds.
That dependence has enabled police unions — a powerful political force elected by nearly 80% of all police officers — to secure regular pay increases and, more pointedly, block any change that would limit police powers, experts say.
Last month, after the police shooting of Merzouk, Alliance and another police union announced that they were at war with the rioters, whom they deemed “vermins” and “savage hordes.”
Since Luhaka, now 28, had his encounter with the police, his injury has been determined to be permanent, and he has been unable to work.
While the officers involved in his arrest received no internal disciplinary sanctions, three of them face criminal charges in a case scheduled for court in January — almost seven years later.
“This trial is super important symbolically,” said Eléonore Luhaka, Luhaka’s eldest sister. “If the trial is favorable, then it will free many more people to speak out. It will send a message that justice can also be found in poor neighborhoods.”
Three months ago it appeared that China’s economy was on track to recover relatively quickly after being closed off to the world during the pandemic. Consumers were spending again. Exports picked up. Even China’s beleaguered housing market gave hints it was stabilizing.
That is no longer the case. Official data released Monday revealed that the annual pace of growth in China’s economy tumbled to just a little over 3% in the spring, well below the government’s target.
Now the faltering economy appears to have helped prompt a shift in the willingness of senior Chinese officials to engage in diplomatic talks with geopolitical rivals abroad, and to show more openness on economic policy at home.
The change in tone is particularly visible in China’s relations with the United States. Despite several years of fraying ties and concerted efforts to become less dependent on one another, the two countries remain closely linked economically, together accounting for two-fifths of global output.
In the past month, China has welcomed three senior U.S. officials to Beijing, including John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, who arrived Sunday, and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who held 10 hours of meetings with top Chinese officials. Up to three Chinese ministers are expected to travel to Washington in the coming weeks, as the two countries have begun discussing everything from climate change to military issues.
The Chinese government has also been on a charm offensive directed at domestic and international business leaders.
During the China Development Forum in March and continuing through the World Economic Forum last month in Tianjin, Li Qiang, the country’s premier and second-highest official, offered his personal reassurances that China is open for business.
Li met Wednesday with China’s big tech companies to encourage them to hire more
workers, in a signal that a nearly three-year push to assert greater political control over the sector may be replaced with an emphasis on economic growth. The powerful National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planning agency, praised the companies the same day for their investments.
“China’s decision making is as hidden from our view as it has ever been, but China’s economic weakness is obvious for all to see, even China’s leaders, which can’t help but be one source of the recent moderation in foreign policy and willingness to engage Washington,” said Scott Kennedy, a China specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Security concerns remain paramount.
Still, analysts noted that any softening in approach remained limited to economic or business policies that do not involve China’s national security, which has become a defining feature of Chinese policy in recent years. And there are few signs that the top leader, Xi Jinping, has endorsed a broad policy shift toward the United States, a step that would be necessary for any change to take root.
On Saturday, China announced that it would hold joint naval and air force exercises with the Russian military in the Sea of Japan. And Xi himself gave a speech on July 6 urging the military to “break new ground” in war preparedness, warning that “China’s security situation is facing rising instability and uncertainty,” according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
China has also taken
steps this month that could undermine its reputation as a reliable link in global supply chains. It said it would limit exports of rare materials needed to make semiconductors, in a step widely seen as retaliation for U.S. limits on the sale of advanced semiconductors to China.
“Domestic risks are primary, so he’s not looking to take on more risks,” said Jessica Chen Weiss, a Cornell University political scientist specializing in Sino-American relations. “But if he’s punched, he’s going to punch back.”
Mao Ning, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said at the ministry’s daily briefing Monday that China’s economic vitality was undiminished and its development of relations with countries around the world had not changed. “We also hope the U.S. side can work with China to push bilateral relations back to the track of healthy and stable growth,” she said.
Some Chinese experts said they also don’t believe China’s recent economic troubles have constrained the country’s approach to foreign engagement.
Da Wei, the director of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University in Beijing, said the United States was unlikely to change its policies aimed at curbing China’s technology advances. So China has little incentive to make compromises regardless of broader economic issues, he said.
“Talking about the short term, like the recent thaw in relations between the U.S. and China, I don’t think the economy has much effect,” he said.
China’s economy needs the world.
But for China, the latest batch of data suggests that economic pressures could continue to intrude on geopolitical objectives. A key in-
dex of housing prices declined last month, sapping consumers of wealth. Exports — a crucial driver of China’s economy — are suffering.
And the investment picture has gotten murky. American companies have complained that it has become more difficult to do business in China amid the government’s focus on national security. Authorities have conducted raids of firms and detained personnel, particularly among due diligence companies, which multinationals hire to check on Chinese companies that are potential business partners or acquisitions.
The geopolitical environment is central to the decisions that companies and investors make about whether to put money into China or rely on it as a base for exports.
China has a lot at stake economically. Tens of millions of Chinese jobs depend on global trade. Its sales of manufactured goods to other countries are more than triple its purchases of these goods from other countries.
Those critical trade ties extend beyond the United States. China’s tilt toward Russia on the Ukraine war has severely hurt its relations with Europe. China’s exports to the European Union slumped 14.2% in June from a year earlier.
The Baltic countries — Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, all especially hostile to Russia — have quit China’s diplomatic process for talks with Eastern Europe. Lithuania has flirted with closer ties with Taiwan, an island democracy over which Beijing claims sovereignty. China retaliated last year by severely reducing trade with all three Baltic countries, particularly halting almost all imports from Lithuania. That angered the rest of the EU.
China has tried to patch up frayed ties in the past few months with an even more extensive exchange of top-level visits with countries like France and Germany.
It might be too late. Germany issued a new national strategy Thursday that called for reducing economic dependence on China and exhorted China to stop using its economic leverage in geopolitics. Germany also pledged close relations with the United States and urged China to distance itself from Russia.
China has relied heavily on interrupting its trade with other countries in the last few years to try to persuade them to accept Beijing’s policies, doing so with Australia after that country suggested an investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. But China has actually dropped import prohibitions on a range of Australian goods in recent months.
“As it is now the world’s largest trading nation, China has a special responsibility for making the system work,” said Alan Wolff, a former deputy director general of the World Trade Organization.
In the 2002 movie “Simone,” Al Pacino plays a director whose star, played by Winona Ryder, walks out on him after saying her trailer on set isn’t grand enough. Disgusted, Pacino’s character secretly creates an obedient computer-generated actress to replace his temperamental one. Simone is a perfect-looking blonde, named after the computer program that crafted her, Simulation One.
But Simone is so successful — lavished with Oscars, adored by fans — that she overshadows her director, who becomes jealous and gets rid of her with a computer virus. But he has made her so realistic, he is charged with her murder.
Be careful what you wish for, Hollywood studios, as you mess with the primal force of AI.
Tinseltown is going dark, as the actors join the writers on the picket line. Hollywood’s century-old business model was upended by COVID and also by streaming, which swept in like an occupying army. Then streaming hit a ceiling, and Netflix and Co. scrambled to pivot.
With a dramatically different economic model shaped by transformative technologies — artificial intelligence is a key issue in the strike — the writers and actors want a
new deal. And they deserve it.
The New York Times’ Brooks Barnes describes the mood of the town as très French Revolution, with writers and actors seething in fury over the Marie Antoinette antics of CEOs and studio chiefs collecting humongous paychecks, frolicking in Cannes and jetting to Sun Valley.
Besides pay fairness, writers want to make sure that they’re not rendered irrelevant by algorithms, and actors want to prevent their digital likenesses from coming under new ownership.
It’s a complex issue. Even as writers are demanding that studios not replace them with AI, some studio execs are no doubt wondering if the writers are being hypocritical: Will they start using AI to help them finish their scripts on deadline?
Chatbots are so proficient — and growing more so every second — that many studio suits are probably itching to bypass the middleman screenwriter.
As Puck’s Matthew Belloni said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” “You can say, you know, ‘Here’s the “Social Network” script. Write me a script, but make it about Elon Musk, not Mark Zuckerberg.’”
Jaron Lanier, the father of virtual reality, has long warned that we were cruising for a bruising. As he told me nine years ago, the lords of the cloud were acting as if they had been inventing a digital brain when what they were really doing was making a mashup of real brains.
He said that when machines translated one language into another, they were leeching from human translators, taking matching phrases from aggregated data; those translators should have the right to negotiate for compensation for unwittingly feeding the AI brain.
line.’ That’s not quite feasible today, but I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be. It’s just math. And we can do it.”
He said that the Hollywood strikers are just the tip of the iceberg: “People say, ‘Why should we help these fancy, lefty, very well-paid actors? Screw them.’ But if you’re making a living driving a vehicle or working in a place where you use heavy machines like an auto body shop, all kinds of jobs, this is going to create the legal precedents that could protect you in the future, too.”
Almost nobody is immune to the risk that AI could devalue their economic position, even though AI will also have widespread benefits.
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He also has made the point that Facebook and other social media companies have been extracting our precious data for years, without giving us payment or any of the other rights a first-class citizen would normally have. He said it would be unfair if Hollywood studios created fake versions of actors and then didn’t pay them.
The compensation issue is now center stage. Sarah Silverman joined class-action lawsuits against OpenAI and Meta accusing them of copyright infringement, saying that they “ingested” her work to train their AIs.
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The ingesting and synthesizing of words, images and music is going on in giant gulps. Indeed, the day is fast approaching when the digerati will be able to make a whole fake movie.
As Lanier said, “They might say, ‘Make me a movie that’s similar to Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible.” However, make sure that none of the synthetic actors can be mistaken for known actors and make sure that we’re not going to get sued, but let’s go right up to the
“Tech companies would be helped by bringing the whole society into the process of improving how models perform using economic incentives,” Lanier said. But, he added, if we get it wrong on “data dignity,” society will “turn into a misery fast enough.”
“This is really for everybody,” he said of the effort not to be swallowed by AI. “It might not seem like it, but it really, really is.”
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LA FORTALEZA – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia firmó el lunes el Proyecto de Administración 81, el cual propone un sistema de credencialización centralizado para proveedores de salud del Plan de Salud del Gobierno de Puerto Rico y los planes médicos privados, mediante un formulario uniforme y un sistema digital centralizado.
“La ley que estoy firmando hoy busca hacer justicia a los proveedores de salud, eliminando obstáculos burocráticos a su contratación por parte de las aseguradoras y el Plan de Salud del Gobierno”, dijo Pierluisi Urrutia en conferencia de prensa.
“Así como a los pacientes al facilitar que más médicos estén accesibles para brindar los servicios de salud que tanto necesita nuestro pueblo”, añadió.
La nueva ley enmienda la Ley de la Administración de Seguros de Salud de Puerto Rico y el Código de Seguros de Salud de Puerto Rico para unificar y agilizar el proceso de credencialización, eliminando duplici-
dades y estandarizando la documentación requerida para la verificación de credenciales.
El comisionado de Seguros, Alexander Adams Vega, destacó que la legislación propuesta por el gobernador fue aprobada de manera unánime, reflejando la importancia de facilitar que más médicos y profesionales de la salud estén accesibles para brindar sus servicios.
Para el secretario de Salud, Carlos Mellado López,
el sistema centralizado de credencialización facilitará la incorporación de nuevos proveedores de servicios de salud al Plan Vital y reducirá la necesidad de que proporcionen información redundante, logrando un proceso más ágil y eficiente.
Este proceso de centralización entrará en vigor en el segundo semestre del 2024. Durante la primera fase, se credencializará a los médicos, y en la segunda fase, el proceso se extenderá a las facilidades de salud y servicios auxiliares.
“Estos cambios permitirán a los médicos recién graduados y médicos activos en su práctica enviar la información necesaria para revisar sus credenciales, en un solo lugar bajo una plataforma digital”, comentó Adams Vega.
El gobernador concluyó reafirmando el compromiso de su administración para retener en Puerto Rico tanto a médicos como demás proveedores de salud. “Reconocemos que minimizar la carga administrativa sobre los proveedores en el proceso de credencialización es vital para lograr ese propósito”.
SAN JUAN – La Comisión para la Seguridad en el Tránsito (CST) lanzó el lunes un esfuerzo educativo para concienciar a los conductores sobre los riesgos de exceder los límites de velocidad, bajo el lema: “Si no obedeces, pagas”.
“Llevaremos a cabo esta iniciativa desde hoy hasta el 30 de julio, complementándola con operativos policiales para intervenir y multar a los infractores”, indicó Luis Rodríguez Díaz, director ejecutivo de la CST en comunicación escrita.
Los mensajes de esta campaña están dirigidos principalmente a hombres entre los 18 y 36 años, un grupo
que, según Rodríguez Díaz, suele conducir con más prisa que otros segmentos de la población. “Las probabilidades de un choque crecen con el aumento de la velocidad”, recalcó.
El año pasado, se registraron 88 fatalidades en Puerto Rico asociadas a excesos de velocidad, lo que representa el 32 por ciento de las 271 muertes en carreteras.
La Policía Estatal, con el apoyo de las municipales, implementará un plan de trabajo de patrullaje intensivo en toda la isla. El costo de las horas extra para la Policía Estatal y las municipales participantes asciende a 273 mil 419 dólares con 99 centavos.
“Con esta campaña y nuestra alianza con los efectivos policiales pretendemos que nuestra ciudadanía en-
tienda claramente que la velocidad representa un riesgo en cualquier lugar y a toda hora”, concluyó Rodríguez Díaz.
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RECIBO – El director ejecutivo de la Región Norte de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados
(AAA), José Rivera Ortiz, informó que personal de la
agencia coordina para el martes, 18 de julio, trabajos en el sistema eléctrico de los pozos Manatí 1 y 2 en este Municipio.
Sobre estos trabajos, el funcionario explicó que, “mañana estaremos trabajando mejoras en el sistema eléctrico de los pozos. Se estará trabajando en el panel de control interno como parte de las mejoras a esta instalación en beneficio de los clientes en Manatí”.
Debido a los trabajos, los pozos estarán fuera de operación el martes, 18 y se extenderá hasta el miér-
coles, 19 de julio, de no ocurrir mayores contratiempos. Clientes en el sector El Cachete, casco urbano, La Quebrada, Cortés y zonas aledañas en este Municipio podrían experimentar interrupción del servicio de agua potable. En conjunto con la Oficina Municipal para el Manejo de Emergencias, se coordina el acarreo de agua potable por las zonas afectadas.
“Exhorto a los clientes a que, una vez restablecido el servicio de agua potable, hiervan el agua para consumo por al menos tres minutos”, concluyó el funcionario.
Jane Birkin, who helped define chic female sexuality of the 1970s as an actress in arty and erotic European movies and in her relationship — equal parts romantic and artistic — with singer Serge Gainsbourg, died Sunday in Paris. Birkin, who later became known for inspiring one of the best known lines of luxury handbags, was 76.
Her death was confirmed by President Emmanuel Macron of France, who called her “a French icon” in a message on Twitter. The French news media reported that Birkin had been found dead at her home but that the cause was not immediately known.
The child of a famously beautiful actress and a socially connected British naval officer, Birkin led a life guided by many happy accidents.
While she was on a flight in 1984, a plastic bag in which she was keeping her possessions broke, leading her to complain aloud that Hermès did not make a bag that could fit all her things. The man sitting next to her happened to be Jean-Louis Dumas, then the head designer of Hermès (and later its CEO). The company released the Birkin bag line the same year — in just the large size she had requested.
Standard Birkin bags now sell for $10,000, and the difficulties of obtaining one — given a complex manufacturing process and a deliberately rationed supply to boutiques — have given the bag the cachet of exclusivity.
Her relationship with Gainsbourg began just as fortuitously, in 1968. She was in her early 20s, her first marriage having fallen apart, when, without particular renown as an actress and without speaking a word of French, she managed to be cast in a French movie, “Slogan,” starring Gainsbourg.
The two fell in love, but Birkin did not see a way to remain long in France. Then, dining out one night, she had a chance encounter with French director Jacques Deray, got hired to act in a movie of his, stayed in the country and solidified her relationship with Gainsbourg.
She lived in France for the rest of her life, and her engagement with Gainsbourg and his music proved equally enduring.
The most notable product of their collaboration and romance was their 1969 hit
recording of Gainsbourg’s song “Je t’aime… moi non plus” (“I Love You… Me Neither”).
In the song, a duet, Gainsbourg speaks of sex in a low, conversational voice as Birkin confesses her love in suggestive murmurs and moans and the high-pitched singing of an ingénue.
The song was condemned by the Vatican and banned in several countries and by the BBC television network. But it sold millions of copies.
Nearly 50 years later, in 2018, Birkin was still singing music by Gainsbourg, by then on a world tour of orchestral versions of his songs.
“If I am singing in Argentina in two weeks’ time,” she told The Guardian, “it is because of ‘Je t’aime.’”
Jane Mallory Birkin was born in London on Dec. 14, 1946, to Judy Campbell, an actress who gained renown for performing for British troops with Noël Coward during World War II, and Cmdr. David Birkin of the Royal Navy.
In 2021, her father’s exploits during World War II were recounted in “A Dangerous Enterprise,” a book by Tim Spicer, a former British military officer. David Birkin’s duties included navigating boats on moonless nights across the English Channel to bring to safety Allied spies, stranded airmen and escaped prisoners of war who had
found themselves in France.
Jane Birkin, at 18, married British composer John Barry, known for arranging the trademark theme to James Bond movies, and they had a daughter, Kate. At 20, Birkin appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni’s hit 1966 movie, “Blow Up,” an erotic tale of a London fashion photographer. She played a fashion model — the credits listed her as only The Blonde — and gained some attention for a risqué nude scene.
“Had it all worked out with John Barry, I would never have been curious to know what was going on anywhere else,” Birkin told The Guardian in 2017. “I would have just gone on being his wife. I would have been delighted. But because he went off with someone else, and I was left with Kate, I had to find a job quite fast.”
That led to her audition for “Slogan.”
The movie that kept her in France was “La Piscine” (“The Swimming Pool”), starring Alain Delon and Romy Schneider. (It found unexpected renewed popularity in the United States in 2021.) A sun-soaked film of sex and jealousy with many shots of scantily clad actors, the movie proved to be an effective showcase for Birkin’s longlimbed beauty.
Her romance with Gainsbourg captivated the French public. She was the young doe-eyed expat, he the aging but still virile
artistic genius. The relationship lasted for more than a decade, ending when she left him in the early 1980s for French film director Jacques Doillon. Gainsbourg died in 1991 at 62.
Though Birkin would later speak selfdeprecatingly about her role as Gainsbourg’s muse, she embraced becoming “the keeper of the Gainsbourg flame,” as The New York Times labeled her in 2018.
She described to the Times connections between the music he wrote for her and work by classical composers like Frédéric Chopin and Johannes Brahms.
“I would have thought that he was probably France’s most modern writer,” she said. “He invented a new language, he cut words in two like Cole Porter.”
Birkin released “Oh! Pardon tu dormais…,” her first album of her own songs written in English, in 2021. “The results are an emotional tour de force from an artist who has never gotten her musical due outside of France,” music writer Ben Cardew wrote in a review for Pitchfork.
Birkin also continued to act, including in films by Agnès Varda and plays by Patrice Chéreau. She was also popular in France as an activist for women’s and LGBTQ rights as well as for her British accent when speaking French, which the French found endearing.
“The most Parisian of the English has left us,” the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, wrote in a message on Twitter on Sunday. “We will never forget her songs, her laughs and her incomparable accent.”
Birkin had a mild stroke in 2021 and had recently canceled a series of concerts because of health issues.
She is survived by two daughters, one with Gainsbourg and the other with Doillon: singer-actresses Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, each of whom has, like their mother, inspired designers and followers of fashion. Her other daughter, Kate Barry, a photographer, died at 46 in 2013 in a fall from a window of her fourth-floor Paris apartment.
Jane Birkin discovered that her romantic separation from Gainsbourg did not dim their collaboration. He kept writing new songs intended for her until he died.
After their breakup, “you could talk back to him for once,” she told The Guardian. “You were not just his creation any more.”
The romance of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg captivated the French public: She was the young doe-eyed expat, he the aging but still virile artistic genius.
bomb — ending the director’s career — but the print became lost in a warehouse fire.
On the eve of the new millennium, somehow, nerdy Oklahomans Shawn Gunderson (Quinn Lord) and his best friend, Vik Kapoor (Ronak Gandhi), have found a copy of the film on tape. They watch the anime with Miki (Christina Higa), a Japanese transfer student. The lost movie ends up turning Shawn into Ultraman and Vik into a Kaiju. With Miki, they must defeat the awakening gods and the local cult trying to revive them.
What “Iké Boys” lacks in budget, it makes up for in ingenuity and spirit. When the big action sequences happen, McEver turns to vivid animation to fill in the blanks. The film’s lovably corny Kaiju costume recalls the Toho monster movies of the 1960s, and when the big emotional beats arrive, this tight, emotive cast delivers the theme of being yourself no matter what with aplomb.
‘Transfusion’
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By ROBERT DANIELSFrom angst-ridden military dads to the threat of doomsday cults, this month’s action picks push their heroes to the edge.
‘The Channel’
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Since even-keeled Jamie (Clayne Crawford), an Army veteran, returned home to New Orleans, times have been difficult: His daughter needs an operation. When his impulsive brother, Mic (Max Martini), approaches him about a bank robbery job, the financial gain becomes too much to ignore.
From its winding chase sequences to its immersive camera work, particularly the use of hand-helds, screenwriter and director William Kaufman’s “The Channel” is a brisk, white-knuckle crime flick.
The heist scene is the gripping centerpiece in a film about the bond held by brothers. It sees Mic and Jamie entering the bank with the perfect plan, but upon leaving they’re ambushed by the FBI. The ensuing shootout, laced
together by editor Travis Medina’s riveting cuts, results in a mountain of bullets and the pair on the run. With the two people the pair betrayed hot on their heels, the brothers must find a way to keep the money, and their lives.
‘Cult Hero’
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More action parody than horror film, the hilarious, gory “Cult Hero,” from director Jesse Thomas Cook, features a character who’d feel at home in a cheesy 1980s B-movie. Double-gun-toting, sunglasses-wearing Dale Domazar (Ry Barrett) hosts a show called “Cult Buster” where he travels the country trying to uncover dangerous sects. But when an episode goes bad — resulting in the mass death of an entire clan — Dale loses his fame and money and winds up living in a musky trailer. It’s not until self-absorbed real estate agent Kallie Jones (Liv Collins) approaches him to spring her husband from a cult led by Master Jagori (Tony Burgess) that he sees a chance for a comeback.
Apart from the brawling sequences — Master Jagori repeatedly sends his followers to murder Kallie and Dale — what really makes “Cult Hero” stand out are the committed performances. Barrett’s sharp timing, cheesy appearance and oversize bravado recall Steven Seagal or Hulk Hogan, while Collins delivers inspired quips and sight gags. The film even has a bopping revivalist folk song that’ll keep your foot tapping as the body count climbs.
‘Iké Boys’
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This apocalyptic film from Eric McEver is visually rich. It recounts how a Japanese director decided to make a movie about his premonition that a cadre of old gods imprisoned at the center of Earth might one day return to annihilate humanity. He makes an anime to instruct the viewer how to defeat these beings. Not only did the film
This film, which, like “The Channel,” is about a veteran who’s in too deep, features Sam Worthington as widowed father Ryan Logan. A couple of years prior, Ryan’s pregnant wife died in a car crash, forcing Ryan to retire from the military to care for his son, Billy (Edward Carmody), who survived the accident. Now, Ryan’s job as a wine salesman barely brings in enough money to pay for his son’s schooling, and Billy continues to brush against the law, leading to him wrecking a rich lawyer’s car.
To earn some cash, Ryan turns to his old Army buddy Johnny (Matt Nable), who proposes they rob an apartment containing money that belongs to Johnny’s crime boss.
Nable also wrote and directed the film, which has sturdy action sequences, like a sharp shootout by Ryan and Johnny against the crime boss. But also, with themes like PTSD, grief and self-harm, the film thrives as an affecting, understated family drama, boosted by an unforgettable, tender performance by Worthington.
‘The Village’
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Not all heroes are celebrated. We get that sense at the beginning of Michihito Fujii’s film. Scenes of a young boy named Yu watching a Noh production are intercut with his father preparing to set himself ablaze after killing an industrialist who was planning to move a waste management plant to the village. The factory still came.
Because of his father’s actions, the adult Yu (Ryusei Yokohama) is reviled around town. To pay down his mother’s gambling debt, he works tirelessly day and night burying toxic waste in landfills for the plant. When his childhood sweetheart Misaki (Haru Kuroki) returns to town wanting to start a relationship, the opportunity for a better life arises. But the past doesn’t die easily.
A taut crime film, “The Village” features big bad guys like the hateful Toru (Wataru Ichinose) and crummy industrialists using gangster tactics. But it’s Yu’s internal conflict, whether to become a whistle-blower or remain the plant’s well-compensated puppet, that allows the film’s ethical edge to deeply embed itself in the viewer.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ ZAMARIE
PONCE FANTAUZZI Peticionaria
EX-PARTE
Civil Núm.: MZ2023CV00665.
Sala: 307. Sobre: EXPEDICIÓN DE CARTAS TESTAMENTARIAS. AVISO DE ACREEDORES.
A: TODO POSIBLE ACREEDOR DEL FINADO, RAMÓN ANTONIO PONCE FANTAUZZI, t.c.c. RAMÓN
PONCE FANTAUZZI o RAMÓN PONCE, QUIEN MURIÓ TESTADO EL 3 DE MARZO DE 2023 EN MAYAGÜEZ, PUERTO RICO.
POR LA PRESENTE se le informa a cualquier acreedor del finado Ramón Antonio Ponce Fantauzzi, t.c.c. Ramón Ponce Fantauzzi o Ramón Ponce, quien murió testado el 3 de marzo de 2023, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, que si tiene una acreencia en su contra deberá presentársela a su Albacea, Zamarie Ponce Fantauzzi, con los correspondientes comprobantes bajo juramento en su dirección postal en De Diego 55 Este, Oficina 206, Mayagüez, 00680, dentro del plazo de seis meses de publicado el aviso. Quedan advertidos los potenciales acreedores del causante de que si la Albacea dudase de la validez de su reclamación la rechazará, notificándoselo por escrito, quienes quedarán expeditos su derecho para incoar la acción contra la administración del caudal ante el tribunal competente. Asimismo, que la Albacea no le será personalmente responsable a un acreedor que no hubiese presentado la reclamación dentro del plazo aquí dispuesto por los caudales o dinero que hubiera entregado a cuentas de legítimas reclamaciones, legados o hijuelas antes de intentarse la acción, sin que ello afecte su derecho de ir directamente contra los herederos por el monto de su reclamación hasta el importe de lo recibido en pago de la herencia, si la misma no está prescrita. Arts. 594 y 595 del Código de Enjuiciamiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. §§2542 y 2543.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal hoy día 14 de junio de 2023. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. REBECA MEDINA FIGUEROA,
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. LA ELECTRONICA LLC
Plaintiff, v. EMPRESAS OMAJEDE, INC.
Defendant.
Civil No. 17-02372 (JAG). Re: COLLECTION OF MONIES; FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND OTHER COLLATERAL. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: EMPRESAS OMAJEDE, INC. AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
WHEREAS: On August 3, 2022, the Judgment (the “Judgment”) was entered in favor of plaintiff now LA ELECTRONICA LLC (“Electronica”) against defendant Empresas Omajede, Inc. (the “Defendant”). Under the Judgment, this Court concluded that the Defendant had defaulted on its obligations, had failed to pay the amounts due therein, further concluding that, as of July 18, 2022, Defendant owed the sum of $3,504,735.43, which would continue to accrue interest until payment is made in full. On June 21, 2023, this Court entered an Order for Execution of Judgment (the “Order of Execution”), designating Mr. Joel Ronda Feliciano as Special Master (the “Special Master”) for the execution of the Judgment pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 53(a)(1)(C). On June 22, 2023, this Court entered, in accordance with the Order of Execution, a Writ of Execution (the “Writ of Execution”). The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, 2 and the Writ of Execution, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash, or certified or bank manager check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to Electronica, the following properties, as described in the Spanish language: I. Property 11,660 RÚSTICA: Terreno
en el Barrio Monacillos, del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, compuesto de tres punto doscientos ochenta y siete (3.287) cuerdas, equivalentes a una hectárea, veintinueve áreas y diecinueve centiáreas.
En linderos: NORTE, con Rafael Nevárez; SUR, con Antonio Cosme; ESTE, nueva Carretera Estatal número 1 de concreto que va de Río Piedras a Caguas; OESTE, con una quebrada que la separa de terrenos de Antonio Emmanuelli, hoy el Pueblo de Puerto Rico. Enclava una edificación de concreto para fines comerciales y de oficina Property number 11,660 is recorded at page 204 of volume 301 of Monacillos, Puerto Rico Property Registry, Third Section of San Juan. WHEREAS: Property 11,660 is encumbered by itself by Mortgage I (as defined below), which Electronica is seeking to foreclose, as described below: (i) Mortgage securing mortgage note in favor of Banco de Ponce, or to its order, in the principal sum of $3,300,000.00 with fluctuating interest, due on demand, constituted pursuant to Deed Number 3, executed in San Juan Puerto Rico, on February 27, 1987, before Notary Public Luis E. Dubon Jr., recorded at page 6 of volume 679 of Monacillos, Property 11,660, 10th recordation (“Mortgage I”). Mortgage I was modified pursuant to Deed of Modification of Mortgage Number 41, executed on July 30, 1999, of Notaiy Public Ronald L. Rosenbaun, recorded at page 5 of volume 679 of Monacillos, Property 11,660, marginal note of 10th recordation, Deed of Modification of Mortgage Number 7, executed on March 21, 2003, of Notary Public Arquelio Rivera Rodriguez, recorded at page 7 of volume 679 of Monacillos, Property 11,660, marginal note of 11th recordation, and by Deed of Modification and Interruption of Mortgage Number 418 executed on June 8, 2006, of Notary Public Juan C. Ortega Torres recorded at page 66 of volume 1,076 of Monacillos, Property 11,660, 13th recordation, as rectified by Deed of Rectification Number 543, executed on October 8, 2008, of Notary Public Gary E. Biaggi Silva. 3 Property 11,660 is encumbered by itself by the following junior liens: (i) Ratification of lease agreement in favor of Secretario del Plan de Emergencia por un Mundo Mejor, Inc., also known as Movimiento por un Mundo Mejor, Inc. dated September 1, 1998, executed a real estate private contract for commercial space of 14.03 of squa-
re feet in the sub-basement for a term of 72 months equal to 6 years and renewable for 48 additional months equal to 4 years by request of the lessee; with a rental fee of $5,612.00 annually, the first 5 years; and $7,015.00 annually the next 5 years for atotal of $63,135.00 for 10 years of the duration of the contract, resulting from deed number 2 of ratification of lease agreement, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 17, 1999, before Notary (ii) Mortgage securing mortgage note in favor of WesternBank Puerto Rico, or to its order, in the principal sum of $115,479.00 with interest rate of 8.24% annually with preferential rate, due on demand constituted pursuant to deed number 419, executed in San Juan Puerto Rico, on June 8, 2006, before Notary Juan Carlos Ortega Torres, recorded at page 66 of volume 1,076 of Monacillos, Property 11,660, 12th recordation. The FIRST public sale of Property 11,660 shall be held on August 4, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $3,330,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction of Property 11,660 shall be held on the on August 11, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $2,220,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction of Property 11,660 will be held on the on August 18, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $1,650,000.00, which is onehalf of the minimum bid in the first public sale. II. Property 1,624 RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Carraízo de Trujillo Alto, compuesto de 15 cuerdas y 94 céntimas de otra equivalentes a 6 hectáreas, 26 áreas, 50 centiáreas y 42 decimiliáreas . Colindante por el NORTE en parte con Esteban Reyes, en parte con Pilar Báez Rivera; por el SUR en parte con Antonia Estrada y Sucesión 4 de Bonifacio Estrada y en parte con la Quebrada Higuerito que la separa de los terrenos de Jesús Navarro antes hoy Adolfo Diaz por el OESTE con Esteban Reyes y Pilar Báez Rivera y por el ESTE con el resto de la finca principal de donde este predio se segrega hoy Petrona Báez Rivera. Contiene casa de madera terrrera y
techada de zinc, dedicada a vivienda. Property 1,624 is recorded at page 1 of volume 25 of Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico Property Registry, Fourth Section of San Juan. Property 1,624 is encumbered by itself by Mortgage II (as defined below), which Electronica is seeking to foreclose as described below:
(i) Mortgage securing mortgage note in favor of WesternBank Puerto Rico, or to its order, in the principal sum of $330,000.00 with interest of 2 points over “Prime Rate”, due on June 29, 2035, constituted pursuant to deed number 42, executed in San Juan Puerto Rico, on June 29, 2005, before Notary Public Jose Hector Vivas, recorded at Karibe volume of Trujillo Alto, Property 1,624, 8th recordation, as Abbreviated Seat, the lines extended on March 7, 2018 by virtue of Act 216 of December 27, 2010 (“Mortgage II”). The FIRST public sale of Property 1,624 shall be held on August 4, 2023, at 10:05 a.m. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $330,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction of Property 1,624 shall be held on the on August 11, 2023, at 10:05 a.m. the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $220,000.00, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction of Property 1,624 will be held on the on August 18, 2023, at 10:05 a.m., the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $165,000.00, which is onehalf of the minimum bid in the first public sale. 5 III. Property 2,214 RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Carraízo de Trujillo Alto, compuesto de 6 cuerdas , equivalentes a 2 hectáreas 35 áreas y 82 centiáreas. Colindantes por el NORTE con resto de la finca principal de donde este predio se segrega propiedad de Petrona Báez Rivera; por el SUR con terrenos de Jesús Navarro y de Juan Navarro, separados en parte por la quebrada Higuerito y en parte con terrenos hoy de Pedro Báez Rivera por el OESTE con Sofía Báez Rivera y por el ESTE con la quebrada Higuerito que la separa de terrenos hoy de Pedro Báez Rivera. Property number 2,214, recorded at page 232 of volume 38 of Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico Property Registry, Fourth Section of San Juan. Property 2,214 is encumbered by itself by Mort-
gage III (as defined below), which Electronica is seeking to foreclose as described below:
(i) Mortgage securing mortgage note in favor of WestrnBank Puerto Rico, or to its order, in the principal sum of $40,000.00 with interest of 2 points over
“Prime Rate”, due on June 29, 2035, constituted pursuant to deed number 43, executed in San Juan Puerto Rico, on June 29, 2005, before Notary Public Jose Hector Vivas, recorded at Karibe volume of Trujillo Alto, Property 2,214, 8 recordation, as Abbreviated Seat, the lines extended on March 7, 2018 by virtue of Act 216 of December 27, 2010 (“Mortgage III”). The FIRST public sale of Property 2,214 shall be held on August 4, 2023, at 10:10 a.m. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $40,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction of Property 2,214 shall be held on the on August 11, 2023, at 10:10 a.m. the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $26,666.67, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction of Property 2,214 will be held on the on August 18, 2023, at 10:10 6 a.m., the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $20,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. IV. Property
1,625 RUSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Carraízo de Trujillo Alto, compuesto de 6 cuerdas y 69 centésimas de otra cuerda , equivalentes a dos hectáreas sesenta y dos áreas , noventa y cuatro centiáreas y treinticinco decimiliáreas. Colindantes por el NORTE en parte con el camino de la finca y en parte con terrenos de Rosario Báez Rivera; por el SUR con Reinaldo Betancourt Viera por el OESTE con Reinaldo Betancourt Viera y por el ESTE con la quebrada Higuerito que separa esta finca de terrenos de Pedro Báez Rivera. Property 1,625 is recorded at page 5 of volume 25 of Trujillo Alto, Property Registry, Fourth Section of San Juan. Property 1,625 is encumbered by itself by Mortgage IV (defined below), which Electronica is seeking to foreclose as described below:
(i) Mortgage securing mortgage note in favor of WesternBank Puerto Rico, or to its order, in the principal sum of $85,000.00 with interest of 2 points over “Prime Rate”, due on June 29, 2035, constituted pursuant to
deed number 44, executed in San Juan Puerto Rico, on June 29, 2005, before Notary Public Jose Hector Vivas, recorded at Karibe volume of Trujillo Alto, Property 1,625, 7th recordation, as Abbreviated Seat, the lines extended on August 22, 2005 before Seat 683 of Diary 432 (“Mortgage IV”). The FIRST public sale of Property 1,625 shall be held on August 4, 2023, at 10:15 a.m. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $85,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction of Property 1,625 shall be held on the on August 11, 2023, at 10:15 a.m. the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $56,666.67, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction of Property 1,625 will be held on the on August 18, 2023, at 10:15 7 a.m., the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $42,500.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens, if any, with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the properties to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified or bank manager checks, except in case the properties are sold and adjudicated to Electronica, in which case the amount of the bid made by Electronica shall be credited and deducted from its credit; Electronica being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. If the third auction is deserted, Electronica may proceed to coordinate the execution of a deed of conveyance with the Special Master of the public sale, to take title of the properties in full satisfaction of the Judgment pursuant to the Registry of the Property Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. WHE-
REAS: said sale to be conducted by the Special Master pursuant to the Order of Execution. Compliance with all foreclosure proceedings is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico pursuant to article 107 of the Registry of the Property Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, (30 L.P.R.A. § 6144), and the corresponding deed of conveyance and possession to the properties will be executed and delivered by the Special 8 Master after delivery of such Order of Confirmation. Once the properties are adjudicated in payment of the credit guaranteeing the mortgages, and the price does not exceed the value thereof, all junior liens must be canceled provided that said junior creditors be notified of the public sale of said properties. For further information, reference is made to the Judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on July 3, 2023. By:
Joel Ronda Feliciano Special Master Ronda Legal Services, LLC rondajoel@me.com 787565-0515
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE MANATÍ BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. LUIS ENRIQUE SANTIAGO ABRAHAM, ANA CELIA ABRAHAM LOPEZ
Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2019CV02071. (Sala 102). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: LUIS ENRIQUE SANTIAGO ABRAHAM, ANA CELIA ABRAHAM LOPEZ. Yo, EDWIN R. RIVERA CORDERO, 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 24 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en
cesionarios, con paraderos y/o direcciones desconocidas; Santiago Velázquez Báez, con última dirección conocida en 298 Lane School Road, West Virginia, 25976-000; Wilmington Savings, con última dirección conocida en 8023 East 63 Rd Plane. Suite 700, OK 74133 y Alineyris E. Sepúlveda Ramos, con paradero y dirección desconocidos y, asimismo, a todo el que tenga algún interés o derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito en la Petición de Dominio del caso de epígrafe, a las personas ignoradas, a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción, a los anteriores dueños, o sus herederos y, en general, a toda persona que desee oponerse.
POR LA PRESENTE: se les notifica que los Peticionarios de epígrafe han presentado una Petición para que se declare a favor de ellos, el dominio que tienen sobre la siguiente propiedad: “RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Montones del término Municipal de Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, compuesta de DIEZ PUNTO VEINTISIETE CUERDAS (10.27 cdas.). En lindes por el NORTE, con Cristino Pi ñero Hernández y Santos Velézquez Lebrón; por el SUR, con Don Rufino Medina; por el ESTE, con Juan De Jesús Velázquez; y por el OESTE, con Jesús Hernández.”Enclava una estructura dedicada a vivienda.” Este Tribunal ordenó que se publique la pretensión por tres (3) veces durante el término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que todas las personas arriba mencionadas y todas aquellas desconocidas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción o deseen oponerse, puedan así hacerlo dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la última publicación del presente edicto. Por tanto firmo expido la presente en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 29 de junio de 2023. Ivelisse C Fonseca Rodriguez, Sec Regional. Dalias Reyes de Leon, SubSecretaria.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE VS. LA SUCESION DE
SAMUEL RODRIGUEZ PAGAN COMPUESTA
POR IRIS GONZALEZ
CUPEREZ; MAYRA
RODRIGUEZ MONTES, NYDIA RODRIGUEZ MONTES, SAMUEL RODRIGUEZ MONTES, DESIRE RODRIGUEZ MONTES, LEONARDO
SAMUEL RODRIGUEZ ANDINO; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NUM.: FA2022CV00915.
SALA: 307. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, giro postal, o cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados
Unidos de América a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal el 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 3:00 DE LA TARDE, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: CONDOMINIO HILLSIDE VILLAGE, EDIFICIO OLAS, APT. D-302, RIO GRANDE, PR 00745 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA:
Propiedad Horizontal: Unidad Residencial con el número 302 del Bloque (“Cluster”) D del Edificio Olas del Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal conocido como Condominio Hillside Village, sito en el Barrio Mameyes del término municipal de Rio Grande, Puerto Rico. Consta de una planta con un área aproximada de construcción de mil cuatrocientos cuatro (1404) pies cuadrados, equivalente a ciento treinta metros cuadrados con cuarenta y tres centímetros (130.43). Colinda por el NORTE, con áreas comunes; por el SUR, con áreas comunes; por el ESTE, con apartamento número D-301; por el OESTE, con apartamento número E-301. Esta unidad es el modelo típico. Su entrada es al lado Sur en el
tercer piso del edificio a través de un portal techado que da a un pasillo de entrada que conecta al área de sala-comedor en el lado Este, que a su vez da a un balcón en el lado Norte. La cocina se encuentra en el lado Este. Consta de tres (3) dormitorios con closet, uno de ellos “master” con baño, un área para “laundry, dos closets y un baño en el pasillo que conecta los dormitorios. Tiene asignado los estacionamientos número 146 y 147. Tiene una participación de cuatro mil ochocientos noventa y dos diez milésimas de un porciento (0.4892%) en los elementos comunes y limitados. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 144 del Tomo 481 de Rio Grande, Finca número 25,970, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $208,000.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 3:00 DE LA TARDE. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $138,666.67. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 23 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 3:00 DE LA TARDE. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $104,000.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la Escritura de hipoteca número 80 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 20 de abril de 2011, ante el Notario José E. Franco Goméz y consta inscrita al Folio 6 del Tomo 483 de Río Grande, finca número 25,970, inscripción 3ra, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $202,732.93 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de mayo de 2013, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.75% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte co-demandada, La Sucesión de Samuel Rodríguez Pagán, adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de
aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $20,800.00. Además, la parte co-demandada, La Sucesión de Samuel Rodríguez Pagán se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $20,800.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $20,800.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble 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 de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos
del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de julio de 2023.Mildred I Toro Colon, Alguacil Auxiliar. Jorge A Ortiz Estrada, Alguacil Regional Interino #622.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MANATÍ ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante Vs. ALEXANDRA
ANDALUZ RIVERA
Demandada CIVIL NÚM.: FL2022CV00019
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: ALEXANDRA ANDALUZ RIVERAURB SECT ARENALES, 2525 CALLE ANGELES, VEGA BAJA, PUERTO RICO 00693-9821 / HC 1 BOX 2672 FLORIDA, PUERTO RICO 006509792 POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose.aguilar@orf-law. com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO
MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Manatí, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de junio de 2023. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 20 de junio de 2023. Vivian Y. Fresse Gonzalez, Secretaria Regional. I. Miranda, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. CARMEN P
TORRES RIVERA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV04659.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: CARMEN P TORRES RIVERAPO BOX 367035, SAN JUAN, PR 00936-7035. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.
Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de junio de 2023. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 20 de junio de 2023. LCDA.
LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
KATHERINE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
SALA SUPERIOR
Y CRÉDITO
Parte Demandante Vs MARGARITA LAGUER GARCÍA (SOCIO NÚM. 32007248)
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AU2023CV00200. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO.
A: MARGARITA
LAGUER GARCÍA.
Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. José F. Giraud Mejías, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-2650334, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente 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 epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Aguada, Puerto Rico, hoy 26 de junio de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES
PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE AGUADA. ERIKA I. CRUZ PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR
DDR ISABELA LLC, S.E.
Demandante V.
FIVESTAR ENTERPRISE
T.A LLC H/N/C BOOST
MOBILE
Demandada
Civil Núm.: AG2023CV00736.
Sobre: DESAHUCIO SUMARIO Y COBRO DE DINERO.
Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado en su contra una Demanda de Cobro de Dinero a tenor con la Regla 60 de Procedimiento Civil. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a:
Lcdo. Roberto A. Cámara Fuertes
R.U.A. Núm. 13,556
Email: reamara@ferraiuoli.com
Lcda. Elizabeth Villagrasa Flores
R.U.A. Núm. 16,877
Email: evillagrasa@ferraiuoli.com
FERRAIUOLI, LLC
P.O. Box 195168
San Juan, PR 00919-5168
Tel: 787-766-7000
Abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de respuesta a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto Usted deberá presentar alegación responsiva a través del Sistema
Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia 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. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el sello del Tribunal. DADO hoy en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, 7 de julio de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ZUHEILY GONZÁLEZ AVILÉS, SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO PALMAS DEL MAR HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. Q REALTY, LLC
Demandado(a)
Civil: HU2022CV01389. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LI-
A: Q REALTY, LLC A SU DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA: 9548 DÍAZ WAY ST. ASTRALIS APT. 713, CAROLINA, PR 00979. P/C LCDO. JOSÉ R. GONZÁLEZ RIVERA. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus-
cribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de julio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de julio de 2023. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 11 de julio de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
STADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA DE AGUADILLA
ISABELA
Demandante Vs SUCESIÓN
Demandado
Caso Núm.: IS2022CV00221.
Sala: 0002. SALA DE INVESTIGACIONES. Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROREGLA 60 DE PROCEDIMIENTO CIVIL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la Demanda de Epígrafe dentro de los TREINTA (30)
DÍAS a partir de la publicación de este edicto; el cual se publicará en un periódico de circulación general diaria durante una (1) sola vez. 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 Secretaria del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con-
ceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
LCDO. PEDRO A. CRESPO CLAUDIO (RUA 17415)
EMPHATIA NOTARY & LEGAL ADVISORS, PSC
282 Urb. La Serranía Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725-1810
Tel. 939-337-5550
E-mail: pcrespo@emphatialaw.com
POR ORDEN DEL JUEZ DE ESTE TRIBUNAL, hoy día 14 de junio de 2023. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 12 de julio de 2023.
SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. FERNANDO ADRIAN SOSA GRANDJEAN, KEREN CRUZ CRUZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: HU2019CV01100. (205). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, JOSÉ
L. RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, 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 fecha 15 de junio de 2022 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $137,511.85 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 9 de octubre de 2016, notificada y archivada en autos el 11 de octubre de 2019 y publicada mediante edicto en el Periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” el 22 de octubre de 2019, vendiendo en pública subasta la propiedad que se describe a continuación: #78 4 Street La Estancia Dev, Las Piedras, Puerto Rico 00771. URBANA: Lote de terreno localizado en la Calle 4 de la Urbanización La Estancia en el Barrio Rio del Municipio de Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, identificada en el plano de inscripción aprobado por la Administración de Reglamentos y Permisos para la Urbanización como solar 78. El mismo tiene una cabida superficial de 634.89 METROS CUADRADOS, colindando por el NORTE, con Lago de Re-
tención; por el SUR, con calle
4; por el ESTE, con el solar 77; y por el OESTE, con el solar 79. Estación de Bombeo. En el solar enclava una estructura de hormigón armado y bloques. La misma consta de tres cuartos dormitorios, dos baños, sala, comedor, cocina, marquesina doble y demás dependencias. El solar está afectado por una servidumbre de paso de 1.52 metros, equivalentes a 5.00 pies de ancho en colindancia con Calle 4 para infraestructura de cable y telefonía. Afecto además, como predio sirviente, a una servidumbre de mantenimiento de 1.00 de ancho a favor del solar 79, siendo este solar el predio dominante de otra servidumbre de mantenimiento de 1.00 metros de ancho, localizada en el solar 77. Inscrita la hipoteca al folio 138 del tomo 302 de Las Piedras, inscripción segunda, la primera modificación al folio 215 del tomo 304 de Las Piedras y la última modificación inscrita al tomo Karibe, finca número 17,303 del Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Humacao. 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: $137,511.85 de principal, 3.75% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más de cargos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más $16,381.70 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $140,536.23 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $93,690.82. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $80,080.00. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 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 Humacao. Del Estudio de Título realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes: Servidumbre a favor de la
Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico, Condiciones de la Ley de Acceso Controlado, en Equidad, Declaración de Derechos y Constitución de Condiciones Restrictivas para la Uranización La Estancia, Servidumbre para la Distribución de Telecomunicaciones y Televisión por Cable, servidumbre en equidad a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico y condiciones restrictivas de edificación y uso. Condiciones Restrictivas de Venta por el término de 10 años impuestas por la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico por haber concedido la suma de $6,470.60 para sufragar los gastos de cierre, según Esc. #2 en San Juan el 16 de enero de 2010 ante Jorge A. Pierluisi Jr., inscrita al folio 138 del tomo 302 de Las Piedras, finca #17303 inscripción 1ra. Hipoteca constituída por Fernando Adrián Sosa Grandjean, soltero, en garantía de un pagaré bajo affidavit 4018 a favor de Puerto Rico Housing Finance Authority por $25,000.00 al 5 ½% anual, vencedero el 1 de febrero de 2040, según Esc. #32 en San Juan el 16 de enero de 2010 ante Rafael A. Malavé Lebrón, inscrita al folio 138 del tomo 302 de Las Piedras, finca #17303 inscripción 3ra. Hipoteca constituida por Fernando Adrián Sosa Grandjean, soltero, en garantía de un pagaré bajo affidavit #9602 a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda de Desarrollo Urbano por $42,065.00 sin intereses, vencedero el 1 de septiembre de 2043, según Esc. #647 en San Juan el 30 de septiembre de 2013 ante María Isabel García Mantilla, inscrita al folio 215 del tomo 304 de Las Piedras, finca #17303 inscripción 5ta. 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 Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 10 de julio de 2023. JOSÉ L. RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO. SONIA GUASP LOZA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #653.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ASOCIACIÓN DE RESIDENTES DE AVENTURA INC.
Demandante Vs. NADJAH BEATRIZ SOTO GALÍNDEZ Y NADJAH ENID GALÍNDEZ RESTO
Demandada
Civil Núm.: BY2023CV03223.
Salón: 702. Sobre: COBRO DE CUOTAS DE MANTENIMIENTO / REGLA 60. EDICTO. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO:
A: NADJAH BEATRIZ SOTO GALÍNDEZ.
Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante, Asociación de Residentes de Aventura Inc., presentado ante este Tribunal una demanda por la causal de cobro de dinero por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento contra las demandadas Nadjah Beatriz Soto Galíndez y Nadjah Enid Galíndez Resto. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcdo.
Héctor L. Claudio Rosario, 167 Calle Pedro Flores Urb. Monticielo, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725; número de teléfono 787-635-1220 / Telefax: 1-267-392-3959; dirección de correo electrónico, bufetehectorclaudio@gmail.com. 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. Se le advierte que de no contestar la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de éste Edicto, radicando el original de la contestación ante el Tribunal, con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello de éste Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 11 de julio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN
ABELARDO PEREZ ROSA
Demandante Vs LISSETTE GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZ
Demandado (a)
Civil Núm.: SS2023RF00036.
Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: LISSETTE GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZ.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de junio de 2023, 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 2023. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico,
el 11 de julio de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE ROBLES MATHEWS, SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE CAGUAS; OLGA IRIS
GARCIA LAUREANO
T/C/C OLGA I. GARCIA LAUREANO
Demandante V. FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL
Demandado(a)
Civil: GM2022CV00022. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de julio de 2023, 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 10 de julio de 2023. En Guayama, Puerto Rico, el 10 de julio de 2023.
MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. ILEANA
SANTIAGO VEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO
RICARDO ROJAS PAGÁN
Demandante V. EX - PARTE
Demandado(a)
Civil Núm.: AR2022CV00965.
Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DO-
MINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: AL ANTERIOR COLINDANTE RAFAEL REYES Y AL ACTUAL COLINDANTE RICHARD SZYNISZEWSKI; A TODO AQUEL QUE TENGA ALGÚN DERECHO REAL O INTERÉS SOBRE EL INMUEBLE OBJETO DEL PRESENTE EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO; A LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN, A LOS ANTERIORES DUEÑOS Y SUS SUCESORES Y EN GENERAL A TODA PERSONA QUE QUIERA OPONERSE. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 7 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de junio de 2023. En ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, el 8 de junio de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. YANITZA IGLESIAS MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA
MMG I PR CDGY, LLC
Demandante V.
LUIS AGOSTO PEREZ ET ALS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2023CV01396. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LI-
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema
Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio.
Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. La información de los abogados de la parte demandante es la siguiente: Atención:
Lcdo. Francisco Fernández Chiqués
FERNANDEZ CHIQUES, LLC PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908
Tel. (787) 722-3040 / Fax (787) 722-3317
ffc@ffclaw.com
POR LA PRESENTE, además, se le interpela judicialmente conforme al Art. 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31
L.P.R.A. § 2787), para que en un término de treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, acepte o renuncie mediante instrumento público o comparecencia judicial especial la herencia del causante Álvaro Agosto Pérez t/c/c Álvaro Luis Agosto Pérez, apercibiéndosele que de no expresarse dentro de dicho término, se tendrá por aceptada la herencia. B.B.V.A. v. Latinoamericana, 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005). EXPEDIDO BAJO
MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE
TRIBUNAL. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de julio de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA
REGIONAL. KEILA GARCÍA
SOLÍS, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE CAROLINA
MMG I PR CDGY, LLC
Demandante V.
SUCESION DE ALVARO
LUIS AGOSTO PEREZ
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2023CV01396. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S. A: JOANA MARIE
AGOSTO MORALES como miembro de la Sucesión de Álvaro Luis Agosto Perez tic/e Álvaro
Agosto Perez
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema
Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. La información de los abogados de la parte demandante es la siguiente:
Atención:
Lcdo. Francisco Fernández Chiqués FERNANDEZ CHIQUES, LLC
PO Box 9749
San Juan, PR 00908
Tel. (787) 722-3040 / Fax (787) 722-3317
ffc@ffclaw.com
POR LA PRESENTE, además, se le interpela judicialmente conforme al Art. 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31 L.P.R.A. § 2787), para que en un término de treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, acepte o renuncie mediante instrumento público o comparecencia judicial especial la herencia del causante Álvaro Agosto Pérez t/c/c Álvaro Luis Agosto Pérez, apercibiéndosele que de no expresarse dentro de dicho término, se tendrá por aceptada la herencia. B.B.V.A. v. Latinoamericana, 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005). EXPEDIDO BAJO
MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE
TRIBUNAL. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de julio de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEILA GARCÍA
SOLÍS, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA MMG I PR CDGY, LLC
Demandante V. SUCESION DE ALVARO LUIS AGOSTO PEREZ ET ALS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2023CV01396. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S.
A: GLORIMAR AGOSTO RODRIGUEZ como miembro de la Sucesión de Álvaro Luis Agosto Perez t/c/c Álvaro Agosto Perez
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. La información de los abogados de la parte demandante es la siguiente:
Atención:
Lcdo. Francisco Fernández Chiqués FERNANDEZ CHIQUES, LLC PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908 Tel. (787)
722-3040 / Fax (787)
722-3317 ffc@ffclaw.com
POR LA PRESENTE, además, se le interpela judicialmente conforme al Art. 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31
L.P.R.A. § 2787), para que en un término de treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, acepte o renuncie mediante instrumento público o comparecencia judicial especial la herencia del causante Álvaro
Agosto Pérez t/c/c Álvaro Luis Agosto Pérez, apercibiéndosele que de no expresarse dentro de dicho término, se tendrá por aceptada la herencia. B.B.V.A. v. Latinoamericana, 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005). EXPEDIDO BAJO
MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En San Juan,
Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de julio de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA
MMG I PR CDGY, LLC
Demandante V. SUCESION DE ALVARO LUIS AGOSTO PEREZ ET ALS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2023CV01396. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S.
A: ALVARO LUIS AGOSTO RODRIGUEZ como miembro de la Sucesión de Álvaro Luis Agosto Perez tic/e Álvaro Agosto Perez
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. La información de los abogados de la parte demandante es la siguiente: Atención:
Lcdo. Francisco Fernández Chiqués FERNANDEZ CHIQUES, LLC PO Box 9749
San Juan, PR 00908
Tel. (787) 722-3040 / Fax (787) 722-3317 ffc@ffclaw.com
POR LA PRESENTE, además, se le interpela judicialmente conforme al Art. 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31 L.P.R.A. § 2787), para que en un término de treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, acepte o renuncie mediante instrumento público o comparecencia judicial especial la herencia del causante Álvaro
Agosto Pérez t/c/c Álvaro Luis Agosto Pérez, apercibiéndosele que de no expresarse dentro de dicho término, se tendrá por aceptada la herencia. B.B.V.A. v. Latinoamericana, 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005). EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de julio de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA MMG I PR CDGY, LLC
Demandante V. SUCESION DE ALVARO
LUIS AGOSTO PEREZ ET ALS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2023CV01396. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S.
A: EDWIN OMAR
AGOSTO RODRIGUEZ como miembro de la Sucesión de Álvaro Luis Agosto Perez t/c/c Álvaro
Agosto Perez
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. La información de los abogados de la parte demandante es la siguiente:
Atención: Lcdo. Francisco Fernández Chiqués FERNANDEZ CHIQUES, LLC PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908 Tel. (787) 722-3040 / Fax (787) 722-3317 ffc@ffclaw.com
POR LA PRESENTE, además, se le interpela judicialmente conforme al Art. 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31 L.P.R.A. § 2787), para que en
un término de treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, acepte o renuncie mediante instrumento público o comparecencia judicial especial la herencia del causante Álvaro
Agosto Pérez t/c/c Álvaro Luis Agosto Pérez, apercibiéndosele que de no expresarse dentro de dicho término, se tendrá por aceptada la herencia. B.B.V.A. v. Latinoamericana, 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005). EXPEDIDO BAJO
MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de julio de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE SAN JUAN ANDENO CO
Parte Demandante V. LILLIAN TIZOL RODRIGUEZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV02972. 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: LILLIAN TIZOL RODRIGUEZ. URB PUERTO NUEVO 302, CALLE 3 NW, SAN JUAN, PR 00920. Se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Cobro de Dinero - Regla 60. Representa a la parte demandante, el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:
Brito.Legal 1607 Ave. Ponce de León St. GM6 #232 San Juan, PR 00969 Tel. 787-705-1011
E-mail: adrianbrito.legal POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php./ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación
responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. En San Juan, Puerto Rico a 10 de julio de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ELSIE PRATTS MELÉNDEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO ESTRELLA HOMES III LLC.
Parte Demandante Vs. JOSÉ MIGUEL RESTO CRUZ
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: NSCI2018-00023.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: JOSÉ MIGUEL RESTO
CRUZ: Y AL PÚBLICO EN
GENERAL:
El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Hacienda Paloma II, localizada en el Barrio Sabana del término municipal de Luquillo, Puerto Rico que se describe en el plano de inscripción con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación:
NÚMERO DEL SOLAR: Veintiocho (28). ÁREA DEL SOLAR: Seiscientos diecisiete punto ochenta y cuatro metros cuadrados (617.84 m.c.). EN LINDES POR EL NORTE: En una distancia de veintisiete punto setenta y cinco (27.75) metros lineales con el solar veintinueve (29); por el SUR: en una distancia de treinta y siete punto noventa y ocho (37.98) metros
lineales con José Vamonde; por el ESTE: en una distancia de catorce punto cero siete (14.07) metros lineales con la Calle Somali y por el OESTE: en una distancia de veintisiete punto setenta y nueve (27.79) metros lineales con los solares cuarenta y uno (41) y cuarenta (40). Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa en concreto para fines residenciales. El expresado solar se haya afecto a las siguientes servidumbres: SERVIDUMBRE TELEFÓNICA: Franja de terreno de cinco (5) pies de ancho que discurre a lo largo de su patio delantero con relación a la colindancia de la Calle Somali. Consta inscrito al folio 163 del tomo 281 de Luquillo, finca #13,163 del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Urbanización Hacienda Paloma II, Solar #28 Calle 4, Luquillo, P.R. 00773. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $187,070.00, con intereses al 5 ¾ % anual, vencedero el día 1 de agosto de 2050, constituida mediante la escritura número 148, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de julio de 2010, ante el notario Antonio R. Escriba Oliver, e inscrita al folio 163 del tomo 281 de Luquillo, finca número 13,163, inscripción 2da., debidamente modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 2da., según consta de la escritura número 108, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 11 de abril de 2014, ante la notario Alexandra M. Serracante Cadilla, e inscrita al folio 163 del tomo 281 de Luquillo, finca número 13,163, como Nota Marginal de la inscripción 2da. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 6 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $184,852.75. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $123,235.16. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20
DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $92,426.37. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal de $180,757.97, la cual se desglosa a continuación: la suma principal de $178,312.17, con intereses a 5.75% anual, desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2016, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más un balance diferido de $2,445.80, la cual no genera intereses y pagadero a la fecha de vencimiento, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $18,707.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 20 de junio de 2023. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ,
ALGUACIL PLACA #266.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIAN
WILMINGTON SAVINGS
FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED
SECURITIES
ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1
Demandante vs.
SUCESION ISRAEL
GUZMAN SOTO T/C/C
ISRAEL GUZMAN
COMPUESTA POR
IVETTE GUZMAN
AROCHO, SANDRA
GUZMAN AROCHO; JOHN
DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; GLADYS AROCHO
MÁRQUEZ T/C/C GLADYS AROCHO DE GUZMAN
T/C/C GLADYS AROCHO
GUZMAN POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
CIVIL NUM. SS2022CV00341.
SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Sebastián, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Sebastián, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 12 de septiembre de 2023, a las 10:00 de la mañana, derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución
que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Solar marcado con el número uno del Bloque E del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Colinas Verdes localizada en el barrio Culebrinas de San Sebastián, con un área superficial de 349.60 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 23 metros con un paseo público; por el SUR, en 23 metros con el solar número 2 del Bloque E de dicha Urbanización; por el ESTE, en 15.20 metros con la calle número uno de dicha Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en 15.20 metros con el solar número 13 del Bloque E de dicha Urbanización. En este solar se ha construido una casa de concreto diseñada para fines residenciales. Finca número 7437, inscrita al folio 58 del tomo 180 de San Sebastián, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 75 del tomo 618 de San Sebastián, finca 7437 de San Sebastián, inscripción 8ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. COLINAS VERDES, E-1 CALLE 1, SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A Suma de la Carga: N/A Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano Suma de la Carga: $133,500.00 fecha de Vencimiento: 15 de mayo de 2093. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $133,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una segunda subasta por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alguaciles de Subastas, el 19 del septiembre de 2023, a las 10:00 de la mañana y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $89,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la
tercera subasta, la suma de $66,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada eh el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Sebastián, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 26 de septiembre de 2023, a las 10:00 de la mañana. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $56,164.00 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $41,633.73 en intereses acumulados al 25 de noviembre de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $12,065.02 en seguro hipotecario; $2,191.28 en seguro; $475.00 de tasaciones; $255.00 de inspecciones; $3,097.00 en preservativos; $1,602.50 en adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $13,350.00, para gastos, costas y honorar ps de abogado, 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. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de junio de 2023. Carol Chalmers Soto, Alguacil Regional. Luis A. Nieves Rivera, Alguacil Confidencial. Placa # 859.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO FIRSTBANK
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL OSVALDO CARRERAS ISOBAT COMPUESTA
POR: OSVALDO CARRERAS DÍAZ; VENUS CHRISTINE CARRERAS DÍAZ; ADLYN ESTHER CARRERAS MALDONADO; OMAR CARRERAS MALDONADO; RICARDO JUAN CARRERAS MÁRQUEZ; RAQUEL CRISTINA SOTO VÁZQUEZ POR SI Y COMO CONYUGE SUPERSTITE; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CRIM
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AI2022CV00450. Salón Núm.: (002). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL OSVALDO CARRERAS ISOBAT COMPUESTA POR: OSVALDO CARRERAS DÍAZ; VENUS CHRISTINE CARRERAS DÍAZ; ADLYN ESTHER CARRERAS MALDONADO; OMAR CARRERAS MALDONADO; RICARDO JUAN CARRERAS MÁRQUEZ; RAQUEL
CRISTINA SOTO VÁZQUEZ POR SI Y COMO CONYUGE SUPERSTITE; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS
MUNICIPALES: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:
El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Aibonito, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, partici-
pación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio La Plata del término municipal de Aibonito, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de tres mil novecientos treinta metros cuadrados con treinta y nueve centésimas de otro metro cuadrado (3,930.39), equivalentes a una cuerda (1.00) y en colindancias por el NORTE, con carretera número catorce (14), por el SUR, con remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega, por el ESTE, con solar segregado y por el OESTE, con remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega. Consta inscrita al folio 110 del tomo 236 de Aibonito, Finca número #12,518. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Barranquitas. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Carretera PR 14, km 56.5, La Plata, Aibonito, PR 11705. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 2102015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $43,650.00 con intereses al 6.1250% anual, vencedero el día 1 de septiembre de 2032, constituida mediante la escritura número 181, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de agosto de 2002, ante el notario Guillermo Mojica Franceschi, e inscrita al folio 94 del tomo 256 de Aibonito, finca número 12,518 inscripción 4ta. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 7 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS
11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Aibonito, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $61,000.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 14 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $40,666.66. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 21 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $30,500.00. Dicha
subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal de $24,280.06, con intereses a 6.125% anual, desde el 1ro de mayo de 2022, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 3% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $4,365.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, a 27 de junio de 2023. JUAN O. BURGOS BURGOS, ALGUACIL REGIONAL PLACA#286.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR
LEGACY MORTGAGE
ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE MICHAEL
CORDERO VÁZQUEZ T/C/C MAYCO CORDERO VÁZQUEZ COMPUESTA
POR JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; NILDA PÉREZ CRESPO T/C/C NILDA SOCORRO PÉREZ CRESPO POR SI Y COMO VIUDA DE MICHAEL CORDERO VÁZQUEZ T/C/C MAYCO CORDERO VÁZQUEZ, ADMINISTRACIÓN PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: AG2023CV00818. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO Y NOTIFICACIÓN DE INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MICHAEL CORDERO VÁZQUEZ T/C/C MAYCO CORDERO VÁZQUEZ.
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colon Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de ejecución de hipoteca IN REM bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondicntcs a los meses de julio de 2021 hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este liti-
rán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser 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. Y para conocimiento de la demandada, 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 Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 29 de junio de 2023. MIGUEL
A. TORRES AYALA, ALGUACIL
AUXILIAR PLACA #560.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS-
TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
CARMEN AWILDA SILVA
GONZALEZ, HIRAM
ALBERTO SILVA ORTIZ, ASHYADEE SILVA ORTIZ, MANUEL RAFAEL SILVA
VEGA, DAVID LEIGHTON
SILVA, EDWIN ERASTO
SILVA CARRION, MARIA AURELIA SILVA
CARRION, SMYRNA
MYRA MORAN MOLINA
t/C/C SMYRNA M.
SUTHERLAND, LINDA
PATRICIA MORAN
MOLINA T/C/c LYNDA
MORN, ASHYADEE
MORAN MOLINA t/C/C
ASHYADEE DEAUTRIELL
SILVIA SILVA MONTALVO, SAMUEL SILVA
MONTALVO DALILA
SILVA MONTALVO, MYRTA SILVA MONTALVO
E HIRAM E. SILVA MONTALVO
Demandante V.
LA SUCESION PRESUNTA
Y DESCONOCIDA DE
MARIA AUREA SILVA
OLIVERAS TAMBIÉN
CONOCIDA COMA AUREA
MARIA SILVA OLIVERAS
COMPUESTA POR: RUTH
ELVA ALVAREZ SILVA, AUREA MILAGROS
ALVAREZ SILVA, A, B Y C;
LA SUCESION PRESUNTA
V DESCONOCIDA DE PILAR SILVA MONTALVO
QUE PROVIENE DE LA SUCESION DE
HIRAM ALBERTO SILVA
OLIVERAS COMPUESTA
POR LOU SILVA, D, E Y F; LA SUCESIÓN PRESUNTA
V DESCONOCIDA DE LORNA ESTHER SILVA
MONTALVO TAMBIÉN
CONOCIDA COMA
LORNA ESTRELLA
SILVA MONTALVO
Y COMA LAME
ESTRELLA COURTNEY
QUE PROVIENE DE A
SUCESIÓN DE HIRAM
ALBERTO SILVA
OLIVERAS COMPUESTA
POR WILLIAM
COURTNEY (HIJO), WILLIAM COURTNEY
(PADRE), G, H E I; LA
SUCESION PRESUNTA
V DESCONOCIDA DE SILVIO ARMANDO SILVA
OLIVERAS COMPUESTA
POR: LINDA NYDIA
SILVA OL. SANTO, LA
SUCESIÓN PRESUNTA
Y DESCONOCIDA DE PATRICIA SILVA DI
SANTO, J, K Y L; LA
SUCESION PRESUNTA V DESCONOCIDA
DEAUREA SILVA BATISTA
COMPUESTA POR L.A.
SUCESION PRESUNTA Y DESCONOCIDA
DE BENIGNO PEREZ
TORRES, M, N Y 0; LA
SUCESIÓN PRESUNTA V DESCONOCIDA DE JOSÉ
ANGEL SILVA GONZALEZ
QUE PROVIENE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL RAFAEL SILVA
OLIVERAS COMPUESTA
POR: FERNANDO
JAVIER SILVA DEJESUS, CARLOS JAVIER
SILVA DE JESUS Y LA
SUCESIÓN PRESUNTA
Y DESCONOCIDA DE
LEONARDO JAVIER
SILVA DE JESUS
COMPUESTA POR
ADLIN CORAL SILVA
MAYSONET, LEONELA NICOLE SILVA
MAYSONET Y P, Q
Demandado(a)
Civil: BY2023CV01219. Salón:
702. Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE COMUNIDAD. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: AZLIN CORAL
SILVA MAYSONET;
LEONELA NICOLE
SILVA MAYSONET; LA
SUCESION PRESUNTA
Y DESCONOCIDA DE MARIA AUREA SILVA
OLIVERAS COMPUESTA
POR A, B Y C.; LA
SUCESIÓN PRESUNTA
Y DESCONOCIDA DE PILAR SILVA
MONTALVO COMPUESTA
PAR D, E Y F; LA SUCESIÓN PRESUNTA
Y DESCONOCIDA DE LOMA ESTHER SILVA
MONTALVO, TAMBIÉN
CONOCIDA COMA
LOMA ESTRELLA SILVA
MONTALVO Y COMO
LOMA ESTRELLA
COURTNEY COMPUESTA
POR G, H E I; LA
SUCESION PRESUNTA
Y DESCONOCIDA DE PATRICIA SILVA DI SANTO COMPUESTA
PAR J, K Y L; LA
SUCESION PRESUNTA
Y DESCONOCIDA DE AUREA SILVA
BATISTA COMPUESTA
PAR M, N Y O; LA
SUCESION PRESUNTA
Y DESCONOCIDA DE BENIGNO PEREZ
TORRES COMPUESTA
POR S, R Y T; LA
SUCESIÓN PRESUNTA
Y DESCONOCIDA DE JOSÉ ANGEL SILVA
GONZALEZ COMPUESTA
PAR U, V Y W.; LA
SUCESION PRESUNTA
Y DESCONOCIDA DE MANUEL RAFAEL SILVA
OLIVERAS COMPUESTA
PAR X, Y Y Z; LA
SUCESION PRESUNTA
Y DESCONOCIDA DE LEONARDO JAVIER
SILVA DE JESUS
COMPUESTA PAR P, Q Y R; AUREA MILAGROS
ALVAREZ SILVA 44
FARDHAM LANE, WESTFIELD MASS
01085; LUIS SILVA 9233
52D AVENUE EAST, PALMETTO, FLORIDA 34221; WILLIAM
COURTNEY (HIJO) 1445
ROBINSON PLACE, YARDLEY, PA 19067; WILLIAM COURTNEY
(PADRE) 728 UNION
AYE, MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA 26505; LINDA NYDIA SILVA DI
SANTO 1024 SAW CREEK ESTATES, BUSHKILL PA. 18324; FERNANDO
JAVIER SILVA DE JESUS 1043 SAHAFFER TRI OVIEDO FL32765;
CARLOS JAVIER SILVA DE JESOS 7720 GLEN
MEADWOS DR SAN ANTONIO TX 78239 Y
CUALQUIERA PERSONA
IGNORADA QUE PUEDA
TENER INTERES EN ESTE CASO.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se
le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 6 de julio de 2023, 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 10 de julio de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 10 de julio de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN LUIS JOEL PEREZ COTTO, ZORAIDA CRUZ LOPEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandantes V. ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION, HACIENDO NEGOCIOS COMO CITIFINANCIAL AIHC LLC, JOHN DOE Demandadas
Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV05656. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION, HACIENDO NEGOCIOS COMO CITIFINANCIAL AIHC LLC Y JOHN DOE COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ a favor de Associates International
Holdings Corporation, haciendo negocios como Citifinancial, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $15,000.00, con intereses al 12.471% anual, vencedero el día 21 de abril de 2016, constituida mediante la escritura número 160, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 17 de abril de 2006, ante el notario Felix R. Figueroa Cabán, e inscrita al folio 113 del tomo 707 de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 10,029, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Cuarta Sección de San Juan, inscripción 9na.
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestarla demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: httrs://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son.
ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE:
Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP Suite 209 500 Calle De La Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
Tel.: (787) 523-2670
Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 10 de julio de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. BRENDA HERNÁNDEZ ZAVALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA
BAJA
POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: OMAIJRA SANTOSO BRACERO.
FÍSICA Y POSTAL: 16
PASEO PERLA DEL MAR, OCEAN PARK, VEGA BAJA, PR 00693.
De: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO.
Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal.
Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cobro de Dinero; la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a pagar: la suma principal de $22,550.85 por la tarjeta bancaria número xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-0735; por la tarjeta bancaria número xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-8359, la suma principal de $5,703.60 y por el préstamo personal las sumas de $14,873.11 de principal, $1,280.28 de intereses los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más $52.20 de cargos por mora los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda; más una suma por costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalente a un diez por ciento (10%) del montante de esta obligación Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.
Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Abogado Número 15693 PO Box 194089, San Juan, PR 00919
Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy: 11 de julio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I.
SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LILIAN MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA
AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Demandante V.
OMAIJRA
SANTOS BRACERO
Demandado
Civil Núm.: VB2023CV00299. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO
NELIZA SOCORRO
GARCÍA RIVERA POR SÍ
Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SUCESIÓN
VÍCTOR MANUEL
CRUZ SANTANA; CARMEN LYDIA RIVERA
PARIS; HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS
SUCESIÓN VICTOR
MANUEL CRUZ SANTANA
Demandados
Caso Núm.: PE2023CV00042.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADO UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: NELIZA SOCORRO GARCÍA RIVERA POR SÍ
Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SUCESIÓN VÍCTOR MANUEL CRUZ SANTANA; HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS
SUCESIÓN VICTOR MANUEL CRUZ SANTANA.
Quede emplazada y notificada que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca y Cobro de Dinero. POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted debe de 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. 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.
EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA
Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 11 de julio de 2023. Carmen G. Tiru Quiñones, Secretaria General. Ereina Agront León, Secretaria.
COMPUESTA POR SU HIJO ALBERTO HERNANDEZ LUGO Y SU VIUDO ALBERTO HERNANDEZ MUÑIZ, POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION; JANE DOE Y JOHN DOE, COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE KATIA LUGO RODRIGUEZ; CENTRO DE DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISION DE CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandado(a)
Civil: DO2022CV00212. SALA 501. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: JANE DOE Y JOHN DOE, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE KATIA LUGO RODRIGUEZ ALBERTO HERNANDEZ LUGO, POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE KATIA LUGO RODRIGUEZ; ALBERTO HERNANDEZ MUÑIZ, POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE KATIA LUGO RODRIGUEZ
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO CARIBECOOP
Demandante Vs.
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de BAYAMON.
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. SUCESION DE KATIA
LUGO RODRIGUEZ
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 6 de julio de 2023 , este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 12 de julio de 2023 En BAYAMON , Puerto Rico, el 12 de julio de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ-SEC. REGIONAL. F/NEREIDA
With the driving force of a forehand winner, Novak Djokovic slammed his racket into a net post, then quickly picked up the twisted wreckage and sat down. It was an uncharacteristic outburst of rage from the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, and it seemed to be about more than the point he had just lost.
Djokovic, who fully expected to win Wimbledon on Sunday, and perhaps a few more times in the coming years, appeared to be gaining a realization in that moment: His singular dominance of the men’s tennis tour in recent years may be over.
Carlos Alcaraz, a 20-year-old Spaniard, was demonstrating incredible mental strength and tennis skill in a five-set gem, and an enticing new rivalry was being born.
“Ha, I hope so,” Djokovic, a 36-year-old Serb, said with a laugh. “For my sake. He’s going to be on the tour for quite some time. I don’t know how long I’ll be around.”
Just when Djokovic had outlasted Roger Federer and peak Rafael Nadal, now he has to contend with a composed, talented and versatile young bull who has everything it takes to be one of the greats of the game.
If a torch was not passed Sunday, it was at least up for grabs.
“Novak’s got someone to deal with now, for sure,” said Chris Evert, an 18-time Grand Slam singles champion, who watched from the royal box as Alcaraz beat Djokovic in an electrifying conclusion to Wimbledon. “It’s like when Steffi Graf came up and started beating me and Martina. We saw right away how good she was, and she went on to win more Slams than either of us.”
From 1981-86, Evert and Martina Navratilova, who was also in the royal box Sunday, won 18 of the 20 major titles, including a run of 15 in a row. Then Graf vanquished Navratilova in the 1987 French Open final and went on to win 22 major championships in all.
Until Sunday, Djokovic seemed invincible in best-of-five-sets matches at Grand Slam tournaments and especially on Centre Court, where he had not lost in 10 years. With Federer retired and Nadal dealing with chronic injury problems at 37, one could have envisioned Djokovic vacuuming up several more trophies over the next few years while Alcaraz honed his game.
It’s plenty honed.
Alcaraz put it all on display in the 1-6, 7-6 (6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 victory that gave him his first Wimbledon singles title and robbed Djokovic of the chance to win five Wimbledons in a row and a record-tying eighth for his career.
Also, Djokovic was hoping — and was favored — to win his 24th major title, which would have tied Margaret Court for the most
in a career and left just the U.S. Open later this summer to complete the Grand Slam. It all seemed virtually inevitable, but now he may have to recalibrate.
“I haven’t played a player like him ever, to be honest,” Djokovic said. “Roger and Rafa have their own obvious strengths and weaknesses. Carlos is very complete player. Amazing adapting capabilities that I think are
a key for longevity and for successful career on all surfaces.”
Perhaps the reason for the racket slam, which Djokovic attributed to the frustration of the moment — Alcaraz had just broken his serve in the fifth — is because the Wimbledon grass was where Djokovic had hoped to enjoy a slight edge over his precocious new rival in the coming years.
Alcaraz grew up playing mostly on clay, but he quickly adapted to hard courts and won the U.S. Open in September when he was only 19. Djokovic was absent from that event and Alcaraz’s victory came against Norwegian Casper Ruud, a good player but no Djokovic.
Now, Alcaraz has shown his mettle on grass, against the best players in the most prestigious tournament in the world. During an on-court ceremony after the match, Djokovic, who teared up when mentioning his son, graciously lauded Alcaraz. He noted that, yes, he knew Alcaraz would be an instant force on red clay and blue paint. Now, grass, too? Already?
“I didn’t expect him to play so well this year on grass,” Djokovic said. “But he’s proven that he’s the best player in the world, no doubt. He’s playing some fantastic tennis on different surfaces, and he deserves to be where he is.”
Even before the racket smash, there was another extended moment when Djokovic might have gotten the signal that he was in for a challenging few years.
With Djokovic serving at 1-3 in the third set, the two men played a 32-point game with 13 deuces that lasted over 26 minutes. Both players ran and dove and made amazing shots, and the spectators hollered in delight at the extraordinary play, and the guts on display.
“The nerve Alcaraz showed was absolutely remarkable,” Evert said.
Finally, after Djokovic hit a forehand into the net, Alcaraz had broken serve again. He put his finger to his ear, asking the crowd for more noise, and right there, Djokovic had to know. For as many years as he can hang on, Alcaraz will probably be there, too, even on grass.
“I think it’s good for the sport, 1 and 2 in the world facing each other in almost a five-hour, five-set thriller,” Djokovic said. “Couldn’t be better for our sport in general.”
Andy Cruz toted his new title belt while he hugged friends and saluted his followers on Instagram Live. When he and his team gathered for a photo, Derek Ennis, the head trainer, draped his right arm over one of Cruz’s shoulders. Everyone else stared at the camera; Cruz’s attention was elsewhere.
He was focusing on the phone in Ennis’ left hand. It was showing a livestream of a bout featuring the lightweight Frank Martin, a potential future opponent.
For Cruz, who won Olympic gold and three world titles as an amateur, it was another welcome-to-pro-boxing moment.
Fourteen months after splitting with his country’s boxing federation, Cruz, widely regarded as the best Cuban amateur boxer of his generation, triumphed Saturday night at the Masonic Temple in Detroit in an unusual, high-profile professional debut.
Where most first-timers fight four- or six-round bouts, Cruz went 10. While professional debuts are usually mismatches, Cruz faced Juan Carlos Burgos, a former world champion, for a minor title.
And in the lightweight division, which brims with big-fight possibilities, the focus quickly shifts from a boxer’s latest win to his next challenge.
“I’m finally back doing what I love most — boxing,” Cruz said in Spanish. “I’m on the path. Great things are waiting for me in the future.”
In amateur boxing, winning is strictly a measure of punches landed, and Cruz mastered the hit-and-don’t-get-hit style that defines Cuba’s program. Along with his Olympic and world titles, he twice won the Pan American Games.
But before Saturday’s bout, Burgos had promised to give Cruz a bruising initiation into the professional ranks, where judges reward aggressiveness, punching power and technical skill.
“If Andy Cruz wants to show what they’ve been saying about him is true, he’s got to come out and fight,” Burgos said Thursday. “The pressure is all on him.”
The boxers spent the opening round taking the measure of each other, Burgos trying to use his size advantage and Cruz
working to establish distance and rhythm.
Cruz quickly found both, popping Burgos with two jabs and a hard right in the third round. Just before the bell, Cruz leaned back to avoid a left hook, then whacked Burgos with a counter right. In the fourth round, Cruz started landing uppercuts, and by the fifth, Cruz, the slicker boxer, was stalking Burgos. A right hand to the jaw knocked a misty cloud of sweat from Burgos’ head.
“A lot of times I thought I was close to knocking him out, but he always recovered,” Cruz said. “I learned a lot, and I still have a lot to learn.”
Ennis, the Philadelphia native who took over as Cruz’s trainer in May, was impressed, but not surprised, at the quick transition. He has been schooling Cruz on the subtle, but important, differences between the two versions of the sport, drilling him on punching with power on offense and standing his ground on defense.
“He’s only been with me two months, and he’s picked up the defense and everything,” Ennis said. “And he did it under the lights.”
Cruz was originally scheduled to turn pro in May 2022 in Mexico, under a partnership between Cuba’s boxing federation and a promoter based in Aguascalientes. But Cuban officials canceled his bout and left him behind while the rest of the team traveled to Mexico. At the time, officials blamed poor practice habits; Cruz sus-
pects the decision was aimed at preventing him from defecting.
In June 2022, Cruz was arrested during a failed attempt to leave Cuba by boat and then barred from the country’s boxing gyms. By November he had secured a passport, and then he left the country legally, relocating to the Dominican Republic, where he began the six-month process of obtaining a U.S. visa and a pro contract.
“He went through hell last year,” said Jesse Rodríguez, one of Cruz’s managers. “But nothing fazes him.”
His three-year deal with Matchroom Boxing, with seven figures in guarantees, according to the promoter, was announced in May and has since taken him to two American cities rich with boxing history.
Cruz trains in Philadelphia, where boxing greats such as Joe Frazier and Bernard Hopkins made their name in the sport. The city now has contemporary stars like the welterweight Jaron Ennis, Cruz’s stablemate and Derek Ennis’ son, and the 122-pound champion Stephen Fulton, who will face the Japanese standout Naoya Inoue on July 25.
And Cruz’s debut came in Detroit, home to Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson, and to the Kronk Gym, whose most famous world champion, Thomas Hearns, watched Saturday’s bouts ringside.
Empty seats dotted the upper levels at the Masonic Temple, but the rest of the
venue held spectators with deep boxing knowledge and a strong interest in local fighters.
Some turned out to support Jermaine Franklin, the heavyweight contender from Saginaw, Michigan, about 100 miles north of Detroit. Others showed up for Ja’Rico O’Quinn, a 122-pound prospect from Detroit. And many came out for the headliner, Alycia Baumgardner, who is based in Detroit and who defeated Christina Linardatou to retain her undisputed championship at 130 pounds.
Cruz’s contingent occupied a few seats in the front row of the lower bowl. The group included his fiancée, Melissa Broughton; heavyweight contender Lenier Pero; and the rapper known as El Micha, who accompanied Cruz to the ring. Midway through the bout, one Cruz supporter unfurled a Cuban flag and held it high.
Cruz appreciated the cheers, even if he could not hear them.
“I don’t focus much on the crowd. I listen to my corner,” he said.
Beyond Cruz, the lightweight division is both talented and in transition.
The undisputed champion, Devin Haney, is considering moving up to the 140-pound junior welterweight division. He is also facing a weapons possession charge in California. His father and trainer, Bill Haney, told ESPN he was “confident things are going to be worked out.”
Gervonta Davis, a popular power puncher from Baltimore, recently completed jail time after a guilty plea in a hitand-run case and is set to resume training.
Hypothetically, Cruz could eventually match up with either of them, as well as with Shakur Stevenson, a former 130-pound champion, or with prospects like Martin or Keyshawn Davis, whom Cruz defeated in the final at the Tokyo Olympics.
Before tackling those decisions, Cruz plans to spend a week savoring Saturday’s victory.
As an amateur, big wins brought trophies and medals. Cruz’s first professional win earned him a title belt made of red leather and gold plates.
“I’ve never held one in my hand,” he said. “Now I can feel the difference.”
Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
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Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Answers on page 30
Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
Get your chores done early, Aries, so you have time to play tonight. Plan a romantic getaway with a loved one. Let your imagination carry you to a whole new realm of pleasure. This is a great day to explore your artistic nature and begin to manifest some of the ideas that have been rattling around in your head for a while.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
This is an excellent day to tell people exactly how you feel, Taurus. Your emotions are more stable than usual, so open up and speak from the heart. Listen. What you learn will be valuable for the future, so pay attention. Keep an eye on what is real, but let your heart explore all the possibilities. Follow your emotions and trust your instincts. You stand to gain a great deal.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
Today may be tough, Gemini. Does it seem like nothing fits into place? Are you trying to be someone you’re not? If things don’t seem to be working out, don’t press the issue. You’re better off waiting for a time when you feel more confident about who you are and where you’re going. Meanwhile, have some tea and relax. Releasing stress can clear some energy for doing other things.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
Enjoy yourself, Cancer. You have a lot to be grateful for, so give thanks. Take pride in all you’ve accomplished so far and share your joy with others. Let go of the reins and sit back comfortably for a while. You’ve worked hard for a reason - to enjoy life. If you don’t do it now, then when? Take time out and be with loved ones tonight.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
This may be one of those days when you don’t know which way to turn. For some reason, you just can’t make a decision, so you keep going around and around. Stop and rest. Get out and walk for a while until your head stops spinning. Wait until your mind clears before you make your next major move.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
Romance is coming your way as long as you stay levelheaded about the situation. Take care of the daily tasks and then let your heart soar. You have a strong connection to your emotions. Trust your instincts and let your heart take control. Be realistic about your relationships with others, but push the boundaries once they’ve been established.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
As lovely Venus forges a harmonious tie to sobering Saturn, it’s time to take an idea or opportunity seriously. An encounter might not be the most fun you’ve had in a while, but it could be perfect for cementing a business proposition or collaborating on a brilliant idea. Someone can take you and your skills very seriously, and seems keen to move things forward.
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
Does a situation seem ready to bubble over? This can involve a minor clash with someone, unless you nip it in the bud, sooner rather than later. With the Moon in your sign, you could give this more focus than it warrants. By letting it wash over you, positive solutions might readily show up. Thinking of starting a home business, Scorpio? If so, a great idea may get you going.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
If you’ve reached a dead end regarding a key project, then consider teaming up with a friend, as their high-energy may be contagious. What you really need is fresh ideas, and these might be possible with a good brainstorming session. Plus, with dynamic Mars stirring up your love of knowledge, it’s worth reaching out to others who could have some expertise in this area, Archer.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
There is no point in resisting the inevitable. Clinging to the past may keep you stuck, whereas embracing fresh ideas can seem a tad risky, and yet be so freeing. Something new might be waiting in the wings, and it just needs an invitation from you to set it in motion. Thinking of making a few changes to your home? Research prices, as you could cut the cost of plans considerably.
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
Recent days may have kept you busy, with a dynamic focus on a social zone encouraging you to reach out. Equally, this can be an opportunity to bring a dream into reality, and one that you might have been thinking about for a while. Something could stir in you that inspires you to get going. Require assistance? Ask Aquarius, as by pooling resources you’ll get a lot done fast.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
Ready for something fresh? As the Moon faces off with Uranus, a conversation could leave you excited about something you’d never considered, Pisces. If it has the potential to make a big difference to your life, then explore further. You might also be keen to invest in your spiritual development by taking up a course or class that reduces anxiety and enhances inner calm.
