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On Wednesday, Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón announced a bipartisan bill known as the Women in Agriculture Act, aimed at promoting female participation in agriculture and closing the existing gender gap in the sector.
This legislative proposal would establish a Women Farmers and Ranchers Liaison within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and prioritize funding for childcare centers in rural areas.
“In Puerto Rico, our agricultural sector is disproportionately male-dominated, with only 11% being women. The Women in Agriculture Act would establish a liaison position for women farmers and ranchers to focus on helping women access federal resources and assistance through USDA programs. In addition, the bill seeks to promote women in leadership roles at the agency and advance research on new technologies and equipment designated for the use of women. I am
proud to support women thrive across all sectors and look forward to working with my colleagues to pass this bipartisan legislation,” explained González Colón in a written statement.
Representative Teresa Leger Fernández highlighted that women farmers, especially non-white women, are undervalued, underserved, and underpaid. She argued that the Women in Agriculture Act aims to support agricultural education and resources for women-led farms.
The bill has received bipartisan support from other congresswomen, such as Jen Kiggans and Chellie Pingree, who emphasized the specific challenges women face in the agricultural sector and how this legislation would level the playing field.
The proposal is backed by the Women, Food, and Agriculture Network (WFAN). “We have seen the need for the creation of a formal USDA liaison role to promote mentoring, internships, and women-led education/ training,” expressed Juliann Salinas, executive director of WFAN.
As presented in the latest Report of Violent Deaths in Puerto Rico in San Juan, the Puerto Rico Violent Death Reporting System (PRVDRS), established at the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, presented the data from the Report of Violent Deaths in Puerto Rico for the year 2020. The report reveals that in 2020, there were 729 incidents of violent deaths, resulting in a total of 790 fatalities. Out of the total violent deaths, 551 were homicides, and 210 were suicides. According to PRVDRS, violent deaths mainly occur as a result of homicide or suicide.
In 2020, 69.8% of the victims of violent deaths were reported in single or multiple homicide incidents, and 26.6% were suicide incidents. There were four homicide-suicide incidents, resulting in eight fatalities. Additionally, during this period, four violent deaths were attributed to legal intervention (0.5%), and 19 violent deaths were of undetermined intent (2.4%).
In 2020, approximately nine out of ten victims of violent deaths (89.0%) were male. The crude homicide rate was 24.1 per 100,000 inhabitants, with rates of 45.2 for males and 4.9 for females. The primary mechanism for homicides was firearms, with approximately nine out of ten homicides (88.9%) involving firearms. 89.6% of these deaths occurred in males and 83.7% in females.
The proportion of female homicides involving firearms in 2020 is the highest since the year 2000. Homicide rates by sex in the age groups between 15 to 39 years reflect that 72.7% of all male homicides and 61.2% of all female homicides occur in these age groups. The most frequent criminal circumstances of homicides in Puerto Rico are related to drug trafficking and organized crime.
In 2020, 68 fatalities were reported due to family violence. The majority of these cases were related to violence in
an intimate or former partner relationship (17 cases, 25.0%), and 31 additional victims were related to intimate partners or third parties present during intimate partner conflicts (45.6%). Family member violence (20 cases, 29.4%) mainly occurred during a discussion (50.0%). The majority of victims of intimate partner violence were women (76.5%) fatally assaulted by their former male partners (61.5%) or current partners/spouses (38.5%). Additionally, three female victims of intimate partner violence were part of homicide-suicide incidents (23.1%).
Regarding suicides in Puerto Rico, the report highlights that their frequency is lower than homicides. However, similar to homicides, suicides are more common in males (84.8%). In 2020, the crude suicide rate was 6.4 per 100,000 inhabitants, 11.4 in males (one in 124 males), and 1.9 in females (one in 765 females). The suicide risk in males was six times higher than the suicide risk in females. The majority of suicides occurred through hanging, strangulation, or suffocation (64.3%), followed by firearms (16.7%).
Mariluz Bezares, statistical projects manager at the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics and co-principal investigator of PRVDRS, explained that collecting this type of data could involve fieldwork taking more than two years from
the moment the incident occurs until data collection and review are completed.
“This system is a reliable, comprehensive, and unique reference source that helps describe the context of violent deaths in the victim-offender relationship and the magnitude, trends, and characteristics of violent deaths in Puerto Rico,” said Dr. Diego Zavala, epidemiologist and co-principal investigator of PRVDRS.
For the executive director of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, Dr. Orville M. Disdier, these statistics are one of the main tools to combat the phenomenon of violence in Puerto Rico. “These data, among others, serve as a basis for establishing effective violence prevention measures in Puerto Rico, from multiple social, demographic, and economic perspectives. Our commitment at the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics is to continue strengthening this statistical and epidemiological system to further improve the quality of this type of data,” commented Dr. Disdier.
PRVDRS is an epidemiological surveillance system affiliated with the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics and designed to obtain a comprehensive and standardized census of violent deaths in Puerto Rico. PRVDRS began its participation in the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) in September 2016 through a collaborative agreement granted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics is an autonomous government entity tasked with coordinating the government’s statistical production service to ensure that data and statistics-based public policies are complete, reliable, and quickly and universally accessible.
The Report of Violent Deaths in Puerto Rico for 2020, like previous reports, is available at: https://estadisticas.pr/ en/node/6857.
In an effort to assist the residents of Vieques with paying rent and/or basic services such as electricity and potable water, Mayor José ‘Junito’ Corcino urged citizens in need of this aid to contact the staff at the Municipal Office of Federal Programs.
“Our goal is to support the people of Vieques at all times. Thanks to the efforts of the staff at the Municipal Office of Federal Programs, we have access to financial resources through the Community Development Block Grant - COVID (CDBG-CV) program. Today until Friday, from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM, these officials will be available to assist our citizens with guidance and the application process for rental and utility payment assistance,” stated Corcino in a written statement.
In addition to these funds, the Mayor highlighted that the Municipality also has additional resources available for food vouchers.
“Not only do we have funds to help with overdue rents, electricity, and water payments, but we also have resources to help our people with purchasing food. We reiterate our call to all Vieques residents who need this type of assistance. These funds are available to those who qualify under the parameters of Low and Moderate Income levels,” added the Mayor.
Corcino emphasized that his municipal administration will continue to seek viable alternatives to assist Vieques residents with recurring payments related to rent and basic services.
“The staff at the Office of Federal Programs will continue to identify resources and programs to directly support the
people of Vieques. That is the commitment of our municipal administration,” Corcino concluded.
ASpecial Independent Prosecutor (SIP) Panel probe found no evidence linking Wanda Vázquez Garced, former Secretary of Justice and governor, and former Chief Prosecutor Olga Castellón Miranda, to an alleged paralyzation of the investigations into the deaths of lawyer Carlos Cotto Cartagena and influencer Kevin Fret Rodriguez.
The SIP’s intervention at an early stage occurred when Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernandez ordered an investigation to avoid the mere appearance of a conflict of interest.
The Panel entrusted investigative prosecutor Crisanta González Seda to conduct a preliminary investigation to conclude whether there was evidence to recommend the appointment of a Special Independent Prosecutor (FEI).
In summary, prosecutor Betzaida Quiñones Rodriguez had made multiple public statements to the media since October 30, 2022, stating that Vãzquez Garced and the then chief prosecutor, Olga CastellOn Miranda, stopped two investigations she was conducting into the deaths of attorney Cotto Cartagena and Trap singer and artist Kevin Fret Rodriguez.
González Seda received the order to the probe and presented her report to the SIP, concluding that the allegations of the prosecutor Quiñones Rodríguez regarding the alleged paralysis of cases were not supported by the testimonies of witnesses or the evidence collected.
The preliminary investigation by the investigative prosecutor González Seda was very extensive and comprehensive, with 16 sworn statements and voluminous documentary evidence. Also, prosecutor Betzaida Quiñones Rodríguez was required to give a sworn statement on her allegations.
The Department of Justice, the Office of the Chief Prosecutor, the Commissioner of the Police Bureau, the Department of Public Security, and the Director of the Institute of Forensic Sciences, also provided information and testimonies on the matter.
During the investigation ordered by the PFEI, constant communications emerged between the prosecutor Quiñones Rodríguez, her supervisors, and other locals about various cases emerged.
Former Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vazquez said that once more she has proven that she conducted herself with honesty and integrity in her public service career. Each time, she said, law enforcement agencies
have found no evidence of allegations raised her. “All investigations have shown with compelling evidence the falsity of all and each allegation,” she said in written remarks.
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The Economic Crimes Division of the Department of Justice filed criminal charges Tuesday against the owner of two businesses dedicated to the sale of parts and equipment for all-terrain vehicles, who submitted false and fraudulent tax returns to the agency.
The individual should have reported over $2.4 million to the Treasury.
The charges are the product of an investigative alliance between the Department of Justice of Puerto Rico,
the Department of the Treasury and the Drug Control Administration (DEA), created to eradicate tax evasion on the Island, resulting in 12 convictions for million-dollar schemes to defraud the government.
Luis Jorge Rivera Marrero, 31, owes the State over $1.6 million for failing to report personal income and income from his corporation DMSPORT INC. to the Treasury for 2019, 2020, and 2021. In addition, for 2020 and 2021, he filed false and fraudulent income tax returns for Dorado Global Group LLC. The defendant also did not remit to the Treasury over $260,000 for the payment of the Sales and Use Tax (IVU).
For these facts, he faces 64 charges under the Internal Revenue Code for a New Puerto Rico, as amended, and faces eight years in prison.
“Those who commit economic crimes deal a severe blow to the Island’s economy and to our people. People who profit by breaking tax laws are criminals who inflict damage on other citizens who require State resources to meet basic needs. For this reason, we will continue fighting tax evasion and prosecuting this type of cases involving non-compliance million-dollar schemes that affect the people’s services,” said the Secretary of Justice, Domingo Emanuelli Hernández.
For his part, the Secretary of the Treasury Department, Francisco Parés Alicea, lamented
that despite the continuous guidance given to citizens on the consequences of tax evasion, unscrupulous people insist on evading responsibilities with the State.
“The case of the young businessman Luis Rivera Marrero is very similar to others that we have worked in collaboration with the Department of Justice and federal agencies, which the media have widely reviewed. However, some citizens insist on repeating evasion behaviors, even though we have stressed the ability of the Treasury to investigate the relationship between income and expenses of taxpayers, among other tools that we have, which continue to expand our field of visibility. We once again recommend taxpayers with deficiencies to approach the Department and amend any situation on time,” he said.
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) uncovered non-compliance in the issuance of permits by the Office of Permits Management (OGPe) within the Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC), the entity reported Wednesday.
“The report identified construction permits granted without all the required certifications, information, approvals, and documents,” the OIG report states.
The document points out that permits were granted by professionals without valid credentials as Authorized Professionals, violating Act 161-2009 and the Professional Regulation Regulation.
The study also found a need for audits on the Construction Permits granted by OGPe, Authorized Professionals, and autonomous municipalities. Between January and October 2021, about 5,524 construction permits were issued, of which only one was audited.
Furthermore, the report shows that the review of OGPe’s Professional Regulation required by law has yet to be conducted.
In response to the findings, the DDEC Secretary indicated that OGPe will implement a corrective action plan. The complete report is available on the OIG portal. To report found irregularities in the use of public funds.
Meanwhile, Félix Rivera, assistant secretary of the
OGPe, assured that the report does not point out any errors in the granting of the permits, thus validating their issuance. There is no need for the permits to be revoked.
“It is essential to clarify that the mentioned observations are correctable since they relate to errors in issuing consolidated construction permits, and they do not diminish the merit of the evaluations conducted for granted permits. The report also does not reference corrupt acts by agency employees,” said Rivera in written statements.
Regarding a claim about the lack of documents for permit issuance, he clarified that the SBP system is integrated with multiple screens that correlate all the applications. In the case mentioned, where there was an apparent environmental non-compliance, although the proponent submitted an incorrect document, the specialist at OGPe verified that there is a record with the correct paper related to the request.
The report indicates that the documents do not comply with the language of the Joint Regulation, so the agency is evaluating the system’s weaknesses and how they can improve with new technology. “The entire OGPe staff is committed and strives to work with an evolving system that seeks continuous improvement so that these few cases stay within the majority of permits approved without any issues,” he said.
Finally, “we are working on updating the Regulation of Professional Regulation of OGPe, as required by Act 38-2017 known as the Uniform Administrative Procedure Law of the Government of Puerto Rico, to address the observations presented in the report.
The University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez in Mayagüez (RUM) received a $500,000 donation from Pratt & Whitney, a company specializing in the design and construction of airplane engines. This donation aims to create a gifting program for professors and students in the engineering field, facilitating their work on projects aligned with the TurboLab mission—a space inaugurated at Mayagüez University’s facilities at the end of last year, also as part of a substantial contribution from the same company.
Dr. Agustín Rullán Toro, the university’s director, expressed his gratitude stating, “with this donation, we move on to the next stage of our relationship with Pratt & Whitney. To date, they have contributed over $1.6 million to us. The initial funds of $1.1 million were primarily dedicated to enhancing the development of the ‘Turbo Lab,’ which has become the first center of aerospace excellence in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. With the infrastructure and equipment already in place, these new funds will be focused on supporting innovative projects. This strengthens our ties with the industry, and we want them to trust us with the funds they allocate for academic events, ultimately benefiting their position, particularly in Puerto Rico. It also opens up more opportunities for
our university members to work in the rapidly growing aerospace industry on the island.”
Engineer Josymar Acosta Grafals, President and General Manager of Pratt and Whitney Puerto Rico, and a graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (INME), emphasized that this support aims to provide students with additional tools before entering the workforce. “With the ‘Turbo Lab’ now in place, the next step is to maximize its use to better prepare students for the industry. Rather than requesting specific investigations, we want to tap into the university’s talent and creativity and have them propose their projects. We will then select the projects based on their proposals,” stated Acosta Grafals.
She added, “As an RUM graduate myself, this holds significant emotional value for me. Collaborating with my alma mater at this point in my career is an honor, and I hope to help future students have diverse experiences and be better prepared for the industry.”
Dr. Sheilla N. Torres Nieves, the principal investigator of the project and director of the Aerospace Engineering Center at the university, explained that they will receive letters of intent in August, followed by invited proposals in September, with the goal of selecting eight to ten projects. “The opportunity is open to any area related to the aerospace industry, but we will prioritize those aligned with Turbo Lab’s subjects, including damped systems, gas turbines, advanced propulsion, and analysis
and computational design. This collaboration reinforces our ties with Pratt & Whitney and allows us to utilize the recently inaugurated infrastructure efficiently. We want the selected projects to utilize all available tools, computers, programs, and have direct access to mentorship from the industry,” stated Torres Nieves.
Representing Dr. Luis A. Ferrao Delgado, President of the University of Puerto Rico, Margarita E. Méndez Escudero, Director of the Office of Development and Alumni, expressed gratitude for Pratt & Whitney’s support. She stated, “The assistance we receive from Pratt and Whitney is crucial for our academic growth and university development. This support not only manifests in philanthropic contributions but also positively impacts our students by providing them with experiences aligned with workforce expectations. Additionally, it helps us retain students and strengthen our alumni connections. Our former students feel joyful about supporting the university and giving back in some way. Therefore, we invite everyone to invest in and support the university in any way they can.”
The agreement made by the Office of Alumni and Philanthropy of RUM, directed by Carmen Patricia Parés Parés, was subscribed in the director’s office. Parés expressed gratitude for the support and encouraged other entities and corporations to follow their example for the benefit of students.
With a third indictment of former President Donald Trump now seeming quite likely — this one involving his attempts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election — there are three big questions about the case.
One, what would be the specifics of such an indictment? Two, would an indictment include significant new evidence, or focus on information that’s already known? Three, what are the chances that Trump may one day face prison time?
1. The specifics
On Tuesday, Trump said he received a letter confirming he was a target in the federal investigation into his attempts to stay in power after the 2020 election, including any role in inciting the Jan. 6 attacks. Such a letter is typically a sign of an imminent indictment, Charlie Savage wrote in The New York Times. Any charges will require months to work through the legal system.
On what grounds could Trump be charged? Several possibilities exist: his attempts to obstruct Congress’ Jan. 6, 2021, proceedings; possible fraud related to fundraising; and efforts to recruit so-called fake electors from states he narrowly lost. (Hours after Trump revealed the letter, Michigan authorities charged 16 people in the fake elector scheme.)
Only a little is known about where prosecutors are focusing, and that information comes from the letter to Trump. It cited statutes that could be applied in a prosecution, including a potential charge of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and a broad charge related to a violation of rights.
2. New information?
Without seeing the evidence, experts are unsure how strong the case against Trump is. In the classified documents inquiry, investigators uncovered new evidence, including photos of documents in a bathroom at Trump’s Florida home and Trump suggesting in a recording that he knew he wasn’t supposed to have the papers. So far, the public evidence around Trump’s attempts to cling to power is less explicit.
Consider Trump’s involvement in the Jan. 6 riots: He made suggestive comments, including earlier that day at a rally in Washington. But none of them were explicit orders for an attack, and he eventually encouraged his supporters who had breached the Capitol to disperse.
Trump “is often both all over the place and yet somewhat careful not to cross certain lines,” Maggie Haberman, who covers Trump for the Times, has said. “At his rally at the Ellip se on Jan. 6, he told people to go ‘peacefully and patriotically’ but also directed them to the Capitol with apocalyptic language about the election. Frequently, people around him understand the implications of words, even when he’s not being direct.”
If investigators do have evidence that more directly links Trump to any potential charges, it will be revealed in the coming days or weeks if an indictment is filed and made public.
3. The prison possibility
In addition to this case, Trump already faces state charges in New York of falsifying business records to cover up potential sex scandals before the 2016 election as well as federal charges in the classified documents case. And Trump may face separate state charges in Georgia over his attempts to stay in power; a local prosecutor is expected to announce an indictment decision soon.
Any of these cases could lead to a conviction and possible prison time. Or Trump could beat the charges in court.
There is one other possibility that his advisers have raised: He could win the 2024 election, potentially making it too difficult to imprison him or allowing him to use the powers of the presidency to drop the federal investigations and charges.
“When he was indicted in the documents investigation, his advisers were blunt that in their view, he needs to win the election as a defense against possible jail time,” Haberman wrote Tuesday. “That only increases with an indictment related to Jan. 6 at the federal level.”
The circumstances put Trump’s presidential campaign in a different light. He is not running, as politicians typically do, solely to push a policy agenda, establish his legacy or gain power. He is running for selfpreservation, too.
The U.S. has never confronted this scenario. Experts are divided over whether and how Trump could act as president if he were sentenced to prison. No one knows for certain how America’s political and criminal justice systems would handle that outcome.
As Jessica Levinson, an election law expert, told the Times, “I don’t think that the Framers ever thought we were going to be in this situation.”
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When Trump and Stefanik spoke by phone Tuesday, the former president lingered on the line as they discussed ways to use Republican-led House committees to try to attack the investigations. Trump also spoke with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who accused the Biden administration of trying to “weaponize government to go after their No. 1 opponent.”
Their comments reprised a role that Republicans in Congress played for Trump twice before when he was impeached, and twice again when he was indicted earlier this year. The first indictment came in March, by the district attorney in Manhattan in connection with hush money payments to a porn star. The second was in June, when he was indicted on charges of keeping top-secret classified documents and obstructing efforts to get them back.
themselves. Data from Clark’s firm shows that Republicans view an attack on Trump “as an attack on them,” he said.
“That loyalty is not something that is easy to beat in a campaign,” he added. “His opponents see this, too, and that is why they tread very carefully. It’s hard to see how another Republican breaks out when primary voters are rallying around their most recent president and any challengers have to hold their fire.”
Trump on Tuesday revealed that he had received a “target letter” from the Justice Department’s special counsel, Jack Smith, who is investigating his role in the lead-up to the violence of Jan. 6.
“Almost always means arrest and indictment,” Trump wrote of the target letter on Truth Social.
By SHANE GOLDMACHER and MAGGIE HABERMANThe indictments of Donald Trump — past and pending — are becoming the background music of the 2024 presidential campaign: always there, shaping the mood, yet not fully the focus.
Like so much of the Trump presidency itself, the extraordinary has become so flattened that Trump’s warning on Tuesday that he was facing a possible third indictment this year, this time over his involvement in the events that led to the Jan. 6 storming of
the Capitol, drew shrugs from some quarters of his party and a muddled response from his rivals.
At one Republican congressional fundraising lunch on Tuesday in Washington, the news of a likely third Trump indictment went entirely unmentioned, an attendee said. Some opposing campaigns’ strategists all but ignored the development. And on Capitol Hill, Trump’s allies quickly resumed their now-customary defensive positions.
Two and half years ago, the deadly riot that left the nation’s seat of government defiled had threatened to forever tarnish Trump’s political legacy. His supporters had stormed the Capitol to stop the certification of his defeat, stoked by their leader who had urged them to “fight like hell.” Even long-loyal Republicans broke with him as shattered glass littered the Capitol complex.
Yet today, Trump is the undisputed frontrunner for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination. And the threatened charges relating to Jan. 6 against Trump were instead turned into attacks on his successor by his Republican defenders on Tuesday.
“We have yet again another example of Joe Biden’s weaponized Department of Justice targeting his top political opponent, Donald Trump,” Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the No. 4 House Republican, told reporters on Capitol Hill.
Republicans and Trump’s extended orbit have established a rhythm of how to respond. Yet on the campaign trail, Trump’s leading rivals continue to struggle to even articulate a response.
Chief among them is Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, Trump’s top-polling rival. At a stop in South Carolina, DeSantis on Tuesday said that Trump “should have come out more forcefully” against the protesters who stormed the Capitol that day.
But after that line was picked up by Trump surrogates to attack DeSantis, his usually forceful DeSantis War Room Twitter account was anything but warring, accusing those surrogates of taking the governor out of context.
“I hope he doesn’t get charged,” DeSantis said of Trump in an interview broadcast later on CNN.
The CNN interview was supposed to be an important moment for a candidate who had previously avoided any sit-downs that might legitimize the “corporate media” that he regularly denounces. Instead, the network interrupted its own exclusive recorded DeSantis interview with live updates from outside a courthouse in Florida on one of Trump’s coming trials. The sequence seemed to capture the state of the race that Trump is dominating.
Justin Clark, who served as Trump’s deputy campaign manager in 2020 and whose firm, National Public Affairs, has conducted polling of the primary race, said the challenge for his rivals is the voters
Smith’s office already indicted Trump in federal court in June, saying he had possessed reams of national defense material and obstructed the investigation. In the coming weeks, he faces possible indictment in Georgia related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election in that state.
Alyssa Farah Griffin, who had served as Trump’s communications director before resigning in late 2020 and publicly breaking with her former boss, said, “The most striking thing to me is that most of Trump’s GOP opponents, who are polling double digits behind him, still will not seize this opportunity to denounce his unfit actions.”
One reason is that Trump, and Republican primary voters, have so thoroughly rewritten the history of Jan. 6, 2021. The mere mention of the day is no longer an overwhelmingly clear political loser for the former president, at least in a Republican primary. Trump, two months after the attack, declared the violence a “lovefest,” and has continued to do so.
Indeed, at a rally this year in Texas, Trump placed his hand on his heart and listened to the song “Justice for All” that featured his voice and those of some Jan. 6 prisoners.
Trump’s team has capitalized on his past indictments to raise huge sums of campaign cash. But in Iowa on Tuesday, at a town hall-style interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News, Trump dismissed the friendly host’s suggestion that he was able to slough off his latest legal entanglement.
“No,” Trump said, “it bothers me.”
The water temperature near Key Biscayne, a barrier island just east of Miami, had already passed 89 degrees Fahrenheit one morning this week. And though the ocean off South Florida was slightly cooler than the recent record highs that had stunned scientists and threatened marine life, it remained phenomenally hot.
But on this serene patch of the Atlantic Coast, it was still a summer day at the beach, when nothing satisfies quite like a dip — even when the ocean feels like a thick, simmering syrup. Almost gooey.
“I like it warm,” shrugged Niki Candela, 20, a Miami native, moments after a powerful siren warned of approaching lightning.
Few of the heat-dazed people on the largely empty beach paid it any mind. The shore, usually clogged this time of year with rotting clusters of seaweed, was pristine, no longer menaced by a huge sargassum blob that unexpectedly shrank last month in the Gulf of Mexico. The shallow water was a crystalline teal, rolling oh so gently, not a cresting wave in sight.
So the undeterred regulars, people who savor being hot and abhor the cold, came out to enjoy themselves.
“This is as close as America gets to paradise,” said Lauren Humphreys, 40, who is originally from England but splits her time between Miami and Los Angeles. There, she prefers hiking to swimming in the Pacific, which Tuesday reached about 72 degrees by the Santa Monica Pier.
Humphreys was making her second visit to Key Biscayne’s beaches that day, having come earlier to meditate. “There’s something quite special here,” she said. “It’s peaceful.”
The water temperature near Key Biscayne, a barrier island just east of Miami, had already passed 89 degrees one morning this week, and though the ocean off South Florida had cooled slightly from record highs a few days earlier that stunned scientists and threatened marine life, it remained phenomenally hot.
Off the coast of neighboring Virginia Key, measurements from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed that the water temperature peaked at 90.5 degrees on Monday, and the air temperature at 87.6 degrees. On Saturday, the water temperature at that location reached 92.5 degrees, a record.
The water in South Florida is always warm this time of year, but unusually so this year, with six record-high temperatures measured off Virginia Key this month. The sea surface hit 98 degrees in some areas of Florida Bay last week; the average ocean temperature in Miami in July is around 86.
Miami’s unrelenting heat this summer has meant 16 consecutive days with a heat index at or above 105 degrees, a record, according to Brian McNoldy, a senior research scientist at the University of Miami. The National Weather
Service forecast a heat index of 110 degrees Sunday, issuing its first-ever extreme heat advisory for Miami-Dade County.
At the beach the next day, the scorching sand was to be avoided at all costs. “Talk to me here, so I don’t burn my feet,” Eduardo Valades, 51, told a reporter, beckoning toward the lapping water.
The water was “really hot,” he said, “but only as soon as you go in. Once you walk 50 yards out, it feels cooler.”
“I love it,” his wife, Jennifer Valades, 50, said.
The couple moved three years ago to Key Biscayne, an affluent village of about 14,000, from California. “Here, you can literally swim for hours,” she said, though she conceded that the beach was more pleasant — “perfect,” in fact — during the mild South Florida winter,
when the water temperature is more likely to be in the mid-70s. Coastal temperatures are also more moderate than those inland.
Valades said she had recently spotted six or seven manatees. Valades showed a cellphone video he recorded last month of a large shark feeding right at the shore.
“We see one every three or four days,” he said, appearing far from worried about the sightings.
This week, toweling off seemed unnecessary: No one felt cold leaving the water.
“It feels like a Jacuzzi!” Sasha Mishenina told her two friends following a brief dip. They had declined to join her.
Yet going for a quick swim still felt refreshing, with the occasional cool current swirling by and little fish darting by people’s feet.
“I’m so happy, because they said we were going to have the sargassum,” Adriana Campuzano said of predictions this year, as she was gathering her stuff to leave before the looming thunderstorm. “It’s clearer than it’s been in years. Maybe in a decade.”
Candela had come to the beach with three friends. The ocean felt fine, she said, though she added that sometimes with such hot water, “you think, ‘What if someone’s peeing here?’”
She and her friends laid out their towels on beach chairs under an umbrella, put music on and waded in.
“It actually feels pretty cold,” said Taylor Dutil, 20, a fellow Floridian.
“It’s a good change,” said Benny Perez, 22, who is from Chicago, where Lake Michigan was far cooler that day.
The siren blared three more times, signaling the end of the lightning threat. Not a raindrop had fallen. The four friends stayed in the water, chatting and laughing.
United Airlines pilots reached agreement with the company Saturday on a contract valued at $10 billion that would increase pay up to 40% over four years.
The proposed contract offers another big wage victory for pilots in the United States after a deal with Delta Air Lines was approved in March. The substantial raises are a reflection of a shortage of pilots in the United States and the strong recovery in demand for air travel.
In addition to the higher compensation, the agreement provides better job security, work rules, vacation, retirement and other benefits.
At a major airline such as United,
pilots easily earn six-figure salaries. The most senior pilots, who typically fly larger planes on international routes, can earn several hundred thousand dollars a year.
In a statement, United, which is based in Chicago, said the deal would help its “United Next” strategy, an expansion plan that includes the purchase of larger planes to increase the number of seats per flight in North America by almost 30% and the number of premium seats per flight by 75% by 2026.
“We promised our world-class pilots the industry-leading contract they deserve, and we’re pleased to have reached an agreement,” United CEO Scott Kirby wrote on the social media network LinkedIn.
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Union officials said the agreement was the result of four years of negotiations and represented a “landmark” deal in the airline industry as travel demand rises after the steep drop during the height of the pandemic.
“The tireless dedication demonstrated by United pilots over the past several years ensured our solidarity, which was instrumental in achieving this historic agreement,” Capt. Garth Thompson, chair of the United Master Executive Council of the Air Line Pilots Association International, said in a statement.
The Air Line Pilots Association, the largest airline pilot union in the world, represents 74,000 pilots at 42 airlines in the United States and Canada, including 16,000 pilots at United Airlines.
The union and management will
complete the final language of the deal. The agreement must then be approved by a vote of the members of the pilots association, which is expected in the next several weeks.
In March, Delta approved a contract that increases wages 34% by 2026 and includes improvements to scheduling, retirement and other benefits. Delta’s deal raised the standard for pilot compensation and benefits.
The shortage of pilots is the result of the airlines reducing the number of pilots through buyouts and retirements when air travel was significantly curtailed early in the pandemic. But with rapidly growing demand for airline flights over the past year, the carriers have been increasing pilot pay and benefits as they hire thousands to fill the depleted ranks.
Global stocks rose and the dollar strengthened on Wednesday after a surprise cooling of British inflation bolstered the risk-off sentiment across markets that anticipates the Federal Reserve next week will hike interest rates for the last time.
The dollar bounced after sentiment was boosted by inflation in the United Kingdom falling more than expected in June to its slowest pace in more than a year at 7.9%. The reading sent the pound sharply lower against other major currencies.
The dollar index rose 0.378% and the euro fell 0.3% to $1.1192.
Gold prices hovered near an eight-week peak hit on Tuesday and oil prices gained more than 1% on expectations that the Fed will have finished its most aggressive rate-hiking in more than four decades when it concludes a two-day meeting on July 26.
Stocks on Wall Street mostly rose as investors looked past poor second-quarter earnings from Goldman Sachs to take comfort in strong profits from smaller players in the banking sector.
Citizens Financial and M&T Bank beat Wall Street estimates for second-quarter profit, benefiting from the Fed’s rapid rate hikes. The KBW bank index rose 2.73%, its third straight day of gains.
“Clearly the market is looking through the Fed meeting,” said Rhys Williams, chief strategist at Spouting Rock Asset Management in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
“In the short term, we’re in this Goldilocks scenario where good news is good news and bad news is good news,” said Williams, adding that if the Fed were to indicate next week that more rates might be in store, it would upend the recent rally.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.26% and MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe gained 0.13%.
On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4%, the S&P 500 gained 0.24% and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.04%.
With U.S. stocks on a seemingly relentless climbthe Dow is on track to post its eighth straight session of gains - investors are concerned about the outlook for earnings and valuations.
“Analysts’ expectations for earnings are going down. That’s the biggest discrepancy in this rosy picture,” said Brad Conger, deputy chief investment officer at Hirtle Callaghan & Co in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
“You’re not seeing the robustness in prices being confirmed by forward expectations and that’s the biggest, disconcerting fly in the ointment, if you will,”
Conger said.
Treasury yields slid at the long-end of the yield curve as investors bet that the Fed is near the end of its rate-hiking cycle.
The yield on benchmark 10-year Treasury notes fell 2.5 basis points to 3.764%. Fed funds futures are pricing the Fed’s overnight lending rate to be 4.5% a year from now, down from a peak of 5.4% in November.
The two-year Treasury yield, which typically moves
in step with interest rate expectations, rose 1.5 basis points at 4.768%.
Euro zone bond yields fell after the British inflation data added to signs that price pressures are easing globally. Germany’s 10-year bond yield eased 0.4 basis points at 2.393%.
Oil prices gained, buoyed by tighter U.S. crude supplies, China’s pledge to reinvigorate its economic growth and expectations that the Fed will stop raising interest rates soon.
U.S. crude recently rose 0.36% to $76.02 per barrel and Brent was at $79.96, up 0.41% on the day.
Spot gold fell 0.08% to $1,977.04 an ounce.
Official data from China offered a rare, but brief, glimpse of the true toll of COVID, indicating that nearly as many people may have died from the virus in a single province earlier this year as Beijing has said died in the mainland during the entire pandemic.
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The data was deleted from a provincial government website just days after it was published on Thursday. But epidemiologists who reviewed a cached version of the information said it was the latest indication that the country’s official tally is a vast undercount.
The number of cremations in the eastern province of Zhejiang rose to 171,000 in the first quarter of this year, the website said. That was 72,000 more cremations, a roughly 70% increase, than had been reported in the same period last year.
In February, China said the official death toll in the mainland since the start of the pandemic was 83,150 — a remarkably low number that independent researchers have said is not credible. Since then, the government has released only weekly or monthly death tolls that, when added up, raise the overall total to about 83,700.
COVID surged across China late last year, forcing the government to abandon its strict pandemic restrictions in December. The government’s abrupt policy reversal, however, left hospitals and pharmacies unprepared for the onslaught and likely accelerated the spread of infections and a wave of deaths across the country.
That surge of COVID infections across China lasted for about two months. The majority of the deaths occurred in January, but many people died in December as well. Epidemiologists estimate that 80% to 90% of the population was infected.
The Zhejiang data offered a window into cremation figures that have been closely guarded by the Chinese government. While the data does not include the cause of death, researchers regularly use excess death statistics to estimate the impact of major deadly events like disasters and pandemics. Everybody who dies in Zhejiang is cremated, officials say.
Many local and national authorities have withheld regularly published cremation data since that first major COVID wave started late last year. It is unclear why Zhejiang province
published data for the first quarter of this year, but three days after it surfaced, the report was removed.
Calls on Tuesday to multiple numbers at Zhejiang’s civil affairs bureau went unanswered. The Beijing-based media outlet Caixin reported on the figures Monday, but its article was also quickly taken down.
An analysis by The New York Times published in February estimated that China’s recent COVID wave may have killed between 1 million and 1.5 million people, based on research from four teams of epidemiologists.
The new data from Zhejiang — which is limited to a province of 65.8 million people — when extrapolated to the country’s population of 1.4 billion people, is roughly consistent with that range, experts from two of those teams said.
Ben Cowling, an epidemiologist at the University of Hong Kong, said that the data can be used for a crude estimate of China’s nationwide death toll. “I’m not sure the impact would have been exactly the same in every province, but I think it would be useful for a rough extrapolation,” he said. “It’s consistent with the estimates of around 1.5 million.”
Yong Cai, a demographer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies mortality in China, arrived at an estimate of 1.5 million deaths for the first quarter of the year, based on the cremation data, and said that to gauge total mortality during the surge, deaths in December of last year, when cases started to spike, needed to be factored in.
Other recent clues hint at the impact elsewhere in the country. Data released earlier this year showed a substantial decline in Shanghai’s life expectancy, from 84.1 in 2021 to 83.2 in 2022, for the first time at this scale since 1983. The drop is likely attributable to the December COVID surge combined with a stringent lockdown in the spring of that year, which prevented some residents from accessing medical care, Cai said.
Small protests cropped up across Israel on Wednesday, illustrating the broad, grassroots nature of popular opposition to plans by the government to overhaul the country’s judiciary, drawing in key sectors of the economy, the security establishment and society.
Doctors rallied with flags and banners outside major hospitals. Employees of Israel’s vaunted high-tech industry gathered on bridges and at busy junctions. Scores of people set off on a 40-mile trek on foot from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
In what has become one of the most enduring themes in the months of protests that have gripped Israel, women dressed in red — a reference to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the dystopian novel-turned-TV-series set in a totalitarian patriarchy — gathered at sites across the country.
The protests appeared timed to coincide with a planned address to the U.S. Congress by Israeli President Isaac Herzog later on Wednesday that would come at a fraught period in the relations between Israel and the United States. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden held a meeting with Herzog, who serves as Israel’s mostly ceremonial head of state, at the White House.
Several lawmakers critical of Israel said they would boycott Herzog’s speech to Congress to protest the Israeli government’s policies.
In Israel, many protesters have been critical of Herzog’s efforts to try to forge a compromise between the Israeli government and representatives of the opposition over the judicial changes and are hoping
that Biden will continue to press Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to abandon the government’s unilateral legislative rush.
In Israel on Tuesday, tens of thousands of protesters thronged railway platforms, blocked roads, including the main artery running through Tel Aviv, and held a mass demonstration outside the Supreme Court and parliament building in Jerusalem.
The protests were part of a calibrated buildup of opposition to moves by the government to finalize the first bill in the judicial overhaul plan, which many critics, including top legal officials, have described as a blow
to the country’s democracy.
The protests are expected to peak this weekend or early next week, when parliament is likely to hold a final vote on a bill restricting the Supreme Court’s use of the grounds of “reasonableness” and limiting judicial review of government decisions and appointments.
Critics fear the proposed law could undermine democracy by reducing judicial oversight over the Cabinet and giving the government greater powers, paving the way for a more conservative and religious society and for the possible appointment of corrupt
officials. Netanyahu’s government says that the change would make elected lawmakers less beholden to the subjective opinions of unelected judges.
The new measures, which are mostly supported by religious and social conservatives, have been opposed by a broad swathe of Israeli society, visible in the protests that have shaken the country in recent months. Some members of the Israeli military reserves have campaigned against the law, and labor unions have threatened general strikes.
On Wednesday, the country’s medical union held a two-hour “warning strike.” Doctors and medical staff gathered outside hospitals holding banners with slogans such as, “Doctors fighting for the life of democracy.”
Employees of Israel’s military industries were scheduled to hold a rally in Tel Aviv in the afternoon, and hundreds of reservists from the military’s medical corps planned to hand in letters to army officials announcing that they would no longer show up for reserve duty in light of what their organizers called “the government’s unilateral gallop” toward legislation that “will turn Israel into a dictatorship.”
Women’s groups and the high-tech employees planned to march to the U.S. Embassy branch in Tel Aviv in the evening. Scores of protesters were also marching from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, carrying blueand-white Israeli flags and chanting “Demo-cra-tya!” — Hebrew for democracy. The marchers set off on Tuesday night, with long stops along the way to stay out of the midday heat, and planned to arrive in Jerusalem by Saturday.
Russia bombarded the Black Sea port city of Odesa for a second straight night with drones and missiles, setting off loud and prolonged explosions early Wednesday in what Ukrainian officials said was an attack on grain terminals and other critical infrastructure Ukraine needs to ship food to the world.
Ukraine’s air force said that it was one of the largest sustained aerial assaults on Odesa, the country’s largest port, and that several waves of missiles and drones were launched at other cities overnight. Smoke was seen rising over the main port of Odesa as dawn broke.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian officials called the assault part of a Russian effort to resume its de facto blockade of the Black Sea, after Moscow pulled out of a United Nations-brokered agreement that allowed for Ukrainian grain ships to export food. Russian missiles also hit Odesa on Tuesday in what Moscow claimed was retribution for an attack on a vital bridge to occupied Crimea.
“Russian terrorists deliberately targeted the grain deal’s infrastructure, and every Russian missile is a blow not only to Ukraine, but to everyone in the world who wants a normal and safe life,” Zelenskyy said Wednesday on the Telegram messaging app.
At least 30 cruise missiles and 32 attack drones were fired at targets across the country, primarily from the Black Sea, Ukraine’s air force said. Ukraine said it had intercepted 14 of the missiles and 23 of the drones.
“It was a hellish night,” Serhiy Bratchuk, a spokesperson for the Odesa regional military administration, said in a video message posted on social media. He called the attack “very powerful, truly massive” and said it might have been the largest attack on the city since Russia’s full-scale invasion began.
In Odesa, one intercepted missile caused a large explosion, the blast wave damaging several buildings and injuring civilians, according to the Ukrainian military. Port infrastructure was damaged, including a grain and oil terminal, tanks and loading equipment, the military said. Tobacco and fireworks warehouses were also hit, according to the military. Odesa’s city government said that 10 people needed medical treatment, including a 9-year-old boy.
On the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula, a fire at a military training ground prompted the evacuations of at least 2,000 residents and the closure of a highway, according to Sergei Aksyonov, the Russia-appointed head of Crimea.
The flare-up of tensions around the Black
Sea follows Monday’s blast on the Kerch Strait Bridge connecting Crimea to Russia. The bridge, a strategically important link to supply Russian forces in southern Ukraine, was damaged in an apparent Ukrainian attack by naval drones.
Moscow has denied the attacks are related to the suspended grain deal, saying on Tuesday that they were a “mass retaliatory strike” on facilities used to manufacture drones used in attacks against Russia.
Russia issued threats Tuesday against Ukraine trying to continue shipments of food through the Black Sea, with Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov saying that “certain risks emerge there without appropriate security guarantees.”
Russia also launched a wave of drones Wednesday at Kyiv, but all were destroyed by the capital’s air defenses, said Serhiy Popko, the head of the city’s military administration.
Russia’s success in hitting critical infrastructure at the ports around Odesa reflected the difficulties Ukraine faces in trying to protect cities while also safeguarding critical infrastructure, military equipment and concentrations of troops.
“We can cover Odesa ports, Kyiv region, Dnipro, Lviv,” Yurii Ihnat, a spokespeson for the Ukrainian air force said in an appearance on Ukrainian television. “But we cannot block all directions from which missiles fly into Ukraine.”
The concentrated attacks on Odesa have been especially challenging for Ukraine given the types of missiles deployed by Russia and the tactics it uses to evade air defenses. Ihnat said the Russians fired Kh-22 cruise missiles on a ballistic trajectory, making them extremely fast and hard to shoot down, especially when launched from relatively close range. At the same time, he said, drones were used in large numbers in an effort to exhaust air defense systems, making it harder to track the more powerful missiles.
After pulling out of the grain deal on Monday, Russia escalated tensions in the Black Sea on Wednesday, declaring any ship bound for Ukraine to be a potential carrier of military cargo.
Last weekend, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash. and chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, made a significant political error. She called Israel a “racist state,” instead of simply a state that has racist leaders who treat many of the people under their authority as second-class citizens or worse on account of their ethnic and religious background. Her rhetorical misstep generated international headlines and rebukes from Democrats and Republicans alike, demonstrating that, no matter how far Israel veers from liberal democratic norms, when it comes to American politics, it’s still protected by a thick lattice of taboos.
Jayapal’s gaffe occurred at Netroots Nation, a progressive conference held in Chicago, where proPalestinian activists interrupted a panel she was on. The protesters were targeting Jayapal’s House colleague Jan Schakowsky for refusing to sign onto a bill ensuring that American funding isn’t used in the military detention of Palestinian children. Seeking to placate the demonstrators, Jayapal agreed that Israel is a “racist state” — one of their key contentions — and said that the “Palestinian people deserve self-determination and
autonomy, that the dream of a two-state solution is slipping away from us.”
Almost as soon as she got off the stage, Jayapal told me Monday, she realized she shouldn’t have used the phrase “racist state.” Sure enough, she was soon deluged by criticism not just from the right, but from some in her own party.
One group of centrist Democratic lawmakers circulated a draft of a letter blasting her words as “unacceptable” and saying that efforts to “delegitimize and demonize” Israel are “dangerous and antisemitic.” House Democratic leaders declared that “Israel is not a racist state” in statement of their own that didn’t mention Jayapal but was obviously a response to her comments. On Sunday, Jayapal offered an apology and a clarification, saying, “I do not believe the idea of Israel as a nation is racist,” even though there are “extreme racists” enacting “outright racist policies” in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
Jayapal’s clarification was wise: It’s good to be as precise as possible when discussing an issue as fraught and complex as the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Her words at Netroots Nation could have been interpreted as ideological opposition to Zionism, which does not reflect Jayapal’s views; like most Democrats, she wants to see a Jewish state alongside a Palestinian one. Nevertheless, the ferocity of the backlash was striking, suggesting a brittle political denial about Israel’s increasingly authoritarian, jingoistic turn.
It’s telling that Democratic House leaders referred in their statement to Israel’s 1948 Declaration of Independence, which pledges that Israel will “uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens, without distinction of race, creed or sex.” We can argue about whether that promise was ever compatible with a political project that, in creating a national home for one oppressed and stateless people, made refugees of another. What’s important today, however, is that Israel’s leadership no longer even appears to aspire to this founding ideal.
“Israel is not a state of all its citizens,” Netanyahu wrote in 2019. “According to the basic nationality law we passed, Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people — and only it.” He was referring to a 2018 law, which, among other things, downgraded the official status of Arabic, the language of about a fifth of Israel’s population.
Today, there are nearly equal numbers of Jews and Palestinian Arabs living in Israel and the occupied territories. For Palestinians living under occupation, there is no pretense of equal rights: They are subject to regular land seizures and home demolitions and
constant restrictions on their freedom of movement. But even Palestinian citizens of Israel face legal as well as social discrimination. Israel’s Palestinian citizens, for example, cannot obtain citizenship for spouses who are from the West Bank or Gaza, dooming thousands of couples to live separately.
Israel’s security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, a disciple of the fanatically anti-Arab rabbi Meir Kahane, was once convicted of inciting racism and supporting terrorism. He used to have a photograph of Baruch Goldstein, a settler who massacred 29 Muslim worshippers in 1994, hanging in his living room. Israel’s government is considering creating a security militia under his control.
Of course, a state’s leaders and policies can be bigoted without the state itself being irredeemable. That’s basically Jayapal’s stance, which is why she’s not an antiZionist. But the rush to condemn her offhand remarks is not about encouraging linguistic rigor. It’s about raising the political price of speaking about Israel forthrightly. If you believe in liberal ideals, Netanyahu’s government is very hard to defend. It’s easier for Israel’s most stalwart boosters to harp on a critic’s slight misstatement — especially when denunciation of Israel is likely to ramp up ahead of the address by Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, to Congress on Wednesday, which several progressive lawmakers are refusing to attend.
Israel’s most die-hard backers, Jayapal told me, are “feeling that they’ve lost credibility because the Netanyahu government’s policies are so racist, and they want to silence any discussion of any criticism.” She’s right. If Israel’s champions are truly worried about the fallout from accusations of racism, they might act to make them seem less credible.
WASHINGTON - Hoy jueves, 20 de julio, el Departamento de Asuntos del Veterano de los Estados Unidos (VA, por sus siglas en inglés) en colaboración con el Municipio de Peñuelas celebrarán ¡VetFest en el Sur! Este festival libe de costo es para el beneficio de los Veteranos, sus familiares, cuidadores y sobrevivientes.
En el evento, el personal de VA ayudará a los vetera-
nos a solicitar beneficios relacionados con la Ley PACT (o presentar una intención de reclamación), inscribirse los servicios médicos de VA, someterse a exámenes de exposición tóxica, y mucho más. También habrá música, comida, juegos, artesanos entre otras organizaciones comunitarias para todos los asistentes. Este evento forma parte de una campaña nacional de VA en julio y agosto.
Hasta el momento, sobre 20 mil Veteranos puertorriqueños han solicitado beneficios relacionados con la Ley PACT desde que la ley comenzó el 10 de agosto de 2022. VA busca que todos los Veteranos y sobrevivientes elegibles presenten una solicitud -o envíen su intención de reclamación- para los beneficios relacionados con la Ley PACT ahora.
El equipo obtuvo el primer lugar en la competencia anual organizada por la Patrulla Civil de Aviación (Civil Air Patrol).
La competencia se llevó a cabo en la Universidad Estatal de Wright en Dayton, Ohio, y contó con la participación de 16 equipos. Los resultados fueron anunciados el 17 de julio.
Estos logros les permitieron posicionarse en el primer lugar y llevarse el Trofeo del Campeonato del Equipo Destacado.
E l equipo del Escuadrón de Cadetes Dr. Cesareo RosaNieves de la Ala de Puerto Rico ganaron el pasado lunes el título del Campeonato del Equipo Destacado del Jefe del Estado Mayor de la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos en la Competencia Nacional de Cadetes.
El equipo del Escuadrón de Cadetes Dr. Cesareo RosaNieves, compuesto por los cadetes teniente coronel Rayesh Figueroa, Capitanas Jarielys Rosario y Mary Rosario, primer teniente Saul Andino, y los segundos tenientes Ian Acosta, Andres Casiano y Jose Medero, demostró su habilidad al obtener victorias en cuatro de las siete principales categorías de competencia: Ejercicio en Interiores, Ejercicio Estándar/Elemento, Inspección y Aptitud Física.
Este es el cuarto año consecutivo en el que la Región del Sureste se lleva el título en la Competencia Nacional de Cadetes. En los años anteriores, el equipo ganador fue el Escuadrón de Cadetes de Wesley Chapel de la Ala de Florida. Los eventos correspondientes a los años 2020 y 2021 fueron cancelados debido a la pandemia de COVID-19.
La Competencia Nacional de Cadetes es un evento destacado en el calendario de la Civil Air Patrol y reúne a cadetes militares veteranos de todo el país. En esta competencia, los participantes compiten en una amplia variedad de disciplinas.
Utilizando como tema de mensaje: “Una historia de un futuro prometedor”, el presidente de Huertas College, Dr. Isaac Esquilín Castro, develó el pasado jueves, 15 de junio de 2023 en las instalaciones del Centro Criollo de Ciencias y Tecnología del Caribe (C3Tec), la nueva marca de Huertas College.
Ante la presencia y representación de estudiantes, facultad, personal administrativo, Junta de Directores e invitados especiales, así como representación del Municipio Autónomo de Caguas y del Departamento de Educación, Huertas College presentó su nueva marca enfatizando cómo la misma representa un nuevo capítulo en los 78 años de esta institución líder en carreras cortas. “Hoy es un día especial, un día en el que damos un paso hacia adelante y abrazamos un futuro prometedor. Nos encontramos aquí para celebrar el lanzamiento de una nueva marca de nuestra querida institución educativa, una marca que marcará un antes y un después en nuestra trayectoria. No es un simple cambio de icono o colores, es un cambio de cultura y mentalidad de futuro. Es un proceso de transformación institucional”, palabras del presidente, Dr. Esquilín, durante su mensaje.
Como parte de los proyectos que Huertas College ha traído luego del lanzamiento de su nueva marca se encuentran la colaboración entre “Yo Soy un Gamer
Academy y el Municipio Autónomo de Caguas”. Esta iniciativa le brindó a estudiantes de escuelas públicas adiestramientos relacionados a la industria de los videojuegos, a través de la disciplina deportiva electrónica. “Conducta E-sport”, impactó a sobre 400 estudiantes diarios, recibiendo los mismos en las instalaciones de Huertas College como en el Centro de Bellas Artes de Caguas. Este innovador proyecto comenzó el miércoles, 21 de junio y culminó el jueves, 13 de julio de 2023. El fundador de “Yo soy un Gamer”, Franky López, mejor conocido como “Hambo”, y el doctor Esquilín, expresaron que este proyecto fomentó el interés de los estudiantes por su desarrollo integral en la educación.
Así como este proyecto innovador, Huertas tiene un sinnúmero de planes que impactarán no solo a Puerto Rico, sino que también, al mercado hispanohablante fuera del país con un ofrecimiento vanguardista a través de sus distintos bachilleratos, grados asociados y certificado técnicos, incluyendo de igual forma los diferentes cursos que se ofrecen en su Centro de Capacitación como lo es la Certificación Internacional en Neurociencia Cognitiva Aplicada a las Organizaciones que comienza en agosto.
“El proceso de la implantación de la nueva marca de Huertas se estará realizando por fases comenzando con todo lo digital, documentos institucionales, material promocional hasta culminar con el interior de los
edificios. Ya hemos visualizado cómo quedará todo lo que se estará presentando y, definitivamente, esta nueva imagen nos seguirá posicionando como la gran institución líder en carreras cortas que somos”, así lo expresó Denidsa Vázquez Ortiz, directora de Mercadeo y Relaciones Públicas de Huertas College.
Para visitar nuestro campus y recibir orientación sobre alguno de nuestros programas, puede visitarnos de lunes a jueves de 8:00 a.m. a 6:00 p.m., viernes de 8:00 a.m. a 3:30 pm y sábados de 9:00 am a 1:00 pm o llamar al 787 746 1400 extensión 3,síguenos en nuestras redes sociales o visita nuestra página web: www.huertascollege.com. En Huertas, “el futuro eres tu”. ¡Te esperamos !
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When Taylor Swift released “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)” this month, there was no doubt it would debut at No. 1. The only questions were how forcefully it would smash records, how many mountains of vinyl it would sell and how far down the chart Swift’s catalog would push everybody else.
“Speak Now (Taylor’s Version),” the third installment in Swift’s series of rerecorded albums — this one recreating “Speak Now” from 2010, with a thick appendix of tracks revisited from the cutting-room floor — is the year’s biggest new LP, notching the equivalent of 716,000 sales in the United States. It easily topped Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time,” which opened with 501,000 in March.
But that is not all. It is Swift’s 12th No. 1 album, beating Barbra Streisand for the most chart-toppers by a woman. Drake also has 12 No. 1 albums, but the only acts with more are Jay-Z (14) and the Beatles (19).
The popularity of Swift’s Eras Tour has lifted her entire catalog, and this week, in addition to the new “Speak Now,” she has three other titles in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart: “Midnights” (No. 5), “Lover” (No. 7) and “Folklore” (No. 10). Swift is the first living act to have four albums in the Top 10 since Herb Alpert in 1966. (Prince had five after his death in 2016, and for many years Billboard barred older
“catalog” albums from reappearing on its main chart — a rule that was changed after Michael Jackson’s death, in 2009.)
Swift’s effort to remake her first six albums began after her old record label was sold without her participation, as a way for Swift to reclaim and control her earlier work. But the project has turned into its own phenomenon, with fans using the opportunity to revisit their own relationship with the music, and critics scouring the new recordings for rare — but
notable — edits, like a change to a lyric on the track “Better Than Revenge” from “Speak Now” that had come to be seen as outdated or worse.
The new version of “Speak Now” had a bigger opening than her two previous rerecordings, “Red” (605,000) and “Fearless” (291,000).
The 716,000 “equivalent” sales for the new “Speak Now” — a measurement by Billboard and the data service Luminate that reconciles the various ways fans consume music now — incorporates 269 million streams and 507,000 copies sold as a complete package. It also includes 268,500 copies on vinyl, the second-biggest week for any vinyl album since the predecessors of Luminate began keeping reliable sales records in 1991 — the biggest was Swift’s own “Midnights,” which opened with 575,000 copies sold on LP back in October.
“Speak Now” continues an astonishingly productive run for Swift. It is her sixth studio album in three years, and according to Billboard she is the only artist to notch new No. 1 albums in each of the last five calendar years: “Lover” (2019); “Folklore” and “Evermore” (2020); “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” and “Red (Taylor’s Version)” (2021); “Midnights” (2022); and now “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).”
Also this week, Wallen’s “One Thing” holds at No. 2; Lil Uzi Vert’s “Pink Tape,” last week’s top album, falls to No. 3; and Peso Pluma’s “Génesis” is No. 4.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD. Plaintiff, Vs. ELIZARDO MATOS CRUZ Defendant(s) Civil No. 3:20-CV-01024. (ADC). FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: ELIZARDO MATOS CRUZ. URB. CAPARRA HILLS, I-3 CALLE NOGAL, GUAYNABO, PR 00968. THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
WHEREAS: On March 10, 2023, this Court entered Default Judgment in favor of Plaintiff, against Defendant. On June 14, 2023, this Court entered Order for Execution of Judgment, stating that Defendant has failed to pay the sums of monies adjudged to be paid under the judgment. The In the Judgment, this Court stated that Defendant has defaulted on the repayment obligation to LIME HOMES, LTD., and ordered to pay the Plaintiff the principal sum of $307,352.52, plus interest at 5.25000% per annum from October 1st, 2017, which will continue to accrue interest at the contractual rate. The defendant also owes, and the Court ordered to pay LIME HOMES, LTD. all advances made in accordance with the mortgage note, including, but not limited to, insurance premiums, taxes and inspections, as well as 10% of the original principal balance, or $23,400.00 to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed by the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHERAEAS, Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging to Defendant will be sold at a public auction: URBANA: Solar 3 bloque I del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Caparra Hills en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con un área de 657.636 metros cuadrados. Lindando al NORTE, en 30.670 metros con solar 4; por el SUR, en 30.00 metros con solar 2; por el ESTE, en 23.809 metros con solar 8 y por el OESTE, en 20.01 metros con Calle 2. Consta inscrita al folio 191 del tomo 186 de Guaynabo, finca número 12779, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico de Guayna-
bo. WHEREAS: The property is subject to the following lien: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage Inc., o a su orden, por la suma de $234,000.00 con intereses al 8 3/4% anual y vencimiento 4 de febrero de 2022. Constituida por la Escritura 37 otorgada en San Juan el 29 de enero de 2000 ante la notario Mireya Ocasio García, e inscrita al folio 217 del tomo 1416 de Guaynabo, finca 12779, inscripción
15ª. Senior Lien: None. Junior Lien: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential lien with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential lien to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, lien (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 present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. WHEREAS: For the purpose of the First Judicial Sale, the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the mortgage deed will be $234,000.00 for the property and no lower offers will be accepted. Should the first judicial sale of the abovedescribed property be unsuccessful, then the minimum bid for the property on the Second Judicial Sale will be two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the First Judicial Sale, or $156,000.00. The minimum bid for the Third Judicial Sale, if the same is necessary, will be onehalf of the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the aforementioned mortgage deed, or $117,000.00 (Known in the Spanish language as: “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, 2015 Puerto Rico Laws Act 210 (H.B. 2479), Article 104, as amended. WHE-
REAS: Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. NOW
THREFORE, PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will on the JULY 28, 2023 AT 10:00 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Building,
Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico in accordance with 28 U.S.C. §2001 will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property describes in the Notice will be held on the AUGUST 5
2023 AT 10:00 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the AUGUST
12 2023 AT 10:00 3 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 20 day of June 2023. JOEL
RONDA FELICIANO, SPECIAL MASTER.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE UTUA-
DO SALA SUPERIOR
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ
ALBERTO SANTIAGO
TORRES T/C/C JOSÉ A.
SANTIAGO T/C/C JOSÉ
ALBERTO SANTIAGO
COMPUESTA POR: JOSÉ
LUIS SANTIAGO PÉREZ, ELIZABETH SANTIAGO PÉREZ, BRENDA
ANETTE SANTIAGO PÉREZ, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, AMARILIS CUEVAS IRIZARRY EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA REPRESENTADO POR EL SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO (HUD), DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES RELICTOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
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Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: UT2022CV00151. Sala: 10. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 15 de marzo de 2023 y notificada el 4 de abril de 2023, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 7 de junio de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 8 de junio de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 17 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en mi oficina localizada en el Centro Judicial de Utuado, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, en Carr. 611, Intersection Carr. 111, 24 Avenida Fernando L. Rivas Dominicci, Utuado, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Vivi Abajo del término municipal de Utuado, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 322.6281 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: en dos alineaciones que suman 19.28 metros con un camino municipal; por el SUR: en dos alineaciones que suman 23.70 metros con terrenos propiedad de Edwin Delgado; por el ESTE: en 15.00 metros con terrenos propiedad de Regino Serrano; y por el OESTE: en dos alineaciones que suman 15.20 metros con terrenos propiedad de Ramón Molina. Edificación: Contiene casa de concreto, con un valor de $6,000.00, según consta de la Escritura Núm. 160, otorgada en Utuado, el 15 de octubre de 1973, ante el Notario Jorge Marín Báez, inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 317 de Utuado, Finca 12719. Inscripción primera (1ra). La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 317 de Utuado, Finca 12719. Registro de la Propiedad de Utuado. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 84 del tomo 600 de Utuado, Finca 12719. Registro de la Propiedad de Utuado. Inscripción sexta (6ta). Dirección Física: 111 RD Sector Bella Vista, Bo. Viví Abajo, Utuado, PR 00649. Número de Catastro: 35-188-029-155-36-000. El tipo mínimo para la primera
subasta será de $63,822.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 24 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $42,548.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 31 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $31,911.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $57,839.34 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 3.5% anual desde el 1 de diciembre de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más $136.46 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $6,382.20 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Sucesión de José Alberto Santiago Torres t/c/c José A. Santiago t/c/c José Alberto Santiago compuesta por: José Luis Santiago Pérez, Elizabeth Santiago Pérez, Brenda Anette Santiago Pérez, Fulano y Mengano de Tal, posibles herederos desconocidos, Amarilis Cuevas Irizarry en la cuota viudal usufructuaria, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Utuado, en el Caso Civil Número UT2022CV00151, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $57,839.34 y otras cantidades, según demanda de fecha de 8 de abril de 2022. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Utuado. Anotación A. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta,
estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Utuado, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de junio de 2023. REBECCA L. LÓPEZ LÓPEZ, ALGUACIL, PLACA #739, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE UTUADO, SALA SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MANATÍ ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante Vs. MALVIN TORRES ACEVEDO Y SU ESPOSA EILEEN MARIE AVILA AGUILAR Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: MT2019CV01074. (102). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: MALVIN TORRES ACEVEDO Y SU ESPOSA EILEEN MARIE AVILA AGUILAR Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; EL GOBIERNO
The San Juan Daily Star
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 día 24 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Manatí, Manatí, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Manatí durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 31 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 7 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Apartamento número Treinta y Siete Cero Tres (3703): PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial localizado en el tercer piso (cuarto nivel) del Edificio “G” el CONDOMINIO MARINA I BARCELONETA, sito en el Barrio Pueblo del término municipal de Barceloneta, Puerto Rico. Área aproximada de NOVECIENTOS
NOVENTA Y SIETE PUNTO
CIENTO QUINCE (997.115)
PIES CUADRADOS, equivalentes a NOVENTA Y DOS
PUNTO SESENTA Y SIETE (92.67) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en veintiún pies tres pulgadas (21’3”), con área de rodaje; por el SUR, en veintiún pies tres pulgadas (21’3”), con la Calle Unión; por el ESTE, en cincuenta pies dos pulgadas (50’2”), con áreas comunes, pasillo y escaleras; y por el OESTE, en cincuenta
pies cero pulgadas (50’0”), con el apartamento número Treinta y Seis Cero Tres (3603). Consta de sala-comedor, cocina, balcón, tres dormitorios, dos baños, roperos (“closets”) y área de lavandería (“laundry”). Le pertenece el uso exclusivo como elemento privado: dos espacios de estacionamiento identificados con el número Treinta y Siete Cero Tres (3703) en el “Plot Plan”, localizado en el primer nivel (bajo techo), con una cabida superficial de CUATROCIENTOS SETENTA Y SIETE PUNTO TRESCIENTOS CINCO (477.305) PIES CUADRADOS, equivalentes a CUARENTA Y CUATRO PUNTO TREINTA Y SEIS (44.36) METROS CUADRADOS, incluyendo área de almacenaje; siendo sus colindancias: por el NORTE, con área de rodaje; por el SUR, con la Calle Unión; por el ESTE, con áreas comunes, pasillo de entrada y escaleras; y por el OESTE, con el estacionamiento número Treinta y Siete Cero Dos (3702). El área total de este apartamento, incluyendo el estacionamiento privado es de MIL CUATROCIENTOS SETENTA Y CUATRO PUNTO CUARENTA Y DOS (1,474.42) PIES CUADRADOS, equivalentes a CIENTO TREINTA Y SIETE PUNTO CERO TRES (137.03) METROS CUADRADOS. Su puerta principal de entrada está situada en su lindero Este. Este apartamento tiene una participación en los elementos comunes generales de tres punto nueve cero cuatro cinco dos por ciento (3.90452%). La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Barceloneta, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí, finca número 15,963, inscripción tercera. Subordinada la hipoteca antes relacionada en beneficio de la Hipoteca por la suma principal de $100,813.00, para que ésta última tenga rango preferente, comparece el Departamento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, según consta de la Escritura Número 33, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 11 de febrero de 2016, ante el Notario Público Héctor Moyano Noriega; presentada el 9 de mayo de 2016 y pendiente de inscripción al Asiento 2016-036483-MA01, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí, finca 15,963. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Condominio Marina I, Apartamento 3703, Calle Asisclo Soler, Barceloneta, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $94,087.06 de principal, intereses al 4.00% anual, desde el día 1ro. de agosto de 2019, hasta su completo pago, más
la cantidad de $10,081.30, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $100,813.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $67,208.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $50,406.50. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública Subasta se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior: Hipoteca en Garantía de Pagaré a favor de El Gobierno de Puerto Rico (Departamento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico), o a su orden, por la suma principal de $40,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero en 10 años, según consta de la Escritura Número 83, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 22 de noviembre de 2011, ante el Notario Público Miguel Bauzá Rolón; inscrita al tomo Karibe de Barceloneta, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí, finca 15,963, inscripción 4ta. Sujeta a condiciones restrictivas del Departamento de la Vivienda, por el término de 10 años. Ratificada y consentida la hipoteca por la suma de $40,000.00 mediante la cual comparece La Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, según consta de la Escritura Número 40, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 22 de febrero de 2016, ante el Notario Público Héctor Moyano Noriega; presentada el 5 de abril de 2016 y pendiente de inscripción al Asiento 2016-023013-MA01, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí, finca 15,963. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Manatí, Puerto Rico, a 20 de junio de 2023. EDWIN R. RIVERA CORDERO, ALGUACIL DE LA DIVISIÓN DE EJECUCIÓN DE SENTENCIAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR MANATÍ.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO WILMINGTON SAVINGS
FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS CERTIFICATE TRUSTEE ON BEHALF OF BOSCO
CREDIT II TRUST SERIES
2017-1 BY FRANKLIN
CREDIT MANAGEMENT
CORPORATION AS SERVICER
Demandante vs. SUCESION JUAN
CARLOS TORRES
RODRIGUEZ T/C/C JUAN
C. TORRES RODRIGUEZ
COMPUESTA POR JOHN
DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS
Demandado
CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Parte con Interés
CIVIL NUM· AI2022CV00291
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA.
EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA-
DOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA.
EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES-
TADOS 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 Aibonito, 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 Orocovis, el 6 de septiembre de 2023, a las 10:00 de la mañana, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Barros del término municipal de Orocovis, Puerto Rico, marcado en el plano de inscripción con el número 7 con una cabida superficial de 490.8262 metros cuadrados, equivalente a 0.1249 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, con la finca principal de la cual se segrega propiedad de Ángel
Berrios Hernández; por el SUR, con una parcela de uso público que le sirve de acceso para las parcelas segregadas; por el ESTE, con la parcela número 8 del plano de inscripción; por el OESTE, con la parcela número 6 del plano de inscripción.” Finca número 12253BIS, inscrita al folio 54 del tomo 218 de Orocovis, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. La hipoteca antes descrita consta inscrita al folio 54 del tomo 218 de Orocovis, Finca número 12253BIS, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas, inscripción 4ª. Propiedad localizada en: PARCELA 7 SR-567 KM-1.0
(INT) SECT. LIMONES SIERRA VERDE, BO. BARROS, OROCOVIS PR 00720. 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: N/A Suma de la Carga: N/A Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A 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 $107,690.64, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una segunda subasta por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Orocovis, el 13 de septiembre de 2023, a las 10:00 de la mañana, y se establece como Mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $71,793.76, 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 $53,845.32, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Orocovis, el 20 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
principal de $82,647.43 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $9,900.58 en intereses acumulados al 31 de enero de 2023 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 6.25% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la suma de $24,291.35 en principal diferido; $242. 58 en “escrow/ impound overdraft”; $331.38 en cargos por demora; $897.00 en adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $10,769.06, para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, los recargos pactados desde la fecha antes indicada, acumulándose mensualmente, y todas estas sumas son líquidas y exigibles. 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 Orocovis, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de junio de 2023 de 2023. Juan O. Burgos Burgos, Alguacil Regional. Kelvin Martínez, Alguacil.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE LUIS MANUEL LUGARO FIGUEROA COMPUESTA POR ALEXANDRA LUGARO APONTE; ALEXANDER LUGARO APONTE; LUIS MANUEL LUGARO PATTON; AMERICA APONTE MORENO
POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA USUFRUCTUARIA; CRIM Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CB2022CV00050.
Salón Núm.: (207). 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 LUIS MANUEL LUGARO FIGUEROA COMPUESTA POR ALEXANDRA LUGARO APONTE; ALEXANDER LUGARO APONTE; LUIS MANUEL LUGARO PATTON; AMERICA APONTE MORENO POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA USUFRUCTUARIA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA: ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO: 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 Mayagüez, 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: Apartamento número 904: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento residencial número 904 de dos plantas y forma irregular localizado en la primera planta del Edificio 9 del Condominio Villa Campomar, situado en el Sector Combate del Barrio Boquerón, del término municipal de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, teniendo un área total aproximada de 200.359 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 2,156.646 pies cuadrados. La marquesina en la primera planta, colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de 34 pies lineales equivalentes a 10.36 metros lineales con la marquesina del apartamento 906; por el SUR, en una distancia de 34 pies lineales, equivalentes a 10.36 metros lineales con la marquesina del apartamento 902; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 12 pies lineales, equivalentes a 10.36 metros lineales con espacio exterior; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 12 pies lineales equiva-
lentes a 10.36 metros lineales con espacio exterior. El apartamento en la tercera planta colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de 43 pies lineales, equivalentes a 13.11 metros lineales con escaleras comunes; por el SUR, en una distancia de 43 pies lineales, equivalentes a 13.41 metros lineales con espacio exterior; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 48.6 pies lineales, equivalentes a 14.78 con espacio exterior; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 48.6 pies lineales, equivalentes a 14.78 con espacio exterior. La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en su lindero Norte a través de la cual se llega a las escaleras comunes y al exterior del edificio. En la primera planta tiene una marquesina para dos automóviles. Dentro de esta marquesina hay un panel para las provisiones de teléfono, cable TV y sistema de intercom y los muñecos de la tubería sanitaria y eléctrica del edificio que son elemento común. En la tercera planta el área de vivienda consta de sala, sala comedor, cocina, tres cuartos dormitorios de los cuales el dormitorio principal tiene vestidor y baño, un baño adicional, lavandería, almacén y terraza o balcones. Tiene una participación de 1.23% en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio. Consta inscrita al folio 100 del tomo 893 de Cabo Rojo, finca número #30,328, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Germán. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Villa de Campo Mar, 904 9, Cabo Rojo, P.R. 00623. Según figura en el Estudio de título, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada al siguiente Gravamen posterior a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra Luis M. Lúgaro Figueroa, seguro social número xxx-xx-7687, por la suma de $219,516.92, embargo número CAR-2019413, Certificación del día 10 de octubre de 2018, anotado el día 8 de enero de 2019, al asiento 2018-009244-EST del Sistema Karibe. Se le notifica a los acreedores posteriores anteriormente identificados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. 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 $195,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #516, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 1ro de septiembre de 2005, ante el notario Angel L. Rolan Prado, inscrita al 100 vuelto del tomo 893 de Cabo Rojo, finca #30,328, inscripción 2da. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 24 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $195,000.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 31 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 11:30 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 $130,000.00. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 7 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 11:30 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 $97,500.00. 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: La suma de $151,483.74, la cual se desglosa a continuación: la suma principal de $148,047.92, más intereses a razón de 6.95% anual, desde el 1ro de abril de 2020, 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 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, la suma principal de $3,435.82, la cual no genera intereses, y todos adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribuciones, entre otros; más la suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal del pagare ($19,500.00), 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 Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 14 de junio de 2023. NATALIA P. ALTIERI ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #218.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS LA COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO LA PUERTORRIQUEÑA
Demandante Vs. JESUS CATALINO ROSARIO RODRIGUEZ, AHORA LA SUCESIÓN DE JESUS CATALINO ROSARIO RODRIGUEZ, COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL, HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERES
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2022CV01510. 705. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso, fechada 23 de febrero de 2023 y de una Orden fechada 8 de mayo de 2023 y Mandamiento fechado 10 de mayo de 2023, librados por este Honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Centro Judicial de Caguas, al mejor postor y por dinero en efectivo o cheque certificado, todo título,
derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Solar número Doce (12) del Bloque B, según plano de inscripción del Proyecto denominado Urbanización Jardines de Ceiba Norte, radicado en el Barrio Ceiba Norte de Juncos, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de Trescientos Cincuenta (350.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con el solar Once-B, distancia de veinticinco metros; por el Sur, con el solar Trece-B, en veinticinco metros; por el Este, con el solar Veintidos-B, en catorce metros y por el Oeste, con la calle número Dos, en distancia de catorce metros. Contiene una residencia de una sola planta construida de concreto y bloques para una sola familia, la cual mide veintitrés pies dos pulgadas de frente por treinta y siete pies once pulgadas de fondo, teniendo tres habitaciones dormitorio, sala-comedor, cocina, servicio sanitario, balcón, laundry y marquesina, la cual mide diez pies seis pulgadas de frente por veinticinco pies seis pulgadas de fondo. Inscrito al folio 43 del tomo 238 de Juncos, finca número 9304, Sección Segunda de Caguas. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA en ejecución del inmueble antes descrito se celebrará el 29 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA y por el tipo mínimo pactado en la hipoteca de $80,500.00. De no haber remate o adjudicación en esta primera subasta, se celebrará en el mismo lugar antes mencionado una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el 6 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, con tipo mínimo de 2/3 del tipo mínimo correspondiente fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $53,666.66. De no haber remate o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrara en el mismo lugar, una TERCERA SUBASTA el 13 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, con el tipo mínimo de la mitad del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $40,250.00. Si tampoco hubiese remate o adjudicación en la tercera subasta y se declara desierta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo el acreedor adjudicarse el inmueble dentro de los 10 días siguientes por la totalidad de las cantidades adeudadas. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en este caso, la cual consiste de $71,795.82 de principal, $3,560.98 de intereses que se continúan acumulando al tipo pactado de 7.25%, hasta su recobro total, $192.22
de cargos por demora, $268.52 en adelantos a la cuenta de reserva, más $8,050.00 pactados para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble, los adjudicatarios serán puestos en posesión del inmueble dentro del término de 20 días a partir de dicha subasta por el Alguacil de este Tribunal, quien efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes, de ser necesario. Se notifica e informa también de la presente a FULANO y SUTANO DE TAL, como personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en el inmueble objeto de este aviso. La Venta en Pública Subasta del referido inmueble se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte los mismos, a cuyo efecto se hace saber la fecha, hora y lugar de estas Subastas, para que cualquiera con interés pueda comparecer a la celebración de ellas. Los autos y todos los documentos relacionados al procedimiento del caso están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de licitadores expido este Edicto, el cual se publicará en un diario de circulación diaria en Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas, una vez por semana y se fijará además, en los sitios públicos que contempla la Ley en el Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en aquellos localizados en el municipio de ubicación del inmueble de la parte demandada objeto de ejecución. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación 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. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que sello y firmo en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 7 de julio de 2023. ÁNGEL
GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL
PLACA #593, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ESTRELLA
AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: KCD2014-2855.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.
to the outside. PORCENTAJE:
Elementos Comunes: 1.3098%.
Consta inscrito en la finca: #25760, al folio 21 del tomo 638 de Sabana Llana, inscripción 1ra. (Sección V de San Juan).
Civil No.: 16-2367. (JAG). Re: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.
Demandante
El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe 20 de marzo de 2015, notificada y archivada en autos el 25 de marzo de 2015, una Orden de Ejecución de Embargo emitida el 26 de junio de 2023 y un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Embargo emitido el día 27 de junio de 2023, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, procederá a vender en 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, dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra bancaria, con similar garantía de todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la subasta habrá de celebrarse el día
17 DE AGOSTO DEL AÑO
2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: PROPIEDAD HO-
RIZONTAL: Commercial space number #1-C. Commercial space of an irregular shape located at the ground floor of the Crystal House Condominium at de Diego Street Sabana Llana Ward, Río Piedras, municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Said apartment with an area of approximately 2,271.64 square feet, equivalent to 211.04 square meters and its boundaries are as follow: NORTH, in a distance of 47’0”, with the exterior covered common corridor, separated by wall and entrance door and in 7’4”, with common stairs separated by wall; EAST, in a distance of 151’0”, with commercial space number 2, separated by wall; SOUTH, in a distance of 47’0”, with exterior space separated by wall and in 7’4”, with common stair separated by wall, and WEST, in a distance of 35’4” with exterior space separated by wall and in 15’8 with common stair separated by wall. This apartment contains 2 bathrooms equipped with lavatory and water closet. The entrance of the apartment is located on its north boundary, connected with the common corridor of the door with access
Dirección física: Local 1-C 368 De Diego Ave., Cond. Crystal House San Juan PR 00923. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente, según sea el caso, el balance pendiente de la referida sentencia por la suma de $118,955.93 por concepto de principal, más intereses que se continúan acumulando, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. Esta subasta no tiene fijación de tipo mínimo por tratarse de una ejecución de sentencia por embargo. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable 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. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 10 de julio de 2023, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO CIELO VIVIENDA LLC
Plaintiff Vs. IVAN MUJICA DE LEON IN HIS PERSONAL CAPACITY AND AS MEMBER OF THE ESTATE OF EVA MARGARITA CORTES VAZQUEZ
A/K/A EVA CORTES VAZQUEZ COMPOSED BY IVAN EMIL MUJICA CORTES AND I.I.M.C.; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA AND CENTRO DE RECUADACIONES DE IMPUESTOS MUNICIPALES Defendants
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, SS.
To: IVAN MUJICA DE LEON IN HIS PERSONAL CAPACITY AND AS MEMBER OF THE ESTATE OF EVA MARGARITA CORTES VAZQUEZ A/K/A EVA CORTES VAZQUEZ COMPOSED BY IVAN EMIL MUJICA CORTES AND I.I.M.C.; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA AND CENTRO DE RECUADACIONES DE IMPUESTOS MUNICIPALES, AND THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:
Judgment in favor of plaintiff was entered for the sum of $396,127.51 in principal, which continue to accrue until full payment of debt at the rate of 3% per annum, accrued late charges and any other additional advance, charge, fee, or disbursements made by plaintiff, on behalf of defendants in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs, and ten (10) percent attorneys’ fees; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified 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, Federico Degetau Federal Building, Chardón Street, Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico or any other place designated by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: Physical address: SB-22 Paseo De Las Orquideas Primavera, Trujillo Alto. RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno identificada como solar veintidós (22) del bloque SB de la Urbanización Primavera, radicada en el barrio Dos bocas del termino municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico con una cabida de cuatrocientos dos punto veintiséis (402.26) metros cuadrados en lindes por el NORTE, en dieciséis punto cero cero (16.00) metros con la calle, numero tres (#3); por el SUR, en cuatro punto cincuenta y cuatro (4.54) metros doce punto noventa y tres (12.93) metros, con el solar numero veinte (20); por el ESTE, en veintiocho punto noventa y ocho (28.98) metros con el solar numero veintiuno (21); y por el OESTE, en veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00) metros, con el solar número veintitrés (23). Enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia.
Consta inscrita al folio 280 del tomo 527 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 26,675, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Cuarta de San Juan. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), or homeowner associations dues, to the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, shall continue in effect. It being understood 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 present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the AUGUST 18TH, 2023, AT 10:30 A.M., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $404,706.83. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the properties is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the AUGUST 25TH, 2023, AT THE 10:30 A.M. and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $269,804.55
2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD AUCTION will be held on the SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2023, AT THE 10:30 A.M. and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $202,353.42, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on July 7, 2023. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, SPECIAL MASTER. ****
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de BAYAMON. MARIAC RISTINA
KERCADO RIVERA, ETC.
Demandante v. LA SUCESION DE PRISCO JIMENEZ Y PROVIDENCIA ESCODA, ETC.
Demandado(a)
Civil: GB2022CV00977. SALA 403. Sobre: TRACTO INTE-
RRUMPIDO Y USUCAPION. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: CARMEN NEGRON
JIMENEZ, JUAN
NEGRON JIMENEZ, DAMARIS NEGRON
JIMENEZ, ELIZABETH
NEGRON JIMENEZ, FRANCISCO JIMENEZ
NEGRON, MIGDALIA
JIMENEZ NEGRON, JOSE
JIMENEZ NEGRON, JULIO RAFAEL JIMENEZ
RODRIGUEZ, MARIA
MILAGROS JIMENEZ
RODRIGUEZ, EDUARDO
JIMENEZ RODRIGUEZ, LUIS FERNANDO
JIMENEZ GRATEROLE, CARLOS FERNANDO
JIMENEZ GRATEROLE, FERNANDO JIMENEZ
GRATEROLE, CARMEN
PURA JIMENEZ, JESUS
JIMENEZ, PROVIDENCIA
JIMENEZ, PRISCO
JIMENEZ, JULIO JESUS
JIMENEZ CINTRON, PRISCO AGUSTIN
JIMENEZ CINTRON, FREDDY JIMENEZ
CINTRON, LUDGARDA
PROVIDENCIAI MENEZ
NEGRON, CARMEN
ELISA JIMENEZ NEGRON, MARITZA JIMENEZ
NEGRON, MIGUEL
ANGELI JIMENEZ
NEGRON, MIGUEL
ANGEL II JIMENEZ
NEGRON, AURELIA
(YEYITA) JIMENEZ, ANTONIO JIMENEZ Y CUALQUIERA PE
RSONAIG NORADAQ
UEP UEDAT ENERIN
TERESENE STEC ASO
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 7 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 has ido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de julio de 2023. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 10 de julio de 2023. F/LAURA l. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretario(a). F/ MARIYLN COLON CARRASQUILLO, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC. COMO AGENTE GESTOR DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC. Demandante Vs. ISMAEL MERCADO CARDE Demandado Civil Núm.: SS2022CV00558. 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: ISMAEL MERCADO CARDE - BO HOYAMALA, CARR 119, KM 28.4, SAN SEBASTIÁN, PR 00685.
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 a los abogados de la parte demandante, la Lcda. Natalie Bonaparte cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@ orf-law.com, edwin.serrano@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy día 31 de mayo de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. LAURA LUGO CRESPO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
All of the noise is gone now. There is no entourage, no hubbub, no fuss. Instead of yukking it up with David Letterman, as he did 20 years ago this month, Ben Curtis is spending the morning teaching southeast of Cleveland and steeling himself for the roughly 750-mile drive to South Carolina for a family vacation.
This kind of understated Friday morning is very much how Curtis likes his life two decades after he made his major tournament debut at the British Open — and won. His victory at Royal St. George’s was an international sensation: He went from being the world’s 396th-ranked player, the one who had spent part of tournament week sightseeing in London with his fiancée, to being the first golfer in 90 years to win a major title on his first try.
He never captured another. Sporadic successes followed — ties for second at a PGA Championship and a Players Championship, a spot on a Ryder Cup-winning team, a few other PGA Tour victories — but never the major-winning magic. He last played a tour event in 2017, finishing with career earnings of more than $13.7 million.
Today, he coaches his son’s golf team at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Kent, Ohio, and teaches at a golf academy that bears his name. On Thursday, the Open will begin at Royal Liverpool. He could play in it, but he’d rather not.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Q: Let’s start in 2003. After the first round, you were five shots off the lead. After the second, three. After the third, two. When did you start to think you could win?
A: Saturday, I remember struggling the first nine holes, and then something — I don’t know if I just calmed down, maybe thought it’s over, I don’t know — happened. I shot 3-under on that back nine, and it just boosted my confidence. When we went to bed that night, I was like, “I’m going to win this thing.” I told Candace that, and she kind of went quiet until the next day.
Q: The back nine on Sunday wasn’t as smooth as Saturday’s. Was it the course or the pressure?
A: Probably the pressure more than anything.
The first nine continued what I was doing on Saturday. In any tournament, but a major especially, it’s hard to play really consistent for 27 holes without having some kind of hiccup. In the back of my mind, I kept telling
myself, “It’s tough for everybody.”
Q: Ever watched the round?
A: Twice.
Q: Twice in 20 years?
A: We were at a friend’s house, woke up and he had the Golf Channel on since it was Open week. And so we sat there and watched it a little bit, and the kids slowly came down and we watched it. And then that kind of spurred it on to, “Hey, let’s take the time since the kids were older.”
When I was playing, I never wanted to watch it because I was stubborn and wanted to concentrate on the future. Now I look at it though, and it’s like, “What were we wearing?”
Q: A few days after you won, you told the Times: “It won’t change me. It won’t change who I am.” Did it?
A: I’m sure it did. But personality-wise or things like that, I would hope not.
Q: Did it change how you approached golf?
A: I wasn’t used to the limelight, and so it was just difficult to go practice, to go find that quiet place where I could get work done. You try to schedule your day and you tried to have it down to within a few minutes, but if you’re trying to have a two- or three-hour practice session and it ends up being six and you’ve only practiced for two, it wears on you.
People are coming up and you’re getting distracted — and not in a mean way, by any stretch — but then you realize you’re putting less and less time into the practice because of that. So that’s what was difficult, or even just going out to eat, and it made me realize I never wanted to be like that — like, I would never want to be in Tiger Woods’ shoes.
I’d want to come in under the radar. I wanted to win every week, of course. Everyone does.
Q: You coach high schoolers now. What do you tell them about pressure?
A: They’re worried about breaking 80 or 90, not winning majors. But to them, that’s a big deal. I remember the first time you break 80, the first time you break 70 and how big of an accomplishment that is. So that’s their major.
I always tell them you can’t force it. It’s just going to happen. You work hard, and it’s just going to fall in there.
You can only control yourself and your emotions and try to treat every shot like it’s the first shot. And 99.9% of the rounds do not go the way you want them because usually it’s derailed within the first shot or hole.
Q: Brooks Koepka says he thinks he can win 10 majors. Did you ever let a specific number like that enter your head?
A: No, but I always dreamed of winning another one and had a couple of opportunities.
Q: Winning a major put you in the history books. Would your career have been easier if you hadn’t won so early?
A: Probably, but it wouldn’t be as cool of a story. Like, if I had won two other events and then won a major and then kind of disappeared?
Q: Is there such a thing as winning a major too early?
A: It’s not so much the winning the one too early, but maybe the way Koepka did it and winning a lot within a couple of years. Now, all of a sudden, you think you should win every week.
And the hardest thing — and I fell into that trap, too — was trying to gear up your game just for the majors. If you just do that alone, if you’re not playing good going into it, what difference does it make if you don’t have the confidence? Confidence is the biggest thing.
Q: Wyndham Clark is going to Royal Liverpool as a first-time major champion. What’s your advice for him?
A: Enjoy the moment, and don’t be afraid to say no. Try to stick to your routine. And the biggest thing is just expectations: Don’t expect to win. Just go out there and try to enjoy the moment. Just like Max said, laugh, have some fun. If you make the cut and have a chance to win, great. If not, you’re still the U.S. Open champ, and no one is ever going to take that away.
Q: You can play the Open until you’re 60. Why not play it?
A: One, I don’t want to put the work in. And, two, I’m not going to show up just to shoot a pair of 78s, 79s. It’s not fair to the oth-
er guys. You’re basically taking a spot away from a kid at a qualifier or somebody who is trying to play for the first time.
I know what it takes to play well. I can go out here and play OK. But when you play 10 times a year, it’s a totally different thing.
Q: You last played a tour event in 2017. Was it hard to walk away, or was it liberating?
A: A little bit of both. I think I could have a couple of years earlier and just kept hanging on and playing like crap, to put it frankly. Once I did, it was great.
Q: When did you recognize that you didn’t want that chaotic tour life anymore?
A: When the kids got to school age. When they were young and you could take them with you, it was great. Then they went to school and their schedule is limited, and you’re traveling and playing in these tournaments, and you’re alone.
I never played a huge amount, but when you’re used to having them out for about 20, 22 events a year and suddenly it’s only for six or seven, and now you’re out there for 20, 22 events on your own, it becomes tough. It doesn’t matter how nice the resort is. Every hotel room, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a Ritz-Carlton or a Courtyard Marriott, it’s a rectangle room with a bathroom in it. And it’s tough on the family at home, too, because they want me home.
Q: A lot of retired golfers live in beachfront towns in Florida. You chose Ohio. Why?
A: If you’re in Jupiter, you’re among your peers. Up here, we’re alone. The people are great, down to earth, and we wanted that for our kids. It’s just who we are and where we’re at. This is home.
Q: What errors are you seeing that weren’t really a thing when you were learning to play?
A: Kids are more worried about their swing technique and the way it looks than how it performs. As long as you shoot a 72 on the scorecard, it doesn’t matter how you shoot 72. It’s a good score! Just worry about that.
Q: Twenty years ago, you said that if you hadn’t been playing the Open you “probably” would have been watching the tournament on TV. Will you be watching this time?
A: It’s funny: It’s been seven years since I played, but I wake up now and realize it’s almost over. You totally forget. You get up and start doing your stuff, and it’s 2 o’clock and you think you’ll see what the golf is — and then it’s over.
The first three years were like that, and I totally missed it. Now, I’ll watch it, and I enjoy it.
Jonas Vingegaard had been wearing the famed yellow jersey bestowed upon the leader of the Tour de France for almost a week when the question came.
It was not a question about race strategy or maintaining speed, or about the best way to keep his nerve, and his lead, through more days of winding road, sharp curves and punishing ascents. It was not a question about fitness, or form.
Might he be more comfortable, Vingegaard was asked, if he was in second place?
“It would be easier, yes,” he replied. “For sure.”
For all the honor and respect it garners, for all it signifies in a sport obsessed with data and detail, the hallowed yellow jersey comes threaded with a surprising number of inconveniences and disadvantages.
Teams may spend hours using a wind tunnel, for example, to perfect every detail of a rider’s positioning, bike and clothing. The reward, if the rider does well enough to move into the lead? A new jersey from the race’s official sponsor, Santini, that may not fit or perform in the same way.
“It’s a little bit different,” said Tadej Pogacar, a two-time winner of the Tour and a regular wearer of the yellow jersey. “You’re not used to it.”
Then there are the obligations. After crossing the finish line of each day’s stage, the race leader is whisked through a dizzying series of tasks. He is interviewed by the Tour. He is interviewed by the race’s official broadcast partners. He signs several jersey facsimiles. He ascends the
Vingegaard, in the distinctive yellow jersey, led the peloton at the start of Stage 13. Donning the jersey can be an emotional moment for riders. “My mind is exploding,” the Belgian rider Yves Lampaert said last year when he put it on.
podium, along with a few other riders (a group that includes the stage winner and the leaders of several other classifications) for a presentation and photographs.
After that, he must navigate a gantlet of journalists and a video news conference. The final stop, and potentially the longest, is at doping control. He is there until nature calls. “I would be one hour earlier at the hotel every day,” Vingegaard said, if only he was not in the yellow jersey.
Still, for every other rider, wearing it for even a day is the highest honor, a first-
line-of-the-obituary moment. “My mind is exploding,” Yves Lampaert said last year, his eyes filling with tears, after taking a surprise victory in the race’s opening time trial. “I’m just a farmer’s son from Belgium.”
So universally understood is the mystique of the maillot jaune, as the jersey is known in French, that there is no need to even specify the color when referring to it. It is simply The Jersey. And at an event where the color yellow is inescapable — fluttering from flags, clinging to sweat-soaked spectators and chosen for
the lanyards hanging around the necks of journalists, organizers, VIPs and even police officers — it is actually less prevalent in the race itself. There, its distinctive shade, Pantone Yellow 1000, is meant to be seen in only one place: on the back of the race leader. (Race leaders have been known to ride a yellow bike or wear other yellow gear, too.)
“The fries are done!” a voice yells as an urgent beeping interrupts the bustle around the trailers and trucks scattered outside the press center in Moulins after Stage 11. Fabrice Pierrot chuckles and releases the press he is standing over. After slipping a small block of wood into the mechanism to hold it open, he gingerly removes a yellow jersey bearing the stillsteaming logo of Vingegaard’s team, Jumbo-Visma.
Pierrot is the Tour’s jersey printer, tasked with producing special jerseys each day for the podium, as well as for the next day’s race. Backstage at the podium, Pierrot takes notes from the riders, though after 20 years on the job he can usually size them up by sight. “This generation, like Pogacar, never a word. I like working with them.” On this day, by the time Vingegaard is finished, almost exactly an hour after he rolled across the line, his team bus and those of every other team are long gone. Barriers are being dismantled, and the podium is being folded back into a trailer. He is as he has been for days: dressed in yellow, and proud of it.
“It doesn’t fit as well, but it fits OK,” Vingegaard said, a faint smile creeping onto his normally stoic face. “I prefer to be in The Jersey over my normal jersey.”
Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
Sudoku Rules:
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)
Today is a day of contrasts, Aries. Eat chocolate in the morning and go jogging in the afternoon. Sleep in late and go to bed early. It’s also a day of grounding. Spend time at home and make more calls than you normally would. Clean your desk and organize a bookshelf. Why not clean out the refrigerator? Take care of your pets.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
The day doesn’t begin until you clear your head and take stock of some pending personal issues, Taurus. You might be making mountains out of molehills. Realize that there’s a path for everybody. Put your stinger away today. It’s powerful, but it won’t do any good. Keep your power under wraps. Concentrate more on the mundane tasks that need to be done. Why not make a list?
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
Today might be a difficult day for you, Gemini. You instinctively will want to escape the situation and explore your horizons, but something holds you down. Take care of the bills on your desk, and deal with the mess in the bedroom. Clearing the physical space around you will help clear the mental space in your head. You will be footloose and fancy free soon enough.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
The world is wide open to you today, Cancer, so take advantage of all the great things it has to offer. Even though you may not realize it, you have a loyal fan club developing in the wings. The things you say and do have a strong impact on others. This is a fantastic day to take charge and lead others who seem to be floundering. Your solid perspective will be an asset in every situation.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
Say what’s on your mind, Leo, but don’t take offense if no one seems to listen. Don’t bulldoze your point through. Whiners aren’t popular, either. Concentrate instead on your aspirations and push yourself to the limit. You might have been talking a lot lately, and getting those ideas out there is great. Now is the time when you need to lay some groundwork in order to realize those ideas.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
Get your head out of the clouds, Virgo, and come back to Earth for a nice visit. There are some things you need to take care of here. Mundane tasks and routine chores won’t be painful after you set your mind on getting them done. You can accomplish a lot today. Just make sure you keep a level head and keep a firm handle on the reality of the situation.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
Bring things down to Earth today, Libra. Get yourself grounded and enjoy the day. The more you slow down and adopt a caring, sensitive, receptive attitude, the more things will naturally flow your way. This isn’t a day to fight. It’s a time to connect with others on a symbiotic level. Nurture yourself and others. Get a massage and snuggle up close to those you love.
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
Today is a fantastic day for you, Scorpio, so enjoy yourself fully. Your emotions will be stable and you have a very expansive sense of wellbeing. Your self-confidence is strong, so use this to your advantage. This energy may be subtle, but if you tune into it early in the day and set a plan for what you want to accomplish, you can be very productive.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
Today is a good day to simply get things done, Sagittarius. Take care of the annoying tasks that have been accumulating. You have a great opportunity to accomplish a lot. People are less concerned with frivolous drivel and gossip than they are with setting a plan to meet an important goal. Contribute to this trend by getting serious about the tasks at hand.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
Your emotions may seem a bit muddy today, Capricorn. You might not understand the reason for this. Look to others to share your thoughts. You should find that talking will help you sort through your feelings. If you need to, shift down to second gear for a little more power. Take your time if you need to. Don’t let others rush you into believing something that you suspect isn’t true.
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
Your emotions may seem a bit muddy today, Capricorn. You might not understand the reason for this. Look to others to share your thoughts. You should find that talking will help you sort through your feelings. If you need to, shift down to second gear for a little more power. Take your time if you need to. Don’t let others rush you into believing something that you suspect isn’t true.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
Today is your day to shine, Pisces, so give it your all. Be sure that you get the credit you deserve for all you do. Try not to fall into selfpity. Be yourself and people will naturally follow your lead. Now is an excellent time to make plans for the future. Stay grounded and on target with your goals. Make sure you aren’t
