PR Could Be 1st US Jurisdiction Affected by Global Tax Agreement
PDP San Juan Mayoral Candidate Presents Affordable Housing Proposal
Biden Drops Out of Presidential Race
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Senate says Education Department in crisis
By The STAR STAFF
The Dr. Ada Álvarez Conde, At Large Senate candidate on the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) ticket said that the department of education is in crisis and the resignation of the educator Ana María García Blanco from the executive table for the execution of the Educational and REgional Autonomy for differences with the way in which the government has managed the transition is another example of that.
In a letter to Gov. Pierluisi, García Blanco said that the execution of the decentralization model has lost its way.
“The noted educator said that to remain cooperating with this project represent a moral conflict. We are speaking of the founder of the New School Institute and promoter in Puerto Rico of the Montessori. What we are seeing today represents another example of the crisis in the Department of Education, caused by an administration assaulted by partisanship.I call on the secretary of the Federal Department of Education, Dr. Miguel Cardona, to rescue the DE from the disaster that it is in,” said Álvarez Conde.
“Laat June 17, Cardona said tha the process of the decentralization of the Department of Education in Puerto Rico is going to continue independently of the governmental administration of the Senate candidate.’
My concern is that a little
more than five months left in this administration of Pedro Pierluisi, the partisanship in this agency will get worse,” said the Senate señaló que el proceso de descentralización del Departamento de Educación en Puerto Rico va a continuar independientemente de la administración gubernamental en la isla. Mi preocupación es que a poco más de cinco (5) meses para que nos libremos de esta administración de Pedro Pierluisi, el partidismo que corroe a esa agencia sea peor”, expuso la candidata popular al Senado.
As an example,Álvarez Conde señaló una publicación del Centro de Periodismo said that in a publication of the Center of Investigative Journalism said that two weeks before Pierluisi created through an executive order the initiative for the Educational and Regional Autonomy Decentralization of the DE, the Office of Management and Budget had given a legal consulting contract and evaluated a proposal for services that exceeded $5 million for professional services and evaluated a services proposal that surpassed $5 million for professional services to work on the plan that evaluated the regional autonomy proposal of the Educational Regional Offices in the decision making.
“We are talking about an agency that for yours has been called one of the most politicized, and with a budget of $31.022 billones annually. For years, this has been the ATM of the New Progressive Party. You have the cases of Victor Fajardo, Julia Keleher and so many more cases of corruption, wat and politicization,” said the Senate candidate.
José Aponte calls status plebiscite “an investment”
By The STAR STAFF
The former speaker of the House of Representative José Aponte, said that the cost of the status plebiscite scheduled for November 5 is “an investment” in the future of Puerto Rico.
The At-Large representative also censured the comments of the president of the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) Jesus Manuel Ortiz, who on Saturday said that the $1.3 million that the State Elections Committee estimated the plebiscite would cost is a “totally unjustified expense.”
“The equality of constitutional rights is not an expense; it is a priority to solve the millennial matter of colonial status of Puerto Rico, the true chance that binds any sustainable development that has condemned us to live like unequal United States citizens in a second-class territorial condition.
“There is no cost in this status consultation as it is an investment for the town, for our people. The status problem has cost us billions of dollars and has caused an unprecedented fiscal crisis that has forced hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans to leave their land for the states of the union in search of a better quality of life. It brought us the Financial Oversight and Management Board and havuing to wait, instead of demanding before Congress and the White House. We have to prove that the federal government listens to the demands of the people, as other territories have done, until they take action,” said the statehood leader.
The governor of Puerto Rico Pedro Pierluisi, signed an Executive Order under 2.1 de la Ley 165-2020, for the celebration of a status plebiscite between statehood, direct independence and independence with free association as was approved in th3e federal House in HR 8393, the day of the general elections.
For Monday-Tax Foundation warns of Pillar Two’s negative impact over Puerto Rico
By The STAR STAFF
Puerto Rico, which can draft its own tax policies, will be the first U.S. jurisdiction to be substantially affected by Pillar Two, the global tax agreement that seeks to establish a 15% minimum tax rate on corporate income, a recent report from the non-profit Tax Foundation said.
“Pillar Two is a significant threat to Puerto Rico’s development model, which has typically featured lower taxes. Puerto Rican lawmakers have begun to respond. However, no comprehensive tax reform addressing Pillar Two has thus far crossed the finish line and become law,” the report notes.
The threat to Puerto Rico’s development model is simple. Puerto Rico is a small open economy that has used low taxes to attract valuable global companies to its shores, especially in the pharmaceutical industry and in manufacturing functions. Pillar Two intends to effectively compel an increase in Puerto Rican tax rates.
“If Pillar Two goes into effect, and Puerto Rico retains its current tax laws, then other countries will tax income sourced in Puerto Rico. This scenario only offers downsides to Puerto Rico. Global corporate investment on the island will feel the effects of higher taxes, and the value of Puerto Rican tax incentives will be reduced or
even fully canceled out, but the Puerto Rican government will not gain the revenues from those higher taxes,” the report said.
The island has often used a strategy of low corporate income taxes, which can be effective for a small open economy. Low corporate income taxes can make a location attractive for both real investment by global
businesses and on-paper profit shifting of intangible investments.
While Puerto Rico has always used a low-tax strategy, the execution of that strategy has been varied and somewhat haphazard over the decades—in part, though not entirely, because of instability in the federal treatment of Puerto Rico, such as the repeal of Section 936 tax incentives.
Pillar Two involves a series of three taxes that backstop and reinforce each other to impose a 15 percent minimum rate on large global companies. The first, a qualified domestic minimum top-up tax (QDMTT), is assessed by jurisdictions on domestic activity and would require businesses that pay below a 15 percent rate to “top up” their taxes to that 15 percent minimum. The second, an income inclusion rule (IIR), would be a similar top-up tax assessed on a country-by-country basis by the jurisdiction in which a corporation is headquartered. The parent jurisdiction would thus ensure that operations in a jurisdiction without a QDMTT would still roughly be taxed as if there were a QDMTT. Finally, and most controversially, Pillar Two includes the undertaxed profits rule (UTPR). Under the UTPR, any jurisdiction in which a multinational group operates could attempt to collect the 15 percent minimum on income taxed below 15 percent, effectively stepping in for the juris-
dictions that would normally tax the income through source-based taxes like the QDMTT or through residence-based taxes like the IIR, the report said.
“Puerto Rico will first feel the impact of Pillar Two through the income inclusion rule. The territory has attracted some manufacturing investment from global companies headquartered in Europe, and the European Union has adopted the income inclusion rule in EU Member States for fiscal years beginning on or after December 31, 2023. This is a problem for the island all by itself: the effective tax rate on investments in Puerto Rico is being raised, but Puerto Rico—which could use the revenue—does not receive the tax money. Of course, European countries are entitled to assess residence-based taxes if they so desire, but the economic results may be suboptimal from a Puerto Rican perspective,” the Tax Foundation said.
Later down the line, the problem will escalate substantially if countries attempt to assess UTPR on Puerto Rico, because it will spread to US-based companies. In addition to presenting an economic problem, this arguably presents a significant legal one: if Pillar Two countries assess UTPR on US companies’ operations in Puerto Rico, then they will be taxing according to neither source-based principles nor residence-based principles.
Unemployment rate remains at 5.8% for 30 consecutive month
By The STAR STAFF
The unemployment rate remained at 5.8% in June, reflecting 30 consecutive months with a rate of 6.5% or less, the Department of Labor and Human Resources (DTRH) and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Sunday.
“The unemployment rate is one of the main indicators of the labor market and the economic situation. In a jurisdiction where double digits were the norm, today we can celebrate that we have maintained a historically low figure for two and a half years, taking a rate of 6.5% or less as a starting point. On the other hand, and although we must ensure that the number continues to increase until reaching optimal levels, salaried employment in mining, logging, and construction is at its highest point since 2012, with 37,300 jobs, in line with the progress in the reconstruction projects financed
with federal funds and other private investment that occurs on the island,” Labot Secretary Gabriel Maldonado-Gonzalez said.
Meanwhile, manufacturing, which makes up 45% of our economy, has grown at a rate of 8,800 jobs in the last 30 months and reached 84,500 highest-paid jobs.
“The recreation and accommodation industry once again broke the employment record in this sector and continues to be where the most jobs have been created since January 2021, adding 29,200 additional jobs for an estimated total of 99,900. For numbers as positive as these to continue to be reflected, it is essential to continue increasing the labor participation rate through different initiatives between the private sector, non-profit organizations and the government that impact those who could join the workforce,” Maldonado-González said.
According to the Employment and Unemployment publication, which is based on
the Worker Group Survey, the unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, was 5.8% for the month of June 2024, a reduction of 3.2 percentage points compared to January 2024. 2021. It represented no change compared to May 2024, while it represented a decrease of 0.3 percentage points compared to June 2023.
The current unemployment rate continues to be one of the lowest in our history.
For its part, the labor participation rate, not seasonally adjusted, for June 2024 was estimated at 43.9%, which is 3.5 percentage points more than as of January 2021. It represents a decrease of 0.1 percentage point compared to the previous month. and 1.3 percentage points compared to June 2023. The current figure is among the highest labor participation rates we have had since 2010, indicating a growing and active workforce in Puerto Rico.
For June 2024, the estimate of the working group, seasonally adjusted, was 1,203,000,
equivalent to 85,000 additional people compared to January 2021. The new figure represents 4,000 fewer people compared to the previous month but added 26,000 people when the interannual comparison. It is one of the highest numbers of people in the workforce since 2012.
Total employment, seasonally adjusted, was set at 1,133,000 in June 2024, for an increase of 115,000 jobs compared to January 2021 and one of the highest totals in the last 15 years. The number decreased by 3,000 people compared to the previous month but represents 28,000 more than the number reported in June 2023. Total employment includes self-employed workers, estimated at 196,000 for June 2024, according to data not seasonally adjusted. The numbers show a continuing upward trend of people who decide to start a business after the COVID-19 pandemic, adding 31,000 to those reported in January 2020.
Police calls for tax on sports betting to fund pensions
By The STAR STAFF
The president of the Association of Members of the Puerto Rico Police, José J. Taboada de Jesús, said Sunday he will ask the incoming Legislature in January 2025 for legislation that would impose a tax on the operation and plays of the Electronic Video and Gaming Machine System that operates in the Hipódromo Camarero to help finance police pensions.
He also said the Legislature should tax bets made online (eSports - many of these prizes are not reported on the winner’s return), on mini casinos on horse racing agencies, and on Sports Betting Centers.
In a meeting with the executive director of the Gaming and Betting Commission of the Government of Puerto Rico, Carlos Santaella Marchan, he said he learned about the “scandal of great proportions”.
He said the Government and the Legislature allow the operation of some 5,000 electronic gaming machines dispersed throughout the island that generate millions in revenue but do not contribute a single cent to
the public treasury.
“All of this was endorsed and supervised by the Government of Puerto Rico itself and the Financial Oversight and Management Board. After learning this information, the Puerto Rico Police called for contributions of no less than 20% on all operations generated by betting machines at the Hipodromo, mini-casinos in horse racing agencies, electronic gaming machines, and Sports Betting Centers. We call on the Fiscal Control Board to design a recovery method through the imposition of a contribution to this operation of a private company that becomes richer every day by claiming incentives and evading its tax liability through the use of wellknown lobbyists,” he said.
“In the same way that a contribution was imposed on the operators of video game machines to help put money in the Pension Fund for the Police, it is also necessary that the multiple operations of the Hipodromo contribute substantially to stabilize the precarious Pension Fund for the Police,” he said.
The president of the Association of Members of the Puerto Rico Police said the Legislature should tax bets made online, mini casinos on horse racing agencies, and on Sports Betting Centers.
PDP San Juan candidate presents proposals to curb housing shortages
By The STAR STAFF
Popular Democratic Party (PPD) San Juan mayoral candidate Terestella González Denton on Sunday presented her affordable housing platform with housing experts, such as the former Health Secretary Ana Rius Armendáriz.
At a news conference with legislative candidates Gabriel Pérez Pérez (San Juan Senate) and Christofer Malespín (House District 3), Gonzalez Denton chided the current mayor for his inaction in easing housing shortages.
“All of us who live in our city know the urgent need for affordable housing. The housing accessibility crisis in Puerto Rico is a reality that affects thousands of families. In San Juan, this reality is felt with special intensity. Having adequate housing is a matter of dignity, stability and opportunity. When families have access to safe and affordable housing, our communities’ general well-being and financial viability is improved,” she said.
Average housing prices in San Juan have increased significantly due to limited supply, disproportionately affecting lowand middle-income residents, particularly younger and women.
“This situation is aggravated by the high demand from organizations and investors seeking to be close to the attractions and infrastructure of the city. For more than 20 years, we have not seen any strategy to intelligently and strategically address the issue of the shortage of affordable housing in our capital. Increasingly, housing has become a luxury, and that must be changed because San Juan deserves more,” said the PDP candidate.
González Denton pointed out that the Municipality of San Juan currently aggravates the problem “due to the lack of vision and commitment of the current mayor, Miguel Romero Lugo, in addressing the urgent need for affordable public housing programs. Romero has demonstrated a clear inability to manage one of our city’s most pressing problems. While other cities advance in the creation of innovative housing solutions, San Juan is left behind due to lack of interest in the subject.”
For instance, she said housing classified as public eyesore could be transformed into low-cost housing for the most needy residents. “These spaces, in their current state, not only represent a danger to the community in terms of health and safety, but they are also a symbol of abandonment and inaction by this administration,” she said
According to the Habitat for Humanity organization, there are over 20,000 abandoned buildings and residences in San Juan. However, the municipality has only identified 700, of which only 165 have begun to be served. Of these, currently only ten buildings have been declared public nuisances and only two properties have passed into municipal hands: one on Robles Street in Río Piedras and another on Canals Street in Santurce. Of these two, the municipality is still evaluating the use it will give to both properties.
“If public nuisances are not identified, there is no problem. In this way, the current administration hides the reality that is experienced in all the communities of the capital because of these abandoned buildings and residences: this generates an increase in crime, as well as unsanitary conditions, vermin, garbage, debris and waste, environmental pollution, structural
dangers such as risk of collapse, mental health problems and unsafe spaces for children, among others,” said the candidate for mayor.
The key to solving the housing crisis in San Juan is to take a comprehensive, multifaceted approach that addresses the root causes of the problem, including increasing the supply of housing, supporting nonprofit developers, efficiently utilizing federal housing programs, implementing rent control policies, improving data collection on the short-term rental market, and prioritizing development, she said.
The PDP candidate is proposing to promote the building of affordable and environmentally friendly homes similar to the “Via Verde” program in New York, which combines sustainability and affordability, and to provide tax incentive programs for developers of affordable and sustainable housing.
Her program calls for zoning policies that mandate the inclusion of affordable housing in new developments and require that a percentage of new residential construction be comprised by affordable housing.
She also proposed renovating and rehabilitating vacant or dilapidated homes to use them for affordable housing, as in the Homes for the Homeless in Chicago, Illinois, which focuses on abandoned buildings and residences. She said she would offer grants and low-interest loans for home renovation and would prioritize renovation projects in high-need areas.
Gonzalez Denton also proposed forming alliances between the government, the private sector, and NGOs to develop affordable housing projects.
The PDP proposal for San Juan contains programs for the needy.
Like New York’s ‘Pathways to Housing’ program, which has managed to reduce chronic homelessness, González Denton is proposing to provide temporary and then permanent housing without prerequisites and offer ongoing support in mental health, substance abuse and employment.
Popular Democratic Party San Juan mayoral candidate Terestella González Denton
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A week after shooting, Trump leaves unity behind and returns to insults and election denial
By MICHAEL GOLD AND SIMON J. LEVIEN
At his first campaign rally since he survived an assassination attempt last week, former President Donald Trump on Saturday launched a litany of attacks that suggested his call for national unity in the wake of the shooting had faded entirely into the background.
Over the course of an almost two-hour speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Trump insulted President Joe Biden’s intelligence repeatedly, calling him “stupid” more than once. He said Vice President Kamala Harris was “crazy” and gleefully jeered the Democratic Party’s infighting over Biden’s political future.
Even as Trump made numerous false claims accusing his political opponents of widespread election fraud, he presented the continuing push by some Democrats to replace Biden on their ticket as an antidemocratic effort.
By contrast, Trump — who falsely insisted he won the 2020 election and whose effort to overturn it spurred a violent attack on the Capitol that threatened the peaceful transfer of power — presented himself as an almost martyr trying to protect the United States from its downfall.
“They keep saying, ‘He’s a threat to democracy,’” Trump told the crowd of thousands inside the Van Andel Arena. “I’m saying, ‘What the hell did I do with democracy’? Last week, I took a bullet for democracy.”
The line — one of the few additions to a speech that culled from Trump’s standard rally repertoire — came as Trump was trying to rebut Democrats’ claims that he was an extremist and distance himself from Project 2025, a set of conservative policy proposals for a potential second term that would overhaul the federal government.
The Biden campaign has repeatedly tried to tie Trump to the effort, which has involved Trump allies and former advisers. But Trump on Saturday criticized the project as the work of the “radical right,” even as he acknowledged that he knew some of those involved.
“They’re seriously extreme, but I don’t know anything about it,” Trump said of Project 2025 — which he kept calling “Project 25,” even as he has previously referred to it by its full name.
Saturday’s speech was the latest signal that the assassination attempt on Trump had done little to change his political message. Though his closing convention speech Thursday opened with a somber call for unity, he reverted quickly to standard rally repertoire, including an aside comparing himself to the gangster Al Capone and a discursive tangent regarding sharks and electric boats.
Trump did discuss the assassination attempt, in which his ear was struck by a bullet at a rally last week in Butler, Pennsylvania, even though he said Thursday that after his convention speech he would not describe it in detail again.
Sporting a light brown bandage on his ear, smaller than the large white gauze he had been wearing, Trump once again cited divine intervention, telling the crowd, “I shouldn’t here.”
He offered praise for Corey Comperatore, a volunteer firefighter and rally attendee who was killed in the gunfire, and thanked officials in Butler for their efforts.
But where Trump was somber and visibly affected in front of the Republican delegates and national network cameras, a moment of seeming vulnerability, on Saturday he at times struck a somewhat lighter tone discussing the shooting.
At one point, referring to a screen showing a chart on immigration that he was pointing to when the shooting began, Trump joked that “I owe immigration” my life and that the “sign was very good — I think I’m going to sleep with it tonight.”
Before Trump spoke, his newly chosen running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, took the stage and marveled at the former president’s resilience.
“I find it hard to believe that a week ago an assassin tried to take Donald Trump’s life, and now we have a hell of a crowd to welcome him back on the campaign trail,” Vance said, in his first joint rally with Trump since he joined the Republican ticket.
Though the security procedures at the rally were largely unchanged from past Trump rallies, the venue was held indoors after the Trump campaign had largely held events outdoors. There was a heavier police presence than typical inside and outside the building.
Sean Solano, a 22-year-old missionary to Nicaragua, said he had taken one extra precaution in light of the shooting.
“On Wednesday, I prayed over the building,” Solano, of Cutlerville, Michigan, said about the rally’s venue. Echoing several other rally attendees who spoke of Trump’s survival in religious terms, Solano added that he thought God had given the former president a chance, and now Trump would “fight with fury like never before.”
Trump’s dark message about the pernicious threat to the country posed by immigrants entering the country illegally, Democrats and foreign adversaries, a signature theme from previous rallies, was largely intact. He broadly characterized
those crossing the border as “prisoners and people from mental institutions,” whom he again likened to the fictional cannibal Hannibal Lecter. And he promised once more the largest deportation operation in U.S. history if elected.
Trump also joyously mocked Democrats as they contended with the viability of Biden’s place as the party’s presidential nominee. Trump called his rivals “the enemies of democracy” because Democrats who call for Biden’s replacement would have to answer to the millions of primary votes the president secured over other candidates.
“They have no idea who their candidate is, and neither do we. That’s a problem,” Trump said in a tone that suggested he thought anything but.
Building on months of attacking Democrats as a threat to democracy, usually based on his false insistence that Biden has directed all four criminal cases against him, he argued once more that it was his political opponents who were antidemocratic.
“This guy goes, and he gets the votes, and now we’ll take it away,” Trump scoffed. “That’s democracy.”
Still, Trump showed little sympathy for Biden. After mostly, though not entirely, avoiding direct personal attacks against the president in his convention speech, Trump repeatedly called him unintelligent, saying that he had a low IQ compared with other world leaders and that he was incompetent.
He widened his focus to include Harris, insulting her laugh and calling her “nuts.” He similarly called Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker, “crazy,” and then mocked her over her having privately told Biden that he might not win in November, which he characterized as a sudden display of disloyalty.
“Crazy Nancy,” Trump said. “Did you see Nancy Pelosi is selling out Biden now? Did you see she turned on him like a dog?”
Republicans, he pointed out, were unified largely behind him. As evidence, Trump ceded the stage to a display of party unity: Sandy Pensler, a Republican running in Michigan’s Senate primary, took the stage to end his bid and endorse his Trump-endorsed rival, Rep. Mike Rogers.
“Unifying the party,” Trump said as he took back the microphone, “it’s beautiful to watch.”
Michigan is seen as a critical battleground state for Trump and Biden in November. It is one of several that Trump won in 2016 only to lose to Biden four years later.
The decision to hold Trump’s first joint rally with Vance in the state offered another signal of its electoral importance. Trump, when he announced Vance’s selection, singled out his ability to win over workers in the state, and Vance several times in his convention speech mentioned working-class people in Michigan as crucial to the nation.
Vance gave a well-received 13-minute speech — a fraction of Trump’s lengthy remarks — more than an hour before Trump took the stage. He returned later to introduce the former president to raucous applause, and the two embraced in front of the crowd.
“I chose him because he’s for the worker,” Trump said after Vance left the stage. “He’s for the people that work so hard and perhaps weren’t treated like they should have been.”
Former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), appear together on stage at a joint campaign rally at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Saturday, July 20, 2024. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
Biden drops out of race, scrambling the campaign for the White House
By PETER BAKER
President Joe Biden abandoned his campaign for a second term under intense pressure from fellow Democrats on Sunday, upending the race for the White House in a dramatic last-minute bid to find a new candidate who can stop former President Donald Trump from returning to the White House.
“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President,” he said in a letter posted on social media. “And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.”
Biden, who evidently plans to serve out his term through January even as he pulls out as a candidate, said he would “speak to the nation later this week in more detail about my decision” and expressed thanks to Vice President Kamala Harris “for being an extraordinary partner in all this work.” But he did not immediately endorse her and said
nothing about how the Democratic Party should proceed to pick a new nominee.
One person informed about the matter said the president had told his senior staff at 1:45 p.m. that he had changed his mind, an announcement that surprised many aides who had been told as recently as Saturday night that his campaign was still full speed ahead. It was not immediately clear whether he wrote the letter himself or had help, nor did his aides know when or how he might address the nation.
The president’s decision set the stage for an intense, abbreviated scramble to build a new Democratic ticket, the first time in generations that a nomination will be settled at a convention rather than through primaries. Although he did not endorse Harris, she starts the truncated process in the strongest position but could face challenges from other Democrats.
While Biden has six more months in office, the transition of the campaign to whomever is chosen will amount to a momentous generational change of leadership of the Democratic Party. The eventual nominee will have just more than 75 days after next month’s convention to consolidate support from Democrats, establish themselves as a credible national leader and prosecute the case against the Republican former president.
Biden, 81, announced his withdrawal after a disastrous debate performance against Trump cemented public concerns about his age and touched off widespread panic among Democrats about his ability to prevent the former president from reclaiming power. Democratic congressional leaders petrified by dismal poll numbers pressed Biden to gracefully exit, angry donors threatened to withhold their money, and down-ballot candidates feared he would take down the whole ticket.
No sitting president has dropped out of a race so late in the election cycle in U.S. history, and Harris and any other contenders for the nomination will have just weeks to earn the backing of the nearly 4,000 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. While the convention is scheduled to take place in Chicago from Aug. 19 to Aug. 22, the party had already planned to conduct a virtual roll call vote before Aug. 7 to ensure access to ballots in all 50 states, leaving little time to assemble support.
Biden’s campaign for a second term collapsed in swift and stunning fashion
after leading Democrats concluded that he would be unable to defeat Trump in the fall. During their nationally televised debate last month, Biden, the oldest president in U.S. history, appeared frail, hesitant, confused and diminished, losing a critical opportunity to make his case against Trump, a felon who tried to overturn the last election.
Although Trump, 78, is just a few years younger than Biden, he came across as forceful at the debate even as he made repeated false and misleading statements. Questions have been raised about Trump’s own cognitive decline. He often rambles incoherently in interviews and at campaign rallies and has confused names, dates and facts just as Biden has. But Republicans have not turned against him as Democrats did against Biden.
The president’s age was a primary concern of voters long before the debate. Even most Democrats told pollsters more than a year ago that they thought he was too old for the job. Born during World War II and first elected to the Senate in 1972
before two-thirds of today’s Americans were even born, Biden would have been 86 at the end of a second term.
Biden consistently maintained that his experience was an advantage, enabling him to pass landmark legislation and manage foreign policy crises. He maintained that he was the Democrat best equipped to defeat Trump given that he did so in 2020.
But his efforts to reassure Democrats that he was up to the task following the damaging debate failed to shore up support. Instead, his slowness to reach out to party leaders and some of the answers he gave in interviews only fueled internal discontent.
In bowing out, Biden became the first incumbent president in 56 years to give up a chance to run again. With six months remaining in his term, his decision instantly transformed him into a lame duck. But he can be expected to use his remaining time in office to try to consolidate gains on domestic policy and manage ongoing wars in Europe and the Middle East.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris watch the Fourth of July fireworks over the National Mall at the White House in Washington on July 4, 2024. Biden on Sunday, July 21, 2024, abruptly abandoned his campaign for a second term under intense pressure from fellow Democrats and threw his support to Harris to lead their party in a dramatic last-minute bid to stop former President Donald Trump from returning to the White House. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
Trump-Vance administration could herald new era for dollar
By ALAN RAPPEPORT
Donald Trump’s selection of Ohio Sen. JD Vance to be his vice-presidential nominee pairs him with a kindred spirit on trade, taxes and a tough stance on China. But it is their shared affinity for a weak dollar that could have the broadest implications for the United States and the global economy.
In most cases, Trump likes his policies to be “strong,” but when it comes to the value of the dollar, he has long expressed a different view. Its strength, he has argued, has made it harder for U.S. manufacturers to sell their products abroad to buyers that use weaker currencies. That’s because their money is worth so much less than the dollars that they need to make those purchases.
“As your president, one would think that I would be thrilled with our very strong dollar,” Trump said in 2019, explaining that U.S. companies such as Caterpillar and Boeing were struggling to compete. “I am not!”
The dollar has been the world’s dominant currency since World War II, and central banks hold about 60% of their foreign exchange reserves in dollars, according to the Congressional Research Service.
The United States has maintained a “strong dollar” policy since the 1990s, when Robert Rubin, the Treasury secretary at the time, declared that he did not view it as a threat to the ability of U.S. business to compete abroad. The United States avoids taking measures to steer the strength of the dollar, and Treasury secretaries tend to argue that currency values should be determined by market forces. When countries such as China have acted to weaken their currencies, the U.S. has shamed them as currency manipulators.
It is not clear how Trump would go about weakening the dollar. His Treasury Department could try to sell dollars to buy foreign currency or try to persuade the Federal Reserve to just print more dollars.
A concerted shift in policy could have reverberations for international commerce of all kinds. The depreciation of the dollar, along with Trump’s plan to increase tariffs on imports, could also reignite inflation when price increases are finally easing.
“Depreciation would add to inflation,” said Mark Sobel, a former longtime Treasury Department official who is now the U.S. chair of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum. “So would tariff hikes. Plus, a highly expansionary fiscal policy would add to
consumers but a tax on American manufacturers. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
demand pressures.”
Skeptics of a strong dollar say it is responsible for making U.S. exports too costly abroad at the expense of American workers, and seeking to devalue it aligns with the populist ethos of Trump and Vance.
At a Senate hearing last year, Vance echoed Trump’s concerns while questioning Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair. He said the dollar’s status as the reserve currency, which means it is widely held in central banks around the world and accepted for most kinds of transactions, was a subsidy for U.S. consumers but a tax on U.S. manufacturers.
“I know the strong dollar is sort of the sacred cow of the Washington consensus, but when I survey the American economy, and I see our mass consumption of mostly useless imports on the one hand and our hollowedout industrial base on the other hand, I wonder if the reserve currency status also has some downsides, and not just some upsides as well,” Vance said.
Powell responded by noting that the United States benefits from its reserve currency status, which makes it possible to buy goods all over the world with dollars. He also said there was not an obvious currency to replace it.
The strength of the dollar has gained global attention this year as its value appreciated compared with other countries’ currencies as a result of higher interest rates. That can
complicate matters for central banks worldwide that are grappling with inflation, and by making American exports more expensive, it can widen the U.S. trade deficit, which Trump loathes.
The 2024 Republican Party platform calls for keeping the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, but Trump and Vance could still try to weaken it if elected this year. Robert Lighthizer, Trump’s former trade adviser, who could be a candidate to be his next Treasury secretary, has been mulling ways to devalue the dollar if the former president wins, Politico reported this year.
Trump could try to devalue the dollar either by signaling a policy shift, appointing a new Federal Reserve chair when Powell’s term ends in 2026 who is likely to cut interest rates, or by trying to use the threat of tariffs to compel other countries to act to strengthen their own currencies.
Brad Setser, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who served in the Biden administration’s trade office, said the TrumpVance team faced a “core contradiction” in its economic agenda. He noted that Trump’s proposed tax cuts would probably widen the fiscal deficit and push up interest rates, supporting the dollar. At the same time, Trump’s trade agenda would most likely encourage other countries to weaken their currencies relative to the dollar in response to his tariffs.
Trump has called for imposing a 10%
levy on all imports and a 60% duty on imports from China.
“If you punish other countries, hit them with tariffs, reduce the value of their exports, the effect tends to be their currencies weaken,” Setser said.
Lawrence Summers, who served as Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, said a move to devalue the dollar could lead to “stagflation” — when prices rise and growth slows.
“If a country’s government does not care about the value of its money, why should anyone else?” Summers said. “Raising tariffs while devaluing the dollar are self-imposed supply shocks.”
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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) in the spin room after the debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in Atlanta on June 27, 2024. Vance has described the dollar’s status as the reserve currency as a subsidy for U.S.
Wall St ends volatile session lower in aftermath of global tech outage
U.S. stocks extended their slump on Friday as lingering chaos related to a global technical outage caused by a software glitch added uncertainty to an alreadyanxious market.
The far-reaching tech outage disrupted operations across multiple industries including airlines, banking and healthcare after the glitch in cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike’s software caused Microsoft’s Windows operating system to crash.
While the flaw was identified and fixes deployed, technical issues continue to affect some services.
Crowdstrike shares slid 11.1%, while rival cybersecurity firms Palo Alto Networks and SentinelOne advanced 2.2% and 7.8%, respectively.
All three major U.S. stock indexes ended in negative territory, with the Dow Jones Industrial average suffering the worst of it.
On a weekly basis, both the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 logged their worst week since April, while the Dow, having reached a series of all-time closing highs earlier in the week, posted a Friday-to-Friday gain.
“This tech outage adds some uncertainty and puts pressure on the overall Nasdaq,” said Robert Pavlik, senior portfolio manager at Dakota Wealth in Fairfield, Connecticut. “But it won’t have much of an overall impact. Some buying will be delayed. Not only is it a summer Friday but because of the outage (investors) are in wait-and-see mode.”
“They’re sitting on the sidelines,” Pavlik added. “That’s what happens to the stock market when volatility rules the day.”
The CBOE Market volatility index, considered a gauge of investor anxiety, touched its highest level since late April.
The smallcap Russell 2000 - a beneficiary of a recent pivot away from megacap growth stocks - ended modestly lower.
Nvidia shares led a sell-off in chips. The Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index underperformed the broader market, falling 3.1%.
Elsewhere, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams reiterated the central bank’s commitment to bringing inflation down to its 2% target.
Financial markets have priced in a 93.5% likelihood that the Fed will enter a rate-cutting phase at the conclusion of
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its September meeting, according to CME’s FedWatch tool.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 377.49 points, or 0.93%, to 40,287.53, the S&P 500 lost 39.59 points, or 0.71%, to 5,505 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 144.28 points, or 0.81%, to 17,726.94.
tors, Ford and a host of other companies.
Among the 11 major sectors of the S&P 500, energy shares fell the most, while healthcare and utilities were the only gainers.
Second-quarter earnings season ended its first full week, with 70 of the companies in the S&P 500 having reported. Of those, 83% have beaten consensus, according to LSEG.
Analysts now see aggregate year-on-year S&P 500 earnings growth of 11.1%, an improvement over the 10.6% estimate as of July Next week, a swath of high-profile results is expected from Tesla, Alphabet, IBM, General Mo-
“It’s early in earns season, but things have been impressive,” said Ryan Detrick, chief market strategist at Carson Group in Omaha, Nebraska. “But the big boys are starting to report next week and what we want to hear is how strong the consumer is and what’s the outlook for future economic growth.”
Eli Lilly advanced 1.0% after China approved its weightloss drug tirzepatide, while Intuitive Surgical jumped 9.4% after a second-quarter results beat.
Travelers tumbled 7.8% on lower-than-expected growth in net written premiums.
Netflix fell 1.5% in choppy trading after the streaming giant cautioned third-quarter subscriber additions would be lower than a year earlier.
Oilfield services provider SLB rose 1.9% after strong second-quarter profit.
Israel intercepts missile fired from Yemen as conflict with Houthis continues
By GABY SOBELMAN AND MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG
Israel’s military said Sunday that it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, suggesting that the Yemen-based Houthi militia would keep trying to strike Israel, despite the bombing by Israeli fighter jets of a port in Yemen on Saturday.
The Houthis, which are backed by Iran, said in a post on the Telegram messaging app that they had launched the missile at Eilat, Israel’s southernmost city on the coast of the Red Sea, “in response to the American, British and Israeli aggression against our country.” The post said the strike had “achieved its goals,” without giving details.
The conflict between Israel and the Houthis has escalated as the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also fighting Hamas in the Gaza Strip and trading aerial attacks with Hezbollah, a militia also backed by Iran, across its northern border with Lebanon.
Israeli air defenses intercepted a missile that “approached Israeli territory from Yemen” following an air raid siren in the Eilat area, according to a statement by the Israeli military. The area is a popular beach resort, and mid-July is high season for Israeli vacationers.
“The projectile did not cross into Israeli territory. Rocket and missile sirens were sounded following the possibility of falling shrapnel,” it said in a statement on social media.
The Israeli airstrikes in Yemen on Saturday were launched in retaliation for a deadly Houthi drone strike on Tel Aviv on Friday. Israeli warplanes hit the Red Sea port of Hodeida, leaving parts of the port in flames. The strikes targeted a power station as well as gas and oil depots, sites used for military purposes, the Israeli military said. It was the first time Israel had publicly struck the group following months of escalating Houthi attacks.
The Ministry of Health in Houthi-controlled Sana, Yemen’s capital, said Sunday that the strikes had killed three people and injured 87, many of whom suffered severe burns. The port plays a critical role in the economy of Yemen, and fuel stored there is vital for the effort to feed the population, which faces a hunger crisis.
The Houthi drone attack early Friday breached Israel’s multilayered air-defense system and hit an apartment building near
military support, has worked to curtail the possibility that the violence could mushroom into a full regional war.
Here’s what else is happening in the Middle East:
— Netanyahu and Biden: Netanyahu is scheduled to meet President Joe Biden on Tuesday afternoon, according to a statement from the prime minister’s office. Netanyahu will be leaving Israel on Monday for the first time since Oct. 7. He is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.
The visit comes at a fraught time for both sides, with Biden’s bid for reelection in question and Netanyahu facing pressures domestically over a prospective cease-fire and hostage deal for Gaza, as well as international censure of Israel’s conduct in the war. The statement did not specify where the meeting would take place. A White House spokesperson said last week that the two leaders were expected to meet during Netanyahu’s U.S. visit.
— Ultra-Orthodox in the Israeli military:
the U.S. Embassy branch office in Tel Aviv, killing at least one person and wounding eight others. Israel Katz, Israel’s foreign minister, said the retaliatory strikes Saturday were meant to send a regional warning.
“The blow delivered to the port of Hodeida and another location, a power plant, delivers an important message,” he said on Kan radio, part of Israel’s public media network. “When we saw that Iran and Hezbollah are eying this and wondering if perhaps Israel is deterred — Israel’s powerful operation sends a clear message around, because Iran is located 200 kilometers closer than the port of Hodeida.”
Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military spokesperson, said earlier that the port was a major supply stop for Iran to funnel weapons to its Houthi allies, who have fired more than 200 missiles and drones at Israel over the past several months.
The strikes and counterstrikes involving Yemen in recent days are further evidence of the rippling consequences of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel led by Hamas, in which around 1,200 people were killed.
Since Netanyahu launched a war to destroy Hamas in response to that attack, more than 38,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, according to Gaza’s health ministry. The enclave has been devastated by Israeli airstrikes and fighting, and almost all of its 2.2
million people have been forced to flee their homes.
At the same time, there has been a sharp rise in violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged thousands of cross-border aerial attacks. In April there was a significant escalation in what had been a shadow war between Israel and Iran when Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles at Israel in retaliation for an apparent Israeli strike on an Iranian embassy in Syria.
Since October, the U.S. government, while providing Israel with diplomatic and
The Israeli military began sending initial conscription orders to ultra-Orthodox men Sunday after a landmark Supreme Court decision ordered an end to their long-running exemption from military service.
The military said roughly 1,000 ultra-Orthodox men ages 18 to 26 would receive the orders as part of an attempt to gradually ramp up conscription while avoiding a head-on confrontation with the insular community. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the government had to begin drafting the men, placing a strain on Netanyahu’s coalition, which depends on two ultra-Orthodox parties that support the exemption.
A fire at an oil storage facility on Saturday after Israeli strikes in the Houthi-held port city of Hudaydah in Yemen.
How the U.S. has played a role in Venezuela’s presidential election
By FRANCES ROBLES
Venezuelans will head to the polls July 28 to choose a new president, an election that could determine if democracy will be restored to the South American nation. It is also a vote that the United States played a role in helping ensure would take place.
Voters will pick between a little-known diplomat, Edmundo González, and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, an autocratic leader who has been in office since 2013.
Many analysts are skeptical that Maduro would accept an electoral loss, and if that happened, it is unclear how the Biden administration would respond to a rejection of the results.
Here’s what to know about an election important to both countries.
What’s going on between the U.S. and Venezuela?
The past three U.S. presidents have been united on one policy: hitting the Venezuelan government with tough sanctions in response to corruption, anti-democratic moves and human rights abuses.
The United States and Venezuela have not had diplomatic relations since 2019.
But although then-President Donald Trump took a hard-line approach, the Biden administration tried a different tactic, meeting privately last year with Venezuelan government officials in Qatar, where they discussed lifting sanctions that had hobbled Venezuela’s vital oil industry.
Some experts said the Biden administration’s new strategy, which many had criticized as being too lenient, helped lay a foundation for the election and energized the opposition.
who created those conditions, they must assume their responsibility, the responsibility of hurting our economy, and of creating a migrant attraction towards the United States.’’
(U.S. data shows that since 2021, more than 800,000 Venezuelan migrants entered the United States, including 114,695 in the first six months of this year.)
Gil also blamed what he called Venezuela’s “far-right” opposition for conspiring with the United States and predicted that, as a result, voters would reject the opposition at the polls.
What will the U.S. do if Maduro tries to manipulate the election?
Two senior U.S. government officials, who spoke to The New York Times on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic matters, said it was important to wait and see what happens before discussing any repercussions.
That, in part, helped spur talks between the Venezuelan government and the opposition that culminated in an agreement late last year meant to pave the way for free and fair elections — although since then, the Maduro administration has taken various steps to undermine the vote.
What leverage does the United States hold over Venezuela?
Using executive orders and a law called the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, the United States has imposed more than 350 sanctions against Venezuela in the past seven years. Trump’s administration froze Venezuelan assets in the United States.
The U.S. Department of Justice has char-
ged Maduro with drug trafficking and offered a $15 million reward for information resulting in his arrest.
Did President Joe Biden lift the sanctions?
In October 2023, the Venezuelan government and a group of opposition parties known as the Unitary Platform signed an agreement intended to institute democratic reforms and create a path for elections.
After that deal, the Biden administration removed a ban on secondary trading on some Venezuelan bonds and eased various sanctions on oil for six months. The administration had promised to release millions of dollars for humanitarian use if the government held up its end of the bargain.
But instead, the Venezuelan government prevented a top opposition leader, María Corina Machado, who has emerged as one of the country’s most popular figures, from running for president. Dozens of opposition activists have been harassed and detained.
In April, the Biden administration allowed the sanctions relief to expire, and millions of dollars have not been released.
What is the Venezuelan government’s response?
The Venezuelan government considers U.S. sanctions illegal and blames Washington for the country’s economic crisis and for the exodus of nearly 8 million Venezuelans.
“Migration was promoted from Washington,” Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil Pinto told The Intercept last month. “Those
The international community should not render any judgment on the electoral process until there are results, one official said, noting that the administration was closely watching whether the Maduro government engages in any last-minute moves to undermine the democratic process.
The Biden administration is particularly concerned that the Maduro government could claim victory without verifiable results, the official said, adding that the ruling party is aware that its political future is pegged to the legitimacy of the vote.
Another U.S. official said that if Maduro loses — and accepts the loss — there would probably be negotiations over a transition of power, but added that those conversations had not yet taken place. Such talks could include issues such as amnesties, guarantees for those leaving office and establishing truth commissions.
What has the opposition said about U.S. relations?
González, the former longtime diplomat running for president, is eager to normalize diplomatic relations.
“I want Venezuela and the United States to recover and go back to the friendly or just natural relationship we’ve had for many years,” he said during a discussion Thursday sponsored by the Wilson Center, a nonpartisan research center in Washington. “It’s absurd, if not unbelievable,” he added, the number of years that Venezuela has been “without a diplomatic office in Washington.”
Political dialogue and cooperation are a must, González said.
“That’s something that we have to tackle immediately,” he added.
Supporters of the opposition candidate Edmundo González going house to house this month showing the presidential ballot to neighbors in El Junco, Venezuela. Adriana Loureiro Fernandez for The New York Times
Don’t lose sight of Project 2025. That’s the real Trump.
Kevin Roberts, Heritage’s president, said that the country is in the midst of a “second American Revolution” that will be bloodless “if the left allows it to be.”
Republicans seem, however, to have belatedly realized that much of what’s in Project 2025, especially its multipronged attack on reproductive rights, is deeply unpopular. Trump has tried to distance himself from the project, claiming last week that he knows “nothing” about it, even though quite a few of the people who’ve worked on it are former Trump officials and aides, and even though in 2022 Trump told a Heritage conference that its people were “going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.”
More generally, since Trump has never shown himself to be a policy wonk, there’s every reason to believe that if he wins he will, as he did in his first term, leave a lot of the granular policymaking to people who do sweat the details — so it’s more than reasonable to think of Project 2025 as a guide to what could happen in a second Trump term.
What would that mean? There are many, many things to object to in Project 2025, but I’d argue that the most important thing is right at the front, in the section titled “Taking the Reins of Government.” There’s a lot in this section, but it basically calls for replacing much of the federal workforce, which consists mainly of career civil servants somewhat insulated from partisan pressures, with political appointees who can be hired or fired at will.
government that are currently relatively apolitical. It’s all too easy to imagine an unscrupulous president using the power this would give him to reward friends and punish opponents across the nation.
Remember, during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump openly suggested that he might not help states whose governors didn’t support him: “It’s a twoway street. They have to treat us well, also.” If he wins and Project 2025 goes into effect, he’ll be in a position to engage in that kind of arm-twisting on a massive scale.
There’s a lot of additional stuff in Project 2025, which I’ll get to in future columns. For now, let’s just say that it’s every bit as menacing as critics report. And despite Trump’s disingenuous attempts to distance himself from the project, it gives us a very good idea of what a second Trump term could be like.
By PAUL KRUGMAN
I’m not going to speculate about the effect of Saturday’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump on the 2024 presidential race. I will, however, make one observation: Some on the political right are using the attack to imply that the criticism of Trump’s past efforts to overturn the results of the last election, and any suggestion that he poses a threat to democracy, is now out of bounds.
But two things are true at the same time: Political violence is unacceptable, full stop. And the efforts by Trump and his most hard-core supporters to undermine American democracy continue to be unacceptable. As Republicans head into their convention this week, it’s important to understand the potential ramifications of both their official platform, about which I wrote last week, and their unofficial aspirations, embodied by Project 2025.
For anyone new to this: Project 2025 is a blueprint by and for some of Trump’s close allies, put together by the Heritage Foundation, to ensure that if Trump wins in November, MAGA will hit the ground running. It seeks to provide “both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on day one of the next conservative administration.” The particulars are laid out in a roughly 900-page document, “Mandate for Leadership,” with specific action plans for many parts of the federal government.
How radical is the Project 2025 agenda? This month,
Trump actually made a significant move in this direction near the end of his presidency, issuing an executive order that created a category of political appointee, Schedule F, which would have allowed the replacement of many career officials with partisan loyalists. President Joe Biden rescinded that order, but Project 2025 would bring it back in some form — probably on a much larger scale.
In some ways this would represent a giant step into the past. For much of the 19th century the federal government operated on the “spoils system,” in which new administrations fired many officials and replaced them with political supporters. This system had big problems: Many appointees lacked the experience and competence to do their jobs, and the constant turnover was an open invitation to cronyism and corruption.
In 1883, less than two years after President James Garfield was assassinated by a deranged and disgruntled man seeking a political appointment, Congress passed the Pendleton Act, which created a professional civil service in which most employees can’t be fired or demoted for political reasons. There were very good reasons for that reform at the time, but the case for insulating most government employees from partisan pressure is far stronger now.
You see, back in 1883 the federal government had a much smaller footprint on American life; federal spending was only a bit more than 2% of the economy. Today’s federal government is about 10 times as large and also has a huge impact through its regulation of everything from pollution to antitrust enforcement.
Now imagine politicizing the large parts of our
Destacado conferenciante internacional se
La presidenta del Centro Unido de Detallistas (CUD), Lourdes M. Aponte Rodríguez, anunció que el conferencista internacional, Ismael Cala, será uno de los principales conferenciantes que este año contará la convención anual del CUD, Step UP Your Business, a celebrarse del 30 de agosto al 1ro. de septiembre de 2024 en el Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve en Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.
“Estamos encantados de anunciar que Ismael Cala será nuestro invitado especial en la convención anual del CUD este año. Su experiencia y visión global aportarán un valor incalculable a nuestras discusiones y actividades. Estamos seguros de que su participación inspirará a todos los asistentes y contribuirá significativamente al éxito de nuestro evento,” expresó la líder del CUD.
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Cala ofrecerá una conferencia interactiva sobre las claves y principios del liderazgo Mindfulness exponencial, con el propósito de generar sociedades más pacíficas, productivas, óptimas y felices.
Ismael Cala, es un destacado estratega de vida y de negocios. Conferencista y autor, con más de 7 best sellers sobre despertar y elevación de consciencia, liderazgo, emprendimiento, mindfulness y desarrollo personal. También es embajador del concepto de felicidad corporativa en América Latina.
Step UP Your Business, es el evento anual más importante de empresarios en Puerto Rico, donde más de 100 empresas presentarán las últimas tendencias comerciales en el mundo, al exhibir sus productos y servicios a miles de visitantes, que se dan cita en la convención.
Además, los empresarios podrán expandir sus conocimientos sobre una variedad de temas esenciales que los ayudarán a concretar citas de negocios con compradores locales e internacionales.
La conferencia magistral de Cala se llevará a cabo el sábado 31 de 2024.
Ismael Cala, conferencista internacional.
Desde Cayey, Brumas de Borikén representó a Puerto Rico en México
Eldirector musical de la Compañía Folklórica Brumas de Borikén, Abdiel González Cruz, relató de su más reciente participación en México. “Recientemente estuvimos representando a Puerto Rico en el Festival Internacional del Folklore del estado de Hidalgo y el Festival Internacional de la Danza del estado de Guanajuato, ambos en México, llevando nuestra cultura y tradiciones junto a delegaciones de Eslovaquia, Colombia y Honduras”.
González Cruz, graduado de la Escuela de Bellas Artes del municipio de Cayey, añadió que “como compañía, les llevamos nuestras estampas tradicionales de
la Montaña, la Plena, la Bomba, la música de Salón (Danza Puertorriqueña, Mazurca y Pasodoble) y Nova Trova. Brumas de Borikén es una compañía fundada en el municipio de Cayey adscrita al Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña celebrando actualmente 20 años de servicio cultural al pueblo de Puerto Rico y al mundo”. Como parte de la misión de la compañía, sus miembros educan sobre nuestra cultura y tradición. “Actualmente la compañía cuenta con integrantes de diversos municipios, como Arecibo, Hatillo, Barranquitas, Guaynabo, Coamo, Cidra, Guayama, Juana Díaz, San Juan y Cayey”, finalizó Abdiel González Cruz.
Orientan al sector empresarial sobre inteligencia artificial
Puerto Rico Manufacturing Extension (PRiMEX) convoca al sector empresarial de Puerto Rico a una clase maestra sobre Inteligencia Artificial (IA) en la Gestión del Cambio y la Gerencia de Proyectos. El evento libre de costo se llevará a cabo el martes, 23 de julio de 2024 de 10:00 a.m. a 12:00 p.m., en modalidad virtual a través de la plataforma Zoom.
La clase tiene como objetivo equipar a los participantes con conocimientos de IA, con el fin de mejorar la eficiencia y la gestión en sus organizaciones y proporcionar pasos concretos para iniciar la transformación.
“Puerto Rico Manufacturing Extension está dirigido a ayudar en la productividad y competitividad de las empresas, por lo que nos complace anunciar nuestro Master Class sobre Inteligencia Artificial y la gestión de cambio, diseñada para que adquieran conocimientos avanzados y habilidades prácticas en este campo
emergente. Esta iniciativa refleja nuestro compromiso con la innovación y el desarrollo continuo, preparándonos para enfrentar los desafíos tecnológicos del futuro”, expresó Ramón Vega, director ejecutivo de Puerto Rico Manufacturing Extension.
Durante el taller impartido por Jesús “Nesty” Delgado, presidente de Team 1144 y Alba Noris De León, presidenta de AblaTek, los participantes tendrán la oportunidad de explorar y evaluar las herramientas y aplicaciones prácticas de la IA disponibles para la gerencia de proyectos y desarrollar estrategias para integrar la IA en los procesos de gestión para utilizar esta tecnología de manera efectiva. Se analizarán los aspectos éticos y desafíos asociados con la implementación de IA y participarán en una actividad práctica para crear un GPT personalizado.
Compañía Folklórica Brumas de Borikén.
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In ‘Beverly Hills, 90210,’ Shannen Doherty redefined teen TV drama
By MARGARET LYONS
If you liked watching TV on Thursday nights in 1990, you could have spent your spring with Audrey Horne and Donna Hayward, in “Twin Peaks,” and your fall with Brenda Walsh in “Beverly Hills, 90210.” And Brenda, as played memorably by Shannen Doherty, who died Saturday, knew who her peers were. When she dons a (hideous) hat in Season 1, she is met with derision. “Hippie witch is out,” sneers Kelly (Jennie Garth).
“It’s not hippie witch; it’s ‘Twin Peaks,’ and it’s very in,” Brenda snaps back. Ah, back then, we were so rich in pouty, put-upon brunettes with brooding motorcycle boyfriends, fraught taste in companions and a desire to listen to the same song over and over.
No, Brenda’s outfit is not “Twin Peaks” in any way, but her affection and affectation create a fun hall of mirrors. Brenda was a character whose style many sought to emulate, though sadly, God blesses so few of us with such magnificent bangs. Still, it was far easier to incorporate a Walshian choker or silver belt buckle than to pull off an arch “Twin Peaks” saddle shoe.
Teens were all over prime-time in 1990. “Parker Lewis Can’t Lose” and “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” also debuted that season, and shows such as “Growing Pains,” “Who’s the Boss,” “A Different World” and “Doogie Howser, M.D.” were already airing.
But it was “Beverly Hills, 90210” that established the blueprint for what a modern teen drama would be: glossy, aspirational, tackling the topics of the day but bending inexorably — if they lasted — toward soapiness. It was a template followed by series such as “Dawson’s Creek,” “One Tree Hill,” “Gossip Girl” and “The
Over the first four seasons of “Beverly Hills, 90210,” Brenda Walsh (Shannen Doherty, with Luke Perry) went from naïf to vixen. (FOX)
O.C.,” among many others.
And of all the young beautiful people who populated West Beverly Hills High, it was Brenda who made the show go. As she went from naif to vixen, from humble Minnesotan to globe-trotting romantic, her transformations transformed the show itself. Grander tragedies befell other characters, but no one suffered heartbreak or betrayal with more intensity than Brenda, the show’s most authentically teenage character. In Doherty’s hands, Brenda was both vulnerable and vituperative, delivering the sharpest insults but in the most pain.
It’s now easy to forget that early on, “90210” could traffic in hokey wholesomeness, especially around “issue” episodes, and that before it was soapy-soapy, it was more of a realistic
drama. “‘Beverly Hills’ is ‘Thirtysomething’ for teenagers, a show in which viewers see their own problems magnified, chewed over and worried to death by its characters,” Caryn James wrote in The New York Times in 1991. Jim and Cindy Walsh (James Eckhouse and Carol Potter), the earnest parents of “90210,” could easily have befriended the parents of “Life Goes On,” another of its contemporaries that also dealt with subjects such as teen sexuality and ableism.
“90210” got sudsier as it went on, partly because its characters aged and partly because any show that turns out 32-episode seasons — as “90210” did in five of its 10 seasons — will burn quickly through relatable drama. Also, prime-time soaps such as “Dallas” and “Knots Landing” were wrapping up, and our nation had
to meet its slaps-and-deceit needs somehow.
Most of the core characters remain static in the early years — except for Brenda. The intensity of Brenda’s huffy petulance grew with the tabloid stories of Doherty’s volatility, and by the time she left the show in 1994, “90210” was fully in soap territory, with blown-up cars, meth addictions and madcap teen parenting.
If you want to observe the evolution of “90210” now, there are a few things you should know: First, not all of the episodes are streaming. Although much of “90210” is on Paramount+, dozens of episodes are missing, and many are the best ones. If you wanted to watch the girls sing “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” or see Scott meet his untimely end, you’ll have to scrounge up a DVD. Retro!
Second, as with most old shows, episodes are surprisingly long — these clock in close to 47 minutes, while most current network shows are closer to 42. And finally, be prepared for scenes that play differently now, sometimes sadly so. If you grew up obsessing over “90210” as I did, scenes of Doherty together in blissful teen TV love with Luke Perry, who died in 2019, now land like the last act of “Our Town.” There’s also a Season 1 episode, “It’s Only a Test,” in which Brenda discovers a lump in her breast, which obviously takes on new resonance after Doherty’s death from cancer.
The episode is a classic example of Original Recipe “90210.” It is incredibly direct and thorough about the mechanics of breast selfexams, which was unheard of on television at the time and still feels surprising in its overall frankness. But there is also a small moment when Cindy and Brenda share a shocked glee that Brenda’s doctor is a woman; 1990 really was a long time ago.
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Monday, July 22, 2024 14
Lausanne, where the Olympics never end
By SETH SHERWOOD
Every year is an Olympics year in Lausanne, Switzerland, a city of stone buildings, tile roofs and historic church squares perched on a hillside overlooking Lake Geneva. As home to the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Museum, the city is involved year-round in championing the Games, long before and long after the official ceremonies take place. (This year, the Summer Olympics and Paralympics, mostly in and around Paris, run from July 26 to Sept. 8.)
But the Olympics are only one facet of Lausanne. In the city center, culture-loving visitors will find a new arts district that contains a trio of avant-garde exhibition spaces, while the Hermitage Foundation museum is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Throw in stylish new restaurants, chocolate boutiques and pastry shops, and you have a medal-worthy culinary center, as well.
Games: History and traditions on display
Long before the global fame of gold medalists like Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, ancient Greek runner Astylos of Croton was the top Olympic celebrity, thanks to victories in three consecutive editions of the Games, from 488 to 480 B.C. Even more impressive, he did it naked and barefoot (as was then the custom for runners).
His is just one of the remarkable stories recounted in the Olympic Museum (tickets, 20 Swiss francs, or about $22). From ancient vases to interactive touch screens, the exhibitions trace the history of the world’s most storied sports competition, starting with its Hellenic origins and ending with this year’s Paris Games, the subject of a special exhibition, “Paris Olympique.”
Along the way, displays delve into the finer points of stadium architecture, uniform fashions, opening ceremony performances, anti-doping technology and even cafeteria menus in the Olympic villages. Equipment and outfits belonging to noted Olympians are also on view, including a handmade track shoe worn by American athlete Jesse Owens at the notorious 1936 Berlin Games in Nazi Germany. (The cobbler was Adi Dassler, who later created the Adidas brand.)
An outdoor track and indoor interactive simulators allow you to test your own skills at everything from sprinting to slalom skiing. And if you happen to be in Lausanne during the Olympics, an outdoor giant-screen TV on the museum grounds will broadcast the Games live from Paris.
Also on the museum grounds, the free Olympic Park is open year-round. The vast green expanse offers spectacular views of Lake Geneva and is dotted with 43 sports-themed sculptures and installations by international artists such as Fernando Botero and Alexander Calder. Among the works is a statue of Baron Pierre de Coubertin — a French aristocrat who was central to reviving the Olympics in the modern era.
Museums: Man Ray, Monet and more
Alongside the train station, Lausanne’s new cultural district, Plateforme 10, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist Manifesto — a series of 1924 publications whose authors include French artist André Breton — with multiple exhibits devoted to that celebrated literary and artistic movement.
Pioneering works by Breton and his peers form the
core of “Surréalisme. Le Grand Jeu,” an extensive exhibition of surrealist works, historical and contemporary, at the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts (through Aug. 25). The works are as strange and dreamlike as one would hope. A sculptural birdcage filled with sugar cubes, called “Why Not Sneeze, Rose Sélavy?” (Marcel Duchamp, 1921). A shimmery canvas depicting elephants whose reflections become swans in a mystical lake (Salvador Dalí’s “Cygnes Se Reflétant en Éléphants,” 1937). A photograph of a woman with instrumental sound holes painted on her back (“Le Violon d’Ingres,” by Man Ray, 1924). And much more.
Man Ray is the subject of a solo show (“Man Ray: Liberating Photography,” through Aug. 4) across the plaza at the Photo Elysée museum, which occupies a jagged white cube resembling a futuristic iceberg. His stylized portraits — Picasso in his studio, Gertrude Stein in a smoking jacket, Igor Stravinsky looking bewildered — capture the cultural ferment of 1920s Paris, while hallucinogenic avant-garde films like “Return to Reason” (1923) represent groundbreaking visions for the thennew medium.
In the same building, the MUDAC design museum hosts “Objects of Desire,” an exhibition of furniture and household objects inspired by surrealism (through Aug. 4): a lips-shaped couch (by Studio 65), a life-size black plastic horse with a lampshade on its head (by Moooi), a teapot shaped like a pig’s skull (by Studio Wieki Somers). A ticket for entrance to all three museums is 25 francs.
Another commemorative show — celebrating the 150th anniversary of the first impressionist exhibition, in 1874 — fills the aristocratic 19th-century rooms of the Hermitage Foundation, a lovely manor with manicured gardens and commanding views of Lake Geneva. Titled “Masterpieces From the Langmatt Museum” (June 28 to Nov. 11), the exhibition rewards visitors with some 60 paintings — Renoir landscapes, Degas nudes and works by Matisse, Monet, Cézanne, Mary Cassatt and others — lent from the Langmatt, in Baden, Switzerland (currently closed for renovations), which is known for its ex-
The Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, one of three museums in the arts district known as Plateforme 10, in Lausanne, Switzerland, June 13, 2024. The district is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist Manifesto — a series of 1924 publications whose authors include the French artist André Breton — with multiple exhibits. (Darren S. Higgins/ The New York Times)
cellent collection of impressionist works. Admission 22 francs. Food and drink: Lausanne goes locavore
Already home to the Noz Chocolatier boutique and the Hotel Swiss Chocolate by Fassbind, Rue Marterey last year added Acarré, a bakery and chocolate shop where pastry chef Arnaud Dousse, a veteran of top Swiss hotels, makes finely wrought croissants (1.90 francs), pains au chocolat, lemon cakes and other baked goods, along with myriad chocolates. Opening most days at 6:30 a.m., the shop makes an ideal spot for a to-go breakfast.
Last year was an excellent vintage for restaurants, too. Breaking with long-standing tradition, the soaring Scandinavian-style private lunchroom of the regional parliament, La Buvette Vaudoise, opened to the public, allowing people who aren’t elected officials to savor the restaurant’s traditional Swiss dishes, from its award-winning crispy cheese puff (known as a Malakoff; 9 francs) to thick slabs of grilled trout in a cream sauce flavored with Chasselas white wine (25 francs). The lunch-only restaurant procures most of its ingredients from the surrounding Vaud region and serves several wines produced on estates owned by legislators.
The latest dinner hot spots are equally devoted to Swiss sourcing. Decorated in an eclectic, upscale vintage style, L’Appart feels like the sprawling home of a fun designer friend, with a closet — yes, literally a closet — full of wine bottles. (Guests poke around inside to choose their wine.) Chef Luis Zuzarte’s menu, notable for its lengthy list of local suppliers, might include crispy roasted Sbrinz cheese with garlic mayo and pickles, or juicy-meaty pulled pork smoked over hay. Four courses (Tuesday and Wednesday only) are 85 francs; seven courses (nightly) cost 145 francs.
Japanese flavors infuse the dishes at Jajaffe, an airy, minimalist year-old restaurant with an easygoing vibe and tattooed chefs. Old-school vinyl albums provide the soundtrack as young waiters deliver beguiling Japanese-Swiss mashups that have recently included whipped sunflower-infused cream topped with disks of Tokyo turnip and karasumi (dried fish roe) as well as raw chunks of red gurnard fish in mayonnaise flavored with Swiss-made sake. Set menus cost 75 francs (four courses) and 110 francs (seven courses).
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A selection of pastries at Acarré, a bakery and chocolate shop in Lausanne, Switzerland, June 14, 2024. Acarré chef Arnaud Dousse, a veteran of top Swiss hotels, makes finely wrought croissants, pains au chocolat, lemon cakes and other baked goods, along with myriad chocolates. (Darren S. Higgins/The New York Times)
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO
ALIPIO AQUINO
Plaintiff V. ANA MERCEDES
RAVELO CASTILLO
Defendant Civil No.: 16-1520. (PAD). COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: DEFENDANT AND GENERAL PUBLIC.
On November 30, 2016, this Court entered Default Judgment in favor of Bautista Cayman Asset Company, now Alipio Aquino (“Aquino”). To date, Defendant has not satisfied the Judgment. The Defendant owes Aquino the principal balance of $96,325.89, plus interest at a rate of 6.95% per annum due as of August 23, 2016. The interest continues to accrue until the debt is paid in full. In addition, Defendant is further ordered to pay Aquino accrued late charges and any other advance, charge, fee, or disbursements made by Plaintiff on behalf of Defendant, in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs, charges and disbursements, expenses and attorneys’ fees. Pursuant to said judgment and the Order of Execution of Judgment, the undersigned appointed Special Master was ordered to sell, at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check, without appraisement or right to redemption, to the highest bidder, at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at any other place designated by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA: Solar sito en la sección Norte del Barrio de Santurce de esta ciudad, marcado con el número ciento cincuenta (150) en el plano de la urbanización de la finca principal y mide doscientos (200) metros cuadrados. En colindancias por el frente Oeste, en diez metros (10.00) con la calle Rambla Monte Flores, por el fondo Este, en diez metros (10.00) con el solar número cuarenta y nueve (49) de la Avenida del Río de Miguel Tellado, por la derecha entrando Sur, en veinte metros (20.00) con la calle Monroy, y por la izquierda, Norte en veinte metros (20.00) con el solar número ciento cincuenta y dos (152) de la expresada señora King
Daoly. Recorded at Page 220 of Volume 265 of Santurce Norte, Property Number 10,206, Registry of the Property of San Juan, First Section. Physical Address: 2011 Gilberto Monroig Ave., Villa Palmeras, San Juan, PR 00915. The property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Free of Liens. By itself: MORTGAGE: in guarantee of note in favor of Doral Mortgage Corp., or to its order, in the principal amount of $104,000.00, with a yearly interest rate of 6.95%, due on December 1, 2019 as per deed no. 605, executed on November 23, 2004, before Notary Public Waleska C. Colón Villanueva, recorded at page 224 of volume 265 property #10206 of Santurce Norte, 13th abbreviated inscription. LIS PENDENS: The Mortgage in favor of Doral Mortgage Corp. is the object of this annotation, for the amount of $104,000.00 that arises from registration #13th, Plaintiff: Bautista Cayman Asset Company; Defendant: Owner, Amount Due $96,325.89, for principal plus interest, according to Demand issued by the US District Court for the District of PR, Civil case #16-1520PAD on day March 22, 2016, registered on Karibe volume, Annotation A, dated June 8, 2016. 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 and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect. It being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The lien executed is over the property, and for the purposes of the first judicial sale the minimum bid amount is as follows: a. The amount of $104,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $69,333.33 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $52,000.00. 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 may be executed and delivered after the judicial sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. THEREFORE, PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will, on the 2ND DAY OF AUGUST, 2024, AT 9:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, 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 described in this Notice will be held on the 9TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2024, AT 9:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150Federal Building, 350 Carlos 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 16TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2024, AT 9:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. 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. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 23rd day of May, 2024. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, APPOINTED SPECIAL MASTER.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO COMPU-LINK CORPORATION
D/B/A CELINK
Demandante Vs. SUCESION SANTOS
ALVAREZ CRIADO COMPUESTA POR ANNABELLE ALVAREZ
MOLINA, NORMAND
ALVAREZ MOLINA; JOHN
DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: GB2023CV00934. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LA PARTE
DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, 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 Guaynabo, el 6 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 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: “URBAN: Residential apartment number 12-A of building number two of Altavista Condominium. Residential apartment of irregular shape located on building number two, twelfth floor, of Altavista Condominium at state number 833 and Street Number 1 of Alturas de Torrimar in Frailes Ward, municipality of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. This apartment has a total private area of one thousand five hundred and twelve square feet, equivalent to one hundred and forty square meters and fifty two hundredths of a square meter, being its lineal measurement 33’5” the largest length and 64’0” the largest width. The boundaries and dimensions are clockwise as follows: NORTHEAST, on a broken line, in a distance of 4’10” with exterior space separated by exterior wall, in a distance of 13’2” with Apartment 12-B, separated by interior wall, in a distance of 5’8” with common lobby, separated by interior wall and entrance door, in a distance of
8’7” with common stair, separated by bearing wall, in a distance of 8’1” with storage closets, separated by bearing wall, in a distance of 5’8” with incinerator flue and ventilator shaft, separated by interior wall on a distance of 13’2” with Apartment 12-B, separated by interior wall, in a distance of 4’10” with exterior space separated by balcony railing; SOUTHEAST, on a distance of 14’8” with common stairs, separated by bearing wall on a distance of 33’5”, on a broken line, with the exterior space separated by exterior wall, windows and balcony railing; SOUTHWEST, on a broken line, a distance of 64’0” with exterior space separated by exterior wall, windows and balcony railing; NORTHWEST, on a broken line, in a distance of 30’7: with exterior space separated by exterior wall and windows, a distance of 2’1” with apartment 12-B, separated by bearing wall, a distance of 6’2” with storage closet and in a distance of 8’6” with ventilators shaft and janitor closet, separated by bearing wall and in a distance of 9” with apartment 12-B, separated by bearing wall. This apartment unit consists of the following rooms: foyer, living-dining with balcony, kitchen, master bedroom with bathroom and dressing room, corridor with two linen closets; bathroom(second), bedroom with closet and balcony and third bedroom with closet. The kitchen is equipped with base and wall cabinet, double bowl sink with disposal, water heater, range with oven and space for refrigerators and clothes washer-dryer. The master bathroom has bathtub, water closet, bidet and two lavatories on a separate vanity area. The second bathroom has a bathtub, water closet and lavatory. A storage closet located in the central core and with an area of 33 square feet, equivalent to three square meters and seven hundredths of square meters form part pf this apartment; this area is in addition to the area mentioned above. The entrance door of this apartment is located on the Northeast boundary facing the common lobby which gives access to the stairs and elevator leading to the exterior. Percentage in the common general elements is 1.3394%. Percentage in the common limited elements is 2.7524%. Parking area number 6 of building number 2, Tower Parking, floor “A” Parking area number 3 of building number 2 upper Parking floor “A”. Inscrita al folio 280 del tomo 654 de Guaynabo, finca número 26255, Registro de la
Propiedad de Guaynabo. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 2209 del tomo 1543 de Guaynabo, finca número 26255, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo, inscripción 7a. Propiedad localizada en: COND. ALTAVISTA II APTO 12-A, 28 CALLE 1, GUAYNABO, PR 00969. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $412,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 3 de diciembre de 2086. 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 $412,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, el 13 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $275,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $206,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, el 20 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $351,192.83 por concepto de principal que incluye intereses y gastos acumulados al 31 de octubre de 2023, más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original
en la suma de $41,250.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses a razón del nueve punto cincuenta por ciento (9.50%) aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. 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 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 4 de junio de 2024. FRANCES TORRES CONTRERAS, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ALG. HUGO BASCÓ MEDINA, ALGUACIL PLACA #807.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC
Demandante Vs. SUCESION PALMIRA MONTAÑEZ TORRES
T/C/C PALMIRA MONTAÑEZ COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: PO2023CV03268. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, 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 Ponce, el 6 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 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: URBANA: Solar número 18 del bloque C de la Urbanización Villa Grillasca en el barrio Canas de Ponce, Puerto Rico con un área de 237.50 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 9.50 metros con el solar número 15B; por el SUR, en 9.50 metros con la calle número uno; por el ESTE, en 25 metros con el solar número 18-B; y por el OESTE, en 25 metros con el solar número 17, todos del mismo bloque de la Urbanización. Enclava una casa de concreto armado de una sola planta, con techo de azotea y piso de lozas del país que constituye una vivienda independiente consistiendo de tres dormitorios con sus closets, sala y comedor en una sola unidad, cocina con su closet, cuarto de baño y balcón. El solar descrito es el remanente de esta finca después de segregarse la parcela que se indica en la segunda nota al margen de la inscripción tercera. Existe una servidumbre sobre esta finca consistente de una pared medianera que divide la unidad de vivienda descrita anteriormente de la situada en la segregación antes citada, cuya pared continuará sirviendo a ambas unidades de vivienda y pertenecerá en común proindiviso y en toda su actual extensión y espesor a los propietarios de las mismas.” Inscrita al tomo digital Karibe, finca 14189 de Ponce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al tomo digital Karibe, finca 14189 de Ponce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II, inscrip-
quiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número ciento setenta y cuatro (174) en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Brisas del Río en el término municipal de Morovis, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de setecientos cincuenta y seis punto treinta y cinco (756.35) metros cuadrados; en lindes por el NORTE, en treinta y dos punto cero ocho (32.08) metros, con el solar número ciento setenta y dos (172); por el SUR, en veintiséis punto veinte (26.20) metros, con el solar número ciento setenta y cinco (175); por el ESTE, en treinta y tres punto treinta y tres (33.33) metros, con el Buffer Zone; y por el OESTE, en veintiuno punto noventa y dos (21.92) metros, con la Calle Cibuco. En este solar está enclavada una residencia construida de hormigón armado, de una planta que consta de tres (3) dormitorios, un (1) baño, sala-comedor y cocina. Este solar está afectado por una servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company en toda su colindancia con la Calle Cibuco, con un ancho de uno punto cincuenta y dos (1.52) metros. También está afectado por una servidumbre por razón de alcantarillado pluvial que discurre desde su colindancia con el “Buffer Zone” hasta la Calle Cibuco con un ancho de tres punto cero cero (3.00) metros. En adición está afectado por una servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía de Puerto Rico, en su colindancia con el solar número ciento setenta y dos (172) y la acera con un ancho de uno punto cincuenta (1.50) metros y un largo de diez punto cero cero (10.00) metros. Segregada de la finca número 117, inscrita al folio 75 del tomo 3 de Morovis, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí, según surge del Asiento 2023-060528MA01 del Sistema Karibe. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra presentada y pendiente de calificación y despacho al Asiento 2023-060548-MA01 del Sistema Karibe. Propiedad localizada en: Brisas del Rio #174, Morovis, PR 00687. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas posteriores o preferentes a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante. 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 mínimo de subasta la suma de $72,166.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ciales el 10 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $48,110.66 dos tercios (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $36,083.00 la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ciales, el 17 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $48,574.08 de principal; más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.400%% anual desde el 1ro. de octubre de 2017, los cuales se acumulan hasta el saldo total de la deuda; cargos por mora equivalentes a 4% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo de la deuda, las primas por seguro hipotecario y riesgo; recargos por demora; los créditos accesorios; adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y cualquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha de total pago de las mismas, más la suma correspondiente al 10% del principal original para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado; más cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud del pagaré y la escritura de hipoteca. 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 cir-
culación 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 Ciales, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de julio de 2024. GERARDO E. REYES MELÉNDEZ, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL PLACA #109, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CIALES, SALA SUPERIOR. ***
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE YAUCO EN SABANA GRANDE
ELBERT ANGEL
CAMARGO RENGO T/C/C
ELBERT A. CAMARGO ORENGO T/C/C
EVERANGEL CAMARGO ORENGO; ELSIE
CARABALLO FELICIANO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Peticionarios EX-PARTE
Civil Núm.: YU2024CV00334.
Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO - ART. 185 LEY DEL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD
INMOBILIARIA DE P.R. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. A: SUCESION DE DON MIGDELIO CAMARGO
ALBARRAN E HILDA MARCANO DE CAMARGO.
Se le notifica a usted que ha sido radicada ante este Tribunal e Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Yauco en Sabana Grande, una Petición de Dominio. Usted deberá presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días desde la última publicación de este edicto, sirviéndole copia de dicha contestación a la Lcda. Teresa Pacheco Camacho, con oficinas en la Calle Santiago Vivaldi Pacheco, Número 24-B, Yauco, Puerto Rico, dirección postal: P.O. Box 5004, PMB 200, Yauco, Puerto Rico 00698, teléfono número 787-267-5784, fax número 787-267-6328, correo electrónico teresa@ pacheco-camacholawfirm.com, abogada de los Peticionarios. Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo así, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo firma y sello de este Tribunal en Yauco, Puerto Rico en Yauco en Sabana Grande,
Puerto Rico, hoy 3 de julio de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ
QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA
REGIONAL. DELIA APONTE
VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA
AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE YAUCO EN SABANA GRANDE
ELBERT ANGEL
CAMARGO RENGO T/C/C
ELBERT A. CAMARGO
ORENGO T/C/C
EVERANGEL CAMARGO
ORENGO; ELSIE
CARABALLO FELICIANO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Peticionarios
EX-PARTE
Civil Núm.: YU2024CV00334.
Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO - ART. 185 LEY DEL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD
INMOBILIARIA DE P.R. EM-
PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE & JANE DOE.
Se le notifica a usted que ha sido radicada ante este Tribunal e Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Yauco en Sabana Grande, una Petición de Dominio. Usted deberá presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días desde la última publicación de este edicto, sirviéndole copia de dicha contestación a la Lcda. Teresa Pacheco Camacho, con oficinas en la Calle Santiago Vivaldi Pacheco, Número 24-B, Yauco, Puerto Rico, dirección postal: P.O. Box 5004, PMB 200, Yauco, Puerto Rico 00698, teléfono número 787-267-5784, fax número 787-267-6328, correo electrónico teresa@ pacheco-camacholawfirm.com, abogada de los Peticionarios. Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo así, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo firma y sello de este Tribunal en Yauco, Puerto Rico en Yauco en Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, hoy 3 de julio de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
CONSEJO DE TITULARES DEL CONDOMINIO
CAGUAS TOWER
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE ANGELINA VARGAS
Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2023CV04465. 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: SHARMARIE CRUZ VARGAS O SEA, LA PARTE DEMANDADA ARRIBA MENCIONADA. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haberse publicado el emplazamiento por edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría de! tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Esta acción es de cobro de dinero. EXTENDIDO
BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de abril de 2024. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ
AGOSTO, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SUBSECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
GUSTAVO H. CASTELLANO MALASPINA
Demandante Vs. CENTRO
EVANGELÍSTICO
CRISTANO CASA DE PACTO, INC.
Demandada
Civil Núm.: CA2024CV00674. 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: CENTRO
EVANGELÍSTICO
CRISTIANO CASA DE PACTO, INC. O SEA, LA
PARTE DEMANDADA ARRIBA MENCIONADA.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haberse publicado el emplazamiento por edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Esta acción es de cobro de dinero y representa al demandante el Lcdo. José R. Reyes Hernández, PO BOX 362100, San Juan, PR 009356; rual16176@gmail.com; 787764-1574. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal , en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de julio de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LOURDES DÍAZ MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE VEGA BAJA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESION DE CRISTOBAL PABON ECHEVARRÍA
COMPUESTA POR CÁNDIDA RIVERA
TORRES POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA, REYES PABON, LISIE PABON, MAGDALENA PABON, ANDRA PABON Y FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, SUTANAN DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL
DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO
Demandado
Civil Núm.: VB2023CV00247. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Vega Baja, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 25 de junio de 2024 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $49,714.34 de principal, dictada en el caso de autos el 21 de marzo de 2024, notificada ese mismo día y publicada el 28 de marzo de 2024 y notificada el 3 de abril de 2024, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal, todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: D19 F St, Jardines de Vega Baja, PR 00693. “URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero diecinueve (19) del bloque “D” de la Urbanización Jardines de Vega Baja en el barrio Algarrobo del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con área de 299.00 metros cuadrados y en colindancias al Noroeste, en 13.00 metros, con el solar D-39; al Sureste, en 13.00 metros, con la calle “F”; al Noreste, en 23.00 metros, con Batey; al Suroeste, en 23.00 metros, con el solar D-18. Sobre el descrito solar se ha construido una casa de concreto de hormigón y bloques. Finca #4202, inscrita al folio 11 del tomo 92 de Vega Baja. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección IV. Que con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Vega Baja cuyas cantidades ascienden a: $49,714.34, de principal, intereses a razón de 6 1/41% los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; recargos de $2,306.58 por demora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma
de tasación pactada, la cual es $63,000.00, para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta y tener que celebrarse una segunda subasta el tipo mínimo será dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio mínimo antes mencionado, $42,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado, $31,500.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse a opción del demandante. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 7 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 14 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 21 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Vega Baja. Del Certificación Registral realizada el 27 de junio de 2023, no surgen gravámenes posteriores. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. 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 de ejecutante, continua-
rán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de julio de 2024. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL PLACA #888.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO
SUCESION DE MARCELINO ROJAS
TORRES COMPUESTA POR SUS ÚNICOS Y UNIVERSALES HEREDEROS
LLAMADOS: (I) MARÍA PROVIDENCIA ROJAS
RODRÍGUEZ; (II)
MARCELINO ROJAS
RODRIGUEZ; (III) LUIS
ORLANDO ROJAS
RIOS; (IV) MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES ROJAS
RODRÍGUEZ Y (V)
ARNALDO ROJAS RÍOS
Demandantes Vs. CARMEN NATIVIDAD ROJAS RODRIGUEZ Demandada
Civil Núm.: HU2024CV00793. Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE HEREDEROS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: CARMEN NATIVIDAD ROJAS RODRIGUEZ. Por medio del presente edicto se les notifica de la radicación de una Demanda de División de Comunidad de Herederos. La parte demandante solicita del Honorable Tribunal que declare Con Lugar la demanda y en su consecuencia se ordene la venta de cierta propiedad que ubica en la Urbanización San Antonio, de Humacao, Puerto Rico. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://
www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra sin más citarle y oírle y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, inciso b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2003).
Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Copia de dicha contestación debe remitirse al abogado del demandante, Lcdo. Alejandro J. Cacho Rodríguez, 54 Calle Resoluciόn, Suite 303 San Juan, PR 00920 Tel: (787) 722-2242; Fax: (787) 7222243, cacho@cacholaw.com dentro del término de treinta (30) días siguientes a la fecha de publicación de este Edicto. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal de Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de julio de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA INTERINA. KARILIN MORALES FIGUEROA, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES
LEGACY MORTGAGE
ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1
Demandante V. LA SUCESION DE NELSON SOTO RAMOS COMPUESTA POR MARILYN ORTEGA
RIVERA Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MT2023CV00486.
(Salón: 101 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVA -
MCOLON@WWCLAW.COM.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE NELSON SOTO RAMOS, LA ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES Y EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES
SOBRE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 12 de julio de 2024. En Ciales, Puerto Rico, el 12 de julio de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA MALDONADO VEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. ANGEL LUIS GARCIA NARVAEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: TA2024CV00218. (Salón: 502). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑALEGAL@JRSLAWPR.COM. A: ANGEL LUIS
GARCIA NARVAEZ, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 11 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 12 de julio de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 12 de julio de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC
Demandante Vs. SUCESION ANSELMO GONZALEZ BONET COMPUESTA POR MARITZA GONZALEZ CRUZ, HERIBERTO GONZALEZ CRUZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION LYDIA MARIA CRUZ CRUZ COMPUESTA POR MARITZA GONZALEZ CRUZ, HERIBERTO GONZALEZ CRUZ; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2022CV01372. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE
DEMANDADA,
AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, 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 Arecibo, el 12 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 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: Radicada en el Barrio Sabana Hoyos, del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, marcada con el número Uno (1), con una cabida superficial de 1076.3666 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la Carretera Municipal y con Gregoria Iglesias; por el SUR, con David mercado y solar segregado; por el ESTE, con David Mercado Montalvo; y por el OESTE, con Gregorio Iglesias. Contiene una estructura de hormigón tipo comercial de una sola planta, pero preparada para una segunda planta, midiendo 57 pies con 5 pulgadas de largo por 23 pies 6 pulgadas de ancho o frente, con un área contigua para marquesina de 21 pies de fondo por 14 pies 6 pulgadas de frente. Tiene divisiones en concreto. Al frente preparada para oficina y la parte posterior del edificio para servicio sanitario. Tiene área para dedicarse a industria o comercio con columnas y vigas de concreto armado. Además, al frente tiene área para recibidor, el piso de terrazo y el baño con azulejos. Tiene alrededor una verja de alambre forrado conocido como cyclone fence”. Finca número 27731, inscrita al folio 215 del tomo 617 de Arecibo, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 195 del tomo 984 de Arecibo, finca número 27731, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección I inscripción 9ª. Propiedad localizada en: SOLAR 1 PR 639 KM 0.9, SECTOR CANDELARIA, ARECIBO, PUERTO RICO 00612. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga:
N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento:
N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $234,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 19 de mayo de 2091. 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 $234,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, el 19 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $156,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $117,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, el 26 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $111,934.08 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $39,889.01 en intereses acumulados al 24 de enero de 2024 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.492% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $6,859.67 en seguro hipotecario; $5,985.00 en tarifas de servicio; $1,011.78 de seguro; $650.00 de tasaciones; $510.00 de inspecciones; $5,068.00 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $23,400.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. 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 Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 13 de junio de 2024. W. OLMO, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. EFRAÍN CARDONA VEGA, ALGUACIL PLACA #050.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE V. SUCESION DE JOSE AVELINO FERNANDEZ GARCIA T/C/C JOSE A. FERNANDEZ GARCIA COMPUESTA POR SUS MIEMBROS CYNDIA M. FERNANDEZ FIGUEROA, ET AL.
DEMANDADOS Civil Núm. BY2019CV02247. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, ROSAMARIE MELENDEZ PEÑA, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Toa Alta, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de Bayamón el 28 de junio de 2024 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $83,118.76 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 13 de agosto de 2020, notificada y archivada en autos el 15 de noviembre de 2023 y publicada mediante edicto en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” el 22 de noviembre de 2023,
procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Alturas de Bucarabones, situada en el Barrio Ortiz del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con el número, áreas y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación y contiene una casa residencial de concreto armado y bloques diseñada para una familia. Bloque y número del solar tres S, guión cincuenta y seis (3S-56) con un área de trescientos seis punto cero tres metros cuadrados (306.03 M.C.). En lindes por el Norte en una distancia de veintitrés metros (23.00 m.) con el solar número tres S guión cincuenta y cinco (3S-55); por el Sur en una distancia de diecinueve punto cincuenta metros (19.50 m.) con la calle numero cuarenta y cuatro (44); por el Este en dos (2) alineaciones, en una distancia de nueve punto noventa y dos metros (9.92 m.) con la calle cuarenta y cuatro (44) y en una distancia en arco de cinco punto cincuenta (5.50 m.); por el Oeste, en una distancia de trece punto cuarenta y dos metros (13.42 m.) con el solar tres S, guión 1 (3S-1). Inscripción 5. FINCA Número catorce mil novecientos cuarenta (14940) inscrita al folio ciento ochenta y seis (186) del tomo trescientos cuatro (304) del Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma $83,118.76 de principal, con intereses al 5% los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más $9,344.20 como cantidad estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $93,442.00 para la propiedad antes descrita. De declarase la subasta desierta y tener que celebrarse una segunda subasta el tipo mínimo serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio mínimo antes mencionado: $62,294.67. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado; $46,721.00.
para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido desde el 26 de febrero de 2024 ascendente a la suma de $23,517.01 de principal, 6.5% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $325.63 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO
JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto
de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de julio de 2024. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV03861. (Salón: 1003 EXPROPIACIONES). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JAVIER MONTALVO CINTRÓN - JMONTALVO@ DELGADOFERNANDEZ.COM.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 12 de julio de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 12 de julio de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. VANESSA NIEVES MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN
JOSE RAMÓN
RODRIGUEZ RIVERA, ZULMA GUZMAN CRUZ, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandante V. CENTRO HIPOTECARIO DE PUERTO RICO, JOHN DOE
Demandadas
Civil Núm.: DO2024CV00097. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: CENTRO HIPOTECARIO DE PUERTO RICO Y JOHN DOE COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ a favor de Centro Hipotecario de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $16,100.00, con intereses al 11.45% anual, vencedero el día 1 de marzo de 2020, constituida mediante la escritura número 38, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de febrero de 2005, ante el notario Corally Veguilla Torres, e inscrita al folio 74 del tomo 244 de Dorado, finca número 11,550, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Cuarta Sección de Bayamón, inscripción 2da.
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de
su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE:
Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393
BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ LLP
500 Calle De La Tanca Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 28 de junio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC.
Demandante Vs. LEISHNARIE VIERA MELÉNDEZ
Demandado
Civil Núm.: CA2024CV00535. Salón: 406. 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: LEISHNARIE VIERA MELÉNDEZ - VILLA CAROLINA 97-12 CALLE 94, CAROLINA PR 009854151.
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:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, 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, el Lcdo. Gabriel Antonio Ramos Colón cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-
8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de mayo de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 9 de mayo de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE LUQUILLO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC. Demandante Vs. CHRISTIAN O. CEDEÑO CARRIÓN
Demandado Civil Núm.: LU2024CV00025. Salón: 206. 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: CHRISTIAN O. CEDEÑO CARRIÓN - HC02 BOX 3919, LUQUILLO PR 00773 / PO BOX 1032, LUQUILLO, PR 00773 / 1213 S STATE ST, BEARDSTOWN, IL 62618. 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:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, 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, el Lcdo. Gabriel Antonio Ramos Colón cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de mayo de 2024. En Luquillo, Puerto Rico, el 17 de mayo de 2024. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. IDALIA PIÑERO REYES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Demandado Civil Núm.: MT2024CV00189. Salón: 101. 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: REINALDO OQUENDO RIVERA - URB. RUSSE #16 CALLE VIOLETA, MOROVIS PR 00687 / PARC LA LUISA 49 CANTITO ADENTRO, MANATI PR 00674-7037. 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:// www.poderiudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, 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, el Lcdo. Gabriel Antonio Ramos Colón cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Manatí, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de mayo de 2024. En Manatí,
Puerto Rico, el 20 de mayo de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ANA C. ARROYO DÍAZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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Demandante Vs. CHRISTIAN A. ROBLES MARINA
Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV10658. Salón: 504. 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: CHRISTIAN A. ROBLES MARINA - URB. HILL MANSION BC-26 CALLE 63, SAN JUAN PR 00926. 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://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, 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, el Lcdo. Gabriel Antonio Ramos Colón cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de mayo de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 24 de mayo de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. YADIRA DÍAZ GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS SALA.
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Civil Núm.: MZ2024CV00128. Salón: 103. 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: ZULEIKA DE JESÚS DURANT - PARC SOLEDAD 905 CALLE
E MAYAGUEZ PR 00680 / HC 1 BOX 7443 CABO ROJO PR 00623-9537 / BAJOS CALLE LA ROSA 38 B BO ESPINO PARC. JOSEFA ANASCO PR 00610.
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://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, 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, el Lcdo. Gabriel Antonio Ramos Colón cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de mayo de 2024. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 28 de mayo de 2024. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. EVELYN J. RODRÍGUEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Running the Packers is complicated. A Sense of humor helps.
By KEN BELSON
On a sunny summer day two years ago, Mark Murphy hosted one of the most unusual events in corporate America: the Green Bay Packers’ annual meeting. Thousands of the team’s shareholders — almost all of them fans who had paid hundreds of dollars for nearly worthless shares — filled Lambeau Field and listened to Murphy, the team’s president and CEO, provide updates on the state of the franchise.
Murphy is the antithesis of corporate slick. He speaks bluntly, eschews jargon and disarms critics with a dry sense of humor. One of the many topics he covered that day was the coming season’s schedule. He said the Packers would play the most games in prime time of any team, a sign of their success and popularity. Then he addressed a frequent complaint from fans who said night games at an open-air stadium in Wisconsin were too cold.
“I often hear from fans that, gosh, it would be great if we had more noon home games,” he said. “Well, here’s the reality. If we have a lot of noon home games,” we’re a terrible team. Murphy substituted an expletive for “terrible.”
The fans erupted in laughter. Murphy made his point, but with a smile.
On Monday, Murphy will preside over his 17th and final shareholder meeting. Next year, he will hit the Packers’ mandatory CEO retirement age of 70 and must step down. Ed Policy, the team’s chief operating officer and general counsel, was chosen last month as his successor and will take over next July.
“I feel very fortunate to be in this position,” Murphy said. “I’ve been in it for a long time now.”
Policy, who has worked alongside Murphy for a dozen years, is best known for creating Titletown, a 45-acre development across the street from the stadium that includes a hotel, offices, restaurants and apartments and provides the team with an extra source of revenue. But the CEO of the Packers is a different,
one-of-a-kind job.
As the leader of the only publicly owned, nonprofit professional sports team, he represents the Packers at NFL meetings, where his vote counts the same as owners who paid 10 figures for their clubs. Unlike them, he flies commercial and doesn’t report to family
members or limited partners, but to a board of directors and 539,000 shareholders whose stock pays no dividends and can’t be traded.
The CEO is also the titular caretaker of an original NFL franchise and a globally recognized brand that doubles as a civic institution in Wisconsin.
Policy, whose father, Carmen, was a longtime executive with the San Francisco 49ers and the Cleveland Browns, has plenty of NFL experience. But fully replacing Murphy will be difficult. Murphy has a law degree and a master’s of business administration, and before joining the Packers in 2007, he played eight seasons as a defensive back in the NFL and won a Super Bowl with Washington, tried cases for the Department of Justice, and worked as a college athletic director at Colgate and Northwestern universities.
He sits on the NFL’s influential competition committee, where his views on player safety get attention. His experience at the NFL Players Association — where he was a player representative during the 1982 strike, and later worked for the union’s chief, Gene Upshaw — was a big reason NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell asked him to join the owners who negotiated the renewal of the league’s labor agreement in 2011.
“He was always thoughtful because he could give both perspectives, and he was respected,” said Pete Abitante, a former longtime NFL executive. “But Murph is so under-
stated I’m not even sure how many players knew he was a former player.”
Murphy, who grew up in western New York and went to Colgate, gets that the Packers are a quirky outlier in the NFL. Founded in 1919, the Packers are a link to the league’s early years, when teams dotted the Midwest. In keeping with the team’s public ownership, Murphy is remarkably transparent by NFL standards. He writes newsletters to fans, where he sometimes discusses uncomfortable news such as the league’s recent defeat in an antitrust lawsuit challenging the Sunday Ticket television package. Murphy holds conference calls to discuss the team’s earnings, providing a window into the league’s tightly guarded finances.
This month, the team said its operating income fell 12.5%, to $60.1 million, last fiscal year. Revenue grew by 7.2%, to $654 million, nearly three times as much as when Murphy arrived in 2007.
“I think the finances are important because we want to make sure that we’re providing the football side with the resources they need to be successful,” Murphy said.
Because the team is without a deep-pocketed owner who can absorb losses or splurge on big projects, Murphy has built a $536 million corporate reserve that grew by $76 million last year.
“This is kind of our alternative to having a rich owner — nothing against rich owners,” Murphy quipped.
Some Green Bay residents chafe at Titletown and other ways the Packers have encroached on the surrounding neighborhood, not unlike neighbors who live near Chicago’s Wrigley Field and Boston’s Fenway Park, which have expanded their footprints. Others wonder whether the complex will erode some of the small-town charm that makes Green Bay unique.
“It’s something we’re sensitive to,” Murphy said recently. “I’m a little biased, but overall, Titletown is a great addition to the community. We have all kinds of events going on year-round. I think it’s been overwhelmingly positive.”
The visiting crowds will get larger in April when the NFL holds the draft in Green Bay, a three-day event that Murphy lobbied for and will end up being his swan song as the most visible nonplayer in the league’s smallest market.
“You do get some criticism,” Murphy said. “But knock on wood, I think we’ve been successful enough that most people think, well, you didn’t screw it up too bad.”
The San Juan Daily Star
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