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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has allocated $3 million under the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) for the first phase of restoration of the barrier coral reef located in the San Juan Bay.
The allotment announced earlier this week is the first under the HGMP to restore a natural resource to protect survivors after a disaster.
The project seeks to reduce flooding and protect some 800 structures surrounding the communities of Escambrón, Condado, Ocean Park and Puntas Las Marías. The initiative consists of two phases, for a total of some $38.6 million.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said that with the allocation, “We continue to support our public policy for the protection and preservation of our natural resources that seeks to mitigate the impact of climate change on our island.”
high-energy wave and current impact.”
“This historic obligation will undoubtedly open the door for similar initiatives that address the effects of climate change and its impact on communities,” he said.
Coral reefs act as naturally submerged breakwaters. They are very effective since they reduce the energy of the waves that reach the coasts. The structures defend communities from coastal flooding, whether during storms or from rising sea levels.
Local stressors around San Juan Bay have affected the optimal levels of protection of the current system. As a result, the 5-kilometer area is subject to continuous coastal flooding and erosion, to the impact of strong surges, as well as to other effects of future storms. This disrupts public and private infrastructure and endangers lives along San Juan’s metropolitan coastline.
“With these federal funds, the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) will create a system of hybrid coral reefs, including artificial coral and native living coral,” the governor said in a written statement. “This is an integral part of the initiatives we are working on to further the goals of our Ecological Emergency Declaration of 2021 to address the stony coral tissue loss disease and our Executive Order establishing a State of Emergency on Coastal Erosion.”
Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator José G. Baquero added that “[c]oral reefs are natural barriers that prevent the loss of life and property by reducing the risk of flooding and erosion of infrastructure due to
“Without healthy reefs, this coast would suffer from coastal flooding, loss of infrastructure and loss of beach for recreation and for nesting endangered sea turtles, such as the leatherback, which return to these shores from March to July, where they were born, to leave their nests,” said Hilda Benítez Álvarez and Aida Balzac, the president and vice president, respectively, of the Tortuguero de San Juan 7 Quillas Group, in a statement.
Both grew up in the Ocean Park and Punta Las Marías areas and have witnessed how much the offshore zone has shortened, and the significant increase in storm surges that cause coastal flooding.
The funds allocated to the DNER seek to increase the three-dimensional structure of the coral reef, reducing wave energy. The action plan will install a mix of cement structures similar to artificial coral and native living coral at 0.8 kilometers off the coast of San Juan.
The chairman of the Puerto Rico Hotels and Tourism Association board of directors, Miguel Vega,
said Tuesday that the organization supports classifying short-term rentals as commercial activity under House Bill 1557.
Likewise, Vega called for the
measure to include elements to combat the proliferation of illegal hotels and to require that the internet platforms through which the properties are rented maintain a presence in Puerto Rico to attend to emergencies and ensure that the destination is not affected.
Concerned about the turn taken by the discussion on the regulation of short-term rentals, Vega maintained that the organization he represents has demanded for the past 10 years that the sector be regulated as a commercial activity.
“Now there are those who want short-term rentals not to do in Puerto Rico what they already have done in other jurisdictions. Registering as a commercial activity, obtaining a license to do business, an insurance policy, certification from the fire department, some contact to attend to emergencies, among others, are things that short-term rental platforms already do,” Vega said. “Why are you willing to do it in other jurisdictions, but not in Puerto Rico? What is the
justification for demanding more from a 6-room bed and breakfast than from a 15-, 20- or 50-unit short-term rental operation?”
Vega noted that the Permits Management Office (OGPE by its Spanish acronym) defended the classification of short-term rentals as a commercial activity in public hearings.
“’Any place where the shortterm supplementary accommodation service is being offered would be considered for the purposes of OGPE as a commercial activity, regardless of the area of the property that is being occupied’ -- that is verbatim what OGPE raised in its brief before the House of Representatives,” he said.
Meanwhile, Vega made a call to strengthen the bill by including an express prohibition against illegal hotels. For the PRHTA, a building with more than six units must be treated under the same requirements as a hostel or “bed and breakfast,” otherwise, “in addition to having an improper advantage, it ends up being an illegal hotel.”
Popular Democratic Party (PDP)
Rep. Orlando Aponte Rosario announced Tuesday that he will resign from his seat in the island House of Representatives, effective July 1.
Aponte Rosario has been in the public eye for several months for allegations of gender violence involving his wife.
In a radio interview the freshman lawmaker said he is in the process of getting a divorce and is seeking the well being of his children.
The District 26 (Villalba, Barranquitas, Orocovis and Coamo) representative communicated his decision to resign in a letter to Speaker of the House Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez, a copy of which was delivered to the media moments before the beginning of a
meeting to which the chamber leader had summoned Aponte Rosario.
“This morning, after an honest dialogue, the representative for District 26, Orlando Aponte Rosario, officially handed me the letter of resignation from his legislative seat,” Hernández Montañez said. “This is a very regrettable situation, however, we respect the comrade’s decision to put his family’s privacy first and safeguard the image of this legislative body, while attending to his personal situation.”
The House speaker said in a press release that the situation had been addressed with due diligence from day one and that they followed all the corresponding ethical processes, which were duly reported to the public. Likewise, he highlighted the legislative work of Aponte Rosario, indicating that “during
his incumbency as legislator he performed well and achieved the signing of important laws.”
PDP President Jesús Manuel Ortiz González said Aponte Rosario’s resignation was the right decision.
“Now he can focus on his efforts on addressing the process he and his family are going through while the PDP continues its work to address the problems that Puerto Rico is experiencing,” Ortiz González said in a statement. “Aware of the urgency with which we must address this issue for the Party and for the PDP delegation in the House of Representatives, we will be preparing the election process to choose his replacement in an agile and responsible manner. I appreciate the availability of comrade Orlando Aponte to work for the PDP and for his 26th district.”
The lack of consensus on a proposed plan of adjustment has elevated the odds of a dismissal of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) bankruptcy case and the possible imposition of a receiver.
Over the past two days, numerous objections against the debt plan have been submitted to the federal Title III court from citizens and business groups citing the impact that rate hikes will have on Puerto Rico’s economy. Bondholders holding some $8.4 billion in claims oppose PREPA’s debt adjustment plan because they will get very little return under it.
Monoline insurers Assured Guaranty Corp. and Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. have provided notice to the court and the U.S. attorney general of their objection to the debt plan on the grounds that it violates the uniformity requirement of the Constitution’s Bankruptcy Clause.
In May, U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain warned about the hardship a dismissal would bring but noted that “if confirmed as a non-consensual, widely contested plan, then litigation is certain to continue.”
Attorney and legal analyst John Mudd said he believes there is a risk of a dismissal.
“The great question now is whether she [Swain] will approve a plan that does not have support or dismiss the case,” he said.
Mudd noted that the Financial Oversight and Management Board knows there is a risk of a dismissal but has declined to up the offer it has made to bondholders.
PREPA’s retirement system and the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union have objected to the plan of adjustment but in their petitions have asked the judge to reject the plan and force the parties to go back to the drawing board.
On Tuesday, the New Progressive Party (NPP) caucus in the House of Representatives, headed by Minority Leader Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, rejected the 28% rate increase contained in PREPA’s debt adjustment plan.
The NPP caucus reminded the oversight board that among its responsibilities is to ensure Puerto Rico’s economic growth and stability.
“We absolutely reject the 28 percent increase in the utility bill both for residences and businesses, proposed in PREPA’s debt adjustment plan under consideration by Judge Swain,” Méndez Nuñez said. “There is no way that Puerto Rico can withstand this increase. We remind the Board that part of its function is the economic development of Puerto Rico, but this increase will do the opposite.”
What would happen if Swain dismissed PREPA’s bankruptcy case? PREPA will lose the protections it has under the current stay, which prevents lawsuits against the utility. Mudd said the Ad Hoc Group of PREPA bondholders will seek the appointment of a receiver as they have the 25% needed for such a move per the 1974 Trust Agreement.
“I have been saying for the longest time that Swain is tired of this case,” Mudd said, adding that cases against
PREPA will go to another judge.
The divisions appear to be huge. The mediation team, after conducting in-person mediation sessions on May 22 and May 23 in which the oversight board, the Ad Hoc Group, Assured, Syncora, and the island government’s Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF by its Spanish initials) participated, said it appears that such discussions are now at a standstill. It is unclear to the mediation team when (or whether) discussions will resume.
AAFAF said PREPA and the people and businesses it serves cannot bear unsustainably high rates, particularly given that, compared to the mainland United States, Puerto Rico has the lowest median household income and one of the highest electricity rates.
“AAFAF remains concerned that the Plan’s proposed Legacy Charge will overly burden Puerto Rico’s residents and businesses. Creditor demands that PREPA charge more could not only imperil PREPA’s future feasibility, but also threaten Puerto Rico’s fragile recovery from years of economic depression, natural disasters, and pandemics,” the AAFAF said in a statement. “An excessive increase in rates may force Puerto Rico’s residents to choose between paying for medication or other basic necessities and keeping their lights on. It may also force businesses to close their doors permanently and stall Puerto Rico’s economic development.”
Although it is subject to change, the PREPA debt plan proposes to restructure PREPA’s debt principally through issuance of $5.68 billion of new bonds to fund partial recoveries on creditors’ claims. PREPA owns about $8.26 billion in revenue bonds, plus some $218 million in prepetition accrued interest on such bonds. The utility also owns $700 million in fuel line loans and projects roughly $246 million to $4.9 billion in general unsecured claims. It also has over $3 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.
Under the proposed plan, PREPA will pay for the new
bonds over 35 years through revenues from a legacy charge to PREPA’s customers.
The legacy charge for certain customers not currently benefiting from subsidized electricity rates is about $19 a month that will be added to the utility bill. The charge, which will be used to pay bondholders, would exclude qualifying low-income residential customers from a connection fee and kilowatt-hour (kWh) charge for up to 500 kWh per month. For non-subsidized residential customers, the proposed PREPA legacy charge would be: a flat $13 per month connection fee, and 75 cents per kWh for up to 500 kWh per month of electricity provided by PREPA, and 3 cents per kWh for electricity above 500 kWh per month.
For commercial, industrial and government customers, the PREPA legacy proposed charge would entail: a connection fee of between $16.25 for small business customers, $20 per month for smaller industrial companies, and $1,800 per month for large businesses proportional
By RICHARD GUTIÉRREZ Special to The STAR
The nonprofit organization Solo Por Hoy held its first conference symposium on Tuesday at Cataño’s convention center, called: “Creando conciencia per, las personas sin hogar” (Raising Awareness for Homeless People).
The purpose of the conference was to raise the awareness of professionals who work with people who are homeless, sharing techniques on how to approach these individuals and how to manage cases of homelessness. Apart from experts in homelessness, the conference also provided a panel made up of a group of individuals who were homeless themselves and were able to share their experiences living in the streets.
The conference also covered topics such as the correlation between domestic violence and homelessness. The event was filled with social workers, psychologists and civil servants, all of them looking to add to their knowledge of homelessness to ensure they provide quality service to those in need of a home.
Even though the event was sponsored by Solo Por Hoy, some 26 different organizations took part.
Solo Por Hoy Executive Director Belinda Hill said the organization started out helping women who suffered from substance abuse; however, this focus eventually transformed into that of a service provider for those who did not have a home. The organization’s staff members, recognizing that they could not achieve that next level of service on their own, so they partnered with another nonprofit, La Fondita de Jesús, which had more experience dealing with homelessness.
“Our main goal is that nobody sleeps in the street,” Hill told the STAR. “Not necessarily to eradicate homelessness, that would probably be impossible, but we most certainly will always have the opportunity to help someone and reduce the time that the person spends on the street. That’s the main goal.”
Hill added that the symposium was directed at a broad array of different organizations, because of the great diversity that exists among homeless people.
“Even if Solo Por Hoy is sponsoring this event, one organization is not enough to address the needs of every individual without a home,” she said. “They do not
have the same tools; not every organization is equipped the same way to deal with every homeless situation. That’s where our allies like La Fondita de Jesús come in. This event’s main purpose is to bring a sense of understanding and comprehension to those who serve the people in the street, directly from the people who are currently in need, so that they can listen directly from those who need a home, what they go through, their struggles, their difficulties. Because believe it or not, a lot of the times the first people who step back into these situations are those whose job is primarily to serve those in need.”
Hill also noted that another aim of the event was to emphasize how quickly the situations need to be addressed, and to show how nonprofit groups are actually helping people who don’t have a home, in contrast to what is rumored. Statistics indicate that there is a rise in homelessness, but that rise is only about 24 people, and what goes unmentioned is the 3,000 people who have been helped.
Hill pointed out that in the past 12 months 1,700 people went from living in the street to having a place to live, thanks to the efforts of nonprofit collectives.
As for the organization that helped Solo Por Hoy become what it is today, La Fondita de Jesús, it has been serving the homeless and needy for nearly four decades -- 37 years, to be exact. It provides services to the community that range from food to basic needs: personal hygiene, home management and even health services.
“It is important to note at this moment that we are united to help those who are in need, creating projects that can respond to the needs of the homeless and at the same time that these projects can provide a home for those who do not have a home and those who are at risk of losing their home,” La Fondita de Jesús Executive Director Josué Maisonet told the STAR.
Meanwhile, a few people who were homeless themselves shared their life experience at the conference.
“I am currently in the process of getting my own apartment -- very grateful to Solo Por Hoy for helping me with everything,” Guillermo de León Figueroa said. “It is not easy living in the streets; you never know how you are going to survive the next day.”
Another panel participant, Javier Caseres, said “I never knew my parents. I do not know how to write and read.”
“I was an addict since I was 12 years old, so it was difficult for me to get paperwork done; it is very difficult for a person like me
to get by, and sometimes the people who work in these organizations don’t have the time to help because they are too busy with work, so my advice to many professionals and organizations is to separate the time to help people like me to get the paperwork
done,” Caseres stressed.
Hill said what comes next for the collective is to stay the course, continuing to raise awareness about people who are in the street and further educating the professionals who work in the field.
Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in federal court in Miami on Tuesday to criminal charges that he risked disclosure of defense secrets and obstructed the government’s efforts to reclaim classified documents he took with him upon leaving office.
After arriving from his nearby Doral resort, Trump was booked and escorted into a 13th floor courtroom at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse in downtown Miami in a scene as surreal as it was momentous.
Inside the courtroom, Trump — wearing a dark suit and a red tie — sat with his arms crossed at the defense table while the magistrate judge overseeing the hearing described the indictment. One of his lawyers, Todd Blanche, entered a plea on Trump’s behalf.
“We most certainly enter a plea of not guilty,” he said.
Nearly 2 1/2 years after leaving the White House, Trump — twice impeached, previously charged in an unrelated case in New York, still under investigation for his efforts to retain power following his loss in the 2020 election, but currently the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination — began the legal process of defending himself against 37 counts lodged
against him in the documents case last week by the special counsel, Jack Smith.
Trump’s personal aide, Walt Nauta, also appeared before the magistrate judge but did not enter a please. A lawyer for Nauta, who is charged with lying to investigators and scheming with Trump to conceal boxes containing classified documents from the FBI and federal prosecu-
tors, asked for a two-week extension because he needed a local lawyer to sponsor him.
Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman, who oversaw the hearing, ordered Trump not to discuss the case with Nauta or any witnesses — a common restriction in a criminal case. The judge said he understood that the two men must speak on a daily basis, but said anything related to the case must go through their lawyers.
Trump was represented in court by Christopher M. Kise, a former Florida solicitor general, and Blanche, a prominent New York defense lawyer. His legal team has been in flux since two other lawyers representing him resigned shortly after the indictment was made public. Smith attended the hearing.
While Goodman oversaw Tuesday’s hearing, Trump’s case has been assigned to Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who earlier handled a lawsuit he filed challenging the FBI’s court-authorized search of his Florida estate and club, Mar-a-Lago. A ruling in Trump’s favor in that case by Cannon, who was nominated by Trump, was later overturned by an appeals court that was sharply critical of her legal reasoning.
Trump planned to travel back to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, following his arraignment to deliver a statement.
The day began with a dip into the cool Atlantic waters along the New Jersey shore near Avon-by-the-Sea.
Mark Batista, a father of three and a veteran member of the New York Fire Department, brought his family to the beach Friday morning, when the salty ocean air fell just shy of 70 degrees. Soon after, his daughter made a beeline toward the waves, splashing as she waded deeper into the dark blue.
Suddenly, a deadly rip current emerged. The narrow, fast-moving stream swept her farther and farther away from the shore.
Batista rushed in to rescue her, friends and authorities said. But the ocean, in all its cruelty, pulled him under.
Batista, 39, a longtime firefighter and emergency medical technician, drowned, according to Jim Long, a spokesperson for the Fire Department.
He was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead. His daughter, whose name and age have not been released, survived.
Their relationship was described in a social media post a few months before Batista’s death. “I can’t promise to be here the rest of your life,” he wrote in October on Instagram
along with a photo of his smiling daughter, her arms wrapped around his neck. “But what I can promise is to love you for the rest of mine.”
Batista’s drowning was the second along the nearly 130-mile New Jersey coastline this year, according to preliminary data from the National Weather Service. The other victim was a 15-year-old boy who died over Memorial Day weekend at Sandy Hook Beach. He was also pulled out to sea by a rip current.
In both cases, no lifeguards were on duty where the drownings occurred, according to the data and the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office.
Lifeguards at Avon-by-the-Sea will begin to work full time on Saturday, according to the community’s website. On Friday, after Batista’s death, the sheriff’s office issued a statement on Facebook warning “all to please NOT go in the water when there are no lifeguards on duty.”
Batista first joined the New York Fire Department Emergency Medical Services in 2008. He spent about five years as an EMT before becoming a firefighter, Long said. He was most recently assigned to Engine Company 226 in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.
“We are heartbroken to learn about the death of Fire-
fighter Mark Batista,” Long said in a statement.
“Firefighter Batista was a dedicated public servant who spent 15 years serving in the FDNY,” he added. “We join his family in mourning his tragic passing.”
Batista’s body was transferred Sunday from the Middlesex County medical examiner to Vander Plaat Colonial Home in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, according a memo obtained by The New York Times that was sent to Fire Department firefighters and emergency service workers.
Batista’s wife, Lenin Batista, posted a message to friends and family on Instagram. “I feel lost, heartbroken and very afraid,” she wrote in Spanish.
Tasa mínima, promedio ponderado, y máxima para préstamos personales pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el sábado, 10 de junio de 2023
Former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey laced into Donald Trump on prime-time television Monday night, casting the former president as an “angry” and “vengeful” man who bears responsibility for thrusting the nation into another extraordinarily divisive moment, after Trump became the first former president in American history to face federal charges.
During a roughly 90-minute CNN town hall in New York, a high-energy and often-polished Christie leaned on his background as a former federal prosecutor, saying he believed the indictment was “a very tight, very detailed, evidence-laden indictment, and the conduct in there is awful.” Christie, who is running for president against Trump in a Republican primary field the former president dominates, said he believed prosecutors had more evidence than had been put forward so far.
Trump faces 37 criminal counts related to issues including withholding national defense information and concealing possession of classified documents.
“This is vanity run amok,” Christie told the moderator, Anderson Cooper. “He is now going to put this country through this, when we didn’t have to go through it.”
“He’s saying, ‘I’m more important than the country,’” Christie said at another point, as he questioned why Trump had, according to prosecutors, refused to turn over critical government documents. He suggested the former president missed the “trappings of the presidency.”
“We’re in a situation where there are people in my own party who are blaming DOJ,” he said, referring to the Justice Department. “How about, blame him? He did it. He kept — he took documents he wasn’t supposed to take.”
When he was not tearing into the current Republican
front-runner, Christie could sound like a pre-Trump-era politician. He emphasized the importance of finding common ground and played up his credentials as a blue-state executive, even when some in the audience were plainly skeptical of the idea of compromise.
“With all due respect to these governors from red states who have Republican legislatures — man, I’m telling you, I would have given my own right arm to have a Republican legislature for a week,” Christie said at one point, seeming to draw an implicit contrast with Gov. Ron DeSantis, the powerful and pugnacious Florida Republican and another 2024 candidate who enjoys a supportive Legislature in Tallahassee. “But what I learned was that, sometimes, getting 60% of what you want isn’t bad.”
In Washington, he continued, “you’re going to want somebody tough, who’s a fighter, but who fights to get to an end, to accomplish something for you. We can all fight to get headlines.”
He also noted that even with a Republican-controlled Congress for part of his tenure, Trump failed to deliver on a central campaign promise of securing the southern border.
“Not one piece of legislation to change our immigration laws,” he said, bashing Trump as a “bad executive.” “It is an abject failure, and now he blames Joe Biden for it. But what the heck did you do to make it better?”
For the most part, Christie, who announced his campaign last week, has tried to reintroduce himself to the nation as the Republican candidate most willing to forcefully confront Trump.
But Christie, who ran a short-lived campaign for president in 2016, has gained little traction in available polling this year and has a more unfavorable rating among Republican voters than any other candidate, according to a recent Monmouth University poll. And he occupies a relatively lonely lane. Most of the other 2024 hopefuls have shied away from much direct criticism of Trump.
“It was like he was Voldemort from ‘Harry Potter’ — nobody wanted to mention his name,” he said of a recent Republican campaign event, adopting a mocking voice. “Like, say his name, man, say his name.”
Christie was once a key adviser to Trump, and was a relatively early endorser of his 2016 campaign after his own bid collapsed. But he has since condemned Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and for his incitement of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
In the town hall, Christie compared Trump’s lies about a stolen election to how a child might try to explain away a bad grade, by offering a litany of dubious or false excuses.
“It’s a child’s reaction. And I just — I beg you to think about this,” he told the Republicanleaning audience. “Don’t allow the showmanship to obscure the facts. The facts are, he lost to Joe Biden. And he lost to Joe Biden, in my opinion, because he lost independent voters.”
Trump lashed out last week in response to Christie’s earlier criticism, mocking Christie’s weight and writing on his Truth Social platform, “Hard to watch, boring, but that’s what you get from a failed Governor (New Jersey) who left office with a 7% approval rating and then got run out of New Hampshire.”
Christie made few waves when questioned on issues unrelated to Trump, but offered a striking admission when a man whose son was killed in the 2017 Las Vegas massacre asked how he would reduce the enormous number of mass shootings in the United States.
His response was effectively: I don’t know.
“I’m mad because I don’t have a great answer,” he said, after saying that law enforcement needed to be more attentive to warning signs from potential attackers, but that he did not believe restrictions on guns would make a difference — in part because Americans already own hundreds of millions of them. He also said that reducing gun violence was in “tension” with the Second Amendment.
When reminded that early in his political career he supported an assault weapons ban, he called that “naïveté” and said he no longer believed it was appropriate.
On abortion rights, Christie declined to take a firm position on gestational limits — or whether he would sign a national ban, should he become president and one were to reach his desk — arguing that the matter was better left up to the states for now.
And on Social Security, he reiterated his support for meanstesting the program, as he proposed during his 2016 campaign.
Time and again, Christie reinforced a central argument of his campaign: that he would be more responsible than Trump, but also more productive.
“Look, I think the single biggest thing I can contribute to unifying this country is to get rid of Joe Biden and get rid of Donald Trump,” he said. “They are past their sell-by dates, OK? It’s done. It’s time.”
Hard-right House Republicans agreed late Monday to give their party leaders a temporary reprieve from a weeklong blockade of the House floor, allowing some legislative business to move forward Tuesday but insisting they would withhold their support for future votes if their demands were not met.
The move counted as progress for Speaker Kevin McCarthy, after days of paralysis in the House that showcased his weak grip on his fractious conference in the face of the rage of right-wing Republicans over the deal he cut with President Joe Biden to suspend the debt limit and avert a federal default. But the agreement was only provisional, and the group of about a dozen ultraconservative lawmakers who have held the floor hostage made it clear they planned to continue using guerrilla tactics to keep a tight leash on McCarthy, effectively exercising veto power on what he is able to accomplish.
The House remained at a standstill Monday evening after McCarthy canceled scheduled votes. But under a deal he reached with the right-wing members of the House Freedom Caucus, business was set to resume Tuesday with votes on legislation to guard against restrictions on gas stoves and other government regulations, as well as a separate bill to kill stricter federal rules for pistols with stabilizing braces, according to people familiar with the discussions who spoke about them on the condition of anonymity.
In conversations Monday, the people said, members of the rebel group were explicit with McCarthy that he could not count on their support for bringing up any other legislation next week or in the future, until they had worked out a power-sharing agreement that guaranteed them major influence on the legislative agenda.
Last week was the first time in two decades that members of the majority party in the House had sided with the party out of power to defeat a rule, a procedural vote normally considered routine and almost always decided along party lines with the majority unanimously in support. The move meant that, at least temporarily, McCarthy was left as speaker in name only, with no governing majority behind him. In talks with GOP leadership Monday, the rebels made it clear that they planned to make a habit of it.
Still, some of the 11 Freedom Caucus members emerged from talks in McCarthy’s office Monday saying they would support the
rule they helped to defeat last week — to call up the regulatory measures — as long as it was adjusted to include the pro-gun legislation championed by conservative Republicans.
McCarthy called the meetings “productive” but conceded that more talks would be needed to reach a resolution.
“We know when we work together and work on conservative issues, we were winning, and we get more victories that way,” he told reporters Monday evening at the Capitol. “And I think everybody wants to get back to that place.”
McCarthy said there appeared to be a “willingness” to work out differences but conceded that “doesn’t mean it is all locked together. It means we thought that meeting was great, so we’re putting other ones together.”
Earlier in the day, McCarthy said he was willing to keep the House on pause for another few days if it meant Republicans could “get it solved so it doesn’t keep erupting all the time.”
But the resolution reached Monday did not appear to be a long-term one, and it was
not clear what such a solution would look like. Hard-right Republicans are seeking, among other demands, spending caps below what McCarthy and Biden agreed to in the debt ceiling bill.
The intraparty feud erupted last week in reaction to the compromise McCarthy struck with Biden to suspend the debt limit, which contained only a fraction of the spending cuts Republicans had demanded. The deal enraged ultraconservative Republicans who claim McCarthy betrayed promises he made to them during his fight for the speakership.
The revolt effectively shut down the House last week, and talks to resolve the impasse dragged into Monday.
The consequences of the rebellion were low stakes for now: The GOP insurgents succeeded in delaying only their own party’s messaging bills, which have no chance of passage in a Democratic-controlled Senate. But it served as a reminder of the difficulty the speaker could have down the line when he has to hold together his conference to pass crucial spending bills, which will be required
to avert a government shutdown this fall and punishing spending cuts in early 2025. It was also reminiscent of the paralysis that gripped the House in January, when some of the same instigators of the current drama refused to back McCarthy for speaker, prompting a historic 15-round election that highlighted the outsize influence of a small group of right-wing lawmakers in a narrow Republican majority.
July. But those forecasts are uncertain: Traders typically have a fairly clear idea of what the Fed might do heading into its meetings, but this time markets see a small but real chance that U.S. central bankers will raise rates this week.
The doubt partly owes to the fact that the Fed will receive an important inflation reading, the Consumer Price Index, on Tuesday. But it also reflects what a fraught time this is for economic policy in the United States and around the world.
This is the worst inflationary episode in America and many of its peer economies since the 1970s and 1980s, so it has been a long time since the world’s policymakers contended with the issue. And while inflation has been fading, it has also demonstrated staying power.
In the United States and elsewhere, inflation started in goods like cars and furniture but has moved into services like airfares, education and haircuts. That’s concerning because price increases for services tend to be driven by broad economic trends rather than one-off supply problems, and can be more lasting.
“Services price inflation is proving persistent here and overseas,” Philip Lowe, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, said in a speech explaining the central bank’s surprise move last week.
Fed officials have been fretting that today’s price increases could prove sticky.
Wage gains remain fairly rapid, which could limit how quickly prices fall as employers try to cover climbing labor bills. And while slowing rent increases should cool overall inflation, some economists have questioned whether that will be enough to steadily lower inflation.
By JEANNA SMIALEK
The Federal Reserve today is expected to stop raising interest rates for the first time in 11 policy meetings. But investors are betting that the pause will not last.
The pattern of stopping and then restarting rate increases is becoming well-established around the world. The Reserve Bank of Australia paused its own campaign earlier this year only to raise rates again twice, including last week. The Bank of Canada had left rates unchanged for four months before raising them again in a surprise move June 7.
That’s because inflation is proving stubborn. Across a range of economies, from Melbourne to Munich to Miami, it has
been hard to stamp out. Many central banks are contending with price increases that are only moderating slowly, propped up by higher service costs, which include things like concert tickets, rent and hotel rooms.
“Everyone has a kind of similar problem,” said William English, a former Fed staff member who is now at Yale University, noting that policymakers in Britain and the eurozone are facing inflation problems that have a lot in common with the Fed’s. The European Central Bank’s policymakers also meet this week, and they are expected to continue raising rates.
Policy may be tougher to predict in the months ahead as officials try to judge whether interest rates are high enough to ensure that their economies slow enough to restrain price increases.
“We’re into the period where we’re kind of groping a bit,” English said. “It’s going to be a period of considerable uncertainty.”
The Fed has already raised rates sharply over the past 15 months, to just above 5% as of May, and those higher interest rates are trickling through the economy.
In recent speeches, Fed officials have hinted that they could soon “skip” a rate increase to give themselves time to assess the effects of their changes so far, and investors are betting that Fed officials will hold policy steady at their meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday before lifting rates one more time in
“A rebound in the housing market is raising questions about how sustained those lower rent increases will be,” Christopher Waller, a Fed governor who often favors higher interest rates, said in a recent speech.
At the same time, central bankers want to avoid plunging the economy into a recession that is more painful than necessary.
That is why the Fed may hit pause this week. Officials are aware that monetary policy takes months or years to have its full effect. And recent bank turmoil could further slow down lending and spending, a situation officials are still monitoring.
“Anecdotally, it’s not really that bad — but we don’t have even enough survey data,” said Yelena Shulyatyeva, senior U.S. economist at BNP Paribas. For more evidence, she will be watching a Dallas Fed bank survey this month.
Still, after Australia and Canada increased rates last week, investors asked: Could this mean that the Fed, too, would be more aggressive than expected?
“It is a mistake to make simplistic comparisons,” Krishna Guha, head of the global policy and central bank strategy team at Evercore ISI, said, noting that the Fed still seemed likely to pause in June while teeing up a possible move in July. While the rate increases abroad underscored that inflation is proving sticky globally, he said, that’s no surprise.
“We know that inflation has been frustratingly slow to come down,” he said.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq climbed to 14-month highs on Tuesday after data showed consumer prices rose modestly in May, boosting bets that the Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates at the end of its policy meeting on Wednesday.
Stocks rose after a U.S. Labor Department report showed the consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.1% last month after a 0.4% jump in April, with core inflation unchanged at 0.4%.
On a year-on-year basis, headline inflation increased by a less-than-estimated 4.0%, reflecting declines in the cost of energy products and services, including gasoline and electricity.
“If the Fed was looking for data to point to to say, ‘We’re going to pause in June,’ I think they got it today,” said Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi in New York.
“But it’s another one of those that you can cut whichever way you want to make your case. If you want to be bullish, you say inflation is down more than 50% since its peak. If you want to bearish, you can say inflation is still more than twice the Fed’s target,” Young said.
Traders have priced in a 93% chance that the U.S. central bank will hold interest rates at the 5%-5.25% range on Wednesday, and 62% odds of 25-basis-point hike in July, according to the CME Fedwatch tool.
The benchmark S&P 500 has recovered 22% from its October 2022 closing low, fueled in large part by gains in market heavyweights such as Apple , Nvidia and Tesla . More recently, sectors such as energy and materials have climbed, as well as small-cap stocks.
All S&P 500 sector indexes rose on Tuesday, led by materials, up 2.2%, followed by a 1.32% gain in energy as commodities including oil and copper climbed against a falling dollar. [O/R] [MET/L]
The small-cap Russell 2000 index jumped 1.4% to a three-month high.
U.S.-listed shares of Chinese companies climbed after China’s central bank lowered its short-term lending rate for the first time in 10 months. Alibaba Group gained 2.16% and JD.com jumped 3.8%.
The S&P 500 was up 0.69% at 4,368.75 points.
The Nasdaq gained 0.70% to 13,556.75 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.48% at 34,230.02 points.
Apple Inc extended losses to slip 0.21%, a day after the iPhone maker unveiled a costly augmented-reality headset called the Vision Pro, barging into a market dominated by Meta.
Advanced Micro Devices rose 5.34% after Piper Sandler raised the price target on the stock to $150, the second highest on Wall Street, as per Refinitiv data.
Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 3.47-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.59-to-1 ratio fa-
vored advancers.
The S&P 500 posted 17 new 52-week highs and 5 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 98 new highs and 69 new lows.
Harker echoed the same sentiment. “I am in the camp increasingly coming into this meeting thinking that we really should skip,” Harker said at an event on financial stability. That said, data due on Friday about the U.S. job market “may change my mind.”
Following their comment, fed funds futures have factored in a 70% chance the Fed will keep rates unchanged next month, up sharply from a 30% probability earlier in the wake of data showing an increase in U.S. job openings.
The Labor Department reported on Wednesday that U.S. job openings unexpectedly rose in April and data for the prior month was revised higher, pointing to persistent strength in the labor market.
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report, also showed layoffs declined significantly last month. There were 1.8 job openings for every unemployed person in April, up from 1.7 in March, and well above the 1.0-1.2 range viewed as consistent with a jobs market that is not generating too much inflation.
After a week of giving ground to the Ukrainian army in the opening phase of Kyiv’s counteroffensive, Russian forces struck back Tuesday in an area where Ukraine had earlier announced it had retaken several villages.
The Russians attacked with aviation and artillery barrages, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian military said. One village at the center of the fighting, Makarivka, was reduced to ruins through the course of the day.
The Russian attack came after thunderstorms had swept over southern Ukraine, muddying the terrain and complicating operations for both armies. Ukraine is in the early stages of a counteroffensive operation to reclaim territory seized by Russia in the country’s south.
After announcing it had recaptured a series of farming villages over the weekend, Ukraine’s military said it had achieved only minimal gains Tuesday as its forces continued to probe Russian defenses and to repel the Russian attack on the village of Makarivka.
Ukraine has pushed forward in at least two locations in southern Ukraine, but there are no indications that it has breached the dense Russian defenses, which include minefields, trenches for infantry and concrete barriers to stop tanks.
As Ukrainian troops push forward, they leave their own defensive trenches and move farther from the protection of air defense systems. While shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles can be quickly brought up to the new position, Ukrainian troops cannot easily move more sophisticated, vehicle-mounted systems, lest they be put at risk from Russian artillery. That leaves the advancing troops more open to Russian aerial attacks, as the Russian counterstrike at Makarivka suggests.
The slow-moving fighting has been in keeping with what military analysts had suggested should be expected at the start of Ukraine’s counteroffensive. As Ukraine hunts for a place to drive a wedge through Russian-occupied land in the southeast, it
has yet to commit the bulk of the forces that Western allies have trained and equipped for the counteroffensive.
Russia has built multiple lines of fortifications on the plains where Ukraine is attacking and has heavily mined the ground to slow Ukraine’s tanks and armored vehicles.
At least eight American-made Bradley Fighting Vehicles were abandoned by Ukrainian troops or destroyed in the early days of the counteroffensive, based on videos and photographs posted by pro-war Russian bloggers and verified by The New York Times.
A spokesperson for the Ukrainian military’s general staff, Andriy Kovalev, told a television news broadcast Tuesday that
Ukrainian forces had advanced about 500 to 1,000 yards in some locations in the south, although he did not specify where.
A spokesperson for the military in the south, Valeriy Shershen, posted on Facebook an account of the Russian attack on Makarivka.
After Ukrainian troops had moved into the village, he said, Russia counterattacked with aviation and tried to fire a barrage from one of Russia’s most powerful conventional weapons, a tracked vehicle nicknamed the Sunstroke, which fires thermobaric rockets that detonate with tremendous force. It was not clear if the weapon was fired or only brought into position to do so.
Shershen said Ukrainian marines were still holding out in the village Tuesday afternoon.
Vladimir Rogov, a Russian-appointed official in southern Ukraine, said on the Telegram app Tuesday that Russian helicopters had targeted Ukrainian soldiers in the same area, near the town of Velyka Novosilka, in the Donetsk region, where Ukraine had begun attacking last week.
“Our night counterattacks began,” Rogov wrote.
Pro-war Russian bloggers, who often provide accounts of fighting more quickly than official Russian announcements, also said Monday that Russia had launched counterattacks in the same area.
Moscow has failed to provide security guarantees for aid workers seeking to help thousands of people in flooded areas of Russian-occupied territories, the United Nations said Tuesday, hampering humanitarian efforts more than a week after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine.
Ukraine says it offered such guarantees to the United Nations and International Committee for the Red Cross for areas it controls last week, but so far there have been no such agreements from the Kremlin. Russian-controlled areas were some of the worst-hit by flooding, but the full picture of the destruction in those places remains unclear.
“Operationally, we have boats, personnel and supplies ready to go,” Denise Brown, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, said in a statement Tuesday. “However, the Russian Federation is yet to provide the safety guarantees we need” to ensure “the safety of our team and not to create additional risks for the people we intend to serve.”
“The U.N. will continue to deliver lifesaving assistance in the areas controlled by Ukraine and make every effort to
ensure we can reach all people who have been stranded by the floods and urgently require lifesaving assistance, no matter where they are,” she added.
In Ukrainian-controlled areas, the floodwaters that surged down the Dnieper River last week have left thousands of people homeless, imperiled access to clean water for hundreds of thousands and ravaged farmlands in a region that has long served as a breadbasket for Europe.
Independent journalists and observers are not allowed to work in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, often making it difficult to assess competing claims about the depth of the humanitarian crisis in those areas.
As the waters continued to recede, the death toll grew Tuesday, said Serhiy Khlan, a Ukrainian legislator in the Kherson region.
“Two more civilians were killed due to flooding in Kherson,” he wrote in a statement. “An unidentified woman and a 50-year-old man were found drowned in one of the districts of the city.”
At least 10 people have died as a result of the flooding in Ukrainian-controlled territory, Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of Kherson regional military administration, said in his
latest update Tuesday morning.
Some 42 people have been reported missing and around 3,600 houses in 31 settlements in Ukrainian-controlled territory are still submerged in the floodwaters, he said.
For almost a decade, Nicola Sturgeon, as the leader of the Scottish government, was the uncontested figurehead of the push to break Scotland’s centuries-old union with England.
Her resignation earlier this year — and now her arrest on Sunday over an investigation into her Scottish National Party’s finances — leaves the fate of the movement in flux.
Support for independence has dipped, but backing for Scotland remaining part of the United Kingdom, a bond forged in 1707, is fragile, too. Opinion polls show the Scottish public still roughly split on the issue. For now, the political path to an independent Scotland is blocked.
“It’s a stalemate, there is no settled will for independence, but equally we have to acknowledge that there is no settled will for union either,” said Nicola McEwen, professor of territorial politics at the University of Edinburgh.
“Reports of the demise of the independence movement and indeed of the SNP are somewhat exaggerated,” said McEwen, who added that “given everything that’s going on, maybe it’s surprising that support hasn’t declined more than it has.”
Operation Branchform, the code name for inquiry into the Scottish National Party’s finances, began in 2021 and was reported to have followed complaints about the handling of about 600,000 pounds, or about $750,000, in donations raised to campaign for a second vote on Scottish independence. In 2014, Scots voted by 55% to 45% against breaking away from the United Kingdom in a divisive referendum.
Sturgeon, who was released on Sunday after seven hours of questioning and who swiftly proclaimed her innocence, has not been charged. On Monday, her successor, Humza Yousaf, rejected calls for Sturgeon to be suspended from the party.
She is the third senior figure in the party to be arrested but not charged. Another is Sturgeon’s husband, Peter Murrell, the party’s former CEO who held the post from 1999 until March, when he resigned after accepting blame for misleading statements from the party about the size of its dues-paying membership.
The police investigation deepened in the weeks after Sturgeon’s surprise resignation and the fractious competition to succeed her that was won, narrowly, by Yousaf.
His leadership is still relatively new but, so far, he has struggled to match the high profile of his predecessor, or to advance toward the
prize that ultimately eluded her: Scottish independence.
Supporters have pressed for a second vote on Scottish independence after the first one failed in 2014. Their argument was bolstered by Brexit, which took Britain out of the European Union, because the majority of Scots who voted in the Brexit referendum of 2016 wanted to remain in the European bloc. They were outnumbered by voters in England and Wales who wanted to leave.
But, to have legal force, the government in London must agree to another vote on independence, and successive prime ministers have refused, insisting that the decision of 2014 stands for a generation.
Sturgeon hit another roadblock last year when she tested in court her right to schedule a referendum without approval from London. In November, Britain’s Supreme Court ruled against her.
Some hard-line voices favor unilateral action, perhaps holding a vote in defiance of London. Catalan separatists in Spain took that route in 2017, but it led to the imprisonment or exile of some independence movement leaders. And going outside the law would block an independent Scotland’s path toward membership in the European Union, the SNP’s objective.
Frustrated on all sides, Sturgeon finally proposed using the next British general election, which is expected in the second half of
2024, as a de facto independence referendum, making Scotland’s constitutional future the central question. Internal critics doubted the practicality of that idea, given that other political parties would not agree.
In an interview broadcast on Sunday, before Sturgeon’s arrest, Yousaf said he was confident that, even with recent setbacks, an independent Scotland was coming.
“Despite having some of the most difficult weeks our party has probably faced, certainly in the modern era, that support for independence is still rock solid. It’s a good base for us to build on,” he told the BBC. “I’ve got no doubt at all that I will be the leader that will ensure that Scotland becomes an independent nation.”
The party might have missed its moment, however. It is hard to see a more favorable backdrop for the independence campaign than the messy aftermath of Brexit, the chaotic leadership of the former prime minister, Boris Johnson — who was unpopular in Scotland — and the political dramas of 2022 when Britain changed prime ministers twice.
Paradoxically, while Brexit may have strengthened the political case for Scottish independence, it has complicated the practical one. Britain has left the European Union’s giant single market and customs union, and that implies that there would be a trade border between an independent Scotland and England, its biggest economic partner.
The years of gridlock and chaos that followed the Brexit referendum may also have scared some Scottish voters away from further constitutional changes.
In addition, the SNP has been criticized over its record in government, and the opposition Labour Party senses an opportunity to recover in Scotland, where it dominated politically before the SNP decimated it.
“Coming after dishonest claims of party membership, a very poor record in government and making no progress on independence, this simply adds to the SNP’s woes,” said James Mitchell, a professor of public policy at Edinburgh University, referring to recent events.
“It would be damaging enough to the SNP’s electoral prospects but with Labour looking ever more confident and competent in Scotland as well across Britain, it looks as if the SNP’s opportunity to advance its cause has passed.”
The next British general election might present Yousaf with a new opening if, as some pollsters predict, Labour emerges as the biggest party but without an overall majority. In that scenario, the SNP could try to trade its support for a minority Labour government in exchange for a promise to hold a second referendum.
The problem is that Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, has so far rejected any such deal. And, if some Scottish independence supporters vote for Labour to try and defeat the Conservative government, led by Rishi Sunak, the SNP could lose seats at Britain’s Parliament, weakening its hand.
Some analysts believe that the independence movement should concentrate on building wider popular support, including through other organizations and political parties, reaching out beyond the confines of the SNP and its supporters.
After all, Scotland’s union with England was entered into voluntarily, and were opinion polls to show around 60% of voters consistently favoring an independent Scotland, that would be difficult for a British government to ignore.
Even Yousaf acknowledges that is some way off, however. At present, he told the BBC, “it’s pretty obvious that independence is not the consistent settled will of the Scottish people.”
The question confronting him, his colleagues and the wider independence movement is how they intend to change that. “I don’t really see any signs of a strategy,” said McEwen, “that doesn’t mean there isn’t one, I just don’t see any evidence of it.”
The Cuban government was responsible for the death in 2012 of a prominent political activist who had organized a movement that had sought to compel the government to allow more freedom, according to a report released Monday by an international human rights agency.
The activist, Oswaldo Payá, was killed in a suspicious car crash in eastern Cuba that his family and supporters always believed had been caused by the government.
At the time of his death, Payá, 60, was one of the most prominent members of the Cuban opposition, having gained international attention for leading a grassroots campaign behind a referendum that would have given Cubans the right to choose the country’s political system.
Cuban authorities had said that the crash happened after Ángel Carromero, a young Spanish politician who was driving the vehicle in which Payá was traveling, lost control and hit a tree. Carromero was later arrested and sentenced to four years in prison for vehicular manslaughter.
But the independent investigation, which took a decade to complete and reviewed evidence and testimonies from several witnesses, contradicts the government’s findings. Payá’s car was hit by an official government car, causing it to crash, according to the report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which is part of the Organization of American States.
Another passenger, Harold Cepero, a rights activist, was also killed.
The commission found “serious and sufficient evidence to conclude that state agents participated in the death” of the two men. “Both were subjected to various acts of violence, harassment, threats, attempts on their lives, and, finally, a car crash that caused their deaths.”
Cuban officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The island was excluded from participating in the Organization of American States, which former President Raúl Castro called an “instrument of imperialist domination.” A 2009 resolution lifted that suspension, but Cuba never rejoined.
Payá was the founder and leader of the Christian Liberation Movement, a dissident party pushing for a multiparty democracy on the island, which has been ruled by an authoritarian communist regime for more than six
decades.
His efforts culminated in the late 1990s in the Varela Project, a petition calling for a national referendum to overhaul the ruling system, including open elections, free speech
and amnesty for political prisoners. The proposal represented a defiant rebuke to the iron grip that Fidel Castro, the country’s leader at the time, held on Cuba.
In response, authorities detained Vare-
la activists and forced some petition signers to rescind their signatures. Payá was “under constant surveillance and harassment,” the report by the commission said. The effort to hold a referendum ultimately failed.
After the car crash, Carromero was taken to a hospital where he was surrounded by soldiers, the report said. He explained that another car had crashed into them and forced them off the road, but a Cuban official insisted there had been no collision.
“Of course, I replied, that was a lie, that there had been no accident, but a blatant attack. He punched me in the face,” Carromero told the international commission. He has said the government pressured him to support their version. He also told the commission that the official said, “Your future will depend on your confession.”
The commission called on Cuba to offer reparations for the human rights violations committed against Payá and Cepero, begin a thorough investigation to clarify what happened and punish those responsible.
“Government officials tried to blame their deaths on a car accident, but the Payá family knew better,” said Kerry Kennedy, the president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the group that took the case to the human rights commission, in a video posted on Twitter.
Payá, a charismatic leader, posed a legitimate threat to the regime, said Angelita Baeyens, the Kennedy organization’s vice president of international advocacy and litigation.
“They could not just kill him,” she said. “They needed to silence him in a way that seemed like an accident, otherwise he would become a martyr, which he did.”
Baeyens acknowledged that the commission’s findings were largely symbolic since Cuba will almost certainly not comply with any of the panel’s recommendations.
“This verdict proves what we have always known, which is that the Cuban regime assassinated my father and Harold Cepero on orders that could not have come from anyone other than the top of the Cuban intelligence apparatus,” said Rosa María Payá, Payá’s daughter.
Rosa María Payá founded an initiative, CubaDecide, in 2015 to transform Cuba’s repressive political system.
“We have lived with the pain of the Cuban regime assassinating my father,” she said. “We have seen the great failure of the dictatorship, which did kill the man but could not kill his legacy.”
By ROSS DOUTHAT
In UFO arcana, one of the figures claiming a whistleblower’s knowledge of a secret U.S. program to reverse-engineer recovered alien technology is a man named Bob Lazar.
Here’s how Lazar has told the story: As a physicist educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Caltech, he was hired by the U.S. Navy in the 1980s to work as a technician at “S-4,” a subsidiary of Area 51. By his account, the facility contains nine recovered flying saucers; in addition, Lazar has claimed glimpses of alien cadavers and briefings on human contact with the Zeta Reticuli star system.
Heady stuff, this — except that Lazar isn’t actually a physicist, he was never hired by the Navy, he didn’t graduate from MIT or Caltech, and his only possible connection to military installations is a brief stint at a contractor firm associated with Los Alamos.
So to believe his story, you have to believe that once he turned whistleblower, the Men in Black magically erased all evidence of his resume. Alternatively, you can just assume that Lazar is an all-American bunkum artist — an impression that his later career as a chemical salesperson frequently in trouble with the law does little to dispel.
The Lazar story is a useful backdrop to the latest round of claims about secret U.S. programs involving
alien technology, which just appeared on the technology website The Debrief. Useful, first, because of the familiarity; once again, we have a whistleblower claiming knowledge of long-hidden work on otherworldly crafts.
But useful also because of the difference. The wouldbe whistleblower in this case, David Grusch, isn’t touting fraudulent credentials; he’s a former national security professional who was assigned to the then-newlycreated Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (lately rebooted as the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) from 2019-22. That assignment appears to be the basis for his claims, he’s operating through normal national security channels in making this report, and he has other figures with some kind of governmental background speaking in his support.
That doesn’t mean that you should believe him. My general view is that the UFO-encounter phenomena seems in continuity with supernatural experiences reported across the long premodern past — abductions into faerie realms, especially. As such, the experiences are more likely to offer evidence of either some kind of strange Jungian unconscious or of actual supernatural realms than they are to involve interplanetary visitors from Zeta Reticuli.
The possibility of literal spacecraft stashed in U.S. government hangars, meanwhile, piles up two immenseseeming improbabilities. First, that nonhuman species cross oceans of space or leap interdimensional barriers using unfathomable technology and yet somehow keep crashing and leaving souvenirs behind. Second, that human governments have been collecting evidence for generations without the truth ever being leaked, uncovered or just blurted out by Donald Trump.
But this whistleblower’s mere existence is evidence of a fascinating shift in public UFO discourse. There may not be alien spacecraft, but there is clearly now a faction within the national security complex that wants Americans to think there might be alien spacecraft, to give these stories credence rather than dismissal.
The evidence for this shift includes the military’s newfound willingness to disclose weird atmospheric encounters. It includes the establishment of the task force that Grusch was assigned to. It includes the government’s bizarre behavior, secretive in an attentiongrabbing way, around the military shootdowns of what were presumably balloons earlier this year.
It also includes other examples of credentialed figures, like Stanford pathology professor Garry Nolan, who claim they’re being handed evidence of extraterrestrial contact. And it includes the range of strange stories being fed to writers willing to operate in the weird-science zone.
I am not a personal recipient of hints and tidbits — though my DMs are open if you have them — and I have no definite theory of why this push is happening. Maybe it’s because there really is something Out
There, and we’re being prepared for the big reveal. Or maybe the dose of Pentagon funding that Harry Reid engineered for studying the paranormal back in 2007 allowed a cluster of UFO enthusiasts to infiltrate the defense establishment. Or maybe there’s always a Deep State network of occult-knowledge believers — think of the Cold War experiments in psychic research — and they’ve just become more media-savvy lately.
Or maybe it’s a cynical effort to use unexplained phenomena as an excuse to goose military funding. Or maybe it’s a psy-op to discredit critics of the national security state — to make, say, Tucker Carlson look bad by persuading him to believe in aliens and then doing a debunking.
Actual aliens would be more interesting than Deep State cranks or psy-ops. But all these scenarios make for pretty strange stories about how our government operates.
So you should be following the UFO beat even if you don’t think aliens are out there — because the truth might be weird enough.
BARCELONETA – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia, confirmó el martes que la generación eléctrica de emergencia en la isla se ampliará en 200 megavatios a más tardar a finales de julio o principios de agosto.
“Ya tenemos 150 megavatios. Los próximos 200 megavatios se instalarán en la planta de San Juan. Se espera que estos generadores estén en operación a más tardar a finales de julio, quizás principios de agosto”, señaló PierluisiUrrutia a preguntas de la prensa.
El mandatario también reveló que ha cursado una solicitud a la directora de la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA, por sus siglas en inglés) y a la Secretaria Federal de Energía para que reconsideren la capacidad de generación, dada la reciente ola de calor y el consumo energético que ha alcanzado su punto máximo.
Las gestiones se dan en medio de una lucha por estabilizar el sistema eléctrico de Puerto Rico, que ha sufrido de cortes frecuentes y problemas de generación. El gobernador afirmó que el sistema está actualmente estable y que más del 98 o 99 por ciento de los clientes tienen servicio.
“Estamos haciendo todo lo que está en nuestro
alcance para que el sistema esté estable, que es lo que está ahora mismo, porque yo monitoreo el sistema a diario”, concluyó.
Diversas organizaciones del sector privado en Puerto Rico instan a la Secretaria del Departamento de Energía Federal a agilizar la instalación de los generadores de energía prometidos por FEMA, según una petición enviada el 13 de junio.
“Solo la mitad de esa promesa se ha cumplido. Los generadores instalados por el Cuerpo de Ingenieros de los Estados Unidos solo suman 350
megavatios. Esto apenas cubre la deficiencia actual del sistema y solo el 20 por ciento de la reserva requerida del sistema”, declaran en la carta enviada por el sector privado.
En la carta, se recuerda la promesa realizada por FEMA en noviembre de 2022 de instalar en la isla generadores que suplementarían la generación de energía con al menos 700 megavatios de potencia adicional. Esta promesa permitiría desconectar sistemáticamente las plantas de energía de la isla para realizar las reparaciones importantes necesarias.
S AN JUAN – El gobernador de Puerto Rico, Pedro R. Pierluisi, junto a jefes de agencias del gobierno central y personal de la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias, participaron del Seminario de Manejo de Emergencias 2023 el martes.
Este evento, organizado por el Negociado para el Manejo de Emergencias y Administración de Desastres, es parte de los preparativos para la temporada de huracanes.
Durante el seminario, se realizó un ejercicio para evaluar los planes operacionales, los recursos disponibles y los procesos para solicitar asistencia durante la respuesta y recuperación de un desastre. “Mi gobierno está comprometido con tener una preparación sólida y con brindar una respuesta efectiva ante cualquier situación de emergencia”, aseguró Pierluisi en declaraciones escritas.
El comisionado del Negociado, Nino Correa Filomeno, explicó que se ofrecieron adiestramientos sobre los Planes Operacionales de Emergencias, Coordinación Federal, Programa de Mejora Continua, Nuevo Proceso de Solicitud de Recursos, entre otros temas. “Ahora, trabajamos directamente con
los jefes de agencias, sobre los planes de emergencia operacionales en caso de una emergencia”, destacó Correa Filomeno.
Por su parte, el secretario del Departamento de Seguridad Pública, Alexis Torres, resaltó la importancia del seminario como un espacio de aprendizaje e intercambio de conocimientos y experiencias. Mientras, el coordinador de la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias en Puerto Rico, Orlando Olivera, expresó que este ejercicio fortalece la co -
laboración entre el gobierno estatal y el gobierno federal.
Finalmente, Correa Filomeno recordó que en caso de una emergencia, se activa el Centro de Operaciones de Emergencia, donde las agencias gubernamentales coordinan la ayuda necesaria. Las peticiones de alcaldes, refugios, otras agencias y de la ciudadanía llegan a este centro, donde cada coordinador interagencial se activa para atender la situación.
Gobernador y jefes de agencias asisten al Seminario de Manejo de Emergencias 2023
Gobernador dice que para finales de julio FEMA añadirá 200 megavatios de emergencia
In the hothouse atmosphere of flamenco dance, where passionate display of the self is prized, divas abound. But Carlota Santana isn’t one of them.
“I’m not a fantastic flamenco dancer,” she said recently. “I know that, and I think other people know that, too.”
And yet she has accomplished something worth showing off: She has kept a flamenco company going in the United States for 40 years. Such longevity is extremely unusual, but so is Santana’s approach. Although her name is part of her company’s, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, it’s no accident that flamenco comes first. She isn’t the star performer. She isn’t the choreographer either. “It’s about the art form,” she said.
That self-effacing focus can be a little confusing. Because Santana no longer performs and never choreographed, her company has long lacked the clear identity — the defining artistic signature — of a choreographer-led troupe. Over the years, as dancers and dance-makers have cycled through, Flamenco Vivo has often seemed to be a different company with each appearance: now pathbreaking and high-quality, now tame or generic.
The incarnation performing in the company’s anniversary season at the Joyce Theater in New York this week is on the high-quality side, led by the Spanish dancer and choreographer Emilio Ochando. Much of the cast overlaps with that of “Fronteras,” the acclaimed show the company brought to the Joyce last year. But, characteristically, it also includes different guest stars, including the esteemed dancer Maria Bermudez, who first performed with group in the 1980s.
Where in all of this is Santana? “She’s the one who makes everything happen,” Bermudez said.
It’s been like that from the start. The troupe began life in New York City, in 1983, as Spanish Dance Arts Company,
led by Roberto Lorca, a choreographer from California. Santana, born in upstate New York, had recently given up a career as a psychiatric social worker when she fell in love with Spanish dance and went to Spain to study. Back in New York, she took Lorca’s dance class and became his dance partner. Together, they decided to form Spanish Dance Arts Company. “We wanted people to feel what we felt about the dance,” she said.
Santana asked the dancer Maria Benitez, who had founded a flamenco company in 1972, how it was done. Benitez, she said, told her to get a good typewriter.
The advice pointed to Santana’s role. She performed with the new company while Lorca directed and choreographed, but she also wrote the grant applications and filled out the paperwork that made it all possible. And after Lorca died of AIDS, in 1987, Santana continued in this role, bringing in others to choreograph, new people every few years (and eventually settling on the group’s current name).
Flamenco Vivo became an organization rather than just a dance company. From the beginning, Santana was dedicated to arts in education. Flamenco Vivo now teaches workshops in dozens of New York City schools and in North Carolina, where Santana lives part time, periodically teaching flamenco at Duke University.
More recently, Flamenco Vivo has expanded its education of preprofessional flamenco dancers. A relationship with a prestigious competition in Madrid, el Certamen de Coreografía de Danza Española y Flamenco, led to the founding of a New York version that combines training with prizes. (I once served as an unpaid judge.)
Where in New York City can such dancers rehearse? Not many studios allow hard-soled shoes to hammer their floors. In 2009, Flamenco Vivo converted two rented squash courts on the top floor of what used to be the Columbia University Club in
Midtown Manhattan into rehearsal spaces. Far from glamorous, the rooms are among the few places in the city where percussive dancers are welcome. Tap dancers and Mexican folkloric troupes sometimes rent the studios, bringing the company income, but a plaque on the wall proudly states “By Flamencos, For Flamencos.”
This is where the company was rehearsing last week, while Santana was still in North Carolina. Ochando ran the mostly Spanish dancers through his intricate group choreography.
“She loves to make opportunities,” he said. When he tells Santana his ideas, he added, she doesn’t substitute hers; she figures out how to realize his. “This isn’t normal” for directors, he said.
Bermudez, also there rehearsing, said that Santana “seems very cut and dry, very practical, but what her work reveals is a love and respect and care for the art.”
Bermudez pointed out that while many companies, including her own, specialize in one aspect of flamenco, Flamenco Vivo is “like a fan” — displaying a wide range of styles, traditional to modern, and employing an array of practitioners, veteran to up-and-coming. “You never know what you’re going to see, and that’s why audiences keep coming back,” she said.
During her interview, Santana hesitated to reveal where she was born — “when I started, you had to be born in a cave in Granada,” she said — or the age at which she started dancing: her late 20s. This was an expression of anxiety about being taken seriously in flamenco. But 40 years is an indisputably serious figure.
They also serve who make things happen.
Dancers rehearse for the 40th season of Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana at the troupe’s studio in New York, June 8, 2023. Santana is neither a star performer nor a choreographer, but her skills as a director have kept her company an active part of the New York scene. Carlota Santana at a rehearsal for Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana at the Joyce Theater in New York, March 12, 2002. The San Juan Daily Star Wednesday, June 14, 2023 17The show, created by Merv Griffin in 1975, features contestants who try to guess the letters in word puzzles to compete for cash, of which more than $250 million had been awarded since it premiered, according to Sony.
Griffin, who died in 2007, choose Sajak to host the program in 1981, succeeding Chuck Woolery, the show’s original host.
Before joining “Wheel of Fortune,” Sajak had been working in Los Angeles as a weather forecaster for KNBC, according to the show.
“The nice thing about working in local TV in LA,” Sajak once said, according to the show, “is that the decision-makers are watching you every night.”
Sajak’s retirement will create a void in game show programming that draws few parallels other than the exit of Alex Trebek, the longtime host of “Jeopardy!,” which paired with “Wheel” in syndication since Griffin revived it in 1984. Trebek died at age 80 in 2021.
Sajak was born in Chicago on Oct. 26, 1946. After graduating from high school, he attended Columbia College Chicago, and he began working for a local radio station for its overnight programming from midnight to 6 a.m., according to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which awarded Sajak a star in 1994.
In 1968, Sajak joined the U.S. Army and was sent to Vietnam, where he worked on Armed Forces Radio, according to the “Wheel of Fortune.” When he returned stateside after his discharge from the Army, Sajak spent five years at a TV station in Nashville, Tennessee, where he worked as a weather forecaster and talk show host.
He then moved to Los Angeles, where he eventually worked for KNBC, not only as a weather forecaster, but also on a Sunday talk show.
By JESÚS JIMÉNEZ
Pat Sajak, who has been one of the most familiar faces on American television for over four decades as the host of “Wheel of Fortune,” announced earlier this week that he will retire next year.
“The time has come,” Sajak, 76, said on Twitter. “I’ve decided that our 41st season, which begins in September, will be my last.”
“Wheel of Fortune” has been one of the most watched syndicated shows on American TV for most of Sajak’s run as host. It became a pop culture phenomenon — known for its catchphrase “Can I buy a vowel?” — and spawned board games, toys, clothes and the spinoff show “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune.”
Suzanne Prete, executive vice president of game shows for Sony Pictures Television, said in a statement Monday night that the studio was “incredibly grateful and proud to have had Pat as our host for all these years.”
Sajak agreed to continue as a consultant for three years after his final season, Prete said.
It was unclear who would take over the hosting duties after Sajak retires.
Vanna White, Sajak’s longtime co-host, did not post any comment on social media Monday night. She briefly stepped in for Sajak in 2019, when he needed an emergency surgery to fix a blocked intestine.
While White filled in for Sajak, his daughter, Maggie Sajak, took over White’s puzzleboard duties. Maggie Sajak is a social correspondent for the show, posting digital content.
“It was a weird show,” Sajak said in an 1988 interview of his time at KNBC. “You’d be out on a trout farm interviewing people who had nothing to do with fish, or they’d send us to a Polish kielbasa festival to conduct a debate between opposing factions on gun control. It was good training, in retrospect. You learned how to tap dance.”
In 1989, Sajak attempted a brief foray into late-night TV. “The Pat Sajak Show” took on Johnny Carson and David Letterman but was canceled in 1990.
Sajak has also had a number of cameos on several TV shows and movies, such as “Muppets Haunted Mansion” and “Airplane II: The Sequel.”
During his tenure as host, more than 10,000 people have auditioned for “Wheel of Fortune,” according to Sony Pictures Television, the studio that owns it.
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By IRIS EDÉN SANTIAGO Special to The STARFashionistas born in Latin America and the Caribbean grow up admiring and loving two names, Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrera. These two visionaries created labels that became global powerhouses respected by critics and jetsetters all over the world. Their designs, worn by best dressed women, royals and celebrities for decades, are very elegant, very high end and oh so wearable.
De la Renta died in 2014 and in 2018 Herrera stepped down as creative director of her brand. That meant skeptical followers like myself doubted the companies they founded could survive or even evolve with the same elegance, glamour and style.
Since then and for the most part, the labels have been putting out collections that while not reflecting exactly the founder’s point of view, have attracted new followers, a younger audience that loves the new silhouettes and aesthetics. That said, Carolina Herrera’s recent show in Rio de Janeiro was fantastic. Just this week Carolina Herrera designer Wes Gordon presented a collection so inspired, feminine and fresh that critics are still
going crazy praising his creativity.
The Resort 2024 Runway show, held for the first time outside of New York, is really unique. The label describes the new Herrera woman as having a reinforced spirit of relaxed confidence. Streamlined, body-conscious silhouettes are prevalent. The house notes state that the garments blur the lines between casual and dressy, day and night. A fabulous piece is right for any occasion.
We love the color combinations, the stripes, the florals, but more than anything the blurred floral patterns in bright colors modeled with bold accessories in black and white polka dots. To me, that is the heart of the collection. Dotted heels, pumps, wide belts and oversized sun hats in black and white, and green and white, worn with ruffled floral blouses, long sarong skirts, tight sundresses, hooded bomber jackets and striped tops. Kudos for the crochet tank top and skirt in orange, the cropped boleros over candy colored bralettes and the strapless tent dress.
My favorite look, the classic Carolina Herrera white button down collared shirt. This time worn with a long hip-hugging full skirt in thin blue stripes, a black crochet midi, and a short sequined mini skirt in bright colors.
When Dr. Frank Clark was in medical school studying to be a psychiatrist, he decided to write his first poem.
“All that chatter that is in my head, everything that I’ve been feeling, I can now just put it on paper and my pen can do the talking,” he said, recalling his thoughts at the time.
Back then, he was struggling with depression and had been relying on a number of things to keep it at bay, including running, therapy, medication and his faith.
“I had to find something else to fill the void,” he said. It turned out that poetry was the missing piece in his “wellness puzzle.”
“I saw an improvement in my mood,” said Clark, who now sees patients in Greer, South Carolina. “It gave me another outlet.”
The notion that art can improve mental well-being is something many people intuitively understand but can lose sight of — especially if we have become disconnected from the dancing, creative writing, drawing and singing we used to enjoy as children.
But there’s a “really robust body of evidence” that suggests that creating art, as well as activities such as attending a concert or visiting a museum, can benefit mental health, said Jill Sonke, research director of the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine.
Here are a few simple ways to elevate your mood with the arts.
Try the three-drawing technique
Dr. James Gordon, a psychiatrist and founder of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, pioneered the “three-drawing technique.” It is featured in the new book “Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us.”
“In my experience, art like this goes beyond words in helping us to understand what’s going on with ourselves and to understand what we should do with it,” Gordon says in the book.
You don’t need to be good at drawing — stick figures are OK. Start by quickly drawing yourself; don’t overthink it. The second drawing should show you with your biggest problem. The third drawing should show you after your problem has been solved.
This exercise is meant to encourage self-discovery and help give people agency in their healing. It can be done with or without a therapist, said Susan Magsamen, an assistant professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a co-author of the book.
Color something intricate
If you are one of the many people who have turned to
adult coloring books, it may not come as a surprise that research suggests this activity can help ease anxiety.
Coloring within the lines — of an intricate pattern, for example — appears to be especially effective. A study that evaluated college students, and another that assessed older adults, found that spending 20 minutes coloring a mandala (a complex geometric design) was more helpful at reducing anxiety than free-form coloring for the same length of time.
Susan Albers, a clinical psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic and the author of “50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food,” described coloring as a “mini mental vacation.” When we focus on the texture of the paper and choose the colors that please us, it becomes easier to tune out distractions and stay in the moment, she said.
“It’s a great form of meditation for people who hate meditation,” she added.
Enjoy more music
Listening to music, playing an instrument or singing can all be beneficial, research shows.
A 2022 study, for example, surveyed more than 650 people in four age groups and asked them to rank the artistic activities that helped them “feel better” during the 2020 pandemic lockdowns. The youngest participants, ages 18-24, overwhelmingly rated musical activities as most effective. Across all age groups, “singing” was ranked among the top activities.
Other studies have found that singing reduces levels of
cortisol, a hormone that the body releases when it is under stress. As one example, mothers who had recently given birth and regularly sang to their babies had less anxiety.
Magsamen noted that music can be effective at reducing stress because things like rhythm and repetitive lyrics and chords engage multiple regions of the brain.
“I sing in the shower,” Magsamen said. “I sing at the top of my lungs to the radio.”
Write a poem
Clark has continued to write poetry since graduating from medical school and offered some tips for those interested in trying.
First, banish any thoughts that you aren’t creative enough. “I think a lot of times we are our own worst critic,” he said. “I believe anybody can write poetry.”
Start with a simple haiku, Clark suggested. Haikus consist of just three lines — the first and last lines have five syllables and the middle has seven.
Consider involving your friends, too — a suggestion from a 2020 paper in the Journal of Medical Humanities that explored poetry’s “healing power.”
As the authors wrote, “Simply by reading a poem once a week, sharing a poem with a friend or spending five to 10 minutes to free write about a favorite memory, a current idea, a worry or hope can all be effective first steps in experiencing the benefits of poetry.”
Thenotion that art can improve mental well-being is something many people intuitively understand but can lose sight of — especially if we have become disconnected from the dancing, creative writing, drawing and singing we used to enjoy as children.
How the arts can benefit your mental health (no talent required)
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DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $25,584.39. Dicha Subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Dicha venta se llevará a efecto, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de su Sentencia, a saber: la suma principal de CUARENTA Y CUATRO MIL
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cretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Dirección de la Propiedad: SR 307 KM 7.8,BO BOQUERON, CABO ROJO,PR 00623: RUSTICA Parcela radicada en el Barrio Boquerón, del término municipal de Cabo Rojo, con una cabida superficial de 10,998.7854 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con propiedad de S.A.D. Corporation; por el SUR, con parcela marcada con la letra B dedicada a uso público; por el ESTE, con Bonifacio Bobe, Aladino Ojeda y Klaus A. Schweigart; y por el OESTE, con Jose J. Fas. Contiene una casa terrera de una sola planta. Inscrita al folio 17 del tomo 836 de Cabo Rojo, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina de San German, finca número 10,883. La finca antes descrita afecta un gravamen posterior que se describe a continuación: DORAL BANK CON AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE BANCO SANTANDER: A cuyo favor aparece anotación de demanda caso civil #ISCI201201561, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido de Doral Bank como Agente de Servicio de Banco Santander de PR versus Amalie Aponte Vera, su esposo Edgardo Bátiz Ramia y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales constituida por estos; Heriberto Ríos Rivas, su esposa Bethzaida Andino Lozada y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales constituida por estos; Jose Ángel Saavedra Morales, su esposa Aura Esther Echevarría Perez y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales Compuesta Constituida por estos; Martin Concepción Cruz, su esposa Dionisia Lopez Estremera y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales Constituida por estos; por la suma de $69,749.859 más intereses etc. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada ascendente a $69,749.89, más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.375% anual desde el día 1ero de abril de 2012 hasta su total complejo pago, la suma estipulada de $10,400.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, cargos por demora, así como las cantidades pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca que se adeuden mensualmente a partir del 1ero de mayo de 2012 hasta el saldo de la obligación, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal.
La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $104,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 24 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $69,333.33, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 31 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $52,000.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca numero 10,883 a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Se hace constar que Que la finca número 35,391 fue segregada de la finca número 10,883, no obstante, la misma no fue liberada de la hipoteca por la cantidad de $104,000.00 constituida por sus dueños originales en la totalidad de la finca, por lo que se encuentra gravada con la misma. De lograrse un licitador victorioso, entonces, podrá celebrarse la subasta de la Finca número 35,391, para que se
subaste por el remanente de la deuda, y la cual se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno marcado en el plano de inscripción con el número 3, localizado en el Barrio Boquerón, del término municipal de Cabo Rojo, con una cabida superficial de 956.6916 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.2434 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, en dos alineaciones continuas, la primera en 20.996 metros con terrenos pertenecientes Klaus A. Schweigart, y la segunda en 18.0067 metros con el solar marcado en el plano de inscripción con el numero dos (2); por el SUR, en 36.376 metros con servidumbre de paso y con el remanente de la finca principal de donde se segrega; por el ESTE, en 22.896 metros con la faja de terreno marcada en el plano de inscripción como calle “A” dedicado a uso público; y por el OESTE, en 26.741 metros con terrenos de Rosa Delia Bobe Ortiz. Consta inscrito al folio 76 del tomo 1023 de Cabo Rojo, finca numero 35,391; Registro de la Propiedad Sección de San German. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Mayagüez,
Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de mayo de 2023. CALIXTO RIVERA GHIGLIOTTY, ALGUACIL #283, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ. ***
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A: MIGUEL A PASCUAL PICHARDO - APT 285 32 RES GAUTIER BENITEZ, CAGUAS PR 00725. 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 través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de mayo de 2023. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 10 de mayo de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. KATHERINE CARRASQUILLO HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL
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Parte Demandante Vs. MIGUEL A PASCUAL PICHARDO
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: CG2023CV00473.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: MIGUEL A PASCUAL PICHARDO - URB. SANTA JUANA, L27 CALLE 1, CAGUAS, PR 00725.
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 través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO
BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de mayo de 2023. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 10 de mayo de 2023.
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Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: CG2023CV00473.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: MIGUEL A PASCUAL PICHARDO - URB. SANTA JUANA, L27 CALLE 1, CAGUAS, PR 00725.
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 través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar
Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO
BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de mayo de 2023. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 10 de mayo de 2023.
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Demandante Vs. AIDA I.
RAMIREZ ORENSE
Demandado
Civil Núm.: CA2022CV03988.
Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: AIDA I.
RAMIREZ ORENSEURB. LOS ANGELES, 79 CALLE PERSEO, CAROLINA, PR 00979.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, la Lcda. Natalie Bonaparte cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-Iaw.com, edwin.serrano@ 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 12 de mayo de 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 12 de mayo de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY M. ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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FREDERICK HEAD Demandante Vs. GUMERSINDA ACOSTA
MATOS, FREDESWINDA MARIA MATOS, SUCESION DE PEDRO
MATOS IRIZARRY, COMPUESTA POR
FREDESWINDA MARIA
MATOS ELIZABETH
MATOS, CHISTI MATOS
TCC CHRISTI TRUGLIO, MARISSA MATOS Y EUNICE MATOS EN REPRESENTACION DE EDGARDO MATOS Demandados
Civil Núm.: MZ2023CV00483.
Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; DAÑOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: SRA. FREDESWINDA MARIA MATOS. 1735
CENTER CREEK ROAD, RIDGEWAY, SOUTH CAROLINA 29130; SRA. ELIZABETH MATOS; SRA. CHRISTI MATOS TCC CHRISTI TRUGLIO; SRA. MARISSA MATOS; Y SRA. EUNICE MATOS; 25-12 84TH STREET EAST ELMHURST, NY 11370. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la parte demandante, por conducto de su abogado LCDO. CARLOS L. SEGARRA MATOS, con oficina en la 2510 Carretera 100 kilómetro 3.5, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico 00623, y cuyo número de teléfono es el 787-851-3582, ha radicado ante este tribunal una demanda sobre Partición de Herencia. Se le apercibe que SI no compareciera usted a contestar dicha demanda, dentro un término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de mayo de 2023. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. MARIEMER ALICEA TORRES, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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Demandante V. JOEL DE LA ROSA DIAZ, FULANA DE TAL & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado(a)
Civil: TA2022CV00836. Sobre: COBRO DINERO ORDINARIO INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOEL DE LA ROSA DIAZ, FULANA DE TAL & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 31 de enero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta
notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de junio de 2023. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, el 7 de junio de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Demandado(a)
Civil: MT2022CV00153. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: ÁNGEL M. FELICIANO ARROYO - URB. VALLE ENCANTADO, 2608
CALLE PROFETA, MANATÍ, PR 00674-7046. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 6 de junio de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los
autos de este caso, con fecha de 6 de junio de 2023. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 6 de junio de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN J. ROSARIO VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA LIME HOMES, LTD.
Demandante Vs. MARIA DEL CARMEN
VINAS TORRES POR SI EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA, LA SUCESION DE LUIS EMILIO OCASIÓN RIVERA, COMPUESTA
POR VAN LUIS OCASIO RIVERA TAMBIEN CONOCIDO COMO LUIS VAN OCASIO RIVERA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados
Civil Núm.: TJ2018CV00614. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. 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 Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 1RO DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 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: Parcela de terreno identificada como solar 72 del Bloque ER de la Urbanización Entrerios, radicada en el Barrio Dos Bocas del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 420.90 metros cuadrados y en lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia en
arco de 8.52 metros y 5.33 metros con la Calle Número 1; por el SUR, en 13.28 metros y 1.39 metros con “slope protection”’; por el ESTE, en 29.09 metros con el solar número 73 y por el OESTE, en 30.32 metros con el solar número 71. En dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Consta inscrita al folio 80 del tomo 553 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 27,376, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de San Juan. Propiedad localizada en: #72 Vía Enramada, Urb. Entrerios, Trujillo Alto, PR 00976. Segun figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas anteriores o cargas posteriores 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 $340,000.00, 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 Carolina, el 8 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $226,666.67, 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 $170,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 15 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 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 $290,075.47 de principal, intereses al tipo del 4.25000% anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de febrero de 2018 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $34,000.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de 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 Secretaria 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de mayo de 2023. GRETCHEN
M. JEREZ SEDA, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. LUIS ALBERTO ARCE REY Y WILLIAM ARCE MERCED
Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2019CV01291. (303). Sobre: ACCIÓN IN REM Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, Denise Bruno Ortiz, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, 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 19 de enero de 2023 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $124,630.98 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 30 de abril de 2022, y notificada y archivada en autos el 4 de mayo de 2022 y publicada mediante edicto en el Periódico “The San Juan Daily Star’’ el 10 de mayo de 2022, vendiendo en pública subasta la propiedad que se describe a continuación: #B-316, Portales de Río Grande, Bo. Ciénaga Baja, Río Grande, PR. URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la tercera planta del Edificio “B” de Por-
tales de Río Grande, localizado en la Carretera PR-3, kilómetro 23.6, en el barrio Ciénaga Baja del término municipal de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, el cual se describe en la Escritura Matriz de Dedicación al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal y en los planos aprobados para este Condominio con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Apartamento número B-316. Área total de vivienda: 1,024.6528 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 95.163 metros cuadrados. Los linderos del área de vivienda son los siguientes: al Norte, en 16’ 10 1/2” con espacio abierto; al Sur, en 21’ 10” con espacio abierto; al Este, en 35’ 9” con pared que colinda con el apartamento #315 y al Oeste, en 37’ 9” con pared que colinda con el apartamento #317. Tiene su puerta de entrada y salida por su lado Noreste, que da al área del pasillo que conduce a las escaleras que le brindan acceso al Edificio. Consta de sala-comedor, un balcón, un pasillo que brinda acceso a las siguientes áreas: un dormitorio con closet, área de lavandería, cocina, un dormitorio con closet, un baño completo de uso general, un dormitorio principal (master bedroom) en la cual ubican un área de closet y un baño completo. A esta unidad de vivienda se le ha asignado dos estacionamientos identificados con los números 316 y 316-A para el uso exclusivo del apartamento aquí individualizado. A este apartamento le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes del Condominio de 0.007937%.
Consta inscrita al tomo Karibe, finca número 29,055 de Río Grande, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. 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: $124,630.98 de principal, 4.50% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $1,865.67 de cargos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es
$160,160.00 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado;
$106,773.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio mínimo antes mencionado;
$80,080.00. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el 6 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS
9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el 13 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el 20 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo. Del Estudio de Título realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes: Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico, Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico, Condiciones Restrictivas, Junta Reglamentadora de Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de los de-
mandados, 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 Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 07 de junio de 2023. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #266.
JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR ANA ORTIZ BAEZ
Demandante V.
JOHN PADILLA III FIGUEROA
Demandado Civil Núm.: PO2022RF00339. Sobre: PATRIA POTESTAD Y CUSTODIA MONOPARENTAL.
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC-
TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JOHN PADILLA III FIGUEROA.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC) al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.p, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
Lcda. Caren A. Ruiz Pérez
RUA Número 19,900 #160 Ave. Universidad Interamericana
San Germán, PR 00683
Tel-Fax: 787-264-4444
Email: ruizcaren@yahoo.com
Expedido bajo mi firma y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 6 de junio de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ
QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA.
LIZ SANDRA SANTIAGO CASTILLO, SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO ASOCIACIÓN DE PROPIETARIOS DE PLAYA HÚCARES, INC.
Parte Demandante V.
INOCENCIA ACEVEDO RIVERA Y OTROS
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: NG2023CV00014.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: INOCENCIA ACEVEDO RIVERA; DANIEL VIERA ACEVEDO.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a:
GONZÁLEZ & MORALESLAW OFFICES, LLC
PO BOX 10242
HUMACAO, PR 00792
TELÉFONO: (787) 852-4422
FACSÍMIL: (787) 285-4425
Email: jrg@gonzalezmorales.com abogados de la parte demandante, cuya dirección es la que deja indicada, con copia de su Contestación a la Demanda, copia de la cual le es servida en este caso, dentro de los TREINTA (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este Emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramaudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Debe saber que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 07 de junio de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MICHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE MABEL
AGUAYO RIVERA ET AL.
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV02812. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: FULANO(A) DE TAL Y JUAN(A) DEL PUEBLO, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MABEL
AGUAYO RIVERA T/C/C
MABELL AGUAYO
RIVERA T/C/C MABEL
ORTIZ; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MABEL
AGUAYYO RIVERA
T/C/C MABELL AGUAYO
RIVERA T/C/C MABEL ORTIZ.
LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 2 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de junio de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 8 de junio de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
MARILY LÓPEZ MARTÍNEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. JOEL ALEXIS CINTRÓN SANTIAGO, SU ESPOSA LARIMAR LAUREANO HORNEDO, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; Y SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO URBANO Y VIVIENDA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA (“HUD” POR SUS SIGLAS EN INGLÉS)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: AR2023CV00939.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S. S.
451 SEVENTH STR. SW WASHINGTON DC 20410.
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de sesenta (60) 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
BERMUDEZ & DIAZ 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 8 de junio de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN J. ROSARIO VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN DUE, INC P/C IMAGE FIRST, LLC.
Demandante V. PWPR MANAGEMENT, CORP.; CAREL TOWER, INC.; COMPAÑÍA DE SEGUROS ABC
Demandado(a)
Civil: BY2022CV06413. Sala: 502. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: PWPR MANAGEMENT
CORP. DIRECCIÓN: PMB 44 PO BOX 6022
CAROLINA, PR 0009846022.
CAREL TOWER, INC.
DIRECCIÓN: URB.
MONTE CLARO ME25
PLAZA 18, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO 00961. (Nombre de las partes a las que se
le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 6 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de junio de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 8 de junio de 2023. LIC. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN M. PINTADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. ALLAN CRUZ CÁCERES; AUTORIDAD PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO
Demandados
Civil Núm.: HU2023CV00525. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: ALLAN CRUZ CÁCERES. URB. VERDE MAR, SOLAR 337, HUMACAO, PR 00792; DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: HC-1 BOX 16783
HUMACAO, PR 007919007.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto.
Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se
represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso 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. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS
RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970
TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155
E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com
En Humacao, Puerto Rico a 9 de junio de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DALISSA REYES DE LEÓN, SUBSECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
LUNA PERFORMANCE II, LLC.
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE ANASTACIO SANTIAGO CORTÉS COMPUESTA
POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL Y LA SUCESION DE JUANA GALARZA COLÓN COMPUESTA
POR LUIS FIGUEROA
GALARZA, EVELYN FIGUEROA GALARZA, FULANA Y FULANO DE TAL Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2022CV02727. Sobre: INTERPELACIÓN, COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: SUCESIÓN DE ANASTACIO SANTIAGO
CORTÉS COMPUESTA
POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL Y LA SUCESION DE JUANA GALARZA COLON COMPUESTA POR LUIS FIGUEROA
GALARZA, EVELYN
FIGUEROA GALARZA, FULANA Y FULANO DE TAL. 475 CALLE 31 URB. PARCELAS NUEVAS, BARRIO CELADA, GURABO PR 00778.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 8 de JUNIO de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de JUNIO de 2023. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 8 de JUNIO de 2023.
LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA YOSHIKO GARCIA
Demandante V. HECTOR ENRIQUE MOJICA PHIPPS
Demandado(a)
Civil Núm.: CN2023RF00001.
Sala: A. Sobre: CUSTODIA Y PATRIA POTESTAD. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: HECTOR ENRIQUE MOJICA PHIPPS.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 5 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notifica-
ción que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 9 de junio de 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 9 de junio de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY M. ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. ZORAIDA RIVERA LÁTIMER, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENLIRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE JUANA ALEIDA
PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR
SUS HIJOS; ANDRÉS
PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ; SUCESIÓN RAFAEL
PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ, COMPUESTA POR:
“JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESIÓN; Y SUCESIÓN DE GREGORIO RAFAEL PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ, COMPUESTA POR:
“JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESIÓN;
“JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUANA ALEIDA PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ; SUCESIÓN DE JAIME COLÓN
MOLINA, COMPUESTA
POR “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV02047. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E
INTERPELACIÓN
DIRIGIDOS A: ANDRÉS PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ, COMO HEREDERO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUANA ALEIDA PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ, A SU DIRECCIÓN: 10841 W FLAGER ST., MIAMI, FL 33174; “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL PÉREZ
RODRÍGUEZ; “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GREGORIO RAFAEL PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ; “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUANA ALEIDA PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ; “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JAIME COLÓN MOLINA. URB. REPARTO CONTEMPORÁNEO, NUM. 35 BLOQUE A, CALLE D, BO. PUENTE, Y SABANA LLANA, RÍO PIEDRAS, PUERTO RICO 00926-1200 Y A35 CALLE D, REPARTO CONTEMPORÁNEO, SAN JUAN, PR 00926. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda enmendada incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Además, en cuanto a la interpelación de los herederos de los causantes, a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en las herencias de los causantes conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2787, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencias, se tendrá por aceptadas. También se les APERCIBE a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado las herencias de los causantes y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de
dichas herencias conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2785. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son:
ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE:
Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ, LLP Edificio Ochoa, 500 Calle De La Tanca Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdiaz@bdprlaw.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 7 de junio de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA BÁEZ ACABÁ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT REO, LLC
Demandante Vs. PEOPLE TELEVISION, INC.; FRANCISCO JOSÉ
ZAMORA REYES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: KCD2012-0772.
Salón: 505. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO, COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN MOBILIARIO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: PÚBLICO GENERAL.
A: FRANCISCO JOSÉ ZAMORA REYES.
A: PEOPLE TELEVISION, INC.
Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por Ia Secretarla del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en mone-
da de curso legal en los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 12 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, todo derecho, tItulo o interés que tenga Ia parte demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: “PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: URBANA: Apartamento Trece-D (13-D) gobernado por el Régimen de Ia propiedad horizontal conocido por el nombre El Escorial, sito en el número ciento once (111) de Ia calle marginal avenida Roosevelt, en Ia Urbanización Piñero en Hato Rey. Este apartamento está localizado en Ia esquina Noreste de Ia décima tercera planta del edificio. En lindes por el NORTE, con el patio del solar que ocupa el edificio principal en Ia colindancia con Ia calle número dos (2) de Ia Urbanización Piñero; por el SUR, en parte con el patio interior Este del edificio, en parte con Ia escalera Oeste y el pozo del ascensor Oeste del edificio, en parte con el vestíbulo de Ia décimo tercera planta del edificio; por el ESTE, en parte con el patio interior Este del edificio y en parte con el patio del solar que ocupa el edificio principal en colindancia con los solares número nueve (9) y número veintiocho de Ia manzana D de Ia Urbanización Piñero; y por el OESTE, en parte con el vestíbulo de Ia décimo tercera planta del edificio y en parte con Ia pared maestra que lo separa del apartamento E de dicha planta del edificio. El apartamento D tiene una cabida superficial de mil ciento ochenta y dos punto siete dos (1182.72) pies cuadrados equivalentes a ciento diez punto siete siete (110.77) metros cuadrados. Se compone este apartamento de una sala-comedor, de donde se tiene acceso, por Ia parte Noroeste de Ia misma a un balcón rectangular con una cabida superficial de noventa y cuatro punto cinco siete (94.57) pies cuadrados equivalentes a ocho punto siete nueve (8.79) metros cuadrados y de donde se tiene acceso también por su parte Noreste a un pasillo interior que contiene un closet y de cuyo pasillo también se tiene acceso a su vez a tres dormitorios y a un baño. Los tres dormitorios del apartamento contienen cada uno un closet. De Ia salacomedor antes mencionada se tiene acceso también por su parte Sur a una cocina que contiene un closet y de cuya cocina se tiene acceso, así como por su parte Este a un balcón de servicio que tiene cabida superficial de cincuenta y dos punto cinco cero (52.50) pies cuadrados equivalentes a cuatro punto ocho ocho (4.88) metros cua-
drados. En este balcón de servicio se tiene acceso hacia el Sur y a través de una puerta de entrada secundaria del apartamento al vestíbulo del décimo tercer piso del edificio. La puerta de entrada principal del apartamento está localizada en el extremo Suroeste de Ia sala, que resulta a su vez el extremo Noreste del vestíbulo de uso comunal limitado de esa planta, de cuyo vestíbulo se tiene acceso por sus lados Este y Oeste a dos elevadores y a dos escaleras que conectan las varias plantas del edificio con el vestíbulo principal, localizado en Ia planta tercera y de cuyo vestíbulo principal se tiene acceso a su vez a través de los patios Sur y Norte de a propiedad a Ia avenida Roosevelt y a Ia calle número dos (2) respectivamente de Ia Urbanización
Piñero.” Consta inscrita al folio ciento cuarenta y cinco (145) del tomo setecientos treinta y cinco (735) de Río Piedras Norte, finca número veintiún mil doscientos dieciséis (21,216), inscripción cuarta (4ta). Que todos los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en Ia Secretaría del Tribunal General de Justicia Centro Judicial de San Juan durante horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. Se entender que todo licitador acepta como bastante Ia titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en Ia responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. El licitador y/o mejor postor pagará el importe de su oferta en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de Ia Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a Ia finca antes descrita. Por Ia presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a Ia inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a Ia 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 Ia 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. El tipo mínimo para Ia primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado es Ia suma de $225,000.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en Ia primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 19 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, para Ia cual servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en Ia primera subasta, o sea Ia suma de $150,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en Ia segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, para Ia cual servirá de tipo mínimo Ia mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, Ia suma de $112,500.00. Dicha subasta se Ilevará a cabo para satisfacer Sentencia conforme a Ia cual se declaró Con Lugar Ia Demanda y en su consecuencia se condenó a Ia parte demandada al pago a Ia parte Demandante de las siguientes sumas: $670,250.81 por concepto de principal; $184,103.74 por concepto de intereses; $2,066.24 por concepto de cargos por mora; y $971.13 por concepto de reserva de cuenta escrow; para un total de $855,449.66. La parte demandada pagará, además, el interés pactado a razón de $104.26 diarios; gastos legales y honorarios de abogados según fueron pactados en cantidad igual al 10% del valor principal de Ia obligación objeto de Ia demanda o $125,246.00 y cualquier otra suma que Ia parte demandante haya pagado o pague para preservar su crédito. La parte demandada al 1ro de febrero de 2023 tiene un balance pendiente de pago de $813,117.64, cantidad que incluye las costas y honorarios de abogado si estos fueron otorgados por el Tribunal. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con Ia ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse Ia venta, tales como Ia alcaldía, el Tribunal y Ia colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas.
La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a las disposiciones de Ia ley vigente, según aplique. Expido el presente edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en San Juan, Puerto Rico hoy 6 de junio de 2023. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ LUIS EMILIO LIBRÁN SALAS
Demandante Vs. MARÍA DEL CARMEN LIBRÁN SALAS Y LIZA MARIE LIBRÁN LÓPEZ Demandante Civil Núm.: MZ2023CV00791. Sala: 307. Sobre: PARTICIÓN DE HERENCIA. EDICTO.
A: LIZA MARIE LIBRÁN LÓPEZ. 12967 COLWELL LK SAN ANTONIO, TX 78253, USA. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente su alegación responsiva dentro del término de TREINTA (30) DIAS siguientes a la publicación de este emplazamiento por Edicto que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la Isla de Puerto Rico. 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, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría de este Tribunal de Primera Instancia y notificando copia de la misma al Lcdo. Luis Roberto Santo Montalvo con oficina localizada en 256 Calle Concordia, Barrio El Seco, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico; teléfono (787) 833-5466, y cuya dirección postal es: P.O. Box 1809, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 006811809. S 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 por la parte demandante en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de junio de 2023. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA
IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. REBECA MEDINA
FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE EDWIN AYALA AYALA
It took 56 years and 38 playoff appearances for the basketball team nestled in the high plains just east of the Rocky Mountains to finally reach the peak of its sport.
It took an unheralded center from Serbia who turned into the most formidable player in the game and a Canadian point guard who found himself again after a long and arduous recovery from a career-threatening knee injury. It took patience, collaboration and a discipline born of trying, failing and learning how to keep climbing just a bit higher.
The Denver Nuggets are NBA champions.
They clinched the first title in franchise history Monday night on their home court at Ball Arena in Denver, 5,280 feet above sea level — the highest altitude at which any NBA championship has been won. They beat the Miami Heat, 94-89, in Game 5 to seal the victory. They were led by center Nikola Jokic, who stood quietly at the back of the stage holding his 1-year-old daughter as his team celebrated during the trophy presentation, and by point guard Jamal Murray, who cried as he looked up at the thousands of fans roaring for him. The rest of Denver’s indefatigable eight-man rotation bolstered the team’s two biggest stars until the end.
“I got news for everybody out there,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone shouted, as the crowd erupted. “We’re not satisfied with one! We want more! We want more!”
Jokic was named the most valuable player of the finals, a nice complement to his two regular-season MVP awards. He finished Game 5 with 28 points, 16 rebounds and 4 assists, becoming the first player in NBA history to lead the playoffs in points, rebounds and assists.
“If you want to be a success, you need a couple years,” Jokic said. “You need to be bad, then you need to be good. Then when you’re good you need to fail, and then when you fail, you’re going to figure it out.
“I think experience is something that is not what happened to you. It’s what you’re going to do with what happened to you.”
The clinching game was neither pretty nor easy. Through the first three quarters, the Nuggets struggled to make 3-point
shots and convert free throws. They turned the ball over carelessly. Had they lost, they would have had to play Game 6 in Miami on Thursday. The pressure Monday may have frayed their nerves.
“You want to end it on your home court with all the fans there, your family there,” Murray said. “You want to end it on the home court so bad.”
The Heat had a 7-point lead at halftime and led by just 1 point at the end of the third quarter.
But in the fourth quarter, the Nuggets found the resolve to take the title. With about 10 minutes, 59 seconds remaining, Murray hit a 3-pointer — only the Nuggets’ third of the game — to give the Nuggets a 4-point lead. He pranced down the court as the Heat called a timeout. It was Denver’s largest lead since the first quarter.
Later, Murray struck again. This time, Aaron Gordon blocked a jumper by Heat guard Kyle Lowry, leading to a transition basket for Murray to give the Nuggets a 5-point lead.
And with less than 30 seconds remaining, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope stole a pass by Jimmy Butler and made both free throws after Lowry fouled him to give Denver a 3-point lead.
“I’m grateful, man, that we made it here,” Butler said afterward. “Came up short, but I’m blessed. I’m fortunate.”
With the win, the Nuggets departed a dubious club. There are now only 10 teams
in the league that have never won an NBA championship. Five have made it to the finals and lost, including the Phoenix Suns, who have come up short three times, most recently in 2021.
But the Nuggets had never even gotten that far, at least not in the NBA. Not since 1976, when they lost to the New York Nets in the American Basketball Association finals, had they reached a championship series.
The long drought helps explain why the Nuggets were underestimated all season. Pundits and oddsmakers questioned their ability to win, even after they took hold of first place in the Western Conference in December and never let go.
People wondered if Jokic, despite his superlative play, could lead a team this far — after all, he had never taken the Nuggets past the conference finals. Those questions may have cost him a third consecutive MVP award — an accomplishment that many said should be reserved for champions.
Some wondered if Murray would ever return to the elite level he had been playing at in 2021, when a knee injury just before the playoffs set him and Denver on a twoyear journey to fully reset.
Along the way, some role players found their stride, even if they mostly went unnoticed.
Caldwell-Pope, whom the Nuggets traded for last offseason, added defense, shooting and championship experience.
For a few playoff games, he brought in the ring he had won in 2020 with the Los Angeles Lakers and let his teammates hold it. None of them have one.
“They gave me an opportunity here, because of my championship, to be that leader — be vocal, let them know about my experience and how hard it is to get to this point we’re at now,” Caldwell-Pope said after Game 1. “I’m just trying to keep them motivated.”
Gordon, whom the Nuggets traded for in March 2021, happily became a defensive stopper after being the offensive star of the Orlando Magic.
“I’m not here for the credit,” Gordon said. “I’m here for the wins.”
Bruce Brown provided offensive sparks; Jeff Green added veteran calm; Christian Braun, a rookie, offered a youthful fearlessness that would pay off in the finals.
The Nuggets blasted through the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round and then beat the Suns in six games. They swept the Lakers in the conference finals and then sat around for a week waiting to find out who they would meet in the finals.
Like the Nuggets, the Heat had taken a 3-0 lead in their conference finals series. But they faltered as the Boston Celtics fought back in the East, and won the next three games, forcing a decisive Game 7.
“When Boston won Game 6, we’d been sitting so long it almost felt like we wasn’t in the playoffs anymore,” Green said. “Because the only thing we was doing was watching them.”
Miami, propelled by its relentless star Butler, won Game 7 for the franchise’s seventh trip to the finals, this time as the No. 8 seed. A victory would have given Miami its first championship in a decade, one far more unexpected than the three it had won.
If people overlooked Denver this season, they ignored Miami outright. The Heat barely made the playoffs and then gave even ardent believers reason to doubt when they wavered against Boston. They had an us-against-the-world mentality heading into the finals when, for once, Denver seemed to have the world on its side.
And who could blame the Nuggets if that surge of confidence flowed to their heads?
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Denver took Game 1, and Jokic notched a triple-double. Afterward, the Nuggets began to celebrate as if they could feel their championship parade rumbling already. They lost focus and allowed Miami to steal Game 2, even as Jokic scored 41 points. Malone scolded the Nuggets and questioned their effort. He wouldn’t have to do that again.
Jokic and Murray each had triple-doubles in Game 3 in front of a raucous crowd in Miami. In Game 4, Brown scored 11 points in the fourth quarter, stoking Miami’s desperation.
The Nuggets had some unusual visitors in their locker room after Game 4. Nuggets owner E. Stanley Kroenke and his son, Josh Kroenke, the team president, grinned brightly, each holding a can of Coors. The Nuggets had just taken a 3-1 lead in the finals, and they could feel that the franchise was closing in on its first championship. Only one finals team — the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers — had ever been able to dig itself out of that deep a hole.
But the Nuggets players and coaches refused to acknowledge how close they were. They remembered what had happened after Game 1.
“We need to win one more,” Jokic said after Game 4. “I like that we didn’t relax. We didn’t get comfortable. We were still desperate. We still want it.”
Murray offered a bit more confidence. “We’re just
ready to win a championship,” he said. “We have the tools to do it. It’s been on our minds for a while.”
When Murray stood on the stage after Game 5, having finally won, ESPN’s Lisa Salters asked him about his journey, about how he couldn’t even walk two years ago today because of his knee injury. As she spoke, the crowd’s cheers drowned out her voice. Murray paused and looked up at them. Tears filled his reddened eyes.
“Everything was hitting at once,” Murray said later. “From the journey, to the celebration with the guys, to enjoying the moment, to looking back on the rehab, to looking back at myself as a kid.”
Malone’s mind was already on the next championship.
Pat Riley, the president of the Miami Heat, who has won nine NBA championships as either a player, assistant coach, head coach or executive, once shared with Malone a message that Malone used to have displayed in his office.
“It talked about the evolution in this game and how you go from a nobody to an upstart, and you go from an upstart to a winner and a winner to a contender and a contender to a champion,” Malone said. “And the last step is after a champion is to be a dynasty.”
But his players weren’t ready to think about that yet. As he spoke, they were dousing the locker room and each other with Champagne, drops of which sprinkled from the Nuggets logo on the ceiling. The players lit cigars, adding
the heavy scent of cigar smoke to their celebration.
Jokic popped in and out of the locker room, sometimes spraying Champagne on his teammates, sometimes pouring it right on their heads. He said many times during the playoffs that he was most proud of the success they’d had together.
He had been the first player off the court after the trophy presentation, and had walked to the locker room by himself holding his finals MVP trophy. He had been their best player throughout the season, but he wasn’t swept up in the ecstasy that had engulfed his teammates.
“It’s good,” Jokic said, when asked about his emotions after winning the championship. “We did a job.”
Another reporter tried again a few minutes later, this time asking if he was excited for the parade the city would have to celebrate the championship.
“When is parade?” Jokic said, turning to a Nuggets staff member in the room.
He was told it was Thursday.
“No,” Jokic lamented. “I need to go home.”
Then he finally relented just a little bit, and acknowledged that winning a championship felt “amazing.”
“It’s a good feeling when you know that you did something that nobody believes, and it’s just us, it’s just the organization, Denver Nuggets believing in us, every player believing in each other,” Jokic said. “And I think that’s the most important thing.”
Track star Tori Bowie was eight months pregnant and in labor at the time of her death, according to an autopsy report shared with The New York Times. The autopsy lists respiratory distress and eclampsia as possible complications.
Frentorish Bowie, or Tori for short, a sprinter who competed at the Rio Olympics and won a silver medal in the 100 meters, a bronze in the 200 meters, and a gold in the 4x100-meter relay, died at 32. It was days before she was found.
Her death was confirmed by USA Track & Field on May 3. No cause of death or exact date of death was known. There were no signs of foul play
Preeclampsia, a dangerous condition characterized by high blood pressure that develops during pregnancy, can turn into eclampsia, a rare and severe complication characterized by seizures and the onset of a coma.
Many studies have shown a greater risk of preeclampsia among Black women in the United States. One of Bowie’s Olympic teammates, Allyson Felix, underwent an emergency C-section because of severe preeclampsia.
Background: She was discovered by deputies.
Sheriff’s deputies in Orange County, Florida, conducted a wellness check on Bowie on May 2 after she had not been seen or heard from in several days.
Officials at the Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office cautioned that her official cause of death could be pending for up to three months because of toxicology tests.
Her pregnancy had been confirmed at her funeral service on May 13. A program provided at the service near her hometown Sandhill, Mississippi, said Bowie was
preceded in death by a daughter, Ariana Bowie.
The same day, an official at the Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed a “baby Bowie” but declined to provide further information.
Track and field career: She was the world’s fastest woman.
Bowie’s ascension to the fastest woman in the world began on a basketball court in Sandhill.
Pisgah High School was too small to field separate basketball and track teams, so if Bowie wanted to play basketball, she would have to run track, too. She went on to help her track team win state titles, competing in the 100 meters, 200 meters, 4x100-meter relay and long jump.
When she was recruited by the University of Southern Mississippi, she said she would compete in track and field if she could try to make the women’s basketball team as a walk-on. She ended up sticking with track.
When she turned pro in 2013, her greatest potential seemed to be in the long jump. But she quickly transitioned to sprinting, and her career blossomed. Bowie became a three-time Olympic medalist at the 2016 Rio Olympics before
earning the title of fastest woman in the world with a win in the 100 meters at the world championships a year later.
She was generous with her success, her friend Antoine Preudhomme said, and would visit foster homes across Florida and Mississippi three to four times a year to deliver gifts and spend time with the children.
Her final years: She turned inward.
In the past few years, Bowie, who was always private, turned more inward and lost touch with many of the coaches who were part of her journey to the top of the sport.
“She even backed away from me,” her longtime agent, Kimberly N. Holland, said the day of the funeral. “But she always found her way back because of the bond we had.”
She had been excited about the pregnancy, Holland said. The two talked on the phone a few weeks before she died.
“It was one of the best conversations we’ve had in a long time,” Holland said over the phone Monday. “We just giggled like schoolgirls. We laughed so hard my stomach was hurting.”
Bowie agreed to go to Atlanta so Holland could help raise the baby. They were both so excited, Holland said, “just hearing the joy.” It was the last time they spoke.
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Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
Overdue apologies can be made today, Aries. It isn’t easy to admit you’re wrong, but the planetary aspects can boost your courage. Rather than stew with regret, meet with the person to make amends. Regardless of any discomfort, you will definitely find that you feel a lot better afterward. Even if the other person isn’t receptive, you will be able to say what needs to be said.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
Your dreams are more than just random firings of neurons, Taurus. They can indicate unresolved issues, stress, deep desires, and lost memories. They can prove instrumental to understanding yourself and solving problems. Keep a dream journal and you can access the power within your subconscious and all you can learn from it. Examine your recent dreams. See if there’s something you need to recognize.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
If you’ve been tired lately, Gemini, it may be due to stress. Today’s aspects bring an added energy to communication. It would be wise to talk about some of the stress. Worry, anxiety, and fear are huge drains on physical and emotional health. Exercise can alleviate some of these. For others, talking is key. Find the most effective ways to rid yourself of such energy drains and feel better.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
It’s a good day to express your thoughts and feelings, Cancer. Whether it’s a loved one who’d appreciate affectionate words or a colleague who requires instruction, communication will come more easily than usual. You have a practical nature. Often you say what you think is required and not much else. Yet others may need you to say a lot more. Consider this as you go about your day.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
Spread goodwill and affection today, Leo. It’s been a while since you let people know that you care about and appreciate them. Cards, phone calls, letters, flowers, and hugs are ways to express your feelings. Consider surprising someone with lunch, or making something special for a friend. Make time for emotional as well as intellectual expression. It keeps a healthy balance in your life.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
If a problem comes your way today, Virgo, look for the simplest solution. Not every problem is complicated. Often the most obvious answer is the best one. Try to keep your emotions out of problems that require calculation and thought. They can obscure the view and keep you from seeing what’s right in front of you. Draw strength from your common sense. Rule things out by process of elimination.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
It’s a good day to speak your mind, Libra. Not that you generally have much trouble with this. But even you can face situations where you feel intimidated and hesitant to speak up. Not today. There aren’t going to be any circumstances you can’t handle, because the astral energy will boost your abilities. If there’s someone you’ve been reluctant to approach, make a move to talk to him or her.
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
Expect a boost to your communication skills today, Scorpio. If you often experience difficulty expressing your true feelings, this will be a welcome change for you. Consider talking things over with anyone you have unresolved issues with. With added strength and confidence, you should be able to work the problems out quickly and relatively painlessly.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
If something has been bothering you, Sagittarius, today is a good time to work it out. Your excellent communicative ability will be even stronger with today’s energy. Whether your problems have to do with a colleague, boss, spouse, friend, or relative, you will find the words to effectively communicate your thoughts and feelings. Don’t hesitate to make those appointments.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
You can be quiet and reclusive when it comes to expressing feelings, Capricorn. Today may be the exception. The aspects can bring real strength to your communication abilities. You’d be wise to seize the opportunity. Take steps to express your feelings by initiating conversations. Words will come much more easily than usual. If there are problems to handle, you will likely find resolutions.
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
When did you last spend real quality time with your family - not counting regular chores? If it’s been a while, today is a good day to do it. If you have children, play with them or go to the park or zoo. If you’re single, consider visiting a parent or sibling. Communication is accentuated today. Talk will come readily and easily. Make the most of this by encouraging a bond with loved ones.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
How do you preserve your family history, Pisces? Do you keep mementos in a box, display heirlooms, or make scrapbooks? You most likely realize the value of family history, but you might not preserve it as well as you should. Take steps to record and save precious items and memories from parents, grandparents, siblings, and others. Don’t forget your own history, too. One day you will be glad you did.
