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Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro R. Pierluisi, Manuel A. Laboy Rivera, executive director of the Central Office of Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience (COR3), and Aguas Buenas Mayor Karina Nieves Serrano announced Monday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) approved the development of the first phase of a flood mitigation project on the La Charca Bridge in the La Mula neighborhood.
The total investment, which amounts to $5 million, will be financed with federal Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) and state funds.
“The significant investment we are making in our infrastructure with federal and state funds is an investment in our future. We are talking about billions of dollars allocated to rebuild, repair,, and modernize our schools, health centers, roads, bridges, energy, water, and sewer systems. Each project we have undertaken adds to the work of reconstruction that strengthens us as a people so that we are ready to face future challenges or any atmospheric event. To these ends, today we announce the approval of FEMA funds so that the first phase of the La Charca Bridge flood mitigation project in the Mula neighborhood in Aguas Buenas can soon begin,” the governor said.
Pierluisi added that “this project, long-awaited by this community, consists of replacing the empty bridge located on the PR-174 highway and constructing a new bridge approximately 80 meters from the existing bridge. This new location has the purpose of placing it outside the flood area while improving access to the state highway. This construction will eliminate the problem of flood waters overtaking the road and bridge, preventing any adverse effect on traffic operations in this area. Likewise, workers will improve the geometry of the access points to the PR-174 highway, providing better traffic safety. Consequently, the project will have a positive impact on more than two thousand families living in the area near Barrio Mula,” said Pierluisi about the work that is expected to be completed in December 2026.
and design process. This procedure will eventually give way to the relocation of the bridge about 80 meters away from the area where the structure is currently located outside the flood zone. At COR3, we will continue to assist the municipality so that they can complete this important project for the people of Aguas Bones,” indicated the executive director of COR3.
The municipality, recognizing the urgency of this flood mitigation work, will begin the process established by FEMA to meet the requirements and achieve a second allocation of funds, which will lead to the replacement of the bridge and the reconstruction of the road in that area.
For the mayor of Aguas Buenas, this mitigation project “is a vital and important one for our town. After approximately 20 years in which promises were made, today we can affirm that we have delivered for our people in just two years of our administration. The more than two thousand families from Aguas Buenas that travel through the area will soon have a safe bridge, which will not be affected by atmospheric events and through which they will be able to travel until they reach their homes. This achievement is a testament to the resilience and determination of our community, and we are proud to have played a part in it.”
This project is part of an integrated risk mitigation plan to reduce the possibility of flooding in multi areas.
For his part, Laboy Rivera maintained that risk mitigation is vital in the reconstruction process of Puerto Rico. “Projects like this give resilience to the infrastructure and are key to safeguarding lives. I thank FEMA for the initial allocation of $514,284.23 to develop the first phase of this work, which includes the study, permit
The Financial Oversight and Management Board will ask the Title III court to reopen the record of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) confirmation hearing to ascertain how much the utility will pay to its bondholders following last week’s U.S. First Circuit’s decision that PREPA bondholders’ secured credits against the utility extend to PREPA’s net revenues.
The ruling means consumers should expect a possible hike in utility rates.
On June 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit’s handed PREPA bondholders an important victory in their ongoing battle to come out of PREPA’s bankruptcy with as much money as possible. The First Circuit’s decision ruled that PREPA bondholders have a secured interest against the utility that extends to PREPA’s net revenues and includes the bonds’ principal and interest, estimated at $8.5 Billion.
The FOMB in a motion Monday discussed how it plans to proceed to conform to the opinion of the First Circuit and to enable Title III Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain to confirm the PREPA Plan.
Because the First Circuit ruled the bonds are secured by an unavoidable security interest in net revenues, the PREPA Plan must pay in full the value of that security
interest or its indubitable equivalent, the FOMB said.
“Therefore, the Oversight Board plans to request a reopening of the confirmation
hearing record for the limited purpose of valuing the non-settling bondholders’ share of the net revenues and showing the court how such value as determined by the court will be paid,” the FOMB said.
The Board said it believes its action will enable the PREPA Plan to be confirmed if the court determines it is otherwise confirmable. “While the Board understands some bondholders desire to prosecute accounting claims for purported misuse of prior net revenues, if they existed, the Board believes its payment of the full value of the bondholders’ collateral moots the relevance of the accounting claims because the First Circuit ruled they can only be paid from the collateral because the bonds are non-recourse and may not file unsecured claims,” the Board said.
“In substance, the amendments will provide the distribution to the non-settling bondholders and monoline insurers shall equal the value of their interest in the Net Revenues and (b) the means by which the additional payment will be provided,” the FOMB said.
With its decision, it appears the FOMB dismissed the possibility of appealing the latest ruling to the Supreme Court.
The minority leader for the New Progressive Party delegation in the House of Representatives, Carlos ‘Johnny’ Méndez, asked the Senate to approve House Bill 31, which he authored, and which creates the Registry of Lobbyists of the Government of Puerto Rico.
The measure was unanimously endorsed in the Lower House on May 11, 2021 and since May 13, two days later, it has been in the Senate Government Committee.
“For several years I have been fighting for the establishment of a detailed Registry of Lobbyists of the Government of Puerto Rico to become law, one that includes the two branches (Executive and Legislative) and where these professionals operate with the objective of providing a greater degree of transparency and confidence of the people in public service. At this moment Bill 31 is in the Senate, I call on its President, Jose Luis Dalmau, to act on this measure as soon as possible. The Registry of Lobbyists can be a reality if it is approved in this session,” commented the NPP leader in the Lower House.
The registry obliges the lobbyist to submit detailed reports
on each of his actions, including which legislator or head of agency he visited, as well as to reflect in that report the results of the same.
“Our bill would require every lobbyist, so registered with the Secretariats of the appropriate Legislative Bodies, as well as with the State Department for Executive Branch lobbyists, to submit a notarized quarterly report describing their activities, who hires them, who they meet with, and the results. To ensure that the process is clean and transparent, no government contractor, whether in the Executive or Legislative, will be able to exercise the functions of lobbyist. This project is vital,” said the former Speaker of the House
The profession of the lobbyist has its genesis in the essays known as ‘The Federalist Papers’ that were published in 1788 by the Fathers of the Constitution of the United States.
In that historic writing, men of the stature of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison stated that lobbyists are essential in real democracies and that if it is necessary to restrict them, these restrictions must be achieved through full competition between different groups and through the application of rules so that their presence in governmental spheres is orderly.
Minority leader for the NPP delegation in the House of Representatives, Carlos ‘Johnny’
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The Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC in Spanish) and the Public Energy Policy Program (PPPE), reported the start of the second phase of the Energy Support 2.0 incentive to receive applications from participating SMEs until Monday, June 24, 2024. This was reported by Manuel Cidre, secretary of the DDEC.
“This new round of the program consists of community Lifelines (described by FEMA).
The funds come from the Program for Energy Reliability and Resilience (ER2) of CDBG-DR funds, granted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Optimization of Puerto Rico’s Electric System. Qualifying companies could receive an incentive to cover 60% of the total cost up to a maximum of $50,000.00 for projects that include battery-powered photovoltaic systems, batteries for existing and well-maintained systems, as well as charging stations for electric vehicles.
“We urge all beneficiary SMEs that make up the community lifelines to access the link provided and apply for this incentive that seeks to promote Puerto Rico’s economic development and energy resilience. It is an opportunity immersed in reducing energy costs and in turn that these SMEs can sustain their businesses in the eventuality of a natural disaster,” said Ali-Fortuño, director of the PPPE.
Companies interested in the Energy Support Incentive Program 2.0 can access the Program Guide in www.desarrollo.pr.gov
Governor Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia said on Monday that when it is “strategically viable,” he will call the status consultation for the November elections. “I have always said that I am going to make that decision at some point now in the summer, I have to do it in time so that the ballot that has to be printed is printed and that it does not affect the election process as such. When the time comes to make the decision, because logistically I can’t wait any longer, I’m going to make it. And I repeat what I said before, despite some voices that have come out against it, I am clearly inclined to convene the consultation. Likewise, as I said before, I think that the options that the consultation should have are the options of the HR project. 8393, which was approved by the federal House of Representatives. In other words, we don’t have to invent, we don’t have to improvise,” the governor said to questions from the press.
“Here in Puerto Rico there was no objection in that process from either the Independence Party or Citizen Victory Movement, who did not publicly object to that. In the Popular Democratic Party there is a sector that favors the option of free association, so that sector also saw it, that project and that option with good eyes. Yes, I recognize that there is a sector within the Popular Democratic Party that still surprises me, but still defends the current status and denies that it is a colonial and territorial status, but they are the least, that is, those are the least and you have to in these things seek the general well-being and if what you are expecting is unanimity, you will never
have it,” he added.
Pierluisi expressed that although the hearing in the federal Senate on the status was postponed due to calendar conflicts, the decision to call the consultation has been made.
“What I am saying is that the time will come when I have to make the decision and that if the hearing has not occurred by that time, that will not cause me not to make it. It is also repeated that I am very inclined to call the consultation and use the Options of HR 83 93, so the only thing I am adding, if anything, is that someone told me now that since the hearing is not given, then it will convene. Well, the answer is that today I am not going to call, nor tomorrow, but that there will come a time when logistically I have to make the decision, because if not it will affect the election process. There is
it is ‘strategically possible’
still some margin I have to make the decision. Margin of time, the hearing has not yet been given and I had said it would be good for the hearing to be given before that point arrives. That is already a question of logistics and I basically have to talk there,
discuss this with Vanessa Santo Domingo, possibly with Edwin Mundo, the experts on the electoral issue who know the time it takes or takes you to print the ballot and incorporate that consultation into the electoral process,” he said. The
Dozens of young people took and passed the apprenticeship test to drive, in a supervised way, motor vehicles on the island’s roads, during a service fair held on the grounds of the Baptist Church of Los Angeles, in the La Marina urbanization, in the municipality of Carolina.
From the early hours of the morning, dozens of young people took the exam which was administered by personnel from the Driver Service Center (CESCO) of the Carolina Region.
Among other services provided were workshops on road safety, prepared and given by the Traffic Safety Commission, as well as talks by the Fire Department Bureau.
Also present were personnel from the Department of Health and the Administration of Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services (AMSSCA), among others.
The initiative was from the senator for the District of Carolina, Marissa ‘Marissita’ Jiménez, who seeks to bring the services of central government agencies to the communities to facilitate the interaction and
continuity of the services provided.
“We are always looking to support our residents, bringing the services provided by the various central government agencies and public corporations to the communities of the Carolina Sensory District. One of the things that we have always been asked for is the administration service of the driving test in its learning modality. Dozens of young people took advantage of this opportunity and now they are one step away from owning their license,” said Jiménez.
The requirement to take the learner’s exam is to be 16 years of age or older, under 18 years of age must be accompanied by a parent and/or guardian.
You also need an unlaminated social security card, medical cer3tificate for driver’s license, complete the DTOP-DIS-255 application, valid birth certificate, minors under 18 have to present a school certificate, and a document that shows residential physical address that is not more than two months old, among others.
Also, a receipt of $17.00 from Internal Revenue, a stamp of $11.00 and another receipt of $2.00 must be presented.
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy announced Monday that he would push for a warning label on social media platforms advising parents that using the platforms might damage adolescents’ mental health.
Warning labels — like those that appear on tobacco and alcohol products — are one of the most powerful tools available to the nation’s top health official, but Murthy cannot unilaterally require them; the action requires approval by Congress. No such legislation has yet been introduced in either chamber.
A warning label would send a powerful message to parents “that social media has not been proved safe,” Murthy wrote in an essay published in The New York Times opinion section Monday.
In his essay, he cast the effects of social media on children and teenagers as a public health risk on par with road fatalities or contaminated food.
“Why is it that we have failed to respond to the harms of social media when they are no less urgent or widespread than those posed by unsafe cars, planes or food?” Murthy wrote. “These harms are not a failure of willpower and parenting; they are the consequence of unleashing powerful technology without adequate safety measures, transparency or accountability.”
Murthy pointed to research that showed that teens who spent more than three hours a day on social media faced a significantly higher risk of mental health problems, and that 46% of adolescents said social media made them feel worse about their bodies.
U.S. teens are spending an average of 4.8 hours per day on social media platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, according to a Gallup survey of more than 1,500 adolescents released last fall.
In an interview last month, Murthy said he had repeatedly heard from young people who “can’t get off the platforms,” often finding that hours had passed when they had intended to just check their feeds.
“The platforms are designed to maximize how much time we all spend on them,” he said. “It’s one thing to do that to an adult, and another thing to do it to a child, whose impulse control is still developing, whose brain is at a sensitive phase of development.”
Past warning labels have had significant effects on behavior. In 1965, after a landmark report from the surgeon general, Congress voted to require all cigarette packages distributed in the United States to carry a warning that using the product “may be hazardous to your health.”
That was the beginning of a 50-year decline in smoking. When the warning labels appeared, around 42% of U.S. adults were daily cigarette smokers; by 2021, that portion had dropped to 11.5%.
There is fierce debate among researchers about whether social media is behind the crisis in child and adolescent mental health. In his new book, “The Anxious Generation,” social psychologist Jonathan Haidt points to the 2007 release of the Apple iPhone as an inflection point, setting off a sharp increase in suicidal behavior and reports of despair.
Other experts say that, while the rise of social media has coincided with declines in well-being, there is no evidence that one caused the other, and point instead to factors such as economic hardship, social isolation, racism, school shootings and the opioid crisis.
Murthy has long indicated that he views social media as a health risk. In May 2023, he issued an advisory on the subject, warning that “there are ample indicators that social media can also have a profound risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents.”
In that statement, Murthy acknowledged that the effects of social media on adolescent mental health were not fully understood. Research suggests the platforms offer both risks and benefits, providing community for young people who might otherwise feel marginalized.
Still, it urged parents to begin setting limits on their children’s social media use immediately, and to keep mealtimes device-free.
With his call for a warning label, Murthy is further dialing up the tone of urgency.
“One of the most important lessons I learned in medical school was that in an emergency, you don’t have the luxury to wait for perfect information,” he wrote. “You assess the available facts, you use your best judgment, and you act quickly.”
Recalling the words of a tearful mother whose child had died by suicide after being bullied online, he compared the cur-
rent moment with landmark public health campaigns of the past.
“There is no seat belt for parents to click, no helmet to snap in place, no assurance that trusted experts have investigated and ensured that these platforms are safe for kids,” he wrote.
“There are just parents and their children, trying to figure it out on their own, pitted against some of the best product engineers and most well-resourced companies in the world.”
A warning label would send a powerful message to parents “that social media has not been proved safe,” U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy wrote on an opinion section. (freestocks)
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who is a contender to be former President Donald Trump’s running mate, on Sunday described left-wing protesters as “street militias” who had not been prosecuted enough. He also said that prosecutors were unfairly charging “every grandma and MAGA hat who was within a country mile of the Capitol” on Jan. 6, 2021.
As Cotton was interviewed on CNN, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who is also a vice-presidential contender, made similar arguments on ABC News. With less inflammatory phrasing than Cotton used, he distinguished violent Jan. 6 rioters who should be imprisoned from people who “came into the Capitol because the doors were open,” while also calling Democrats weak on crime.
“Anyone who injured a law enforcement officer or committed acts of violence on Jan. 6 at the Capitol should be prosecuted and face severe consequences,” Cotton said, before accusing prosecutors of casting too wide a net and saying, “That’s unlike Democrats, who won’t prosecute violent protesters, for instance from Democratic street militias outside the homes of Supreme Court justices or defacing statues of veterans right across from the White House.”
He appeared to be referring to several largely peaceful demonstrations outside the justices’ homes in 2022 after the leak of the ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, and to vandalism of statues near the White House this month by some members of a pro-Palestinian protest.
Both Cotton and Scott said that some Jan. 6 defendants were being held in pretrial detention for longer than the sentences they would face if convicted. Most defendants have been released while awaiting trial, and
the minority in custody have largely pleaded guilty or violated pretrial conditions.
Cotton’s CNN interviewer, Jake Tapper, asked him about the contrast between how he talked about the Jan. 6 rioters — distinguishing between violent and nonviolent members of the crowd — versus other protesters, whom he has denounced more broadly.
“You have a very hard-line stance on law and order, but here you’re talking about, oh, maybe pardoning them if they didn’t engage in violence,” Tapper said. “That’s not the language you use when you’re talking about the Black Lives Matter protesters or others.”
Cotton, who has called for the National
Guard to crack down on left-wing demonstrations and called those protesters “lunatics” and “hooligans,” responded by claiming that “many” Black Lives Matter protesters had been violent. He said he was “simply calling for the same standards to be used” for them and the pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses as for Jan. 6 rioters.
Scott and Cotton were also asked whether they supported legislation to ban bump stocks after the Supreme Court ruled last week to strike down the Trump administration’s ban. Trump enacted the restrictions after a gunman used weapons equipped with bump stocks — which allow semi-automatic
weapons to fire at close to the rate of machine guns — to kill 60 people and wound hundreds more at a music festival in Las Vegas in 2017. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
They both deflected, accusing the Biden administration and Democrats of failing to combat crime and pivoting to argue that illegal immigration was increasing violent crime.
Both Cotton and Scott referred to the killing last year of Rachel Morin, a mother of five, noting that a migrant (“a savage degenerate from El Salvador,” Cotton said) had just been arrested in the case. Neither discussed the Las Vegas shooting that prompted the bumpstock ban, which was carried out by a white American. Data does not support claims that migrants are causing a surge in crime.
“We’re going to focus on the priorities of the American people, and what the priorities of the American people are today is to focus on closing our southern border,” Scott said in response to the question about bump-stock legislation.
Cotton, responding to the same question, said, “I would suggest before we infringe on the rights of law-abiding American citizens, we should crack down on violent crime” and “close our border.”
A third vice-presidential contender, Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota, appeared on Fox News on Sunday. He was not asked about Jan. 6 or about the bump-stock ruling. But, like Cotton and Scott, he cast President Joe Biden’s border policies as a life-or-death threat, referring to the recent arrests of several men with ties to the Islamic State group and claiming “the possibility of a 9/11-type terror attack happening in our country has gone up dramatically.”
The United Auto Workers has scored a remarkable string of victories — most recently, a landmark contract on Monday for electric vehicle battery workers — as its new leadership strives to restore the union’s image as the voice of an iconic segment of the American working class.
But competing for headlines is a part of the union that represents tens of thousands of university workers, which at the moment is singularly focused on a mission far from building cars and trucks: ending the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
UAW leaders insist that they can smooth out the dissonance between the dual thrusts of UAW activism — one on college campuses, the other on red-state assembly lines. But it will not be easy. The UAW signs that are crowding pro-Palestinian encampments on campuses, furnished by the union’s international headquarters in Detroit, have alone struck sour notes among some union members uncomfortable with such outward signs of politics on such a fraught topic.
“It’s so bad for the union,” said Isaac Altman, a UAW member and staff lawyer in the family court bureau of the Legal Aid Society of Nassau County, New York, who has clashed with his local over a pro-Palestine resolution he called “slightly more radical than Hezbollah.” (The resolution called for an immediate cease-fire and an end to “the occupation and blockade of Palestinian land, sea and air by Israeli military forces.”)
The competition for attention may only get worse. On Monday, union negotiators reached a tentative agreement with General Motors that could prove to be a landmark in the auto industry’s transition to electric vehicles. It would give huge wage increases and far more safety protections to employees at an EV battery plant in Lordstown, Ohio, solid evidence that President Joe Biden’s efforts to combat climate change could fulfill his promise that a green future will not leave workers behind.
“It’s a huge deal,” said Dave Green, the regional director of the UAW in Ohio and Indiana. “We’ve been trying to have a just transition and stop this race to the bottom for wages for EV workers. This contract is very exciting.”
At the same time that the contract emerged, the University of California was
suing a UAW local in the Golden State that represents 48,000 teaching assistants for striking over pro-Palestinian protests, a lessthan-ideal image, union officials say, as the new UAW president, Shawn Fain, tries to organize politically conservative blue-collar workers.
University union members, now back to work, received strike pay — $500 a week — and other support from UAW headquarters from the moment that University of California, Santa Cruz, graduate students walked off the job on May 20, no different from the autoworkers who manned the picket lines in Michigan, Missouri and Ohio last fall.
The union’s blue-collar leadership was not exactly brought kicking and screaming to the Gaza protests. Its higher-education locals pressed the national leadership to get involved, but when, in December, the UAW became the first major union to demand a cease-fire in Gaza, the board vote was unanimous.
Asked about the turmoil at California and New York union locals over Gaza, Green, who represents the UAW in the Republican states of Ohio and Indiana, answered with a curt “no comment.”
Without question, under Fain’s muscular leadership, the UAW has made strides toward reconnecting with the working class, a plus for Biden, whom the union has en-
dorsed. A six-week wave of strikes against the three Detroit automakers last fall yielded the biggest pay raises for autoworkers in decades. An eleventh-hour deal at the edge of a strike in April against Daimler Truck in North Carolina gave workers 25% raises.
Just days later, workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee voted overwhelmingly to join the UAW, a breakthrough as the union pushes to organize foreign automakers — especially electric vehicle plants — in the union-hostile Southeast.
It has not all been smooth sailing: Last month, workers at two Mercedes-Benz factories in Alabama voted against UAW representation. On Monday, a court-appointed monitor watching the union for corruption accused Fain and the new leaders of obstructing attempts to access information in violation of a 2020 consent decree reached by the leaders whom Fain ousted to avoid a Justice Department takeover of the union.
The tentative contract reached this week at Ultium Cells, an EV battery joint venture in the shadow of a shuttered auto plant in northeast Ohio that former President Donald Trump promised but failed to save, was meant to get the union back on a positive track. It includes 30% raises over three years for most workers, 112% raises for the lowest paid, $3,000 bonuses upon ratification and new positions for health and safety workers.
But just like Biden, Fain also has to placate pro-Palestinian activists, who are a legacy of past UAW leadership that set out over the last decade to increase flagging membership by organizing teaching assistants and other employees of higher education, especially on the politically active West and Northeast coasts. For the UAW, the biggest success came in the last seven years, when tens of thousands of teaching assistants and other workers at the University of California, the University of Washington, the University of Connecticut, New York University and Harvard University voted to join the auto union. More than onequarter of the union’s 391,000 members now work for universities.
“We have set out to rebuild this union and turn it into a fighting union, one that fights for union-organizing but also for humanity as a whole,” said Brandon Mancilla, a UAW board member who came to the union through organizing Harvard graduate students and has been instrumental in its stand on Gaza. “Of course, when you take on as ambitious and broad a mission as this, you’re going to have issues that a lot of the mainstream don’t see as central to traditional unions.”
UAW leaders sought in interviews to tie together the union’s blue-collar successes, its resurgent political activism on Gaza and the new clash with its federal monitor. An old-line labor union, they said, is ruffling a lot of feathers.
“We encourage the monitor to investigate whatever claims are brought to their office, because we know what they’ll find: a UAW leadership committed to serving the membership and running a democratic union,” Fain said.
Fain reasoned that taking a position on the issue was in line with the activism of the union’s longtime president Walter Reuther against the Vietnam War and in support of civil rights, as well as with the UAW’s stand against apartheid in South Africa.
“Everything we’re doing is about us as workers having greater control over working conditions,” said Rafael Jaime, the president of UAW Local 4811 in California and a doctoral student in English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He cited pay, health care and safety, “but also a say in how we engage in protests on campus,” adding, “We want to have a voice.”
Wall Street’s main indexes edged higher in choppy trading on Monday, as investors awaited fresh economic data and comments from Federal Reserve officials for more clarity on monetary policy.
Apple and Microsoft helped arrest the losses with gains of 2.1% and 0.4%, while AI chip leader Nvidia retreated from a record high to fall 0.7%.
Some other chip stocks rose though, briefly sending the Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index to an all-time high. Broadcom and U.S.-listed shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co were up around 3% each, while Micron Technology jumped 3.5% after price-target raises by brokerages.
Technology was the biggest gainer among the 11 S&P 500 sector indexes, while real estate and utilities led declines.
“Technology is not only leading, it continues to lead and does all the heavy lifting ... until we get to the next earnings cycle there isn’t really a catalyst to lift the market,” said Jay Woods, chief global strategist at Freedom Capital Markets.
“(This week) I suspect we’ll see a little bit of a slowdown volume wise, because we’ve hit summer, there’s no earnings and the mid-week holiday.”
Markets will be closed on Wednesday for the Juneteenth holiday.
Wall Street’s move to halve the time it takes to complete a stock trade will create a “systemic risk” in Europe unless market participants get more time to line up dollars for stock purchases, Europe’s asset management industry said on Thursday.
U.S. stock markets, along with those in Canada and Mexico, will require share trades to be settled within one business day (T+1) from the end of May, instead of two at present, which is the norm in
“But the Dow is seen as ‘Main Street America,’ and media across this country and global media reference the Dow. It is enduring and includes companies that are part of the future. What (hitting 40,000) means is that regardless of the concerns about inflation and consumer sentiment, the companies in the Dow, which represent a cross section of our economy, continue to March higher on better earnings and stronger guidance.”
Goldman Sachs raised its 2024 year-end target for the S&P 500 Index to 5,600 from 5,200 earlier, while Evercore
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ISI raised its year-end target for the benchmark index to 6,000 from 4,750.
Both brokerages pointed to strength in the technology sector and enthusiasm for artificial intelligence as reasons for their upgrades.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq and the S&P 500 hit multiple alltime peaks in the previous week.
Markets are also keeping a close eye on upcoming comments from the New York Fed’s John Williams, Philadelphia Fed’s Patrick Harker and Fed Board Governor Lisa Cook later on Monday.
On the economic roster for the rest of the week are May retail sales data on Tuesday, with industrial production, housing starts and S&P flash PMI data among other key releases due later in the week.
Recent hawkish projections from the Federal have somewhat data pointing to growing weakness in the economy. The
central bank dialed back their projections for three rate cuts in 2024 to just one on Wednesday.
However, markets still expect about two 25-basis-point cuts this year, according to LSEG data. The CME FedWatch tool shows easing is still seen beginning at the September meeting.
At 12:08 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 13.71 points, or 0.04%, at 38,602.87, the S&P 500 was up 10.43 points, or 0.19%, at 5,442.03, and the Nasdaq Composite was up 26.09 points, or 0.15%, at 17,714.97.
Autodesk jumped 5.6% after a report that activist investor Starboard Value had bought a roughly $500 million stake in the software maker.
Declining issues outnumbered advancers for a 1.44-to-1 ratio on the NYSE. Declining issues outnumbered advancers for a 1.73-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has dissolved his war Cabinet, an Israeli official said Monday, a move that had been widely expected after the departures of two key members prompted demands from far-right politicians for representation in the influential group that made key decisions about the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
The two members, Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot, quit Netanyahu’s small war Cabinet last week amid disagreements over the direction of the war. The men, both former military chiefs, had been seen as voices of moderation in the five-member body, which was formed in October after the Hamas-led assault on Israel.
The Israeli official suggested that Netanyahu’s decision to disband the body — which was communicated to ministers at a wider Cabinet meeting Sunday — was largely symbolic given that Gantz and Eisenkot had already resigned.
Since their departures, discussions about the war have been driven by Netanyahu in conjunction with his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, and close advisers, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
Dissolving the war Cabinet formalizes that process. It may also defuse calls from Netanyahu’s far-right coalition partners who might have hoped to fill the places of Gantz and Eisenkot.
According to Eisenkot, the influence of
one of those far-right leaders, Itamar BenGvir, the minister of national security, had long loomed over the discussions in the war Cabinet. After Gantz resigned, Ben-Gvir immediately demanded to join the group, writing on the social platform X that it was “about time to take brave decisions, achieve true deterrence, and bring true safety to the residents of the south, north, and all of Israel.”
Israeli news outlets reported Monday that Netanyahu’s move to disband the war Cabinet was a direct response to that demand.
For now, big decisions about the war in Gaza will still be put to a separate and broader security Cabinet. That group includes BenGvir and Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister. Both have argued strongly that Israel’s military offensive in Gaza must continue until Hamas is destroyed.
Near the end of three years as the United States’ chief representative in Taiwan, Sandra Oudkirk has some parting advice: Avoid panic about China’s combative language and moves, but don’t grow numb to the risks.
Oudkirk has been Washington’s de facto ambassador to Taiwan over a time when the island democracy has become a crucible of tensions between Washington and Beijing. China claims that Taiwan is its territory and must accept unification, by armed force if leaders in Beijing decide that is necessary.
At times, debate among Taiwanese and U.S. politicians, officials and experts has taken on some tension as well, over which mix of tactics — what military purchases, what reassuring or unyielding words to Beijing, what steps with fellow democracies — could best reduce the risks of war.
Oudkirk, who leaves her post in Taipei early next month, suggested that Taiwan and its partners needed to find a steady path, avoiding both hysteria and complacency.
“These are questions that we get all the time about how dangerous Taiwan is — you know, that Taiwan is the most dangerous place in the world,” she said, referring to talk of imminent crisis or war. “Sometimes the sound bites really don’t capture the full reality.”
But she added of China: “When a government, a country, a leader tells you what they’re thinking and tells you what they’re planning, you should listen to what they’re saying.”
After decades of tirades from Beijing, many Taiwanese people pay little attention. Chinese military drills and airspace intrusions are escalating, yet still only rarely cause public alarm. A majority of Taiwanese also say they believe that the United States would step in if China truly threatened to invade.
But that belief is not universal among Taiwanese politicians and voters, some of whom are skeptical about U.S. dedication and intent.
The United States has pledged in a law to help Taiwan defend itself, and has the option of sending U.S. forces if China ever attempted an armed takeover. Some U.S. commanders and experts have said an invasion is a looming possibility: A few years ago some cited 2027 as a potential date for Chinese military action. But Biden administration officials have said that they see no firm deadline from China’s leader, Xi Jinping.
Even so, in the years up to and during Oudkirk’s time as top U.S. representative in Taiwan, China’s pressure campaign against the island about 100 miles off its shore has intensified.
She was first assigned to Taiwan as a consular officer back in 1992, when the island was emerging from decades of martial law, and China was far less wealthy and well armed.
She later had posts in Dublin, Istanbul and Beijing.
Oudkirk became de facto ambassador in Taiwan in the middle of 2021. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine came a few months later, deepening Taiwanese worries of a similar gamble by China of an armed takeover. In August 2022, the Chinese military held its most extensive exercises ever around Taiwan, in what Beijing said was retaliation after Nancy Pelosi, then speaker of the House of Representatives, visited Taipei.
Taiwan’s presidential election this year delivered victory to Lai Ching-te, who is deeply disliked by Beijing, prompting another round of Chinese military exercises near the island and fiery denunciations from Beijing after his inauguration in May. Lai said then that he wanted to preserve Taiwan’s status quo — self ruled, yet short of formally declaring independence. Chinese officials have reacted with public, and heated, disbelief.
“His May 20 speech was from start to end a barefaced declaration for Taiwan independence,” Lt. Gen. He Lei, a former vice president of China’s Academy of Military Sciences, said in a recent interview while visiting Singapore for a meeting. “Going further and deeper down the path of Taiwan independence now will only bring greater dangers across the Taiwan Strait.”
To counter China’s warnings and growing strength, Taiwan and Washington have stepped
up their cooperation, and the U.S. representative office on a hillside in northeast Taipei is a concrete and steel symbol of those ties.
Its official name is the American Institute in Taiwan, which can make it sound more like a language school than a diplomatic mission. The vague name is a concession to the fact that Washington ended formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan when U.S. recognition shifted to Beijing in 1979.
The American Institute office was for years in a crowded office in downtown Taipei, maintaining a diminished official presence. The operation took pains to keep a low profile, and for decades didn’t regularly fly the U.S. flag.
Things are different now. The new institute complex, built in 2019, is a sprawling affair and has up to 585 staff members, up from 488 in 2019, according to its press office. The U.S. flag is now a steady presence above the building.
“These are examples of how U.S.-Taiwan relations have progressed,” Brent Christensen, the director of the American Institute in Taiwan before Oudkirk, said in an interview. He now teaches at Brigham Young University.
“Much of it is guided by precedent,” Christensen said. “But the Trump administration didn’t care very much about precedent, so it was a helpful time to move beyond some of these restrictions that we had imposed on ourselves.”
Ahulking military transport plane roared onto the tarmac at the main airfield in Grozny, the capital of the Chechen Republic in southeastern Russia, and a group of 120 volunteer fighters heading for Ukraine clambered aboard.
Dressed in camouflage, the newly minted troops had just completed at least 10 days of training in Gudermes, near Grozny, at the Special Forces University, which accepts men from across Russia for general military instruction.
Some of the trainees lacked any combat experience. Others were veterans returning to Ukraine for their second or third tour — including former mercenaries from the Wagner militia, disbanded in 2023 after a short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin.
Some Wagner fighters, chafing at the idea of working for the Russian Defense Ministry, instead transferred whole units to the Chechentrained forces, known as Akhmat battalions, intended in part to absorb fighters from outside the Russian army. Wagner veterans were often first recruited from prison, including a lean man with a gold front tooth, identified only by his military call sign, “Jedi,” because of the potential for retribution.
“Go for your Fatherland? What kind of Fatherland? It kept me in prison all my life,” said Jedi, 39, a construction laborer who was convicted of robbery and fraud. In and out of jail since 14, he had six months left on a six-year sentence when he signed up.
“The volunteers go for the money,” he said. “I have yet to meet anyone here for the ideology.” He also wanted a clean slate, he said.
Fat signing bonuses plus payments of about $2,000 per month, at least double the average
Children on a street of Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russia, on Dec. 9, 2023. Few traces of Grozny’s destruction remain. Today, new mosques and luxury boutiques stand amid the skyscrapers. (Nanna Heitmann/The New York Times)
wage in Russia, have spurred recruitment.
The training near Grozny highlights the evolution of ethnic loyalties that is manifest in this war. Some of those now training there were last in Chechnya as young conscripts for the Russian army, fighting against Chechens who were part of the separatist movement.
The participation of some Chechens represents another inversion of history: After hundreds of years of enmity with Russia, Chechens were deploying to Ukraine to fight Moscow’s war.
The separatist movement of the 1990s culminated in two brutal wars against Moscow that lasted intermittently for more than a decade. The city of Grozny was flattened, and tens of thousands of Chechens died.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader of Chechnya, has taken an aggressive stance toward Ukraine since Russia invaded the country in February 2022. Chechen forces have claimed an instrumental role in some key battles, includ-
ing the siege of Mariupol early in the war.
But Kadyrov has faced accusations that he has refrained from sending his fighters full-bore into the fight, with Chechens dying in fewer numbers than soldiers from other minority areas. Sparing his fighters keeps intact his private militia, the core of the security forces that ensure his rule in Chechnya.
Instead, Kadyrov has tried to underscore his loyalty to President Vladimir Putin of Russia by pouring resources into this military training center. The regimen consists of live fire exercises with artillery, some mining and demining instruction and first aid.
The various Akhmat battalions were named, like so much in Chechnya, after Kadyrov’s father, Akhmat Kadyrov, who switched sides to join Moscow in the separatist struggle and was then assassinated in 2004.
Russia has recruited troops for its war effort wherever it could find them, seeking to minimize the need for a draft. In 2022, it lifted an almost
blanket ban on Chechens serving in the Russian military, fallout from the separatist movement. Of the group being dispatched to Ukraine in the fall from the tarmac in Grozny, many were in their 30s and 40s, and fewer than 10 were Chechens. Despite Jedi’s claims, money is not the sole motivation.
Some fled troubled domestic lives. Others wanted to escape daily drudgery. Some, of course, profess to be fighting out of patriotism. Many of the men agreed to talk on the condition that they be identified by only their first names or military call signs for fear of retribution.
Anatoly, 24, was among 10 men who volunteered together from a small farming village high in the mountains in the picturesque, south-central Altai region. “My father forced me to shovel snow, to work, to clear out the dung from the cows,” he said. “I ran away from this work to do something else. Every year is the same.” He admitted that the money was an incentive, too.
Another rural worker, a 45-year-old shepherd who uses the call sign “Masyanya,” traveled about 4,500 kilometers from the Republic of Khakassia for the training. “I’m going to defend my motherland, so the war doesn’t come here,” he said.
The contract with the Akhmat battalion lasts only four months, a big incentive when compared with the open-ended deployments for regular soldiers.
In the fall, Ramzan Kadyrov formed a new unit, the Sheikh Mansour battalion, named after an 18th-century imam who fought against the Russian Empire. The soldiers are all Chechens or from the small, neighboring republics in the mountainous Caucasus region, and are mostly in their 20s. Chechens fighting for Ukraine against Russia named their battalion after Sheikh Mansour first, and now Kadyrov is trying to reclaim the name.
Turpal, 20, was working as a security guard for a large supermarket chain in Moscow when he got permission from his father to sign up for the new unit, saying that he wanted to fight against “those devils who are in Ukraine who want to bring their perverted ideas here.”
As he left to go back to the training center after a weekend visiting his parents, he hugged his mother and shook hands with his father. “Russia has been fighting for all its existence,” said Mayrali, Turpal’s father. “You can’t beat it. It is better for Chechnya to be with Russia than to be against Russia.”
Many of us liberals now find ourselves in an awkward spot on immigration.
For years we have denounced draconian steps by Republicans to bar desperate migrants. But President Joe Biden has now introduced his own tough steps to reduce asylum-seekers, not so different from President Donald Trump’s approach.
The new measures may be overturned by the courts, but in the meantime many on the left are whacking Biden. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., twisted the knife by suggesting that Biden was borrowing from Trump’s playbook: “By reviving Trump’s asylum ban, President Biden has undermined American values.”
Kica Matos, president of the National Immigration Law Center, said, “President Biden’s craven embrace of failed Republican policies is a mistake that will only lead to more harm and dysfunction.”
Stephen Colbert needled the Biden camp by imagining what this will look like in liberal hands: “We’re going to seal the border, folks, but the wall is going to be gluten free, and the barbed wire will be pro-choice.”
I’m conflicted, finding myself caught between pro-refugee instincts and a practical recognition that the system wasn’t working: There was a torrent of illegal crossings, and the law provided a loophole that allowed people to claim asylum and stay indefinitely whether or not they warranted it.
I exist only because an Oregon family in 1952 sponsored my dad as a refugee from Eastern Europe. But I’ve reluctantly come to the view that Biden is doing the right thing with his clampdown. Let me explain.
Liberals, me included, were pushed to the left by Trump’s policies on immigration, from the so-called Muslim ban to separation of children from families — conducted so cavalierly that sometimes family members sometimes cannot be located. More than three years after Trump left the White House, about 1,200 immigrant children still have not been reunited with their families, to our shame as a nation.
That said, I don’t think the solution is to swing the doors open.
Too often, we Americans approach immigration as a binary issue. We’re in favor, or we’re against. In fact, immigration should be seen as a dial we adjust.
However much we believe in immigration, we’re not going to welcome all 114 million people around the world who have been forcibly displaced, not to mention perhaps 1 billion children globally who are estimated to suffer some kind of severe deprivation. We must settle for accepting a fraction of those eager to come, and determining that fraction is the political question before us, with many trade-offs to consider. Immigration overall offers important benefits to the country, and employers and affluent people are particular winners: Immigrants reduce labor costs for people hiring gardeners or caregivers. But poor Americans can find themselves hurt by immigrant competition that puts downward pressure on their
wages, although economists disagree on the magnitude of that impact.
I’m influenced in my thinking by a terrific book by my New York Times colleague David Leonhardt, “Ours Was the Shining Future,” which examined many studies on the impact of immigration on wages. Leonhardt concluded that immigration wasn’t the primary reason for income stagnation among low-education workers over the past half-century, but that it nonetheless was a significant secondary factor.
I think of a neighbor of mine, a surly seventh-grade dropout who in the 1970s was earning more than $20 an hour (around $150 an hour today). That job disappeared, and he later ended up in part-time and minimum wage positions and lost his home. He was hurt by many factors — the decline of unions, globalization and the impact of technology — but he was also outcompeted by immigrants with a well-earned reputation for hard work.
It’s often said that native-born Americans aren’t interested in the jobs that immigrants take, but that doesn’t tell the full story. Many native-born Americans may not be willing to toil in the fields or on a construction site for $12 an hour, but perhaps would be for $25 an hour.
At a time when so many working-class Americans are already falling behind, and then self-medicating and dying from drugs, alcohol and suicide, shouldn’t we be careful about inflicting even more pain on them through immigration policy?
Relatively recent immigrants may also be hurt by newer immigrants — which may help explain why Pew found that three-quarters of American Latinos believe that the increasing number of people seeking to enter the country via the southern border is a “major problem” or a “crisis.”
Some working-class voters feel betrayed by Democrats who pushed to open borders, and there may be an element of xenophobia or racism in this anger — but also an element of truth. The United States makes it difficult for foreign doctors to practice in America, protecting physicians from competition. But the United States makes it relatively easy for low-skilled immigrants to work here and push down wages of our most vulnerable workers.
I’ve also wondered about the incentives we inadvertently create. In Guatemalan villages, I’ve seen families prepared to send children on the perilous journey to the United States, and I fear that lax immigration policies encourage people to risk their lives and their children’s lives on the journey.
Politics is of course a central reason Biden has acted on this issue, but that doesn’t mean he’s necessarily wrong. Plus, frustration about immigration makes it more likely that Trump will win the White House and that Trump Republicans will dominate Congress and the Supreme Court. That’s something the left should consider a disaster worth trying hard to avert.
One way or another, an angry public will force change on immigration. Ideally, this would come about through a comprehensive legislative fix to our broken system, but Trump and Republicans have blocked that path this year. Given the choices, I trust Biden more than Trump to adopt tougher
President Joe Biden is pictured during a White House economic meeting on July 28, 2022. (Wikipedia)
policies that are still sane and that don’t demonize refugees.
Are we, the people of an immigrant nation, pulling up the ladder after we have boarded? Yes, to some degree. But the reality is that we can’t absorb everyone who wants in, and it’s better that the ladder be raised in an orderly way by reasonable people.
So, even as the son of a refugee, I think on balance that Biden made the right call in curbing access to asylum.
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Con el fin de seguir construyendo una mejor ciudad y destacando la importancia de personas que han impactado la vida de los Aguadillanos, el alcalde, Julio Roldan Concepción, anunció en comunicado de prensa un novedoso Proyecto de Arte Urbano para embellecer áreas de la ciudad y a su vez promover el turismo eje fundamental de la economía de la llamada Ciudad de Encantos.
“El Proyecto consiste en la misión de la administración municipal de revitalizar la ciudad incursionando en la nueva corriente global en refrescar los paisajes urbanos con arte, diseño y color para promover el turismo y el embellecimiento de nuestros espacios urbanos”, mencionó el primer mandatario municipal. Además, se dio a conocer, que el proyecto será di-
l doctor Benjamín Colucci Ríos, catedrático del Departamento de Ingeniería Civil y Agrimensura del Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez (RUM), de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR), fue reconocido como miembro distinguido de la Sociedad Americana de Ingenieros Civiles (ASCE) en su clase de 2024.
Según destacó la entidad, se le otorgó la distinción por su servicio a la ingeniería civil como educador, investigador y profesional; por sus contribuciones en innovaciones en seguridad vial, sistemas de gestión de infraestructura vial y desarrollo de fuerza laboral profesional; así como por su servicio comunitario.
“Con mucha humildad agradezco a la ASCE y a su Junta de Directores por este reconocimiento; a Dios, por
señado por artistas locales e internacionales. El primer mural se encuentra en la Placita del Barrio Tamarindo en honor al pintoresco pescador de Aguadilla conocido como “Che, cógelo vivo”. Este mural es de la autoría del reconocido artista “Arte Cardé”.
Por otro lado, también se encaminarán los próximos proyectos que serán el mural de Aguadilla Mall donde se desarrollará un mosaico de la autoría del artista Roberto Biaggi. La Plaza Los Catalanes es también uno de los proyectos que se encuentran para revitalizar con proyectos artísticos significativos con el concepto de la plaza. En el mogote del Corredor Heriberto Ferrari se estará realizando la obra artística por el artista Isaac Laboy Moctezuma, creador de la famosa cara del indio en Isabela.
En este mogote estará tallando un Tiburón Mako,
esta jornada en la educación en Ingeniería Civil; y a mi familia por su apoyo incondicional en esta fascinante carrera universitaria de 46 años. Me siento honrado de que se premie el compromiso con la enseñanza e investigación en esta disciplina en el Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez, cuyos graduandos puertorriqueños e hispanos han contribuido significativamente en el desarrollo económico y sostenible de nuestra infraestructura a nivel local e internacional”, reiteró el doctor Colucci Ríos.
La ASCE subrayó que el catedrático mayagüezano es “considerado un visionario en mejores prácticas, innovación y transferencia de tecnología en iniciativas de seguridad vial en Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes de los Estados Unidos”.
Colucci Ríos se ha desempeñado como portavoz del Decenio de Acción para la Seguridad Vial; presidente del consejo editorial de la Revista Internacional de Desastres Naturales, Accidentes e Infraestructura Civil; y editor de Standard Specifications for Road and Bridge Construction on Federal Highway Projects. Ha sobresalido en el área docente de transporte; como miembro del Colegio de Ingenieros y Agrimensores de Puerto Rico, del Instituto de Ingeniería Civil y de la Sociedad de Ingenieros de Puerto Rico.
distintivo de Aguadilla. El parque de pelota ubicado en el Parque Colón contará con un mural dedicado al beisbolista Roberto Clemente siendo ese parque donde Clemente ofreció su última clínica deportiva antes de su muerte camino a Nicaragua a llevar ayuda luego del devastador terremoto.
Igualmente, se trabajarán murales en el Edificio Anexo de la Casa Alcaldía, Biblioteca electrónica, Pared detrás de Plaza Los Catalanes, mural Paseo Real Marina, entre otros.
“Seguimos enfocados y adelantando todo tipo de obras para el beneficio de nuestros residentes y visitantes de Puerto Rico y del exterior. Hemos llevado en nuestra gestión la meta de levantar el orgullo de ser aguadillano. Esto lo estamos logrando localmente y en la diáspora. Continuaremos desarrollando proyectos de índole cultural para continuar posicionando a Aguadilla en la capital del turismo de la región este del país”, finalizó el alcalde Julio Roldan.
Rico del Instituto de Ingenieros de Transporte, y ha tenido un impacto significativo en la profesión de ingeniería civil en comunidades de hispanos, latinos y diversos grupos étnicos.
El educador también ha sido reconocido como Ingeniero Civil Distinguido por el Instituto y la Facultad de Ingeniería. Ha realizado más de 500 presentaciones técnicas en más de 40 países y ha dirigido un exitoso programa de capacitación bilingüe e intercambios de pares en disciplinas civiles, de transporte y relacionadas. De igual forma, ha sido anfitrión de cientos de seminarios, talleres, simposios y conferencias sobre planificación, diseño, construcción, operación y mantenimiento de la infraestructura vial construida. Fue galardonado con la Cátedra Abertis Puerto Rico y durante la última década ha sido miembro de la Red Internacional de Cátedras Abertis.
Asimismo, es miembro fundador de múltiples entidades y organizaciones de ingeniería, como el Instituto Panamericano de Carreteras, Proyectos de Ingeniería en Servicio Comunitario y la sección de Puerto
Ha sido miembro de ASCE desde 1986 y fue honrado con el Premio Wilbur S. Smith en 2021, así como con un Muro de la Fama en la Región 5 el mismo año. En 2019, fue colaborador y editor del Report Card de la ASCE sobre la Infraestructura de Puerto Rico y, actualmente, forma parte de la Junta Directiva de la sección de Puerto Rico. Es integrante del Instituto de Ingenieros de Transporte y recibió su Premio Educador en Transporte 2019. También es miembro electo de la Academia Panamericana de Ingeniería 2009 y actual secretario de la Junta. Ha participado en varios congresos regionales del Caribe con la Federación Internacional de Carreteras, como orador, líder del programa científico técnico en visión cero y en diferentes comités, así como con otras organizaciones. En 2018 y 2023, fue reconocido con el Premio al Servicio Público del Administrador de la Federal Highway Administraction (FHWA) por su destacado liderazgo en el avance de la educación, la investigación y el desarrollo de la fuerza laboral en transporte y el avance del programa de carreteras con ayuda federal en Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes Estadounidenses.
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Françoise Hardy, an introspective pop singer who became a hero to French youth in the 1960s with her moody ballads, died on Tuesday. She was 80.
Her death, from cancer, was announced by her son, Thomas Dutronc, in a post on Instagram, saying simply, “Mom is gone.” No other details were provided.
With songs like her breakthrough 1962 hit, “Tous les Garçons et les Filles” (“All the Boys and Girls”), and later “Dans le Monde Entier” (“All Over the World”); her lithe look, prized by star fashion designers; and her understated personality, Hardy incarnated a 1960s cool still treasured by the French.
“How can we say goodbye to her?” President Emmanuel Macron of France said in a statement on Wednesday, a play on the title of Hardy’s 1968 hit “Comment Te Dire Adieu” (“How Can I Say Goodbye to You?”).
She was the only French singer on Rolling Stone’s 2023 list of the 200 best singers of all time.
Hardy’s ethereal, almost frail voice expressed a particular kind of French youthful ennui, though it became fuller with the years. She sang of love sought and not found, of love lost, of time passing, of hopes unfilled, in words written by herself, by French pop legend Serge Gainsbourg and even by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Patrick Modiano (who wrote, in the song “Etonnez-moi, Benoit,” “Astonish-me, Benedict, walk on your hands, swallow some pine cones, Benedict”).
Hardy captured the melancholy of her generation, born, like her, at the end of World War II and, like her, unsatisfied by France’s material progress in the decades after, in the “Trente Glorieuses,” or “30 Glorious Years.”
That youthful discontent, anticipated by the Existentialists — she was sometimes considered their pop-singer adept — exploded in the demonstrations in France of May 1968, when her fame was at its peak, though she disapproved of them and fled to her retreat in Corsica. The words Gainsbourg wrote for her that year incarnated the icon of cool she had already become: “Under no pretext/Would I want to have/The reflexes of unhappiness.”
Indeed, her cult of steely, solitary sadness would keep her well shy of movements of mass solidarity, rejecting what she called “the intolerances of the left” and steering her later toward right-leaning affinities with the likes of Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French president, or misanthropic writer Michel Houellebecq.
A damaged childhood with a single mother led Hardy to seek refuge in inner exploration, through songwriting. As she told Le Monde in 2016: “I am incapable of dissimulating and lying. Writing a song, on the contrary, forces you to go deep into what you have lived, and felt.” Songwriting, she said, was “an outlet.”
Everything was already present in the lyrics to her first hit, “All the Boys and Girls,” which she wrote in 1962 and which sold more than 2 million copies. She later disavowed the song (“I’m ashamed of ‘Tous Les Garçons et les Filles,’” she said in 1995, when a collection of her work was relea-
Hardy’s singular look — tall, long brown hair, a natural reticence — catapulted her into the worlds of fashion and film. She was dressed by André Courrèges, Paco Rabanne and Yves Saint Laurent and appeared in movies by Roger Vadim (“Castle in Sweden,” 1963) and John Frankenheimer (“Grand Prix,” 1966).
She disliked filming, however (“I cried every night,” she told the Le Monde interviewer), and soon stopped. In the 1970s and ’80s, there were more albums and experiments with jazz and bossa nova styles, but by then the public fascination with her had cooled, and in 1988 she announced that she would stop singing, though she continued to write songs for others.
She returned to singing in the late 1990s and 2000s with a turn toward a more rock-oriented style, making an album with the son, Thomas, she had with her one-time husband, Jacques Dutronc.
In later years, as illness overtook her — she was diagnosed with cancer in 2004 — she retreated into astrology and gloomy autobiographical writings. “The pessimism I attribute to myself, or that others attribute to me, is perhaps quite simply realism,” she was quoted as saying in 1997, after a concert with singer Julien Clerc.
Françoise Madeleine Hardy was born on Jan. 17, 1944, in German-occupied Paris in a clinic at the top of the Rue des Martyrs, in the 9th arrondissement, in the middle of an air raid. Her mother, Madeleine Hardy, was a bookkeeper, and her father, Étienne Dillard, who was largely absent during her childhood, was an already-married industrialist. The class divide between her mother and her sometime-father marked her life, as she made clear in interviews.
She went to a Roman Catholic parochial school in the neighborhood and later attended classes at the Institut d’Études Politiques and the Sorbonne.
sed), but all the essential sentiments of longing and nostalgia were there:
“And me, I walk alone, because I am loved by nobody,” she sang. “Without joy, and full of ennui. When will the sun shine for me? Like the girls and boys of my age, I ask, When will my day come … the day when my soul is no longer in pain?”
Her career was launched. The next year, 1963, she released her first LP, received a major French music award, the Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles-Cros, and appeared on the cover of Paris Match. By 1965, she had become a hit across the English Channel, recording a 45-rpm single in London, “All Over the World.”
Bob Dylan fell for her, writing about her in the liner notes of his album “Another Side of Bob Dylan,” from 1964. He began, “For Françoise Hardy/At the Seine’s edge/A giant shadow/Of Notre-Dame.” When he held his first concert in Paris, at the Olympia, in May 1966, he refused to return to the stage after an intermission unless she came to see him in his dressing room. Dylan was 25; Hardy was 22. She duly appeared.
But it was the gift of a guitar from her father, after she had received her high school diploma at 16, that proved decisive, she later remembered. She would practice for hours in the kitchen of her mother’s tiny apartment. By age 17, she had landed her first recording contract.
She would later say that her long relationship with Dutronc, whom she finally married in 1981, having first met him in 1967, inspired the “sufferings, frustrations, disillusions and profound self-interrogations” that suffused her songs. They separated in 1988.
As her health declined in the 2000s, after her cancer diagnosis, Hardy became an outspoken supporter of euthanasia. In 2016, she was placed in a coma, her doctors thinking that she would never wake up. She did, and went on to record another album, “Personne d’Autre” (“Nobody Else”), which proved to be her last, in 2018.
Her son is her only immediate survivor.
In his statement Wednesday, Macron described Hardy as a singer who “with reserved elegance, almost shy, didn’t hesitate to lay bare, raw emotion, in her sentimental ballads.”
“She sang of love,” he said, “that was dreamed, deceived, wounded.”
Françoise Hardy in New York, Nov. 30, 1966. Hardy, an introspective pop singer who became a hero to French youth in the 1960s with her moody ballads, died on Tuesday, June 11, 2024. She was 80. (Sam Falk/The New York Times)June 18, 2024 14
Over the past few months, a bird flu outbreak has spread swiftly through dairy cows in the United States, infecting more than 90 herds in 12 states. Along the way, the virus has caused collateral damage in several other species, spreading from dairies to poultry farms and from cows into at least three farmworkers, who developed symptoms of mild illness.
It has also caused mounting casualties in cats. On some dairy farms, sick or dead cats have provided an early signal that something was amiss. “They’re a bit of a canary in a coal mine,” Dr. Kammy Johnson, a veterinary epidemiologist for the Agriculture Department, said at a news briefing Thursday.
Since the dairy outbreak was first detected in late March, at least 21 cats in nine states have caught the virus, according to the department, which recently began tracking the feline cases.
Scientists have long known that cats are vulnerable to being infected by avian influenza, a group of flu viruses typically found in birds. In 2020, a new version of a bird flu virus, known as H5N1, emerged. It has spread rapidly around the world, infecting many wild birds and repeatedly spilling over into mammals, including cats.
“Domestic cats are actually highly susceptible to avian influenza, and especially H5N1,” said Kristen Coleman, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Maryland. “But there has been a recent uptick in domestic cat infections, a drastic uptick.”
There have been sporadic reports of infected dogs, too.
While bird flu infections of pets remain rare overall, they can be severe, especially in cats. “It results in very severe illness and oftentimes death,” Coleman said. “So it’s very serious, and it should be taken seriously.”
But a few “reasonable precautions” can help people keep their pets safe, she said.
Here’s what to know:
How are cats getting bird flu?
On dairy farms, cats were infected after drinking unpasteurized milk, also known as raw milk, which contains very high levels of the virus, from sick cows. More than 80% of affected dairy farms had cats on their premises, and more than half of those farms reported sick or dead cats, according to federal data released Thursday.
of which probably caught the virus when they preyed upon infected birds. “As we get more dead, wild birds on the landscape, if we get more dead poultry on the landscape, these carnivores that may get into them and ingest them, even after they’re dead, are getting just a massive dose of virus,” said Dr. Justin Brown, a wildlife veterinarian at Penn State.
A few larger outbreaks have also been linked to contaminated raw poultry. In 2023, for instance, bird flu outbreaks hit two cat shelters in Seoul, South Korea. Government investigators there subsequently found the virus in raw duck meat fed to the cats.
How does bird flu affect cats?
Cats infected by the virus often become severely ill, and in some instances, the mortality rate has been “shockingly high,” said Dr. Younjung Kim, a veterinary epidemiologist at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. At one affected cat shelter in South Korea, he noted, 38 of 40 cats died.
In a recent review, which has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, Coleman found that the new version of H5N1 had a 67% mortality rate in felines. (That calculation is primarily based on domestic cats, although it includes a handful of cases in other species, such as bobcats and lynx.)
Many infected cats develop fevers, loss of appetite and respiratory symptoms, which may include nasal discharge, difficulty breathing and pneumonia. Neurological symptoms, including
stiffness, tremors and seizures, are common, too. “Sometimes this is confused for rabies,” Coleman said.
Infections in cats can also be asymptomatic, although it remains unclear how common that is, since mild or asymptomatic cases may escape detection.
Are cats spreading the virus to people or other animals?
It’s unclear. “We do not fully understand whether or not they are capable of transmitting,” Johnson said. There is not yet any evidence that cats have been contributing to the spread of the virus on dairy farms, she added.
In the case of the outbreaks at the Korean cat shelters, scientists aren’t sure whether all of the sick cats contracted the virus from contaminated food or whether some of the animals caught the virus from each other.
“It was a very good opportunity to study cat-to-cat transmission,” said Kim, who published a paper on the outbreaks. But by the time the virus was detected, many of the dead cats had already been disposed of, he said, making the epidemiological investigation difficult. “So we don’t know the extent of the viral transmission,” he said.
However, previous studies have shown that cats can spread some bird flu viruses to each other and to people. In 2004, a laboratory study revealed that cats infected with an earlier version of H5N1 were capable of shedding the virus and infecting other cats.
But even before the recent dairy outbreak, there were reports of infected cats, some
Since the dairy outbreak was first detected in late March, at least 21 cats in nine states have caught the virus, according to the department, which recently began tracking the feline cases. (Zeke Tucker/Unsplash) The San Juan
And in 2016, a different bird flu virus, known as H7N2, tore through the cats at a New York City animal shelter. At least two people — a veterinarian and a shelter worker — also became infected, investigators found. Both people had mild symptoms and recovered.
Are dogs at risk, too?
Yes. There have been a handful of cases, including serious ones, reported in dogs.
In the spring of 2023, a dog in Ottawa, Ontario, was infected with H5N1 and died “after chewing on a wild goose,” according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. That same year, an infected dog in Poland developed a severe cough and other symptoms but recovered.
Overall, however, dogs seem to be less susceptible to the virus than cats are and appear less likely to develop severe disease.
For a recent study, Brown and his colleagues analyzed blood samples from nearly 200 hunting dogs in Washington. The researchers looked for antibodies to the virus, which would indicate that the dogs had previously been infected by it.
“And we looked specifically at waterfowl hunting dogs because they are going to be the ones that are actively in infected habitats and retrieving infected birds in their mouth,” Brown said. “We figured that was about as high a risk group as you could get.”
Just four of the dogs had antibodies; none had developed any symptoms or passed the virus on to other dogs in their households, the researchers found. The results suggest that the virus is not well adapted to dogs, which may require very high doses of virus in order to become infected, Brown said.
Still, Brown cautioned, the virus can change quickly, and it could become a bigger threat to dogs in the future. “I think we always have to be ready for that change to occur,” he said.
How can I protect my pet from bird flu?
Pets that remain indoors should be at exceedingly low risk, experts said. But owners should avoid feeding their pets raw milk or raw meat, which both could potentially transmit the virus.
Of course, an entirely indoor lifestyle is not possible for many pets. “We’re not asking you to lock your pet up,” Coleman said. So owners should take common-sense safety measures with outdoor pets, including to try to keep them away from sick or dead birds and from places where wild waterfowl congregate, experts said. Removing shared food and water sources, such as bird feeders and baths, may also help curb the spread of the virus.
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From the bridge of the three-masted windjammer, the Sea Cloud Spirit, the captain called out the words we’d all been waiting for.
“Let’s set the sails!” he cried, after turning off the engines, while maneuvering to maintain an optimum angle for his 18 deckhands to climb into the shrouds and unfurl the ship’s 44,132 square feet of sails by hand.
Like acrobats, the crew scurried up the masts to the upper topgallant sails that rose nearly 200 feet above us. The ship’s captain, Vukota Stojanovic, later insisted that none of it was for show. “Whenever there is an opportunity to sail, we sail,” he said.
For the next hour, the crew hauled the ropes until the 28 sails were billowing in the wind, propelling the 452-foot-long ship — the world’s largest passenger sailing vessel on which the sails are raised by hand — toward its first port of call, Portofino, Italy.
At a time when cruise lines are packing their ever-more-gargantuan ships with water parks and basketball courts, the 136-passenger Sea Cloud Spirit, with its old-fashioned clipper design and wooden decks, stands out. It is the newest ship from the Hamburg-based Sea Cloud Cruises, and while it is the company’s biggest, Sea Cloud said it wanted to leave space for passengers to connect to the surrounding elements.
I had arrived for a four-night “taster sailing” from Nice, France, to the Ligurian region of Italy, designed to entice passengers to sign up for a longer cruise. Here’s what I found.
The ship and cabins
The Spirit has many comforts and luxuries, including a fitness center, library, hair salon and a spa with a Finnish sauna that overlooks the sea. The deck layouts are spacious, with nooks carved out for privacy and relaxation.
Sixty-nine spacious cabins have windows that open onto the sea. My room, a junior suite on the third deck, had two large arched windows, mahogany tables, a balcony and a comfortable couch and armchair. The marble bathroom was lavish, with a gold-plated sink and large jetted bathtub.
The elegant interior design is inspired by the original Sea Cloud, built in 1931 for Marjorie Merriweather Post, the American heiress of the General Foods Corp., with glossy wooden panels and gold trimmings. The Sea Cloud was the largest private sailing
yacht in the world before Post handed it over to the U.S. Navy for use as a weather-reporting vessel during World War II. The four-mast, 64-passenger ship has since been restored to its former glory and will sail across the Aegean and Adriatic this summer.
Sailing
The experience felt authentic — even before the sails were set — with a detailed safety drill. On most cruises, the drill entails a safety video and signing in at an assembly point. But here, passengers put on their life jackets and walked through emergency scenarios that included rationing food supplies and fishing from the lifeboat.
Each day, the sails were set, even during heavy rain and wind speeds more than 30 knots. Guests wanting to participate in the rigging are usually invited to do so, but the weather conditions made it too risky for this sailing.
The Captain It is rare for cruise passengers to see the ship’s captain after the initial welcome drinks or gala dinner. But Stojanovic was omnipresent throughout the cruise, from setting sails to lifeguarding to mingling with guests.
Originally from Montenegro, Stojanovic piloted container ships for years. When he was asked to consider helming the original Sea Cloud nearly 10 years ago, he hesitated because he had no experience sailing. Even af-
ter he learned the ropes — and there are 340 ropes (known as running rigging) on the vessel — he was unsure. “I grew to love the sailings, the boats, the crew the lifestyle, but I still felt I belonged on container ships,” he said. “It would be a big adjustment, especially because I would have to shave every day,” he joked.
Eventually, he accepted the opportunity and worked tirelessly to learn how to sail and operate the ship. Today, he keeps an “open bridge” policy, allowing passengers to visit the control room, even when he is wrestling with the wind.
“The crew and the passengers are all part of the experience, and I like to meet people and receive their feedback,” Stojanovic said.
Sea Cloud Cruises aspires to take a “gentle” approach, using wind power to drive its ships wherever possible, even if that means changing course for optimal weather conditions. When sailing is not possible, the Spirit has two diesel-electric engines that run on low-sulfur marine diesel fuel. The company is also working with ports that have shore power capabilities to plug into the local electric power.
Onboard, there is an emphasis on reusable bottles and paper straws, and crew members separate solid waste to be compacted and removed when in port.
Excursions and Activities
We made stops in Portofino, San Remo, Italy, and St.-Tropez, France, anchoring offshore and getting to land by tender — a contrast to the big cruise ships with their loud horns and thick plumes of exhaust spewing from their funnels.
For passengers wanting to take a dip (there is no pool), the crew marked an area in the water with floats and an inflatable slide. The water was frigid, but many passengers took the plunge from the swimming deck. Guests could also take “Zodiac Safaris” around the ship to get views of the vessel from the water.
Excursions ranged from food and wine tours to e-biking and beach trips. In Portofino, passengers were free to explore the sights independently, including the Castello Brown Fortress and the lighthouse on Punta del Capo rock. There was ample time to eat meals on shore as the ship did not depart until 11 p.m. Over the summer, the Sea Cloud Spirit will sail to Spain, Portugal, France and the Azores, among other destinations. On Nov. 11, she will depart for St. Maarten in the Caribbean for the winter.
Summer prices, which include food and beverages, range from $3,995 for a four-night sailing in a superior cabin to $9,420 for a veranda suite. Seven-night sailings cost between $6,995 and $16,495.
The San Juan Daily Star A private area on the deck of the Sea Cloud Spirit during a trip from Portofino, Italy, to Sanremo, Italy, May 1, 2024. (Andrea Wyner/The New York Times) The 136-passenger Sea Cloud Spirit on a trip from Portofino, Italy, to Sanremo, Italy, April 30, 2024. In this era of gargantuan ships, its elegant clipper design, wooden decks and relatively small size stands out. (Andrea Wyner/The New York Times)ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN
SUCESORES DE SOBRINO INC., REPRESENTADO POR JOSE LUIS SOBRINO TRAPAGA Peticionaria EX PARTE
Civil Núm.: BY2024CV02604.
Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. (ART. 185 LEY DEL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD INMOBILIARIA Y SU REGLAMENTO, LEY 210-2015). CITACIÓN POR EDICTO A PERSONAS IGNORADAS O DESCONOCIDAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: FULANOS DE TAL. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a usted que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal el expediente de epígrafe, con el fin de inmatricular en el Registro de la Propiedad, a favor de la parte peticionaria, el dominio que tiene sobre la siguiente finca:
RÚSTICA (A): Predio de terreno, rústico radicado en el Barrio Yeguada, de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, midiendo por el Este noventa y cuatro (94) pies y colinda con la carretera que conduce a Vega Baja; por el Oeste, mide setenta (70) pies y colinda con W.A. Griffith, antes, luego Enrique Landrón, después Carmen María Trápaga, hoy José Luis Sobrino; por el Norte, mide sesenta y nueve (69) pies y colinda hoy con la Zona Marítima, y por el Sur, mide treinta (30) pies y colinda, antes con Michael A. Davis, hoy con Rafael López. Alega la Peticionaria que adquirió el domino de la finca antes descrita por virtud de la Escritura Número 87 de Permuta, otorgada el día 29 de julio de 1983, ante el notario público Mario A. Torres Rivera. El abogado de la Peticionaria es el Lcdo. Ricardo A. Vargas Valle, con oficina en el Centro Comercial Apolo, #2098 Ave. Apolo, Local 3-A, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969. Y se le notifica a usted, que este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le cite para que haga oposición a este expediente de dominio, si se viere perjudicado con la inscripción que se solicita, presentando su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acce-
der utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Se le advierte, que de no haber oposición dentro del término de veinte (20) días, a contar desde que fuera usted notificado de esta citación, la Peticionaria podrá obtener que se apruebe este expediente y se mande a inscribir a su nombre en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, el dominio que tiene sobre la finca anteriormente descrita. POR ORDEN DEL HONORABLE JESUS E. SOTO AMADEO, Juez de este Tribunal, expido la presente en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de mayo de 2024, bajo mi firma y sello oficial. LCDA. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia De Bayamón. Luisa I. Andino Ayala, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL GARCIA FONSECA, COMPUESTA POR XYZ (HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS), ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO Y CRIM
Demandado Civil Núm.: CA2023CV02100. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 17 de mayo de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento número TRES guion G en el tercer piso del edificio número
A guion UNO del Condominio Pontezuela I, localizado en la Avenida Pontezuela, colindante
con la Urbanización Jardines de Country Club, en el municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de CIENTO OCHO punto CATORCE (108.14) metros cuadrados. Colinda por el SUR, en una distancia de UNO punto OCHENTA y TRES (1.83) metros, con la pared exterior del dormitorio número DOS (2) y en SEIS punto OCHENTA y NUEVE (6.89) metros con el apartamento TRES guion D (3-D), por el NORTE, en una distancia de OCHO punto SETENTA y DOS (8.72) metros, con el pasillo de entrada que está frente al TRES guion H, por el ESTE, en una distancia TRECE punto VEINTISIETE (13.27) metros con la pared exterior Este y por el OESTE, en una distancia de TRECE punto VEINTISIETE (13.27) metros, con la pared exterior Este y con el apartamento TRES guion E. Le corresponde una participación de punto CUATROCIENTOS (.400%) en el aprovechamiento de los elementos comunes de la propiedad. Le corresponde el espacio de estacionamiento marcado edificio A guion UNO guion TRES Guion G”. Inscrita al folio 98 del tomo 974 de Carolina, finca #29,083 del Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada el 18 de marzo de 2024 y notificada el 25 de marzo de 2024 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $49,167.91 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al tipo de 6.625% por ciento anual desde el día 1 de enero de 2023, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguros estipuladas en la escritura de hipoteca, contribuciones de la propiedad, de aplicar, y contra riesgos, más recargos por demora, más los intereses devengados y la cantidad estipulada de $7,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. 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 31 DE JULIO DE 2024 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $70,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una
SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 7 DE AGOSTO DE 2024 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $46,666.66, 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 14 DE AGOSTO DE 2024 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $35,000.00, 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 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 Artículo 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. 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 la-
borables. 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de mayo de 2024. ENRIQUE VERGÉ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #960, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESION DE JOSÉ VEGA ARROYO T/C/C JOSÉ RAMÓN VEGA ARROYO COMPUESTA POR LA SUCESION DE JOSE RAMON VEGAS CEDENO COMPUESTA POR FULANITO(A) DE TAL, SUTANITO(A) DE TAL Y MENGANITO(A) DE TAL Y JANE DOE EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; SUCESION DE MARIA ELENA VEGA CEDENO COMPUESTA POR FULANO(A) DE TAL, SUTANO(A) DE TAL Y MENGANO(A) DE TAL, Y MARY DOE EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; MADELINE VEGA CEDENO Y EDWIN VEGA CEDENO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: MZ2019CV00410. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, CALIXTO RIVERA GHIGLIOTTY, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Mayagüez, al público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 4 de abril de 2024, por la Secretaria de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente y/o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Parcela marcada con el número ciento setenta y tres en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural La Parguera del Barrio Parguera del término municipal de Lajas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cero cuerdas con mil ochocientos veinte diezmilésimas de otra, equivalente a setecientos quince punto cincuenta y uno metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcelas ciento setenta y dos y ciento setenta y cuatro de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la calle número seis de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela ciento setenta y cinco de la comunidad; por el OESTE, con parcela número ciento setenta y uno de la comunidad. Inscrita al Folio 158 del Tomo 168 de Lajas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Germán, Finca Número 5,822. Dirección física: Colinas de la Parguera, 173 Calle 6, Lajas Puerto Rico 00667. La finca 5,822 está gravada con la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de The Money House., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $113,000.00, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 338, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de agosto de 2007, ante la notario Namyr T. Hernández Sánchez, e inscrita al folio 37 del tomo 340 de Lajas, finca número 5,822, inscripción 17. La propiedad está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: A. Hipoteca revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario del Departamento de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, Development, o a
su orden, por la suma principal de $113,000.00, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 339, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de agosto de 2007 ante la notario Namyr T. Hernández Sánchez, e inscrita al folio 37 del tomo 340 de Lajas, finca número 5,822, inscripción 18ª. B. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 22 de marzo de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, en el Caso Civil número MZ2019CV00410, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico; versus José Vega Arroyo también conocido como José Ramón Vega Arroyo; Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano; Estados Unidos de América; por la suma de $176,073.45, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 16 de mayo de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Lajas, finca número 5,822, Anotación “C”. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico; por la hipoteca de $113,000.00 total o parcialmente. 1. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, total o parcialmente el importe de la Sentencia emitida el 28 de noviembre de 2023, notificada y archivada en autos el 12 de diciembre de 2023. El importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, asciende a las siguientes cantidades: $261,090.85 al 30 de septiembre de 2023. Cantidad que continuará acumulándose a razón del 7% hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, en la escritura de hipoteca, las partes pactaron la suma de $11,300.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Asimismo, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $11,300.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $11,300.00 para cubrir intereses adicionales a los garantizados por ley, según pactado. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 10 DE JULIO DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $113,000.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 17 DE JULIO DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $75,333.33. TERCERA SUBASTA: Se cele-
brará el día 24 DE JULIO DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $56,500.00. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Mayagüez, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, elAlguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas o gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se le apercibe a los tenedores de gravámenes posteriores al que se ejecuta que, para proteger cualesquiera derechos que tengan sobre el inmueble, deberán comparecer a la subasta, pues de no hacerlo así y de no igualar el precio de venta del gravamen hipotecario que se ejecuta, el Tribunal ordenará la cancelación de todos los gravámenes posteriores. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico una vez por semana por un término de dos (2) semanas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días
apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 30 de mayo de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. ALBERTO J. GUADALUPE GONZALEZ
Demandado
Civil Núm.: CG2024CV01216. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: ALBERTO J. GUADALUPE GONZALEZ.
POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda.
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index/php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que 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 Demandad, o cualquier otro,
si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Urb. Los Flamboyanes, 200 Calle Moca, Gurabo, PR 007782773. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de mayo de 2024. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. YAMAIRA M. RÍOS CARRASCO, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS
SELECT PORTFOLIO SERVICING INC. COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIOS DE LEGACY MORTGAGE
ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1
Demandante Vs. PEDRO MIRANDA RIVERA, WANDA MARTY LEON Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE ELLOS, FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ
Demandada
Civil Núm.: CG2024CV01902. Sobre: DECLARACIÓN DE EXTRAVÍO Y REPRODUCCIÓN DE PAGARÉ. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE SOCIO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS. 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 radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni-
ca: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, LCDA.
MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVA A su dirección: PO. Box 7970 Ponce, PR. 00732. Tel: 787-843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de restitución de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió un pagaré hipotecario a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma de $187,000.00, con intereses al 5.95% anual, vencedero el primero de diciembre de 2034, según surge del testimonio número 552, asegurado mediante la escritura número 447, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de noviembre de 2004, por Pedro Miranda Rivera y Wanda Marty Leon, ante la notario Lucy Navarro Rosado y cuya obligación está inscrita al folio 145 del tomo 275 de Aguas Buenas, finca número 12,027, Registro de la Propiedad, Caguas II. Que, la propiedad sobre la cual se constituyó dicha hipoteca es la siguiente:
RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Sumidero de la Municipalidad de Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, identificada con el número cuatro (4) del proyecto Estancias La Sierra II, con una cabida superficial de dos mil ciento cincuenta punto setenta (2,150.70) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto cinco mil cuatrocientos setenta y dos (0.5472) cuerdas. En lindes por el Norte, con el lote número cinco (5), en una distancia de sesenta y uno punto setenta y seis (61.76) metros; por el Sur, con el lote número tres (3), en una distancia de cuarenta y nueve punto setenta y uno (49.71) metros; por el Este, con la calle número tres (3), en una distancia de diez punto veintidós (10.22) metros y arco de treinta y dos punto noventa y uno (39.91) metros; y por el Oeste, con remanente del proyecto en una distancia de treinta y ocho punto ochenta y un (38.81) metros. Inscrita al folio ciento cuarenta y cinco (145) del tomo doscientos setenta y cinco (275) de Aguas Buenas, finca número doce mil veintisiete (12,027), Registro de la Propiedad Sección Segunda (2da) de Caguas. SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 30 día de mayo de 2024. LI-
SILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. YAMAIRA M. RÍOS CARRASCO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS
A SALA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADA
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante Vs. HÉCTOR M.
RUIZ SANTIAGO
Demandado
Civil Núm.: AU2023CV00500. Salón: 0001. 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: HÉCTOR M. RUIZ
SANTIAGO - BO.
MALPASO SECTOR
SABANA CARR 417 KM
3.0 INT, AGUADA, PR 00602; HC 61 BOX 38502, AGUADA, PR 00602-9459.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pruindex,php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: 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 Aguada, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de marzo de 2024. En Aguada, Puerto Rico, el 21 marzo de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ERIKA I. CRUZ PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUÁNICA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante Vs. KEVIN A. DELGADO ALMODÓVAR
Demandado
Civil Núm.: GU2023CV00093. Salón: 1. 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: KEVIN A. DELGADO ALMODÓVAR - URB. VISTA MAR CALLE
JUAN B. MORCIGLIO #3, GÚANICA, PR 00653.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, 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 Yauco, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de marzo de 2024. En Gúanica, Puerto Rico, el 21 de marzo de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SABANA GRANDE
ISLAND PORTFOLIO
SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante Vs. FRANCHESKA M. JUSINO ALICEA Demandado Civil Núm.: GU2023CV00096. 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: FRANCHESKA M. JUSINO ALICEA - BO. LA JOYA D-40 SECTOR LAS LATAS, GUÁNICA, PR 00653; HC 38 BOX 6131, GUÁNICA, PR 00653. 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 Ia secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sanchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, 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 Yauco en Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de febrero de 2024. En Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, el 21 de marzo de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DAISY QUIÑONES VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. TOMAS DEL CARMEN CONTRERAS, AURA RODRIGUEZ DE LOS SANTOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV02665. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: TOMAS DEL CARMEN CONTRERAS, AURA RODRIGUEZ DE LOS SANTOS - 711 10, BO. OBRERO SANTURCE, SAN JUAN, PR 00915; CALLE AMAGRO 361, SAN JOSÉ, SAN JUAN, PR 00923.
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández
RUA Núm.: 16,393
BERMUDEZ & DÍAZ LLP
500 Calle De La Tanca, Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664
rdiaz@bdprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy, 30 de mayo de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUZ ENID FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE LA INDUSTRIA BIOFARMACEUTICA Demandante Vs. ASHLEY MENDEZ BECERRIL Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: RG2024CV00014. Sala: 206. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA 60). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: ASHLEY MENDEZ BECERRIL - DIRECCIÓN: URB. JARDINES DE COUNTRY CLUB DA-9 CALLE 165, CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO 00983. POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y se le notifica que una Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero ha sido presentada en su contra y se le requiere para que conteste la misma dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto, radicando el original de su contestación en el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de la misma a la parte demandante a la siguiente dirección:
BUFETE APONTE & CORTES LCDA. ERIKA MORALES MARENGO PO Box 195337 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919 Tel. (787) 302-0014 / (787) 239-5661 Email: emarengo@apontecortes.com Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo у Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio. Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 21 de mayo de 2024. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA.
IDALIA PIÑERO REYES, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADA COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE RINCÓN
Parte Demandante Vs EDUARDO I
BENAVENT IBARRA
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: AG2024CV00429. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO. A: EDUARDO J
BENAVENT IBARRA.
Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. José F. Giraud Mejías, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-2650334, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy 31 de mayo de 2024.
SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE AÑASCO. LISNEL RODRÍGUEZ ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE UTUADO SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V.
ESTHER SOTO ROSADO
Demandado
Civil Núm.: UT2019CV00407. Sala: 402. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS
UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO
RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Utuado, Utuado, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 9 de enero de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Urbana: BARRIO VIVI ABAJO de Utuado. Solar: NOMERO 32 DEL BLOQUE “D” DE LA URBANIZACION JARDINES DE BUBAO II. Cabida: 200.9543 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, en 10.20 metros, con solar 36. Sur, en 10.83 metros, con la calle 5. Este, en 18.32 metros, con el Solar D-31. Oeste, en 19.50 metros, con solar D-33. Enclava una casa construida de cemento para usos residenciales. Inscrita al folio 5 del tomo 548, finca # 30,572 de Utuado. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Utuado. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada y notificada en este caso el 15 de noviembre de 2023, a saber la suma de $79,130.26 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 4.50% desde el 1ro de enero de 2019; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $8,619.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. 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 1 DE AGOSTO DE 2024 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en el Centro Judicial de Utuado, Utuado, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $86,190.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 8 DE AGOSTO DE 2024 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $57,460.00, 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 15 DE AGOSTO DE 2024 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $43,095.00, 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 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. 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 Utuado, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de mayo de 2024. ALGUACIL ELIEZER MOLINA SÁNCHEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #435, ALGUACIL DE LA DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA
SUPERIOR DE UTUADO. LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO ALIPIO AQUINO
Plaintiff V. ANA MERCEDES RAVELO CASTILLO
Defendant Civil No.: 16-1520. (PAD). COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE. To: DEFENDANT AND GENERAL PUBLIC.
On November 30, 2016, this Court entered Default Judgment in favor of Bautista Cayman Asset Company, now Alipio Aquino (“Aquino”). To date, Defendant has not satisfied the Judgment. The Defendant owes Aquino the principal balance of $96,325.89, plus interest at a rate of 6.95% per annum due as of August 23, 2016. The interest continues to accrue until the debt is paid in full. In addition, Defendant is further ordered to pay Aquino accrued late charges and any other advance, charge, fee, or disbursements made by Plaintiff on behalf of Defendant, in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs, charges and disbursements, expenses and attorneys’ fees. Pursuant to said judgment and the Order of Execution of Judgment, the undersigned appointed Special Master was ordered to sell, at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check, without appraisement or right to redemption, to the highest bidder, at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at any other place designated by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA: Solar sito en la sección Norte del Barrio de Santurce de esta ciudad, marcado con el número ciento cincuenta (150) en el plano de la urbanización de la finca principal y mide doscientos (200) metros cuadrados. En colindancias por el frente Oeste, en diez metros (10.00) con la calle Rambla Monte Flores, por el fondo Este, en diez metros (10.00) con el solar número cuarenta y nueve (49) de la Avenida del Río de Miguel Tellado, por la derecha entrando Sur, en veinte metros (20.00) con la calle Monroy, y por la izquierda, Norte en veinte metros (20.00) con el solar número ciento cincuenta y dos (152) de la expresada señora King Daoly. Recorded at Page 220 of Volume 265 of Santurce Norte, Property Number 10,206, Registry of the Property
of San Juan, First Section. Physical Address: 2011 Gilberto Monroig Ave., Villa Palmeras, San Juan, PR 00915. The property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Free of Liens. By itself: MORTGAGE: in guarantee of note in favor of Doral Mortgage Corp., or to its order, in the principal amount of $104,000.00, with a yearly interest rate of 6.95%, due on December 1, 2019 as per deed no. 605, executed on November 23, 2004, before Notary Public Waleska C. Colón Villanueva, recorded at page 224 of volume 265 property #10206 of Santurce Norte, 13th abbreviated inscription. LIS PENDENS: The Mortgage in favor of Doral Mortgage Corp. is the object of this annotation, for the amount of $104,000.00 that arises from registration #13th, Plaintiff: Bautista Cayman Asset Company; Defendant: Owner, Amount Due $96,325.89, for principal plus interest, according to Demand issued by the US District Court for the District of PR, Civil case #16-1520PAD on day March 22, 2016, registered on Karibe volume, Annotation A, dated June 8, 2016. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect. It being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The lien executed is over the property, and for the purposes of the first judicial sale the minimum bid amount is as follows: a. The amount of $104,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $69,333.33 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $52,000.00. Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property may be executed and delivered after the judicial sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. THEREFORE,
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will, on the 2ND DAY OF AUGUST, 2024, AT 9:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 9TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2024, AT 9:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 16TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2024, AT 9:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 23rd day of May, 2024. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, APPOINTED SPECIAL MASTER.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE EFRAÍN ANTONIO VAZQUEZ RODRIGUEZ, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO EFRAÍN VAZQUEZ RODRIGUEZ, COMPUESTA POR SU PADRE EFRAÍN VAZQUEZ Y FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; VANESSA LADILLO PIÑERO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2024CV00156.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: EFRAIN VAZQUEZ, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE EFRAÍN ANTONIO VAZQUEZ RODRIGUEZ, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO EFRAÍN VAZQUEZ RODRIGUEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE EFRAÍN ANTONIO VAZQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO EFRAÍN VAZQUEZ RODRIGUEZ.
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria “In Rem”, en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $141,579.34, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.875% anual, desde el día 1ro de agosto de 2023, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $16,250.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta es: URBANA PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número Mil Ochocientos Doce (1812). Apartamento residencial de forma irregular, localizado en la segunda planta del Edificio “H” del CONDOMINIO SENDERO DEL RÍO, situado en el Barrio Carraízo Bajo del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, con un área privada de MIL TRESCIENTOS SESENTA Y CUATRO PUNTO SETENTA Y CINCO (1,364.75) PIES CUADRADOS, equivalentes a CIENTO VEINTISEIS PUNTO SETENTA Y NUEVE (126.97) METROS CUADRADOS, los cuales incluyen acceso a un área de DOSCIENTOS VEINTITRES PUNTO NOVENTA Y SEIS (223.96) PIES CUADRADOS, correspondientes a una terraza cubierta para uso privado localizada en el techo del apartamento y un área descubierta de SEISCIENTOS OCHO PUNTO SIETE SEIS CERO TRES (608.7603) PIES CUADRADOS. Son sus lindes: por el NORTE, en aproximadamente treinta y un pies nueve pulgadas (31’-9”), equivalentes
a nueve punto sesenta y ocho (9.68) metros, con pared exterior que da a los elementos comunes generales del Condominio; por el SUR, en aproximadamente treinta y un pies nueve pulgadas (31’-9”), equivalentes a nueve punto sesenta y ocho (9.68) metros, con pared exterior que da a los elementos comunes limitados del Condominio; por el ESTE, en aproximadamente treinta y ocho pies ocho pulgadas (38’-8”), equivalentes a once punto cincuenta y ocho (11.58) metros, con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento número Mil Ochocientos Nueve (1809) del mismo edificio; y por el OESTE, en aproximadamente treinta y dos pies dos pulgadas (32’-2”), equivalentes a nueve punto setenta y seis (9.76) metros, con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento número Mil Ochocientos Dieciséis (1816) del mismo edificio. La puerta de entrada principal del apartamento está situada en su lindero Noroeste, por donde tiene acceso al pasillo común del edificio. Consta de sala, comedor, cocina, cuarto de lavado de ropa (“laundry”), tres dormitorios, pasillo, dos baños y un área de terraza cubierta y terraza descubierta en su techo. Participa de todos los elementos comunes generales del Condominio, así como de los elementos comunes limitados por piso y su correspondiente edificio, tal como aparece en la escritura matriz sometiendo los edificios al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal. Le corresponde dos espacios de estacionamientos, identificados con los números Mil Ochocientos Doce (1812) y Dos Mil Ochocientos Doce (2812). Este apartamento tiene una participación de cero punto cero cero siete seis porciento (0.0076%) de los elementos comunes del Condominio. Inscrita al folio 197 vuelto del tomo 883 de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta, finca número 33,987, inscripción segunda. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que el caso sea un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte de-
mandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023).
Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. La información del (de la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante es la siguiente:
Lcdo. Baldomero A. Collazo Torres
Bufete Collazo & Surillo, LLC
P.O. Box 11550
San Juan, P.R. 00922-1550
Tel. (787) 625-9999
Fax (787) 705-7387
E-mail: bcollazo@lawpr.com
Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que conforme el caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria v. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 D.P.R. 689, 696 (2005) y a tenor con las disposiciones del Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11021), deberá aceptar o repudiar la herencia del causante Efraín Antonio Vázquez Rodríguez, dentro del término de treinta (30) días. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Se le notifica también por la presente que la parte demandante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción. Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 2 de mayo de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE
BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante V. RAFAEL A. DIAZ NEGRON Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: TA2023CV01159. (Salón: 502). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN \ GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM. A: RAFAEL A. DIAZ NEGRON. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 07 DE JUNIO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de junio de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 10 de junio de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
ORIENTAL BANK
COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIOS DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.
Demandante V. LA SUCESION DE LYDIA MARITZA ORTIZ TORRES Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: MZ2023CV02118. (Salón: 207). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
DUNCAN R. MALDONADO
EJARQUE - EJECUCIONES@CMPRLAW.COM. A: LA SUCESIÓN DE LYDIA MARITZA ORTIZ TORRES COMPUESTA POR JEFF, JARITZA Y HAZEL TODOS DE APELLIDOS VALENTÍN ORTIZ; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN; DC ESTANCIAS DEL PARRA, LLC. (TITULAR REGISTRAL).
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 07 de junio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 14 de junio de 2024. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 14 de junio de 2024. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. JOSSIE BOBE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
GUSTAVO ENRIQUE FUENTES SÁNCHEZ
Demandante Vs. CARLOS ADOLFO FUENTES SÁNCHEZ
Demandado
Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV04484. (903). Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE HEREDITARIA / AUTORIZACION JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: CARLOS ADOLFO FUENTES SÁNCHEZ. Por la presente se le notifica a
usted que se le ha presentado ante este Honorable Tribunal, una Solicitud de LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD HEREDITARIA Y AUTORIZACIÓN JUDICIAL. Se emplaza y se le requiere para que notifique a la Lcda. Edith M. Echevarría Suárez cuya oficina queda en el Condominio El Centro 1, Suite 249, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00918.Teléfono (787) 751-4391, abogado de la parte demandante, copia de la Contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la notificación de este Edicto. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer dentro de un término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la publicación del edicto, se concederá el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. DADA en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 4 de junio de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GLORIAM MARTÍNEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE SALÓN DE SESIONES 303 REINALDO
COLON DAVILA
Demandante Vs. PAULA
PAREDES HERRERA
Demandada Exp. Núm.: PO2024RF00350. Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. A: MOCIÓN
INFORMATIVA Y SOLICITANDO SE NOS PERMITA EMPLAZAR POR EDICTO - RADICADA EL 22 DE MAYO DE 2024 EL TRIBUNAL DICTA LO SIGUIENTE: EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: PAULA PAREDES HERRERA - CALLE MONUMENTAL, PDF. MONUMENTAL MANZANA B #17 4TO PISO 405, LOS LAURELES SANTO DOMINGO, REPUBLICA DOMINICANA (ULTIMA DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA).
Por la presente se le emplaza y se le apercibe de que usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una vez en un periódi-
co de circulación diaria general, por orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Ponce. De representarse por derecho propio deberá notificar copia de su alegación a la: Lcda. Alba Meléndez Romeu, RUA: 20314; Dirección Postal: P.O. BOX 194205, San Juan, PR 00919; Tel.: 787-7894172, 787-245-1194; Email: albamromeu@gmail.com. Por desconocer el paradero de la parte demandada, el Tribunal EXIME a la parte demandante de dar cumplimento con la notificación por correo certificado con acuse de recibo dentro del término de diez (10) siguientes a la publicación del Edicto de copia de la demanda y del emplazamiento según lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil de Puerto Rico. Se le apercibe que si dejare de hacerlo se dictará sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Ponce hoy 30 de mayo de 2024.
CARMEN TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA GENERAL. VIRGEN HADDOCK ORTIZ, SUBSECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
FERMINA A. SANCHEZ HERNANDEZ
Demandante V. SUCESION DE LUIS
ROBERTO SANCHEZ MARTINEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV10109. (Salón: 908). Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. IAN ALEJANDRO LEBRÓN WARDIANLEBRONWARD@GMAIL.COM. A: SUCESION DE LUIS
ROBERTO SANCHEZ MARTINEZ, DEBORAH SANCHEZ ANDINO, LUIS FERNANDO SANCHEZ ANDINO, LUIS MIGUEL SANCHEZ ANDINO, LUIS
CRISTOBAL SANCHEZ MEDINA ROSSANA ARGENTINA SANCHEZ WILAMO T/C/C ROSANNA ARGENTINA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de mayo de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no-
tificación 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 15 de mayo de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 15 de mayo de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ELSA CANDELARIO CABRERA, ECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA SALÓN DE SESIONES CIVIL 401 EMPRESAS CARRIÓN & LANZO DEVELOPMENT CORP
Demandante V. R & G PREMIER OF BANK OF PUERTO RICO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CA2023CV01842. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
LUIS M. BARNECET VELEZBARNECET@HOTMAIL.COM.
A: R &G PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 04 de octubre 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 04 de octubre de 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 04 de octubre de 2023. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria. Denisse Minerva Torres Ruiz, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN FRANCISCO AROCHO LABOY, DORIAN NARVÁEZ VÉLEZ, BIENVENIDO AROCHO NARVÁEZ, CARMEN M. LABOY CRUZ
Demandantes; V. EL COOLMADO, LLC, ASEGURADORA ABC, ASEGURADORA XYZ, FULANOS DE TAL I-X
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV01581. Sobre: DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: EL COOLMADO, LLC#1855 CALLE LOIZA, SAN JUAN, PR 00911. SE NOTIFICA que la parte demandante ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal una demanda contra El Coolmado, LLC. 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. Deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante: Lcdo. Adrián Brito Rodríguez, 1607 Ave. Ponce de León St. GM6 #232, San Juan, PR 00909; email: adrian@brito.legal y teléfono 787-705-1011. SE LE APERCIBE que, de no hacer su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy día 30 de abril de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LIZ MARIE RIVERA DÍAZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESION DE ANGEL RAFAEL FIGUEROA NEGRON Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2023CV03081. (Salón: 702). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GUILLERMO A. SOMOZA COLOMBANI - BILLYSOMOZA@ YAHOO.COM. A: FULANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESION DE ÁNGEL RAFAEL FIGUEROA NEGRÓN, MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESION DE ÁNGEL RAFAEL FIGUEROA NEGRÓNCOND BALCONES DE BONEVILLE, CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO 00725; CALLE CIPRÉS ARPA 1-4, BALCONES DE BONEVILLE, CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO 00725. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de mayo de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 11 de junio de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 11 de junio de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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June 18, 2024
Before the Olympics even begin, there is always heartbreak. And June may be the hardest month of all.
Caitlin Clark, the ascendant star of women’s basketball, just found out that she won’t be going to Paris. So did Bill May, whose hopes of becoming the first man to compete at the Olympics in the sport of artistic swimming were dashed by the U.S. selection committee.
Over the next few weeks, hundreds more athletes — swimmers and sprinters, divers and tumblers, many of whom have spent years training with the singular goal of representing Team USA on the planet’s grandest sports stage — will see their dreams of competing at the Paris Olympics pulverized to a fine dust.
That’s because the U.S. trials in sports like swimming, gymnastics and track and field might just be the fiercest crucibles of all, with a ruthless requirement for Olympic berths: Perform well, or you’re staying home.
At the U.S. track and field trials, which are a 10-day smorgasbord of joy and sorrow that starts Friday in Eugene, Oregon, the top three finishers in each event will qualify for Paris — provided those athletes have met the Olympic standard. So, even for someone like Elle St. Pierre, who has the fastest times in the country this year in the women’s 1,500 and 5,000 meters, there are no excuses or do-overs. She knows she must be at her best.
In the 1,500 meters, some of St. Pierre’s toughest competition could come from two of her training partners: Emily Mackay, the bronze medalist in the event at the indoor world championships in March, and Heather MacLean, a former indoor national champion who represented the United States alongside St. Pierre at the Tokyo Olympics.
Mark Coogan, their coach with Team New Balance Boston, recalled a recent conversation with St. Pierre, the reigning indoor world champion in the 3,000 meters.
Bill May, at the Los Angeles Swimming Center in Los Angeles, on May 20, 2024. May had hoped to be the first man to compete in artistic swimming at the Olympics, but he did not make the team. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)
“I know everybody is in the same boat,” St. Pierre told him, “but it’s crazy how much you have to prove yourself in this sport to go to the Olympics as an American.”
Coogan gets it. In 1992, he was one of the country’s top runners in the steeplechase, a taxing event that combines 3,000 meters of running with water jumps and waist-high barriers. But just weeks before the U.S. trials for the Barcelona Games, he tweaked his hamstring. It wasn’t a serious injury.
“But I think it broke me mentally,” he said.
Coogan struggled at the trials and did not earn a spot at the Olympics.
The disappointment stuck with him for several years, he said. In fact, it was not until he made the U.S. Olympic team as a marathoner in 1996 that he felt a sense of relief.
In some ways, the U.S. swimming trials, which started Saturday in Indianapolis, are even more cutthroat: Only the top
two finishers in each event are typically guaranteed spots on the Olympic team.
Alex Walsh, a silver medalist in the women’s 200-meter individual medley at the Tokyo Games, said that many prospective U.S. Olympians now included mental exercises and sessions with sports psychologists in their training to better prepare them for the pressure of the trials, which this year are being staged inside a football stadium.
There, Walsh said, “you can hear the crowd screaming. The bass is shaking the ready room underneath the stands. It’s supposed to get your adrenaline rushing for a reason. They want to see who can perform at the highest stakes; that way, the U.S. sends the best Olympic team possible. But if you save yourself until that moment to try and get ready mentally, you’re going to fail.”
And don’t forget about the U.S. gymnastics trials, a make-or-break event at the end of the month. On the women’s side, Simone Biles is expected to clinch the only automatic Olympic spot, which goes to the top scorer in the all-around after two days of competition. The United States has many elite gymnasts, but Biles, 27, is considered the best in the history of the sport.
Team officials will choose the four remaining spots, which are likely to go to the athletes who finish second through fifth in the all-around (though that’s not guaranteed). That uncertainty, and those high stakes, will put an extreme amount of stress on the gymnasts who have not yet peaked, including Sunisa Lee, the reigning Olympic champion in the all-around. While competing for Auburn University last year, Lee was diagnosed with two kidney diseases, but she is hoping to make her second consecutive Olympic team.
“Time is running really short for us right now,” Jess Graba, her coach, said recently in reference to her narrow window of time to prepare for the trials.
For some Olympic hopefuls, the dream is already over. May declined to comment after the U.S. artistic swimming team’s decision to leave him off its roster for Paris. But in an earlier interview, while he was still waiting to hear which eight of the 12 athletes on the team would be chosen to compete, he spoke about the stress of the process, especially because the team was so close-knit.
All 12 athletes had spent more than a year training together for eight hours a day, six days a week.
May also said that if he were left off the team, the decision would have repercussions beyond his own career.
“It would be a missed opportunity,” he said, adding: “To finally have the chance to introduce men into the Olympic Games, to know that the sport is inclusive but to not see that representation — it’s almost like a slap in the face.”
As for Clark, her reaction to the news that she would not be going to the Olympics with the U.S. women’s basketball team amounted to a shrug.
“Honestly, no disappointment,” she told reporters Sunday. “It just gives me something to work for.”
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